4.30.13 Bee-otch of the Day: The Republican Party

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Name: the Republican Party
Age: 159
Occupation: right-wingers
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: putting money in front of safety
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One of my all-time favorite shows on TV was indeed King of the Hill.

In one of the episodes, the father, Hank took his son, Bobby to Dallas Cowboys training camp in Wichita Falls, TX. Bobby took a liking to Wichita Falls, since they did things a whole lot differently than their fictional hometown of Arlen.

Upon returning to Arlen, Bobby notices how bad the town smells. Hank responded, "that's the sausage plant, Bobby. That's jobs".

One person's stink is another person's mortgage payment. For many in the small town of West, TX, it was the town's fertilizer plant that brought home the bacon. However, two weeks ago, fire errupted at the plant, and it then exploded, rocking the town of just over 2,800 to shreds. In all, the explosion killed 15 and injured 160. The cause of the catastrophe is still unknown.

However, there's one thing for certain: the plant wasn't well-run. Even worse, its last inspection by OSHA was all the way back in 1985, when it discovered five major violations. Amongst the charges included improper storage, improper usage of hazardous ammonia and improper respritory protection for its workers.

OSHA only charged the plant $30.

For years, Texas was a Democratic hotbed. When the inspection happened, the state's governor, Mark White was a Democrat. However, since the last time OSHA peeked at the West Fertilizer plant, the state has had only one Democrat governor since: the late Ann Richards. Over the years, the state has been run by Republican after Republican, making sure that work standards are lower to create more jobs in their opinion.

To the Republicans, a job's a job. It doesn't matter if it's safe or not. If a plant blows up, eh, no biggie. Shit happens.

Oh, and let's not forget who Texas had for its governor before current governor Rick Perry took over: DUBYA. Yep! Two governors with just one brain.

Point is, this is why I don't for Republican. They claim that they're creating jobs, but they don't pay and they force people into doing things they physically shouldn't do. In their feeble minds, they wonder why anybody would ever want to work in a place that makes fertilizer. While it's a good question, it's the simple fact that everybody needs to work, whether it's a ditch digger or a cushy CEO job. Maybe the fertilizer folks in West work there because they like it there. But as long as the pay's enough to keep a roof over their heads, so let it be.

Thing is, people need to be safe. That's why I think people in Texas need to realize that it's time to end Dubya's run in that state and vote Democrat next time. People deserve to be safe and not have to worry if they're going to be able to come home later that day.

Just like the fertilizer plant, the Republicans are simply filled with shit.

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4.29.13 Bee-otch of the Day: the record industry and corporate radio

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Name: the recording industry and corporate radio
Age: over 100
Occupation: the people who control the music industry
Last Seen: all over the world
Bee-otched For: killing rock 'n roll
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Last week, the #1 album on Billboard's pop charts was an album called Save Rock And Roll.

Too bad the band who did that album was Fall Out Boy, a pop-punk outfit whose audience is almost made up of wrist-cutters (does the emo crowd still exist anymore?).

The rest of the top 10 albums were made up of rappers (Kid Cudi and Lil Wayne), popsters (Justin Timberlake and Pink), rednecks (Blake Shelton, The Band Perry and Brad Paisley) and a few other alt-rock acts (Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis).

Here's my question: where's the real rock?

You know, bands whose lead singers scream alongside drums, guitar and bass, and maybe a synth? Yeah, THAT.

Well, let's take a look at the rest of the top 20. The only band I see on that section of the chart that has a single on active rock radio is Imagine Dragons, whose dark single "Radioactive" has gained a lot of steam on the charts for the past few weeks. It's also the #1 song on the alternative charts per Mediabase 24/7. But, that song sounds like something U2 or Coldplay could have conjured up. As a matter of fact, while playing "Radioactive" on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno a while back, the lead singer was constantly striking a huge bass drum during the chorus, which isn't totally what you'd think of hard rock.

