In a recent interview with G4's The Feed, 30 Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto - once upon a time the hot star of television and film - opened up on his feelings about blogs and those who write them.

"No, I think that blogging should die a sudden death....It's just ridiculous. It's like a playground for four-year-olds. People say and do things in the world of blogs that they would never do in real life, and I think it's a false experience....

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. The blog is yesterday's parachute pants. It's here now but it's gone tomorrow....

Sometimes it's interesting, but most of the time the bloggers themselves are just trying to get famous so they can make some money and sell advertising dollars and duping these poor people who are on the internet all day long."

Please allow this blogger to reserve judgement on your music and new image, Jared. It's just too easy.

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Elenor

AWESOME

Chicago, IL

SEP 21, 2006 06:09 PM

It used to be, to be a writer you had to have experience and talent, and learn a craft.

Oh, the irony.

Moonrabbit

Kingston, ON

February 2005

SEP 21, 2006 06:27 PM

i want his shirt... Who is this guy?

PRockGirlScout

Hawaii National Park, HI

October 2005

SEP 21, 2006 06:28 PM

Thanks alot SG for ruining my chances with Jared Leto. You couldn't have kept calling them journals, could you? COULD YOU?! *cries*

jim48

New York, NY

May 2004

SEP 21, 2006 06:35 PM

Great, now American Psycho's Paul Allen is a douchebag, too...

bean

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

SEP 21, 2006 06:42 PM

Bwahahahhaha!

Oh no! People can write things, and other people who find those things interesting can let them know, and easily pass those things on to their friends...it's horrifying!

mamet

Charleston, SC

March 2005

SEP 21, 2006 06:43 PM

Translation: STOP WRITING MEAN THINGS ABOUT ME!!!!!!

DhD_No_Pants

Katy, TX

May 2006

SEP 21, 2006 06:45 PM

I am all the day with my blog up.

legionnaire

United Kingdom

November 2003

SEP 21, 2006 06:46 PM

It's the price of free speech. When it becomes politically and technologically possible for virtually anyone to disseminate their own words, there's going to be plenty of garbage to sort through in order to find anything worthwhile. But if only one intelligent blog results from the whole flood of words that the internet has made available, it was worth it.

Besides, how is Leto in any way qualified to decide what is and isn't good writing?

elk_pop

Reno, NV

April 2005

SEP 21, 2006 06:46 PM

I like watching the scene in Fight Club where Edward Norton continuely introduces his fists to Leto's face, over and over and over. That was a bittersweet casting.

elysianfielder

Los Angeles, CA

March 2003

SEP 21, 2006 06:52 PM

I don't know who this Jared Leto guy is, but I agree. Blogs are fucking lame. I won't even say the word "blog" aloud because it's such a stupid fucking word.

twiglet

United Kingdom

December 2005

SEP 21, 2006 06:55 PM

sorry but i find 'blogs' 100% tedious, of sheer personal self worth that are retardedly self promoting, ego inflating (well if you get any readers). i can agree with him totally and have no remorse what so ever.

you don't like what someone in shitville, usa. wrote about you? who gives two tonnes of fuck? thats right, no-one... there are a billion cunts with no fucking clue, a billion cunts with their view, and another billion cunts with no fucking clue... who cares? well you aparently.

for shame.

Darke

Trego, WI

June 2005

SEP 21, 2006 06:58 PM

And thousands of pubescent girls LAUNCH their computers into the backyard pool...

StarryEyedDan

Lethbridge, AB

November 2005

SEP 21, 2006 07:01 PM

Blogs ARE fucking stupid. Go outside and talk to somebody you fuckin creepers!
hahaha

Drake

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

SEP 21, 2006 07:02 PM

elysianfielder said:
I don't know who this Jared Leto guy is, but I agree. Blogs are fucking lame. I won't even say the word "blog" aloud because it's such a stupid fucking word.

Yeah, I cringe a little at that too, and when I hear words like "blogosphere" and "blogiversary" I can usually taste bile. HOWEVER I think the cream of the Blogosphere rises to the top, and there is a lot of stuff out there worth reading that would otherwise never gain exposure.

dont_panic

Phoenix, AZ

January 2005

SEP 21, 2006 07:09 PM

i usually dislike the trite philosophy of, "if you don't like it, don't read it", but for the most part it's true.

NyckyJane

Fredericksburg, VA

September 2006

SEP 21, 2006 07:12 PM

yep dudes a douchebag! It used to be you had to have talent to be an actor an die your eye brows platn blonde now all the cool kids are doing it1 haha

Tornateaux

Fort Campbell, KY

August 2006

SEP 21, 2006 07:17 PM

elk_pop said:
I like watching the scene in Fight Club where Edward Norton continuely introduces his fists to Leto's face, over and over and over. That was a bittersweet casting.

That was, hands down, the best 20 seconds of film to come out of America in the last 100 years.

StarBelliedBoy

Philadelphia, PA

December 2003

SEP 21, 2006 07:18 PM

What a jackass. People shouldn't be allowed to express themselves!

TomG

San Diego, CA

October 2005

SEP 21, 2006 07:34 PM

WTF, Jordan CAN read

Alyk

Boston, MA

February 2005

SEP 21, 2006 08:27 PM

Well, I hate stupid fucking silver crocs, so I guess Jared and I are even.

Darke

Trego, WI

June 2005

SEP 21, 2006 08:31 PM

Alyk said:
Well, I hate stupid fucking silver crocs, so I guess Jared and I are even.

crocs? is that what those things are called? whoa, I just called them ugly plastic shoes.

dkmfc

Germany

January 2003

SEP 21, 2006 08:32 PM

jordan catalano? is that you?

Bastardo

Boston, MA

January 2005

SEP 21, 2006 08:36 PM

Alyk said:
Well, I hate stupid fucking silver crocs, so I guess Jared and I are even.

Jesus fucking Christ, guys wear crocs? Really?

dkmfc

Germany

January 2003

SEP 21, 2006 08:38 PM

The_Bastard said:

Jesus fucking Christ, guys wear crocs? Really?

next he'll be wearing jellies.

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