Burn me?

Bury me?

Sneak me into Body Worlds and leave me on any old pedestal?

Get me laid in a Jörg Buttgereit film?

I WANNA KNOW!

Just askin'.

and yet this thread lives!

DU, though it's fora are intended for political discussion, contains very little political discussion. It mostly contains pleas for emotional satisfaction via hypothetical political actions to be taken by others, meme repetition and outright parroting, self-flattery and brute ignorance dressed up with the jargon of punditry. It's still worth wading through, for the gems are REAL gems, but it's disheartening to look at DU and see how much time spent in discussion with hysterics armed only with logical fallacies. (My unofficial survey reveals that DUers especially love strawmen, selection bias, confirmation bias, slippery slopes and of course the all-time champ, ad hominems.)

Thanks for this OP.

FUCK YOU!

*sniff*

I'm sowwy...

Fucking OUCH!

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years...





Many more at link.

System of a Down = Jethro Tull
Totally unnecessary techism paradoxically meets dumbed-down inanity. They get away with it because they rock sufficiently and the kiddiez are dumbed down, themelves.

The Shins = The Raspberries
Pleasant enough, insubstantial enough, forgettable enough.

Paramore = Missing Persons
Fronted by a cupcake who's just watchable enough to mask the band's ultimately prosaic, mired-in-its-times pop.

Rye Coalition = Tuff Darts
Early promise finally yielded something too stupid to live.

Tool = Rush
Every generation pukes up ONE lucky rock group that gets to sell millions AND unaccountably pass themselves off as a thinkin'-man's band.

Gogol Bordello = the Pogues
One-joke ethnic gimmick band nevertheless achieves transcendence and is destroyed by excess. Yeah, I know Gogol's still OK. Eugene's fucking insane. So just wait.

Electric Six = Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
'Tis folly to think it'll be funny forever, smart guy. Last stop before the dustbin: MOR ballads.

Wilco = Blondie
Innovators emerging from a storied scene to become opportunistic, unfocused pop eclecticists is more boring than sad.

Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart, etc. = Dan Fogelberg, James Taylor, etc.
Fuck you. Fuck you with a rake.

The Hold Steady = Weezer
Your smartypants fans are WAITING for you to fuck up so they can all grin smugly and say "I told you so."

Hopefully I can go another day, then another...

I need to dine at Target more often.