Shockingly enough, the top selling metal band on the Billboard rock charts is a group from Sweden called Ghost (or Ghost BC here in the states) whose album Infestissunam debuted at #29 last week. Not shabby for a group whose airplay has been quite limited on rock radio.

But, if there's a group who's saving active rock radio right now from a sales standpoint, it's Danish rockers Volbeat. Their latest, Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies is at #31, down from #9 last week. Sadly, it's a steep drop, considering that a lot of records in the top 10 have been there for weeks, like Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience.

I do wonder, why do people love shitty music so much? It's a question I've been pondering for ages. In the late 80's, we were stuck with New Kids on the Block, Debbie Gibson and Tiffany, and when it came to rock, it was hair metal from the likes of Poison and Cinderella. But just a few years later, grunge took over. Nirvana, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots were cool while MC Hammer was reduced to being a fake gangsta rapper on the Death Row label talking about how he loved "Two Humps and a Bump".

But, Kurt Cobain blew his brains out and alternative was either dead or going in different directions. Alt-rock stations either went the pop route playing all things Lilith Fair, No Doubt and ska or they went the metal route with KoRn, Rage Against the Machine and even touches of Metallica, a band that isn't even considered alternative. It was also that time when top 40 stations started to drift away from rock and started to overplay crappy boy bands such as Backstreet Boys, 'NSync and 98 Degrees.

For a while, I was thinking, "this is only a phase". Then came a little something called American Idol.

Tragically, that POS show has produced a ton of crappy pop artists in the 11 years it's been on. Thankfully, their ratings this season have been abysmal, getting creamed in the ratings thanks to repeats of The Big Bang Theory. But sadly, the damage is done. There's a lot of towns with hardly any new rock stations, and guess what's the biggest town without one?

New York City.

Yep, market #1 doesn't have any new rock stations, active or alternative. The last alt-rocker the city had, New Rock 101.9 WRXP flipped to all-sports WFAN when the failed Merlin Media sold it to CBS a few months ago. There is Clear Channel's Q104 - which was alternative in the 90's - but they're a classic rocker. Thanks to a lack of competition, they're at a 4 share in the ratings. Of course, Cumulus - a rock-friendly company - did purchase a radio station from Harold Camping's Family Stations after he bombed on that prediction that the world was going to end in 2011. But, they flipped that turkey to country as Nash-FM. So far, it's only climbed to a 1.8 while WRXP was in the high 2's when it was deceased.

Thankfully, Michigan is lucky to have plenty of new-friendly rockers such as WGRD here in Grand Rapids, WRIF in Detroit, Banana 101.5 in Flint and Z93 in Saginaw. My homeland of northern Michigan, however, isn't so lucky despite having five rock stations. Four of them - WKLT, The Bear, 99.3 The Wolf and the recently-launched Q100 out of Grayling - play their fair share of classics (although Q100 deserves a lot of credit for also playing a lot of deeper tracks and even some indie stuff). However, another newly-launched station, Rock 105 doesn't play a lot of moldy classics, but lacks on new rock. Just this past week, they finally added Papa Roach's "Where Did All the Angels Gone?" and Alice in Chain's "Hollow", two songs that other stations have been playing for MONTHS. Yet, they play Everclear every two seconds.

I know, I know. No two markets are the same. A small town might have the kick-assingist rock station in the world, but the bigger city might not and vice versa. But what worries me is that it makes me wonder if rock fans are truly loyal to their favorite bands. Don't get me wrong, I haven't purchased an album in ages myself. Hell, I wanted to go to Record Store Day at Vertigo last weekend, but not with 1) a lack of money and 2) flooding all throughout Grand Rapids. I think downloading also has played its role and so has a lack of interest in buying albums from new rock bands.

I think both radio stations and the recording industry need to do a better job of promoting rock music, period. I think there's a lot of people like myself who want to puke my guts out every time a kid goes into a record store and buys a Chris Brown album over buying the latest from Volbeat. I was hoping to be out of the douchebag pop phase that's been popular since the late 90's by now.

