I try to be a serious person. I am a serious person. I think about shit, deep shit. Philosophy, war, the economy, justice, truth, beauty, America and so on. And then, the dipwads in charge and the wannabes-to-be-in charge do something to piss me off, and some twisted evil floats in and I start channeling my inner Hunter Thompson. Hunter was a first generation Gonzo -- we don't really need drugs and booze to realize we can't stop here, it's bat country, anymore.
Anyway, I saw this and thought that it sort of sums it up in a Gonzo way. Rilo Kiley is a sort of alt-country acoustic band fronted by Jennie Lewis. It appears, according to the guitar player who bears a striking resemblance to the Officer Sutton in Memphis Beat, that they have broken up over...this kinda crap.
" ...lot of deception, disloyalty, greed and things I don't really want to submit myself to," Sennett said. "I had related that frustration to music but I just thought, 'I'm not going to put myself in that position again,' so I said, 'Fuck that, I can't do this anymore.'...
If you don't speak musician, that can mean anything from Jennie getting into a black market human organ business and not cutting this guy in to they forgot to chill his Perrier on the bus. Musicians can be such delicate flowers. This sounds like a high school cheerleader's diary explaining why she wouldn't go to the Starbucks on 1st and Main anymore.
I passed this information on to my brothers who immediately reacted with various levels of "What the hell...who the...she's better off without him." The general response was "crap, his voice and face are annoying. did not make it half way through!" contributed by Bro Bicycle, El Serracho along with this palate cleanser...
Now, the link goes to Rolling Stone, where they had a stripped down band and played among other things a cover of You Got Lucky from the Tom Petty catalog. I was amazed at how horrible that choice was. Don't do an acoustic white-whiney cover of a kind of seminal rock and roll breakup song. Sheesh I contributed to my own palate cleanser to the mix, this one from The Pack Up The Plantation Tour 25 years or so ago...So, you got lucky!
My favorite Jennie Lewis song.
well it is. crap. just sayin.
Posted by: the serrach | 03 August 2011 at 06:38 PM