Monday, Sept. 22, 2003 | 9:55 AM Rock Star Show Down
Thank God for the simple pleasures in life. Yesterday at work I found myself on the Rolling Stone website and they have a lot of video material for a lot of different bands�mostly crap, but here and there some good stuff. I spent an hour or so watching Nirvana and Sebadoh and Pavement videos and feeling incredibly nostalgic for Sunday nights in high school when I�d stay up to watch 120 Minutes. This was of course before it started to suck. Dave Kendall with his faux foppy accent and overeager desire prove his own hipness set the perfect tone. And it was great when certain underground rock stars would come on for interviews and take the mickey out of him. The best was when Kim Gordon and Courtney Love were on to promote Pretty On The Inside and the two of them made several jokes at poor Dave�s expense, all of which appeared to sail right over his Morrisey-esque head of hair. (I miss the old Courtney Love, I really do. Le sigh�) Anyway� So I was watching the videos on Rollingstone.com and decided I�d check out a couple offerings from the Strokes �cause like, they�re pretty good and cute to boot and I�m sure their videos are entertaining. Boy howdy was I right. The video for Someday features a game of family feud between The Strokes and� Guided by Voices. Um� this is the greatest idea I have ever heard of in my life. The game features questions such as If you were the world�s biggest slob, what would you go a year without washing? Julian from The Strokes responds, My hands. and Nicolai also from the Strokes says, My sheets. The next question is, Name something a mother doesn�t want to find under her child�s bed. One of the Strokes says, Drugs. Guided by Voices�s Bob Pollard�s response is female clothing. Then the rest of the video is just shots of the two bands hanging out and getting trashed together. It was absolutely heartwarming. Why doesn�t Mtv play shit like that hour after hour instead of fucking booty shakers and chicken porn? Ah well. As I said, thank God for simple pleasures.
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