You are obviously as silly as I am.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: White Stripes backlash


> 
> --- josh chasin <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> > I've never heard the White Stripes.  I just never
> > felt motivated to do so.
> > 
> > I just felt like saying so.
> 
> 
> and I feel like agreeing with you, josh...i also never
> really heard the Hives, The Vines, or any Green Day
> that wasn't on the radio...also, no Fountains of
> Wayne, much to Jocelyn's chagrin.  I'm sure they are
> all great, or not, and someday i might give em a
> whirl, but i mostly follow my nose to music i might
> like, by following producers (like Brad Jones) or
> families (like elephant 6) or band offshoots (like the
> jellyfish decendents) and somehow these folks just
> never showed up on the most wanted list at the same
> time they showed up used in my local rekkid store. so
> it goes.  my family plays a game in which we name all
> the classic books we haven't read - being all readers
> and mostly english majors, it's surprising how many we
> missed.  i feel that the same thing happens musically,
> only sometimes i feel i have already made an opinion
> about music based on fans/hype/media irritation, and
> that doesn't happen to me with books so much - i mean,
> I don't have any opinion about Moby Dick (which I
> haven't read,) so why should I have an opinon about
> "Dookie," (which I haven't heard?)  Weird.
> 
> just an IPO aside: i'll weigh in on shoes to say i
> love love a lot of their songwriting and thought their
> vocals were truly troubling on saturday, but i was
> glad to see em up there swinging anyway -  however,
> the two friends who had never heard of them asked me
> afterwards what the hell i was so happy about. they
> both thought it sucked pretty badly.  On the other
> hand, they were both overjoyed by the shazam, as any
> right thinking person would have been....as i wrote em
> to say, i found them once again to be the
> asskickingest, rocknrollingest, sternum-shakingest,
> bloodpumpingest standupandshout goddamn and hell yeah
> motherfuckers this town has seen since robin zander
> started wearing parachute pants.  they stop my heart
> and make me squeal, and i don't think it gets any more
> rock n roll than that.  god bless em.
> 
> fanatically,
> --kelly
> 
> np:  brendan benson 'lapalco', and thank you john
> hastie for this. i might have to reverse my low
> opinion about BB formed by a bad schuba's show a while
> back , but i reserve the right to hate his live shows
> if it's anything like the last time i saw him.
> 
> =====
> oderint dum mentuant
> 
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