Monday, October 12, 2020

Your Monday Moment of "What a Flaming Asshole!"

Q: Why are conservatives such horrible rock critics?

A: BECAUSE THEY'RE HUMONGOUS PIECES OF MORALLY COMPROMISED SHIT!!!

Case in point: The utterly loathsome Armond White -- formerly a film reviewer for the old and unmissed New York Press (and, inexplicably, for The Nation, which I hope will be similarly unmissed very soon) -- on the new Spike Lee/David Byrne movie American Utopia. Over at the website of white supremacist journal NATIONAL REVIEW.

I will not quote anything from it at length, but suffice it to say that White refers to Eric Garner, Freddie Gray and Trayvon Martin (!!!) as "dead black scofflaws."

Words fucking fail me.

9 comments:

pete said...

Wasn't Bangs a conservative? Or was he just a drunk and a contrarian?

pete said...

How can you be a scofflaw if you're dead?

Mark said...

I have a friend, who when confronted with racist and political bullshit like that you point to, dismisses the schmuck, schmuckette or schmucks with two letters, FM, as in Fucking Moron. I too now do so.

steve simels said...

I knew Lester Bangs. Lester Bangs was a friend of mine.

Lester would never -- and I mean NEVER -- have dismissed Trayvon Martin like that.

HE WAS FROM FUCKING DETROIT, FOR CRISSAKES! HE KNEW FROM BLACK PEOPLE AND POLICE BRUTALITY!!!

Anonymous said...

What does any of this have to do with "power pop"?

Anonymous (because I am not interested in any political blowback, just music.

steve simels said...

It's because of living in the real world. If you don't get that, you need to have a word with yourself.

Sal Nunziato said...

Why do the critics always remain anonymous? If you want to criticize, do it like a man.

I'll show you.

This post has nothing to do with power pop. But I'll take it. It's a brief respite from the Willie Nile posts.

There!

steve simels said...

Nobody likes a wiseguy, Sal. :-)

pete said...

Never trust a critic named Armond. Armand? Maybe. But probably not.