After surviving another failed attempt by Harold Camping to predict the end of the world, I pretty much turn my attention to whatever is played on radio anymore. Basically on another website I got into with the 14 year olds of the flavor of the week, one Jessie J. In other words another MTV manufactured chick singer that can do ten octaves in one chorus line, which seems to be the thing of the day. See how high they can scream doesn't account for music for me and basically my thoughts were another artist destined for the dollar bins or Goodwill Clarence Sale. Again it's music for the junior high circuit and the new generation, us old fools have no use for it or can't get into it, just like Grandpa Smith couldn't get into Grand Funk Railroad but enjoyed Glenn Miller. Grandma Ambrose always had a more objective mind, I don't think she ever complained, even though my mom did when I played Medicine Man 10 times in a row.
While NPR has been playing some new bands of late, I can always say that Deer Tick isn't my band of choice either, finally turning the station after 3 minutes of some song that KUNI played featuring them. I think the Fleet Foxes might be the best of the so call new bands of jam or modern rock, but I also couldn't get into them either although their harmonies are kinda mellow and nice. Grizzly Bear was another band who had one good song and the rest was noodling around. Dawes, a band whose latest on ATO is my pick of the litter, their recent album would make Jackson Browne proud. In fact he plays on that album too.
My best friend Steve works at Godfather's Pizza and my GF had a craving for pizza so we went there Saturday Night. Perhaps in one of the big cases of radio overkill, Need You Now, the overplayed Lady Antebellum song of a few years ago was played in a 10 minute span on the worst GD station in this GD town, KDAT, along with the insufferable Take On Me by A Ha and some other piece of shit song with the lyrics were repeated over and over, can't think of the name and better off that way. However we got stuck with the Sheryl Crow overplayed First Cut Is The Deepest to which one wishes KDAT would at least play Keith Hampshire or Rod Stewart, or even Cat Stevens. It seems that I hate enough of Sheryl Crow but in the era of music of the past 20 years, Sheryl Crow seems to be the highlight of female singers of KDAT or Cumulus Radio, the monopoly assholes of Cedar Rapids Iowa. I hate Cumulus Radio more than Clear Channel since Cumulus owns the majority of stations in this God Forsaken city. I know my GF likes Need You Now since she's got a dialtone of it on her cellphone but even she said that was getting a bit overplayed. Need You Now, is this decade's version of Margaritaville or American Pie or Piano Man, a song that knows no one straight format. I can still vouch for Lady A's first album (at least the first three songs) but when songs get overplayed, they're no better than the annoying Viagara or drug commercials that make watching cable TV annoying. Maybe KDAT or John Tesh might like that song but hearing it twice in 10 minutes is overkill. Makes you wish that John Test would go back to Entertainment Tonight or play his new age music rather than bore us with the same easy listening crap that every Cumulus station shoves down our unwilling throats.
For football, The Iowa Hawkeyes outscored Indiana. Marvin McNutt had three touchdowns and Marcus Coker went over 100 yards in the first half against a hapless Hoosier Defense. Iowa's defense isn't much better, as Indiana matched them TD for TD in the first half. Plus Iowa's Defense makes anybody look like Tom Brady, just ask Steele Jantz, the Iowa State Cyclone QB that lead them a OT victory over the Hawkeyes but since then has gotten benched after getting blown out by the likes of Texas, Missouri and Texas A and M. Here's hoping Iowa gets their act together before going up to Minneapolis for a rematch with Minnesota who has only won one game all year. If the Hawkeyes can't get the Floyd Of Rosedale back, we may as well call a season. Injuries do play a role but basically, Norm Parker's crappy cover 2 and bend don't break defense have been lax all season. But it could be worse, just ask the Marion Indians which won't make it to the playoffs again this year. They lost their 4th in a row to Maquoketa 31-7.
For the NFL side of things, The San Diego Chargers blew a 14 point lead and lost to the New York Jets in what amounted to be some of the worst playing that the Chargers did all year. Mr. All Everything Phillip Rivers had a lousy clock management in the last two minutes and most of the fourth quarter to which San Diego showed a lack of urgency on the part of not getting the plays in on time. I'm not a big Rivers fan, would have been nice if A J would have kept Drew Brees and let Rivers go to some other team. However the Jets seem to get some lucky breaks judging from that 62 yard interception by Revis and Plaxico Burress having his way with crappy San Diego DBs who couldn't cover him. And seeing Rivers' fail job in the last two minutes didn't endure me to think he's as great as people perceive him to be. Next up, a return to Kansas City on Halloween Night to which I may just pass on watching it since San Diego seems to fall on their face at Arrowhead.
And so it goes, I'll be back later in the week with a new top ten and more rant and raves. It's what I do best.
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