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So I had this really cool running commentary of Live 8 going on Saturday, but the coverage I was watching (the VH1 and MTV feeds--which were completely identical) was so bad that I scrapped it. It was REALLY frustrating.
You'd be watching this great band play, and then the annoying VJ's would come in and start blathing about this or that. It's one thing to give information, but these yahoos kept rambling about how great it was that Pink Floyd was getting back together for the show, or how great Bono's hair looked. It's like, all I wanted to see were the bands, and the little documentaries about what's going on in Africa and other impoverished nations.
I also find it rather LAME (and this is putting it bluntly) that the organizers did NOT charge for tickets. They say that they were just "trying to raise awareness." Well, for frig's sake, what's wrong with doing both at the same time. I mean, there were approx, 500,000 people in Philadelphia alone, why not charge a dollar a ticket, five dollars a ticket, shit...fifty cents....SOMETHING. Because raising awareness and raising money for charity don't have to be mutually exclusive things. Just look at any production of "The Vagina Monologues" as proof of that.
I find that level of short sightedness very frustrating. I mean, here you have the capability to raise anywhere from 100 to 500 million dollars for an impoverished continent, but they're not going to do that because raising awareness is "good enough."
That reminds me of this one time when I volunteered with a group called "Food Not Bombs," where we went downtown to feed homeless people. But instead of giving them pieces of chicken, or beef, we fed them MOTHER F*CKIN' VEGAN FOOD...All because some members of our group were vegans. It pissed me off terribly. I mean, given the choice to feed someone vegan food, and not feed them at all, I'll feed them vegan food. But we did this in February I think. These people need meat on their bones. They didn't need our awareness of vegan issues. This, and I think Live8 is similar to this, is an example of priorities being out of wack.
Damn, now I'm all worked up. I'll post more later about the actual music.
You'd be watching this great band play, and then the annoying VJ's would come in and start blathing about this or that. It's one thing to give information, but these yahoos kept rambling about how great it was that Pink Floyd was getting back together for the show, or how great Bono's hair looked. It's like, all I wanted to see were the bands, and the little documentaries about what's going on in Africa and other impoverished nations.
I also find it rather LAME (and this is putting it bluntly) that the organizers did NOT charge for tickets. They say that they were just "trying to raise awareness." Well, for frig's sake, what's wrong with doing both at the same time. I mean, there were approx, 500,000 people in Philadelphia alone, why not charge a dollar a ticket, five dollars a ticket, shit...fifty cents....SOMETHING. Because raising awareness and raising money for charity don't have to be mutually exclusive things. Just look at any production of "The Vagina Monologues" as proof of that.
I find that level of short sightedness very frustrating. I mean, here you have the capability to raise anywhere from 100 to 500 million dollars for an impoverished continent, but they're not going to do that because raising awareness is "good enough."
That reminds me of this one time when I volunteered with a group called "Food Not Bombs," where we went downtown to feed homeless people. But instead of giving them pieces of chicken, or beef, we fed them MOTHER F*CKIN' VEGAN FOOD...All because some members of our group were vegans. It pissed me off terribly. I mean, given the choice to feed someone vegan food, and not feed them at all, I'll feed them vegan food. But we did this in February I think. These people need meat on their bones. They didn't need our awareness of vegan issues. This, and I think Live8 is similar to this, is an example of priorities being out of wack.
Damn, now I'm all worked up. I'll post more later about the actual music.
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