Author: Captain Capm (Page 102 of 118)

Radio is evil

Don’t believe me? Well then believe me when I say that the NY Attorney General is suing Entercom Communications Corp. in a payola scandal, kiddies! That’s right, good old corporate radio has been paying off the clowns behind the boards of possible 105 stations run by Entercom with “gifts, trips, and cash.” Play some shitty songs and reap the rewards! In the meantime, send no-talent asshats up the charts, forever clogging innocent kids’ ears with all the hottest chart topping tunes! They think these are hits when they’re not supposed to be! What can we do as a nation? I don’t know! Someone tell Gerardo to start paying me off with gifts, trips, and cash for all these hot news breaking stories I crib from other sites and bring to you! I deserve it!!!!

Jared Leto has a message for you

“I’m not out to prove anything to anybody,” Leto tells Billboard.com. “If they like it great, if they don’t, they can fuck off. It doesn’t matter to me. I’m not running for president. I’m just in a band. It’s not that big a deal.”

So it goes. Leto’s whining about his rawk band, 30 Seconds To Mars in case you don’t know what’s going on here. Yeah. It’s hard to care for Leto Rawk when we’ve already tasted the grand failures of Keanu Reeves’ Dogstar and Russell Crowe’s Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts.

“A big part of what 30 Seconds To Mars has always been about is the live aspect,” says Leto. “We put a lot of thought and time and energy and passion into how we present ourselves. This (tour) is going to give us the opportunity to explore a lot of different things. It’s been a long time coming.”

And a short time staying.

Yanni finally gets arrested

But not for his lousy music. No, Mr. New Age Crapola was arrested for a domestic dispute with his girlfriend. Almost like the Jackson Browne thing, but not quite, although he did throw his honey’s clothes on the floor and then shook her, threw her on the bed and pounced on her. Rarrr! Yanni a wild man? Who knew? Maybe his own fuzak has finally driven him to insanity and he needed to get his frustrations out. And who better than one of his zombie faithful who finds that crap entertaining?

Artists I can do without – Bruce Springsteen

What did Bruce Springsteen ever do for me? Nothing. And he will continue to do so. His music may speak to a ton of blue collar grease monkeys revving it up on the ave. to impress some beehive coiffed mama with an archaic name, but it only puts me to sleep. I’ve tried to “get into” the guy a few times, but it’s pointless. The first time was when Born In The U.S.A. was released. I was 11 or 12 years old then and the video for “Dancing In The Dark” was getting heavy rotation on such shows as “Radio 1990,” “Night Flight,” and “Friday Night Videos.” Yeah, our cable company didn’t carry MTV at the time, so I had to make do with whatever music shows were on USA or NBC. Anyway, I liked that song enough to ask for the album for Christmas. And so I got it. And so I thought the rest was shit. Tracks like “Darlington County,” “I’m Goin’ Down,” and “I’m On Fire” really made me want to go out and hurt someone. That last tune is one I often like to sing, along with Styx’s “Don’t Let It End” and Don McLean’s “American Pie” when I really want to annoy everyone.

I wound up giving that gift away, and didn’t look back. I got older and thought maybe I needed to rediscover Bruce. So I went out and bought the shitty first album and the so-so second one. I still couldn’t do it. God, he sucked. Why had I fooled myself into thinking this dude was going to interest me in the slightest? His lyrics are so goddamned epicly cornball and the music is the aural equivalent of cock stroking at its most ridiculous. And guesss what? My ears have never been to Nebraska nor were they Born To Run. And they never will. This is cigarette packs rolled up in your sleeve with your hair greased back music and it’s not even that because it just wants to be that and therefore sucks big pipe. Bruce, I hate your crummy music and couldn’t care less if you play 4 hour shows. Losing bits of my life to your songs is not at all entertainment.

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