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Idolotry

cooper — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:13:49 +0000

Every time that I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone
It went by, like dusk to dawn
Isn’t that the way
Everybody’s got their dues in life to pay

Steven Tyler is paying his dues the hard way. He will be acting as a judge on American Idol.

I like Steven Tyler. He’s a bit of a genius in that he’s “resurged” many times (professionally and from the crevices of drug addiction), while never really disappearing. He wrote one of the greatest songs of all time, Dream On, at the age of 17, performing it with Aerosmith, firstly at school dances — one being in a gymnasium of the high school my mother attended in Western Massachusetts in 1970 or 71. He is 62 years old. Derision is not justified when speaking of someone who retained his success, stamina, and lips, for 40 years.

Not worthy enough to ask why, I can only hope his compensation is phenomenal.

As painful as it is to admit, inspiration here is arbitrary. The one time prolific, almost prodigal, thoughts for Wonderland or Not are now meager. Ideas and energy sucked into a graduate seminars, or economic commission meeting minutes.

This too will pass.

Peace

Real American Idols Don’t Wear Eyeliner

cooper — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:29:55 +0000

Please people calm the hell down, it is only American friggin Idol, a fak-ish reality show. And just because it now has such huge audience that few musicians/stars are snubbing their nose at it, no matter how much they know they should, doesn’t make it worth worrying about.

Besides you know Real American males don’t wear eyeliner.

I missed most of it, thank goodness, though I hear I missed Fergie and I heart her. I came in on Kiss, I thought they were all dead or deadish. Seems not to be the case.

Look at the bright side, Mr Lambert doesn’t have to record that wreck of a song, and Queen may have finally found a worthy front man.

First Iowa, Then Vermont, And Now The American Idol, It’s A Mad World

cooper — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:31:08 +0000

A Tuesday night bit. The Standing O’s.

First Iowa:

“You guys don’t understand. You’ve already lost. My generation doesn’t care.”
—-
“No, Senator McKinley, I will not co-sponsor a leadership bill with you.”

Gronstal blocks amendment to reverse Iowa marriage equality
Great theater, if you haven’t seen it, which is highly unlikely I know, check it out.

HT Jacob, and a thousand others.

Then Vermont:
Vermont legalizes gay marriage with veto override

Now, for certain, The American Idol:

I do whatever I can to stay away from Idol or anything like it, but I have two roommates living with me until the end of May, and as soon as I heard this blasting out of the living room I had to go in and listen. I’ve always loved this song, always preferring the Gary Jules Donnie Darko version. This worked for me.

So yeah, a day of the standing O.

I get so choked up and teary eyed over this stuff, I was born in Vermont, I eat corn from Iowa, and I live in America.

peace