Should Tanya Headon kill herself?

You see unfortunately I am real (though not "for real" - and I'm certainly not going to prove it by whipping a razor blade out and carving it into my lovely tender arms). And I really do hate all music. But this is no cause for dismay. For whilst there may be this major void in my life, I actually do have an abiding love for things like film and quite obviously alcohol. I understand that you might find my world sad - I find the world of music obsessives sad. Though of course I understand that you are not a music obsessive Mikey, just a man who obviously believes that I should commit suicide.

Is incitement to suicide a crime? Anyway, I wait with baited breath to see whether the collective thumb of the Freaky Trigger readers will point up or consign me to a slightly faster cause of liver failure than I was accepting.

Like I'd listen to you music loving freaks.

The Freaky Trigger editorial line on I Hate Music is this: as long as the hits come in (and they do), Tanya is happy to write whatever she likes. If it's funny, so much the better. Ultimately it's a case of "If you don't like it, don't read it." If people prefer to read less overwhelmingly negative commentary on music, they have after all the rest of the site to play with ;)

(Well, that was easy...)

BTW, Tanya? You're absolutely wrong on _Kid A_. :)

More people don't like music than do like it. (And I don't just mean people who buy Travis or Coldplay records.) So it only seems fair to have them represented in the self-celebrating world of music fandom. (eg. 'We *really* like music therefore we must be more poetic/radical/political/sensitive/cool than everyone else.')

I'm an American who does like music and have never had to hear Travis, Slint, Oasis, Coldplay, or anything by Radiohead since "Creep." Sure I hear plenty of Kid Rock and Britney Spears (and find them much more enjoyable than, for example, Trans Am or Sleater-Kinney) but those other bands would take some effort on my part to hear, as would many of the groups Tanya writes about.

There seems to be something fishy going on, but it is quite funny and I hate the majority of what she's attacked, so keep it up by all means. I'd like to see her pick on more people I do like.

Let's leave suicide to the Zeppelin fans, OK?

Dustin is the second correspondent to compare me to the Taliban, whose policy is to ban all music. Even a stopped clock, etc.

i have laughed out loud on many an occasion reading "i hate" usually because the best humour always comes from impossible-to-argue-with observations, even - or p'raps especially - when they're about the 2% of music i actually like (and really like). shame on any pedants who dis the site.

that is all.

But it makes me want an "I Hate Everything" forum to complement ILE ... because more often that not I'm motivated to chat about what irks me, rather than what I enjoy.

No, seriously.

http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1172114,00.html

LOL 2000's.

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/ is kind of amazing

During Spring Break, the number one priority for unsaved boys (especially lustful colored and avaricious Jewish ones) is to take home the trophy prized by pagans the world over: the sweet, warm blood of a virgin.

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0307/abstinencechart3.gif