The "Mick LaSalle is an Idiot" Thread

[RGMike]

I figured this should have its own space. Our Man Mick has done it again: he just figured out this morning that Pete Townsend's "Rough Boys" might be about, y'know, gay stuff...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/submit?blogid=38&entry_id=17526

Unbelieveable.

[RGMike]

Ok, just to be fair... I think LaSalle's description of Dennis Miller here is dead-on. (Tho' I stop short of feeling sorry for the guy)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?blogid=38&entry_id=17561#comments

[ggould]

Ok, just to be fair... I think LaSalle's description of Dennis Miller here is dead-on. (Tho' I stop short of feeling sorry for the guy)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?blogid=38&entry_id=17561#comments

yeah, pathetic indeed.  Reduced to being a Comedian/Comedian on Fox News!

[RGMike]

Mick's latest is a what's-your-earliest-childhood-memory? question.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?blogid=38&entry_id=18267#comments

What's interesting is that he's apparently 47 -- I assumed he was younger, given his ignorance of early '60s music and his professed love for Eminem.

But check out the comment from the woman who was called a "kike" by a nun -- that's quite mind-blowing.

[RGMike]

credit where credit is due: a funny line from Mick today...

"First Bergman, then Antonioni. These usually come in waves, so if I were Eric Rohmer, I wouldn't leave the house for a week."

[RGMike]

well, we were overdue for a Mick LaSalle post about music -- today he tells us he'd NEVER heard Laura Nyro until just recently...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/submit?blogid=38&entry_id=19593

[RGMike]

The man who said he didn't think the Ronettes were important has started a thtread about Great Rock'n'Roll Xmas songs -- Quelle Irony!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/submit?blogid=38&entry_id=21286&comment_id=289224

[ggould]

The man who said he didn't think the Ronettes were important has started a thtread about Great Rock'n'Roll Xmas songs -- Quelle Irony!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/submit?blogid=38&entry_id=21286&comment_id=289224

There's something wrong about this url, but I noticed Mick seems to have no copy editor:

This is what's weird about Zeppelin and correct me if I'm wrong: I don't anybody really listens to them passed the age of 18. OK, SOME people do, but they're not a lifelong love the way some musicians are. It's different when you get older.

[RGMike]

The man who said he didn't think the Ronettes were important has started a thtread about Great Rock'n'Roll Xmas songs -- Quelle Irony!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/submit?blogid=38&entry_id=21286&comment_id=289224

There's something wrong about this url, but I noticed Mick seems to have no copy editor:

This is what's weird about Zeppelin and correct me if I'm wrong: I don't anybody really listens to them passed the age of 18. OK, SOME people do, but they're not a lifelong love the way some musicians are. It's different when you get older.

here's the URL for the Zep comments:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/submit?blogid=38&entry_id=21287&comment_id=289442

That may be the most idiotic thing LaSalle has ever said in print (which is saying something!) And I just told him so in the comments thread.

[RGMike]

Mick actually poses an interesting question in today's blog:

When I was in fifth grade, my teacher asked the class, "If you could stay one age your entire life, what would it be?"

Most of the kids wrote 15 or 16. Some wrote 17, because they'd be able to drive a car. The survey topped out at around 25 -- when they felt they could get married.

But I wrote, "49."

My teacher, who was 24 at the time and very funny and flamboyantly gay (we could tell even in 1970, so we're talking even beyond Paul Lynde here), went through the various answers, all of which he considered reasonable. Then he pointed at me and said, "Except for him. HE wants to be MIDDLE-AGED!"

so... Mick's teacher was a young Tom Ammiano? :wink:

[RGMike]

a post on HollywoodElsewhere (followed by many comments) about Mick LaSalle's Sunday piece on five classics he's never seen until now (he calls 2001 "unwatchable"):

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2008/02/eternal_polluti.php

[RGMike]

Been a while since I linked to a LaSalle blog post, but this one on "Best Who song ever" is certainly interesting...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mlasalle/detail?blogid=38&entry_id=30879

[RGMike]

love these letters-to-the-Chon in re: Mick...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/19/MVJQ186AR1.DTL

[mshray]

love these letters-to-the-Chon in re: Mick...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/19/MVJQ186AR1.DTL

not the last one.  Ebert & LaSalle in the same breath!?  Ebert would be a great writer in any medium, he just happened to be a film buff.  Mick?  Not so much.

[RGMike]

love these letters-to-the-Chon in re: Mick...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/19/MVJQ186AR1.DTL

not the last one.  Ebert & LaSalle in the same breath!?  Ebert would be a great writer in any medium, he just happened to be a film buff.  Mick?  Not so much.

BTW, true to form... Mick hated Moon (he had the litle man asleep in the chair today) and I saw it this afternoon and liked it.  Iit's sort of a mash-up of Silent Running, the middle section of 2001, and the Soderburgh/Clooney version of Solaris. Sam Rockwell alone on the moon; Kevin Spacey voices his computer, doing his best HAL-9000 imitation.