Giving Rock and Roll it's Fucking Balls Back
If plan A is unsuccessful (likely), then Plan B may be our only hope.
Have you read them? If not, you are not allowed to read the rest of this post. I am serious, I am turning this blog right around and grounding you from watching "Chip and Dale Rescue Adventures" ever again if you don't check the links I so thoughtfully provided. (Hint: You might as well do what she says, they're not that bad, actually they're way better than this. They're funny. You don't even need to read the rest of this, just check the links.)
O.K. now that you know what I am talking about... I find it flipping hysterical that some yahoo is going out of his way to try to bring down Peter, Bjorn and John. Don't get me wrong. I pretty much agree that Peter, Bjorn and John in no way deserve to be the break-out band of SXSW 2007. Let's be real here, that song wouldn't be anything without the whistling. Whistling is the new cowbell, it gives any song you add it to a kitschy vibe so that the song then becomes sort of critic-proof. I mean, who wants to diss the whistle? Not Me! However, it's still a happy song, and there's a pretty interesting remix floating around with a deconstructed strings breakdown right in the middle. I also like how people keep calling Peter, Bjorn and John PB&J because it makes me think of the sandwich, and I love sandwiches. Love 'em. After I heard 'Young Folks' I was under the impression that perhaps PB&J was a band of whistling sandwiches from Scandinavia. That amused me greatly, and if it were the case, I would wholeheartedly support their bid for breakout band of SXSW. However, it's a band of whistling DUDES from Scandinavia, not SANDWHICHES and that is somewhat less impressive. Plus, they're from Sweden, and I have a completely unfounded hatred of that country. Well, not hatred, just a 'blah' attitude. And that's what the rest of PB&J is; a 'blah' band. I checked them out whilst still flushed with excitement of hearing a whistling-sandwhich band album, and discovered they're like: 'mmmmmeeeehhhh'. Not too great.
So that is why I support this wacked-out dude and his Stop Peter, Bjorn and John campaign. That, and he earnestly suggested that the Stop PB&J protest could also be a war protest. I don't know why, but imagining one half of a protest crowd trying to bring down a mediocre Swedish Pop band and one half of the crowd virulently attacking U.S. foreign policy made me laugh out loud at the office. Like PB&J is as destructive to the stability of our world as the war in Iraq is. Whatever mows your lawn, I guess.
Also, the Onion article reminded me of something. I HATE JAMES BLUNT. He can't even sing! His voice is all nasally and trembly and if I was the girl he was singing about I might date him out of pity so that maybe I could convince him to shut the hell up and stop embarrasing himself all over the world. Jeeze. And his songs, they're both lame AND creepy. Even Clay Aiken couldn't pull that off! (I found his songs mainly just creepy). So, there Ian, that's my dude to fill in the blank we were talking about on Friday.
He he he. I said 'whistling sandwich'. He he he.
