From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #135 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, June 10 2007 Volume 07 : Number 135 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Cute Band Alert! [Scout82667@aol.com] [loud-fans] primal screaming over entropy [Scout82667@aol.com] [loud-fans] Re: Charlotte (and Patti) (and Chuck) [Russ Lewis Subject: [loud-fans] Re: Charlotte (and Patti) (and Chuck) I don't think Chuck Klosterman is getting a fair shake here. He's a mixed bag. Yes, sometimes he's an irritating pseudointellectual who thinks "deconstruction" means analysis and who can't pronounce "et cetera" (he says "excedra") and spins elaborate arguments about pop cultural items not because they have any weight but just to *give* them weight, not because the arguments are true but just because he *can,* nattering endlessly about the significance of basketball stars or Pamela Anderson's mammaries. I'm basing this on the good chunk that I've read of _Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs,_ the entirety of his five-CD audio book of the same title, and the five-CD audio book called _Chuck Klosterman 4_ ($3.00 from Borders' killout section). Then again, I thought highly enough of the latter to give it to a friend to enjoy on his frequent airline trips. Klosterman is enjoyable and entertaining and funny. I had to find C&D&CP after I heard a piece of his on _This American Life,_ the episode called "60 Stories in 60 Minutes" or some such. His contribution was from that book and recalled the party where he and his stoner friends had toked up in the kitchen and stood around inventing a new word game that came to be known as "Monkees = Monkees." It basically works like this: You take a rock group and find the TV show that most closely equals it. They have the most nearly equivalent era, number of characters, longevity, commercial success, and overall feel. The scoring system does get a little more elaborate than that, but that's basically it. For example, "The Rolling Stones are _Gunsmoke._ Devo was _Fernwood 2-Night._ The Eurythmics were _Mork & Mindy."_ He's right, and it's a great game, and I thought this was untouchable genius. It also works the other way around: what rock group correlates with this or that TV show? I won't even get started with this bunch. (As for the name of the game, what TV show was the equivalent of the Monkees? One and only one, obviously.) [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of letters in jars.jpg] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 20:48:45 +0000 From: "=?utf-8?B?V2VzdCBBbnRob255?=" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Charlotte (and Patti) (and Chuck) >Yes, sometimes he's an irritating >pseudointellectual who >thinks "deconstruction" means >analysis and who can't pronounce >"et cetera" (he says "excedra") HA!! I was wondering if anyone else out there got as distracted by that as I did. I've got a headache THIS big, and it's got "excedra" written all over it.... >(As for the name of the game, >what TV show was the equivalent >of the Monkees? One and only one, >obviously.) So, would Simon & Garfunkel = The Prisoner? I mean, if you look at Garfunkel as Number Two. Hey, Simon clearly did. I am not a free man, I am a number, West. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #135 *******************************