Sordid Obsessions
OP/ED By The Colonel
This past weekend when I went to my local Borders store to check out the latest books and magazines, I came across something that made me sick in my stomach, the cover of some tabloid magazine which sets a new high in low, and shows how journalism has hit the rock bottom in 21st century America. There was a picture of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt on the cover of the aforementioned magazine, and the title of the cover story was:
“Angie & Brad: The Photos That Will Tear Them Apart”
“Brad Thought He Knew Everything, But He Has No Clue”
So this magazine not only claims to have information about Brad Pitt’s partner of 5 years and the mother of his children that he has no knowledge of, but it also goes so far to claim the revelation is so shocking that will tear these two apart. Pay attention: It is one thing for the tabloids to report on possible breakup rumors, but in this case it sounds like this magazine is trying to cause a breakup itself. Attempting to destroy a family in order to increase magazine sales, now the raise is too high for scumbag Paparazzi. Even though I was disgusted and repulsed, but I picked up the magazine and browsed through it. The story was about Angelina Jolie’s adventures in circa 1999, about a particular night she spent with a friend in a hotel room where they did heroin and this friend took pictures of Jolie while she was half naked. There was also some bullshit about Jolie’s emotional problems and how she voluntarily checked into a psych ward for 72 hours at one time during her marriage to Billy Bob Thornton; and that was it, the dark secrets that will tear a family apart turn out to be nothing but a bunch of gritty, old pictures and some he said/she said mumbo jumbo without even naming the sources.
Before I get to my main point, I have to mention that I am not a fan of Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt. In my opinion, they are no different from the rest of the actors. Sometimes they feature in a movie to cash a paycheck, and sometimes they choose a project because they like the story and the character they play. Some of their movies are good, some mediocre and some bad. When a new movie starring Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt or anybody else for that matter hits the theatres, if I like the story and find the trailer interesting, I’ll go and see the movie, otherwise I don’t. Therefore, I look at this issue objectively.
Now to my main point: This tabloid story is obviously a bunch of baloney that won’t change anything, the fact that Jolie did heroin and took half nude pictures 11 years ago in a hotel room somewhere won’t tear her and Pitt apart. As for the public opinion, anybody with half a brain and even less dignity who reads this will think: A young actress doing drugs, so what? Who doesn’t do that in Hollywood, and how is this news or anybody’s business? Since when a person’s life, career and achievements should be judged based on some wild one night stand from more than a decade ago? Pathetic stunts like this won’t do any damages to those who are targeted. Instead, they paint an image of those who orchestrate the stunts. I imagine some bald, fat, impotent little man, consumed with anger and bitterness and jealousy, sitting in a crumbling room, typing gossip garbage with his bloated, greasy fingers about a woman who doesn’t even know or cares that he exists. This little man’s goal is to increase sales of his tabloid trash and make an extra penny, although somewhere in his jaded, spiteful heart, filled with ache and regret, he desires his story would do more damage and makes somebody else feeling as miserable as he does. Unfortunately, the little man represents a bigger picture, the picture of America’s sordid obsessions with celebrities, and how the American people continue to turn their eyes away from the vital issues and grim dangers that keep on destroying the very fabrics of this country, and instead obsess over how this actress spends one night stands or how that actor screams at his girlfriend over the phone, etc. Shame.
I remember an episode from The Twilight Zone, perhaps the best, most influential sci-fi series in the history of television which did a superb job by using science fiction as a vehicle for social commentary. The episode “What’s in the Box?” tells the story of an old married couple who do not have niceness in each other. The man gets home from his job as a cab driver late one night and gets into an argue with his wife while having dinner. In the meantime, a TV repairman is in the next room fixing their broken set. The man who is a TV junkie harasses the repairman about the inconvenience and cost. The repairman abruptly closes the open TV panel and announces the TV is fixed. He leaves, the man starts browsing through the channels, and finds a station which is showing the past, present, and future of him and his wife. In the TV show, the man kills his wife during a fight, and ends up on trial and in the electric chair. Consequently, at the same night the couple continues to argue and fight and the man attacks his wife and kills her, just as he had seen on the TV show. A brilliant example of how life imitates TV and how obsessions replace reality. The message of this story, aired in 1964, resonates loud and clear in 2010 for those who tend to listen. I’ll close this article with the opening narration of The Twilight Zone’s “What’s in the Box?”:
“Portrait of a TV fan. Name: Joe Britt. Occupation: Cab driver. Tonight, Mr. Britt is going to watch a really big show, something special for the cabbie who’s seen everything. Joe Britt doesn’t know it, but his flag is down and his meter’s running and he’s in high gear, on his way to The Twilight Zone.”
