Radio G String

Some nice news first (and I, as far as I’ve read, am the first to notice this): Scars on Broadway (there is a song on their webspace), the side project of Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan of System of a Down, are heading to Europe this summer.

System of a Down were the good apple in nu-metal; the one band that got picked up in the flurry of PR activity that always follows a scene mainstreaming (sort of like flat lining).

Anway, they’re playing the Area4 Festival in Germany and “More European touring news to come…”. Hopefully they’re the special guests in Reading.

And now for a quick rant:

This is not an anti-vegan rant. If you want to be a malnutrition idealist, go for it (someone please to explain to me why goats’ cheese is bad …) 

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) year in, year out, endlessly promote their completely bizarre and pointless list of “sexiest vegans” (mmm, ribs …), which seems to mainly include people of the punk persuasion (or people who get tagged thus anyway) – this year members of AFI, Anti-Flag, Lifetime and others have been awarded such an honour. 

Year in, year out, I wonder how, without any trace of irony or self awareness, PETA continues with their lies, displaying humans … homo-sapiens … ANIMALS! like they’re objects; like they’re meat in a butchers shop. 

I guess it’s a lack of self awareness I object most to - I’d object to it anyway - but if they acknowledged the objectifying they promote, they’d become such a more respectable organisation. At least magazines like Nuts and other such guff isn’t pretending to be something it’s not. 

Napster is now DRM free. Anybody use them? You didn’t know they were still going? You prefer bittorrent? You’ve paid enough for your music player and internet connection? 1’s and 0’s don’t have much of a value outside of physical formats?  

Fair points.

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