"One of my favorite contemporary journalists, Matt Taibbi, has done a great job examining Bachmann's candidacy in this month's Rolling Stone."



That was a great article and I agree that Taibbi is one of the best journalists working today. His pieces about the CDO fueled Wall Street implosion are among the best I've read.

Interesting quote from that article: "In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance."

One of my favorite contemporary journalists, Matt Taibbi, has done a great job examining Bachmann's candidacy in this month's Rolling Stone.

Ah jeez.

What is worse is the headline -- since when is it "a moderate opinion" when you don't support abortions for teen rape victims?

Crap on a stick.

>> ^DerHasisttot:

http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/02/18/justin-bieber-rolling-stone-abortion/


Not that feminist maybe...
Also, poor Kevin James...

http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/02/18/justin-bieber-rolling-stone-abortion/


Not that feminist maybe...
Also, poor Kevin James...

Shameless Name Drop Alert: when I asked Ben Fong-Torres, former editor of Rolling Stone who worked with Thompson in the early days of the magazine, what he thought of the writer's suicide, he said that he was sad but he wasn't surprised.

Congrats on your Rolling Stone badge!

[edit] We are pushovers for a good opposable thumb reference....

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*promote Too infectiously funny.

Yay! I HAVE THE ROLLING STONES BADGE FINALLY!

Translated lyrics from movits.se

Born in the 80′s
In the middle of it
Then I was just the child, or maybe the grandchild
Not at all interested in tomorrow
Reality, really?
Yeah, whatever
Back then it was Abbey Road, Plura and Rolling Stones
on the grammophone ’til the day I moved away from home
Now it’s Evert Taube, Dylan, Common and Wailing Souls
Wonder where the inspiration’s coming from
————–
They say I sound Oldskool baby
Like Frank and Sammy Davis
Sing in the rain like Gene Kelly
No, I just can’t believe what they say
but they tell me it was better way back in the days…
2x
—————-
Not the one to be strivin’ backwards
But black shoes after 6 PM
I bought sneaks for half of the money
the rest I put in the matress, savin up for a rainy day
No, if thats the way it’s supposed to be
Ain’t really got nothing between the sheets
Meanwhile the oldfolks dream ’bout Jerry Lee
Gamblin away their pension on lottery
The house catches fire – For example
Call the firedepartment – Call the police
Lawyers – Lord Jesus,
Just as long as I don’t miss the reruns
of The Man From Uncle
Garfunkel and Simon
I grew up on A-team, Airwolf and MacGyver
cause I’ve heard from the elders
that everything was better back in the days
even the weather
CHORUS
This is what we in Luleå call a James Brown Moment:
They call it a daydream, sayin it was different
But grandma, it’s allright
That I should grow up, cut my hair and get a job
and not tryin to be James Brown
But was it not the same,
For young mom and dad, when it happened,
Woodstock, back in the 70′s
or was it maybe 69′
im just wonderin’
if it wasn’t just really all the same?

@shuac: true, Kurt would agree with you:

from wiki:

In a January 1994 Rolling Stone interview, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain revealed that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was an attempt to write a song in the style of the Pixies, a band he greatly admired. He explained:[4]
“ I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band— or at least a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.

I actually liked them more as their albums went along. OK Computer had some good stuff, but it still had a lot of conventional stuff on it still. Kid A to me is where they made their artistic mark, and they truly became absolutely completely their own band, with their own sound, and just didn't care what anyone thought anymore. I personally think Hail to the Thief is on of the best albums ever made.

The new one is my least favorite since OK Computer, but I respect the hell out of them for not doing the same thing over and over again. Even though IMO King of Limbs didn't turn out as great music overall, it's still pretty good, and it's something they came up with on their own. Compare that to bands like U2, Rolling Stones, etc. There's just this point they just stopped evolving, stopped trying to do something completely different. I just can't listen to those bands anymore because it's the same thing over and over and over again. Not with Radiohead. It's always going to be at least an interesting listen.

Not to defend this mediocre music, but there are only so many chord progressions and melodies in the world. Sometimes you play something you thought was original on the piano only to have someone say, "hey, I know that song." Often times, really catchy ideas inspire the "did I subconsciously rip this off from somewhere else" paranoia syndrome. It's also possible for two people who've never met each other to come up with the same exact idea.

The Rolling Stones did this a few years back: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_Craving

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Last time I checked, the Rolling Stones were still *rocknroll

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@gwiz665
Have you seen the cover of the new Rolling Stone?

http://www.rollingstone.com/files/content/mounts/sambamount/images/MUSIC/ISSUE%20CONTENT/1112/1112_cover_blog_true_blood.jpg