9.23.2005
Whoever said rock is dead obvsiously hasn't seen Andrew WK
Apparently, sex and rock and roll are dead. So says Mark Morford of the San Fran Chronicle:
When you've nowhere to turn and all seems bleak and desperate and warlike and Bush, it has been the all-American maxim lo this past multitude of years to exclaim, perhaps quietly, perhaps over a long, slow Martini, perhaps during a long tongue bath from a needful lover or whilst you sit in the tub sipping laudanum, feeling as though the world is trying to maul your spirit like the GOP molests joy, well, at least we still have rock 'n' roll.
And models. At least we still have rock 'n' roll and hot fashion models. And porn. And dim sum. And iPods and dogs and yoga and fine artisanal cheeses...[]
Unless we don't. Do we? Oh holy crap. Do we anymore?
It would appear we don't. Look here. I have just witnessed, via the wonderfully distancing and icily cold medium of television, two of the largest and most significant avatars of these twin forces of culture, the MTV Video Music Awards and Fashion Week in New York. And I am here nursing a glass of Oban 15 and pining for the lost days of Guns N' Roses and a coked-up Steven Tyler to tell you, oh holy hell, the center cannot hold. Rock is dead. Models are threadbare and nasty. We are doomed.
I agree that the MTV Music Awards has jumped the shark. Too much bling and thuggery. But rock is not dead. It has just moved to Williamsburg (no, not that Williamsburg, this one) and isn't being purchased by 12 year old girls and white boys from suburbia. And, at least Creed doesn't exist anymore.
What do you think?
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