I don’t blame the paparazzi, just the magazine editors. Also, if people didn’t give a shit about Brad Pitt the photos would be of no value. Who do you expect them to follow around, Bill Margold?
The whole “evil paparazzi” concept began after Princess Di’s murder, when they were originally blamed for her death and hauled away in a police wagon… You could almost see the “WTF? What did I do?” look on their faces through the windows as they got hauled in for questioning.
The Paparazzi and the magazine editors are not separated entities, it’s Paparazzi’s job to stalk people and take pictures of them in their private moments, and it’s the editor’s job to produce the most humiliating and offensive story, often false, to accompany with the pictures. They’re in this together and each is as guilty as the other. However, I agree with the fact that if people don’t care about Brad Pitt’s private life, then Paparazzi won’t be stalking and ambushing Brad Pitt. As I mentioned in the article, it’s a sad reality that the American people obsess over the lives of strangers instead of focusing on their own lives and the vital issues this country is facing.
Paparazzi have always been hated. Although they were wrongfully accused in the death of Princess Dianna, but they are to blame for tarnishing many people’s careers and reputations. I’ll never forget the pictures of an ill Marlon Brando on a wheelchair or a dying Patrick Swayze, walking out of the hospital on the cover of tabloid magazines. The question is why? Why these people were denied of their dignity and privacy in their last, most vulnerable moments? What kind of a person would allow himself to benefit from something like that? Only a complete, utter scum, Paparazzi scum.
If Paparazzi are scum, Colonel, then what are we?
Collectively, we buy the shit they sell.
The same goes for porn stars and pornographers. A lot of people say we’re scum and it don’t matter to them how many awards we might’ve won (which to them is an utter joke). But then if we’re scum so are all the hypocritical viewers who watch and get off on us.
Just like how I whip out my cock and stick it in some girl I don’t know, paparazzi whip their cameras out and stick it in celebrities faces because there’s a demand for it.
When the demand stops so will the suppliers jobs.
But don’t hold your breath.
Look at the staggering viewship and revenues of completely shallow and worthless shows like Entertainment Tonight. The world is in a fucked-up state for a reason. Lindsey Lohan’s fucked-up life is much more important supposedly than the truth about war, 9/11 and other depressing shit. If paparrazi are scum, so are we.
And if you were walking through the woods and happened to have a video camera and saw Angelina Jolie taking a dump wouldn’t you whip out your camera instead of your dick and capture the magic so you could sell it to the tabloids and have enough cash to shoot porn scenes for the rest of your life?
Paparazzi are scum, Jeremy, there are no two ways about it; and I don’t buy their shit. Never did and never will. As for the people who buy their shit, I won’t go as far to call those people scum. I call them bored, ignorant flocks that fulfill their empty lives by obsessing over the lives of others.
As for your other comment:
‘Just like how I whip out my cock and stick it in some girl I don’t know, Paparazzi whip their cameras out and stick it in celebrities faces because there’s a demand for it.’
I disagree. You whip out your cock and stick it in some girl you don’t know, but she wants you to stick your cock in her because that’s her job and she’s getting paid for it. It’s called performing sex with a consenting adult for the viewing pleasures of other consenting adults. Paparazzi, on the other hand, whip their cameras out and stick it in a celebrity’s face without that celebrity’s consent while he is leaving the hospital after his chemotherapy session (i.e. Patrick Swayze). There’s a big, obvious difference here that doesn’t need to be explained. You can argue that in a materialistic society such as America, everybody is a whore and I agree with that, but whores too have their red lines which they won’t cross. Here are some hypothetical questions:
Will you do what Paparazzi do for a living?
Will you join the military and gear up to invade foreign countries?
Will you work as Dick Cheney’s assistant?
I assume your answer to all these questions is no. Here, draw your conclusion.
P.S: As for filming Angelina Jolie or anybody else for that matter while taking a dump, I would never do that, would you? Even though we live in a world of shit, but still every individual is entitled to taking a shit without being harassed and filmed. That’s something that even *The Big Brother* does not want to see.
I suppose you’re a better man than the average, Colonel. But I still think the paparazzi are just part of the supply and demand equation. Those who purchase those magazines and papers with invasive photographs are worthy of condemnation, as well. The paparazzi would have no jobs without us.
Honestly, if I were walking through the woods with a camera in hand, then spotted Angelina in front of me with her back to me, then saw her pull her pants down and squat so that I could see her furry muff and wincing asshole, I’d be tempted…
Maybe I should’ve asked, what if you saw her running around the woods stark naked and you happened to be out of her view, standing with a video camera, knowing if you caught her on tape you could get paid lot’s of dough, would you give in to the Devil’s temptation?
Regarding your second and third questions, hell no. That’s way worse than the worst of paparazzis in my opinion.