But sadly, as long as it makes money, it ain't gonna happen.

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4.25.13 Bee-otch of the Day: Alex Jones

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Name: Alex Jones
Age: 39
Occupation: right-winged wacko
Last Seen: Austin, TX
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The great and wonderful world of AM talk radio has a huge, huge fan.

His name: Tamerlan Tsarneav.

That's right! The living suspect in last week's bombing in Boston had a huge hard-on for one of the most-idiotic hosts in the genre. And that man is Alex Jones.

The Associated Press confirmed Tsarneav was a fan of Jones on Tuesday. He was a believer of conspiracy theories, and was hooked on Jones' radio show and Infowars website. The ex-husband of his sister told the AP that he loved Jones and was always hunting down sources of those theories.

Meanwhile, Jones has been claiming on his show that the Tsarneav brothers were nothing more than government cover-ups to make the bombings look like they were from Islamics like them instead from the government themselves.

Yes, this is the same Alex Jones who has created so many weird and untrue conspiracy theories that make him look just as dumb as Dale Gribble from King of the Hill. But then again, look at some of the idiots who like dipshits like him. Remember the jerk who shot and killed the abortion doctor in his own church many years ago? He was a huge fan of The 700 Club and subscribed to its teachings on abortion. How about that redneck in Alabama who kidnapped that five-year-old boy, killed his bus driver and made him live in a sinkhole for a week? Lover of right-winged shit talk radio.

You see, you are what you hear, and when you listen to wackjobs like Alex Jones, that's what you are. You believe anything you hear and become scared in the process. I'll bet that Alex Jones made the Tsarneavs scared to death and made them hate their adopted country to the point that they wanted to kill innocent people. Sad.

Here in Michigan, the sole station carrying his show is WJML 1110/1210 Petoskey/Traverse City, MI, which displaced the more-logical Ed Schultz for his daily dreck. Even worse, northern Michigan has several talk radio stations and virtually no liberals air on them (although WJML does air an hour of Alan Colmes and that's it). I think if radio station owners cared about their listeners, they would think about what they're airing and how it affects their mentality. I think Alex Jones is a coward and just needs to get out in the sun once in a while.

And being out in the sun for Alex might save a save a few lives.

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4.24.13 Bee-otch of the Day: Fifth Third Bank

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Name: Fifth Third Bank
Age: 154
Occupation: regional bank
Last Seen: Cincinnati
Bee-otched For: losing me as a customer---

Three weeks ago marked the end of an era for me.

All my life, I only had one bank, or two if you count the fact that they merged with a bigger bank. That bank was the current Fifth Third Bank, or Old Kent when I opened my savings account with them when I was a little boy. Since they merged, my satisfaction with them has dwindled a lot. I noticed that my interest on my savings has gone way down, plus the fact that now, you have to have $500 to avoid a $5 per month fee (it used to be $100).

But what made things worse is that a few months ago, they decided to re-do their options for checking accounts. Now, if you still wanted to write checks, you had to have at least $1,500 in checking. I know, in this age of paying bills online, writing checks is so passe, but I still do it in some instances. But since I don't have $1,500 in the bank, it's an $11 monthly charge.

So, since I had Easter week off, I decided to do something I should have done years ago: joined a Credit Union. I already have an account with them through my employer, plus both branches of Fifth Third and the CU were close by, so everything was easy breezy.

Thankfully, when I canceled my accounts with Fifth Third, they didn't haggle me, which is nice. Also, I've noticed that other banks are trying to make you join them with $100 bonuses. Yeah, like I want to lose that with bank fees.

When the economy collapsed in 2008, Michael Moore said it best: join a Credit Union. Bank CEOs stole our money and they're stealing more of it. Sadly, Fifth Third - although smaller than Citi or Chase - is just another bank. It's sad that I've done business with them for over 20 years, but no longer.

But the good news is that maybe, just maybe, I'll have $1,500 with the interest I've earned. :)

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4.23.13 Hero of the Day: Chrissy Amphlett

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A SPECIAL HERO OF THE DAY!

