Google searching for material occasionally leads you to some odd places, and today it took me to
Human Events, a publication that apparently has been "leading the conservative moment since 1944" for a Phyllis Schlafly review of the movie everyone was talking about several months ago,
Juno! It turns out that Phyllis and I, despite otherwise sharing zero in the way of opinions, both disliked the film, but in the midst of an anti-feminist screed, there was one delightful, sorta music-related paragraph. So, you've probably been wondering...what does an 83 year old ERA foe think is wrong with today's youth? Well, she'd be happy to tell you!
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Idolator
While the contents of the Juno soundtrack have probably made little difference to most Idolator readers' lives (unless you didn't know about the Moldy Peaches and, honest to blog, cried when you finally heard "Anybody Else But You"), there are at least three people who might be upgrading their furniture if director Jason Reitman had stuck with his original plans for the flick's musical motif. "We started to realize there was this rebirth of lo-fi music that had the same energy as punk music, but nowhere as angry. The first band we discovered was Yo La Tengo and so I started to think that was the sound of the film." Then Diablo Cody stormed in the room and went "blah blah I used to be a stripper and this isn't sticky edgy sweet enough blah blah listen to this song on my Oh My iPod (get it?) it's the biggity bomb!" Or rather Ellen Page downloaded "Anybody Else But You" for Reitman when he asked her what Juno would listen to. But it's fun to pretend.
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Courtney Love blogs the Oscars before heading out to "Eltons Party": "i love dthat tattoo on her ( Dibalo) and her cute thigh and the wietzman shoes were actually pretty unnatractuve really,. neat, i like the minnesota thing too, i wont be getting a bl;ack bob although i think abou tit contstantly , but it was inspiring rarely does anyone win when theyre an "outisder" particul;alrly chicks who talk about sex working- desp[ite the fact that EVERYONE i know in this town who wasnt upper middle class or didnt come from a hollywood family DID IT and even then i know of some exceptions. so i was really proud a little Nirvana moment if you will." Oh, honey, I know what you are saying but... agggh. Nooooo. [
