Apparently I had thoughts...

[lexzilla]

♥ Check it out! I'm so honoured by this! My fic Come Play With Me has been made into a beautiful pdf by too_rational. It looks really pretty and includes all the amazing art made by gwyntastic . If you want, you can find the download link for it here and there are also many other great J2 fics for download here and SPN ones here. It's such a cool resource!

♥ I was having thoughts this morning about why I'm so excited by Adam Lambert. Mainly, it's because I think his voice is an amazing fucking instrument. But it's also because he reminds of a quote from the late great Bill Hicks. It's over a decade old, but still feels just as relevant when I think about all the shit Adam gets for daring to be himself in this day and age.

This is made clear near the end of the Montreal set where Hicks rants about the poor state of contemporary, state-sanctioned pop, the kind of tuneless, harmless pabulum hailed by the authorities as representing 'a good image for children'. "Since when did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children to listen to people who fucking ROCKED! I don't care if they died in puddles of their own vomit! I want someone who plays from his fucking heart! 'Mummy, mummy, the man Bill told me to listen to has a blood bubble coming from his nose!' 'SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO HIM PLAY'." This followed by an astonishing sequence of mimed obscenities; an image summoned up of clean-cut New Kids on the Block fans goose-stepping, giving the Hitler salute and shouting 'Heil! Heil!' then ‘sucking Satan's cock’.      source

Since when did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? What do you guys think?

♥ It also led me to think about another criticism that Adam often gets: that he's not authentic. If we really are in that stage of post-postmodernism where 'authenticity' is understood as a return to what is seen as the traditional, then I find it very sad. Not only because it's a tradition that never existed but also because I dislike the implied judgment of authentic being good and inauthentic being the other. It speaks of a conservatism that I am always [naively?] hoping we are moving past.

Yeah...I have no idea why I am feeling so serious today. But in funner news, my DVD of the latest Johnny To film, Vengeance, arrived today \o/

Comments

[moorspede.livejournal.com]

Gosh I didn't know about too_rational's pdf list. I'll be sure to check it out. Congratulations! Well deserved :o)

Bill Hicks wasn't one for lurking in corners ;o)

Yeah, I think I've told you before I once saw a series about US folk music which traced it back to the east coast of Africa. How far do we have to go back to make Western music authentic? I have some very nice medieval music for the purists should they wish it *s*

Oh man, that's another one I have to see. Pure blow them away action with a bit of humour, what's not to love?

[lexzilla.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I didn't either! But it so shiny and full and so much nicer then c/p to word!

*g* I miss him! Did you see that they're making a new documentary?
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid18866168001?bctid=70993920001

Hahahahaha. And then we can go back to the 16th century when cod-pieces didn't 'disgust' people. #humanityfail

YUP. Looks so good. And an interesting cast. I also got the sequel to The Storm Riders which I know will be a rubbishy fx film but that I will love anyway.

[moorspede.livejournal.com]

No, it looks great, I doubt if it will travel here so I'll keep watching for it.

I think the peasants found them revolting :o)

already? that was fast.

[lexzilla.livejournal.com]

Mwah ha ha ha! Bad gag FTW :P

Nah. The Storm Riders was from '98. I'm pretty sure I remember from here (http://www.monkeypeaches.com/) that the sequel has been in production for a long time...

Um...or did you mean fast on the delivery? *g*

[moorspede.livejournal.com]

I love bad puns, best things ever :o)

Really? I thought the first movie was a lot later than that *sigh* Time is elastic in moorspede land.

[lexzilla.livejournal.com]

Me too :)

Hahaha. I've got to admit, I was surprised too. My initial thinking was around 2002 but I looked it up to double check...Isn't this a sure sign that we're old? :P

\o/ did you see Adam's shopping in Japan outfit? Fedora, leather poncho, cheetah print leggings & a billion necklaces!! ILHSFM <333333333333

(http://s214.photobucket.com/albums/cc187/lexzilla/adam/?action=view&current=x2db3438.jpg)

[moorspede.livejournal.com]

We must be heading into dementia.

I've just seen! Look at what he's reading! Yeah the clothes! The hat!

[lexzilla.livejournal.com]

*g* Yup. Pretty male models wearing not a lot of clothing. I approve.

Adam + Japan is a seriously amazing combo. I don't even like kids but I still wanted to flail over this!!!!!

(http://s214.photobucket.com/albums/cc187/lexzilla/adam/?action=view&current=wh1vvc.jpg)

[moorspede.livejournal.com]

omg yeah.

Ugh the kids are made up. Creepy. Why do they have numbers? Is it some kind of look alike contest, I wonder?

[lexzilla.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. YES!!!! And a sing-a-like. The guy standing next to Adam won.

*g* If I had a tiny child I would want them to dress like that all the time.

[moorspede.livejournal.com]

eep we've had a lot of controversy about the media sexualising children and child porn. I dunno if I've somehow absorbed people's paranoia. But a contest is innocent enough on reflection.