The counterintuitive Live Earth concerts

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 9:51am

HI-larious article from Maclean's! I don't always agree with the stance of that mag, but the articles are always well written.
Rock stars to the rescue!

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:02am

namo, why on earth would you promote this kind of mean spirited attack piece? it's the type of reporting one would expect to see on fox. i am deeply saddened that you of all people would take this moment, when the great and powerful al is focusing the attention of the earth like a really humongous-headed child with a giant magnifying glass on the earth itself and the problems humanity has wrought, to allow yourself to be blinded by the right! cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night! how dare you demean the transformative powers of music now when we need musicians most?

Updated On: 6/28/07 at 10:02 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:06am

I thought it was "douche." Thank you papa for getting my "learn something new every day" fact out of the way so early in the morning!

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:11am

nah. a '32 ford deuce coupe (an homage to brian wilson?) was the inspiration. bruce and cars...go figure. although the douche was not that far-fetched coming on the same album with lost in the flood's "nuns run bald through vatican halls pregnant,pleading immaculate conception."

Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:52am

I dunno. The best way to fund-raise (and organize) is to get a crowd together in a fun environment and then use people they know & respect to educate them to the problem. Amnesty International increased their membership by about 10 fold after Peter Gabriel and a few others started to talk about them in concert.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:55am

i thought the best way to fund-raise was to get ann coulter to call you a faggot?

Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:58pm

I believe that is #2. And I know Al Gore has walked past Coulter's house in short shorts and birkenstocks while holding hands with Ian McKellan , but to no avail.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:01pm

everyone knows that magneto scares the c. on top of that, he can sic both frankenstein and the bride of frankenstein on her! al would have done better strolling with lance bass.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:03pm

But this is about Awareness Raising!

The article was a refreshing walk down the awful memory lane that was the Parents Music Resource Center.

Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:34pm

PMRC is another "I invented the internet" hung on poor Al Gore. I'm all about Sex Drugs & Rock & Roll but all they wanted was a rating system so parents could know what sort of profanity & similar references were contained within. What Tipper Gore actually said was that she wanted albums subjected to the same ratings that are habitually applied to films. Purple Rain was rated R-- she'd never send her kids to that movie, but the tape, which was just as adult, had no rating at all.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:39pm

Yeah, I was there at the time and remember it well. The "all they wanted was a rating system" was the last-ditch compromise PMRC settled for. Perhaps they asked for more they thought than they would get (the banning of artists, the indecency ratings lists) because what they REALLY wanted was just the simple little stickers.

But I doubt it.