Thoughts, Raves & Outright Beatings

One of my favorite blogs these days is “A Hot Mess“.  If for no other reason than to watch some of the commentators point and laugh at the righteous indignation of others over some of the stupidest topics.  I also like the names of their categories, one of which being “Ho Sit Down!”.  So, I’m stealing it for use in the subject of this blog post.  Because, hey! I only swipe from the best.

I’d go after that racist firecrotch crackhead Lindsey Lohan, but that would be too damn easy. Besides, everyone else is doing it.  No need to go there.   I’m picking a more obscure diatribe of dumbassed-ness.

Out of Rolling Stone’s blog, I bring you…

Jerry Casale of Devo:

Vs.

Jonathan Davis of Korn:

Mr. Casale is pitching a fit over the use of “De-volution” in Korn’s current promo for their latest CD.  He bitched on Devo’s website about Korn biting his band’s steed, and Korn’s fans came after him…big time.

First of all, I will make no bones about it.  Korn sucks, plain and simple.  Their unimaginative, self-important whiny brand of what used to be called “rap-metal” makes Linkin Park sound like Steely Dan before they got all jazzy and stuff. (Then again, they’re from Bakersfield, same locale as that dumb skeezer Pumkin from Flavor of Love, so what did one expect? But I digress…).  Their fans are a bunch of WWF wannabes with the collective IQ of my honey’s left nut.   And, being a child of the late ’70’s/early ’80’s, I got, from day one, Devo’s brand of humor, irony, and social commentary, as well as the promotion of the De-volution concept as societal and personal philosophy.  HOWEVER…and this part is an open letter to Mr. Casale:

Dude, you and Mr. Mothersbaugh, and whomever else you hung out at the time did NOT coin the word “Devolution”.  It was first heard in the 1955 play “Inherit the Wind”, which was about the 1925 Scopes trial.   Your concept was novel, the word isn’t.   Your whining isn’t going to change this.  Korn is using the word now.  Get over it. 

In fact, you and your band appear to be on the comeback trail, Mr. Casale. 

Why give a bunch of desert rat dumbasses who wouldn’t know intelligence or creativity if it swung at them with a 2×4 the time of day?  You were, and are, so much better than that!

You are not men, you are Devo, after all…