Posted on 02/14/2005 8:05:32 PM PST by traumer
I worked as a stage hand part-time in college. I would broaden your brush to include the entire entertainment industry. They're one step removed from carnies (notice I didn't say they're one step up). Some of the biggest losers are drawn to the fantasy world of the entertainment industry, from the lowly stage hands all the way to the entertainers. The industry literally drips with sleaze. I don't miss that world at all.
Chris Rock maybe be liberal, but he is neither a gutter snipe nor a low life.
Have you ever even watched his stand up rountine ?
He's hysterically asute about relations betwene men and women.
I'm a woman and he makes me laugh at my own little female foibles.
He's very off the cuff and gets himself in trouble for his unPC remarks.
He's already in trouble for saying only gays watch the Oscars.
LOL
If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.
Chris Rock
So what's "good music" to you ?
Name names please.
Best Group of the Year?
How about The Bloggers!
Best group of the year--The pile my dog did in the backyard?
I think the c-RAP element in music has ruined it and people show they aren't THAT interested in watching them get their bowling trophies.
Carnies, I like that. Just a little better dressed. Most of the time anyway.
You are entitled to your opinion, and I respect that, but Chris Rock is not a man for all seasons. He has a "niche" following, just like many "hip-hop" dudes. He will never approach the drawing power of a Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy, and he certainly will never approach the popularity of Ray Charles. Rock's movie about becoming President baring made back the money it cost to make. The Academy has picked a wiseguy loudmouth with a racial chip on his shoulder. And....my dear, "Being Black, Democrat and liberal ain't cool, and it certainly ain't where it's at!!!" The winds of change are afoot in the Black community, and Mr. Rock is not with them!!!
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0150533.html Here's a page listing Grammy winners from past years. I was kind of surprised when I examined it. Music actually was better back in the old days! (of course, some songs listed will remind you that not everyone had good taste back then.)
The sentence that closed with the phrase "... and this year has no dominant film." is copied below. I guess one could take the sentence either way, as referring to domination in theatres, or domination in Oscar nominations. I think the domination in theatres interpretation is clearly the most sensible one. "Big-box office films" refers to performance in theatres, not the number of Oscar nominations garnered by a film.
But big-box office films tend to juice the ratings -- the Oscars (news - web sites) haven't approached the 55 million who watched when "Titanic" won in 1998 ... and this year has no dominant film.
Seems like the author is hinting to compare "Titanic's" box office performance with the box office performance of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." The theory seems to be that unless a film's box office take beats or approaches Titanic's, then Oscar viewership won't "be juiced" as a result. I think a simpler theory is that Oscar viewership is maximized when the bigger box office films are represented with nominations for awards. People like their favorite film(s) to be recognized. Maybe the decline in Oscar viewership is a simple reflection that Hollywood in general, and the Oscars in particular, are not in harmony with audience sentiment.
Awright, here's some of what's on my iPod...
The Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, Seventh Sojourn, and a Best Of with much of their early work.
Dione Warwick singing songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Led Zeppelin - One, Three and Four and Houses of the Holy.(Two is over played)
Aorta - Main Vein (undiscovered classic)
Emerson - Lake, and Palmer, Brain Salad Surgery
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Meddle, Relics, Ummaguma
The Doors Box set - about 60 percent of the Doors library is crap, but that other 40 percent is OH MY brilliant!
Early Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat - (before he got into toilet humor)
George Winston Box Set
H.P. Lovecraft 2- another undiscovered classic
James Gang - Yer Album
Jefferson Airplane - The Worst Of
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland, Cry of Love
The Litter - Emerge - another undiscovered classic
Alice Cooper - Easy Action, Love It to Death
Loreena McKennit - Book of Secrets
The Who - Tommy
Blue Cheer - Outsideinside
Yep, they don't write 'em like that anymore! (Loreena McKennitt and George Winston aside).
Great List -- don't forget Aretha, the early work of The Supremes and GFR's E. Plurubus Funk
Oh yeah, and throw Atomic Rooster - Made in England in there.
And his parents complained wildly about how bad it was compared to their music from the 40's/50's.
If he was still alive today I wonder if he'd approve of 'my' music.
This weekend, I wanted to see a movie with my wife.
We drove up, and went down the list of the ones that caught our eye. Every one of them had a star that had mouthed off about the Iraq war.
We drove home, snuggled and watched TV. Skipping the movie didn't phase us one bit... And by voting with my money, I increase the odds that next time there will be something/someone worth watching.
Craig
I didn't watch the Grammys, but I know of Nora Jones and I appreciate her work, it kinda puts me to sleep, but she's the closest thing to actual songwriting goin' today. Can you tell the difference between her and say oh, Kanye West? People like Kanye West should not be getting any awards. He shouldn't even be recorded. He is a waste of time.
Kanye West's hiphop so he doesn't even register in my sphere of listening pleasures.
I'm totally a rock chick.
No rap cr@p for me.
Rap artists & Russell Simmons wouldve been thrilled to kill off modern day Rock/Alternative/Brit Pop.
Nora Jones is lovely, but only appropriate when I want to relax and be lulled to sleep.
And not only do I like modern day rock/alt, I'e always appreciated older music such as from Chuck Berry to Louis Armstrong to Glenn Miller.
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