Further Wincing
Sad news this weekend involving Marty Crandall of the Shins and his girlfriend Elyse Sewell (formerly of America’s Next Top Model) being involved in a violent domestic dispute that garnered them both some jail time.
As you may or may not know, I am a sucker for the bad pun/wordplay headline, but is this really story where you want to have a jokey headline? I saw this on my RSS reader this morning: 2 headlines invoking the title of the Shins’ latest album Wincing the Night Away. A little tacky, no?
Well, why stop there? As we all know, caring is creepy and this incident has created a weird divide in my mind. Perhaps the couple should lead the celibate life in the future, or they’ll soon discover that they’ll be gone for good. Girl inform me that you’re not fighting in a sack! So says I.
I’m so out of touch with pop music, I thought the Shins were an Irish-themed group fronted by a trombone player I saw in some horrible movie about a blind woman in Chicago a long time ago….
(Not for nothin’.)
Kids these days…..
At least the whipper-snappers are staying true to the time-honored tradition of butt-ugly rockers with eye-candy girlfriends. And the booze. I wonder if they still trash hotel rooms?
(What the hell was that movie, anyway? And the actress… it’s right on the tip of my tongue….)
said one thing when I saw the headline pass by on the news today… “don’t care”
No, the best headline was the NY Post after Ike Turner died. It read, “IKE BEATS TINA TO DEATH”. Freakin’ brilliant.
Are you thinking of that shitty movie “Blink” with Aidan Quinn?
Yes, the Ike Turner headline was pretty amazing. I hope that guy got a raise…
I read the article after my comment and I’d like to restate. I feel sorry these two have alcohol/abuse/relationship issues and it is being played out in the music rags… but I still don’t care.
Mystery solved. Blink it was, with Madeline Stowe, and the Irish themed band with a trombone was not the Shins.
This really changes my opinion of the Shins.
From “lame” to “none.”
(I really like trombones, by the way.)
If you actually listened to them, you might change your opinion from “none” to “awesome”. Don’t you know they will change your life?
‘From “lame” to “none.”‘ — So funny.
The last time my life was changed by pop music was at a Bob Dylan concert at Alpine Valley, Wisconsin in 1986.
Well, OK, maybe it wasn’t the music that was life-changing.
Oh Steve…now that just makes me sad.
Sad because it was Bob Dylan?
Or sad because I haven’t paid any attention to pop music since the early 90s when I quit playing it?
Believe me, that Dylan show was the best rock concert I ever saw. Ironically, the worst rock concert I ever saw was Bob Dylan, in Portland some time in the early 90s.
‘Cause it sounds like music hasn’t had any influence on your life in 20 years…but if you’re only talking ‘pop music’ that’s not so bad.
Who needs music when you’ve got hockey?
But seriously, one of the greatest joys of my life is hearing my 8-year-old daughter playing Bach on the piano. Even better than a chemically-enhanced Bob Dylan concert.
Oh well, never mind: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1579281/20080108/shins_the.jhtml