{"id":187,"date":"2004-09-13T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T16:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=187"},"modified":"2004-09-13T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T19:41:31","slug":"i-am-guilty-of-liking-evanescence-briefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"I am guilty of liking Evanescence briefly."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MHG and I had our anniversary last Friday night at the Mitch Hedberg\/Stephen Lynch extravaganza. The comedy was divine. I have one complaint.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, as funny as tried-and-true five-liners are, I pay to hear new material. If you want to hear a specific joke, listen to the CD. Hedberg&#8217;s not a lounge singer and he is not your personal jester. Strangely, Stephen Lynch, who sings SONGS, received no requests. And during his ComedySportz-style improv section, people requested things already requested by audience members on his CD.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to have the same entertainment regurgitated to you repeatedly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youhavebadtasteinmusic.com\/\">do not go to concerts<\/a>. Just play the MP3 over and over again until your brain melts. Please. For all our sakes.<\/p>\n<p>To continue my night of the living braindead, MHG took me out for dessert where we had the misfortune of sitting across from a foursome of twenty-somethings whose conversations were so disgustingly and laugably stereotypical that I could only use David Cross&#8217; words to describe them when MHG returned to the table: &#8220;Rich, giggling cunts.&#8221; Four Paris Hilton clones yammering on about their bosses who won&#8217;t let them play Beyonc\u00e9 and &#8220;Justin&#8221; over the stereo. Good on you, you unseen bosses.<\/p>\n<p>One was even wearing a t-shirt proclaiming herself &#8220;Mrs. Timberlake.&#8221; Mind you, these were grown women sipping cocktails, women whose vaginas have no doubt been excavated by the most neanderthal of Corvette-drivers. I repeat some modern wisdom: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youhavebadtasteinmusic.com\/\">&#8220;Do you sleep with 12-year-olds? Then why do you listen to their music?&#8221;<\/a> God, this country deserves Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Link via Keiko, who also revamps her website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MHG and I had our anniversary last Friday night at the Mitch Hedberg\/Stephen Lynch extravaganza. The comedy was divine. I have one complaint. Folks, as funny as tried-and-true five-liners are, I pay to hear new material. If you want to hear a specific joke, listen to the CD. 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