"9/11 was a beautiful thing" claims Lemonhead

[capncnut]

Lemonheads singer, Evan Dando, has made one seriously fucked up comment to the tabloids by claiming 9/11 was a 'beautiful thing'.


The singer, who witnessed the attacks unfold from his nearby New York apartment roof, said: "I had a good experience that day. I'd always wanted to see a plane crash. I don't know if that's morbid - it was kind of beautiful in a weird way."

Click (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/usa/2635827/For-Evans-sake-Dando.html) for article.

[bassman]

He also claims it was a bomb that brought the towers down and not the planes.:rolleyes:

[AcesandEights]

Mmmm, pretty bad misstep. Maybe he was strung out at the time or maybe he was having some sort existential breakthrough.

Anyway, does anyone know if the Lemonheads have done anything decent aside from their cover of Mrs. Robinson? That's a serious question, as I don't recall hearing any of their other work.

[capncnut]

Anyway, does anyone know if the Lemonheads have done anything decent aside from their cover of Mrs. Robinson? That's a serious question, as I don't recall hearing any of their other work.
It's A Shame About Ray (which had Mrs. Robinson on it) and the follow up album, Come On Feel The Lemonheads are both tight albums.

[Mike70]

I started to get really sad about 9/11 about a year later, once I'd realised people had died in there.

is this fucking guy for real?? what kind of planet do you have to be from not to immediately realize that a large passenger plane crashing into a giant skyscraper is going to kill lots and lots of people. this dude has the empathy of a piece of granite.




and for the record: the lemonheads suck rhino ass.

[Danny]

...what is lemonhead?

[Mike70]

...what is lemonhead?

apparently someone who doesn't know that planes + impact with large building= lots of people dying horribly.

[darth los]

...what is lemonhead?


An asshole that says dumb shit about 9-11....


Also a very tart candy. :p






:cool:

[BillyRay]

Dando's had a reputation for being a bit of a douche,anyway. Sounds like he's got a new project in the pipe and wants to make the news.

Y'know, like any starlet trying to drum up interest in whatever romantic comedy drek they're promoting by alluding to bisexuality.

Made up controversy = $$$

[Mike70]

Dando's had a reputation for being a bit of a douche,anyway. Sounds like he's got a new project in the pipe and wants to make the news.

you're probably onto something here. if he was trying to drum up attention, there are better ways than letting idiotic crap about 9/11 slip through his teeth.

hell man, he could've started a feud with kanye west and gotten mass mileage out of it. i'm sure kanye would've taken the bait. perhaps he could've started it off with the gay fish joke from south park...

[AcesandEights]

hell man, he could've started a feud with kanye west and gotten mass mileage out of it. i'm sure kanye would've taken the bait. perhaps he could've started it off with the gay fish joke from south park...

The first Kanye diss that came to mind was so inappropriate I couldn't include, but surely that would have been a better way to garner publicity.

[Yojimbo]

is this fucking guy for real?? what kind of planet do you have to be from not to immediately realize that a large passenger plane crashing into a giant skyscraper is going to kill lots and lots of people. this dude has the empathy of a piece of granite.




and for the record: the lemonheads suck rhino ass.

Agree with mike. I would like to bitch slap this guy just on principle.

[MoonSylver]

PECKERheads singer, Evan Dando, has made one seriously fucked up comment to the tabloids by claiming 9/11 was a 'beautiful thing'.



Click (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/usa/2635827/For-Evans-sake-Dando.html) for article.

There, fixed it for ya.;)

[capncnut]

Regardless of whether his music sucks rhino ass or if he has a new album to promote, it's a grave he's now dug himself into. He's an American and I can't see many Americans agreeing with this fucked-up shit.

I didn't mind The Lemonheads back in the early nineties but now I'd like to wrap that bat, which I wanted to use on Kuntye, right around his crust.

[Mike70]

I didn't mind The Lemonheads back in the early nineties but now I'd like to wrap that bat, which I wanted to use on Kuntye, right around his crust.

i have a bat i'll loan you for kuntye as long as i get to take high speed film of the whole thing. that way we can all enjoy it over and over again in slow motion.

