holy crap, i can't take it anymore... why do i torture myself so? everytime i come home to the comforts of satellite tv, i get my hopes up enough to dare turn it to MTV or VH1. why? why do i? you know what i am talking about john, c'mon "your body is a wonderland"...? is this the best they can do? i mean, i have a better chance of running through a monsoon and not getting wet than seeing crap that doesn't piss me immediately off on music television these days. there's another concept i don't understand, "music television", indeed. i would make a deal with them that if only HALF the crap they played was music then they could call themselves that - but i believe it would take a lot of re-tooling for them to even meet that quota. now, i realize i am among the pickiest music listeners that most of you have ever known, but i really do listen to some of everything, and i do mean everything (regardless of what you "think" is my "type" of music). but really now, i can't decide what pisses me off more, fred durst telling me how puddle of mudd (that's right two d's - i guess they just suck a little too much for one...) is one of the greatest rock bands around today - yeah, some guy who is the single biggest reason his own band blows telling me who i should like; or is it the fact that some jerk off on VH1 desribed avril lavignegeneegen as "punk rock". now, i know pnk rock really is pansy these days, but there is no way that i could be in a record store listening to Green Day's "Dookie" and a guy come up to me and say "oh, you like that? then you should check out strung out, mxpx, and avril lavigneneieninen" i think not... a DEFINATE not... and just for good measure, since she decided she can just break a beautiful (expensive) black guitar in her video (a guitar i might add that she doesn't even play) how's aboot we let her get some sort of flesh eating venerial disease and bleed to death from her... well, you know... i hope she dies cold and lonely with a heroine needle in her arm.

with that said... screw popular music... screw it. i know i am no great song writer, but i have enough common sense to know when something sucks. don't try to sell me on how great the same old whiney crap in a new coating is the next best/big thing. and for the record VH1 guy - creed's newest video is NOT "hard rock meets Lord of the Rings"; if that was the case then Aragon would slice little scotty stapp's balls off so he couldn't contaminate the rest of the world with his continually boring and droning lyrics... don't you think?

that's all for now - but as for me, as always, keeping it real... REAL real...