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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:40:03 CST
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- From: Paul Heroy <HEROY@LSUVM.BITNET>
- Subject: AMA crap
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- I usually pay no attention to the stupid award shows, the Grammys, the
- Oscars, the American Music Awards etc., but a friend of mine just had to
- tell me about the AMA - apparently this was last night? Beats the shit out
- of me. Anyway, apparently these awards are based totally on *sales* - I
- don't know whether to laugh or puke. I mean, at least they're *honest* about
- it being nothing but a popularity contest, but why the fuck do they need to
- tell us this shit? "OH, congratulations, yes, you are the biggest selling
- dumbfuck out there, and now all the people who bought your garbage can rest
- assured that they are completely NORMAL. Yes, if you bought Michael Bolton's
- latest smegma you deviate at most .1% from the expected average American
- consumer profile and can cease worrying that you have anything resembling
- individual taste or a brain, and should continue buying what we tell you to."
-
- Masturbation at its finest. I just hope I don't choke on my vomit while I
- laugh :-)
-
- Thanks for letting me rant,
- Paul
-
- ONMC: I saw Henry Rollins briefly on MTV last night, talking about his new
- recording, Boxed Life - recordings of his spoken word tours. I heard an
- excerpt of this on our college station in which he joked about John Bon
- Blowme, I nearly peed :-) (I don't think he actually called him that, that's
- just me being obscene.) Rollins has always struck me as an interesting guy
- and I'd like to hear more of this stuff. He also congratulated Suzanne Vega
- for gracefully chopping up Howard Sternman in an interview on his show. Hey
- Ben, you still out there? Wanna tell us more about HR?
-