OK, as many of you know, there was a pretty big show this weekend. A famous band played at a wedding reception. REM. Maybe you’ve heard of them? So I guess it’s a rarity that the original 4 members get together and perform. It was a fairly newsworthy event. The AJC and CNN each ran stories about it.
I flip open this weeks Flagpole, hot off the presses, and not surprisingly, there is nary a mention of it. Stipe and company, the elephant in the room. Why would Flagpole not even mention it? It made the papers in other states fer crying out loud. My guess: REM is too popular, and therefore unhip to mention.
Why does that bother me? I dunno. It’s just that somebody conciously made the decision to withhold that bit of info. They had to think about it, and they decided to not put it in there. I’d like to know why. Just curious I guess.
One note, I did do some skimming of the magazine, so in theory I could have missed it. Especially if it was just a single sentence. Or sentence fragment.
#1 by Travis on 11/8/2005 - 10:37 am
Amen to that. Now if flagpole had announced it before hand so the rest of us could have enjoyed such an event, I would give them a pass for life on being lame.
#2 by Chris on 11/9/2005 - 9:45 am
Well, it was some dude’s wedding reception, so I wouldn’t have expected a concert announcement. Just an acknowledgement after the fact would have been nice.