Friday, December 18, 2009

I Have Touched William Shatner's Life

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Well, the fourth audio clip down here — the one about “Rocket Man” — is GQ’s Andrew Corsello asking the legendary William Shatner himself a question I suggested: how that song, as inimitably performed by Shatner, compares to Leonard Nimoy’s shocking “Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” song (with the video’s self-parodically 60s-ish plug for the United Nations).

Like the main characters in Free Enterprise, I am pleased just to know that in some small way the level plane of my starship’s course, as it were, has intersected with his.

3 comments:

Gerard said...

Have you seen his new show, Raw Nerve?

Todd Seavey said...

I haven’t. Glad he’s continuing to diversify, though.

Gerard said...

He’s very talented. I don’t know if you’ve ever listened to the album he made a few years ago-it was produced by Ben Folds-called Has Been, but it’s phenomenal. There’s one track featuring Henry Rollins that I think you’d really enjoy. Plus, he does a cover of Pulp’s “Common People” with Joe Jackson, which is probably the apex of the record.