Name: Chrissy Amphlet
Age: was 53
Occupation: lead singer, Divinyls
Last Seen: deceased
Awarded For: giving us pleasure---

In a world of no-talent dumbasses, God had to take Chrissy Amphlet away from us.

And even worse, she was given not one, but two diseases to die from.

In 1980, Amphlet met Mark McEntree at the Sydney Opera House in Australia. The two formed a band, The Divinyls that became one of that country's top rock bands. The band finally got some recognition in the US with their 1985 single "Pleasure and Pain", which did well on college and alternative radio stations. The song - like many of the band's other tunes - did focus on sexuality, especially with lyrics like "don't ask me how I get off".

Amphlet was the focus of the band, always wearing sexy clothes such as school girl outfits and fishnet stockings on stage. Her sexy looks and lyrics made The Divinyls one of rock's most-provocative bands. However, after 11 years together, the floodgates opened.

In 1991, the duo released their self-titled fourth album, and the lead-off single "I Touch Myself" came out of a bat out of hell to become one of the hottest - and most-controversial - singles of 1991. Despite it being about female masturbation, it peaked at #4 on the pop charts and got extensive radio airplay. For once, The Divinyls were an international hit, and the song was featured everywhere from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery to even being parodied by Weird Al Yankovic.

Sadly, the group recorded two more albums before disbanding in 1997. They never could re-achieve the success of "I Touch Myself", but at least at one time, The Divinyls were on the top of the rock 'n roll world. They did reform in 2006 after being inducted into Australia's ARIA Hall of Fame for their musical achievements and even recorded a new album.

But sad news came in 2007 for Chrissy when she learned that she had multiple sclerosis. Things only got worse in 2010 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Because of her MS, she could not get radiation treatment for her cancer. She succumbed to her diseases on Sunday at the age of 53. She leaves behind a husband, drummer Charley Drayton.

Even though I was just a mere child of ten when "I Touch Myself" was released, it was part of my soundtrack growing up. I didn't know what touching yourself really meant, even one day when I was listening to my local top 40 radio station up in northern Michigan, 106 KHQ when a Pee Wee Herman impersonator introduced it as his favorite song. But eventually, I grew up and learned about its true meaning.

Like I said, how sad can it be when we have jerks like Chris Brown beating the crap out of Rihanna and tone-deaf dipshits who can't sing topping the pop charts, and yet, a woman who had talent gets BOTH MS AND breast cancer? Even worse, I watched NBC Nightly News last night and Brian Williams made no mention of Chrissy's passing (he did, however, talked about Richie Havens' passing).

But at least Chrissy made a ton of men happy. May she rest in peace. 
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4.22.13 Bee-otches of the Day: Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev

