Surprising amount of consternation and handwringing over Cookie's win at MTV, I'm afraid.
Surprising amount of consternation and handwringing over Cookie's win at MTV, I'm afraid.
ha!
Maybe he can sing a duet with Shania Twain. I hear she’s got some unexpected free time on her hands. LOL!
BTW, David Cook is from Blue Springs, MO, which is the city "next door" to where I live. So I guess Mr. Montgomery hates me too. Even though I've never actually watched "American Idol," and only learned about it because the local talk radio stations had been pulling for him!
Mark
Well, good luck with that career then. It sort of helps to have a pulse on things that you write about.
David Cook is the reason we are divided, obese and ignorant. David Cook is why the reason the rest of the world hates us.
It's truly amazing to see just how self centered this so called "music journalist" happens to be. Everything is about him. And he can't understand how it is that HE can see all this "subtle talent" in acts he likes, yet he denigrates anything "popular." Reading the piece he wrote for MTV is like living through "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand, and the "James Montgomery" character is a combination of Balf Eubank and Bertram Scudder. For those of you who aren't familiar with the book or the characters, here's what Wikipedia says about the characters:
Balph Eubank: Called "the literary leader of the age", despite the fact that he is incapable of writing anything that people actually want to read. What people want to read, he says, is irrelevant. He complains that it is disgraceful that artists are treated as peddlers, and that there should be a law limiting the sales of books to ten thousand copies. He is a member of the Looters. Balph Eubank appears in section 161.
Bertram Scudder: Editorial writer for the magazine The Future. He typically bashes business and businessmen, but he never says anything specific in his articles, relying on innuendo, sneers, and denunciation. He wrote a hatchet job on Hank Rearden called The Octopus. He is also vocal in support of the Equalization of Opportunity Bill. Later on he has a radio interview program, in which Dagany Taggart is forced to appear by the threat of revelation of her relationships with Rearden - but she turns the tables by herself revealing the relationship, taking pride in it and denouncing the regime. In the aftermath, Scudder is made the scapegoat and loses his job. Bertram Scudder appears in section 161.
As I mentioned earlier, this "hit piece" on David Cook says a lot more about Montgomery than it does Cook.
Mark
David Cook is the reason we are divided, obese and ignorant. David Cook is why the reason the rest of the world hates us.
It's truly amazing to see just how self centered this so called "music journalist" happens to be. Everything is about him. And he can't understand how it is that HE can see all this "subtle talent" in acts he likes, yet he denigrates anything "popular." Reading the piece he wrote for MTV is like living through "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand, and the "James Montgomery" character is a combination of Balf Eubank and Bertram Scudder. For those of you who aren't familiar with the book or the characters, here's what Wikipedia says about the characters:
Balph Eubank: Called "the literary leader of the age", despite the fact that he is incapable of writing anything that people actually want to read. What people want to read, he says, is irrelevant. He complains that it is disgraceful that artists are treated as peddlers, and that there should be a law limiting the sales of books to ten thousand copies. He is a member of the Looters. Balph Eubank appears in section 161.
Bertram Scudder: Editorial writer for the magazine The Future. He typically bashes business and businessmen, but he never says anything specific in his articles, relying on innuendo, sneers, and denunciation. He wrote a hatchet job on Hank Rearden called The Octopus. He is also vocal in support of the Equalization of Opportunity Bill. Later on he has a radio interview program, in which Dagany Taggart is forced to appear by the threat of revelation of her relationships with Rearden - but she turns the tables by herself revealing the relationship, taking pride in it and denouncing the regime. In the aftermath, Scudder is made the scapegoat and loses his job. Bertram Scudder appears in section 161.
As I mentioned earlier, this "hit piece" on David Cook says a lot more about Montgomery than it does Cook.
Mark
Every sentence of this piece condemns the author. How can someone who writes such tripe expect to be taken seriously?
Soooo....is Cook conservative or something, because if he is....I have an idiot niece who loves him, who is a flaming liberal, and this will make her come unglued!
If the author doesn’t like American Idol, he’s free to create Global Idol and limit competitors to only those he deems unAmerican enough.
Memo to: James Montgomery
From: Everyone else
There's plenty of places you can move to, after you leave this country you so hate. Don't let the door hit ya.
MTV is complaining about music? What the hell does MTV know about music?
LOVE the Cookie. LOVE the Cookie.
Horny recent divorcees???
Sounds to me like someone had a wee gay crush on David Archuleta.
He is basically the living, breathing embodiment of the overwhelming majority of people in this country, whom I do not, cannot and — let's face it — will not understand. Not ever. He makes me realize just how detached I am with reality and how unimportant I am. And that makes me sort of hate myself. And this country. Sort of.... the ideals and social forces he represents — that frustrate and, well, sort of terrify me.
This guy needs medication.
And just so much more sophisticated than flyover country.
sarcasm