Kinetic

I'm a cook/waiter at the moment. I actually work on that block, across the street from Schoolkids Records. I went out to a kind of hip bar on Saturday night (no one even mentioned the monumental Georgia victory over Florida earlier in the day) and didn't really have such a great time. And I had a ferocious hangover. It felt not worth it somehow.

What?

What the fuck are you people talking about? Plinko?

B@rtok is taking everyone to task. It's about time someone used a bit of frontier justice...cleaned this place up a bit. And, yeah, Slayer. That was a rare misstep.

The thing that makes Colbert and his show not just funny but actually above criticism is that he would use your saturation argument against you. Imagine a faux hard news piece involving a sponge.

I enjoy his show a lot more than "The Daily Show."

I've always considered this song unnecessary at the end of The Queen Is Dead, but the title pops into my head a lot.

Yeah, I think the luxury of distance and the cheese factor make "One Week" more annoying than, say, the Blondie song "Rapture," which also contains an embarrassing rap interlude. Pre-late-80s stuff rarely offends me as much as stuff that I actually remember.

I haven't heard any Neutral Milk Hotel. Very little B-52s. It's weird...you see all of these impeccably-dressed sorority girls vomiting in the streets at about 4 in the morning. There's plenty of drinking in Asheville, but there's such an undercurrent of hippiedom running through everything...people were too baked at 4 in the morning to be doing anything.

Yeah, it was The Three Musketeers. Oddly, that probably wasn't the low point of anyone's career.

Wasn't there a song with Michael Bolton, Rod Stewart, Sting, and Bryan Adams in some movie? It could well have been Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but I don't remember.

They plan a lot of REM in the bars here. That seems tacky to me. There are rumors that there's an occasional Michael Stipe sighting at certain bars here. I don't know what I'd do if I saw Michael Stipe, other than mention it here.

I don't know who Chris Coey is. I hear they have good ice cream sandwiches in jail, though.

Barenaked Ladies- "One Week". Hands down, the song that irritates me the most. It's a garbage nerd anthem, that rap portion is atrocious, and it brings otherwise suppressed high school memories bubbling to the surface. Also: The Kid Rock-Sheryl Crow duet, "I Put Your Picture Away." Particularly the "I WAS SPOSED TO DRINK YOU AWAY..." outburst about halfway through. Shania Twain's "That Don't Impress Me Much." Basically anything with a speaking or rapping interlude. "Rockabye." There's a piece of crap.

They're also giving all of our water to endangered fish. Don't forget about them.

Oh, well, my girlfriend is doing grad school stuff at UGA. After the historic week-long Smashing Pumpkins residency in Asheville ended, there was really no reason to stick around up there. Athens is, uh...I don't think I've seen the good side of the place yet. It just seems like it's hot and there are frat boys everywhere and it never rains.

Florida just sandwiched its somewhat improbable BCS Championship win with back-to-back basketball National Championships. That's not bad. I don't see the Celtics beating any of the top Western Conference teams in the Finals, BC isn't getting anywhere near a BCS title, and the Pats are still just seven wins into a sixteen game season, plus the playoffs. It all looks good now, but only the Red Sox are anywhere near actually winning any championships.

Mike Gundy has convinced me to give it another shot.

Where are my manners? I hope he didn't see that.

I'm already thinking about how I'm going to phrase this anecdote once Ms. Skye becomes a huge pop sensation. I'm thinking of leaving out the phrase "Scott Keith's biggest fan."

It looked like Chuck wanted to sock him. By which I mean that it looked like he wanted to hit--or punch--him.

Not knowing anything about current Top 40 makes me feel out of touch. I remember seeing a commercial for a NOW! That's What I Call Music a few years ago and not being familiar with any of the songs. I felt like an old person who's willfully ignorant of anything current based on the assumption that it'll be bad. I had to get back into the now.

Just listened to Blueberry Boat for the first time. This shit is terrible.

Really, game shows? I had no idea. So there's Barbra Streisand, Cher, Dolly Parton, Judy Garland, colored hankies, tapping your foot in a bathroom stall, and now game shows. Everything that I enjoy is gay.

Quinn Gray will get the start for Jacksonville against the Bucs. Judging by what I saw on Monday night, this is good news. And we get another quarterback black hole the next week in Arizona, so we could easily be riding a two-game win streak into the bye. Garcia still hasn't thrown an interception.