“I sure could go for a drink right now. Has anyone seen the vermouth?”
Those of you that don’t read Super Underwear Perverts for their “Golden Age” posts are missing out. This file is titled “Bob White,” though I don’t know enough about physique photography to know whether that’s the model or the photographer. You think I would by now, but no.
Filed under: design of a decade, lists, music | Tags: 2002, design of a decade, shakira, weezer
[My fourth-favorite songs of 2002, part of my slow, slow look back at the past ten years of music.]
4. Weezer, Keep Fishin’, and Shakira, Objection (Tango)
Is there anyone so annoying as a Weezer fan?
When the band of nerdy rockers first hit in 1994, everyone immediately loved them. Then Pinkerton came out and everyone hated them, so much so that Rivers Cuomo gave up on music for a few years. When the group returned, the cuffed jeans and black glasses army was outraged, saying that Pinkerton was a masterpiece and the Green Album was no Pinkerton. Then Maladroit came out, and nobody at all liked it. The Green Album was bad, they said, but this was worse. (And let’s not even get into what old fans think about their post-Maladroit material.) So how could a group with such catchy singles be the source of so much negativity?
Filed under: music, tv | Tags: eurovision, georgia, polls, time wasting
I just spent waaaaaaaay too long deciding what my favorite Eurovision song of the decade is. ESCtoday has a poll up and, like the Eurovision Song Contest itself, it’s broken up into semi-finals, the first of which runs through tomorrow. I like eight of the 23 songs chosen for the first semi-final, though I think it’s hilarious that now-Sugababe Jade Ewen was chosen to represent the UK over, say, the far slightly less terrible (and far better-dressed) Scooch [above], and that Maria-who-was-basically-the-poor-man’s-Annie was chosen for Norway over current champ Alexander Rybak.
But I voted for Georgia in the end. It was close, as both Portugal’s Vânia Fernandes and Hungary’s NOX put up valiant efforts. And I don’t mean to disparage Croatia, who I’d rank a solid fourth. Albania and Bulgaria both did well, too, despite the complete lack of catchiness in their songs. And nothing against France, who have no interest in the Eurovision idiom, or Germany, who proved surprisingly adept at making jokey country music.
Performances after the jump, starting with Visionary Dream. It was one of only two Georgian Eurovision entries, and it’s really awesome. Their 2008 song was a total drag, and they were disqualified in 2009 after their If You Seek Amy-ish song “We Don’t Wanna Put In” was interpreted by the Russians as a slur against Putin.
