rideside.net

home | archive | comics | about

*the* place for collaborative e-snowboarding

archive / 2006 / 09 / 23

Posted by MF DU on 2006-09-23 16:28:21 +0000

Who's Not Honoring Me Now: Stephen Colbert's take on 2006's MacArthur Genius Grant Recipients

From 09/20/06, Colbert gets medieval on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvmT7Z_hkPg">John Zorn's ass</a>

<b>GENIUS GRANT PLEASE</b>!

<img src="http://blog.wfmu.org/photos/uncategorized/colbert_1.jpg">

This has been getting all kinds of <a href="http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=11170">nods</a> on the internet.

Chortle inducing.

In case you like this stuff as much as I do (Impossible you say? Nah...)

Just check out Stephen Colbert's Hiphopketball: A Jazzebration parts<a href ="http://youtube.com/watch?v=4pT3ynGhbMc"> One</a> and <a href ="http://youtube.com/watch?v=MgmyaSPFSnA">Two</a>

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2006-09-23 19:36:48 +0000
Well, noise acts, aren't everyone's cup of tea.... interesting bit with Kareem Abdul though.
Posted by MF DU on 2006-09-24 02:41:45 +0000
You might get that impression from the piece Colbert picked, put the problem of having 400+ albums in yr discography is that it is easy to miss stuff like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJkmTdoYQYE&mode=related&sear">this.</a>


While noise as a genre is not to be disrespected (I'm thinking of Merzbow, Sunn 0))) in particular), It's hard to put Zorn in that bucket unless you only hear one piece of his that happens to lean that way.

All of this said, it is imperative to have a sense of humor, and Mr. Colbert does.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2006-09-24 06:38:01 +0000
Oh my gosh, don't get me wrong. I don't think Zorn is a 'noise' act, when talking about jazz genres (He's more 'free/carnival'?). My bad.

But a lot of us know, many of Colbert's listeners might equate Colbert's sax (w/ Kareem) with JZ's.

Colbert routinely has layers of irony.
Find me on github.