Radio Fail

I'll get to part IV of my regional beer profile series tomorrow. Those things take a little while to do and I am sipping on a beer, watching the Yankee game right now. Not feeling like doing a damn thing. Which is nice.

But I have to quickly mention that I was listening to the radio in the car the other day. Regular FM radio. Weird because we usually listen to XM radio, but I hadn't done it in a while and I wanted to see what was out there.

The answer is nothing.

I couldn't find a single station worth listening to. So I started to play with the dial. I came across one station that was playing a song just beginning. It sounded really familiar so I hovered there for a moment. Turned out to be "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor. Disgusted, I moved on.

Then I thought about it for a moment. Whoe the fuck are they playing "Eye of the Tiger" for in June of 2009? I mean, what exactly is that demographic*? I wanna know. What kind of retard is still groovin' to "Eye of the Tiger" in this day and age? Seriously!

*UPDATE: Apparently, just about everyone else but me, according to my comments. Sigh! - Earl

And I'm not just busting on the era. The next station I landed on I stuck with for awhile. The first song that was playing was Prince's "Raspberry Beret" and the next was Bon Jovi's "Wanted: Dead or Alive". And while those two tunes would never find their way onto my iPod, I had a decent enough time singing along to them by myself in the car. And I understand the chasm that exists talent-wise between Prince (and Bon Jovi, I guess) and Survivor. My point is that there are good songs and good artists from that era.

But "Eye of the Tiger" isn't that fucking song, and Survivor isn't that fucking artist! It was a horrendous song by a mediocre band only made popular by an overrated, popular film. Period.

I ask you, dear readers, what would anyone possibly want to listen to this crap today? Is there really someone out there that still digs this? I don't get it.

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Note: Remember to play the Bug-Eyed Trivia Challenge every day. Survivor. On the radio. In 2009!!!

Election Day Hangover

Congrats to Barack Obama on his historic win tonight! I really didn't expect it to get called so soon. That means I should be able to sleep tonight. Best of luck to John McCain in the future!

I'm sure I will be dealing with an Election Day hangover tomorrow. How's about you? Hopefully the candidates of your choice won. Unless they ran against my candidates. Just keepin' it real.

You know what would really kill my poor head today? Swinging a freaking wooden chair around my head using only my teeth and jaws!

Elvis Mokko would disagree.

Yeah, I know. This video has been all over the Internet in the past couple of days. But did you watch the last minute of it? That's fucking bad-ass!

Derek Reese

Edit - Rather than an in-depth analysis of the bullshit slung at tonight's Presidential Debate, I give you in-depth analysis of Brian Austin Green. You are most welcome! - Earl

If anyone had told me 15 years ago that Brian Austin Green would star in one of my favorite TV shows AND that he would play my favorite character on the show, well...I probably would have had an aneurysm.

He and his character in Beverly Hills, 90210 typified the worst of the worst of the 1990's, in my opinion. The guy was a joke. Yet he continued to work fairly steadily in television and film once that evil show was finally fucking cancelled. Stuff that I never watched, but he continued to get work.

Then he showed up on the fifth episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles as the time traveling uncle of John Connor and the brother of Kyle Reese. At first, I hated the choice. As I stated, he was everything that I hated about the Melrose Place era of American television.

But he has won me over.

The past two episodes, in particular, he has done an outstanding job projecting a damaged, war-ravaged individual dealing with an awful lot in his life. Since the show has gone backwards on the Cameron character (I'm beginning to wonder if Summer Glau has the chops to play this role the way it should be played), Derek Reese has become my favorite character on the show. And I'm beginning to forget that he is Brian Fucking Austin Fucking Green, to tell you the truth.

And I would never have predicted that to happen. Not even if had one of them there fancy time travel machines.