Johnny Rotten will be in Reality Show

[Loonman]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/20/johnny.rotten.ap/index.html

"The announcement made me feel instantly old. ... If it has come to this for the prince of punk, then mediocrity really does get us all in the end," wrote Lee Randall in The Scotsman newspaper.

In The Guardian, rock critic Charles Shaar Murray said "minds boggled" when rumors of Lydon's participation surfaced. "Whatever happened to punk rock, maaaaan?"
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Lee Randall is probably a poseur, anyway, and all rock "critics" are ignorant assheads. Well, 99.999999% of them are.

[HuckleB]

1. Well, I'm not surprised.

I am surprised by any British rock critic who would be surprised, however.

[XNASA]

2. Infiltrate and destroy....

That's what he's up to. He'll make a mockery of the whole sham!!!

Punk was about anarchy. And as an anarchist, it's perfectly acceptable to be greedy.

[Loonman]

3. He'll make the producers and all connected to "reality TV"

He'll make the producers and all connected to "reality TV" look like total fools.

The same thing he did with the record industry back in the late 70s.

[HuckleB]

7. You mean the same guy who now offers support to the Royals,

while bashing Billy Bragg for criticizing them in song?

I suspect not.

[Loonman]

8. A "Dismal" Jubilee

http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_589274.html

[HuckleB]

9. 11 days later, in the same publication.

http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_596182.html?menu=

[Loonman]

10. Not like it matters

50 years from now, people will know who the Pistols were but not Billy Bland.

[HuckleB]

11. Not likely.

Nevermind that Johnny always has subscribed to the P.T. Barnum school of marketing. And, hey, it worked. I'll give him that much.

[T_i_B]

4. I'm a TV viewer......

...GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!!!

[Blue-Jay]

5. Wasn't he already on a Judge Judy episode?

Or was that a bad food dream?

[HuckleB]

6. The Johnny and Judy Show!

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1431465/19971023/story.jhtml

[myrna minx]

12. I have that on tape.

I was home ill, and I thought my fever has reached a dangerous level when I saw Lydon as a defendant. I taped it "for review later," in case it was just a hallucination. It was hilarious.