Since the Colonel feels that paparazzi are scum, perhaps he might understand who people feelabout pornographers…..
To paraprase the Colonels above post…..”Pornographers are scum, there are no two ays about it. I dont buy their sht, never did and never wil. As for the people who buy their shit< I wont go as fat as to call them scum. I call them bored ignarant flocks that fulfill their empty lives by obsessing over the lives of others/
I could care less what people think of pornography and pornographers, but speaking of scum, G, you are the scum, a disgraced, disabled, isolated, old, impotent piece of shit with nothing to do with the remaining of your miserable, pitiful life expect for playing the internet clown and trolling porn message boards and obsessing over STDs and condoms. At least Paparazzi make a pathetic dime off of their obsessions, while you do it for free and only to fulfill your infinite loneliness.
Kill yourself, G, commit suicide. Cut your wrists and drain your broken, disabled body from your filthy blood. In case if you decide to do that, put a camera on tripod and broadcast your death on YouTube to entertain people. You’ll become a star. Also, don’t forget to inform us with an email prior to your suicide show. I’ll watch it with pleasure, and come to piss and shit on your grave afterwards.
Read and memorize your most favorite line:
‘Fuck you, you fucking idiot loser. Suck my dick.’
LOL
Looks like the Colon is trying to get back all the attention Jeremiah has been getting here lately. Nice to have you back Colon.
I don’t need to get any attention, G you cock sucker, it’s you who needs to ride on anybody’s coat tail, however you can, whenever you can. Stop spamming my thread, or you will get kicked out of this board again.
P.S: Don’t write LOL like a bratty, spoiled slut, you’re too old for that shit. Fool.
Since you get to make up your littel stories about me here’s how I picture the Colon.
He’s a bald, fat, impotent little man, consumed with anget, bitterness and jealousy, sitting in a little room, typing gossip garbage with his bloated cum stained fingers. His goal is to increase the sales of his low budget, bottom rung porn dvd’s, but in the end, his alcoholism, and unfulfilled dreams of stardom ultimately lead to him doing the rest of the world a favor by putting a bullet through his own head….And nobody notices.
Actually he’s a balding late 40’s douchebag with a wierd tatoo on his left forearm.
Look G, next time use your own words and be more creative instead of regurgitating somebody else’s words. I have no tattoo on my arm, and you can find out for yourself. Perhaps you should invite me over to your retirement home in Tujunga, CA so you can see who I am and how do I look. Then I’ll kick you out of your wheelchair to the floor, spread your ass cheeks and shove my forearm into your old, rotten, wrinkled ass; and that’s when you’ll know everything you always so desperately wanted to know about me. As for the price, my fist in your ass comes free, but you won’t be able to shit straight for a week. Give a little, get a little.
11:00 PM, most likely G is sleeping. I’ll leave this message for G anyway:
You are my bitch, G, and you will always be my bitch until the day you die. You know it, and I know it, and I’ll drink to it. Read your most favorite line again, and again, and again:
‘Fuck you, you fucking idiot loser. Suck my dick.’
Ah, love is in the air…
That’s right, Jeremy, between me riding Little G’s disabled, impotent ass like a broken truck and you bitch slapping Bill *Teddy Bear* Margold, love is indeed in the air.
By the way, I just checked out Margold’s web site, and all I can say is what a shit hole, for real. This fool has nothing there but a bunch of lazy movie reviews he has written for the escorting newspaper LA X-Press. Big, pathetic, fucking loser. Bill Margold and Little G should get together and take turns to shit in each other’s time wasting, worthless mouths. Two dinosaurs shitting on each other, that’s what I call fucking entertainment.
You’re quite right at saying I’m right, Colonel, and you’re also right about Bill Margold Dot CON’s pathetic site… the first page appropriately shows Bill fucking up a nice shot of a hot chick by walking into frame from behind, crossing a barrier, and then about to fuck it up expodentially worse by inevitably opening his mouth and spewing his verbal diarrhea assault on that poor, unsuspecting figure model who’s busy.
Upon entering, the next photo atop shows Bill trying to look intellectual and dangerously close to passing children and families behind him. These are not his children, either. Keep him away!
Ignoring his babble about mainstream movies, if you then click on “Headlines” you see a horrible pic atop of Bill self-indulgently laughing all by himself. Notice how he so effectively cleared the room, as the entire place is empty during day hours behind him.
Instead of wasting your time or even money on this site I’d instead donate it to one much more interesting, entertaining and important.
They need your help helping people who have been traumatized from witnessing people who do these things in public.
http://www.statuemolesters.com/
Btw, Lucky is in one of these photos in here somewhere.
Jeremy Steele says:
‘Notice how he (Bill Margold) so effectively cleared the room, as the entire place is empty during day hours behind him.’
