Covidiots in music

Smart move of Broussard to pick a culture war battle with a bigger name, he can sing Sam Cooke covers for anti-vaxxers for a long time to come.

This is also a hot take

I know I have some working class fans who can’t afford the risks associated with either the vaccines or even getting a test. An adverse side effect or a positive result could mean loss of wages which could be devastating for someone who’s finances are already tight.

— Marc Broussard (@MarcBroussard) August 6, 2021

Don't get tested in case you're positive and so won't be able to go to work and spread Covid around

is he an old man hat guy?

Well, yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuWPseegaKw

His biggest 'original' song.

...and if Old Man Hat doesn't qualify, may I suggest a term like 'Soulhammer'?

Biker/stoner doom metal overlord Scott "Wino" Weinrich...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8IoqucWEAA_9-i.jpg

Of all the people, who might have thought it would be Wino?

Weather modification?

That guy seems way cool. I'm for sure gonna fukkin see him and his outfit when they come through town, modified weather permitting.

REAL PATRIOTISM lol they're all such fucking dorks

I would still go see Saint Vitus if they roll through once we defeat the Zeta variant.

hes not in saint vitus anymore

i think i prefer scotty reager now

I've seen Wino three times: with Shine — Spirit Caravan's first name — then either SC again or The Hidden Hand, I can't remember, and then with Saint Vitus. I've also interviewed him twice, and the first time we talked he was very interested in telling me about this brilliant writer David Icke he'd been reading.

oh no

Weather modification?

Chemtrails. There was also a wave of believing you could disperse clouds by pointing at them, because they weren't real and had been put there.

Isn't it more akin to The Secret, i.e. wishing for things can make them come true? Trying it for yourself can be a fun way of demonstrating the fallacy of positive instances though

More here, predictably the Rothschild’s are supposed to be part of the conspiracy https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-42195511

Weather modification and chemtrails? I can't believe these assholes can be this monstrously stupid.

I can

He's probably at least flirting with flat earth theory, there is no end to human stupidity for sure

Dude has got to 60 and now only does "natural" drugs like dope and peyote since his massive meth bust. These might be some of his more coherent thoughts.

This is not rona-related but must be shared; he responded to someone in the comments on his post and...WOW.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8N6gM7WYAkCMjW.jpg

That’s a longstanding conspiracy theory. End of his post seems like some horseshoe business.

Ha ha HAARP was one of the first things I “researched” on the internet back in 1995

Cool you can order for your bday party now

Offer valid only in Russia.

Gimme Dat HAARP Boy

Joseph Arthur was a celebrated singer-songwriter with famous fans. Then he headed down the anti-vax rabbit-hole https://t.co/IPvsnv3P7t

— Glyn ap Myfyr (@Welshbeard) August 10, 2021

By going public with his anti-vaccination position, Arthur has aligned himself with a small group of like-minded musicians, including Eric Clapton, Morrissey, M.I.A. and Van Morrison.

Gonna be one shitty version of the Travelling Wilburys here

Arthur has always been an extremist in his actions, notes one former member of Arthur’s music team, who declined to be identified to protect their friendship. “He’s an addict, right? So he was either a full-on addict or full-on clean and very preachy. This is part of the extremes that he struggles with.”

This reminds me of an astute comment Nitsuh said years ago about when one of those books by whichever of the two Korn bros who found god came out, where some 'EXXXTREME' 90s bros in particular just stayed extreme when they were saved and all. And the cycle repeats.

Ah of course:

Helping Arthur spread the word is a publicist, Trevor FitzGibbon, who in 2015 closed his former PR firm, FitzGibbon Media, after a Huffington Post story reported on numerous sexual harassment accusations against him. He has denied the allegations.

Oh so he's the type of asshole that had a very mild case and recovered quickly so of course the only logical explanation is that everything else is fake or lies. Fuck that guy.

Maybe he should spend some time hanging around a Hindu temple. Worked for Ryan Adams.

