Covidiots in music

Bravo.

Disappointing

Surely Joe Rogan did all he can {& I'm not a fan }. He's apologised, said in future he will get guests on with counter views, whenever a guest has a controversial opinion. When did the main stream media {who've been wrong about plenty over the last couple of years} apologise? https://t.co/gjXdgP6X5o

— Dexys (@DexysOfficial) February 5, 2022

that seems misguided but not covidiocy proper

that's a fun idea to ponder. the idea that the mainstream media, as a whole, should apologize. since no single entity owns the mainstream media (except the reptilians, LLC), i guess he's wants the individual networks to issue apologies? but aren't those what corrections and retractions are? so i guess he's thinking of individuals in the media who have been completely wrong, over and over and over, always wrong on purpose, seemingly, like sean hannity and tucker carlson, the daily mail op-ed writers, the like?

Tucker Carlson, Monday, February 7: Dear listeners, I'd like to issue a blanket apology for what I have done over the last 15-20 years of my life

The only atonement I can offer is my ritual suicide, which will be broadcast on this very program tomorrow night.

does the dexy's guy know anyone in his personal LIFE that is willing to apologize for years of lying to his face? i know so many people like that, and have ZERO expectation that they'll ever apologize, or even come to the realization that they were completely wrong in the first place, and that if they did, that they should feel some sort of oddly "human" feeling sometimes called "remorse", attached to that realization of wrongness, and that maybe their job of processing how they were completely wrong and lied for years is not quite complete until they apologize or try to make up for it somehow?

at any rate, NO ONE APOLOGIZES, EVER, is my experience with real humans

that seems misguided but not covidiocy proper

― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, February 5, 2022 7:12 AM (five hours ago)

other tweets in the feed make the covidiocy pretty clear

so i guess he's thinking of individuals in the media who have been completely wrong, over and over and over, always wrong on purpose, seemingly, like sean hannity and tucker carlson, the daily mail op-ed writers, the like?

I very much doubt Kevin Rowlands is talking about Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson. I doubt many people in the UK have ever heard of them.

He's always been a big Van the Man stan, so I don't know if that's got anything to do with it.

I apologize constantly even for things that don't warrant an apology

that's because apologies are net zero - the disregard of everyone who moved on from apologies must be paid in unnecessary expressions of regret from others

tbh I’m really sorry that comrade Covid hasn’t peeled more caps among the rich & famous

Seriously why isn’t the is the Black Death

poor Herman Cain laid down his life so Eric Clapton could annoy people without his guitar too

(NB I do not wish additional death and misery on this planet EXCEPT for people I don’t like e.g. fascists, billionaires, and Jeep owners).

Shaquille O'Neal

this is the first validation he's ever gotten for his music career

still can't stop thinking about the clip of him from Inside the NBA where he insists that you save 50% on gas by only filling your tank halfway

never forget that the moon is closer to atlanta than california bc you can see the moon but you cannot see the golden gate bridge

still can't stop thinking about the clip of him from Inside the NBA where he insists that you save 50% on gas by only filling your tank halfway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuH91bQXDuE

Maybe the most remarkable clip Inside the NBA has ever produced

Though I had it wrong, he says wait till it’s half empty then fill it up to 3/4 and you will save 50% overall

omg that clip! in the past i would have assumed shaq was just trolling the rest of them to be the center of attention yet again, but now that he's a vax denier i can't even wrap my thoughts around it. if his goal is to create laughter, he's yet to let me down.

anyone else wondering if you just get stupid after a certain age and it's what's in store for all of us?

i think i'd like to be a moon denier. seems like a relatively harmless one. it's just a light projection or a hologram or something, right?

Every 30 days they gotta charge the batteries

BUT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO CHARGE IT AS OFTEN IF YOU STARTED RECHARGING WHEN IT'S AT 50%

thank you, shaq. you have taught us well.

I can flow like wee
Coming out you know what
Or some dookie diarrhea
Coming out your butt

I'm nasty, disgusting
Oh my, pew-wee
don't make people take the vaccine
we should all be free

I just had a quick listen to the new Captain Sensible project, Sensible Gray Cells - "Get Back Into The World", and I couldn't quite tell if he's a covidiot or just mistrusting of the government in general.

covidiocy confirmed. Captain Sensible will not be playing with the Damned in the USA because he won't get vaccinated

Wait, wot?

