Letters to the Editor
lonewolfy
Published Letters: 298 Editor's Choice: 19
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"Play" has aged well
[Read the article: "I'd hate me too!"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I freely admit that I myself got sick of Moby - the endless ads, the overexposure - by early 2000...
But believe it or not, while lazily rummaging thru my CD collection (just yesterday) I found my copy of "Play" - which I had not listened to in ages.
I put on "Bodyrock" (Best. Workout. Song. Ever.)...and just like I did 9 years ago, I almost involuntarily began to shake my unhip, uncoordinated South Asian booty all over my apartment. =)
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I probably will not buy Moby's new album; frankly, I've never been a huge club/techno fan. (Sadly, it's people like me who probably got the poor guy branded a sellout by "hardcore" techno fans & purists)
Yet I still love "Play" for the way it melded blues, funk and rock to driving loop beats. The 21st century brought the advent of mash-up albums between Jay-Z and the Beatles, etc. - but back in '99, "Play" was ballsy, fresh and innovative.
And FWIW: It has aged very well, Moby.
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P.S. - The man has a great talent for climactic movie songs!
[Read the article: "I'd hate me too!"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Moby's Extreme Ways - which plays at the end of all three films in the Bourne trilogy - is as much a signature aspect of the flicks as are intricate car chases and combat scenes.
And NO song may have been more appropriately matched with a movie's final scene as his pre-"Play" tune God Moving Over the Face of the Waters was to the climax of the film Heat...
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Jeez - lay off "LisaMC", motherhaters
[Read the article: OMG, I'm totally having a thrisis!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All she did was make a suggestion to Sarah, based on how positive her experience with motherhood has turned out so far.
Do I find it a bit myopic and projecting? Sure. Do I myself want kids? No. BUT do I think her suggestion to be as valid as anyone else's? Definitely.
Of course you are more than welcome to criticize her suggestion and/or offer your own opinion...but the knee-jerk bile spewed towards her from the likes of GreenEyezKin is unwarranted, and reeks of the ridiculous "Mommy Wars" campaigns.
Someone else being a mom and being *gasp* happy about it is no threat to you and your own choices, people. And flaming her on an Internet letter thread probably may make you feel less irrationally threatened - but I'm guessing she and her kid(s) will continue along in relative satisfaction.
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Oh, and Sarah?
Think being 33 and in New York makes you angsty?
Try being 19 and in Fallujah.
Context, y'all. Just sayin'...
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@ Greeneyedkzin: Defensive (& misogamist) much ?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your reply to my post seemed pretty fair and reasonable...until I got to this:
You are not my boss; my parents are dead; my best friends speak respectfully to me; so I see no reason for you to interject a reprimand here.
I said that your bile was unwarranted. How exactly does that lead to me trying to be your boss or parent? My statement was one adult voicing a critical (yet non-personal) opinion to another (presumable) adult.
I'm not in the business of "reprimanding".
do you think you have the male-deity-given right to lecture women?
Whoaaaaaa.....kay. Where do I begin with this?
How do you know I am a male? {Do you think it impossible for a woman to be a 'lone wolf' - in terms of life choice, independent thinking and so on?)
Better yet: how would I know you necessarily are a woman? "Greeneyedkzin" is a gender-neutral moniker, at least to me.
But even if one makes those assumptions: "male-deity-given right to lecture women" ?!?!??
Wow. I disagree with your flame of "LisaMc" and say your bile was unwarranted....and somehow my opinion is transmorgrified in your mind into a diabolical patriarchal lecture of women??
Look - I am no deity. I don't even make my sexual partners find or cry out for God.
And though you surely would never ask me for advice (unless, perchance, I turn out to be...female?), I'll through this out there anyway: maybe you should look into that reflexive, out-of-nowhere misogamy you're rocking there...
No, no, no - that's not a reprimand. Or a Zeussian lecture.
Just a suggestion.
If nothing else, try chopping cucumbers, bananas and other inanimate phalli into little pieces. It worked for some of the WoSt 1102 classmates at my alma mater...rage directed at veggies, and not random people suspected of having a Y 'zome.
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Concerning the "Un-feminist to not vote for Hillary/ a woman" argument
[Read the article: Thank you, Rush Limbaugh!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have seen/read this line of thinking in many letter threads in Salon over the last several months, and I feel compelled to ask this question of female progressives/liberals/Democrats/all of the above:
What if a presidential race came down hypothetically to a right-wing, conservative female GOP nominee (*cough* Condi Rice *cough*) versus a male progressive Democrat nominee??
Would the agenda still be to 'have a woman president in our lifetime'?
Would you trade your political ideology for a vote to win one for the sisterhood?
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I'm just curious to see/hear any opinions about such a scenario.
As for me? As a minority, I certainly admit that it would not be un-desirable to see a minority nominee win the Presidency...IF their beliefs and platform represented me and my political affiliation.
And if not? My progressive beliefs do not take second place.