Short Attention Span Musings: Easter 2008 edition
Posted on March 25, 2008 by David
Anyone else notice the heavy influx of commercial interruptions to March Madness this year? The one time I bothered to keep track, we had 9 minutes of commercials interrupted by 35 seconds of PT. Maybe DVR has spoiled me, but I was forced to tape the game and turn off the TV for a while. Which very much gave a Clockwork Orange feel to later FF’s through a montage of pizza, beer, SUV’s and financial planners.
We saw Anticon sensation Why? at the Knitting Factory on Saturday. His sardonic nasal-whine reminded me of Soul Coughing minus the free jazz. I enjoyed it, notwithstanding the drunk 19-year olds to our left, shouting along with the words and trying to start a mosh pit in the shoulder-to-shoulder space. We moved over to be closer to more subdued oldsters like ourselves, but the kids’ ridiculous chant, “Thank God for Myspace” still resonates; because ten years ago perhaps this show would’ve only been filled with the college-radio crowd, and not nearly as packed. Or maybe I’m just getting too Andy Rooney…
Got home too late for SNL, but instead watched a rerun on E!, hosted by a svelte Britney Spears with a baby-faced, pre-Super Bowl Timberlake cameo. Weekend update allowed us to pinpoint the episode to early February 2002, and thus was spawned possibly my first “historical” look on a post-9/11 world. Bush had just given his “axis of evil” speech and had an 85% approval rating. Like Britney, Bush looked so much younger, not yet beaten down by the past six years. Indeed, their career paths have taken a remarkably parallel trajectory, and with them America in some respects.
While someone gathers the data on these shared fates, I’ll leave you with this gem from that same SNL episode that I’d never seen, a brilliant Tracy Morgan clip.
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