I get his sentiment. The HOF is, in name, for ROCK AND ROLL, not pop music, i.e. sold a shitload of records.
If you are into Rock and Roll, you have a problem with just any old big-selling clean act sidling up with your dirty idols. If you see it as a catch-all museum display for old shit you want to remember, you don't care if Neil Sedaka gets blown by Snow on stage while Guns n' Roses waits in the wings to claim their statue.
Matt Damon is less cocky and arrogant than his worthless counterpart Ben Affleck. Therefore, the carved Irish potato that is his face is moderately doable, in my vegiality fantasies.
The only reason why gold is expensive is because we all agree that it is.
brilliant.
As a young person who dreams of playing music for at least a partial living, I have many questions about the marketing of my product. The fact that there is no longer a marketplace for that product is a little disturbing. Still, I don't give one rat's asshole that the major label recording industry has been neutered, they've been exploiting artists and consumers of music since there's been product and customers to exploit.
On the other hand I'm utterly perplexed how the indies or individuals who take on their own music sales ventures will make do in the future.
Save me Gene Simmons, I'm worth at least a deuce.
This doesn't look worse or better than any other hip-hop album cover I've seen, just a LOT less hilarious. They're not trying to look hard enough to push into parody, but the cover design is cheap enough to be aesthetically off-putting. If there were like, bling flashes in inappropriate places, dollar signs floating in the air, a disproportionately stretched gold frame around it... then i would at least be "awesome," to use my inner ironic hipster's language.
Man, I'm trying to get my band in WalMart right now! Who do I talk to about playing there? I know a lot of the old free-sample ladies, but I think they're just sluts that hang around and don't actually know mgmt.
I'm actually excited about this movie. I love a good artistic-license-trainwreck, AND Heath Ledger cracks me up as being over-serious and whatnot. /pointless comment
@avoncobra: I thought all British musicians were named Mick Jones. Except for the ones with different names. Maybe they all start life as Mick Jones, then as they develop their own style/personality the Ministry of Names sends a form upon which they choose from a list of other ordinary English-sounding names.
Sometimes a spoon is out of reach. A knife is like, duh. Next to smashing a plate of Shit Curry over their head a fork seems like a perfectly acceptable implement of rage.