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Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Donna; pardon me if I seem ungracious, but the bitch quotient in my life is lately on overdose. I do find it ironic that YOU have the audacity to call anyone phony, but self delusion and unwarranted arrogance just might be contributing factors. Tell us again about your glorious failures at journalism, coupled with a bit of name dropping!
The fact that I find you a bit over glorified and quite the dramatic aside, I took a flyer and agreed with you. Fat chance (and I'm not talking about the Jeans you wear) of that happening again.
BTW: have a nice day.........
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Country is a hijacked genre, Jim, populated by phonies. Put on a pair of cowboy boots for every photo -- instant country. Of course, Jim, you couldn't resist insult, being the phony "liberal" you are. But here's an example of the farce we're treated to daily on radio -- I'm not criticizing this singer, by the way; this is not her doing, and I like her and her music a lot:
Years ago, I was looking at country CDs in an Alanta-area store and saw a CD of new Jo Dee Messina music. A note blazoned across the front of the CD announced the disc contained Messina's "hit, number-one single," the one about bye, bye, my rearview mirror's torn off, etc., etc. I love that song, it deserved to be a hit -- when it was. The thing is, when I first saw that CD and the note on the front, that song hadn't even charted yet!
The "hits" are determined for us beforehand. That's why radio stations have been relentlessly playing the new George Strait single for months, trying to get it to number one, because the number "60" means something for George right now. Again, George isn't behind this, and it's a great song, but I mean, I'm tired of hearing it at this point, especially when some other great songs get broadcast two or three times and we never hear them again.
Sorry. Don't get me started.
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
''Anything that eliminates predators of any stripe or spot is good."' probably , you will be a perfect target, son of a bitch, you predate the truth and common sense at any post..lol dumb cunt
Re: “WSMV Exposes Metro's Makeshift Toxic Landfill (And a Scalp for Ken Jakes!)”
@Kosh III: If you drive a car you support corporations, if you ride a bus you support corporations, if you eat food not home grown you support corporations. If you eat food that is home grown you support corporations because the feed and fertilizer you used to grow that food came from...? The shoes on your feet were made by a corporation. So you dooo support corporations. If you support the idea that 1/25th of 1% increase in CO2 is going to ruin the planet then you should read this link to Newsweek: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/21/newsweek…
Everybody else: Click the link; this article is from the same set of people and organizations now telling us climate change is going to ruin everything.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Just speaking from my own perspective but the "Nashville" set dressers and location scouts have been very kind to Grimey's. We've sold them thousands of records & CDs in bulk to dress sets. Several of the cast shop here and have brought friends in with them. I've talked to numerous tourists about how much they love the show. I've got a guy in Pennsylvania driving his dad's country record collection to Nashville to sell to me because he wants to sell his daddy's records to the store where Deacon shops (he read about us in a People magazine feature on where the 'Nashville' stars go in Nashville). So from where I sit the show has been berry berry good to me.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
AnglRdr: Hell, most of the pretty boys and girls are b and c level "rock"stars! I find myself in the unenviable and quite distasteful case of agreeing with Donna. What passes for Country today, passed for poor pop in the past!
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Although I don't really care for this kind of nighttime soap opera, I will say one thing. The show makes Nashville look beautiful.
Re: “Quote of the Day: Emily Evans on the Music City Center”
It's built now, so what is she supposed to say, "I hope it burns to the ground so we can salt the Earth whert it stood"?
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
I agree with Mark and Steve. This welfare for the rich doesn't seem to pay off. How long will it be before the Titans do another shakedown, and then pick up and leave if we don't deliver? Dell, as pointed out, was a disaster. I can't believe Spyridon and his bunch are willing to throw money at this.
To hell with them. "Nashville," as I understand it was on the bubble and only got a reprieve by the network. I suspect this wll be its last season anyway.
Re: “Quote of the Day: Emily Evans on the Music City Center”
Well, that to me shows a mature and responsible attitude. What would be better? That she says, "Well, I was opposed to this, so now I hope it fails and all these millions of dollars are down the drain?" No rational and responsible person would take that attitude. She lost in the council, but a true public servant (as opposed to a slef-absorbed hack) will take her approach. If it's going to happen, let's hope for the sake of Nashville that it is a big success.
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
If that's what it takes to get you through the night, son, sure; you hit a nerve...
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Which rock stars are you talking about, Donna?
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
What a joke. On Tennessee. I hope that ridiculous show leaves and takes the rock stars trying to go country with them. And most of the record-label moguls as well. Alan Jackson done said it in song.
I listen to a country station down this way that plays a mix of old and new. They've been having to throw in more and more of the old because people are tuning out the new 15-song rotations that have gotten worse by the year. Heaven help us all. Glad I remember the old AM stations and the music mixes I grew up with. Payola lives.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
It would be something if the state had some sort of organization, a commission, say, that was responsible for working as a liaison between the film industry and the state, in order to make mutually-beneficial deals to attract projects to the state.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Heather,
No one disputes that there are benefits. The question is two fold.
1) Do those benefits outweigh the costs and the establishment of the idea that we will pay for business we might get otherwise?
The worst economic deal in Tennessee history was when Mayor Bredesen offered Dell $80 million plus to locate in Nashville instead of eastern Wilson or eastern Rutherford counties. We ended up paying to get jobs that would have still benefited the region for free. It looked good in theory but was a disaster in reality.
2) Is there a longer term benefit that will come from our initial investment or will we need to continue bribing projects to come here?
I would be happier if Nashville and Tennessee were working with private industry and banks to make a long term concentrated program to become a film capitol. Such a project would look at attracting all the different sectors of the business, not just filming. We should be the perfect location for that with all the different types of talent and technology we have.
Tennessee can be used to film all sorts of different locations and Nashville is centrally located to be the focus of all the production and ancillary work.
Re: “Stephen Fincher Loves Government Handouts, Just Not for the Poor”
Hiding his dripping cynicism behind the bible and claims of Christianity, what a sleaze ball. It's jackholes like fincher that give real honest Christians a bad name.
Re: “WSMV Exposes Metro's Makeshift Toxic Landfill (And a Scalp for Ken Jakes!)”
WSMV is doing some serious journalism lately. They also featured a story the other day about how KIPP dumped a bunch of its most problematic, lowest achieving students back into the public school system, right before TCAP tests.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
I don't watch the show and am not such a fan of what passes as 'Country Music" today. That being said, if (and only if) the return on investment (boon to the local economy) is in excess of the cost (tax incentives), it makes perfect sense to accommodate the show's execs! I CAN see where this MIGHT be a positive for tourism and local labor.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
I enjoyed "Memphis Beat". At least they shot enough exteriors and establishing shots in Mamphis to make it mostly believable. Unfortunately for us, "Nashville" may already have enough of those in the can from this season to be able to move to California with no problem.
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
@Jimbo: What you're saying is that white people should leave black predators alone.
No genius, what I am saying is that you need not differentiate between white and black (or whatever) predators. Otherwise you appear to be quite the racist, to all who are smart enough to comprehend inferred racism.
Is what your saying that it is O K to pursue black predators and ignore white ones? And why?