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Salon.com | MTV's spontaneous night of crazy fun^H^H^Hproduct plugs
by Rattle at 7:31 pm EDT, Aug 30, 2003

I caught a few parts of the VMA's here and there.. A minute or two at a time. And boy did everything I saw suck. Badly. Neal Pollack's write-up of this event, seems to be about as inline with my take of what I saw as I'm likely to find. Its a perfect reference for my random ramblings..

] Chris Rock appears and does a stand-up act that's funnier than
] anything I'm writing here.

Which was funny as hell. Really.. I was thinking at this point, that I might actually sit and watch some of this crap. You know, like give it a chance and all that. Of course, now I know that it was only because I was enjoying the shit talk.. Granted, I was ranting at the time about how Rock was lame for the Eminem worship/lack-of-shit-talking. With Eminem's recent dis to Weird Al, he really deserved to get some shit for that, at the VMAs, specifically. In fact, with the benefit of hind sight, I think something along the lines of a public apology to Weird Al, and then them taking the stage together, at the VMAs, might just have been the only way that dude could have gotten back some cred with me.

Fuck Eminem, really. The Weird Al thing.. Thats all it took for me. ...and the self important bullshit he has going on. His Legacy. Phbbtttt. I'm still pissed about that!

Anyway, the VMA's lost me the first time right about here:

] Then high-priced NBA chattel LeBron
] James comes out, shills for Sprite, and drools over Ashanti. They
] gave the best hip-hop video award to Elliott, in a true stunner.

I think about 20 seconds into the dude talking about how rad Sprite was, I was out the fucking door. Hell, I all remember of what I saw of the pre-show was people pumping something.. There is a threshold for how much you can take..

Walk back in a few minutes later to:

] Good Charlotte, you are so not punk rock! You think you're so
] hot with your red Mohawks and your backward baseball caps and
] your lame tattoos! But you suck, Good Charlotte! A real punk-
] rock band does not beat-box into the microphone! Oh, my, you
] destroyed your drum set and kicked over the amps! How
] dangerous! Like you had to pay for them.

Oh yeah, I couldn't have put it better. Geez. Truly crap. As a fan of punk, and music in general, and not a 12-14 year old, this is well.. well.. almost, but not quite culturally offensive. Just really, really, really fucking bad. Good Charlotte? They got "Good" in their name? The word "Good" shouldn't be within 10 words of a mention of this band, otherwise it will cause a buffer overflow in English or something.. I donno.

] "Good Charlotte," says Chris Rock. "More like a mediocre Green
] Day." Thank you, Chris Rock.

Oh, my, Jah! Chris Rock is providing the voice of reason here. Thats scary.

Next thing I walked in on was this:

] The surviving members of Run DMC (did I
] just write that phrase?) award the best rap... [ Read More (0.4k in body) ]

RE: Salon.com | MTV's spontaneous night of crazy fun^H^H^Hproduct plugs
by k at 12:49 pm EDT, Aug 31, 2003

Rattle wrote:

]
] Walk back in a few minutes later to:
]
] ] Good Charlotte, you are so not punk rock! You think you're
] so
] ] hot with your red Mohawks and your backward baseball caps
] and
] ] your lame tattoos! But you suck, Good Charlotte! A real
] punk-
] ] rock band does not beat-box into the microphone! Oh, my, you
]
] ] destroyed your drum set and kicked over the amps! How
] ] dangerous! Like you had to pay for them.
]
] Oh yeah, I couldn't have put it better. Geez. Truly crap.
] As a fan of punk, and music in general, and not a 12-14 year
] old, this is well.. well.. almost, but not quite culturally
] offensive. Just really, really, really fucking bad. Good
] Charlotte? They got "Good" in their name? The word "Good"
] shouldn't be within 10 words of a mention of this band,
] otherwise it will cause a buffer overflow in English or
] something.. I donno.
]
] ] "Good Charlotte," says Chris Rock. "More like a mediocre
] Green
] ] Day." Thank you, Chris Rock.
]
] Oh, my, Jah! Chris Rock is providing the voice of reason
] here. Thats scary.
]

hear hear. those guys are the worst kind of fashion whoring, no-talent ass clowns. i can't believe they get more than one second of airplay. sad sad sad.