Thursday, June 04, 2009

some fun now


For something fun (besides the video below), look no further (farther?):

1) Drag Me To Hell! Ten thumbs up! A couple of times Raimi is too Raimi but if you like Raimi there really isn't any such thing as too much Raimi (except that one movie with Sharon Stone when he first went mainstream, anyone remember that?). Plus the psychic guy is a total fox, but Justin Long is a complete anti-fox.
2)The Alice Neel doc that's available on Netflix is also very good, although it does not contain any talking goats. I want to go to Richard Press books and search for one of her books, cuz they mostly out of print.
3)Show tomorrow at Luigis! Dreamdate (super good 90s style girl pop), English Singles, So Cow from Ireland.
In the not fun category, I got an email from JC with a link to this. Long story short, local shock jocks made some hateful and violent remarks about transgender children. Let's do our little part to get these idiots fired. Here's the contact page. Better yet, if you can listen to it for a couple of minutes, wait for a commercial and jot down a couple of advertisers, especially ones you think might be sympathetic to your concerns, and contact them. I can't do that today, but if anyone has time to do so, you could post some of the advertisers in the comments.

35 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:09 PM

    "The Quick and the Dead" is pretty bad, but it's a masterpiece next to Raimi's "For Love of the Game". Incidentally, IMDB lists Raimi's next two projects as a remake of "Evil Dead" and "Spider-Man 4". Hack soup.

    -DB

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  2. Anonymous12:12 PM

    in regards to the 'not so fun news' here is the general manager's contact info:

    John Geary
    Vice President & General Manager
    KRXQ-FM
    (916) 339-4209
    jgeary@entercom.com

    it was on the website yesterday.. and it's gone today!
    luckily i saved it...

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  3. Anonymous12:24 PM

    I have said it before and I will say it again
    Fuck Rob!
    Fuck Arnie!
    Fuck Dawn!

    I hate that show.

    gbomb

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  4. Anonymous12:25 PM

    What the fuck!!
    Seriously.

    Talk radio, you really do blow.
    I am going to get to some online complaints before lunch is over

    Natalie.

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  5. Anonymous12:32 PM

    did he put that 73 Olds in that latest flick, as he has in all his movies?

    -skpr

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  6. Hey Beckler, I posted a story about these Dbags yesterday on my blog (iloveandhateeverything.blogspot.com) with a full list of their advertisers. We already got Snapple and Chipotle to pull!

    Oh, I totally want to see Allison Lohman get swallowed by demons this weekend.

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  7. Anonymous12:58 PM

    Thanks for posting about this Becky. I'm going to write to the station manager and the advertisers in a minute. Reading the brilliant Huf.Post article on this yesterday made me want to scream and cry yesterday. Here is my favorite quote about these pieces of shit:

    "By no objective standard are dumbed-down, Wal-Mart versions of O'Reilly like States and Williams journalists. Nor are they really experts on anything other than plunging the overflowing toilets of their listeners' psyches and selling the sewage back to them, repackaged as "insight," "common sense" and "plain talk" from fake-macho blowhards hiding behind radio microphones."


    Dani

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  8. 98 rock advertisers:

    Hertz
    Home Depot
    Chrysler
    Griffin & Reed Eyecare
    Pro City Mortgage
    sonic burger
    Snapple
    Tobacco Republic
    Chipotle
    State Farm Insurance
    Albertson's
    Carl's Jr.
    Jared
    Nissan
    Wells Fargo Bank
    Guitar Center
    Mc Donalds
    Mervyn's
    Red Bull
    Bank of America
    The Sleep Train
    Purina
    at&t
    Verizon Wireless
    UC Davis Health Care System
    Washington Mutual

    if you write to any of them cc
    jfox@entercom.com

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  9. holy cow! i just got off the phone with guitar center's corporate offices to voice my complaint about the show and they just agreed to pull all of their morning advertising with 98 Rock! take that assholes.

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  10. Just got word that Sonic pulled, too!

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  11. Just heard from UC Davis Health Systems. They're reviewing the program and deciding on next steps this afternoon. fingers crossed

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  12. Sweetness. Just fired off a missive to UC Davis, too.

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  13. That's amazing, Liv!

    Although that list seems like it must be outdated, as Mervyn's is out of business...

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  14. Anonymous5:24 PM

    mervyn's-rip

    -Ed C

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  16. wow, I didn't have time to check this all day. Too busy learning how to photoshop out my wrinkles! I'll write a letter to ucd tomorrow.

    I'm not quite sure what a 73 Olds looks like, but yeah, I think it had a fairly prominent part in the movie. But not as prominent as a mucus-soaked handkerchief.

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  17. Thinking about this again has made me think about that This American Life episode with the two transgender kids and how totally heartbreaking it was and how these kids have it so hard already and now I'm getting mad again.

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  18. Anonymous6:28 PM

    I wrote the station manager and the person in charge of advertising.
    No response,

    sounds like the advertisers themselves are the way to go.

    -Natalie.

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  19. totally, i have heard back from almost every advertiser i've written to so far with the exception of one or two. i'm gonna write to a few more tomorrow.

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  20. Paul Imagine sent me the contact info for their radio advertisers. makin' easy!