[SymphonicX]

A very bad choice of words....maybe the percieved sense of "beauty" here is being mis-read or mis-spoken....

The events of that day held a certain beauty to them - I don't think in context of what Lemonhead guy is saying - it showed a great deal of bravery and respect from humanity in their response to the situation, from firefighters, to public, to people donating their money to help families of the victims...beauty DEFINITELY arose from that situation.

The events themselves, were not necessarily beautiful - I think he meant to say "powerful". I mean the events were awesome - but not awesome in the surfer kind of way, I mean it's true definition - a sense of shock, AWE, disbelief...it was powerful...and even today I look at the footage and am still shocked by the scale of what happened...

[_liam_]

They were certainly spectacular, the fact that it is the most documented event in human history is a testimony to it's visual power, but Dando needs to get the dictionary out and learn the difference between "Beauty" and "Power" or "Spectacle", or "Gravity".

I think there's a debate lurking in here about what Beauty really is, I define it as something captivating & engrossing - but that is ultimately not immediately bad or malicious

[SymphonicX]

They were certainly spectacular, the fact that it is the most documented event in human history is a testimony to it's visual power, but Dando needs to get the dictionary out and learn the difference between "Beauty" and "Power" or "Spectacle", or "Gravity".

I think there's a debate lurking in here about what Beauty really is, I define it as something captivating & engrossing - but that is ultimately not immediately bad or malicious

think you're pretty spot on there

[Yojimbo]

They were certainly spectacular, the fact that it is the most documented event in human history is a testimony to it's visual power, but Dando needs to get the dictionary out and learn the difference between "Beauty" and "Power" or "Spectacle", or "Gravity".

I think there's a debate lurking in here about what Beauty really is, I define it as something captivating & engrossing - but that is ultimately not immediately bad or malicious

Well said, Liam.

[MinionZombie]

They were certainly spectacular, the fact that it is the most documented event in human history is a testimony to it's visual power, but Dando needs to get the dictionary out and learn the difference between "Beauty" and "Power" or "Spectacle", or "Gravity".

I think there's a debate lurking in here about what Beauty really is, I define it as something captivating & engrossing - but that is ultimately not immediately bad or malicious
I would add that "beauty" is something good too. If something is "beautiful", then one of it's defining features must be that it is "good" - 9/11 most definitely wasn't.

Shocking, stunning, visually arresting ... 9/11 was all these things - but in a very bad way.

[SymphonicX]

OK I'm gonna play devil's advocate with the beauty thing...

Somehow....

Just trying to find something....

OK how about when a cop takes a shot at a hostage taker's head and saves the life of a kid? Beautiful shot?!


that's all I can think of....does beauty have to be good? I don't think it does...I think it just has to "be" and whatever your perception of it defines it as beauty.

[MinionZombie]

Even if your "hostage shot" scenario, it is good - it saved the life of an innocent child being held hostage by a criminal.

[kortick]

beau⋅ty (noun) - the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).

Maybe he did find the sight of the towers destruction a thing
of beauty. Many people in Muslim countries did. So we know
for a fact there are others who share his statement.

Just like I am sure there are people who would have (and
probably did) find beauty at the goings on at Nazi concentration
camps in the early 40s.

[SymphonicX]

Even if your "hostage shot" scenario, it is good - it saved the life of an innocent child being held hostage by a criminal.

That was my point, but its certainly not beautiful seeing someone shot in the face....!

[shootemindehead]

Well, not trying to speak up for Evan Dando, who's a feckin twat in my book (long before now), but, things of horror/destruction can be considered "beautiful" even if the are macabre. For instance, I've often heard the term used when people talk about the mushroom clouds of nuclear explosions, in that it looks "beautiful".

And the linear "straight down" destruction of the WTC buildings may well have looked "beautiful" to some because of it's neat fall. In the way controlled explosions may look "beautiful" too.

Either way, it was a really dizzy thing to say. But I spose he needs a bit of exposure. :D