Thursday, May 18, 2006

The Ordinary Fear of TOFOG


If there's one thing that's really stupid, it's media critics who assume a person in any creative genre can only be allowed to excel in that medium.
Maybe it's because many critics are not creative to begin with — like parasites they sponge their miserable existence off the success of others.
Truth is, creativity spills into all aspects of the creative person's life from the way they dress, cook dinner, to the way they arrange desktop music playlists.
Look at the drubbing Russell Crowe and his band TOFOG have gotten in mainstream American press. Sorry, he can only be a brilliant actor, not a music star too. DUH!
I'm here to TESTIFY (I know, gratuitous reference to the great song off My Hand My Heart) that not only is his music great, his lyrics haunting and poetic, but his band is one of the most electric bands I've seen in concert (saw them in August 2001 at the famed Stone Pony).
Back then they were Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts. Now with some new members they're known as The Ordinary Fear of God. (Very thoughtful of Russell for all of us with TOFOG T-shirts and bumper stickers.) Ignore the critics; make up your own mind about Russell Crowe's music. His wife Danielle Spencer also multitask's creatively. (What a beautiful voice.)

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