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HEY BO DIDDLEY
"You got to get yourself some velcro," Bo Diddley advises.
"What?" I ask.
"For your phone."
My cell phone had just slipped out of my hand and landed on the carpet of his room at the Washington Square Hotel in downtown Manhattan. And Diddley is quick to leap into action with a solution.
"Yeah, Velcro's got rough edges and you can just attach it to the side of your phone so you can keep your grip on it." He stretches his legs and points to them. "Look here!" hecontinues. His left foot is swollen from the amputation of two toes due to recent diabetes complications, and he's fashioned two long strips of Velcro to secure a slipper to his instep.
"That's how it's done," he says, smiling proudly.

Bo Diddley interviewed by Rolling Stone Magazine. If you don't own at least one Bo Diddley CD, you aint really living.

Muppetpastor has 'WTF Cover Versions' up, including David Byrne doing Whitney's 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody". And the question is, why?

Found this via Coolfer - the Rhythm Incursion show podcast from Resonance FM in London - more podcasts and show downloads here (big files tho)

Salman Rushdie checks out MIA in Central Park, from The Fader... "There was an announcement from the stage that Sunday’s free MIA show at Central Park was the biggest crowd turnout for SummerStage all year. We don’t doubt it. White dudes doing the Grateful Dead twirly dance, cute girls with enormous sunglasses, even cuter hipster infants, Arto Lindsay and Salman Rushdie - everyone was getting down to the sounds of our homegirl on one of the clearest, breeziest days this summer..."

Comic artist Dan Clowes (Ghost World, Eightball) interviewed here. Ghost World was turned into a pretty cool movie - he's got a new one on the way, starring Angelica Huston and John Malkovich, called Art School Confidential.

Amadou and Mariam interviewed in the New York Times (requires registration, or archived over here). Their album Dimanche A Bamoko (audio samples here) is rapidly becoming one of my faves for 2005.

FFD Chart Watch - After bouncing back from #10 to #6, FFD fall back this week to #10 (14th week in the chart). Shihad still outside the top 40.

More Bo Diddley wisdom to finish...
"I tell young musicians, 'Don't trust nobody but your mama,' " he says as we leave the hotel and slide into the back seat of a car. "And even then, look at her real good."