Today’s meme – unmet expectations.<\/p>\n
1. What, in your experience, was the most overrated movie of all time?<\/strong><\/p>\n I may get shunned by my arty friends, but Eight 1\/2 <\/em>by Fellini left me totally cold.<\/p>\n 2. What was the most overrated album?<\/strong><\/p>\n That would have to be Sweet Baby James <\/em>by James Taylor.\u00a0 I never quite figured out what the attraction was supposed to be with Taylor.<\/p>\n 3. What is the most overrated\u00a0 book?<\/strong><\/p>\n Catcher In The Rye.\u00a0 <\/em>Yeah, I know, Salinger, important, seminal, blah blah blah.\u00a0 Left me very cold both times I read it.\u00a0 Gank.<\/p>\n 4. What is the most overrated blog?<\/strong><\/p>\n Left-wing:\u00a0 Why does anyone pay attention to Pandagon or Jesus General at all?<\/p>\n Right-wing:\u00a0 Gotta say that the Rottweiler wore thin on me very, very fast.<\/p>\n 5. What was the most overrated television show?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Bet you thought I was going to say West Wing, <\/em>right?\u00a0<\/p>\n Probably I Love Lucy.\u00a0 <\/em>“Gee – do you suppose Lucy will try to get a job with the band?\u00a0 Five bucks Ricky doesn’t react with blustery machismo…<\/em>DOH!\u00a0 Lost again!”<\/p>\n 6. What would you call the most overrated magazine?<\/strong><\/p>\n “George” was desperately awful.<\/p>\n \u00a07. Who was the most overrated classical composer?<\/strong><\/p>\n Stravinsky.\u00a0 Genius, yes, but everything he ever wrote gave me a headache.<\/p>\n 8. Who is the most overrated pop songwriter?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0My commenters were right.\u00a0 I was wrong.\u00a0 The Doors – Morrison, Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore, singularly and as a group – have this coveted title all to themselves, in a league of their own.\u00a0 I’m no Lennon fan, but let’s deny credit where no credit is truly due.<\/p>\n 9. What is the most overrated genre <\/strong>in any form of art?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Xtreem pantomime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s meme – unmet expectations. 1. What, in your experience, was the most overrated movie of all time? I may get shunned by my arty friends, but Eight 1\/2 by Fellini left me totally cold. 2. What was the most overrated album? That would have to be Sweet Baby James by James Taylor.\u00a0 I never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}John Lennon.\u00a0 Without McCartney to round off the edges of his boundless cynicism and self-absorption, he was just unbearable.\u00a0<\/strike><\/p>\n