It must be due to his lack of hygiene and intolerable odor. I can’t help but thinking how great it would have been if we could get Margold to shit in Little G’s mouth. Think about it, imagine Margold strategically positioning his obese ass above Little G’s face and blasting a mondo turd in Little G’s wide fucking open, worthless mouth. Priceless.
poor ronald mcdonalds around the world, just imagine how many times they have been fondled,groped,kissed, e.t.c. he’s just sitting on a bench minding his own business and then……
sorry, thats in reference to jeremy’s statue molesters link.
funny you mentioned the link, i just submitted to the site a photo of me molesting a mannequin’s ass in vegas
Speaking of mannequins, I don’t know if anybody on this board has seen the movie Lars and the Real Girl starring Ryan Gosling. The movie tells the story of a small town factory worker lonely moron who falls in love with a plastic doll he calls Bianca. It’s one of the most bizarre, disturbing and fucked up movies of recent years. Check it out if you haven’t.
Here is its trailer:
Really??
I thought “Lars And The Real Girl” was very sweet. Different, but cute. A life lession on how we should treat one another. In the end – Bianca effected everyone is a positive way.
NOW… if you want to see a real fucked up movie about a Real Doll; see “Love Object” (2003). It’s a horror flick. Unlike Lars this guy is psycho, slowly coming apart because of that sex toy. The ending is twisted, the villian attempting to make his own doll from his attractive co-worker (Melissa Sagemiller).
trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3QGAJgjJWI
The DVD is a special edition.
aborted poster is freaky
http://www.imagebam.com/image/1711ed91912019
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Tangent… since were talking about movies (okay I am). Seek out this horror tale, “Splinter” (2009). The most original creature design I’ve seen in years – man in suit with specks of CGI. Other good one is “Isolation” (2005). I saw the gallery, production artwork. I still don’t know what I saw and it’s not any clearer. Both are great atmosphere flicks that rely on story and characters than effects. And both are independent features.
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As to the original topic. Sir what do you expect? These are people who make their living off the misery of others. The worse the better. I remember glancing at one of the tabloids at the market; it showed a fragile Dennis Hopper (a few weeks before he died), falling on the street, cutting his chin. *snap* *snap* *snap* Dignity is a foreign word.
Regarding your last comments, Johnlan, and, as you said, back to the original subject, we have the choice to subscribe and pay for things we object to, or not. If disturbing images or ones which are taken by crossing someone’s boundaries are not what we want to take into our reality then we can choose that. If we want to show respect for people we think are being violated by the paparazzi, we can choose to boycott the magazines and papers which show those photos. If we know Nike is employing sweatshop workers we can choose to not buy their products. Sounds ideal but if we want to live in an ideal world we have to start being the change we want to see. We can’t just conveniently blame it on other people acquiring the things we buy or “the economy” to justify unethical business behavior. Everything will change when we each make a change and do what we should each do. Then there’s a paradigm shift, instantaneously. Ideal, but we can do it, if we simple choose to and become sovereign individuals. We are all connected and should not condemn the fingers which steal or invade if it leads back to our own hearts and minds which choose, whether directly or indirectly, to ask for it. I still see the parazzi as the scapegoat. It’s convenient to just say consumers are lazy but us being lazy is what allows paparazzi to go crazy.
Thank you John, I haven’t seen Love Object and Isolation, and will check them out upon your recommendation. I saw Splinter, and I agree, the creature design in that movie is brilliant. Speaking of the movies, one of the most despicable, grotesque and hideous horror movies I’ve seen lately is a German flick named The Human Centipede. It tells the story of a German doctor who kidnaps three tourists and joins them surgically, mouth to ass, forming a *human centipede*. After completing the operation, the doctor begins training the centipede, while attempting to hide his actions from the attention of the outside world. It’s Frankenstein on crack, Euro trash at its best, or worst, depending on one’s taste.
Here is its trailer:
Yeah.
I’m part of the problem.
I buy my shirts at one of the discount store here (three bucks), which pretty much is sweatshop generated. I look at my available greenbacks and go there – it’s cheaper. The sad thing is I’m wearing a blue shirt that has last longer than one I bought at Wal-Mart. (I remember owning toothbrushes that could go over a couple of months before needing replacing)
Anyhow; I don’t think it’s lazy consumers to blame, but more like apathetic ones.