BECOME AN AFFILIATE OF T-SHIRT HELL AND MAKE SOME MONEY! Bee-otch of the Day honors are awarded Monday through Thursday, Bee-otch of the Week is awarded Friday on Chuck69.com. DON'T FORGET TO "LIKE" BEE-OTCH OF THE DAY ON FACEBOOK! ----------------- Names: Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev Ages: 19, was 26 Occupations: suspected bombers Last Seen: Boston, hell Bee-otched For: failing to ruin Boston's spirit--- Saturday was a day of celebration in Boston. A day after the city was on lockdown after the suspects involved in the marathon bombing on Monday, a crowd of 35,000 were singing "Sweet Caroline" with an added bonus: the song's original performer and writer, Neil Diamond came out to perform the song live. It was the first game at Fenway Park since the bombings that occurred only a few blocks from the iconic stadium. For many, it was the sign that Boston was back in business just one week after the horrific atrocity that happened that past Monday. For the past week, America had been with Boston like it had been with New York City after 9/11. A city that many thought would never be the epicenter of such a horrific event got a lot of support even from folks who've never visited the city before. Even more, people were gracious to donate their footage of the bombings to the FBI to aid in finding the evildoers who would ever do such a thing. And thankfully, they've captured the perps. Brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were seen carrying bags similar to what the bombs could have been carried in. On Friday, the duo engaged with police in a gunfight with police that included guns, bombs and the pressure cooker bombs that were used in the Boston explosions. Tamerlan was shot and killed while Dzhokhar is now at a hospital in serious condition after his fight with the cops. Both brothers were born in Kyrgyzstan and were Chechens. They have two sisters. Their father, although Muslim notably shuns any religious extremism. They moved to the US in 2002 and settled in Massachusetts after being granted asylum. Dzhokhar was a failing college student who had a fascination with Islam. Even after the bombings, he was writing on his Twitter account about how he wanted freedom for the Chechens. Tamerlan was an aspiring boxer who wanted to compete in the Olympics, but got injured badly. In 2009, he and his girlfriend converted to Islam, but shortly thereafter, he was arrested for beating her up. Tamerlan visited Russia in 2012 and came back more radical than ever. He joined several underground groups that were pro-Chechen extremists. Tamerlan even had a YouTube page and posted several videos of terrorists. Well, now you have it. The Tsarnaevs are your losers for the Boston Marathon bombings. One's dead, and the other's still in the hospital. I hope they're happy that their brand of religious extremism will get nobody anywhere. Just like the Christians who bomb abortion clinics, it's just proof that people who love their religion just a little too much only makes things worse for all. True, not all Islamics and Christians are bad people, it's just that we need to weed out those who make our world a little worse than what we want it to be. I hope the two get what they deserve. They tried to destroy Boston but the city's stronger because we stood with them. Even though the city was closed shut tight Friday, people were back outside, singing the praises of "Sweet Caroline". The only problem was that Neil Diamond should have used a karaoke track of the song instead of using his own recording. ---- Got a Bee-otch to nominate? E-mail us @ chuck69dotcom@gmail.com. All suggestions (except for me) are welcome! Bee-otch of the Day Archives can be seen on http://beeotchoftheday.blogspot.com! Bee-otch of the Day is a production of Chuck69.com, Grand Rapids' site for Stern, politics and more!

4.18.13 Bee-otch of the Day: the senate

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Name: The Senate
Age: 224
Occupation: upper house of Congress
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: shooting down tougher gun laws---

Yesterday was a tough day for President Obama.

It was also a tough day for the victims of Sandy Hook, Aurora, Columbine and other places of mass shootings and individuals like Gabby Giffords, John Lennon, Mahatma Gandhi, Tupac Shakur and too many other names to mention.

Yesterday, the Senate vetoed the tougher background checks proposed by President Obama. Many believe that the NRA and red state Democrats played a role, especially since four of the people who nayed the bill were Democrats. However, some Republicans supported the measure, including Arizona's John McCain.

The measure needed 60 votes to be passed; it fell 54-46.

When the bill was defeated, a voice from the gallery was heard crying "shame on you!" Clearly, this was a sad day for all Americans in hopes of making this nation a safer one.

Folks, this is proof that we need to do more - and a lot more - to get this nation normal. Today was a wonderful day for gun nuts who think that it's wonderful when people who shouldn't own a gun gets their hands on one or two or one hundred. Adam Lanza should have never been exposed to guns, and 28 people from Newtown, CT - mostly young children - are now dead. Thankfully, he was one of the 28. It's stupid that other countries have extremely tough gun laws and their crime rate's a helluva lot lower than America's.

I hope the NRA's happy. They spent millions sponsoring a NASCAR race in Texas last weekend, using that sport to get support for their BS. They won. These assholes are out there to shoot down any idea that would prevent one more innocent person from dying at the hands of a psycho. They're out there to make sure that anything that's anti-gun won't pass. Because of this, we're probably going to have more disasters where young kids are killed over somebody's mental problems.

