With the exception of Paul Barman, white people aren't allowed to rap anymore...

MTV was showing a video by Crazy Town, who had the nerve to sample the Chili Peppers' "Pretty Little Ditty". White boys rapping was OK for the Chili Peppers to do cuz they were one of the first to do it (their first record came out in 1982). When cheezy-ass metal bands from Florida or wherever do it, it becomes a new age minstrel show. Boo. Plus, the band in question fucking sucks. I got a sampler tape of them a year and a half ago and they sucked then. Boo.

Anyway...I'm at Anna's place right now. I've hijacked her computer. It's about 1:30. I'm tired. Went to Fado with some folks from work after work to "celebrate" Leigh (the AM receptionist)'s being laid off. After that, I met Anna at the Irish Emmigrant, where we proceeded to get very, very, very drunk. Actually, I came out OK, but Anna has had two sessions at the porcelain confessional since we got home. She rarely has more than 2 drinks ever. She's now in bed, sound asleep.

I have some seriously f0nky Jameson & Camel Light breath right now. Ick.

Good night.

Rant 'N' Roll

OK, still watching MTV2, which I thought was cool at first until they started playing all the videos that MTV1 would play if they actually ever played videos.

I'm sure I'm gonna get it for this, but I'm still sorta drunk, so here it goes:

Ed's List Of "Modern Rock-Adult Contemporary" Bands Of Recent Times That Suck*
(in no particular order)

Creed
Linkin Park
Korn
Limp Bizkit
Marilyn Manson
Matchbox 20
Third Eye Blind
Fuel
The Wallflowers
Vertical Horizion
Tonic
The Offspring
Three Doors Down
POD (I have a funny story about them. Later.)

Let me stop right there. I'm sure there's more, but it was a struggle for me to just remember the names of all these generic-ass rock bands. I feel that radio (excepting college and pirate stations) is not interested in any way, shape, or form in playing anything even remotely interesting, challenging, or fresh. It is all about money. Casual music listeners could give a rat's ass about what music is playing in the background - that's why soundalike metal, pop, and R&B groups sell millions of records. It's all interchangable and uninteresting. No one purchased Britney Spears' last record because they thought she was a talented singer - they plunked down their $17.99 for a little bit of her image.

Ack. Fuck the record industry. Fuck A&R reps. Fuck MTV. Fuck radio.

What happened to well-crafted, quality entertainment? I don't mean that in a let's-gather-the-family-round-the-TV-and-watch-Little House On The Prairie sort of way. It just seems like entertainers of the past could be looked to for not only appealing to the masses, but also appealing to the guitar dorks. Like me.

See I don't get MTV2: They just got done playing a Limp Bizkit video (I wonder how many kids who bought that record recognized the 14-year old Eric B. & Rakim sample in it), and then they cut to a interview snippet of Daniel Johnston. He should do a record with Wesley Willis. It Takes A Nation Of Schizophrenics To Tie Us Down.

OK. I think I'm done ranting.

Major labels aren't all bad. They're about 99% bad. For every Kid A there's an assload of Human Clays.




(* the asterisk means that all of the bands listed could tie for 1st place as suckiest bands, but really, Creed is easily the suckiest, followed closely by Third Eye Suckass and Matchass 20. I chose to omit sucky bands in other genres, because that would take up too much space.)