03.08.07
Oooops
On that post earlier about American Idol…. I forgot about Carrie Underwood. She’s done pretty well. 
09.13.06
SEE! I TOLD YOU! She’s clearing the way for Usama to come-a-courtin’.
If you’ll remember, not too long ago I showed you this.
Could this be the first step?
Of course, I can’t blame her. If I had to do this, I’d consider divorce myself.
Perhaps most memorably, Houston, best known for her tender ballads “I Will Always Love You” and “The Greatest Love of All,” once recalled on the program how Brown once manually assisted her in a bowel movement (emphasis added - like it needed emphasis).
Usama’s got to have a king-sized erection over this bit of news! Inquiring (and obviously sarcastic - I don’t need a lawsuit from Whitney’s people) minds want to know, will he now make his move in between bouts of jihad fever?
I don’t know about y’all, but I’m anxious for more updates!
09.12.06
I can be rude too….
The international press won’t get their first look at the documentary Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing until its gala premiere at the Toronto Film Festival tonight. But EW.com got an early look at the sure-to-be-controversial doc in Los Angeles and can attest that the film will continue to bring the (ex?) country trio more plaudits from progressives and further condemnation from conservatives. And if you think singer Natalie Maines had some harsh words for President Bush in public, wait till you hear what she had to say about him behind the scenes.
In one memorable scene, Maines watches news footage of the president being interviewed about the furor that followed the singer’s on-stage comment that she was ‘’ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas,'’ which resulted in the group being dropped from most radio stations, as well as protests and plummeting sales. ‘’The Dixie Chicks are free to speak their mind,'’ Bush told Tom Brokaw at the time, adding, ‘’They shouldn’t have their feelings hurt just because some people don’t want to buy their records when they speak out. You know, freedom is a two-way street.'’
After watching this footage, Maines repeats the president’s comment about how the group shouldn’t have their ‘’feelings hurt,'’ incredulous, and then says, ‘’What a dumb f—.'’ She then looks into the camera, as if addressing Bush, and reiterates, ‘’You’re a dumb f—.'’
For Ms. Maines:
Listen you whiney little barely-talented shrew-bitch. It should say something to you that you have had to cancel concerts, move events, and the only people that really give a rats ass what you think are Canadian slackers and Sheehan-worshipers.
Nobody wants to hear your opinions on global policy. The majority of the people who bought your last album are liberal snot-noses who will never listen to it, but wanted to help you save face. It wouldn’t shock me to find out you bought a few thousand yourself.
You make your snide comments to get attention. If your music didn’t suck 10 kinds of ass you could sell records on talent, and not on your pathetic views on the way the world should work, when you clearly have staked your career on the talent of your band mates. You can’t sing, you can’t play, you are annoying as hell to watch.
Shut up and sing, indeed.
09.08.06
One more “news that’s not news”
A rapper is in trouble… (I am so ready for hip-hop to go the way of disco)
Rapper 50 Cent was arrested in New York on Friday for driving dangerously in an uninsured Lamborghini through midtown Manhattan, police and witnesses said.
In all fairness, at least disco was somewhat musical. Rap/hip-hop is just punk thugs being punk thugs.
More news that isn’t news
Brangelina is laying down the pissy Hollywood law:
Brad Pitt, ever the social activist, says he won’t be marrying Angelina Jolie until the restrictions on who can marry whom are dropped.
“Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able,” the 42-year-old actor reveals in Esquire magazine’s October issue, on newsstands Sept. 19.
Oh well Bradley, looks like you and “Angie” will just have to have more bastard children and make more movies I’ll never see for a while longer.
For me, when it comes to a whiney celebrity with social causes and family opinions, I’ll stick with Bono. At least he can sing.
If I ever start taking my poltical and social views from a celebrity in movies, music, or TV…. someone please shoot me.
08.22.06
Pop music is actually debilitating
This just in: Justin Timberlake Admits He Cannot Have Sex If Music Is On
That’s interesting… I can’t keep my lunch down or my head from hurting when Justin Timberlake music is on.
Bob Dylan
agrees with another famous music critic about the state of popular music.
Bob Dylan says the quality of modern recordings is “atrocious,” and even the songs on his new album sounded much better in the studio than on disc.
“I don’t know anybody who’s made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years, really,” the 65-year-old rocker said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
I know, I know, he’s mostly talking about the actual mechanical recording…. but I choose to think he means the actual music as well.
08.06.06
Damn I’m getting old….
MTV is 25 ? The first video I remember seeing was Quarterflash’s “Harden My Heart” which was a terrible song and a terrible video. And Glenn Guin- still a friend- crushed my fantasies when he told me that they were actually LIP-SYNCHING !!! The pain still lingers to this day.
I am proud, however, to still remember when MTV actually played music…. those were the days. And this is a good take on the station’s first quarter-century.