American fans, he won't be snookering you tonight.

I did used to be a fan and also liked his association with Dolly Mixture but yeah.

On that derail, I see a new record from Birdie out last year but it is a U.S. group of that name making children’s music.

Clapton update:

Famed guitarist Eric Clapton, COVID skeptic, is infected, cancels concerts

Eric Clapton, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist who has long been critical of efforts to mitigate spread of COVID-19, has canceled a pair of concerts after getting infected. “Eric Clapton is unfortunately suffering from Covid having tested positive shortly after the second concert at the Royal Albert Hall,” according to a post on his Facebook page.

“He has been told by his medical advisors that if he were to resume traveling and performing too soon, it could substantially delay his full recovery. Eric is also anxious to avoid passing on any infection to any of his band, crew, promoters, their staff and of course the fans.” The shows had been scheduled in Zurich on Tuesday and Milan on Wednesday. Last year, the guitarist said he would cancel any shows where audience members were required to show proof of vaccination and falsely suggested the life-saving shots were being promoted through “mass psychosis.” He also recorded the anti-lockdown songs “This Has Gotta Stop” and “Stand and Deliver,” a collaboration with singer Van Morrison, which included the lyrics, “Do you wanna wear these chains/ Until you’re lying in the grave?”

Atheist, meet foxhole

Van should write a song about it. Or a double album or something.

Once I lived the life of a millionaire,
Spread all that COVID, I just did not care.
Took all my friends out for a good time,
Bought bootleg liquor, champagne and wine.
Then I felt real sick and so low
Lost all my good friends, I did not have nowhere to go...

I heard that in Van’s voice and it was glorious.

Eric Clapton has released a new song called 'Pompous Fool' on his YouTube channel and social media pages. The timing of this just after the resignation of Boris Johnson, whose COVID-19 restrictions Clapton had criticised, may or may not be coincidental.

Eric Clapton has quietly debuted a new song called "Pompous Fool" on his official YouTube channel and social media pages. https://t.co/fZhg1w37Ii

— 97.1 The River (@971theriver) July 8, 2022

Covidiot adjacent but I've just found out that Billy Duffy is engaged to one of the worst people on Twitter

I live by my morals not by their rules
The worst atrocities in world are committed by blind rule followers…

It’s up to us to not to allow their agendas to unfold..
Whether you disobey quietly or loudly the most important thing is that you don’t do not follow..

— leilani dowding 🌸 (@LeilaniDowding) July 26, 2022

From .. The Cult?

That's the one

Dear me

Listened to an interview with Stig from Amebix (who denounced his brother's holocaust denial not long ago) and he said something to the effect that all of his friends who died during the pandemic "died from the cure," so that's another one lost.

Sounds like everyone else from the anarcho scene, bunch of glue-addled damage cases in my experience of being around some of them.

Hippies.

i feel obliged to stand up for the anarcho scene - plenty of anarcho pals are absolutely not like this.

still heartily disappointed by p. rimbaud though.

disappointing but not surprising how many people of crustier and hippier persuations have been sucked into this shit - would be bad enough if it stopped there but it almost invariably seems to lead them further right esp due to how online works- anything critical of the authorities can be hard to find outside these increasingly online subcultures and sadly a lot of these people are flakey or desperate or uncritical or alienated enough to fall or settle for this ersatz version of anti-authoritarianism which doesn't frankly take much intellectual effort to adopt since the conspiracy infrastructre is readymade and it doesn't demand any obvious action either (at least i hope not given the direction this shit tends towards)

some people i know have been surprised i'm not anti-vax because i seem like the type and my attempts at presenting anti-capitalist or anti-authoritarian ideas just sound like more conspiracy bullshit to them because of how thoroughly the language of resistance has been captured by this bullshit. it makes me sad

some people i know have been surprised i'm not anti-vax because i seem like the type

i got this quite a bit too. this time last year i had an event on which was the first time many people would have been together with other people since before the pandemic. even though it wasn't a legal requirement we strongly insisted everyone present a negative test on arrival and i was surprised by the number of people saying "you've lost the plot... / sold out to the man... et. etc.". it was thankfully only a small minority but i think your overall summation of why people in these communities may be more likely to get sucked into this shit is spot on.

OTM.