On Sunday night, while the Rolling Stones were performing for 20,000 people at the O2 in London – the first of five concerts they will be playing in London and New York to mark their 50th anniversary – one of their early heroes was also making an appearance a few miles across town, in the somewhat shabbier surroundings of the Kentish Town Forum.īobby Womack is the veteran soul singer who wrote, and with his group The Valentinos recorded, the original version of It’s All Over Now, which gave the Stones their first number one hit in Britain in 1964. And he adds that the bad boys grampaws of rock 'n' roll should just hang it up after a half century. Mick from London - another Mick from London, Mick Brown who writes for The Telegraph - says that hasn't been the case for a very, very long time. Like a late fall fix of 1969's "Let It Bleed," one of a stretch of albums the Rolling Stones made back when the Rolling Stones made albums that mattered. Here, though, it's just a networking tool for the devil. Sometimes, the World Wide Web is an amazing thing. Sorry specimens like Ashli Gay and mom Cindy - and it doesn't really matter whether they're real or a giant Internet ruse - make that leap of faith a longer one than it was yesterday. LOOKING at the wide array of humanity and asserting that each human is made in God's image and charged with the dignity of heaven is nothing if not a supreme act of faith. Look at 'em! What kind of a dumbass could believe that? That maybe I'm lying to myself when I say apparently ludicrous things - Well, look at the damn video! - like "God has created each one of us in His image and bestowed upon us great dignity just because we are." Really? I look at these pathetic wretches in the wilds of Mount Vernon, Ill., and I think that maybe somebody lied. The worst thing about Ashli Gay and her mom, Cindy Hall, is that they not only reject the notion that God has created each one of us in His image and bestowed upon us great dignity just because we are, but that they make us all question the premise. Abandoning any pretense of human dignity and grace. Giving oneself over to a toxic wave of anger and spite rolling across an endless sea of futility. Then there's the much larger tragedy - using one's limited resources for evil and not for good. Tragic that, yes, there are people who dove headfirst into the shallow end of the gene pool. If it's real, it's disturbing and tragic. where were those girls' parents? Kids were watching enough of this garbage that they could pimp on it?)Īgain, if this is some sort of warped performance art, it's disturbing. That profane, whack tirade above (and stay with it past the 2:51 mark to see how bizarre and inappropriate it can get) seemingly is directed at a couple of little girls. They've apparently directed the one above at a couple of teen-agers - young teen-agers - who posted a YouTube video making fun of Ashli's videos. These videos - to which I won't link because the one above is by far the least offensive, and even it's Not Safe for Work in giant neon letters above the entrance of the trailer park - are directed toward people who have somehow disrespected Dumb and Dumber on the Internet. (And please note that hapless is a relative term here this is because "haplesser" is not a real word.) 0, Gawkerand the rest: Trashy-ass gal named Ashli Hall-Gay, apparently one of the biggest losers in life's genetic sweepstakes, likes to make rambling, profane and patently obscene smackdown videos with her hapless sidekick, Cindy, otherwise known as Mom. Here's the story thus far, which has gone viral on YouTube, Boing Boing, Tosh. Unfortunately, this probably is more likely than it being an Ed Wood anti-masterpiece or some sort of bizarro performance art.
Unless, of course, it actually is the real deal. What appears to be an angry YouTube outbur st by knuckle-draggers is really the unexpected piéce de résistance of the bad-movie universe. 34 years after the schlockmeister's demise - R evenge of the White-Trash Half-Wits.