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true sacrilege	11:15am 9/14/2007
V showed me a couple of highlights (... it's all relative) from last week's MTV Video Music Awards last night. Britney's performance was utterly laughable, while Chris Brown's impressive dance number only left me thinking, "does anyone even make the pretense of actually singing anymore?" However, i was mystified when Veronica fast-forwarded to a clip of one of MTV's "hotel parties", in which they rented rooms in random Vegas hotels and had all-star bands performing for a small crowd of fans. In one room, members of System of a Down and Foo Fighters were jamming. Playing a cover. Of the Dead Kennedys "Holiday in Cambodia". Am i the only one who considers this complete and total blasphemy? If Jello Biafra isn't spitting fire about this right now, then the world as i know it is truly over. The Dead Kennedys HATED MTV. With a passion. For Christ's sake, they recorded a song on 1985's Frankenchrist called "MTV Get Off the Air". This has got to be the ultimate "fuck you, we won" from the media conglomerate to Jello's grass roots campaigning. Don't get me wrong, i have plenty of respect for SOAD and Dave Grohl et al, but i can't believe they would degrade a classic punk track in this way, subverting it on MTV's annual flagship gala. Just absolutely disgusting.
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naomi (www)	5:00pm 9/19/2007
is it sacrilege that the foo fighters did the cover, or that it was on MTV? cuz i see no sacrilege in dave grohl doing a dead kennedys cover. dave grohl is a f*&^ing genius. mtv, on the other hand, is pure evil in itself. if the foos did the cover at their own concert would it be ok?

ted (www)

10:52am 9/20/2007

No, it's purely that it was done on MTV. To clarify, i like Dave Grohl, the Foo Fighters, and System of a Down. The only thing that bugs me is why they would choose to play a Dead Kennedys song on MTV, when DK were absolutely no-mistakes dead-set against MTV. I would love to see the Foo Fighters cover "Holiday in Cambodia", or even better "California Über Alles" or "Moon Over Marin" at one of their shows. And also, i can't remember actually seeing Dave Grohl there, although there were definitely other Foos in the ad-hoc band.

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