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[hannibalv]

August 28, 2001

Again, not much today beyond work and the arrival in the home of a paper shredder.

I've got a rant saved somewhere between my ears on what maleness is…consider this fair warning.

Today's Link Of The Day is something that would have made me scarlet with indignation four years ago. Now…I'm letting things go. Still, it casts some aspersions at a profession I respect, so I can't be totally happy. Go see the Robot Rock Critic: http://www.inksyndicate.com/rock.htm

JHR
8/29/2001 2:55 AM

Comments

Oh geeze..

[raretune.livejournal.com]

Lord, if you're going to discuss "maleness" you'd fit in just fine with my Stater columnist cohorts. I alas, am the only one of estrogen persuasion in the group. Talk about feeling pressure to be a feminine voice on campus. Me, flowery, gush female? Harty har har. I'd rather beat the crap out of the boys in a game of football or soccer.

I'm not wearing pink and extolling the virtues of make-up and pantyhose for anyone.

But, I digreess...

That's my $0.02 for the day. Blame it on boredom.

Rock critics

[bdar.livejournal.com]

Interesting sidenote--somebody wrote into RS recently asking them to please clarify their hyperboles, since in the span of twelve months, U2 has saved rock and roll, and Radiohead has destroyed rock and roll in order to save it. Did Radiohead destroy rock and roll only to have U2 save it? Or did rock need saving from something else, which U2 did, but then suddenly Radiohead came in to destroy it?

Re: Rock critics

[hannibalv.livejournal.com]

You should know perfectly well how I'd respond to that: U2 had to save rock from the destruction Radiohead was attempting to implement. Sadly, it seems Bono, etc. were only somewhat successful (though I get a half-smile everytime I read a lukewarm-to-negative review of "Amnesiac", of which many exist).

This also points to why I only read RS these days when they're telling me what's "cool" (like Julia Stiles) or "hot" (like the women of "American Pie 2"--though, in an act that will probably be the deciding factor in sending Jann Wenner screaming into the depths of hell where he'll hear nothing but mid-Eighties Phil Collins for all eternity--an act that redefines "travesty" (and I mean that, I pointed out this slight to the editors of the OED and they've decided it's going into the next edition)--they left out Allyson Hannigan.)

Longest parenthetical ever.

Still resisting the Radiohead hegemony,
JHR
8/29/2001 1:41PM

Re: Rock critics

[hannibalv.livejournal.com]

P.S. When I said "nothing but mid-Eighties Phil Collins" above, what I really meant was "nothing but the sound of mid-Eighties Phil Collins trying to sing while being violently raped by a water buffalo on angel dust". Please not that the target of the water buffalo's lust in this case is in fact Mr. Collins and not, as might be presumed, Mr. Wenner.

¡Viva clarifications!

JHR
8/29/2001 1:53PM