    CARLS"S JR. (CKE RESTAURANTS):
    pr@ckr.com Press Room

    HOME DEPOT
    public_relations@homedepot.com
    TOBACCO REPUBLIC:
    trcigar@aol.com

    ALBERTSON"S:
    Alicia Rockwell
    arockwell@savemart.com

    FLEX YOUR POWER
    enewswire@fypower.org Editor
    info@fypower.org

    NISSAN:
    Darryl Harrison - Media
    Darryll.harrison@nissan-usa.com

    BANK OF AMERICA:
    joseph.l.goode@bankofamerica.com
    AT&T
    John Britton
    E-Mail: john.britton@att.com

    VERIZON:
    Debra Lewis
    908-559-7512
    Debra.Lewis@VerizonWireless.com

    McDONALDS:
    Walt Riker
    Vice President, Corporate Media Relations
    walt.riker@us.mcd.com
    Heidi Barker
    Sr. Director, Corporate Media Relations
    heidi.barker@us.mcd.com

    WELLS FARGO:
    Media Relations: corpcsf@wellsfargo.com

    GRIFFIN & REED EYECARE:
    info@LASIKworld.com

    PRO CITY MORTGAGE:
    procity@procitymortgage.com

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  21. Thanks for making it easy, Liv. The station manager had a comment that made it seem like he wasn't concerned because most of the complaints aren't from Sacramento or Reno where the show is broadcast.

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  22. Anonymous8:45 AM

    Liv, what you and others have accomplished in this situation is awesome. I talked with my kids about it this morning and they were amazed that regular joes were able to make such an impact. Just wanted you all to know that you inspired twenty young ones who really aren't that easy to inspire.

    -- Patrone

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  23. Anonymous9:48 AM

    Thanks Liv, I sent them all an email. And I included the station managers email and the fact that I live in Sacramento.
    -natalie.

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  24. Hot damn Liv! Good job! Just sent another batch out!

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  25. Just spoke to McDonalds in Illinois, they seemed shocked when I told them what their advertising dollars were paying for. Said they'd call me back. Hope it's true!

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  26. Bank of America has pulled it's advertising from 98.5!

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  27. Yeah!!!!!! The station manager can say whatever he likes, after enough advertisers bail Rob, Arnie, and Dawn are done. They're not going to broadcasting a sponsorless show.

    I gotta say this whole experience has renewed my faith in public action. I was really floored by the conversation I had with Guitar Center yesterday. It's great that our voices have made a difference!

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  28. Carls Jr. pulled sponsorship!

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  29. Anonymous1:36 PM

    I feel like I should start supporting some of my most hated companies (Chipotle, BofA, Carl, Jr.) Maybe I'll just start with Dr. Pepper (Snapple)

    gbomb

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  30. direct email, rad@robarnieanddawn.com

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  31. Ads pulled over radio hosts' transgender remarks

    By JUDY LIN – 12 hours ago

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Bank of America, Verizon, Chipotle and other companies have pulled advertising from a Sacramento radio station after talk show hosts referred to transgender people as "freaks" with mental disorders.

    During a May 28 show, one of the three hosts on KRXQ's "Rob, Arnie & Dawn" show said he would hit his son with his shoe if he put on high heels. Another said he would tell a boy he was "a little idiot" if he asked to wear a dress.

    Officials with Bank of America Corp. and Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. said Friday their companies pulled advertising because they found the comments offensive.

    "We listened to the segment and the follow-up comments, and found it quite difficult to defend," Bank of America spokesman Joe Goode said.

    Representatives of Verizon Communications Inc., Nissan Motor Co. and Carl's Jr. restaurants also said they stopped advertising.

    Transgender advocates and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation have sought an apology from two of the show's three hosts, Arnie States and Rob Williams. The third host, Dawn Rossi, defended transgender people on the show.

    "Our issue here is that Rob and Arnie advocated violence against children because of who they are and have failed to take responsibility for their dehumanizing and defamatory words," said Rashad Robinson, senior director of programs at GLAAD.

    John Geary, vice president and general manager of KRXQ, did not return a telephone message or e-mail Friday.

    During a follow-up show Wednesday, States said he never advocated abuse. He said his comments were meant only as a joke and that he didn't do anything wrong, according to a report in The Sacramento Bee.

    During the May 28 broadcast, States and Williams began discussing the California Supreme Court ruling uphold Proposition 8, the initiative on last November's ballot that banned same-sex marriage. The hosts then turned their attention to transgender children.

    "If my son, God forbid, if my son put on a pair of high heels, I would probably hit him with one of my shoes. I would throw a shoe at him," States said on the air.

    Williams suggested transgender people suffered from a mental disorder.

    "They are freaks. They are abnormal," he said. "Not because they're girls trapped in boys bodies, but because they have a mental disorder that needs to be somehow gotten out of them."

    Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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  32. Skipper11:25 AM

    yep, the 73 Olds was in Drag Me to Hell. It's good that the gypsy and Uncle Ben both drove the same car as Ash

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  33. Not to be too cheesy, but Patrone you are an inspiration too! I think its so cool that you saw an opportunity in this to teach your students something cool!

    -mh

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  34. http://www.robarnieanddawn.com/newsite/index.html

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  35. Anonymous10:16 AM

    http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1928458.html

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