The Green Day-inspired rock opera, American Idiot, is now open for business. And the reviews are good [via The New York Times]: A pulsating portrait of wasted youth that invokes all the standard genre conventions — bring on the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, please! — only to transcend them t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘MTV’
October 19th, 2009 - 11:45 am § in True/Slant
Kanye West & Spike Jonze – We Were Once A Fairytale
Kanye West is back, back to being an artiste of merit, back from the depths of hell he was cast in after a disastrous VMAs appearance, back from South Park cracks and autotune-haters’ smacks. Or something like that. MTV reported that the short-film collaboration between Where The Wild Things A[...]
October 14th, 2009 - 11:17 pm § in True/Slant
mtvU's phallic symbol
Woodie. Whatever possessed mtvU to name their annual music award as such is beyond me. Is it supposed to be a joke aimed at their college audience? Cause I’m pretty sure college kids these days are smart enough to figure that one. Anyway, mtvU recently released the ballots for the awards show.[...]
July 27th, 2009 - 12:01 am § in Perfect Lines
Taking Back Sunday at Government Center
It’s hard to turn down a free concert, even if that means watching Taking Back Sunday. Especially considering the underlying theme o’ this blog. I’ve never been entirely “in” to TBS. Just something about them never really caught me, even though I was their prime target[...]
March 3rd, 2009 - 8:50 pm § in Perfect Lines
One Year After Mexico's Anti-Emo Riots…
Last year, Mexico City was the scene of an all-out subculture battle that shook the country to its very soul. Or so the media made it seem. And so the media made it. Period. The very reason I was upset by the illogical and false comments by a “journalist” from the Louisville Parent Exami[...]
September 11th, 2008 - 12:05 am § in Perfect Lines
The Politics of Fashion
Naomi pointed me the way to this excellent piece by Thursday/United Nations’ Geoff Rickly on the MTV Headbanger’s Blog site on my previous post, and it got me thinking about the impact of fashion on culture. Rickly astutely notes the power of the image, and in doing so recalls Marshall M[...]
August 21st, 2008 - 1:51 am § in Perfect Lines
Rock N' Roll Post-Graduates
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1001xArPVk] They really don’t make ‘em like this anymore. That was one of many thoughts that jumped in my brain while watching Rock N’ Roll High School the other day. Camp doesn’t even begin to describe it. Joyful absurdity. Now that m[...]