So-Called Artist

In the latest Blender with MCR on the cover (issue 54, Dec 2006), the article with Jared Leto entitled "Life on Mars", a surprisingly interesting read, revived a topic that I thought was dead to me: Leto and his hatred of blogs.

In the article, the writer references the fact that Leto doesn't have a stellar reputation and that not only do some girls hate him and his band, but that bloggers do, too. His lothario ways the cause for women to curse his name, there is no mention as to why bloggers dislike the man and his band. This is something I read about several weeks ago and I almost blogged about it, but as with all things 30 Seconds to Mars- oriented I soon lost interest.

In an interview on The Feed (G4's blog) Leto stated that "blogging should die a sudden death" and then goes on to say "It used to be, to be a writer you had to have experience and talent, and learn a craft. Now anybody with an opinion, which is anyone and everyone, feels that it’s worthy. Technology is allowing people to have access to things where before it required very great skill. So there will be some interesting developments from that, and also some things that are pretty worthless. Pretty soon anybody with a cell phone is going to be able to be a news reporter." When I first read this, it struck me as a hypocritical and slightly elitist statement from a guy who, still most well-known for leaning well (fans of the show like me will get this reference) on My So-Called Life, is wanting to be a rock star. He says otherwise in the article, btw, but yeah, ok. Whatever.

Jared's interview on The Feed Was followed by a blog blitz of critical responses. Even VH1's Best Week Ever got involved, featuring the pathetic Scott Stereogum/Jared Leto confrontation at the mtvU Woodies award show. It's all old news now, but Jared managed to get quite a few people to notice him for a while during their tour before they realized that 30 Seconds to Mars is just, well, unnecessary.

When the G4 blog interview was first published, the band was about to play a date in St. Louis. J and I considered going, but were too tempted to wait afterwards and yell to the band as they got on their bus "YOU SUCK!". -K