TOTALLY OFF: Who died...

[K Henderson]

>On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 08:12:38AM -0500, Brian Halligan wrote:
>=> K Henderson wrote:
>=>
>=> > and made Bono the Emperor of the friggin' universe?!
>=>
>=> [Hilarious rant snipped]
>=>
>=> One of my college professors always spoke about Bono/U2, their perceived
>=> clout in the world of politics and their empathy for the downtrodden. He
>=> tried to tell us how it was all just a way to sell more albums. Needless to
>=> say, he made a lot of young, female Bono fans very upset! ;-)
>
>Which just goes to show that no matter what one does, someone will
>manage to see bad in it.  Hooray for curmudgeons everywhere!
               ^^^

You misspelled self-aggrandizing.

>BTW, I didn't realise the Oscars were mandatory viewing.  Is this some
>case of "we control the horizontal; we control the vertical" going on
>here that I don't know about?

Yes.  I guess you didn't watch 60 Minutes this past Sunday, where Story 1
was about John Nash and the Beautiful Mind movie (nominated for 2 zillion
Oscars) and Story 3 was about Dame Judi Dench, nominated as best actress for
a movie that nobody has apparently seen, 'cause it really hasn't even been
widely-released yet.  It's ridiculous - you *can't* avoid it, without
hibernating in an underground bunker with the shadow gov't (not the shadow
gov't mule, which would only occur in times of Democratic leadership).  And
what's even more peculiar is that CBS (60 Minutes' network of course) isn't
even showing the Oscars, so why are they promoting it?  Probably just for
the ratings boost for their own show....but then of course, with the way
corporations are ever-increasingly tied together, it wouldn't surprise me if
CBS and the studios that made these two movies both were under one
even-larger multi-media enterprise and so the whole network of CBS is used
as a marketing tool.  I forget who owns who these days....another day,
another merger.

Sorry for speaking so blatantly off-topic, but nobody seems to have anything
at the moment to say about BOC/HW.

I did notice that Secret Treaties was No. 47 on the list of Rolling Stones'
Top 50 Coolest Albums of All-time (whatever the hell that's supposed to
represent). I'm decidedly uncool, 'cause I only own 3 of these 50, and
that's out of about 3000 CDs that I have.  ST was one of them of course, the
others being The Beatles' Revolver (of which I only like one song) and Roxy
Music's For Your Pleasure.  V.U. showed up at No. 1 amazingly enough, but it
just happened to be an album (WL,WH) I don't have (although I have a
compilation with tracks from it).

Grakkl (FAA)