But there's some good news: 2014's not too far down the road. Let's get rid of all the Repukes and give this country back to the people. 
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4.17.13 Bee-otch of the Day: the religious right

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Name: The Religious Right
Age: various
Occupation: overblowers of Christianity
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: using the Boston disaster to become bigger assholes---

That's what I always fear: disaster strikes, and the Religious Right pulls a Nelson Muntz by pointing while proclaiming, "HA! HA!"

On Monday, while the nation was shocked and stunned by the horrific attacks in Boston, there was a celebration in Topeka. The Westboro Baptist Church was tweeting that God had sent a terrorist to Copley Square as punishment to America for liking fags. They also announced that they will protest the funerals of the dead, which includes an eight-year-old boy.

On Tuesday's edition of The 700 Club, Pat Robertson commented on the marathon bombings by linking religion to them, saying "don't talk to me about religion of peace". Many feel that the 83-year-old televangelist was talking about Muslims since they're responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Just days after that event almost 12 years ago, he was discussing it with fellow televangelist Jerry Falwell who blamed the attacks on America's tolerance on gays, liberals, feminists and other groups he felt were ungodly.

But maybe one of the people who needed a good cup of shut the fuck up was that of Bill Johnson, the president of the American Decency Association out of Fremont. A few weeks ago, he blasted NBA legend Magic Johnson for supporting his son who just announced that he was gay. Many have attacked the kook - best known for his fight to get Howard Stern off terrestrial radio - for being yet another Jesus freak who begs people for money and using hate to scare people into doing so. Johnson did respond by saying that America has turned their backs on God and that they will feel his wrath.

So, God sent out some wacko to create a pressure cooker filled with shrapnel to kill people during one of the most-important races of the year. Real classy, guys.

Look. even though the Muslims have their terrorists, so do Christians. Sadly, some of these so-called Christians look up to Robertson and others to fuel their faith and use it to hurt and destroy others. Yet, the Bible explains that vengeance is his. The truth is, Robertson, Johnson and the Phelpses LOVE tragedy. They know that people are scared enough that the world's coming to an end that they're willing to give them a huge chunk of change in hopes of reversing their fortunes.

At this point, there have been no arrests in the bombings, and nobody's a suspect. I know that whoever gets busted, people will attack their faith and lump all their fellow believers in with them. Same thing happened on 9/11; the attackers were Muslim, so all Muslims were bad all the sudden. 

The Osmonds are right: one bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch. But, I think somebody needs to give the message that it's just never cool to use tragedy to spit in peoples' faces.
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4.18.13 Heroes of the Day: the heroes of Boston

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A SPECIAL HERO OF THE DAY!

Name: various
Age: various
Occupation: police, EMTs, doctors and others
Last Seen: Boston, MA
Awarded For: doing a yeoman's job during the Marathon bombing disaster---

Yesterday was supposed to be a normal day during the Boston Marathon.

The 26-mile race has always been a huge event for the city, with people of virtually all nationalities coming over to endure the lengthy race throughout the town. But at 2:50 p.m., all that changed.

As runners were crossing the finish line, a huge explosion rocked the area. Shrapnel hit runners and spectators as police and first responders rushed to the scene. Boston Police Department ordered all shifts to cover as the bombings that occurred proved to be catastrophic.

At press time, there's at least two dead and 140 injured.

While we might or might not know who caused the disaster, we must thank the heroes in yesterday's disaster: the police, the EMTs and the doctors who are now working immense overtime to attend to those hurt in the melee. It's nothing short of sick regarding what happened, but at least the good thing is that there's more good people than bad, especially in a case like this. I hope whoever caused this will be brought to justice.

But in the meantime, if you helped somebody in Boston yesterday, hats off to you. 
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4.15.13 Hero of the Day: Chi Cheng

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A SPECIAL HERO OF THE DAY!

Name: Chi Cheng
Age: was 42
Occupation: former bassist, Deftones
Last Seen: in the great beyond
Awarded For: helping to change rock 'n roll---

God has added a new bass player to his band.

