I am listening to william shantner new CD "has been" oh my god I have played it so many times, I cannot get enough of it
I think it just might be album of the year as some have suggested. It is so so so awesome. Everyone who hears it playing says who is that? no it cannot be captain kirk....god it is so good....here is a new york times review.
Complete the following sentence: "Ben Folds, Nick Hornby, Brad Paisley, Joe Jackson, Aimee Man ... " The chances of an average life-form guessing "William Shatner" are equal to the Starship Enterprise turning out to be made entirely of smoked salmon. But these are the crew members for the further musical voyages of Captain Kirk. Words cannot ... capture the ... delivery. The ... impossibility of working out how seriously to take this mission of super-sincerity.
You can see Spock with a big, specially shaped pair of headphones: "Diverse, and most illogical, captain." Here is Shatner speaking on success, his wife's bad habits, what he has missed in his children's upbringing (class lyric: "Get a little daughter-dad action going"). Folds has produced this to ballady, genre-hopping music. You'll Have Time, a blues, beams Shatner up into sprechgesang: "Live like you're gonna diiiiiiie, because you're gonna./ It's going to happen because it's happened to a lotta people I know." And then there's the jewel, the cover version of Common People. This CD is beyond good or bad. It is from a world where concepts such as "unique" and "indispensible" live happily alongside "hilariously, brain-tearingly wrong".