[My Favorite Headache]

This thread should be good.

[Dont Mention the War]

Rolling Stone is a basket case of a magazine. Their staff, composed largely of middle-aged angry ex-hippies, mostly male, think they're writing for hip young college students. But who's reading them? Only middle-aged angry ex-hippies, mostly male. Look at all the stories listed on the cover, and think about how many of those will resonate with anyone under 35, particularly at a time when Gen-Y/Z is growing more conservative by the day.

Then look at the classified ads in the back, and ask yourself, "Just how many 18-year-olds need Viagra and toupees?"

RS is a magazine for old people. Their musical tastes and their politics are reactionary, and their day in the sun is long passed.

In other words, it's the perfect bible for the latter-day Democratic Party.

[Contra]

Let this idiot run for president and the people can decide who they want, him or W. He might actually be able to defeat the nine dwarfs. If Robert Reich ran then it would be another dwarf. The more the merrier, heck, let Michael Jackson run and then it will be the more the fairier.

[Corin Stormhands]

I want variety

This is about all the variety Dave's brain can handle...

[beckett]

Matthews is about to find out that he's not as powerful as he thinks he is. The year ahead will be full of disappointment for him.

"Sensitive singer/songwriters" had little real political clout in their heyday in the 60's and 70s. Today with the dominant demographic -- boomers -- far less liable to care about an artist's opinion than they might have been back then, Matthews just becomes another know-nothing artist with a big mouth and boringly leftwing views. The shrillness of his rhetoric hurts him too.

His core audience may pay attention, but the voting rate among that audience is open to question.

[T'wit]

Another reason I listen to Mozart.

[Joe Anybody]

I used to like him ... but know I understand that he is just confused ...

It's crazy, I'm thinking...
Just knowing that the world is round...
Here I'm dancing on the ground...
Am I right side up or upside down...
Is this real or am I dreaming...

-Dave Matthews

[Dont Mention the War]

By the way, I don't see political stupidity in these excerpts so much as I do a serious case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Notice that almost every sentence he utters turns back to the subject of Dave Matthews himself, and how much better he is than those he is discussing. Notice that despite being a young musician, he claims, without the slightest hint of sarcasm, that he can would make a better world leader than a highly educated professional politican from a family of professional politicians. Why? Because he, Dave Matthews, knows people better and understands the world better than those actually running the world.

If you like his music, MFH, I hope you are collecting as much of it as possible, because DM sounds like he's going to go off the deep end in the not too distant future.

[doug from upland]

A new and better version of ROCK'N ME

[Elkiejg]

O.K., I give up........who the H*LL is Dave Matthews???

[zeaal]

Well now ... Mr. Matthews is an arrogant, discredited, little poop, isn't he.

[weegee]

Rolling Stone: Do you feel like an outsider in America?

Dave Matthews: A lot of people feel like outsiders, and we are viewed as outsiders by the government. Or as Un-American. I am way more American than George Bush and Dick Cheney. They have no f-wurd-symbolizing-a-lack-of-conversational-skills idea what it is to be American. They are f-wurd-symbolizing-a-lack-of-conversational-skills idiots who are programmed to everything in the hands of the few. They think it's right that them and theirs have everything and everyone else get by on good hard work. There is something charming about a simple man in the White House. But that's what is deceiving: He's not a simple man.

Well maybe now Davey understands how Conservatives have been made to feel in America. The 1980s were the decade of "greed" while the 1990s were "prosperous" ("Don't impeach the president over perjury, it's bad for the economy!!!").

We were told how the greatest threat to national security was talk radio and "conservatives" like Timothy McVeigh. We were told how there was religious intolerance in America and that there were a bunch of "mysterious" church fires that needed FBI investigations. Of course that was all smoke and mirrors and there was no agenda behind the fires (or even increase in the numbers). Meanwhile, Al Qaeda was operating in America (bombing the WTC in 1993 and continuing planning and operations culminating in the 2001 attack on the WTC and Pentagon).

Time Magazine asked on the cover "Is Rush Limbaugh Good For America?".

I remember the 1990s even if Mr. Dave Matthews Band was too blissed out to do so. 'Lord Haw Haw' should shove it and so back to singing.

[cyborg]

Wow Dave Matthews just became an American citizen I think. I guess he's now a member of the Peter Jennings new Americans lefty club. DM's political beliefs make me want to be that America got South Africa's sloppy seconds, but I still like his music.

[Dan from Michigan]

Click. Back to Lynyrd Skynyrd.