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  • This was in the entertainment column of my home page today:

    I have to admit, I’m pretty excited because it sounds like Fear Factor is going to be airing a scene from my all-time favorite porno.

    January 27th, 2012 - perspective - random - TV

    Wow.

    January 26th, 2012 - entertainment - insight - TV - video

    I’ve been watching every episode of Metal Evolution each week when it airs. It’s right up my alley – a anthological (and anthropological), social, evolutionary, “big picture” study of something near and dear to my heart…heavy music. Each episode covers a different ‘branch’ of the metal family tree starting back at the earliest roots of heavy music and follow the various incarnations and branches of more specific genres that make up the history of heavy music.

    All in all it kicks ass.

    This week covered Grunge – trying to see where it fit and talking to the artists to see where they felt they fit into the big picture of heavy music and metal. Which leads me to my point:

    Back in the day, ‘typical’ grunge folk (the artists, fans, bands – the scene) struck me exactly as the stereotype portrayed them…as whiny, mopey, pretentious faux-intellectuals who took themselves too seriously and were too cool for anything.

    Upon seeing these people 20 years later as full grown adults in their 40′s and pushing 50, I was surprised (or maybe I wasn’t) to find that nothing has changed. Except it’s even more eye-roll worthy and rage inducing to see them still acting like that.

    I can sum up most of the interviews like this, “Heavy music before us sucked. Heavy music since us is a rip off…and sucks. You’re stupid if you like anything else. Music reached perfection back in my day when I was coming of age and I don’t realize that everyone thinks that about the music they grew up with. I’ve become exactly the walking stereotype I claim to stand against. Get off my lawn.”

    These people were lame 20 years ago and they’re still lame today. Not enough of them killed themsleves. But there is hope – many of the bands are getting back together so there just might be some additional overdoses and shotgun blasts in their futures. We can hope, right?

    And Geico brought back the stupid-ass wee-wee-wee pig for a new commercial and I hope whoever made that decision goes on tour with one of the fucking reunited grunge bands.

    January 8th, 2012 - bitching - entertainment - metal - music - nostalgia - TV - yikes

    So I’m watching CNN waiting for some final caucus numbers. They get these old bitties in charge of counting the numbers in the county where the missing precinct resides on the phone.

    They ask these ladies what the numbers from the supposedly missing precinct are. If you factor in those numbers as the missing precinct, it puts Romney in the lead by 14. However, no one on CNN is quick enough to do the math (I’m good like that) and they state that Romney would win by “somewhere around 20 votes” – they then proceed to ask a bunch of questions to the two old ladies about county-wide numbers and different precincts and such. After a few minutes of confusing nonsense they cut to a reporter in Iowa saying she got word that people in Romney’s camp are now saying they’ve been told they won by 14 votes.

    Cut back to the CNN studio where they’re treating this like new news and saying that while it doesn’t jive exactly with their numbers, it confirms their lead that Romney wins with the last precinct counted.

    It seems so obvious that this is a case of circular reporting. They get these ladies on the phone and do some half-assed reporting. Someone tuned in to CNN gets word to the Romney camp and they start murmuring that CNN has info that, if correct, says they win by 14 and then in turn, CNN then reports that the Romney camp says they think they’ve won by 14.

    This is why I don’t bother. At least Fox News is hilariously entertaining in their incompetence…as opposed to frustratingly so.

    January 4th, 2012 - bitching - political - TV

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