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[hiddenmuse]

Blender Magazine is a great magazine, in my opinionation. The Letters to the Editor can be quite funny and snarky - and every once in a while, a celebrity will write in to respond to an article (coughpatrickstumpcough).

This month's issue - October '07, with Kanye West dressed up for his first day as a Best Buy manager - has some pretty interesting letters:

"I find it curious that Rilo Kiley hottie Jenny Lewis ("Hot Report", September) wrote a whole album about pornography despite claiming that she doesn't watch the stuff. I consider myself something of a porn aficionado, so if Jenny wants someone to introduce her to some of the finer XXX titles available, I am at her service.

-- Mark D., Muncie, IN"

Jesus, we need a better spam blocker. - Ed.


"Blender, can you do me a favor and call a moratorium on mentioning Pete Wentz in your magazine? As if reading the Fall Out Boy bassist's insipid insights about life on the road in your "Collect Call From ... Fall Out Boy" story (August) wasn't bad enough, then you had to go and include him on "The Powergeek 25" list for his insipid contributions to the Internet. I really can't take much more of this guyliner-wearing buffoon!

-- Dan Plunkett, Troy, MI"

Just for that, we're commissioning Pete Wentz to write us a 5,000-word essay on insipid reader letters. - Ed.


And in the "Mommy, I'm scared..." Department, Gerard Way has apparently decided to look like John Mayer and Liza Minelli's lovechild - Idolator - Bad Hairdos Scare the Living Shit Out of Me. Here's hoping that he doesn't have the whole John Mayer O-Face going when he sings .... O_o

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In conclusion: Patrick. With a side of Pete. (this was stolen from bexone, who is made of awesome)

Comments

[honeybearbee.livejournal.com]

Why is wearing sunglasses inside? The hair is all '^^^^'. Did Frank mess it up and Gerard was all '*shrug*'? That's the only thing I can think of.

[hiddenmuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah - that's gotta be it! Frank messed with it and Mikey gave the seal of the approval - so Gerard, perfectly oblivious, went out with that hairdo from Hell.

The sunglasses? There are no words.

[honeybearbee.livejournal.com]

I don't think Gerard pays much attention to what he puts on or looks like. That's why he's so cute. Just not with that hair.

I know. They are so bad.

[hiddenmuse.livejournal.com]

Hehe - that's kind of my attitude. Although I do make sure to get a second opinion before I step out of the house, just to make sure that I don't look like absolute hell.

[honeybearbee.livejournal.com]

I think he doesn't care what others think, like at all. He's so dorky.

[hiddenmuse.livejournal.com]

dorky = good

:-D

[moongirli.livejournal.com]

Hee. I do love Blender. I'm amazed I lived without it this long.

And, uh, yeah... Not a fan of the hair-thing...whatever is going on with the MCR Brother there...

[hiddenmuse.livejournal.com]

Same here! I just got into it around 2005 - a cover blurb about "The 50 Worst Songs" or something like that kind of sucked me in. So, when I found myself buying issues several months straight, I subscribed.

And yes - Gerard seemed to go from his oddly attractive bleached-white-blond hair to that skeery black 'do.

[sigmaration.livejournal.com]

I second the motion for the moratorium. I have often proposed a similar moratorium in our household, but have yet to be successful.

As as side note, people who edit Letters to the Editor sections of magazines are awesome. ;) I wish they would let me be that snarky. I'd love to tell all of our old timey readers to get a life.

[hiddenmuse.livejournal.com]

Hey now ... I keep my fangirling to my blog and elsewhere online. It's not happening at home, dammit!


And yes, your magazine(s) should allow snarky responses to those letters. Especially the letter with old people complaining, "When I was your age, we only had DOS. And my computer was a jerry-rigged Lite-Brite connected to a manual Smith-Corona typewriter, with the CPU taking up the entire house! We slept in our bathrooms ... and we liked it!"

Perhaps I'm finally becoming a geezer!

[therealsugshady.livejournal.com]

While I really like Blender, I'm going to have to let my subscription lapse. I'm probably in the minority thinking this, but there just isn't enough interesting music or even musical personalities that would make me keep subscribing. The last thing I remember in Blender that I really enjoyed was that interview with Jerry Lee Lewis, and he ain't the kind of person I see in there very often anymore. Oh well!

Re: Perhaps I'm finally becoming a geezer!

[hiddenmuse.livejournal.com]

Oh no, that's not it at all! And there's nothing wrong with that. Half the time, I read it and bypass most of the articles, because I could really care less about some new rapper or lame-ass band.

Re: Perhaps I'm finally becoming a geezer!

[therealsugshady.livejournal.com]

Blender used to actually mention country a little bit more, which I appreciated because it was sometimes hunky Gary Allan they were mentioning. But lately, it is all rappers. That gets old real quick! Not saying they aren't individual little snowflakes, but there usually isn't a lot of memorable info I take away from reading their interviews.

The only thing I'm going to miss is that new section in the front about all the latest and greatest stuff, like singles.