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| From | "Kerry Chicoine" <KChicoine@whitehat.com> |
| Subject | Re: Whassup? |
| Date | Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:30:03 -0800 |
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Anna Borg wrote:
> I'm reading the roller coaster ride that is
> "Motley Crue: The Dirt. Confessions of the
> World's Most Notorious Rock Band."
Haha. I was given this as a Christmas present (the journalistic equivalent
of a lump of coal?) and enjoyed the hell out of it -- especially the Crummy
Lee chapters, written entirely in dude-speak:
"So, like, dude, what the FUCK, man? What do you MEAN, I've gotta go to
jail? A-fucking-gain? Holy shit, dude, that's, like, totally bogus, man.
Fuck!"
The chapter detailing the music biz "machine" actually put forth a pretty
effective analogy, and it made for some interesting reading. But that
corn-ball Nikki Fourr ***SPOILER*** retarded half-sister ending? Too lame,
dude. ("Imagine it: here I am, onstage in Sacramento, out of my fuckin'
mind, playing God to thousands of my worshippers, while, only a few miles
away, my half-sister lay strapped to a gurney, unable to wipe the drool from
her mouth, listenin' to the radio, and smiling. How awesome is THAT?")
***END SPOILER*** "Cloying" and "contrived" apply perfectly.
> I never had MtV growing up, so I never saw their videos.
Speaking of 'Crue (how do I type an umlaut?) videos, I was watching one of
those VH-Yawn "Metal Years" retrospectives the other night and re-lived my
angry youth watching the video for "Looks That Kill". At one point during
one of the later verses, Tommy Lee so totally aggressively *squelches* a
cymbal hit -- just a little percussive nuance -- and it's so totally cool,
man, a perfect example of addition by subtraction. Very attitude.
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