I Thought You Were Going To Say “Evil”

Tom Scharpling & Jon Wurster “Tom’s Daddy 2” – This sketch from this past Tuesday’s episode of The Best Show On WFMU is the sequel to the original “Tom’s Daddy” bit which will very soon be released as part of the forthcoming New Hope For The Ape-Eared – The Best of Scharpling & Wurster Volume 2 compilation. You don’t really need to have heard the original to get the jokes in this one – unlike some other Best Show sequels, this sketch does not rely on recycling the best jokes from its predecessor, and may actually be funnier than the original. This time, Tom’s father Roger Scharpling calls in to talk to Tom about his new girlfriend, mufflers, Karen Carpenter, Little League, hotdiggitydog.com, and statues of limitations.

John Mayer = Turbodouche

Mayer, on Junior Senior’s “Move Your Feet” in the new issue of SPIN:

This may be the future of music.

SPIN: How so?

It’s a song that you can learn before it’s over. It’s part of the continual blurbing of American culture – this skip-forward generation. “I don’t want to learn lyrics. Don’t give me a verse; just give me a chorus. And just chant some shit over the verse.” But nobody’s left out. The person who has heard this song twenty times is no closer to understanding it than the person who listens to it for the first time.

There is so much wrong-headed smugness, condescension, and misguided ideas about art and pop music packed into this brief quote that it makes my head spin! I mean, really, John! “The continual blurbing of American culture,” huh? Did you get that one from Adbusters, man? Or was it from No Logo? And you surely haven’t benefited from the “skip-forward generation”, with your flimsy little James Taylor-for-Dave Matthews fans pop tunes, right? Because you’re writing, um, more than one verse per song? WTF? Somebody needs to give this dink a chainsaw haircut.

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New York people: The Scissor Sisters are playing at the Bowery Ballroom on Saturday, January 10th. Tickets are on sale now. I’ll be there. What about you?