"And thus it is exactly at moments like this that desperate candidates often find themselves uttering more insane blather than a Moody Blues monologue."
Daniel Ruth's got it going on in his column today about the three haven't-a-hope-in-hell gubernatorial candidates presented at the latest meeting of the Florida Democratic Party.
Damn, but those MB monologues were a nuisance.
The next musical crime from the past I want alluded to in a political column: those boring and self-indulgent twenty-minute drum solos.
Mock my Moody Blues, will you? I'm too flabbergasted to carry out a ritualistic public de-linking!!
Your dissing of the MBs does, however, have me contemplating the commission of some sort of Allman-oriented verbal hate crime.
Beware my wrath. You may have awakened the proverbial sleeping giant. I'll know for sure after I've had a nap....
Posted by: Russ at June 19, 2005 12:24 PM"...Allman-oriented verbal hate crime."
God, that was too funny.
MB music is great! It's just those monologues I find to be, how can I say this diplomatically, PRETENTIOUS BEYOND ALL LIVING SH*T.
I meant that in the nicest possible way.
Posted by: Donnah at June 19, 2005 12:36 PMWell, those were the late '60s and early '70s. If the spoken passages were the worst of it, then I'd say we got off light.
By way of contrast, a 45-minute sitar solo by a guy with an accent not normally found on the Indian sub-continent would have been the very definition of "pretensious."
Posted by: Russ at June 19, 2005 02:58 PMDo you mean John "Mahavishnu" McLaughlin? I thought he played some combo contraption he worked up himself.
He sends me screaming into the night.
I wasn't thinking of anyone in particular. I hear more than 3 seconds of sitar and I tune out -- so I guess I'm not likely to know who might actually be responsible for the auditory atrocity.
Posted by: Russ at June 19, 2005 08:00 PMYeah, I tune that mess out too.
Posted by: Donnah at June 21, 2005 12:38 AM