Blondie: Chris Stein
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Posted by Chris Stein at 10/24/2003 06:47:00 AM
last report from the states, new laptop will accompany and perhaps if all goes i'll post from 'abroad' (Groucho Marx to Jayne Mansfield; "How does it feel to be abroad?").
i'd like to steer everyone towards ADBUSTERS.org and magazine...which reminds me of one of many campaigns that i think about (actually this one goes back years and years) everybody hates tv commercials why not have a boycott of anything advertised on TV? perhaps for a month or a week or indefinitely if people could do without all the crap thats advertised... why should we be burdened with all this garbage??? TV is bad enough unto itself...another example: i guess about six or so years ago i went to some movie in London, and there for the first time was subjected to miserable advertisements for cars and soda whatever before the trailers for upcoming films and eventually the movie itself "ha!" thought i "no one in america would stand for this!" needless to say my consumer-oriented nationalistic fervor was of course short lived...so why doesnt anyone DO anything about this shit? have we really become such a world of sheep that we have to put up with junk on this level... this isnt even like going to a job you dont like... its just too screwed to pay for a movie and then have to suffer through the same jeans commercial for the tenth time... i really think that a product boycott and or letter writing campaign could actually do something... all the networks and big corporate monsters are shit scared of public opinion, and they all have websites and contact points...
leaving this monday, let me know what you think about the above maybe we can get rid of TV commercials completly!!!!
love, see you at shows
chris
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Posted by Chris Stein at 10/10/2003 06:49:00 AM
so there's that... and i do watch the occasional baseball game like now with the yankee red sox deal,
oh... years ago we were in las vegas (recently in amsterdam the utter hypocrisy of the vegas attempt to somehow make itself; the whore of babylon, a "family experience", that at least in holland sex is not presented as educational or behind some dumbass facade of walt disney wholesomeness) and we wandered into siegfried and roys casino where two listless beautiful white tigers were lying behind a plastic window on an area covered in concrete in the blazing hot sun all the while gawked at by camera laden grotesque tourists who all seemed to be dressed in loud polyester hawaiian shirts which at the time were the uniform (now replaced by golf shirts)... i was really really disgusted then so i invite you to draw your own conclusions as to my feelings about what happened to roy, that is getting chewed severely by one of his (no doubt underpayed) employees... i may have mentioned that the interaction of humans and 'animals' should be, in my opinion, curtailed if not totally eliminated animals just get the short end of the deal... ok another one:
minks that are raised for fur are pretty much starved so as to make their skin looser, we saw an item about some animal rights group freeing ten thousand or so starving minks which then went on a rampage eating everything in sight, dogs cats and i presume anything remotely edible in their path the "farmers" re captured about a thousand but the problem in returning them to captivity was that the minks then couldnt be caged as family units who get along so the remaining prisoners ate each other as well...pretty fucked up right?... finally the most absurd animal related news item i saw lately concerned some banquet for heads of state including ol' bushy in thailand or someplace thereabouts, anyway concern there over poisoned food, and being that human life has gained enough status to forestall people being used as 'tasters' like the good old days, mice are going to be injected with samples of the fucking food , the mice will then either drop dead or not... now what comedian has to pay a writer with shit like this floating around? one can predict a whole bunch of mice addicted to mainlining beef bourgeon or spaghetti carbonara etc etc also why might'nt 'the enemy' slip some immune mice into the lab
closer to home as i drive around this season, the roads are as usual littered with the corpses of little animals, chipmonks, squirrels, racoons, badgers, and others, i must have seen over twenty dead deer but the other smaller guys are not really countable in their profusion... now why not divert a few billion of the military budget to putting up little fences around and digging tunnels beneath the nations highways and various back roads, maybe some little bridges as well...really how much more absurd is this idea than what is going on already... yeah people shouldnt be allowed around animals, the animals always get fucked, at least one should have to take a test or be somehow 'qualified'
what else... "survivor" in the south bronx, some more stuff i cant remember right now... thank you all for the positive comments about the record, baby, band etc
send pictures, weird stories, dreams, found objects
much love
chris
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Posted by Chris Stein at 10/09/2003 06:50:00 AM
first everyone seems to be liking the record, yes i really think its the best one at the moment, im back home after rehearsing in nyc for the tour, we are in a break, paul c is playing some shows with Ed Norton (the actors) sister, clem went back to LA... speaking of LA, a man walks into a bar with a blue pig... no seriously, why is anyone surprised by Arnolds election?? one would think that the party idiots would learn their lesson, the guys who run for these offices, the politicians are so blank and lifeless and dead, yes DEAD, DEAD DEAD DEAD, that anyone who comes along with even a shred of personality stands a better chance, someone as charming and bright as Arnold is a shoe-in, prediction: that in the years to come we will see a return to old style personality-politics, the rhetoric will change, no one gives a fuck about figures and political agendas, "a chicken in every pot yadda yadda", after Regan and Jessie V and now Arnie one would think that the direction is clear, i've always thought that Richard Pryor would make a great president...
meanwhile a tv program about children being used as soldiers in various third world military systems, Sierra Leone, south america etc, grim faces of young kids forced to kill their peers, and this is addressed as if it were not the side effect of the root problem namely poverty, that it's like 'well thats the way things are there...' it just strikes me as insane that the reaction to world famine and misery in the west is still so absurdly slow, almost non existent... if its not true that the west needs a slave culture to make its sneakers and designer hand bags, devote land needed for food production to the growing of cut flowers etc etc then why isnt something done now instead of "soon, sometime in the near future"...
continued t'mrow morning
chris
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