Live Earth on turf

I feel about as happy as the dog above, after tangling with a porcupine.

With all the cities in North America, Al Gore and his team have elected to have the North American Live Earth concert in... Giants Stadium? I'm underfrickingwhelmed.

I couldn't believe it when I read the news today. Philly, New York, Washington, D.C. are just a few of the cities that would have made for an amazingly cool show. Instead, the concert is held in a giant ashtray. Yay.

If I owned a dog, I'd feel like someone just kicked it. I refuse to believe that this concert could not have been held at a more attractive venue. But, so be it - it's too late now to do anything about it .

I still support Live Earth and what the concert stands for, and more importantly, what it's promoting, but I really doubt I'm going to go. Maybe it will be on the Web or something.

The concert is on all seven continents, so I'm sure there will be some cool stuff on the Web surrounding the show.

To be blunt, the North American line-up blows anyway.

This is who London gets:
BEASTIE BOYS
BLACK EYED PEAS
BLOC PARTY
CORINNE BAILEY RAE
DAMIEN RICE
DAVID GRAY
DURAN DURAN
FOO FIGHTERS
GENESIS
JAMES BLUNT
JOHN LEGEND
KEANE
MADONNA
PAOLO NUTINI
RAZORLIGHT
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
SNOW PATROL

And this is the Jersey line-up:
AFI
AKON
ALICIA KEYS
BON JOVI
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
FALL OUT BOY
JOHN MAYER
KANYE WEST
KELLY CLARKSON
KT TUNSTALL
LUDACRIS
MELISSA ETHERIDGE
RIHANNA
ROGER WATERS
SHERYL CROW
SMASHING PUMPKINS
THE POLICE

Okay, I partially take that back - the Jersey show doesn't completely blow, but the London line-up is much stronger. I'm happy DMB will be performing, but I can see the Dave Matthews Band any time. No one else really stands out for me when looking at this list.

Sigh. I might still go, but I'm just not all that excited about the acts or the location.

I strongly support Gore and applaud him for what he's doing - the global warming activist in me thinks this is a wonderful thing.

The concert lover in me is non-plussed; mostly by the venue.

Another quick word on the venue that I'd be remiss to not mention. Originally, Gore wanted to have the North American show in Washington, D.C. on the mall. I think it would have been a fabulous backdrop to bring attention to this important global issue.

Of course, global warming denier Jim Inhofe worked his black magic, successfully blocking the show, stating that "political causes" shouldn't be allowed to hold a concert on the mall. What an affront to democracy, free speech and political expression this man is. He's a national disgrace.

I wonder, if the concert would have been to support the War in Iraq, or advocating banning abortion or gay marriage, if Inhofe would have the same political view on the concert being held on the mall? Of course not.

He's the type of "legislator" who is bad for America. He's vehemently anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, and a global warming denier. He received the second most amount of funding from the oil and gas lobby that last time he ran for reelection.

Congratulations, Senator Inhofe. You've now succeeded Rick Santorum as the senator that most Democrats and liberals love to point to when talking about extremism in the Republican Party. Maybe the people in Oklahoma will wake up and throw this bum out of office next year.

If it were up to morons like Inhofe, we would not have had Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's march on Washington - it would have been "too political," right senator?