It's All About Me, Man: 06/27/2010

Sunday, July 04, 2010

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: I would suggest you start supporting change I can believe in, instead of more of the same.

I posted the following message to MoveOn.Org on their webform at http://pol.moveon.org/feedback/fb/form.html?tp=suggest

You might want to do something similar. It won't change anything, but it made me feel better.

Body: I posted this to a discussion list I'm on. Why don't you people stop hiding behind your webforms, and your stupid democratic party supporting campaigns, and join the discussion about how we're really going to solve some problems?

I posted this to a discussion list I'm on. Why don't you people stop hiding behind your webforms, and your stupid democratic party supporting campaigns, and join the discussion about how we're really going to solve some problems?

from matt love <mattlove1@gmail.com>

to progressive@yahoogroups.com

date Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:18 AM

subject Re: [progressive] Raise the retirement age to 70? Pay for war by cutting social security?

mailed-by gmail.com

hide details 10:18 AM (6 minutes ago)

We voters are sure in a terrible bind, aren't we? We are supposed to throw out all these guys who have a terrible plan to pay for these stupid wars... but our only viable alternative is to vote for the other guys, the ones that want to continue and expand the wars and the war spending, without a plan for what to do when the bills come in.

Apparently this campaign is sponsored by MoveOn.Org, who vigorously support the guys (and Hillary Clinton) that want to continue and expand the wars and the war spending, without a plan for what to do when the bills come in, so I don't expect any solutions from them.

My candidate wanted to get out of all this nonsense, and cut military spending 50% - a very conservative proposal, it should be cut 90% - but everybody knows that he's crazy, and anybody who voted for him is crazy. You certainly wouldn't find a respectable, responsible group like MoveOn.Org supporting him. They support change you can believe in - we all know what that's about - the kind of change where everything stays pretty much the same. Somethings a little better, many things a whole lot worse.

http://www.counterpunch.org/stauber04282009.html

http://www.counterpunch.org/frank02042008.html

http://www.counterpunch.org/stauber03192007.html

They tell us to speak truth to power, and sometimes I do, though Chomsky says don't waste your time speaking truth to power, they don't care about your words, he advises speaking the truth about power to your peers - in this case I would have done so by cc'ing MoveOn with this email. They qualify as "power" to me because they were founded by silicon valley millionaires, and they at least like to cultivate the appearence of being close to Obama - for example, one of the FAQs on their "Contact" page is

I have a question about Obama gear I ordered

However, they give no email address, just a webform. If any more proof was needed they aren't a grassroots group. They don't want to have to interact with you, they just want you to work on their issues for them. One of them being to elect more people like Obama.

No thank you.

I want to play in your town for you and 2 of your friends.

http://eventful.com/performers/matt-love-/P0-001-000156481-4/demands

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: MoveOn.org Support <info@moveon.org>
Date: Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: I would suggest you start supporting change I can believe in, instead of more of the same.
To: Matt Love <mattlove1@gmail.com>

Thanks for contacting MoveOn.org.

We welcome your comments and suggestions.
We get a lot feedback, so please don't count on a personal reply.
But all mail is read and carefully considered.

Sincerely,

MoveOn.org Support

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I want to play in your town for you and 2 of your friends.
http://eventful.com/performers/matt-love-/P0-001-000156481-4/demands

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Thursday, July 01, 2010

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] it's not news when michelle harrison melts down...

or takes off her top. it's like a dog biting a man. but rolling stone, nearly always irrelevant (the get a qualifier because of their McCrystal interview), is still on the beat...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/150872

By Daniel Kreps

Jun 30, 2010 3:57 PM EDT

Courtney Love's recent Behind the Music special covered the wild and turbulent career of the Hole singer, but Love added another strange and unexpected chapter to her life story with perhaps her biggest in-concert meltdown yet. According to theWashington Post , Love's recent performance at D.C.'s 9:30 Club disintegrated into a three-hour train wreck highlighted by strange between-song stage banter, attacks at her critics, endless celebrity name-checking and, by the show's end, Love stripping down topless to perform the encore. "Do you really like rock music?" Love asked one young woman earnestly during the show. "Because you're African American. That would be like me being into Lil Wayne." Check out footage of Love's bizarre performance (plus fans' post-show reactions) below.

Check out Love's wildest meltdowns, from sucker punches to topless television appearances.

Hole performed roughly 30 songs, including covers of songs by the Rolling Stones and Leonard Cohen, but the songs were mainly just fragments and only a handful were actually completed. During performances of "Miss World" and "Violet," Love turned her back to the microphone during the chorus. She also stumbled through several other songs, admitting that she had forgotten how to play them — yet still played them regardless. "This is a really weird show," Love said. "I can't tell if it's really terrible." Later, one of her handlers announced that in order to coax Love back for an encore, the crowd would have to cheer loudly because, the Post reports, "there was someone who was waiting to have sex with Love and it would take lots of applause to get her to delay that appointment."

Love has had a string of recent meltdowns surrounding the release of Nobody's Daughter. As Rolling Stonepreviously reported, Love kicked off the promotional campaign by igniting a Twitter war with both Billy Corgan — who accused Love of using a pair of songs he'd co-written on her new album without his permission — and her own daughter Frances Bean, who opted to live with her grandmother instead of Love. However,after performing what Love described as the "worst show" of her career at SXSW this March, she eloquently chatted with the hosts of The View and on the Howard Stern Show and the concerts leading up to the Washington, D.C. debacle were incident-free.