wow, do i loathe these video countdowns that don't involve, like, playing the whole damn video. like this stupid vh-1 '80s one. emilio estevez just pronounced salvador dali's last name as if it rhymes with, uh, muhammad ali's. "the clash defined political punk rock in the '70s." dumb jock. and, like, christ, vh1, are you too cheap for second takes? "i've always been a visual artist first and a recording artist second."--tina turner. which would seem to suggest that tina turner would rather you hung her records on the wall than listen to 'em.
"when i go to a disco, and they put 'rockit' on, the music sounds old to me."--herbie hancock. that rockit remix on the scratch soundtrack, incidentally, is pretty disposable, while hancock's newish 'future 2 future' is wonderful.
i read a little 'rolling stone' at the grocery store today. there was an article about the entrepreneur behind those 'girls gone wild' videos. there was also a cover story about nirvana. now, is there nothing more interesting going on in popular music? or is it that nirvana's about the last big thing that the people at 'rolling stone' were even remotely comfortable with? raves, rap-rock, djs, emo, britney, napster--rolling stone hasn't exactly gotten more relevant in the last ten years or so. and the way they've embraced things like alt-country and at the drive in, to say nothing of their efforts to prop up dinosaurs like madonna and hunter thompson, isn't helping matters any.  ¶ 3:33 PM