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Vedder fights for Tomorrow
It really is a pity that Pearl Jam sound so bloody awful, as Eddie Vedder really seems a genuinely nice guy who often is right about stuff. Like his attempt to organise support for Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World cartoon.
Tomorrow's strip has been dropped from twelve US alternative weeklies:
“Obviously that means a loss of income for him,” Vedder says. “Perhaps even worse is the lost connection to readers who faithfully turn to Tom and his sardonic penguin Sparky to help them survive the absurdities of the world around us.”
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“When you write, please be polite and respectful,” Vedder asks. “Many of the editors at these papers are friends of the cartoonists we’re supporting... after all, they’re the folks who gave the cartoons a home in the first place. Suspending the work was a corporate decision made during incredibly tough times for all newspapers.”
It's not only Tomorrow who's suffering: Matt Groening's 22 year-old Life In Hell has also been caught up in the cull, as Village Voice Media drops all its syndicated cartoons. And the papers are also losing staff writers. The question might be if there's any alt weeklies left to not publish cartoons in for much longer.
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"Awful?" Are you kidding me? Even people who honestly find the Pussy Cat Dolls talented can at least admit that Pearl Jam is one of the most solid and respectable bands of the past 20 years who continue to deliver genuine rock and roll music that is, deservedly, adored by the masses.
Well, I was gonna take up an issue with you calling Eddie Vedder a nice guy. However, Talia is somewhat half right too. They are not aweful; more like middle of the road. They are the kind of a band you wouldn't at all mind opening for some other band who are opening for the band you actually came to see.
But back to Eddie Vedder. Isn't he one of those extremely spoiled rock stars? Isn't he one of those extremely spoiled rock stars who want to pretend that they are not spoiled by spending a shit load of money to make sure everything around them is not expensive, even if that means expensively replacing things, and throw hissy fits if anyone around sincerely enjoys success? Isn't he one of those guys who pretend to hate power fame and fortune while ordering everyone around in the same breath? Or did Eddie change in the past decade?
PS I like "Garden" and "Corduroy"
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