Bolling Bows Down Like a Bitch

To a COMEDIAN!

Last week, Jon Stewart, as per usual on his brilliant program (which of course has its bevy of critics and idiotic haters), skewered Fox News for its incessant attacks on the poor through use of hyperbole and outright fabrication. Eric Bolling was the guy who dared to try to attempt a retort, of sorts anyway, to Stewart's brand of comedy. In doing so, he just opened up a can of worms and ended up giving even more fodder to The Daily Show for one of their best segments in a long time. Just watch it below (this one is filtered & mirrored so as to avoid copyright infringement claims):

Given that Stewart eviscerated that hapless crowd at Fox News twice in a row on this one subject, with neither Bolling nor anyone else at that idiot show able to properly counter Stewart's delivery, one can only expect that one of them would feign surrender.

I really don't have to get into the meat of the discussion, since Stewart does that duty just fine. Also because whilst you cannot rely on Fox News to give you the full story, let alone the proper context on the subject of food stamps and the fraudulent abuse of food stamps, somehow you can rely on a comedian to give you comparatively a lot more of both. In the process, Stewart literally mops the floor and takes out the trash on every single line that Fox News tries to pound into its genuinely mentally-challenged audience's heads on this issue. The very existence of the disingenuous responses from Fox, particularly from one of their more obnoxious commentators in Eric Bolling (who is obviously the prime subject of this derisive post) would render most sane onlookers speechless, whilst it would send the comedians amongst us in to laughing fits.

As per the title, the one guy who surrender to Stewart, albeit so disgracefully and so dishonestly, would be Bolling himself. It all really makes you wonder how they manage to come back every day to carry on with surreal-quality bullshit like this. Watch him bowl not only his cajones, but his credibility, as usual, right into the fucking gutter below:

Way to go, Eric, you bowed down like the little lap dog bitch you are to a god damned COMEDIAN. Well, a ridiculously funny comedian at that. Given how pathetically inept you lot are at holding up against his rather effortless smackdowns of your garbage-heap of a 'news' network, you were out of your element just trying to taunt the guy. Next time why don't you cower under that desk of yours and spare us your phoney displays of bravado because you're only hurting yourself doing so. Or how about you continue doing so so that the collective can eventually tune out the anachronism that is your entire 'news' network from their lives.

Idiot.

Word of Mouth #9: Nothing - "Guilty of Everything"

 

"Guilty of Everything" stream on NPR

This release (out March 4th) is courtesy of Relapse records.

Now, a lot of people are probably on the fence about shoegaze - hell, many people probably have not the faintest clue what shoegaze even is. Well, for those amongst us who are privy to what it is, and how it stands out enough to be called a genre of rock, let's just consider why it may polarize listeners.

It's the heavily distorted, yet melancholic wailing guitars that permeate almost the entire aural experience. In effect, much of the material that can be considered shoegaze resembles what the ambient genre would be like if it were rock-based instead of electronica based. Instead of engineering and mixing tables, sampling and electronic-based instruments, you'd use guitars, drums, bass, and often vocal tracks. Cerebral yet primal.

What the hell does all that have to do with Nothing's upcoming release, Guilty of Everything? Well, this is a remarkable shoegaze release. As I stream the album, with its droning yet consistent quality (such is the magic of shoegaze, which allows for more atmospheric, drawn-out experiences compared to the chaotic stops & turns of hardcore and metalcore), I find myself enamored with all of the sounds contained within. There's nothing like listening to an album that draws you in and doesn't let go until it is all over, and you want to listen again. That's this album in a nutshell. 

The album is streaming, entirely free, on NPR.org's streaming service. The link is to be found above. If you've not yet given it a click, then please do so. It'll dazzle you like it is dazzling me (not sure what track I currently am on, given that I chose to stream the entire album, which is a 38+ minute endeavor). Oh, and it releases on March 4th via Relapse records, just so you can consider clunking your hard-earned money into rewarding these guys for their artistry.