| miss kitten regrets she's unable to lunch today. because the following items have ruined her hearty appetite... |
Laker flags suction-cupped to car windows everydamnwhere you look! For real, though, people. I know you love the Lakers. I realize you live in LA. I live here, too. Yay, Lakers! Go team! Now please take that stupid flag off the window of your car. Take down the one on the driver's side window, the one on the passenger-side window... now the three on the rear windshield. Thanks, pal. Visors, everydamnwhere you look! What is up with the visors? What look are you rockin', fellas? Does it involve Dinah Shore? Arnold Palmer? I'd be willing to accept more Laker flags in exchange for the disappearance of the visors on fashion-victim boys. Local radio station still being held hostage by subrate angry-boy bands and whiny Gwen Stefani! I was explaining to a friend the other night that KROQ was a great station in the late 80s. Probably it was before then, too, but that was when I started listening, back when something called "variety" was the MO. It was possible then to hear, in the span of an hour or two, songs by Kate Bush, The Smiths, The Replacements, The Ramones, Bauhaus, Siouxsie, Sinead O'Connor and Black Flag. Hugely popular bands, local bands, one-hit wonders from Australia, punk, goth, new wave, pop. There was a sense of excitement that just isn't found now in the Blink182/Limp Bizkit/Korn/NoDoubt-heavy rotation on KROQ. The bass gets heavier, the vocals more growly, but it's all the same shit. Those boys all grew up on Sabbath and Pantera and they all want to be like Ozzy and sound like Phil Anselmo, and they all took the DIY concept too seriously. Aaaand just to keep things nice and balanced, there's No Doubt. Hey, look, I'm a guuurl! I'm independent and strong cuz I joined my big brother's band and I dated my big brother's bassist and I broke up with my big brother's bassist and then wrote like a million songs about how, like, hard it was to see him! DIY lite, from the region of SoCal where, if you're in a band and say you used to live around the corner from Brad of Sublime, you'll get a record deal. So. These days on KROQ you can have whatever flavor you like, so long as it's Growly or Perky. Take your pick. Or hey, change the station. I did. |