A bunch of crap that should mean nothing to anybody

I was thinking today, now that Ron Asheton has died, I bet this is the year, after 13 or 14 years of eligibility, that they put The Stooges in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. The hall of fame loves putting dead people (Joe Strummer, Joey Ramone) immediately in, it gets them more attention. It's just absurd that it would take a founding member's death to get this one-of-a-kind band that's influenced more rock than just about anyone to get the douches who vote people into the hall of fame to give them the recognition they deserve.

I read this yesterday and it made me furious:

"At one point Suzan Evans lamented the choices being made because there weren't enough big names that would sell tickets to the dinner. That was quickly remedied by dropping one of the doo-wop groups being considered in favor of a 'name' artist ... I saw how certain pioneering artists of the 50s and early 60s were shunned because there needed to be more name power on the list, resulting in 70s superstars getting in before the people who made it possible for them. Some of those pioneers still aren't in today."

Nothing new of course, and what do you expect when Jann Wenner is in charge of the whole thing? It just re-ignited my ire the last couple days. I used to be way into the Hall Of Fame, paid as much attention to it as possible. I even wrote a letter to them in '99 letting them know some of the people they hadn't put in. Yeah, that was a pretty douchey move on my part. But they're just idiots. And now Wenner is saying it was a mistake to put the Hall Of Fame in Cleveland, that it should be in New York City. FUCK NEW YORK CITY! What's special about New York? Doesn't everything in New York seem like it's a dime a dozen? I would consider visiting the museum in Cleveland, but never New York. Sometimes I'm pretty sure music would be better off if Rolling Stone never existed, and that we'd all be better be off if New York would just sink into the Hudson. It just bugs me. Reading that Wikipedia article, the "big" scandal they apparently made out of putting Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five in before The Dave Clark Five, I don't really have much problem with that. No problem at all really. Honestly that doesn't even seem like a contest. Who had more impact? Grandmaster Flash obviously! Dave Clark Five was pleasant enough and had some big hits, but other than that, why should I really care?

However, it would be pretty sweet to see The Stooges and Sonic Youth go into the Hall Of Fame the same year, cuz I think Sonic Youth is one of the only bands that could match the intensity of Fun House Stooges. But what are the chances Sonic Youth goes in their first year? Zilch. I'd love to see Metallica go in too. Wouldn't those three getting their due at least make for decent TV? Wouldn't happen though. Noooooooooo, cuz the Madonnas of the music world, those will get us ratings/money. And ZZ Top? Really? I like ZZ Top, but Hall of Fame? And John Mellencamp gets in that quick? Good grief. Whatever. This is all crap I've been complaining about for years, as has anybody else who pays attention to those idiots that run the Hall, but what's the internet good for if not for publishing complaints?

In other news, in about the past 10 days I've worked my way through most of the first two seasons of The Shield. I'm actually less surprised by how fast I'm going through it than I am surprised that I ever turn it off. Other stuff I've been viewing: going through several of the VHS's I've been buying trying to watch movies that I should've seen a long time ago. For instance, since the Christmas break started, I've gone through the first two Die Hards and had a little Steven Seagal marathon of Under Siege, Under Siege 2, Hard To Kill, Above The Law, and Out For Justice. Desperately need to get my hands on the VHS of Marked For Death. Then tonight I also watched Commando. So much flexing. I miss macho. I wish Black Dynamite was going to be in theaters.



Oh well. What else can I put here? Two "Seen On TV" things that I want: Sham-Wow and Snuggie.