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I’m aware of that… movie. I have no desire to see “Human Centipede”. On a brighter note, seek out “Strings” (2004). It’s a film done with marionettes, puppets who know they’re puppets. It has the potential of being epic; “Ben-Hur”, “Spartacus” epic. But they did’t have the money for a long movie, the feature is only 91 minutes long. It’s a whole world that needs exploring.
trailer
I don’t entirely blame the consumers for Paparazzi misdeeds. Like I mentioned in an earlier comment, consumers are bored, ignorant flocks that fulfill their empty lives by obsessing over the lives of others. One could argue about the foundations of society, and how humanity must be changed and people should evolve and progress on a fundamental scale. In my opinion, that’s idealistic wishful thinking that has never happened and will never happen. Humans are a complex species and in any society during any historical period there are too many conflicts of interests and ideology that eventually and inevitably makes forming a harmonic, peaceful global union impossible. So in the end, it comes down to each and every individual and personal choice: Who do you want to be and what do you want, or are willing to do, for a living? In that aspect, when I, for example, choose to produce pornographic movies for a living it’s my choice; if a Paparazzi chooses to stalk people for a living, harass them, spread lies and rumors about them and robs them from their dignity and privacy, or if a man decides to join the military and gear up to invade foreign countries that’s their choice; and each and every one of us will be measured based on our choices.
On another note and back to the subject of the movies, I understand if somebody doesn’t want to watch a movie like The Human Centipede. I watched it out of some morbid curiosity, and it was not a pleasant experience, so I can’t recommend it.
Since Angelina Jolie was mentioned in this article and her new movie Salt is currently in theatres, I watched Salt last week; and I have to say it’s a good action/thriller with a decent plot, although the final twist is somewhat far fetch. They borrowed a lot from Bourne movies: Double identity, turning household material into deadly weapons, mind bending stunts, one on one fights, etc. Although it’s tough for a woman to deliver on such premises, but Jolie does a fine job and delivers. It’s a fun movie to watch which sets up for a sequel in the end. It’ll be good to see another Salt movie in the next couple of years. It was time for women to get their super duper assassin spy.
By the way, here is some interesting trivia: Salt script was originally written for a male character, and the producers were in talks with Tom Cruise to play Salt. After Angelina Jolie expressed interest in the story, the script was re-written for a female character. I’m glad Tom Cruise didn’t take over this project; otherwise he would have turned it into a spin-off of his Mission Impossible schlock.
I think laziness and apathy are related. Or maybe it comes down to ignorance or indifference. Who knows and who cares? But like Ghandi says we gotta be the change we wanna see, see? Respect others, if you don’t, then don’t scratch your head when they turn on you. Respect also includes a respectable wage, as you would help your own brother out. Don’t be a greedy scumbag, trying to get people lower and lower and lower and lower and lower; stabbing one guy in the back who you got cheap by hiring someone even cheaper, then turning around and doing the same to the next. Many times people doing very well with back-ups to their income act like they got nothing. Many times the richest of the rich act like this. At what point they determined that there’s no God (other than some sort of Devil), no future life anywhere, no karma for their behavior and that they know this for bonafide fact, I don’t know, but they shouldn’t be so certain.
Jeremy Steele says:
‘Like Ghandi says we gotta be the change we wanna see.’
I agree with that, and it comes to personal choices and what we choose to do. I respect my privacy, hence I respect others’ privacy, I don’t interfere with their lives and livelihood and don’t tend to take advantage of them in their vulnerable moments. Therefore, I can never do what Paparazzi do, no matter how much I might benefit from it. However, like everybody, I have a thousand flaws, and it is because of our flaws that we can never live in a harmonic, peaceful Utopia that the likes of Ghandi envisioned; but if we make our choices more carefully, we might live in a world more decent and fairer, if not ideal.
You can’t always get what you want
And if you try sometimes you find
You get what you need
– The Rolling Stones
Hey, instead of Papa John’s how about Papa Razzi’s pizza?
A friend and her family came once from Jersey and wanted the Hollywood tour and invited me and that was my first time. At first, I felt like a dork riding it, and I felt sorry for those celebrities who must have at least 20 or so buses of lookie loos per day all staring outside their window stopping while the tour guide announces on the loudspeaker that it’s their home. I think it was David Spade who once flipped off the van, I was told when I asked the driver if they ever get pissed off. We saw a bunch of Michael Jackson paparrazi, too, in a house he was temporarily renting. Then a couple of cute chicks in a convertible passed by and yelled “Yoo hoo” to us and I said to the driver, “To hell with the celebrities, follow that car!”. I had no idea what they charge for haircuts in some places in Beverly Hills. It must be a proud thing to be able to show off how much money you can waste.
Ah yes, celebrity tours, how horrible and fucked up is that. Imagine you wake up in the morning with a hangover. You need to make yourself a cup of coffee, have a cigarette, relax and reboot. Then suddenly some asshole outside your house is screaming in the speaker, announcing how many bathrooms your house has; and a bunch of corn fed small town schmuck tourists are snapping pictures of your backyard. No wonder many singers, actors, etc. do not reside in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills area.
