BANGS TO NATURE: DROP DEAD! Concerning Lester Bangs' "John Denver is God." What an absurd piece of criticism! A very pretentious, pseudo-intellectual & illogical bit of nonsense. The essence of Lester Bangs' (What can you expect with a name like this — undoubtedly one of the spindly-legged, pimple-faced indoor types) remarks is this:
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BANGS TO NATURE: DROP DEAD! Concerning Lester Bangs' "John Denver is God." What an absurd piece of criticism! A very pretentious, pseudo-intellectual & illogical bit of nonsense.
The essence of Lester Bangs' (What can you expect with a name like this — undoubtedly one of the spindly-legged, pimple-faced indoor types) remarks is this:
He is sensitive to the stink of cities & city mentalities. To sing of the computer or refuse heap is good — to sing of the beauty of nature is evil.
This cutesy bit of illogic is put forward as if it is deep thinking — but anyone can see through this.
If this is true to Lester Bangs it is because his spindly little legs have never carried him into nature. He is so depressed because of his name that he hates the-sunlight and anyway it makes his pimples pink and the wind messes his thin and frizzy hair — the only times that sunlight has brought tears to his eyes is when he forgets to cover his myopic red-rimmed little eyeballs with sunglasses —