Letters to the Editor
austinite
Published Letters: 4 Editor's Choice: 1
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Can't believe...
[Read the article: The sexiest man living!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...that I had to read almost all the way through these letters to see someone finally mention delectable funny hot Dave Grohl! And the same letter mentioned Dermot Mulroney--aw hell yes! I think Dermot looks a lot like another of my fantasy boys (who was also unbelievably overlooked here)--Joe Perry from Aerosmith, who's made me quiver ever since I was a teenager 30 years ago! At nearly 60 he's still hotter than most guys half his age, and has a brain and soul in there as well.
I also can't believe Salon did that huge Bollywood write-up a couple years ago (might have even been the same writer(s)), yet this list didn't include Rahul Khanna or Amir Khan! Lagaan is nearly four hours long, girls...
And ever since they killed off Noah on All My Children, I have pined for the stunner that is Keith Hamilton Cobb. Whom I was lucky enough to meet very briefly once, and it still held up. (Even 'though he's on the other team...)
P.S. My husband says if/when you do the list for women, he votes for Mercedes Ruehl. (I don't get it, but, whatever...)
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OMG, bloodsucking aphids!!
[Read the article: "Bug"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He was bitten by an APHID?! Hey, for such a reputedly 'humorless' movie, I'm LMAO already!
OK, I even Googled this just to make sure--yep, aphids don't bite people! They bite plants. They subsist entirely on plant juice. They're basically tiny green plant-lice. And they don't lay egg sacs deep into people's tender postcoital skin--they lay them on the undersides of leaves. Wooo, scary! But it was interesting to read that ants often tend aphids like cattle, even protecting their eggs. See, they can't even do anything to ANTS. And there have been lots scarier movies about ant invasions.
Sounds like it'll be a So Bad It's Good hoot some night on cable.
Thanks for the chuckle.
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Carville said it best...
[Read the article: Go glam or go home]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK, so we know it's no newsflash that the music biz is shallow, and not exactly staffed by the best and brightest, and exists solely to make money. We know they don't seem to live in the real world with the rest of us.
But it still amazes me every time I see one of these handwringing quotes from a music biz insider about why sales are down, they always blame new technology, piracy, audience apathy (they're sorta right on that one), and respond by shipping us more crap and insisting female singers also be pole dancers. They never seem to get what everyone else in every other business immediately understands about why sales are down: as a famous campaign strategist once said (and it's even truer now), IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID. People simply don't have as much discretionary income as they did a few years ago.
CD and ticket prices have risen so ridiculously (while most people's wages haven't) that it doesn't matter to me whether it's a mindblowing new artist or a dipshit hoochie diva--I flat can't afford it. I go to the artist website and/or iTunes and download a 99-cent song or two, not because I'm some Digital Age wiz, but because that's about all I can responsibly afford most of the time. My friends and I live for book/music gift cards because that's about the only way most of us can go get more than 1-2 CDs at a time, and we all have little backlog lists of stuff we want to buy next time or the time after. And we're not teens or starving entry-job 20somethings--we're degreed professionals in our 30s and 40s. I'm telling ya, times are tight!
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I'm posting this on the off-chance that some music biz person will see this and get a clue about the single biggest reason sales are down. Yeah, style-over-substance is also a big turnoff, but mostly it's the economic squeeze.