Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, iTunes
iTunes remembers George Carlin
If you need a place to start, the "seven dirty words" monologue is probably the most famous, but Carlin often said that his favorite performance was the "Jammin' in New York" show -- he said it was the first time he'd done longer pieces, and talked about stuff that he really put his heart into (it's actually the show that was used for the Moment of Zen on the Daily Show). Definitely a great listen.
Of course, it's probably not quite right that iTunes' system automatically listed "Concert Tickets" as an option on the page. But in the world that Carlin worked his whole life to show us, big companies doing stupid things is nothing new.
Thanks, Steve!
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feelmyring said 4:11PM on 6-25-2008
Did anyone notice they've still got a link to "concert tickets" on the page?
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feelmyring said 4:15PM on 6-25-2008
And that's what I get for not reading the whole thing. Looking like an idiot on the Internet.
Greg said 8:37PM on 6-25-2008
I think it is up there due to the fact that people still owned tickets to his shows coming up soon. If you click the link, it takes you to the Ticketmaster page, where it clearly states the upcoming shows were canceled. I don't think it is necessarily bad taste, nor something to be up in arms about. I'm sure in the next few days (or after the last planned 'concert' passes) that link will be removed.
FoundInTheFlood said 4:16PM on 6-25-2008
Didn't realize he died...damnit ! Despite me being religious, i loved his sarcastic but always very intelligent humor, which was, all of the time, brilliant critique about all our human weaknesses.
I guess the people that didn't like him just didn't like themselves.
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Brandon Martinez said 9:35AM on 6-26-2008
I too am quite religious, and I found Carlin hilarious. Just because he makes a joke about religion, doesn't set me off in arms. I could see a lot of where he was coming from - doesn't mean I agree, though.
RIP George...
JK said 5:03PM on 6-25-2008
Quoth Jim:
There were three Carlins – the early, traditional stand-up who had a weird-guy edge hanging around the margins of his delivery; the “counter-culture” guy whose album cover taught us all how to pretend to stick our finger up our noses, and the preachy, self-important Teller of Truths who eventually traded comedy for Social Commentary, and always seemed about one blow on the head away from reading Warren Commission transcripts on stage.
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ags said 6:24PM on 6-25-2008
at least he lived a good life... 71 years of hating everything...
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CRH said 12:42AM on 6-26-2008
I don't particularly know why "We need" George Carlin? There are plenty of self important celebrities around to tell us how big of a POS we are if we aren't socialists like they are. JK called it right, George was funny at one time. I still liked some of his later stuff as long as he wasn't preaching the leftist line to me.
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Noah said 1:37PM on 6-26-2008
"I'm getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. I'm tired of fucking Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths."
Yeah! What a goddamned leftist socialist!
...Wait, *what*?
Ed said 2:41AM on 6-26-2008
Rest In Peace, Rufus.
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Andrew said 7:05AM on 6-26-2008
Amazon's MP3 store has the aforementioned album for 1/2 the price:
http://www.amazon.com/Jammin-In-New-York-Explicit/dp/B000S5C6HW/ref=sr_f3_3?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1214477846&sr=103-3
(referrer fees not included)
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