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The Jim Neighbors Masculinity Project
Thursday, March 14, 2002
I could not recommend Anna Tillet more as a friend, or as an artist. Check her out!
10:09 PM
Wednesday, March 13, 2002
Remember when various media pundits said that 9-11 signaled "the death of irony?" I think people started piously blathering on about that within a week, or two of the attacks (you can tell where my sympathies lie here..). It is probably too soon draw any major cultural conclusions about the post 9-11 world. Except this: The Era of Self-Absorbed Meaningless Media Bullshit is Not Over. With a tenacity that recalls mold on a decaying plank of wood, bullshit entertainers and their bullshit lives are still being crammed down our collective throats to promote their bullshit "art." Does anyone fucking care about who Brittney Spears is non-fucking? Evidentally the American public does...why else would so media outlets devote so much energy to breathlessly update the status of Brittny -n- Justin's mouseketeer-celibate-love for the last few days? I don't care if Brittney Spears leaves Justin Timberlake for *me* - I don't want to know this much about their relationship. I don't want to know this much about my own relationships, for that matter (this week: I have been linked with a former member of Destiny's Child, but we're just friends, people. Just friends).
And why are we being leaked all of this essential information? Because La Spears has a movie to promote in Europe after it has started tanking here. Nothing new here. Call it the Madonna/Tom Cruise Effect: need a boost to yet another crappy album, or film coming out? Get pregnant/"spiritual." Need a beard, erm, promotional boost for your new project? Marry/date your latest co-star. If I weren't a lazy slob soaking up all of this garbage (right now!) I could give a million more examples of entertainers timing events in their lives with their latest product. I think there are about five international conglomerates who control the news and entertainment business, so this kind of bullshit hype mega-synthesis is becoming the standard working model. Hey, if we don't know about Angelina Jolie's adoption of Cambodian child, the terrorists would have won!
It is at times like this that I especially miss Bill Hicks.
2:28 AM
