Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 250 Editor's Choice: 37
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Great Band or Greatest Ever?
[Read the article: The best band in the world?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While I love Arcade Fire, I am really surprised at the the critical and popular response to them. When I heard their first EP back in 2004 my immediate response was to call them a more polished version of The Shaggs.
Understand, I don't mean that as an insult; I've bought both albums and the EP. I am a of fan of enthusiastic but shambling outsider music, which is what Arcade Fire still sounds like to me.
They are not "the next Rock Gods", nor do I think they want to be. Besides, I thought we killed those already.
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The Arc of Time
[Read the article: Music industry slain by Internet: YouTube clip at 11]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's important to remember that the "music industry" is a tiny blip in the history of music and culture. So, for the last 100 years there has been a business model taht involved record labels promoting musicians and taking most of the profits; doesn't mean that its the only or for that matter even a good way of handling things. Before the "Music Industry" musicians made their money through patronage and live performance; after the music industry new business models will appear and disappear, but musicians are not going to stop making music, and people are not going to stop listening to it.
The other side of the technological revolution that is destroying the music industry is that it has brought the costs of production and promotion down to the point that a band can afford to do it themselves. The reason the big labels are dying is because, well, they increasingly just aren't needed.
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Amazing...
[Read the article: Regional stability, the Bush administration way]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's like an eight-year old in the back of a car punching his fists at his sister and stopping just short of hitting her, then, when she complains, whining at his parents that he's not touching her.
I think we need to turn this administration around and go straight back home.
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That might work...
[Read the article: Abstinence-only Bush appointee resigns]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's possible that including "fist pumping action" in abstinence only education might actually give it some small chance of success.
Seriously though, having this guy gone is nothing but good. What can you tell us about the probable replacement? How much better/worse?
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Of course...
[Read the article: Does Andy Rooney hate America?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Andy Rooney hates America. He hates *everything* - that's his schtick. Plus, have you looked at America lately? I mean, really *looked*. It's enough to make a crumdgeon cry...
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A rose by any other name...
[Read the article: A girl named Metallica]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's silly that the government would attempt to have any say in what parents name their children, since there is no possible standard by which to judge a name. Metallica isn't that bad at all, and she is very unlikely to get picked on for it.
The only kid that is going to even TRY starting anything is the toe-headed little girl over in the corner name Motorhead. She, needless to say, will hand poor little Metallica her ass.
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"Tromped across A Stars and Stripes Rug"
[Read the article: Yes, but when do we "turn the corner"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You like this one - http://thinkinganddriving.com/blog/2006/09/11/appropriate-sept-11-tribute/?
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Two - Effing YEARS...
[Read the article: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wasted some time - Two Fucking YEARS of my life - ignoring ATHF, just because I thought that it was a dumb idea to have an animated show about various fast food related entities living in New Jersey next to Carl's house.
Do I feel dumb now? HELL YES! Could I explain it to you? Probably not. Will my posts on Broadsheet (where I have like a "40% editor's choice rate (it's all Rebbecca; I know that) suffer for this post? Could be. But I don't care because ATHF changed my life, my relationship to urban culture. This show is the intersection of Moon-Stop, hip-hop, blip-hop, rip-hop, and on two occasions man-man-Lip-Lock.
Can I just TELL you why it's the greatest show ever? Now...I can only ask that you come to me, ask, and receive the answer...for a very reasonable fee,
Is this shit out in thee0aters, cause if so, I gots to see it to support my homies and their desire to rain LED death upon the man. Word, or maybe "weird". So...you know that this is outside the bounds of my usual posts and it's more like religious faith....right Angel?
I know you will take cares of me.
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Hmmm...
[Read the article: Repeal the Second Amendment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't like guns, don't own or use them myself and I think this would be about as great an idea as Prohibition was.
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Comic?
[Read the article: The NRA view of school shootings, in pictures]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dude, where I come from (earth) we call that a pamphlet - a comic uses images as in integral part of the narrative, Jack Chick's hate-filled screeds, for example.
Is there more to this that I am not seeing?
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I didn't bother...
[Read the article: The NRA view of school shootings, in pictures]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to comment on the content of the NRA pamphlet because it's patently insane. I do like that in the illustration of the minorities/zombies/radioactive mutants coming to get the white American family the while dad guards them on the roof, none of the mob is armed. I thought that in the NRA's ideal world everyone was armed, so dad would get picked off by a high powered sniper rifle from a mile away...
It's still not a comic or a graphic novel...maybe we could call it a picture book for paranoid delusional children?
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Hmmm...
[Read the article: The new skinny, sex-crazed you!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does it only work on women? I'm thinking I could stand to lose a few pounds, and the side effects of tongue flicking and rump shaking seem less ominous than the oily stools and anal leakage promised by Alli.
I already suffer from excessive eyebrow raising, so that's not an issue.
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I'll be tuning in tonight
[Read the article: "Idol" watch: Beat-boxing, Bon Jovi and Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am really hoping that George and Laura will get voted off.
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A Question related to Phil
[Read the article: "Idol" watch: The season's saddest moment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm wondering how it is that Phil and the other active duty military people who appear on Idol (there was that marine a few years ago and probably others) get the time off to do it. It seems weird that singing on television is a reason to get time off. I am just wondering what the military's explanation is, if they have ever given one.