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MORFORD: Hot Death Of The Power Chord
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/23/5 | Mark Morford

Posted on 09/23/2005 7:44:51 AM PDT by SmithL

Weep, won't you, as MTV and Fashion Week NY make sex and rock 'n' roll obsolete.

When you've nowhere to turn and all seems bleak and desperate and warlike and Bush, it has been the all-American maxim lo this past multitude of years to exclaim, perhaps quietly, perhaps over a long, slow Martini, perhaps during a long tongue bath from a needful lover or whilst you sit in the tub sipping laudanum, feeling as though the world is trying to maul your spirit like the GOP molests joy, well, at least we still have rock 'n' roll.

And models. At least we still have rock 'n' roll and hot fashion models. And porn. And dim sum. And iPods and dogs and yoga and fine artisanal cheeses. But for our purposes here let's focus on the first two because rock and models, they seem to collude and interact and inbreed like happy Republican frat boys, and they are true cornerstones of our gloriously excessive and materialistic culture, and as such we've been able to exclaim, well, at least we have those to provide comfort and juicy, sweaty balm.

Unless we don't. Do we? Oh holy crap. Do we anymore?

It would appear we don't. Look here. I have just witnessed, via the wonderfully distancing and icily cold medium of television, two of the largest and most significant avatars of these twin forces of culture, the MTV Video Music Awards and Fashion Week in New York. And I am here nursing a glass of Oban 15 and pining for the lost days of Guns N' Roses and a coked-up Steven Tyler to tell you, oh holy hell, the center cannot hold. Rock is dead. Models are threadbare and nasty. We are doomed.

What the hell...

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Morfodite Alert

You've been Warned!

1 posted on 09/23/2005 7:44:53 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Sheesh, it's been 20 years or more since MTV had anything even remotely to do with real Rock n Roll, if it ever did.. (It didn't, IMO).


2 posted on 09/23/2005 7:53:00 AM PDT by Trampled by Lambs (This Tagline is on hiatus as I think of a new one.)
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To: SmithL

I'm constantly amazed he gets paid to write drek like this.

}:-)4


3 posted on 09/23/2005 7:53:33 AM PDT by Moose4 (Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")
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To: SmithL

I think it's amusing that Morford evidently became sober enough to snap to a conclusion that everybody else hit around 1990.


4 posted on 09/23/2005 9:21:56 AM PDT by Gingersnap
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