Joan Jett

I've been listening to some Joan Jett. I've known her biggest hits, like "I Love Rock N Roll" and "Bad Reputation" because I remember when they were new in the 80s. I somehow never heard "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)" until recently, or if I had, I'd forgotten it.

It's a great song. Of course, like many Joan Jett songs, it's a cover. Something else I didn't realize even after I rediscovered it, at least for a time. And the original artist and writer was Gary Glitter and his band manager. Given that the chorus says, "Do you wanna touch? Do you wanna touch? Do you wanna touch me... there?" that's really creepy for a guy who was arrested, convicted and imprisoned for possession of child pornography and child molestation, including having a sex with a girl under the age of 13, and several other accounts of attempted rape and sexual assault. He was kicked out of Cambodia and Vietnam for child abuse. Yes, the "Me love you long time" countries kicked him out for being too perverted.

Too bad. I do like a couple of Glitter songs, but it's hard sometimes to listen to them knowing what we know now about the guy. Then again, I suspect almost all entertainers are secretly (or today, not so secretly even) absolutely terrible people. It's not like Joan Jett was a keeper either. So maybe it's a little unfair to judge him so harshly and yet let, I dunno... someone like Jared Leto have a pass. (Not to suggest that Glitter's judgement is unfair. Merely that it should also be applied to many other celebrities.)

By the way, Morbius isn't a terrible movie. It's similar to the Tom Hardy Venom. Midnight's Edge claims that to its credit it has no agenda and has no wokeness whatsoever. That's not, however, quite true. Anyone who thought that a character named Martine Bankcroft was a Hispanic woman living in an apartment that looks like it has the same interior decorator as your typical mom and pop Mexican restaurant is nuts. That's a clear case of race-swapping. Sure enough, the original character was blonde and as American as you get, as opposed to this Fake American version. The hate never stops.

But since nobody knows the Morbius characters, I suppose they thought they could get away with it and nobody would pay attention to the name, or think it odd that a population that's nearly a full standard deviation lower in IQ than the white population would produce this brilliant woman scientist. It's not impossible, just... very statistically unlikely. Then again, I suppose its statistically unlikely that a guy with a rare, unnamed terminal blood disease would turn into a vampire by taking a shot made from vampire bat DNA too.