WOULD YOU ELECT THIS MAN?
Move over, Barack. There's new competition for the youth vote. Declaring his presidential candidacy this week: Foo Fighters' singer and Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl.
The hirsute rock star declares his White House ambitions in an interview in this month's Harp magazine. Grohl pitches himself as the ideal agent of change -- actually he takes it a step futher, promising "to be the president that takes change and changes it over and over again." Grohl also pledges to make America safe for emo kids and goth kids, to pardon Foxy Brown and Boy George, and to pass a law making war illegal. One final key plank in his platform: That one day per week be set aside for the country to have a family-style barbecue.
Taking a page perhaps from Obama, Grohl confesses to Harp his history with "substances." No cocaine, mind you, but "'shrooms," acid and "fields of marijuana."
Yet pause to reflect on a Grohl administration. Besides obvious tweaks on convention -- surely "Hail To The Chief" would be changed to "Everlong" -- isn't it clear that the War on Drugs would be replaced by the War on Nickelback?
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Wormajor says
thanx ben, but i am not old enough to be president =)sign the petition, and Rock Out! ---B
http://musicnation.com/forums/thread?id=3358
The Altruistic Messiah ~ Ben Vandagriff ~ The CEO of Rock & Roll ! says
WORMAJOR / PETTY 2008 !!!!!!