i mean to post a blog/podcast of the festivities, see what i can come up with!
the interviews i played on tonight's show were definately a hit.
for now though, we have come to the end of another month, which means in this case that april fool's day is upon us... but also so is time for the new rabble rouser of the month crown. it is hard to be better than punki mcnamee. i thought about scanning the wonderful letter she wrote me, but considering that one of this month's nominees got fired for doing such things, i will assure you that punki wrote me a lovely card & was appreciative of being february's rrom. for march...votes are in & it's practically a landslide, the first month that a nominee won by more than one vote.
nominees for march were...
1. jon (raliegh, nc) - waiter gets fired from job for posting pic of peyton manning's more than generous tip
2. josh thompson (michigan) - consumer files lawsuit against amc movie theatre corp. for price gouging on concessions
3. tim blood (moscow, id) - buys 9 birthday cakes with food stamps. plus he's a rabble rouser approved rock and roller.
and the winner is...#3, tim blood. i think playing the interview with him on the air helped sway the vote, but then again the other two guys have been sulking from media attention too...buying yourself birthday cakes with food stamps is just hilarious. and then there was the part about on his birthday where we drove to pullman & yelled random angry things at people. but let's just keep it "clean" how about? congrats to tim blood. another month of hard rabble rousing work is complete!part deux of the blog.
somewhat random, but i just wanna gripe a minute about sell-outs. now i know people have their price and all, but there comes a certain point when one has acquired so much material possession that going further seems to tarnish the great reputations they have built.
recently back from boise, i provide the exemplary model of chris petersen as a non-sell out. even though i am anything but a boise state broncos fan, and petersen does readily admit the possibility of leaving bsu someday. he recently renewed his contract as the broncos football coach for 5 years, $12 million. boise state gets an incredible deal because he loves the treasure valley and stays loyal to those who gave him his first shot to run his own program. over the winter break, ucla and penn state were two storied football programs in desperate need of a quality head coach. no doubt petersen topped their wish list. he turned them both down, and probably many others, without even interviewing. and be sure that they would have paid at least double, if not triple, quadruple what boise state pays. in short, life and legacy means more to chris peterson than a big paycheck.now, lets take on the other hand a couple stars that could use better career advice: george strait and johnny depp.
george strait is a country music legend. he has done everything, a no question hall of famer. the benefit for him is that he has, for a musician, an uncommonly clean public profile. but for all he has accomplished, he seems to want too much. for the last three months, every time i use my phone to go online, the display page asks me to purchase the ringtone for the george strait song "here for a good time". if that doesn't already scream too much... i start to wonder why he would even record that song, much less let it be shoved down my throat for so long. maybe it's a fine song, but it's quite poorly titled. because earlier last year, calgary country star terri clark unearthed a lost classic, "we're here for a good time", by 70s vancouver rock band trooper. maybe it's hard for george to have any originality after he's charted nearly 100 singles, but if george strait can't get better ideas maybe he should take the garth brooks career path. and most certainly, he shouldn't let his work be prostituted to such a degree. does he really need that exposure? i guess a better question is, is he the one even making all the extra money off such silly things as that ringtone? not sure i wanna even know.
johnny depp takes the situation one step further. he has just released a duet with marilyn manson, a cover of "you're so vain". to start with, the song itself is awful and carly simon herself was one of the weaker links in the 70s rock scene. marilyn manson himself only ever really sounded good in comparison to other mainstream rockers of the late 1990s and 2000s. so maybe it's perfect that he does a cover of that song? but johnny depp? i realize that manson needs the publicity right about now. but depp would be better off without the publicity. looking back, depp joining a band with gibby haynes was an awesome idea. it was novel and refreshing. but getting together with manson at this point, is like five too many pirates of the carribbean films. go live with your booty happily and quietly for a while.
that is all. i will go back to compiling the tree fort goodies. thanks for listening.
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