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[thebitterguy]

Via Monte, an open letter to Axel Rose.

Man, is it just me, or is GnR just a notch less retro-nostalgia than The Eagles at this point?

In other news, American defense contractors kinda stupid. This is the spy coin thingy from a while back. Apparently, they got special nanotechnology to prevent their poppies from rubbing off. So, apparently nano-tech is shellac. Thank God they didn't get the breast cancer ones, or they'd have thought they were being subjected to biological warfare.

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[granolademonic.livejournal.com]

Thank you, fine sir, for the pimpage.

I don't think I nailed the tone correctly, though, judging by the comments so far. I'm being instructed to calm down and get over it and such, when in reality I think Axl's a spoiled flake whose long-awaited album can't possibly be worth anyone's time. I don't even plan to buy it when it is eventually released. I just thought it'd be fun to be a dick and point out how long it's been.

Maybe I should have added a "P.S. I changed my mind, you can kiss my ass" as Billy the Kid did in Young Guns.

Oh well.

[thebitterguy]

Well, I definitely didn't get the impression you were writing a paean to him.

I think anything can be improved by liberal quotes from Young Guns. In fact, the YoJoe sequence needs a chicken in it, just so you can have someone say "did you see the size of that chicken?"

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

Axl Rose was never about the fans.

[thebitterguy]

I got the impression he was in it for the rock n' roll lifestlye.

Man, Jim Morrison is dead, and Axel is still working on his next record.

[tymen.livejournal.com]

Hey, I liked Use Your Illusion 1 and 2.

[thebitterguy]

I didn't say they didn't have a few good song between them. But I agree that the point of Chinese Democracy at this point seems hard to find.

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

You can have a listen for yourself, apparently (http://today.reuters.com/News/ArticleBlog.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&w1=B7ovpm21IaDoL40ZFnNfGe&w2=B98K91vD3DOpBfHFgSYFOC7&src=blogBurst_entertainmentNews&bbPostId=BBIuU0YLnhqFCz5BKHGvlF4TSBBLMYH9lphJVCz12AvtrxjPd8)