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Long memories in Lubbock:

Ticket sales for the Lubbock sneak preview of the Dixie Chicks documentary “Shut up and Sing” are slow. After an hour and half of sales, only 22 of the 300 tickets had been sold.

Maybe nobody heard about it; after all, Lubbock only has one paper and one radio station.

Posted by Tim B. on 10/19/2006 at 09:04 AM

  1. Hey a local Austrayan radio station was GIVING Chix Tix away…
    o/t Crikey journo Chris Graham of the National Indigenous Times writes..
    “Bronwyn Bishop is a woman of great strength and is known to walk around with a bug up her arse..”????

    Posted by crash on 2006 10 19 at 09:28 AM • permalink

  2. Cue cries of censorship from the usual suspects.

    Posted by paco on 2006 10 19 at 09:32 AM • permalink

  3. Maybe you can get away with Fatalie’s schtick if you’re actually talented.

    Posted by SoberHT on 2006 10 19 at 09:43 AM • permalink

  4. Next Chix doco entitled “Shut up and buy a ticket”...

    Posted by crash on 2006 10 19 at 09:44 AM • permalink

  5. Header of the month!

    Posted by C.L. on 2006 10 19 at 09:46 AM • permalink

  6. o/t Former Austalian Defence Chief Peter Cosgrove says pulling Australian troops out of Iraq would return Iraq to the grip of tyranny.
    Walking away from Iraq,he says, would hand global terrorism a MAJOR WIN.

    Posted by crash on 2006 10 19 at 09:59 AM • permalink

  7. 300 tickets are for sale?  From the Dixie hype, you’d think that the population of Lubbock was 97, including livestock.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 19 at 10:45 AM • permalink

  8. Yep.  Next time I one of my customers complains about the service I provide, I’m going to wear a t-shirt emblazoned with a phrase showing that I’m arrogantly dismissive of their viewpoint.  Should be great for business.

    Posted by murph on 2006 10 19 at 10:55 AM • permalink

  9. pimf!!!! pimf!!!! pimf!!!! pimf!!!! pimf!!!!
    pimf!!!! pimf!!!! pimf!!!! pimf!!!! pimf!!!!

    Posted by murph on 2006 10 19 at 10:58 AM • permalink

  10. Those 22 who bought tickets are the bravest of the brave. Imagine walking past the rows of black SUVs parked around the theater, past the sinister looking men loitering around, dressed all in black, wearing reflective sun glasses, and talking furtively into their cuff links.

    Posted by ErnieG on 2006 10 19 at 11:07 AM • permalink

  11. Ugh.  If only Natalie would take her own advice and just shut up and...actually, “shut up” pretty much covers it.

    Posted by EmilyJones on 2006 10 19 at 11:36 AM • permalink

  12. Poor Natalie.  Her dissent is being crushed and no one cares, least of all those redneck bumpkins in Lubbock.  I wonder how much longer before her sister singers bail?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 10 19 at 11:55 AM • permalink

  13. Natalie is the one who will bail, as she’s the main vocalist.  She’ll try to go pop.

    The other two will then tour county fairs with Davy Jones.

    Posted by Andy Freeman on 2006 10 19 at 12:41 PM • permalink

  14. The other two will then tour county fairs with Davy Jones.

    And when that work dries up they’ll hit the bottom of the bottom for tour dates, the dreaded Indian casino circuit.

    Posted by David Crawford on 2006 10 19 at 01:57 PM • permalink

  15. Time for a switch to a more politically sympathetic musical genre. Techno, maybe? Or the insipid, pewling buzzsaw whine they call punk rock these days.

    Posted by rick mcginnis on 2006 10 19 at 02:36 PM • permalink

  16. # 13 and # 14

    With their behavior over the last few years, I’d say a more appropriate fate might be second billing to a puppet show.

    Posted by EmilyJones on 2006 10 19 at 03:11 PM • permalink

  17. "In this film, which the Dixie Chicks gave us total access to their lives, you’re going to see them with their families. You’re going to see Emily right after she gives birth to her twins. You’re going to see them with their husbands and with their friends backstage."

    Well, that would be enough for me right there even without Nat’s big mouth. Why is it these Chix think there are people in significant numbers who are even remotely interested in them, their families, their twins or their husbands much less interested enough to buy movie tickets? Frankly, they’re lucky they found 22 suckers good folks in Lubbock willing to come to their little ego fest.

    And when that work dries up they’ll hit the bottom of the bottom for tour dates, the dreaded Indian casino circuit.

    Hey, I saw rockin’ Joe Crocker, the best cover R&R artist ever, at the Pala Indian Casino (outside of Oceanside CA) a couple of years ago. The place was packed (2000-seat venue), the crowd raucous (if aged), and the concert was fabulous (Crocker’s voice doesn’t seem to have aged a bit and he’s a great entertainer). I’m betting the Indian casino circuit can be a lucrative little gig. Too good for the likes of the Chix.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 10 19 at 03:59 PM • permalink

  18. Surely the Indian Casino circuit has more...umm...class than the City That Puts Me To Sleep—Branson, MO? Then again, maybe the Chix wouldn’t be much of a hit there among the retirees, Veterans, & other assorted Patriotic Americans spending their children’s inheritances…

    Posted by KC on 2006 10 19 at 08:10 PM • permalink

  19. If your dissent is crushed and nobody is there to hear it, has your noise been suppressed?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 10 19 at 08:18 PM • permalink

  20. #17 Kyda: I like Joe Cocker, too. Do you know the story behind his tune, “Jack of Diamonds”? There are a couple of lines that I find refreshingly non-leftist - “You can stuff all your Trade Union bulls**t up your Kyber” - but I have no idea what the inspiration was.

    Posted by paco on 2006 10 19 at 08:56 PM • permalink

  21. Paco, one meeting with a Trade Unionist would have done it.  I dumped a plate of Italian into the lap of one at a dinner some years ago.  Opened his yap and ticked me off in a major way.  Just chit-chat to him, trying to impress me.  Worked, too.  I was impressed (as described above).

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 10 20 at 03:16 AM • permalink

  22. Message from Lubbock:
    Shut up and sling your hook!

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 10 20 at 06:14 AM • permalink

  23. #21: Bully for you, Salty! I’d have given twenty bucks to see it.

    Posted by paco on 2006 10 20 at 07:48 AM • permalink

  24. #13 Pop goes the Weasel....

    Posted by crash on 2006 10 22 at 08:57 AM • permalink

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