Sunday, July 08, 2007

In between cleaning jags, I flipped the idiot box on a couple times Saturday, and it was hard to get away from the "We are the Gored" stravaganza musicales. By that I mean it was on quite a few channels. Funny thing is how many (I'm guessing) invited rock acts were very vocal about their opposition to such an event, pointedly declining to appear onstage.

Anyway, when I flipped on the telly, Sundance channel was broadcasting the show, and there was some rap-critter running around on stage singing about a Gold-digga, and meanwhile, the half-full front seats of the place were populated by pasty middle-aged looking white guys, trying to look hip and clap along, like they'd ever heard that shit in their life, let alone WANTED to hear it then.

When I was in Jr. High band, our evil, sadistic director, Rico Belotti, would make us sell candy, the proceeds of which would in some way benefit the kids in high school, and not us. Anyway, the high school kids advised us to fluff the bag before we knocked on a door, and make it look like more candy. Well, I think concert organizers fluffed the bag and made folks spread out. Or maybe it was like when you're taking the red-eye from New York to London and you luck out and the 747 is not full *SCORE!* so you get to stretch out on a long row which you have to yourself. Or something like that.

Basically, it was the anti-Glastonbury/anti-Coachella. All the cool kids aren't doing it. I'll tell you what would have packed out those stadia, though - if they said they were auditioning for American/Canadian/Brazilian/Latvian/Botswanan Idol - they woulda been beating them back with sticks. And then some.

7 comments:

none said...

I accidentally flipped on that channel and then immediately flipped it off ;)

Detail Medic said...

Ohmygod! I just read your profile. You must be the only other person on the PLANET that's even heard of the Cocteau Twins!!

Barbara Bruederlin said...

Speaking of 747s, didn't many of those performers and others involved, FLY to those destinations? That just flies in the face of something that is supposed to bring environmental awareness.

Dumb, dumb, dumb, and also lame, lame, lame.

phlegmfatale said...

hammer - yucky, eh?

detail medic - (I posted this in YOUR comments, but wanted to add it here, too) Yeah, Cocteau Twins totally rock. I have loved them since I first found them on vinyl in an underground record store in Dallas in, yea, about 1984ish. They were slated to play Coachella 2 years ago, but I don't think it worked out. I follow Robin Guthrie's blog occasionally, and I love the atmospheric music he does. One of my favorite CT cds is The Moon and the Melodies, which they did with Harold Budd. Dig this one up - you'll love it!

barbara - yeah, Fuelish in the extreme.

In addition to the dumbness and lameness, it's extremely stupid and idiotic as well. *gack* *hairball*

Zelda said...

The whole thing was ridiculous. It was worse than church.

Barbara Bruederlin said...

Oh yeah, you've been tagged, because you rock, girl!

phlegmfatale said...

zelda - *L* That's pretty bad!

barbara - WOOHOO! Ok. I'll pass the tag on in a day or so...