Taking Sides - 'Hoosier' favorite? Axl Rose or Michael Jackson?

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What the hell is it with Indiana? The two most famous people from that state are also the most deranged space-cadet nutjob recluses ever! 'Children of the Corn'? (At least it's not Wisconsin! Dahmer, Gein, Fonzarelli)

dave q, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Axl wins, for a)the fact that he took shit ONSTAGE (from Vernon Reid) as where as everywhere else over the "immigrants and faggots" thing while everybody overlooked MJ's "Jew me sue me", b) not going on TV to put his case forward about beating Erin Everly as a perfectly justified punishment for something she did in a past life, and c) staying the fuck out of the public eye when he had nothing to say! Long periods of silence render just about anyone tolerable.

dave q, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

plus indiana-farmboy-turned-cheers- barman woody harrelson's mobster dad shot JFK!

mark s, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was born in Bloomington, and I say, "Feh."

John Darnielle, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On all of them?

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On nobody in particular. Just a nervous tic we Bloomintonians have. Feh.

John Darnielle, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MJ only said that "Jew Me" crap because his brainwave pattern was being telepathetically altered by the fiendish psychotronic powers of Professor Griff.

Lord Custos, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"sue me, jew me, shoot an arrow right through me" = line from Guys & Dolls. Later changed when anti-semitism was less acceptable

Sterling Clover, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think the folks in indiana feel the same way we New Jerseyans think about Camden ... geographically in the state, but really a part of the megalopolis in the other state (i.e., Camden = mutant offspring of Philadelphia; Gary = mutant offspring of Chicago). and since John Mellencamp seems to be a pretty normal guy, what does that do to yer theory of Hoosier wacko- ness dave?

whatever ... dave q says axl should get props for "staying the fuck out of the public eye when he had nothing to say," but did he really have anything to say on circa-Spaghetti Incident (shit, make that Use Your Illusion)? maybe i'm confusing this with "nothing worthwhile to say." anyway, he has kept his yap shut (whudda thunk he'd have enough brains to do that after "one in a million") which makes him a shade brighter than not only mr. jackson, but also more than 90% of all popstars ever.

on the other hand, axl never had a Stalinoid-behemoth statue of hisself built and trawled up and down the Thames for no apparent reason ... granted, this evinces a michael jackson ego the size of Siberia, but can such a thing be topped for sheer absurdity?

Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)


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