Anyway, doofus wants segregation, they just should dedicate a few tiny islands as sanatoriums and let those assholes loose to live their free lives.

Apologies for link source but...

Chet Hanks goes on anti-vaxxer rant despite his parents' COVID battle https://t.co/532Fm7dOE4

— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) August 10, 2021

he think he a rapper too

Chode Hanks

Just did an interview with an artist who said, as we were finishing up, "You know who would have a good perspective on this? Evan Parker. I can give you his contact info if you like." I demurred politely.

Can’t say Beck surprises me at all…

blind item https://t.co/6WyuQYIv67

— Gawker (@Gawker) August 10, 2021

Raised in scientology innit

He did a pretty half-assed job pretending to distance himself from Scientology a few years ago, but yeah, Scientology (go figure) is infamously anti-science/medicine. You've got your electric soup cans, what else do you need? Though to be fair, I wonder where control freak Tom Cruise falls on this spectrum. He reportedly visited a vaccination center in London to praise frontline workers back in March, but I also saw this:

Daily Beast writer Marlow Stern, citing a 2020 report in the Tampa Bay Times, suggested that Cruise’s rant could have been part of Scientology’s P.R. effort to portray itself as taking COVID-19 seriously, even as it continued to admit adherents to services and spiritual counseling sessions at its international headquarters in Clearwater, Florida.
A spokesman for the church told the Tampa Bay Times that it enforced social distancing and decontamination practices at its facilities, using the “most powerful and aggressive decontaminant available.”

So, volcano alien spirits it is, I guess.

The extent of Beck's Scientology beliefs have never been clear to me (pun not intended) - it's hard to tell if he just keeps most of it private - but I just brace for the worst. Unfortunately, if it's always been taught as an integral part of the "religion" he was raised under, there's not much anyone can do about it.

FWIW, this actually came up with Prince the other day when I was talking about the pushback from so many evangelicals against vaccines - that's a bit different because it's really a political split within those faiths (and sadly another case where reactionary politics try to frame their arguments as gospel when it's a warped interpretation of it). Prince drifted into the conversation because of the "new" album that was released. We thought Prince might've been part of the same pushback too, but it turns out Jehovah's Witnesses do not have any opposition against vaccines. (They did up until 1952 due to what turned out to be baseless concerns about blood contact.)

Wonder what they thought of When Doves Cry.

xxp I doubt Cruise’s aggressive dressing-down of M:I-7 crew last December was some 11th-dimensional Scientology PR move; I think he really didn’t want the filming shut down and production delayed (which it was anyway, more recently, after an outbreak on set). None of this speaks to the vaccine question, of course.

Yeah, I just figure if he was willing to yell at the crew for not being safe, and he has not backed down on his outburst, and yet has not come out and demanded everybody on the shoot be vaccinated, as others have on other shoots and shows, makes me think he is ambivalent at best about actual vaccination. Like, it's Tom Cruise. If he wanted everybody to be vaccinated we would all probably know it.

That’s an interesting question, I don’t know what the protocols are for UK film productions or if vaccines can be mandated on set there (I can poke around, pun intended).

I was under the impression that Hollywood productions generally required masks (with dismissals already reported for those who refused to comply), social distancing, and a "bubble" organization in terms of how living quarters are set up for crew members, etc. Vaccine requirements are a relatively new thing - I think the recent Sean Penn story was the first time any star demanding it was reported.

Yeah a deal w/the guilds was reached in July that currently runs thru October (Netflix then became the first studio to require vaccinations on all U.S. productions).

Going back to the UK (and M:I), here's a recent article that says:

Inevitably, the numerous production shutdowns have led to talk of mandatory vaccination on set, especially with Netflix in the U.S. already instituting a vaccination mandate for actors and any crew working in close proximity with them. In the U.K., many are in favor of such measures but complex employment legislation likely makes it unenforceable.