Figurines? They’re action figures, damnit!
-vibrotronica, who is secretly Wolf Blitzer.
I’m Italian and my Wife is Jewish. We always cook too much food. Besides I have friends even bigger than Moore. (in size I mean)
A far as Blitzer goes, I follow the Ignatowski rule: ***Smile knowingly and walk away. * **
Jim
That was Zeppelin, not Leppard.
Meh, I’m not a fan of the White Stripes (and they always remind me of Punk Rock Kittens from RatherGood.com). But the rest of the show was pretty funny.
“OH MY GOD!!! WE’RE ALL GONNA GET AIDS!!!”
LOL, they remind you of the punk rock kittens because the music for that is “Fell in Love With a Girl” by… The White Stripes!
I know that. That’s why I cannot to this day hear a song by the WS and not think of that.
Heh, then maybe it was a bad idea for them to give permission to Rathergood.com for the use of the song! 
Assuming they did.
Definitely – there just t’weren’t enough of it. (I wonder if Bush internally kicked himself when the bit of Ambassador Tobias “doing a heck of a job” slipped out? I’m sure the Ambassador started mentally updating his resume. “Thanks a lot, George.”)
I think Jon went the wrong way with his response to “We’re working with our partners to expand prevention efforts that emphasize abstinence, being faithful in marriage, and using condemns correctly,” though. I would have thought something like this:
I was surprised that he left the next line alone, too:
Proven its effectiveness? Africa has the highest rate of new HIV infections on the planet. They’ve got less than ten percent of the population, 60% of the HIV patients, and more than three fifths of the world’s new infections in 2005.
Two things stand out about that – he emphasizes that it’s unnamed Africans who are giving abstinence programs such prominence, when the general perception seems to be that it’s Bush Doctrine, and he’s quiet about what intelligence is behind his assertion that the strategy is proven. The only authority I know of who’s made such a claim is that Pope fella, and he’s not any more forthcoming with hard data.
Grrrr.
As for the White Stripes vs. Wolf Blitzer, I would much rather party with Wolf. He at least knows that he’s as bland as blancmange, and wouldn’t irritate people by posturing as “edgy” while boring the tits off them. Besides, Tina Fey had sex dreams about him a few years back. That’s hot.
Oh, there are many nights I wish they had an extra 10 minutes, if not half an hour. But they seem confident it wouldn’t work, or that it’d be too much work. Either way, they’re not going to add time just because they had a musical guest. I learned more from the first song than I did from the interviews with Paul Rudd - “this guy’s a pretty badass guitar player” vs. “man, I hate Paul Rudd, whoever he is.”
Are you saying Jack White looks like Kid Rock? 'Cause I can’t imagine what the other resemblance would be. Kid Rock raps and sometimes does country songs. Jack White sings and plays guitar in what’s usually a hard rock band. I’m really not seeing the connection.
I think it’s weird that Carolla came up with something that clever - not to mention Doper-ish.
Yes.
Kid Rock is blonde.
Jack White wears a hat.
This is fun!
Okay, I checked out Hotel Yorba. It was nice to hear a song of theirs that didn’t use the same staccato formula as the other two, but… our tastes are going to have to differ. I can’t say that it makes him anything close to the best songwriter today in my book. Sorry.
Just curious, who DO you consider the best songwriter today? IMO, it hardly counts to go back to the “dinosaurs” like Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan, who are long past their prime, or even the long-term stalwarts like Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen.
If people want to get feisty about the White Stripes - fine, another thread. I am happy to defend them there. I think they’re worth it and am happy to explain why.
Back to the OP - should a rock band have been on TDS? Well, for the most part, no - I think think the point was that the WS were geekster-hip cool, much like TDS tries to be (and I think succeeds). The fact that Colbert - Mr. “Hey Viggo Mortensen is on so I will geek out and offer a 5-minute description of Aragorn son of Arathorn is” goes ahead and asks an obscure question to Jon about a track of their second CD (which is great, btw) - tells us where TDS intended to position them…
Oh boy - I hope that makes sense…
Strange… I record all the Daily shows. The program guide for last night’s ‘Daily Show’ said, “The White Stripes perform”, but it was a lame interview with Nancy Pelosi. Which night were they on?
And which two songs did they play?
I love the White Stripes, btw. Jack White is a talent on par with some of the greatest in rock history, in my opinion. And not just rock - when he tries bluegrass, he makes some of the best I’ve heard. He produced Loretta Lynn’s album and wrote some of the music, and damned if they didn’t turn out one of the best country albums in years, and maybe Loretta’s best ever. He can do blues as well as anyone, rock as hard as anyone.
Hentor: I wouldn’t have picked ‘Hotel Yorba’ as the best example of the White Stripes’ music. Try this set:
Death Letter from De Stijl
You’re Pretty Good Looking (for a girl) from De Stijl
Ball and Biscuit from Elephant
Girl, You Have no Faith in Medicine from Elephant
The Hardest Button to Button from Elephant
Blue Orchid from Get Behind Me Satan
My Doorbell from Get Behind Me Satan
The first song they played was “The Denial Twist,” and they closed the show with “My Doorbell.”
Comparing Jack White to Bob Dylan is like comparing Elmore Leonard to William Shakespeare: geniuses all, but not doing the same thing.
To answer your question though, the best songwriters living are Jane Siberry and Stephin Merritt. Next question!
I like the little I’ve heard from Merritt’s Magnetic Fields, but I’m unfamiliar with Jane Siberry. Would you mind starting a “good songwriters” thread or something, to avoid further derailing this one and getting people pissed at us? I am intrigued.
Heh. I guess you got a point there. Not the best phrasing on my part. I was just pointing out that Just because a band is overhyped doesn’t mean it isn’t good.
But in this case, they are. 