One of many things that amaze me about America’s obsession with celebrities is that Americans want somebody to succeed, and when that person succeeds, instead of congratulating and supporting him/her, they envy that person and want to see him/her fail. Going back to Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt discussion, Americans brag about the values of family life and children, but when two people get together and make a family of adopted and biological children, they mock them for it and want to see their family falling apart. I believe that’s because people in this country have become so miserable, so depressed and so shallow, and want to see everybody else as miserable as themselves. Shame.
I wonder how many celebrities have been photographed throwing out their garbage. I heard there’s a Gay Hollywood tourbus, now.
In other news, Lady Gaga is doing a video playing on John Lennon’s white piano. I remember seeing that Piano in Long Island when my dad was doing tree work there. Gaga’s a shallow attention-whore just like Madonna, has to be in the headlines every 45 nanoseconds and change her look due to lack of substance.
Van Halen is recording an album and will be touring again. Now it’s more Van Halen than ever; 3/4 Van Halen, 1/4 Roth. I have a feeling Eddie won’t be playing any of his songs from “Sacred Sin”. Girls born the last year they recorded an album together are now MILFs. Scary. I wonder how high David is gonna “Jump!” on stage.
Jeremy Steele says:
‘I wonder how many celebrities have been photographed throwing out their garbage.’
As many that have been photographed dining out, walking in the beach or exiting the airport. Once I saw a picture of Helen Mirren eating a sandwich, and the image description was something like this:
‘Celebrities Are Like Us, They Eat Tuna Sandwiches, Too.’
How meaningless, pathetic and stupid is that? So what? You’re not supposed to eat tuna sandwiches if your daily job is acting in movies? Fucking ridiculous.
As for Lady Gaga, she is a dumb as a box of rocks, talentless, worthless, ugly attention whore with serious emotional and low self esteem issues. I wish I was making this up, but it’s true. A few days ago I came across one of her recent interviews in which she claims she tries to avoid having sex because she is afraid of depleting her creative energy:
‘I have this weird thing that if I sleep with somebody they’re going to take my creativity from me through my vagina.’
‘Nuff said.
As for Van Halen, this fool hasn’t released any worthy material in more than 2 decades. He hit the rock bottom in the late 80’s, and today his only rightful place is in the museum next to dinosaur skeletons. I need to listen to Jump and Too Hot for Teacher for the 1000th times as much as I need another hole in my ass.
Maybe this is an evolution of the drama played out in the colosseum. From flesh to flesh on print.
‘Celebrities Are Like Us, They Eat Tuna Sandwiches, Too.’
Wow. Even 3rd graders aren’t that ignorant. Even Mr. Rogers would go “WTF”?
‘I have this weird thing that if I sleep with somebody they’re going to take my creativity from me through my vagina.’
What creativity? Wow. I’ve never paid much attention to her for too long or read anything she’s said. Now, I know why.
I have it from a very close source that Lady Ga Ga was at an A list restaurant and wore a fuckin’ veil over her face, lifting it every time she had a bite. WTF is wrong with this woman? Does she have to bring attention to herself everywhere? I can see even Madonna telling her to stop being an attention whore.
I listened to Eddie play some classical music when I was at his house during the making of Sacred Sin and he was really awesome. He also really had it going on during the live performance in his backyard for the release party. As far as those songs he wrote for the movie… I just hope their new album is better than that.
I remember my old friend who’s got tats, long hair, but strangely ended up becoming a NY cop, he ran into David Lee during a call. Dave was a paramedic, then. My friend, looked at him regretfully and said to him “Hey, What the hell happened, man?” (in other words, how did you go from being mega rock star to this work?) David wasn’t too happy after my friend said that. After 1984 came out, he made a real jackass move leaving VH. Eddie made money but David went broke. I know the Van Halens want to do this comeback but David NEEDS to do this.
JohnIan says:
‘Maybe this is an evolution of the drama played out in the colosseum. From flesh to flesh on print.’
I’d say it’s devolution instead of evolution. 2000+ years have gone by, and still nobody can top Romans when it comes to entertainment.
Speaking of the colosseum, I don’t know how many people on this board have watched Starz series Spartacus: Blood & Sand. It was fantastic, as fun as a B grade action flick gets: Brutal fight scenes, treacherous femme fatales and gallons of blood. You can’t go wrong with that formula.
I saw pictures of Lady Gaga wearing that awful fucking veil. Check this out: She made that sex comment in an interview for a Vanity Fair story. In the pictures accompanying the story, she’s totally nude. Claiming how much she hates sex and taking nude pictures at the same time. This broad is way too fucked up and her attention seeking tricks are way too pathetic.
