The Good, The Bad and the… No. 8

"Ok lads, this is the plan. You go out and look all moody,
and while I'm pretending I hate myself, Krist throws his bass in the air
and tries to land it on his head. Hello book deal..."

The Good - Well, kind of. Full details of Nirvana's upcoming Anniversary edition have been announced, but is it such a good idea? Nirvana were pretty headstrong about not 'selling out', even though it may have happened to a certain extent, so the release doesn't really seem in keeping with the band's ethos and poses a number of questions.

First of all, the person who wrote the songs happens to be dead, which means the main beneficiaries are going to be his existing 'estate' or next of kin and the record label. Of course, Krist and Dave won't do too badly either.

So if the main parties benefiting aren't the people who wrote the music (Krist and Dave aside), are they not capitalising on a dead man's fame?

Then again, what about the fans, do they want it?  Well, it's not that easy to say because there are different versions with different stuff on them, such as the Super Dooper Delux Ultra Mega Whooper version that has recordings of early rehearsals and footage of their only officially filmed concert.

Maybe the fans want that kind of thing, and who am I to question that?

After that you have to consider if this is really problem at all. Who cares if there's a re-released album out anyway? It's not hurting anyone.

Yeah, still feel's a little uncomfortable though, doesn't it?

"Ok then, five plus one... you.
...no, 12. Oh, right, yeah
I was just testing."

The Bad - John Boehner. The American congressman responsible for the Republican Party's budget proposal over the Armageddon posing debt crisis, has been caught out having left a $517 billion hole in his figures.

How can you forget 517 billion when you're only adding up to 1.2 trillion? How on earth can you miss nearly half the total figure? If you're adding two and two, then I can understand coming up with three or five, but if your answer is "uh… two?", well, you're an idiot.

I appreciate he had to take away $517,000,000,000 from $1,200,000,000,000, but you just take off the zeros, don't you.

1200

-517

=683

EASY!

Anyway, the reason that this is in the bad section is that the issue has further complicated and therefore delayed the vital decision on whether America will increase the amount of money it can borrow next month when the bill they currently can't afford arrives. At the minute an agreement doesn't look likely, which means at least more recession and at worst, as mentioned, Armageddon.

Pans People - Hot, ish.

The pops – Yeah, I know, now the rumour mill is saying Top of the Pops could be coming back. What the? Just a few weeks after we wrote bring back music on TV, and one week after they announced a return of The Old Grey Whistle Test, the BBC have hinted dear old Top of the Pops might come back.

Ah, Top of the Pops was great, wasn't it? Ah, the edgy music, the professional presenting, the refusal to buckle to budget constraints for making artists mime, the… yeah, no, it wasn't great, was it.