CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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Monday, June 13, 2005

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THE GOOD

The Mooney Suzuki, Alive and Amplified I'm one of those pretentious art-rock snobs that refuses to dance. It's beneath me. And although half the records I own are indeed very I'd almost forgotten that rock music was a genre that you could dance to. Mooney Suzuki makes sure you don't forget. This isn't sly, bouncy, post-ironic groove like Franz Ferdinand, this is ridiculously, exhuberantly, furious rock-dance music. It's like a giant 60's love-in, where everyone is on drugs and cares about nothing but shaking that ass. Even the lyrics serve as nothing but backdrop to dancing; he doesn't neccesarily sing about dancing, but sings to compliment dancing. It's difficult to imagine Mooney Suzuki being anyone's favorite band, but even for a music snob like me, it's refreshing to hear a band that cares nothing about anything other than feeling good once in a while.

SorryEverybody.Com For the record, just because I haven't been complaining about George Dubya doesn't mean I've accepted November 2nd or anything, or that I've decided to bury my beef with the prez. I'm as disgusted as I ever was. So running across this site really made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. Hey, everybody in the world? We are sorry. You know that, right?

The new previous posts button on the left I hate the way Blogger archives stuff. Maybe it would be handy if I was a news blog or something, but it doesn't work for the way I write. I even hated it before I had a blog, because when I'm trying to find some shitty quiz my friend posted or whatever, I have to go through by date. I don't know what the date was when my friend posted that "How Bisexual are You" quiz! So I said fuck it, made my own archive the way I like it. Easy to peruse, everything's there, the dates there, you read only what you want to read instead of having to scroll through post after post while looking for keywords. It doesn't look like much, and I have absolutely no clue when I'll go in and, you know, add some graphics or change the font, but at least it's functional.

Trent Reznor What's up with Reznor getting sexier and sexier with age? Go watch the Nine Inch Nails videos in order and see the goofy looking kid with the dreads from "Head Like a Hole" turn into the sexiest dude ever in "The Hand That Feeds". Seriously, I just bought an issue of SPIN with Reznor on the cover, and he's even sexier than he was five years ago on the press for Fragile.

Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age Speaking of sexy dudes, QOSTA's lead is one tall, super-cool, nonchalant, sexy motherfucker. Him and Trent Reznor arm wrestliung is undoubtedly the fantasy of a gay man, somewhere out there, with a really rockin' taste in music.


THE BAD

Michael Jackson aquitted of all charges I don't get off on watching celebrities run through the mud, and I don't pretend to know what happened at the scene of any crime when I wasn't there and I haven't been paying close attention to the precedings of a hearing. I don't really know the details. I wasn't there. I haven't been following along. Despite this, and I'm sure you're the same... There's a hollow pit in my stomach knowing that Michael Jackson isn't in jail. I don't need to say the obvious reason why I think he avoided jail time, but I will say I'm very disappointed.

Dancer in the Dark I'd seen director Lars Van Trier's previous movie, Breaking the Waves, and found it moving and thought-provoking, if excessively depressing. Later I heard that certain circles of feminists call his movies sexist, and while I saw where they were coming from-- the main character in the movie certainly was portrayed as an oblivious victim-- but I disagreed. So it was with this knowledge that made me want to see this. And besides, I adore Bjork, who stars in it, and that helped. Turns out that maybe the feminists were right the whole time. Bjork's character is not only another victim in this movie, but she is pointlessly and tortuously dragged through the most ridiculous, lamentable hell, yet the end offers no poetic retribution, nothing. The director might argue differently, but the entire existence of this film seems to be to make you ball your eyes out by the end of the film. To get an idea of what it's like, imagine watching a film where a kitten sweetly plays for the first fifteen minutes, then spens the next two and a half hours being skinned and flailed, never dying, until its head gets smashed in, and its tormentors never get their commupence. Dancer in the Dark is not a manipulative movie; it invokes genuine tears. But it leaves you feeling hollow, depressed, and unsatisfied because there just doesn't seem to be a point to any of it. It's bold cinema, certainly, and if that's what Van Trier was shooting for, he accomplished it. But it's not bold cinema I could recommend anyone to watch.

Papa John's Okay, I can see you saying better prices, sure. And better ingredients? Maybe, I mean, you can have the best ingredients in the world and still ruin the meal. But better pizza? That's just fucking false advertising.

Customized call tunes It used to be the one thing you could count on in life was the comforting brring-brring of the phone as you waited for whoever to pick up. But now even that can be changed to Lil' John. I don't ttrust in a world that could do that to you.

XLR8TR Magazine I'm sure this magazine would rock the fuckin' house if I cared about electronic music at all. But I bought it because their motto was "Accelerating Music and Culture", and I thought, yeah, I'd like to accelerate art and culture, why the hell wouldn't I? So what if I didn't know who the girl on the cover was? That means whatever indie music magazine this was was extra indie, and therefore more kick ass. Whoops.
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with love from CRS @ 5:22 PM 

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