Chi Cheng was part of one of rock's most-groundbreaking bands, The Deftones. As their bass player, he played on the band's first six albums and even recorded a solo album in 2000 of spoken word recordings called The Bamboo Parachute. When The Deftones arrived on the scene with their first album Adrenaline in 1995, rock itself was going through major changes. It was a year after the death of Kurt Cobain and grunge was dead and gone. Alternative rock had gone in two directions: pop or metal.

In 1995 while I was on my 8th grade class trip to Washington, DC, one of the cities we drove through was Cleveland, and my Walkman was tuned to WENZ/107.9 The End, a killer alternative station that has sadly since flipped to urban. I even remembered them playing the uncensored version of Alanis Morissette's "Hand In My Pocket" ("I'm brave, but I'm chicken shit"). One of the songs I heard was Deftones' "Seven Words", and thought it was one of the most-badassed tunes I've ever heard. I thought Chino Moreno was yelling "fuck" multiple times, but he was only saying "suck". To me, it was bands like Deftones, KoRn, Limp Bizkit, Tool and others that were saving rock from late 90's wussiness by adding in a sense of rebellion and raw power.

Like many rockers, Chi Cheng was very outspoken. He was a vegetarian and a Buddhist. But he loved his basses. He often toured with five or six Fenders and moved over to five-stringers before the incident that ended his professional playing career.

And it happened on November 4th, 2008.

While riding passenger in a car driven by his sister, Mae, the car he was in struck another car and flipped three times. He wasn't wearing his seat belt and was ejected from the car. Mae, who was wearing her seat belt and only sustained minor injuries held up Chi's head until EMTs arrived. A tube was fed into his throat to help him breathe. Although he survived the accident, Chi was left in a coma. Although his condition improved, he was still in a semi-conscious state. He started recognizing people and started to sound out words a few years after the accident.

A website, OneLoveForChi.com was created by his family to help offset his medical expenses. A myriad of support came from his fans and friends. Many benefit concerts were thrown by Deftones and other bands to help pay his bills.

Although his condition improved tremendously, on Saturday, Chi was rushed to the hospital after his heart stopped. He passed away that evening at the age of 42. Although he made a stupid mistake by not wearing his seat belt, which would have saved his life, his fans forgave him and helped offset his growing medical bills. After his passing, several fans donated $1,000 as a word of thanks to the now-fallen musician.

Sometimes, you need to be a bee-otch to be a hero. Some people think that wearing helmets on bikes is stupid, but when they get into an accident, they think otherwise. Same goes with car accidents and the lack of seat belts. I always wear mine, and I've been in two accidents. They are life savers.

Lack of restraint or not, Chi was a genius on the bass, and made the Deftones who they are. Now that he's gone, I do hope the band will release the long-awaited Eros, the last album he played on (since his accident, the band has released two albums without Chi). I think it will be a fitting tribute to him, and his family and fans will agree. It's a shame that in a world filled with no-talents, Chi had to be taken from us.
Although The Deftones have found his replacement, nobody will ever replace Chi Cheng.

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4.11.13 Bee-otch of the Day: Motion Picture Association of America

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Name: Motion Picture Association of America
Age: 91
Occupation: film rating organization
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: still not getting their priorities straight---

This was a very bad week for 70-year-olds.

First, it was iconic film critic Roger Ebert, whose thumbs-up film reviews helped stir up popularity for the movies. Then, just Monday, it was Annette Funicello, who was the Mickey Mouse Club's most-popular Mousketeer, who later evolved into being a bikini hottie in several 1960's beach movies.

While Annette went from being a G-rated Disney playmate to a PG-rated beauty of the beach, Ebert was a criticizer of the movie industry itself, often rattling on the Motion Picture Association of America for not getting their priorities straight. Both of these recent passings can be well intertwined in the most-recent film I saw at the theatre, Spring Breakers.

