I know the last page so well I can't read the first

I can just sing my troubles away?
but then you're fucked
'cause you gotta make a buck
and the whole world sucks
and you're like a lame duck
that's lyin' dyin' tryin' to sell out
but there's no one buyin' and there's all this doubt
and you can preen and dream and scream and shout
but your life's affliction is the fiction of Faust - Nellie Mckay


For the first time ever American Idol votes were cast from my home last night. D had a couple of dudes that he felt strongly about. As for me? tonight I'll be burning up the lines voting for Mikalah Gordon cause she reminds me of Barbara Streisand in 'What's up doc?

There's a good piece on Midnight Cowboy in the new Vanity Fair. I'm not sure we've advanced much in my lifetime as far as film goes. The best films now are either pretty safe or made outside of the big studios. It seems to me that more chances were taken in the late 60s and 70s. Midnight Cowboy would be a real tough sell today. The film is creepy, shocking and still a bit hard to watch, but it was an original.

Why are Ipods, Satellite radio, MP3s and file sharing so popular? Cause Radio sucks! It's corporate, homogenized and lifeless. Ah if radio only had a brain. Dynamic interesting radio is not going to come from maximizing earnings for shareholders, focus groups, and target marketing. Radio is (or was) at it's best when it's providing you something you didn't know you needed. Growing up my father worked in radio and I always held the belief that radio could/should be great...that dream hasn't died but it's been pushed to satellite and the internet.