More Cheap Thrills

I went to Kohl's during my lunch break and saw three different SW t-shirts. One had a classic Marvel comics cover on it, one simply had the SW logo on a blue background, and one had the old rock band artwork from the late '90s. I still love that piece and since it was only 9 bucks (on sale!), I bought one.

Then, I got a tip from someone on Facebook that Target has a new SW tee in the young men's section. I checked it out after work and found an old-school comic bookish rendering of X-Wings on a faded brown background. Best of all, it was only SIX dollars on sale! Woo hoo!

So, I'm up to what, 110 t-shirts now?

OT: "We Are The World" Remake

Since there's no "Ghost Whisperer," I was stuck watching the Olympics before Clone Wars starts. They showed the remake of "We Are The World," recorded after the Grammys to raise money for the Haitian earthquake.

Ah, when good intentions go horribly wrong.

It's CRAP. I never liked the original song, despite its noble aspirations. Like its predecessor, "Do They Know It's Christmas," it suffered from cheesy lyrics and shameless mugging for the cameras. I remember some alt musician mocking the song: "We are the world/we are rich bastards/we drive fancy cars/and we don't pay taxes." The fights that occurred at the studio in 1985 are legendary: Bob Geldof complaining about the fancy spread (until he found out it was donated), Waylon Jennings leaving after Stevie Wonder proposed singing the song in Swahili (they don't speak Swahili in Ethiopia).

I don't know what happened with this revamp, but it makes the '85 original sound like the greatest song ever. Michael Jackson's old vocals. Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, and Josh Groban over here, a bunch of rappers over there. Wyclef Jean wailing away. Lil' Wayne throwing in his .02 before going off to jail. Isn't that Jordin Sparks? Isn't that Miley Cyrus? Look, there's Pink. What's Jeff Bridges doing there? Wrong awards show, dude, unless he's filling the Dan Ackroyd role. Sadly, I don't really recognize anyone else.

At least the original blended the different styles of performers. This just sounded like a mess.