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I'm updating this from work...at 745am no less...because I've been meaning to do so for a while.
First of all, I drove by a Dunkin Donuts a few nights ago with a sign out front that said, "Now brewing all our coffee with bottled water!"...it grossed me out. It immediately made me realize that all those 6,000 cups of coffee I've drank from Dunkin Donuts over the last 26 years were NOT brewed with bottled water. I never, ever thought of that before...ever. But now I"m just assuming they collected the water out of the urinal or something. You know what D&D? If you want to use bottled water, you don't gotta tell me, alright. Just fuckin' do it, and we'll just pretend that I now don't assume that the last 80 gallons of your coffee I drank were filled with E-Coli.
Spin Magazine did their list of the "20 Most Influential People in Rock Music of the last 20 Years" a few weeks ago. It was pretty idiotic. There were your average ones you'd expect; Bono, Anthony Kedis, Eddie Vedder...but then it just got stupid and self-satisfying from there. Of course they needed someone from Nirvana...and I think Kurt's still dead...so instead of going with the obvious choice, Dave Grohl, who has since become known as probably the best rock drummer of the last 20 years and sold over 10 million albums with his new band, they pick Chris Novacelick...the Nirvana bassist who, last time I checked was pumping gas and fighting with Courtney Love over who gets to introduce the Nirvana MTV Unplugged special on MTV. What the hell has Chris Novacelick done for music that makes him one of the most influential people of the last 20 years? Obviously Grohl was unavailable for an interview, or flat out didn't want to do it because he's tired of being questioned about Nirvana when he's easily become one of music's most motivating factors in several ways that had nothing to do with the long-dead grunge band...I found it highly annoying...it just got stupider though. They included the lead singer of The Killers. I love "Hot Fuss," but making one album that's played on the pop stations doesn't make you influential. Wait till they release another album first...then we'll see if they don't pull a Hootie and the Blowfish, please. They had the Killers guy, but they left off some people who made no sense. Where the hell are Axl Rose, Bon Jovi, Zach Dela Rocha and Dave Matthews?...all of whom I hate, but all of whom are much more influential than the Killers guy.
This list is kinda surprising. It's a British magazine that decided to say that "Goodfellas" is officially the greatest film of all time. It also includes, in its top ten list, Fight Club and Tokyo Story. I think it's kinda cool that there's finally a list of the greatest movies of all time that dares to say that somethings are better than The Godfather Trilogy, Casablanca and Citzen Kane...good show by this magazine.
This weekend, they ran an advertisement on Sirius radio on The Howard Stern channel that some guy named, "High Pitched Eric" would come in the studio and eat as much fast food as he could and then they would, "Collect all of the excrement, put it in a bag and weigh it."...and I immediately thought, "Does puke count as excrement"...then I realized that that particular thought is what separates us from the animals.