Jul. 31st, 2001
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Jul. 31st, 2001 10:45 amHave no fear, Wax, for you are the chosen one. All i want to do is to carry the red velvet cape and feed grapes to your minions.
Yeah, i know when i've been beaten. :-D
Like Giu, i don't get it myself, and most days i feel like i'm in a fannish remake of "The Stand", but a while back i just said what the hey, it makes my friends happy. I don't have to like it myself. And i don't, please understand. I think Nsync personifies everything that sucks ass in music today, but how many times have we been saying that over how many generations? We say it now, our parents said it about our music, and so on.
And really, i've got no reason to talk, Duran Duran still being my boyband of choice, which nearly gave my Mom an aneurysm back in the day. They degrade women! They're sexist pigs! And i really couldn't disagree, but gosh, was Simon cute. My Mom hated them, but she let me cover the walls with fannish stuff, including a big honkin' poster of Simon right over the bed, bless her heart.
And now they're my Crusty Old Man Band of choice. Especially Simon, who now looks like a warning poster for staying out in the sun too long. Yeesh! But now i love the music and concentrate less on the looks. (Although that John Taylor still isn't a bad lookin' fella...)
Let this be a warning to you unconditional lovers of boybands, they will get old and crusty and gross looking. Oh, the pain and embarrassment. But man, did Beth and I have fun watching Power Station on SNL. Wasn't it awesome?
There are a lot of things in Te's post i just shake my head at, but this is the biggest:
{{*I* say that the difference between, say, Ray Kowalski, and a Lance, or a Justin, or a whoever-the-fuck is really quite simple. Ready? One is a character created by an artist to tell a story s/he cares about. The other is a character created by a bunch of money-grubbing suits to shake his ass and make them some money.}}
LOL!
Kowalski is a *TV* character. It's a *TV* show. If there was anything artistic going on, you can be sure it was entirely accidental. TV shows aren't created for any lofty artistic reason.
He was written for two reasons:
1. So Paul Gross could get CKR into the sack and make him his damsel in distress and
2. To fill in the spaces between the commercials that sell hockey pucks and dogsleds or some shit. (Great, now i offend all the Canadians)
It's all commercialism. Anything else is just splitting hairs. If Kowalski had an ass to shake, you'd bet he would.
While i'm on the RPS thing:
I was looking for a particular rant on CABS last night, and i find their defense of boybands spiel. God, i'm loath to give these anonymous chickenshit pantywaists any more free publicity, but it was really really funny. I must've read it ages ago, but i blanked on it. Just one more link, because i'm thinking about what Vali said about Stephen Ratliff, so i'll keep it brief. and anyway, i linked to His Greatness, so my karma slate is clean.
The "editorial" (*coff*) could've been a lot shorter though:
"I used to think that bbs was evil and wrong, but now that it gets me wet I think it's okay."
Please, CABS. You fool no one. Eight year olds aren't fooled by your prostestations that you read it for the good articles. Come on. I used to be a little fangirl too, and i know all the signs of crushitude.
One of these days i'll convince them that Harry Potter is not, like, 10 years old or something. Dorks. Read stories like this and be a convert. Or a pervert, whichever. Either way, it's fantastic-- my favorite HP slash story out there.
Yeah, i know when i've been beaten. :-D
Like Giu, i don't get it myself, and most days i feel like i'm in a fannish remake of "The Stand", but a while back i just said what the hey, it makes my friends happy. I don't have to like it myself. And i don't, please understand. I think Nsync personifies everything that sucks ass in music today, but how many times have we been saying that over how many generations? We say it now, our parents said it about our music, and so on.
And really, i've got no reason to talk, Duran Duran still being my boyband of choice, which nearly gave my Mom an aneurysm back in the day. They degrade women! They're sexist pigs! And i really couldn't disagree, but gosh, was Simon cute. My Mom hated them, but she let me cover the walls with fannish stuff, including a big honkin' poster of Simon right over the bed, bless her heart.
And now they're my Crusty Old Man Band of choice. Especially Simon, who now looks like a warning poster for staying out in the sun too long. Yeesh! But now i love the music and concentrate less on the looks. (Although that John Taylor still isn't a bad lookin' fella...)
Let this be a warning to you unconditional lovers of boybands, they will get old and crusty and gross looking. Oh, the pain and embarrassment. But man, did Beth and I have fun watching Power Station on SNL. Wasn't it awesome?
There are a lot of things in Te's post i just shake my head at, but this is the biggest:
{{*I* say that the difference between, say, Ray Kowalski, and a Lance, or a Justin, or a whoever-the-fuck is really quite simple. Ready? One is a character created by an artist to tell a story s/he cares about. The other is a character created by a bunch of money-grubbing suits to shake his ass and make them some money.}}
LOL!
Kowalski is a *TV* character. It's a *TV* show. If there was anything artistic going on, you can be sure it was entirely accidental. TV shows aren't created for any lofty artistic reason.
He was written for two reasons:
1. So Paul Gross could get CKR into the sack and make him his damsel in distress and
2. To fill in the spaces between the commercials that sell hockey pucks and dogsleds or some shit. (Great, now i offend all the Canadians)
It's all commercialism. Anything else is just splitting hairs. If Kowalski had an ass to shake, you'd bet he would.
While i'm on the RPS thing:
I was looking for a particular rant on CABS last night, and i find their defense of boybands spiel. God, i'm loath to give these anonymous chickenshit pantywaists any more free publicity, but it was really really funny. I must've read it ages ago, but i blanked on it. Just one more link, because i'm thinking about what Vali said about Stephen Ratliff, so i'll keep it brief. and anyway, i linked to His Greatness, so my karma slate is clean.
The "editorial" (*coff*) could've been a lot shorter though:
"I used to think that bbs was evil and wrong, but now that it gets me wet I think it's okay."
Please, CABS. You fool no one. Eight year olds aren't fooled by your prostestations that you read it for the good articles. Come on. I used to be a little fangirl too, and i know all the signs of crushitude.
One of these days i'll convince them that Harry Potter is not, like, 10 years old or something. Dorks. Read stories like this and be a convert. Or a pervert, whichever. Either way, it's fantastic-- my favorite HP slash story out there.