From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V5 #215 Reply-To: headline-girl@smoe.org Sender: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk headline-girl-digest Tuesday, October 15 2002 Volume 05 : Number 215 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Matt Good [iamthechan ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 06:58:42 -0700 (PDT) From: iamthechan Subject: Matt Good You don't have to like him, but here is some good fun presented by Matt Good...He always has an opinion, but don't we all? At some point you have to come to terms with what you're being presented. And simply put, it's a television program about people making money while you're watching them try to make more.* Whether it's at the expense of the kids or not, that's what you're watching. Commerce. These kids line up and make fools of themselves so that someone else can capitalize on their emotions and embarrassment every week at a set time and hopefully an end product that sells because you've watched it all go down on television and simply must own the record. And to think that bands and artists that spend months and years in vans touring and playing in seedy shit holes have to compete with the end result of it all. That they'll play hundreds of shows for hundreds of dollars, not millions, and must exist in a corporate musical climate that has been altered adversely against them because of pre-fab projects that exist more so for the television rights than for the music they'll end up producing. All in the name of Leave It To Beaver entertainment that challenges no one, says nothing, and only contributes to the rapidly deteriorating state of the arts. It's easy enough to say 'it's a business and if you'd don't like it then go and do something else'. It's easy enough to say 'most people would kill to be a star'. But that just speaks the kid of volumes about us that we never seem to want to hear. So I've come up with an idea for a television show. It's going to be dedicated entirely to Ron Sexsmith. You know Ron, he's one of the best song writers this country's ever produced. I say we give him his own show on Global, do away with the panel of judges, I'll donate the rights to charity, and most importantly you'll be spared choreographed dance scenes morning, noon, and night, and the fact that Much Music will ram the first new Pop Stars video down your throat so much you might as well be getting an enema. Sound good? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V5 #215 ***********************************