She'll say I'm not so tough just because I am up hearing Uptown Girl....

On 103.3 on the Oldies station, at about 4:30 AM on March 24, 2007, Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" was playing. On 105.7, the station that plays "Songs you grew up with", Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" was playing, at about 4:30 AM. I first thought it was some sort of Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Frequency with Dennis Quaid and James Cavazaviel... you know who I mean...thing happening.

But no, it was just sucky music that gets played too much and another an affirmation that at 4:30 in the morning, if you are up because of insomnia, you should avoid the radio because 2 stations within 2.5 clicks of each other are playing "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel and none is playing "Uptown" by Prince, a song I grew up with. "Uptown" is 110 times better because he gets laid.

Three pop culture thoughts.

Do you think Fred Durst has a lot of spare time?

Do you think that, at some level, Tom Cruise realizes that almost all of the movies he has been in are not worth seeing?

Do you think that Queen Latifah, who has managed to turn sass and a little talent into a movie career, knows that I liked her in "Last Holiday."

You have got to be kidding me...

I am reading a novel based on the Star Wars movies. I sometimes cannot sleep, and I turn to really, really poorly written novels to make me nod off. The Star Wars novel I am reading at the moment has a disclaimer: "All characters are fictional and any resemblance to real persons, events, places is entirely coincidental...blah blah blah."

Now, come on, am I the only one who thinks that, in such cases, it is not necessary to include such a disclaimer? If you DID see any parallels between the characters and real people, places, etc., you probably don't realize that you are reading a novel, probably have every episode of Xena, Warrior Princess on VHS, and have not left your apartment in months.

Why do they play this stuff?

For no particular reason and in no particular order, here are the singers and bands that really have worn out their radio welcome:

U2*
Crosby Stills and Nash
Elton John
Billy Joel
The Eagles.
Whenever these come on the radio, I change the station. If you have insomnia, like I often do, turn on the radio. You will here these somewhere, I guarantee.



*Except for Sunday, Bloody Sunday