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Mediahohoho
12/10/09

In reply to Carrie Underwood's Esquire Feature Suggests Deep, Lurking Depression
There's always Karaoke night at the local bar, sweetie.
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fatmonalisa
12/10/09

In reply to Carrie Underwood's Esquire Feature Suggests Deep, Lurking Depression
I've met Carrie Underwood a few times and she was always meaner than she was depressed.
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WalterPater
12/10/09

@fatmonalisa: She's just trying to hide the pain.
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fatmonalisa
12/10/09

@WalterPater: Eh? I saw her freak out over some really inane shit.
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WalterPater
12/10/09

@fatmonalisa: That comment was made with tongue firmly in cheek.

For the record, the only thing I find more irritating than celebrities whining about awful their lives are is ordinary Americans complaining about the same. Seriously people, if you haven't been buried underneath the corpses of slaughtered loved ones, and slept there quietly in order to make sure the people who killed your family wouldn't realize you're still alive, you've got it better than a whole lot of folks.
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Pope John Peeps II
12/10/09

In reply to Carrie Underwood's Esquire Feature Suggests Deep, Lurking Depression
Oh is your incredibly high-paying job really hard on widdle itsy you? Why don't you give it up and try being say... a night janitor for a couple of weeks? That should give you some fresh perspective. Some fresh, much-needed perspective that would stop you from being such a goddamn child.
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CrayonSmoothie
12/10/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Your (lack of) depth of experience is showing. You should look to that.
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Pope John Peeps II
12/10/09

@CrayonSmoothie: Kiss off, smoothie. I don't get on your case when you simper, don't get on mine when I'm a misanthrope. Live and let live.

EDIT: this actually brings up a point that infuriates me. People treat celebrities like they're somehow "being used" and not in control of their actions when in fact, they're fully formed adults who are simply being retarded.

Nobody would treat a criminal as if they weren't in control of their actions, or a Governor who fucked an intern? Why is it that I'm forced to have pity for fucking celebrities? Fuck that. I've made poor life choices and nobody is to blame for them but myself. That's what being human is about. Realizing your will and taking action.

Hey Underwood - if you don't like the life, serve out your contract then GET OUT OF IT.
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CrayonSmoothie
12/10/09

@Pope John Peeps II: I was just sayin...
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ss_1318
12/10/09

In reply to Carrie Underwood's Esquire Feature Suggests Deep, Lurking Depression

Yeah, being filthy rich and loved by millions has got to be a fucked up life.

Who'd want it?!

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CrayonSmoothie
12/10/09

@ss_1318: Ask Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Bradley Nowell, Jimi Hendrix, Mama Cass, Bonn Scott, Phil Lynott....shall I go on?
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Island of Misfit Toys
12/10/09

@CrayonSmoothie: And the list of filthy rich famous people who didn't die young/get fucked up by drugs runs into the thousands.
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noonecaresowen
12/10/09

In reply to Carrie Underwood's Esquire Feature Suggests Deep, Lurking Depression
"What I've Learned" has always just been a list of quotes and has never been a profile.

Of the 25+ quotes, less than a third are "depressing". The rest is fairly interesting and worth the read. I was particularly impressed by this:

"Americans don't need Carrie Underwood telling them who to vote for. They're smarter than that."

Granted, not terribly profound, but how often do you hear a celebrity say that?
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CrayonSmoothie
12/10/09

@noonecaresowen: I remember, years ago, when Brad Pitt did the movie "Seven Years In Tibet", 'Time' Magazine interviewed him about the movie and asked him what his views were on the contemporary political situation in Tibet.

Paraphrasing his answer from memory (damn near the quote): "Who cares what I think. I'm just an actor."
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Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
12/10/09

@CrayonSmoothie: I bet if you asked him now, he would give you a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT answer.
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CrayonSmoothie
12/10/09

In reply to Carrie Underwood's Esquire Feature Suggests Deep, Lurking Depression
Sounds like a good kid with a good heart who's being badly used by the worst kind of people (my second post tonight about people).

Somebody could take away her phone and she'd be completely isolated? Is that something she's been threatened with?

"It's hard to find people who don't want something from you."

Yeah, especially when those are the only kind of people allowed to be near you and they have power over you too.

"Nobody's going to tell me that my dog doesn't love me."

Sooooooo....has she been told that nobody else loves her? By whom?

I'm sad and angry now.
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Atilla the Bun
12/10/09

@CrayonSmoothie: I don't know about that. I've heard that she is quite savvy and can be a stone-cold bitch.
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CrayonSmoothie
12/10/09

@Atilla the Bun: She is 26 years old. Could she be so controlled at that age? I wonder.

Howard Hughes was no pushover and certainly no kid yet look what happened to him. I'm just saying, anyone can be isolated and manipulated.

You could be right though. Is there an angle here we're not seeing?

Plus I watched 'Taxi Driver' for the umpteenth time about two weeks ago.
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Mike Byhoff
12/10/09

In reply to Carrie Underwood's Esquire Feature Suggests Deep, Lurking Depression
This hair won't be on my head for long.
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badasscat
12/10/09

In reply to Carrie Underwood's Esquire Feature Suggests Deep, Lurking Depression
I've seen basements, I've seen concrete, I've seen pillars.

Uh... and what are we to make of this then?
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CrayonSmoothie
12/10/09

@badasscat: She's traveled around the country as a big CW star. She is taken from a private jet, funneled into a limo with tinted windows which drives into the concrete parking garage of a big hotel in each city then she's funneled into an elevator up to her room. From there, back down to the basement, then the limo then the basement area below the arena where the stage is for that event.

The rooms are always the same. Maybe the same hotel chain for security reasons. What she probably remembers most is the concrete and the concrete pillars of the parking garage in the cold, humming glow of fluorescent lights.
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dSiz
12/10/09

@badasscat: As someone who has been on tour (though trust, mine wasn't that serious and was part of a group) it's still a bizarre scenario. Being on tour is a stream of buses and planes and practicing and shows and practicing and refining and on and on. I personally never knew what state I was in unless I took out the little pamphlet of scheduled events. I didn't know the date or the day, but even then it didn't matter because Sunday is the same as Thursday is the same as Monday. You can't take away what the experience actually is, but damn, touring is a sincerely bananas mind warp.
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IamnotStarJones
12/10/09

In reply to Carrie Underwood's Esquire Feature Suggests Deep, Lurking Depression
Jesus will be taking the wheel shortly.
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the lesser of two weevils
12/10/09

In reply to Carrie Underwood's Esquire Feature Suggests Deep, Lurking Depression
I can't admit that Taylor Swift has replaced me.
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DahlELama
12/10/09

In reply to Carrie Underwood's Esquire Feature Suggests Deep, Lurking Depression
God, that is bleak--poor lonely soul. And thanks for preserving the bold; that page is one of my favorite parts of Esquire and I'm pretty sure half the magic is in the font.
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noonecaresowen
12/10/09

@DahlELama: Have you read the Jack Nicholson one? That's probably my favorite.
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valet_of_the_dolls
12/10/09

@noonecaresowen: The Faye Dunaway is pretty awesome as well.
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DahlELama
12/10/09

@noonecaresowen: Not sure, but I'll definitely search the archives and check it out! I vaguely remember being intrigued by Clint Eastwood's but Jack Nicholson's not ringing a bell.
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shostakobitch
05/08/09

In reply to McG Still Calling Himself McG; New Terminator is About Yelling?
mcg is the city of santa monica, personified.
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