On
Monday nights I go over to a buddy’s house. All the
boys get together to watch RAW, but during the commercials
another friend assumes the role of Captain Video & he
channel surfs. Sometimes we find a cool music video or funny
comedian. But last night I saw something that struck me
as very odd.
MTV2
was sowing a program called Quick Hits, an alphabetical
listing of all the videos in current rotation. The problem
I have with this is that they are only showing 30 seconds
of each video. 30 seconds isn’t good enough. The purpose
of this is to give a quick capsule review of what’s
out there. Personally, I think MTV is single-handedly contributing
to the Attention Deficit Disorder of an entire generation.
Just show the fucking videos!
Maybe
they reason they don’t is because some of the acts
suck. Most up & coming rock bands sound like whiny children
with scraped knees. Perhaps I’m too old. 1 of the
telltale signs of age is you can no longer relate to the
music of the day. Fine by me. I’d rather relate to
Iggy Pop than a band whose members’ balls haven’t
dropped & have an ironic name like Something Corporate.
In fact, Iggy described the current music we’re being
told is good uses, “irony in place of balls, balls
in place of brain, brains in place of soul.”
All
those bands that are whining for no reason other than mommy
wouldn’t get me a cell phone that takes pictures &
doing 80’s new wave cover songs can take a ride on
the whaaaaaaaaaambulence. But we are being told that shit
is good. When you tell this to a person has been obliterated
by 30-second video clips, Playstation & Vin Diesel movies,
bad things happen. Then these glassy-eyed folks stagger
up to me & try to convince me that Eminem or A Simple
Plan is good. I usually just distract them with a shiny
coin or a picture of a kitty & continue along with my
day.
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