As for Van Halen, I didn’t like any of their stuff since OU812, and I haven’t listened to Sacred Sin Soundtrack, although I haven’t heard any good reviews of it, either. They must record some new and decent, if not outstanding material instead of touring and playing the same god damn songs for the 1000th times. Otherwise they better quit altogether and go do something else. I’m sure Eddie Van Halen can manage to get a spot on the next edition of VH1’s Celebrity Rehab.
I wish Gaga would Ga-gag herself. She’s probably not so into sex because of self-esteem issues, “giving herself away”, as well as both AHF’s campiagn and her gay dancer friends telling her we’re gonna die from having sex one of these days. I thought I was gonna die from some moron pulling into my lane, last night. We need to ban all stupid drivers.
As for Eddie’s “Sacred Sin” music, here it is. That’s me in the t.v. sets getting my face sewn shut and a head rub by Heather Vandeven. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzL0uQH5vG0
If All Van Halen’s early music was like this, someone hearing someone else say “Van Halen” would’ve gone “Van Who?”
Approve my last comment, dammit! What now?
Meanwhile, I was just wondering about starting an enterprise, find some unsuspecting fast lane recreational people doing lots of drugs, then test and misdiagnose their non-wellness based on a viral based theory, then give them lot of more drugs many x more deadly than the ones they were doing in the first place. I see a cash cow in my future… the kind that makes certain people pray for pandemics.
Right you are, Jeremy, Lady Gaga’s hatred towards sex is one of too many side effects of her low self esteem. In fact, this woman has too many issues that psychology can’t even touch them. She doesn’t need therapy, she needs a time machine to go back to her childhood so maybe, just maybe she can repair some of the damages.
Lady Gaga is the most confused, pathetic, self loathing, talentless attention whore since that piece of shit Marilyn Manson. That scumbag became somewhat famous by riding on Trent Reznor’s coat tail and associating himself with mindless crimes such as the Columbine school shooting. It was said the two teenage Neo-Nazi turds that went berserk on their fellow classmates and killed several of them were inspired by Marilyn Manson’s music and lyrics, and not only he never denied those allegations, but always took pride in it. Now that he’s broke, middle aged and washed up, he doesn’t like to be referred to as Marilyn Manson anymore, he asks to be called just Manson; and that has turned him into an even bigger joke.
Thank you for Van Halen link. Seems like Sacred Sin Soundtrack is not as bad as I expected, although it’s nothing outstanding, either. I stand by my opinion: Van Halen must record new material instead of touring and playing the same old songs for the 1000th times.
i’ll add my two cents worth, even though jeremy and colonel basically nailed it. it was supposed to be van halen all along (not vanhaggar). i’m not much of a fan of the “red rocker”. true, van halen’s days were pretty much numbered after “1984”, but most metal bands days were over in the spring of ’91 with that shit they called “grunge”. fuck nirvana, but there were a few good pearl jam songs. every one knows that gaga is a madonna wannabe. gaga could’nt carry madonna’s tampons.
True, grunge was the beginning of the end for the 80’s metal bands. During that bleak *Never Mind* era, one of the only bands that had the ability and potential to keep rock ‘n’ roll and metal going was Guns N’ Roses, but unfortunately Axl Rose’s egomania and inflated sense of self worth ruined everything. 14 years and 14 million dollars later, Guns ‘N Roses released Chinese Democracy with a line up consisting of Axl Rose and a bunch of obscure session players; and since Mr. Rose refused to do any promotions whatsoever for his over hyped but run-of-the-mill release, it tanked and led to even more embarrassment. Still, I can’t help thinking how great this band could have been, should have been.
Regarding Marilyn Manson, I disagree and don’t know where you got that info that he said nothing about and took pride in it. Michael Moore’s “Bowling For Columbine” has a segment addressing people’s scapegoating him as well as an interview with him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P27cnBizD7U
What disgusted me about him was reading his autobiography where he out of nowhere says he punched his mother. At that point I stopped reading it.
Aside from that I like some of his music. I also had a girlfriend who said she lived with him when she was a teenage runaway and was living with him at the time of Columbine. They used to hide up in the attic constantly in fear of being shot. She said he was remorseful for what happened and thought being blamed was crazy.
Yeah, Nirvana ended the hairmetal fun times and turned fans into withdrawn masochists. He was processing the pain of heroin addiction which he got caught up in because of a spinal problem which caused him constant agony in his stomach. Right before he was killed (research it) he was off heroin and a new man and was about to divorce Courtney.
What’s up with all Metal having laryngitis sounding vocals now?
Also, a funny thing about Marilyn Manson. In the book, “The long, hard road out of hell” he makes constant jokes about how you know a guy is gay if he listens to Morrissey (which is bullshit) then he talks about how he sucked his band members dick because he was bored, then claims however that doesn’t make him gay. For a while Marilyn Manson seemed to be everyone’s hero for whatever reason.
