In response to KIIS FM's question, "What's your favorite song of 2008?" in anticipation of tomorrow and Thursday's "top 102" countdown, I felt the need to contribute this:
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"How could it be anything but "Womanizer" by Britney Spears? Who cares if the lyrics are repetitive and the meter doesn't make sense; Britney's comeback means the American Dream ( Read more... )

Newest op-ed is up, and I got particular praise from the editor for this one; he also says the Sports Column is receiving good reviews as well. I'd really like to get this one on the "Most Viewed" and/or "Most Emailed" lists this week, so send it to your friends and all that good jazz. I am living on fumes, and had to opt out of seeing The Drowsy ( Read more... )

First of all, I would like to right a wrong; because I downloaded Madonna's album Hard Candy in order to listen to it prior to my review, I opened myself up to succombing to my lack of comprehensive knowledge of Madonna's past songs. This is why the song I thought was "Give It 2 Me," the third song on Madonna's album and reportedly the next single ( Read more... )

I sat down and had a good hard listen to Madonna's latest album, Hard Candy. Her eleventh studio album should not be approached as the sequel to the brilliant and completely repeatable Confessions on a Dance Floor, and really, only two or three of the twelve tracks could feasibly be played in a club as they appear on the album. Madonna is nothing ( Read more... )

Time for another edition of Music of the Moment. By sheer coincidence it has been exactly one month since my last issue. Not that anyone cares. Just saying.
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1. Work (Freemasons Remix) - Kelly Rowland (Ms. KellyI heard this first at Tigerheat, and when I went to find it I found a disappointing mix of it on youtube. What I found was that actually ( Read more... )

Welcome to another edition of Music of the Moment. Since my music doesn't change that often, these entries don't happen with any regularity. But I've got some good shit for you, I promise!

1. 4 Minutes - Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake (Hard Candy)
When I first heard this on hair care commercials during Top Model, I didn't like it and was worried it ( Read more... )

I just got the 2008 season brochure for the Hollywood Bowl. The box office opens May 10, so I figured I'd put on here some of the concerts to which I would like to go, in case anyone else feels similarly. Tickets (that I can afford) are $1, $8, $10, $12, $13, $15, $16, $18, $20, $21 or $23, depending on the night in question. Those denoted with an ( Read more... )

Mom, Dad, Emma and I went with Aaron to see the LA Master Chorale performance of the Haydn Maria Theresa Mass and Five Marian Songs by Gorecki, which were beautiful and in the style I like (kind of a muted Lauridsen acapella style...the composer is Polish and either living still or recently passed), as well as a couple short two-choir pieces by ( Read more... )

My musical selections-du-jour tend to be more like selections of the week or more, until I've played them out over and over and move on to my next rotation. But in an attempt to document my ever-flowing sonoral obsessions, here is the first, I imagine, of many editions of Music of the Moment.

1. Back to Black - Amy Winehouse (Back to Black)
I heard ( Read more... )

I'm sure I've done this in the past, but since two of my friends did it in the last couple days and I always give into peer pressure, here goes ( Read more... )