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Don’t Free Roman Polanski

What a bunch of idiots. It drives me crazy when Hollywood actually acts like the morally depraved bunch that Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh want to portray them as. The Weinsteins, Martin Scorcese, Woody Allen and the usual crew have signed a petition urging the U.S. to just forgive and forget. Polanski drugged a 13 …

12 year old scores a million on Guitar Hero

He should get a trophy. His parents should be put to death. On rejecting a real guitar “there’s all these string on it and you have to strum it and hit notes.” Nice. It will be a kid like this one who blows up the world in a zombie state hoping to etch his name …

Jennifer Brunner for Senate – Pander Translated By Keith Crime

I’m sure this woman is very nice and hard working, but she keeps sending me emails and I never asked her to and I don’t even vote in Ohio anymore – although I guess I could lie and vote absentee. I always just vote straight Democrat anyway and she’s a Democrat. Frankly, I still thought …

The Brad Laidman Law of Audio Equipment

I’ve owned the Beatles’ music now on 45 and 33 RPM vinyl, cassette, CD, and MP3. Today, I’m being told by the whole world that I now need to repurchase their new catalog because it’s been remastered. I’m told it will unearth a totally new world of beauty and genius that I’ve never been able to hear …

The Advertising Arms Race

Essentially, advertising is nothing more than trying to convince the public that one thing is better than another thing that is essentially the exact same thing. Coke/Pepsi McDonald’s/Burger King.There isn’t a single person in their right mind that would throw a fit over having to choose one or the other, yet in the meantime, the …

All Commercials All The Time

My one time college roommate and good friend Dave used to drive me crazy when we’d watch television together. For the most part, he preferred the commercials to the actual programs, whereas I found them about as appealing as a toothache. The first really annoying product placement that I noticed was in Spike Lee’s Jungle …

EW rails against All You Need Is Love

Apparently trying to be controversial, Entertainment Weekly just named All You Need Is Love as both the 50th best Beatles song as well as THE WORST Beatles song. Someone on staff felt it to be too repetitive. 1. The verses are quite clever 2. The song remains a near perfect political statement, especially as it …

Bob Dylan used to get away with it

I think I’m at the point where my life has settled into enough failure that I’m going to start telling people that I meet wild, untrue stories that make me seem more interesting. I think I may go with the claim that I’m Nick Watkins the lead singer of the Jags. I always thought Jags …

The Curious Case of Tony Burrows

AMG’s Tony Burrows bio Here’s a really awful way to market yourself. Tony Burrows at one point sang on four of the top ten singles on the British Charts. Unfortunately for his career, this wasn’t seen as a Beatlesque achievement due to the fact that all four songs were credited to different, mostly fictional bands. …