day 54, and still not a fresh fruit or vegetable. i'm just getting cranky now for lack of proper nutrition. but since the only person i can take it out on now is myself, why it seems pretty pointless to be cranky.
i've watched vh1's '50 most awesomely bad songs' twice now. if you haven't yet viewed this, i would highly recommend it. being reminded of such gems as 'rico suave' and the new kids' 'hangin' tough,' brought smiles and laughter to me faster than anything has, lately. and i think it was almost noble of them to put toby keith's 'courtesy of the red white and blue' or whatever it's called, on the list. he just sings so meaningfully, 'we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the american way.' this is why country music always gets associated with rednecks... however, a couple of their choices were disappointing, like crash test dummies' 'mm mm mm mm,' and 4 non blondes' 'what's up.' and, although the name 'billy joel' usually makes me shudder (and not in the good way), i think 'we didn't start the fire' is actually a really great song.
the guy who knows a million random things says the song was written in response to someone who said to billy joel that nothing culturally significant had happened since world war two.
so yeah, i hope some day to write a song that's remembered, even if it's mislabeled 'awesomely bad.' and i'd call a few of my oldies pretty bad. so here's hoping... so i know what the studio album will be called, and am trying to write the title track. i've written the song ('another light,' for the curious) a few times, but nothing has been right so far. back to the drawing board for me. songs have been hard to come by after the recent hospital trauma and everyone saying, 'you should use this time to write your new album!' oh, yeah, cause it's that easy... but anyways, i still am trying. hopefully it won't come out awesomely bad, just awesome.
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