IF YOU SUCK, AND YOU'VE SUCKED FOR OVER A YEAR, JUST STOP. PLEASE.

I'm sick of bad writers. Pick up a newspaper today and try reading some of the drivel. Forget the news stories. Newswriters are talentless hacks that just follow the reverse pyramid structure in each article to suck the readers in to looking for their by-line.

I'm talking mainly about the music writers. Actually, I'm talking about one in particular, here in the Vancouver area. I don't know who this bastard had to sleep with to get the position of music writer for The Province (an unholy peace of shit rag, just a tad more useless than The Sun).

Stuart Derdeyn is quite possibly the least informed music reporter in the world. I don't understand how someone can try to write critically about an act if they don't know the history or vision. The latest blunder this bonehead has made is to think that Queens of the Stone Age wants to be a stadium rock act. In the same paragraph he made the mistake of saying that their headlining show here earlier this year was hurt with the absence of Mark Lanegan and former member Nick Oliveri. The fact is that it was as good a rock show in a sit down venue that you will ever see. The true rockers didn't sit down all night.

Josh Homme doesn't give a shit about playing in arenas and never has. Rumours still circulate that the reason Kyuss was disbanded was because they were getting too popular and there were a lot of loser posers ending up at the show. I'll bet Derdeyn doesn't even know what the Desert Sessions are. And if you don't, then you just don't get rock & roll; go put back in your Nana Mouskouri tape.

Derdeyn's last line in a review of last night's Nine Inch Nails/QOTSA/DFA 1979 show was, "But if it [QOTSA] really plans on becoming a headlining stadium act, far more attention needs to be put into [sic] the production values that start a fire in a fans' bellies." Not only is that written in an extremely weak style, there are also spelling mistakes. Also, he didn't even mention DFA 1979; I'll bet he wasn't there.

Yeah, rock & roll needs more production. That's right. Uh huh, Avril Lavigne is rock & roll I guess.

Stuart Derdeyn, you suck more than all the vacuum cleaners in the world combined can suck. You could suck all the water in the world in to your fat head in one breath. Stop your writing. Please retire. But before you retire, maybe try getting educated on the music you write wrongly about. Then, once you're informed and retired, die.

*** I don't know the deal with the picture above. I Googled "bad writers" in Images and that's one of the first ones to pop up. Looks kind of nice. I hope it doesn't have anything to do with Nazism or animal cruelty.