The Rural Minority » That can’t be true

Correction: I’m an asshole but I have an excuse…

Rusty Belmonte — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:55:44 +0000

OK, OK, let’s call a spade a spade. We’ve got three more video teasers from How To Destroy Angels (see below), a sweet viral marketing campaign, and a cryptic website. I was wrong. The Rural Minority regrets the error. I’m an asshole and a sexist to boot. Count me amongst the masses excited to hear the music that this project produces.

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I’m also looking forward to the day when Reznor tweets or blogs about the evils of YouTube. That’s the only explanation for his apparent Vimeo fetish, right? He’s sticking it to the capitalists or some shit?

In other news, Nashville has flooded. You may not have heard because national news outlets decided to pick up the story only a few hours ago well after 15 people had died in Tennessee alone. Luckily, this story, having to do with significantly less news-worthy water problems in a major metro area sat atop the NY Times website almost the entire weekend. See below for some of the more sobering pictures of the damage so far (and also a really great tribute song already penned about the incident). Be warned, however, that the Cumberland is still a’risin’. The worst may be ahead of us.

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Well this won’t end well…

Rusty Belmonte — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:02:31 +0000

Ever since Trent Reznor announced the “end” of Nine Inch Nails there’s been a ton of speculation as to what is next for him. It hasn’t ever been in doubt that he intended to keep making music. Watch the video below for the first verifiable clue as to where he’s headed…

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Obviously, the snippet of music doesn’t provide us with much to go on. But according to Pitchfork, Reznor and his new bride Mariqueen Maandig are now How To Destroy Angels. If there’s two things that almost always destroy creative genius its sobriety and women. Reznor got sober and his music, while still good, didn’t reach “The Downward Spiral” or “Fragile” levels. And now he’s added a wife. A wife that he’s making music with. [Insert John Lennon and Yoko Ono joke.]

Call me skeptical but don’t you dare call me sexist. It isn’t my fault women don’t ever make music that’s worth a damn. It is God’s fault for creating them inferior to men in every way. Again, please don’t call me a sexist.

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Another Top 10 (With Papal Authority)

Rusty Belmonte — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:27:00 +0000

Last weekend the official rag of the Vatican published their list of the top 10 Rock albums of all time. See below (in order of release):

Revolver - The Beatles
If I could Only Remember My Name – David Crosby
The Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
The Nightfly – Donald Fagen
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Graceland - Paul Simon
Achtung Baby – U2
(What’s the story) Morning Glory - Oasis
Supernatural – Carlos Santana

This has to be the most absurd list of all time. I verified this story from four different sources to make sure it wasn’t a complete joke. I even headed over to The Onion to make sure this wasn’t one of those times that some dumb ass picked up one of their satirical stories and ran it elsewhere. Of course, there are some worthy entries on the list but they’re completely overshadowed by the more confusing choices.

CSNY? The Byrds? Nah, fuck it, I’m the Pope and I like David Crosby’s solo work. Simon and Garfunkel? Sure, but not before solo Simon. To be perfectly honest, I had to wiki Donald Fagen and its just more of the same. Steely Dan was great but The Holy See much prefers Mr. Fagen’s work post-Steely.

The Catholic Church endorses this album as one of the best ever.

But by far the most egregious inclusion is Sanata’s Supernatural. The sales of that album were driven mainly by a duet he did with Rob Thomas called “Smooth”. Remember? Other collaborators on the album: Dave Matthews, Everlast, and Eagle Eye Cherry. Anyway, judge for yourself:

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The Wolfman

JohnnyMasters — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:57:55 +0000

I couldn’t decide how I felt about this new Wolfman flick. Though a very solid cast in Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, and Hugo Weaving, the trailer seemed pretty cheesey. Upon further research I found the release date has been pushed back three times, from February 13th of 2009 to April 3rd to November 6th to finally next Friday. A full year of set backs? I’ll pass. Will any of you go see it?

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2010 Bonnaroo Lineup Announcement Likely Postponed to Feb. 9th

paulieodowd — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:08:20 +0000

It seems the organizers of Bonnaroo want another week to solidify their lineup, at least if past years and rampant internet rumors are to be believed. Last year ‘Roo officials sent an email to subscribers saying the initial lineup annoucement would be made in slightly under a week’s time. Well, that time has come and gone for us – leading us here at TRM to believe we’ll be seeing a week delay.

Why they are postponing it is not exactly clear. It appears ‘Roo organizers were so sure that Feb. 2 would be the day that they actually confirmed the date to one web site. Now it appears likely that we’ll be getting the announcement on Feb. 9th. All festival goers should receive an email announcement from organizers next Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, but nothing is in stone. Time will tell…

Here was last year’s annoucement, issued on Wed, Jan. 28th:

“It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. The time when you finally see if the rumors are true or if we have some tricks up our sleeve…

Can’t wait for the Bonnaroo lineup? We’ll be making our initial artist announcement on Tuesday, February 3rd. Check out the Bonnaroo website and look for an email, we have lots of exciting updates coming soon!”

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Drunk Bus Driver Video from Alfred, NY

Rural Patrick — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:07:50 +0000

Yep, thats where I went to college and about 30 minutes from Fillmore.

From AP:

A former school bus driver in New York state plead guilty to 37 counts of reckless endangerment and has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for being drunk behind the wheel during a chaotic ride captured on the vehicle’s surveillance video. (Jan. 5)

I think I have seen her at the duster..

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Here is another:

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You gotta watch the interview from Belmont.

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This may be the rural majority actually…

Rural Patrick — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:33:16 +0000

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“Kids do things like this, and its out of your control. You can only do the best you can as a Mother. I mean everybody makes mistakes.”

At least child protective services isn’t overreacting like they usually do in these cases. We can all sleep better knowing that.

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