Rose McGowan "Hijacks" Bipartisan Political Gala

This threadjack is incredible.

Reminder that Billy Corgan has a new career in the wrestling game:

Billy Corgan on Joining TNA, Changing the Culture of Wrestling | Rolling Stone

 

For cross-threading purposes re: knowing about stuff I have no interest in, Corgan used to work in a pet store next to the neighborhood bar one of my brothers drank in.

 

She was great in Planet Terror:

 

Smashing Pumpkins: Hall of Famers or the Hall of Barely Mediocre?

 

Mediocre? I think they are likely a very clear-cut HOF band.

 

Uh oh... here comes another Dick "HOF?" thread..

 

Nah. I think that Rock and Roll Hall of Fame debates are tedious. Baseball ones are interesting to me because there's a level of objectivity due to the numbers and other ways performances are objectively logged. I guess it's good to honor rock music in some way, I've been there and I'm glad it exists, but the exercise is kind of silly.

 

There's really not much reason to have a "hall of fame" in anything other than to drum up interest (I.e. Arguments) over who should or should not be in.

And thus performers whose prime era was several decades ago are returned to the public limelight for a time.

And hardly any HOFs have clear-cut statistical standards for admission, because when you do, all those arguments are over -- either you're in or you're not.

Shit, getting banned by Giamatti was the greatest thing that ever happened to Pete Rose. If he hadn't been banned, he'd have been a slam dunk first year inductee, three would have been a round of career retrospectives when he got in, and that would have been it. He'd become essentially a trivia answer.

As it worked out, Rose has been able to milk almost 30 years of annual arguments over whether he "should" be in the HOF or not.

 

Have you found the Dwight Yoakam "acoustic.net" album?
That's some good stuff there.

 

I have. I love it. If a genie gave me three wishes, one of them would to obtain a companion guitar lessons book and DVD set to go along with it.

 

I think those only come with Santana albums.

 

No Labels excluded Lessig, and he's the candidate who fits their agenda the most.