Music

As I have made excessively clear on this blog over the years, watching too much CNN causes me to hemorrhage from the eyes and ears. So while in Europe the last couple of weeks, I channel surfed in the hotel pretty often, and ended quickly on MTV.DE . Now the last time I actively watched MTV of any kind, it was in eager anticipation of the latest videos from Ned's Atomic Dustbin or Utah Saints. I glance at the MTV channel a couple of times a year here in Taiwan, and find myself not particularly enthralled with what appears to be the latest Japanese/Korean/Taiwanese version of the Backstreet Boys. (If there is good music on MTV Taiwan that I am missing, somebody please let me know)

But German MTV! There is some kind of West-African techno rap or something, which I had never heard of, that is great. The Fettes Brot, "Hamburg's hip-hop-dinosaurs"- Hamburg has hip-hop? Too cool! Unheilig, which is like a techno-metal Pink Floyd with odd facial hair.

So I'm watching and listening to these videos with pen in hand, so I can write down stuff to buy later on Amazon (or just download if it's something like Kesha's Tik Tok), and I'm thinking "Man, these Europeans are so cool and sophisticated and they have all this cool music..." when on the TV comes a video by Robbie fucking Williams! And now instead I'm yelling "What the HELL is WRONG with these EUROTARDS that they still listen to this TALENTLESS drug-addled PILLOCK?**

I was going to throw a ratchet and socket set at the TV to make Robbie Williams go away, but my wife said that if we ended up paying for a broken hotel TV, she'd smother me to death with a pillow. So I just yelled a lot. I hope the German MTV people heard me, and fix that nonsense.



*Generally anything over 3 minutes, unless Kristie Lu Stout is on.
** I learned this word "pillock" yesterday in Forumosa's Temp forum (Thank you Sandman). I hope I am using it correctly.