[kj] OT: Are we still talking about Evanescence here?

[Leigh Newton]

> Tragically still, I am convinced that the great
> minds and artists die way
> before their time, and the crap is left behind to
> further proliferate the
> idea that this is indeed hell on earth.

Luckily, most high profile pop/rock stuff these days
is engineered and manufactured to be disposable. so we
end up not having to put up with them for TOO too
long, even though when one's 15 minutes is up,
another's begins. 

plus, bands like evanesence and the like can make
minutes feel like houuuuuurs.....

Leigh

--- Jester <webmaster@killing-joke.com> wrote:
> On 12/19/03 10:22 AM, "Alex Smith"
> <vassifer@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > ...if we are, my only observations are:
> > 1. They're Christians, which renders their music
> instantly moot, as far as I'm
> > concerned.
> 
> An angle in ones vision, like this, typically and
> tragically lessens the
> validity of the music. Not all the time, but as a
> rule, a bias such as
> "Christian Rock" tends to reduce itself to nothing
> more than watered down,
> Christian version of 80's hair bands. Rather than
> "She's Only 17", we now
> will hear "She is a Christian Queen".
> 
> > 2. Despite her much touted operatic background, I
> don't hear a lot of range in
> > her shrill mewling.
> 
> Her? Opera? Hahahaha...you have GOT to be kidding
> me. Range...my dog has
> more range grunting when he shits!
> 
> > 3. If their name is Evanescence, why won't they
> hurry up and vanish already?
> 
> Tragically still, I am convinced that the great
> minds and artists die way
> before their time, and the crap is left behind to
> further proliferate the
> idea that this is indeed hell on earth.
> 
> Examples? John Belushi (SP?) dead...his lame ass
> brother Jim...alive. George
> Harrison and John Lennon...dead...Ringo and
> Paul...alive. Jimmi
> Hendrix..dead. Eddie VanHalen...alive. Stevie Ray
> Vaughn...dead...every last
> member of every boy band still lingers on. We are
> doomed!
> 
> > 
> > There's more to "Goth/Gothic/Goff" than wearing
> black, by the way.
> 
> Reminds me of what I use to tell my wife. "Punk is a
> state of mind, not how
> many clothes you buy at Hot Topic". Todd can prolly
> vouch for this one  on a
> mutual friend. Andy Fuertsch is one of the biggest
> punks around. Yet he
> looks like the Gerber baby. Yes, I have seen the
> Gerber baby flick lit
> cigarettes at the crowd in Austin, and get himself
> and the rest of Texas God
> banned from clubs....it is indeed, a state of mind.
> 
> 
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