wicked whinge of the west
In the wake of last week’s Republican nominating convention, La Cieca was just thinking to herself, “what the world needs now is another overprivileged white male complaining about political correctness.” And, lo and behold, her wish was granted in the form of an interview with none other than Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber:
“So many people nowadays are obsessed with things offending people. Today people say you can’t do this because it will offend that community, and then you can’t say this because the Muslims will be offended by it and we’ll end up being talked out of it. Talked out of ideas.”
Among the explosively controversial projects Lloyd Webber is currently working on: a sequel to Phantom of the Opera, and a TV reality series casting the role of “Dorothy” for a stage revival of The Wizard of Oz. He mentions that the program may (just may, mind you) go on to cast the role of Toto as well, but La Cieca is sure that these days, they’ll be forced to call the character an infidel dog.
[via The Press Association]
That was the first thing that occurred to me when I heard the name, armerjaquino, before the Cockney rhyming slang kicked in with a bit of hilarity.
Now, I know we shouldn’t go on about this grotesquerie, but while I can imagine a British equivalent of la Palin, I can swear to you that never in a million years would she stand a chance of becoming PM. And yet your polls, your polls…
Why not let the whole world vote this time? Then you’d get a pretty clear answer, I’m sure.
I won’t get in political details ’cause that’s bottom-less pit. But one thing I will comment on is Palin’s supposed auoratory skills. I heard her speech at the RNC. And after seriously milking the applause (they’re going to keep clapping until you start your speech, lady, so let’s get going here), she gave a fairly boring and unimpressive speech. Yes, there were a couple zingers but I thought the quality of her speech was mediocre at best. After 20 minutes or so, I had to change the channel (and perhaps missed all the good bits). But the next day, I see all these comments talking as if she had just delivered an historic speech. What gives?
Well okay, a few of the ladies have chimed in.
So all of you guys out there in the parterre pool with MILF porn cluttering your hard drives, what do you think of Sarah Palin?
Winston Smith , surely you are joking.Sexy and talented??!!! He reminds me of an aging stunted talentless kid with typical English ‘peaches’ complexion. I imagine he acquired this cultural constipation by devouring an non -dissolvable apple up the wrong oriface.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is the greatest musical imposter to hit the Braodway music scene ever. His Phantom’s Music of the night…take a good listen….and you find he pushes the copyright ‘musical bar limit’ for plagarising Puccini’s Girl of the Golden West. His Sunset Boulevard is the Billy Wilder script ‘verbatim’ with inserts for his idea of ‘Hollywood sentimentality’ – dross and tripe imitations of Waxman/Steiner/Korngold . He has no idea of why a musical section is placed into a musical. What is its ‘purpose’?! His Evita is so bad,the vocal writing so bad, unsupportable and cruelly exposed, any singer risks getting nodes and damaging their voice. On record, some have, .His shows heralded the whole sales promotional bandwagon
that now surround musicals -the packaged tours, the showbags, the souvenir shit etc.
Comment#1:Winston Smith hissed:
Andrew Lloyd Webber is sooo sexy. And talented to boot!
I think it was another case of the much-misunderstood Parterre irony. And I just want to say I think Sarah Palin is sexy and talented, too.