The Ranting Room

mystic fred wrote: 1800iareyay wrote: Okay, I'm on Facebook a lot and everyone keeps talking about Dave Matthews, so I posted a rant. Here it is:Dave Matthews is not an musician. The banal, uninspired noise that emanates from his instrument and throat is the very opposite of music. It creates an artistic black hole that sucks in creativity, originality, wit, and substance and crushes it with an unfathomably massive gravitational field. Every Dave Matthews song sounds the same. In the early days, his singing sounds like he is permanently trapped in puberty, with constant cracks. Now, he has "matured" into simply mumbling into a microphone like some Eddie Vedder wannabe. If you don't know who Eddie Vedder is you paid no attention to grunge (shame on you). How is being stoned convey depth? He has a guitar. I'm not sure why, because he doesn't play it. Now, some of you might think otherwise. To the untrained eye he looks as if he is playing. However, to anyone who has ever seen a concert featuring a band that truly play s from the heart and has spent years honing their craft into something that is both beautiful and challenging, Dave Matthews looks like a cymbal monkey hitting a guitar hoping it will make noise.   ...i take it you don't like him very much then...?     is he as bad as James Blunt, though..?

Why is James Blunt so easy to detest?

I cant quite work it out. Yes, his songs are awful, but then so is 95% of anything that makes the charts. I dont reserve the same venom for Gwen Stefani or Rhiana. So what is it about old Blunty boy that makes so many people see red? His records sell by the lorry load, but I've yet to meet anyone who admits to liking him.

Is it the mock sincerity in his songs? Or maybe just the fact that you know he's a screaming Tory behind that fake urban folk facade?

Whatever it is, I know that I would never get bored ritually burning boxes of JB albums in a giant Wicker Man, whilst the Prog Archives community danced around dressed as rabits as stags. The only reason I wouldn't burn the man, himself alive is because I dont believe in killing people just because I dont like their art..

That said, I wouldn't have a problem riding my bike repeatedly over his gleaming white teeth!

   

I love Dave Matthews!



....but not airline food.

Blacksword wrote: I dont reserve the same venom for Gwen Stefani

Blacksword wrote: I highly reccomend the luke warm roast chicken dinner in a box with Twix bar for desert, as offered by United Airlines on their Heathrow to JFK route.

fandango wrote: Blacksword wrote: I highly reccomend the luke warm roast chicken dinner in a box with Twix bar for desert, as offered by United Airlines on their Heathrow to JFK route.   you can nevertheless praise the Lord for the fact that you aren't a veggie... it never ceases to amaze me how, within a few short air miles, they can render grated carrot, 'humus' (at least I think that's what it was...) and a piece of EU surplus mild cheddar cheese utterly inedible....     I would also just like to say how good it is that, in this changing uncertain world, some things remain the same... ie 'whereever there is a Rant, a Blacksword will never be far behind'....

I like the 'Easy Kiosk' on Easy Jet flights where tbey make you cough up £4 for a mini tube of Pringles, and the smallest can of Heineken you can imagine. So small you'd think it was an accessory for a chavs dolls house. I dont expect an A' la Carte menu, on a flight to Newcastle, it would just be nice if they threw in a pack of Rennies to cope with the heartburn.

My biggest pet peeve for the last few years has been people attaching the word "So" to the end of thoughts and sentences with no real meaning.  I hear it constantly at work and on TV and it really is driving me batty.  There are two people at work who constantly say it. 
"This report appears to be wrong, so...."
"I really like this new frozen dinner, so..."
"I have waxy, yellow buildup in my crevices, so..."
"We need more paper towels in the bathroom, so..."
"My panties get moist every time I watch George Bush blow his nose, so..."
 
Now they have infected 75% of everyone else in the building.

The "So" goes nowhere and is entirely superfluous and annoying and it drives me crazy.  And it seems like half the people in the USA are doing this and no one cares.  I care and I would like it to please stop!  I notice mostly females do it but men are far from immune.  I think about it so much that on the oft times I do it, I want to beat myself over the head.

And if you haven't noticed it, after reading this post you will.  Because it is everywhere.

I don't really mind the "so..." thing, I've done it myself before in informal conversation.  But I understand why anybody would find it irritating, it doesn't go anywhere....

What really pisses me off is people saying "Where you at?"  That screams terrible English to me, it's just as easy to say "Where are you?", so why don't people say that?!

And this doesn't really irritate me, but I pick up on it much more often than I used to in the past (thanks to my sophomore high school English teacher!): ending sentences with prepositions.  Every time I hear this happen (even if I say it), I'll correct it in my head, or occasionally correct other people.

So I'm walking to school with my iPod, listening to Starless. As we all know, the climax of the song is the eargasmic sax solo at the end, so I've spent the last ten minutes in eager anticipation. I can hear it coming...

moreitsythanyou wrote: Chameleon wrote: So I'm walking to school with my iPod, listening to Starless. As we all know, the climax of the song is the eargasmic sax solo at the end, so I've spent the last ten minutes in eager anticipation. I can hear it coming...   When all of a sudden, every ambulance and fire truck in the god damn neighbourhood drives by.   Eeedle oodle Eeedle oodle Eeedl-BEEEPBEEEPBEEEP WEE-OO WEE-OO WEE- OO HONK HONK VRRRRRRROOOOOOM   Forced to listen only to my loudest music, I spent the rest of my walk in frustration.   Drive somewhere else, of make a quieter car. Well there was obviously an emergency. How inconsiderate of some people. Making a big fuss because they're in danger or pain. There's prog to be listened to without being bothered by all that pesky racket. That's not selfish at all.

Chameleon wrote: moreitsythanyou wrote: Chameleon wrote: So I'm walking to school with my iPod, listening to Starless. As we all know, the climax of the song is the eargasmic sax solo at the end, so I've spent the last ten minutes in eager anticipation. I can hear it coming...   When all of a sudden, every ambulance and fire truck in the god damn neighbourhood drives by.   Eeedle oodle Eeedle oodle Eeedl-BEEEPBEEEPBEEEP WEE-OO WEE-OO WEE- OO HONK HONK VRRRRRRROOOOOOM   Forced to listen only to my loudest music, I spent the rest of my walk in frustration.   Drive somewhere else, of make a quieter car. Well there was obviously an emergency. How inconsiderate of some people. Making a big fuss because they're in danger or pain. There's prog to be listened to without being bothered by all that pesky racket. That's not selfish at all.   There were semis and low flying planes too.