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August 5, 2006
Fear and Loathing, well, Mainly Fear, in the Garden of Good and Evil
(filed under "Customer Relationship Management")
Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, GA - Duane Allman -- who in the 1970's made the south rise again by, more or less in this order, sliding an empty glass Coricidin bottle around on skinny metal cables, becoming a god, and dying under his motorcycle at age 24 -- spit out his peach last month at the news that the hit southern country classic "Blue Sky", by his not-dead-yet bandmate Dicky Betts, has become the national television theme song for Menopause.com.
Duane has turned over and spit once before, when to start the new millenium the Allman brothers fired Betts, who, oh that's right, wrote stuff that ranks Number Two on the Country Music Television's poll of the top twenty Greatest Southern Rock Songs of all time.
But this new coffin flipping level of distress can be matched only by that which accompanied Ingmar Bergmann's Swedish goddess of Agony Liv Ullman dancing on tabletops in the worst movie of all time, Ross Hunter's 1973 musical atrocity "Lost Horizon", readily available through eBay "on DVD with Deleted Scenes. "
Let's hope the DVD is blank. And, the Allman Bros were way stupid after Duane died. But who do we hold responsible for the TV theme song assignment? Is no one safe?
Posted by Malcolm Ryder at August 5, 2006 10:04 PM
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