Chaka's worth a deuce · Nov 3, 07:35 AM by Chaka
Is the film Magnolia permanently ruined because Tom Cruise is in it? Boy, it’s close.
My head may be up in the sixth floor of the school book depository, but my take on the Kerry story is that the Republicans push this kind of shit no matter how crazy because they know the corporate media will run with it. Then, if Greg Palast and Robert Kennedy are to be believed, since Republican control of the voting machines and voter rolls makes the outcome a foregone conclusion, a flare-up like the Kerry story makes the final result more believable. Remember, plausible deniability is what they’re all about – see the Iraqi invasion, the Plame affair.
I just can’t trust the polls a bit. I got burned too bad in 2004, forwarding that goddamned motherfucking Wonkette election-morning exit poll e-mail to dozens of people (I’m still sore about that). Oh yeah, but didn’t Ken Mehlman show how those exit polls were flawed? My favorite was when the administration turned around and rejected the result of the Ukrainian election not six weeks later on the grounds that exit polls are never that wrong. You see, we gots rules for them, and then we gots rules for us.
I love the anti-Pelosi angle too. I was rewatching the Packer-Dolphin game on the Tivo recently with the sound down and the ‘pod up. The broadcast repeatedly showed a hilariously anti-Pelosi ad for McSweeney in the Illinois 8th. Since the sound was down, all that got through were the images – Melissa Bean, then Nancy Pelosi looking like she just walked in on the boys playing football in the house. Then Pelosi, looking like somebody had farted. Then, entertaininglyest of them all, the Golden Gate Bridge! Hey, all that RNCC money and you couldn’t spring for a head shot of Paul Lynde? Seriously, can one of these rich Republican bastards bribe God to call the rapture right away? Tell Him you’ll throw in your seven year old nephew in his sexiest altar boy outfit or something.
Actually – that’s it! Bush should go on TV the night before the election and tell people that the Lawd came to him some fifty feet tall and told him that He would strike him dead if the Republicans don’t keep both houses. Hey, it worked for Anal Roberts.
The Pack looked fantastic last week, but ain’t no way they leave Rich Stadium with a win without Brandon Miree. He’s as valuable to that offense as anybody.
This may seem like a crazy question, but can anybody tell me if there are any good Frehley’s Comet tunes? I picked up the amazing new Kissology DVD set, and the overriding truth I learned from watching most of the first disc and some of the second is that Ace Frehley was really rock & roll, light years beyond those three other bozos. His stage presence is not only far less corny (as uncorny as you can get, I suppose, while performing in clown makeup) but his lead guitar playing stands far apart from the stilted playing of the rest of the band. I can’t imagine Frehley’s Comet scored even a near-miss, considering Ace was face down in a puddle of cheap wine by that point and the genre to which his music belonged had been completely poisoned by either ridiculous seriousness or camp (an affliction probably most significantly caused by Ace’s former band, no doubt) by the time Ace picked himself off the bathroom floor and started putting out new material. But I thought I’d ask.
I have a weird love-hate relationship with classic Kiss. I’ve taken more than my share of low-blows at Paul Stanley’s Christopher Street stage mannerisms in this forum, and I might nominate Gene Simmons for the most despicable figure in rock & roll (for an absolutely repulsive glimpse of Gene slipping out of character, check out this infamous interview with Terry Gross: part one, part two, part three, and part four (hey, back-to-back Timedoor posts referencing Terry Gross!)). And was Peter Criss the biggest weak link in rock history, bigger even than Keith Relf, Bill Kreutzmann, or Roy Bittan? But there’s just no denying the kick of Kiss’ better numbers, which, surprisingly, each of the four harlequins penned individually with just about equal distribution.
Andrew Bogut – super genius. The Bucks are going to be synonymous with Bogut in very short order.
*mp3: Ace Frehley – Ozone*
*mp3: Kiss – Strutter*
*mp3: Replacements – Black Diamond*
*mp3: Hello – New York Groove*
There can be no doubt as to my choice for Chaka’s Choice for November 2006 – it’s “Sweet Hitch Hiker” by Creedence. The best Rockpile tune not written or recorded by Rockpile, “Sweet Hitch Hiker” stomps like nothing else in Creedence’s impressively consistent catalog. I tell you what, part of what is proof of Fogerty’s genius was that he kept this tune to 3:00. A lot of bands in 1970 would have stretched this out to 5:45 and let all the air put the fire out. And to think, Fogerty tossed this off on Mardi Gras, anybody’s choice for Creedence’s worst album, when he had just fallen out with his brother and stopped giving a shit about Creedence.
*mp3: Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Sweet Hitch-Hiker”
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You never listened to Frehley’s Comet? I can’t say I’ve listened to a full album’s worth myself, but I totally dig the songs “Rock Soldiers,” “We Got Your Rock,” and “Rip it Out.”
Totally worth tracking down. Email me.
By the way, your thoughts on Kissology are right on. I too have a love/hate thing with KISS, but bought the DVD the second it came out.
Got free tickets to see Paul Stanley solo on Tuesday, and will of course go see it, no matter how terrible it’s gonna be.
Rocco
— Rocco Nov 3, 08:07 AM #