Jeremy Steele says:
‘Regarding Marilyn Manson, I disagree and don’t know where you got that info that he said nothing about and took pride in it.’
I recall several interviews in which Marilyn Manson, directly or indirectly, takes pride in being associated with Columbine school shooting. In one of the interviews he says:
‘If you tell me my music can influence somebody to the extent that he pulls a gun and shoots people, it means my music can do a hell of a job.’
If that’s not taking pride, then I don’t know what is. Of course he was scared shitless during the Columbine crisis, he was afraid for his worthless life; but it doesn’t mean he was remorseful. He could have fooled a teenage runaway, but you and I should know better than that. As to your other comment:
‘For a while Marilyn Manson seemed to be everyone’s hero for whatever reason.’
He was never a hero, he was a circus freak, a train wreck and an attention whore, similar to Lady Gaga; and now that he has reached his expiration date, he can crawl to a hole somewhere and die. The world won’t miss him.
Grunge eradicated hair metal and then went down the trash can of history itself. That’s the difference between style and trend: Style survives the test of time, while trend comes and goes. Listen to anything off of The Rolling Stones, The Doors and Led Zeppelins’ 1960’s catalog, it’s as if it was recorded in 2010. Then try that with anything off of Nirvana’s Never Mind, the chances are you will stop listening in less than 5 minutes and ask yourself: Why do I need to listen to this whiny, wimpy bullshit?
I don’t know whether Kurt Cobain was clean and sober at the time of his death or not, and frankly I don’t care. I believe his death was not suicide, and he was murdered by Courtney Love, his psychopathic wife, but I don’t care about that, either. In any event, I don’t need to listen to Smells Like Teen Spirit ever again, but I will gladly listen to Gimme Shelter, Light My Fire and Whole Lotta Love for the rest of my life.
Back to the topic of America’s obsession with celebrities, America, meet your new beloved celebrity:
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/08/jetblue-flight-attendant-im-a-hero
A new hero for a new age. I wonder how many more signs of apocalypse we need.
“Smells like teen spirit” was always my least favorite song, mumbling and seeming hell bent on making you feel the pain in his stomach but after I listened to the CD from the 2nd song on, I started digging it.
Yeah, Sabbath, Stones, Doors, Floyd, Zep, etc, you can’t hold a candle…
Grunge. People fell for that shit hook, line, and sinker. It really sucked ass, that’s why it’s not around anymore.
Incidentally, hair metal had become a caricature of itself..just like their tinny, slow ballads and the skinny leather wrapped legs it all became too much sameness.
Ozzy was quality all through the 80’s and 90’s. Heck, his only bad studio album was that God awful 2001 release. Van Halen/Hagar was fine but those mean-spirited Van Halen brothers take the shit way too seriously. Hateful motherfuckers aren’t they?
Finally, I never did understand the overwhelming popularity of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. It was a good song but it wasn’t all that. I think the popularity was due to people just being lemmings. Rolling Stone wanted a new rebellious youth and promoted this shit to death.
I can talk about Guns N’ Roses all fucking day long. Basically the guys sans Axl wrote a lot more of the songs than most people think. A lot of hard work by all of them led to their enormous and well deserved popularity. Still, they did too many covers and Axl was a timebomb that imploded a thousand times over. Read W.A.R. by Mick Wall and Slash. You’ll learn everything you ever wanted to know.
That’s Slash by Slash. Good inside stuff.
Hair metal indeed has become a joke: You’ve got these bald, fat, middle aged fucks who put on makeup and play silly love songs they wrote when they were teenagers. Some years ago, I went to a Twisted Sister show, it was around the time they re-activated the band after a decade’s long hiatus, so I was curious to see how they would do. They were awful, awkward and pathetic and made me sick in my stomach; and it was the last time ever I went to a hair metal show.
Ozzy Osbourne is not a human being or a musician anymore; he’s a stinking corpse, a broken shadow and a fucking ATM machine, servicing the infinite needs of his bitch on wheels of a wife. The last decent album he released was Ozzmosis, after that, his albums have been one pile of shit after the other; and don’t get me started on his MTV reality show that turned him into a family friendly clown. After Dio’s passing, I often wonder what god would take Dio and leave Ozzy Osbourne alive.
I can also talk about Guns N’ Roses all day long. With all their flaws and shortcomings, I still love this band. Chinese Democracy, despite of being mediocre and light years away from Appetite for Destruction and Use Your Illusion, but still is a decent album which I’ll take over anything from Green Day, Cold Play, Marron 5 and the rest of the legion of disposable pretty boy media whores.
Best Chinese Democracy tracks: Madagascar, Street of Dreams and Catcher in the Rye.