Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Random Tuesday
- Wendy's Music Contest
Be sure and stop by The Dorkside and see if you can guess what's on Wendy's iPod. I got one out of ten songs. These are real stumpers. - Unseen And Recovering
Stop by the Hidden Blog and extend your best wishes to Jim. He's out of the hospital, and doing OK, although he went through absolute hell during his procedure:Basically, they tried to put the tube down my throat and my throat closed shut. Four big male nurses held me down while they forced the tube in. If they hadn't been able to, I would have needed a trachiotomy. My oxygen level dropped to 30%, but fortunately they had it back up in the 90's after they got the tube in.
We're proud of ya, NH, and glad you're home. Now go tell him so yourself. - It's SouthCon, Not SouthPorn
There's a nasty spambot out there who's sending out pornographic links by e-mail and making it look like the e-mail came from friends. They sent one to Dave and somehow spoofed my e-mail addy so it looked like it came from me. So keep an eye on your inbox and be careful what you click on, even if it's a link that seems to have been sent to you by a legitimate source. Go read about it at the Chronicles of Rhodester... and, by the way, if something shows up in your inbox from Loudermilk@gmail.com and it turns out to be pornography, PLEASE know that it didn't really come from me. Honest Injun. - Come Back, Audrey! Come Back!
Audrey Tautou is a very talented French actress, and she's just soooo adorable... and you have to know how much it pains me to say anything good about anyone French. But, honestly, she's wonderful in films like A Very Long Engagement and Amelie, both of which were quiet little French films directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Now she's in the mega-hit movie The Da Vinci Code, which opened last week and made seventy hundred billion zillion trillion gazillion dollars, but which is, by almost all accounts, a total crap movie. Not to mention that, as a Christian and a Catholic, it seems to me to be the cinematic equivalent of having director Ron Howard repeatedly poking me in the neck with a fork.
Anyway, here's my point: I'm a fan of Audrey Tautou and I've absolutely loved her performances in the two French movies mentioned above. I really, really hope that she's not on the verge of becoming a big blockbuster actress who makes huge, moneymaking crap movies instead of the wonderful, endearing actress she's been who makes quiet, moving, resonant little films. The small world of quality independent films can't afford to lose another of our shining stars to the big world of loud, stupid movies. - Tick Off Jerry, Tick Off Me
I've noticed that The Write Jerry and I tend to get good and irked about the same kinds of things. Here's a perfect example. - Note to the Dixie Chicks: Who Do You Think Cares??
The first few times I heard the Dixie Chicks, I thought that they were just one more crappy country group... and that the one thing they had that made them distinctive was their lead singer, who had a horrible singing voice and who looked like a troll doll.
Then, three years ago, the Dixie Chicks gave a concert in London, during which they said that they were ashamed of the president. This changed my opinion of the Dixie Chicks. I no longer thought of them as just one more crappy country group. Now, I thought of them as just one more country group with whom I disagreed politically.
Their comments caused a serious backlash against the Chicks because the majority of country music fans tend to be politically conservative. In response to the backlash, the Dixie Chicks issued a gutless apology. At that point, my opinion of them changed again. I saw them as a crappy country band who I disagreed with politically, but who lacked the courage of their convictions and were trying to make sure that they kept selling records.
So now... now, they're back on the anti-Bush bandwagon:"I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President," (lead singer Natalie) Maines says in Time. "But I don't feel that way anymore. I don't feel he is owed any respect whatsoever."
Chicks member Martie Maguire goes on to lash out at the fans of a couple of country acts who appeal to the mainstream country fan and sell tons of records:She adds, "I'd rather have a small following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc (cd) changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith. We don't want those kind of fans. They limit what you can do."
So now I think that the Dixie Chicks are a crappy country band who should just SHUT UP. Honestly, I'm so sick of hearing them ranting and bellyaching and then whining and apologizing and then taking back the apologies... I don't know another way to say it. These are three totally empty-headed, pompous idiots. SHUT UP, ALREADY! And, by the way, their music STILL SUCKS.
Honestly, I can name probably fifty music groups or performers who I like a whole lot but who I disagree with politically. It seems like nearly every singer, musician and actor in the world is a liberal. And that's fine. It seems that having an artistic bent of spirit predisposes one to have liberal political ideas. Fine. Whatever. I don't listen to Pearl Jam for political insight and I don't watch Sean Penn movies because I think he's a brilliant social observer. I enjoy their art because they're good artists. Period.
Meanwhile, the Dixie Chicks are mediocre singers and songwriters who do boring music and who have opinions I disagree with and who don't even express their opinions well. So WHO GIVES A FAT HAIRY #&Æ©$!!??! Please, Dixie Chicks, just shut up and save your rants for your concerts. I'm sure all six of the "really cool people" who come to your concerts just really want to hear what you have to say.
Whew. I feel better now. - The Beauty Of MySpace
This contains some adult language, so be advised. Otherwise, it's probably the most beautiful ballad ever written about MySpace. I don't think I appreciated how wonderful MySpace is until I heard this heart-rending song.
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"Who are these "Dixie Chicks" that you speak of?"
Dave in southern California, whose only exposure to country music is when he has to sit at a red light next to a redneck in a pickup truck and the damn windows are rolled down because it's a nice day, which is most of the time.
Dave in southern California, whose only exposure to country music is when he has to sit at a red light next to a redneck in a pickup truck and the damn windows are rolled down because it's a nice day, which is most of the time.
Dixie Chicks are fronted by a troll... hehehe.
Yeah, it does seem to me that they are on the "try to generate sales by generating controversy" bandwagon.
Troll... that cracks me up.
Now, excuse me, while I make sure porn spammers are using TheTightJerry as an e-mail address.
Yeah, it does seem to me that they are on the "try to generate sales by generating controversy" bandwagon.
Troll... that cracks me up.
Now, excuse me, while I make sure porn spammers are using TheTightJerry as an e-mail address.
I was never a fan of the Dixie Cups and I certainly don't intend to become one now. Like you, I don't know why they blab about politics... really, who cares what they think.
Laura Ingraham said it best, Shut Up and Sing, but in the Dixie Chickens' case...Just Shut Up! Maybe they could open for Babs and then have 7 "cool fans" show up...
Wait, so you DIDN'T send me a Girls Gone Wild video? Um, ignore the thank you note I sent back....;-)
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