AGHHHHH

Today I was taking a very pleasing break from work walking through a borders book store. Sat down, read a decent bit of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, read through The KIlling Joke graphic novel (or comic book if you insist), and then walked over to the music section. So I think, stupidly, "Hey, maybe I should read a magazine, like Time or Rolling Stone." I go to the magazine rack, and see the Rolling Stone cover. And sure enough, who else is on the cover but Satan's minions themselves, the Jonas Brothers. I was so goddamn pissed I felt like punching the nearest child.

The Jonas Brothers to me epitomize all that is wrong and unholy in this world. They somehow make the Backstreet Boys and N'Sync look like real musicians. The Jonas Brothers are f'in famous for "dating" (by which I mean Disney Channel made up stories to the tabloids) the Spawn of Beelzebub otherwise known as Hannah Montana. (By the way, I mean that literally, cause only the Devil could have come up with a song as tortuous as Billy Ray Cyrus' Achy Breaky Heart).

But Harry, why can't musicians you don't like be on the cover of Rolling Stone? Well, ok, I don't like Coldplay, but I can recognize that they make something close to music. I don't like Lil' Wayne, but I understand that people with IQ's over the New Jersey State Speed Limit like his music. But The Jonas Brothers? They're just young kids who sing whatever the Disney Channel tells them to and then pretends to be teen heartthrobs.

Not to say that the Jonas Brothers are the only ones to blame. Rolling Stone has yet again shown they don't care about "music" or even "counterculture" like they once did. You know, like when the magazine covered music? Now they just have this wussified "political coverage" that basically comes down to insulting republicans. As a pretty moderate guy who doesnt know who hes voting for, I just kinda laugh at the stories. They had one "biography" on Mike Huckabee. Even though the author conceded that Huckabee seemed like a pretty decent guy, the author just went on and ranted about Huckabee creating a theocracy in America. Sure, creationism's pretty dumb, but not as dumb as the magazine's politics. If I want to hear intelligent democratic opinions, I'll read the NY Times. If I want to hear some tabloid journalist spoon-feed the American populace BS about Conservatism without a bit of thought, I'll go back to Rolling Stone.