Are You ready for some Football

Just finished my first Fantasy NFL Draft of the year. Got Rudi Johnson and Edgerin James in rounds 1 and 2. And how about Willis McGahee in round 3. My receivers and QB suck. But hey, 3 great backs could go a long way. While we're on the subject of football, I heard on TV this morning, that NBC has signed up Pink to sing the intro song for Sunday Night Football, which will be a remake of Joan Jett's "I Hate Myself for Loving You". Um... very strange to say the least. I mean, they couldn't actually get Joan Jett to do it. I know she's on tour (she played CBGB's recently) and did some work on Peaches new album, but seriously, I'm sure she's available. And Pink? Are they trying to get this party started in the gayest way possible? I know Monday night football is moving to ESPN, but will they take the great intro song by Hank Williams Jr. with them, "All My Rowdy Friends Are Here for Monday Night". There's just nothing like that intro, "Are you ready for some Footballlllll"


So, has anyone seen that Osama Bin Laden has a thing for Whitney Houston. Going so far as to say he's thought of having Bobby Brown taken out of the picture to have her to himself. Yikes! I wonder who's perogative that is. Anyhow, I'm wondering if Osama would still love his Whitney if he saw this video. Also, which Whitney, the early cute innocent " I Wanna Dance With Somebody" or that crazy cracked out, singing to herself, Whitney, we saw on "Being Bobby Brown". By the way, has anyone seen this creepy video of Serge Gainsbourg telling Whitney he wants to bang her? Freaky stuff, I tell you. Though I love how he said, "You're Not Reagan, I'm Not Gorbachov. So don't try it. "


I am bummed, since my trip to Wyoming and Montana earlier this month, I'm just down on almost all beers. And it's all because of Fat Tire.

"Like the ageless delight of pedaling a bicycle, Fat Tire Amber Ale’s appeal is in its feat of balance: Toasty malt flavors (sorta like biscuits just pulled from the oven) coasting in equilibrium with crisp hoppiness. Delicious stability - in the world of sometimes-precarious beer flavors – is perhaps what prompted one consumer who wrote us to say, “this beer just makes you smile.”

It's a great beer made in Colorado. Sadly, you couldn't bring any back on the plane, with the new liquid restrictions on airlines. You also can't get it shipped, and it's not imported anywhere outside of like 4 or 5 states bordering Colorado.


Did we not learn anything from the debacle that was, From Justin To Kelly ? So, why are those damn TV execs. trying to fool us into thinking that any movie telling us the story of American Idol winner Fantasia, would be in the least bit interesting? Come on! That's like watching paint dry, but in the ghetto. Nothing good can come from this. If anything, they need to make a movie where Taylor Hicks gets beat down by some drunken Ford pickup truck owners. Or how about a scantly clad Katherine McPhee doing anything? I mean, anything, shoot, even beating the crap out of the aforementioned Hicks would be entertaining. Why?



I've been loving this Mew record, and I don't mean, the acronym of "Messaging in the Emacs World". I happened to find a copy on sale for $8.99 at the Virgin Megastore on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood on my recent trip. And man, what a great disc, which is actually not so new. A friend of mine turned me on to this band and this album And The Glass Handed Kites , last year. And though it's just been released here in the US, it's been available in their native Denmark for quite some time. From the opening "Circuitry Of The Wolf" and "Chinaberry Tree" this record pulses with a great loud soft dynamic, and ethereal vocals, sounding somewhat like what it's title sticker says, "Sounding like a mix of the Cocteau Twins and Sonic Youth. They will be back in the US to play some dates with Kasabian, who I may say, have utterly disapointed with their new single. I'm hoping that's just one bad song on a decent album. Mew good, Kasabian, eh!
September
17th: Boston, MA, Paradise Rock Club
20th: New York, NY, Webster Hall
21st: Philadelphia, PA, Theatre of Living Arts