The movie stars two Disney alumni - Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez - alongside Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine - as four college girls who rob a restaurant to get the money they needed to go to Florida for Spring Break. However, the four party just a little too hard and get busted for underage drinking. However, they're bailed out by a white rapper - played by James Franco - who leads them into a life of crime. The movie itself was hailed by critics and did well at the box office - $15 million on a $5 million budget - but I personally only gave it 2 1/2 out of four stars.

In Ebert terms, "thumbs down".

Yeah, the film's loaded with boobies and butts (and not to mention, it was panned by the son of Ebert rival Michael Medved, who thought this film should have received an NC-17 rating) and the film had a decent plot, most of the movie's characters were unlikable and didn't relate well to me. Not to mention, it's proof on how the film rating business is.

Of the four main female characters, only Selena Gomez's character doesn't get naked (bear in mind, she leaves for home 1/3 way into the movie because she felt uncomfortable about hanging out a rapper who's loaded with drugs and guns, plus she's a Christian in the film). Rachel Korine shows off her boobs and butt in a shower scene after she gets shot by Franco's rival in the film (rapper Gucci Mane) while the other two get freaky with Franco in a nighttime pool scene where nary a buttcrack is shown. True, we've seen Ms. Hudgens nude before (ahem), but I've not seen a real nude of Benson.

Yes, I love it when a chick gets naked in front of a camera, and shows nothing. True, she might be wearing pasties and modesty patches, but we the audience who pay $10 to see them nude end up feeling that the door gets slammed on us. Hell, even those ugly ass bitches that got freaky with Mane's character towards the end of the movie showed more skin (sadly).

True, Spring Breakers is a very racy movie, but I don't recall a scene with bush. Why? It's not a kid's movie. Plus, people who grew up with Hudgens and Gomez aren't kids anymore, either.

My answer is sad, but true: one bush whisker = NC-17. A few years ago, I saw a documentary on the MPAA called This Film is Not Yet Rated, which was about how the MPAA works. Many in the film business aren't happy with their ratings methods because they feel that in too many cases, they're promoting censorship. Even Maria Bello - who showed off her landing strip in The Cooler - felt urked when they slammed her movie with an NC-17 only because there was a scene where a man kisses the area around her genitals for not even five seconds. The movie did get an R-rating only after the producers edited that scene out.

But yet, when it comes to violence and manslaughter everywhere, the MPAA could care less. There's LOTS of PG-13 films with gruesome violence and killings. Hell, look at the last Batman movie. Even worse, look at what happened in Aurora, CO.

Sadly, the people who caused the shootings in Aurora, Sandy Hook and too many others were fans of bloody movies and video games. Yet, you never hear about people having 66 kids from watching too much porn or sexy movies. Why?

Personally, it's how the business is run. When the original Hays Code was created, no sex or profanity was allowed, but yet guns and killing were still OK as long as it wasn't bloody. When the Hays Code was finally abolished in 1968 and replaced with the ratings code, it did free up what filmmakers could do, even allowing hardcore sex on screen. But, things weren't totally perfect. Many were angry that too many films fell between a PG and an R, so PG-13 was created in 1984. In 1990, NC-17 was created because filmmakers felt that an X-rating meant it was pornographic, even if it wasn't.

Even today, NC-17 films are a death knell. Many theatre chains have banned them because they're money killers and unprofitable without a younger audience. Because of this, filmmakers have to be extremely careful if they want a steamy scene in their movies.

Oh, and guess who heads the MPAA? Chris Dodd, the "Democrat" who voted for the big bank bailout of 2008. Asshole.

Look, most young males know what a girl's vajayjay looks like. Yet, the MPAA is doing their damnedest to bar it from being projected on a giant screen unless it's in an art house. But in mainstream America, some guy's head can get blown off at a one-screen moviehouse in a small town. Some kid who's been bullied and teased will see it, find his parents' guns and open fire.

Thankfully, there's a chance we might get to see Spring Breakers unrated on Blu-Ray and DVD. Hell, maybe we might get to see if Vanessa Hudgens ever heard of a razor and/or if we'll see more of Ashley Benson.

But in the meantime, parents, hide your guns.


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