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[craggy]

That is indeed a FAIL! They didn't even reprint the joke.

[Jim Ohara]

Crossover with the YouTube thread!

[Ricardo_C]

The DJ Fuckhead fanbase is out in force, I see.

[Jim Ohara]

You can't be cool if you go on stage and bitch about what other people like to do. It just makes you a dick. I'm not a fan of jungle trance music either, but I'm not making a career complaining about it to DJ Fuckhead haters.

[Arjan Dirkse]

Complaining is a big part of life though...this sucks, that sucks. Fuck that shit. Etc. etc.

Life would be a lot less fun if we can't do that anymore.

[craggy]

this reminds me, I must do this week's comics reviews.

[Ricardo_C]

You can't be cool if you go on stage and bitch about what other people like to do.

Sure you can, as long as you're entertaining. Remove the jaded bitching and MW is five threads and two members.

[craggy]

hehe, "members"

[Christian U]

Yeah, since when are comedians not allowed to complain? It's half of what they do.


Still, to get a more positive vibe here, let's do the Rollins/Shatner crossover that you know you love, whoever you are:

Edited by Christian U, 30 April 2012 - 06:19 AM.

[Ulf Imwiehe]

I admit it’s tempting to pigeonhole Rollins as a rant-meister, because there is a certain angry-old-guy aspect to his persona. His spoken word material is, however, much more multilayered than that (as are his books btw). One of my favorite routines of his is the Sandwich Guy. Starts mildly amusing and somewhat annoyingly condescending only to take a swift turn into the sobering realities of minimum-wage existence:

[David Meadows]

Name and shame I say.

Steady on, you sound like me

Being a Dr. and everything, Dr. Hedgeh should have realised that this is an improper use of "whom".

Seriously, your language hardly uses any declension at all. How hard can it be to remember the few instances in which the cases are somehow marked?

It is our national shame

[garjones]

I like Rollins, he says some really cool and funny stuff, I just didn't like that routine, it's a false logic based around him not liking a type of music.

His description of the process is equally appplicable to hip-hop but I wonder how it would go down if he used Grandmaster Flash instead of DJ Fuckhead. There's a lot of really bad rave music and he gets closest to his target with some of the 'superstar' DJs that can have very limited skills. On the other hand there are some fantastic musicians, for example Paul Hartnoll from Orbital who is classically trained and does the most complex compositions, while many rock bands can do the 3 chords and that's the lot. That's why they sell tickets in a way the Rollins Band can only dream of.

The old man defence doesn't even work that well as the 'rave scene' happened when Rollins was in his late twenties. Check out 1990 rave tunes on Youtube and it's fortysomethings posting nostalgic comments about how music isn't as good as it used to be. Which is ironic and could make a much better routine.

[al-x]

Hello:

Rollins is very fit and always stayed in shape,
I will admit that.

As for pictures:

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[garjones]

I just found the best comment:

I'm just coming up to my 68th birthday and I hadn't heard Orbital until last week! What a fantastic sound - it takes you on a journey.

[Chris Fenton]

[brucegray666]

I just found the best comment:

I'm just coming up to my 68th birthday and I hadn't heard Orbital until last week! What a fantastic sound - it takes you on a journey.

Quick question. What's there most accessible / easiest to get into / "best" album. I don't have any Orbital and don't know where to start.

[Adam Balson]

I saw his current spoken word tour, it was a great show. You really left the auditorium feeling a bit wiser than before.

If he's at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival again this year I'm going. I heard it as awesome last year but I didn't know about it until I saw a poster for it going into another show.

[brucegray666]

[steveuk]

[Steve Sensible]

Got any o's?