Song of the Day - Going On by Gnarls Barkley

I mentioned yesterday how much I love Gnarls Barkley and this is one of my favorite singles off of their 2nd album, "The Odd Couple." It's very melodic and very uplifting, too, and I love this line in particular:

"Anyone that needs what they want and doesn't want what they need
I want nothing to do with."

Words to live by!

February 16, 2011 - After the Extraction

As I expected, I wasn’t in a good place to post an entry yesterday. I had my appointment at the oral surgeon around 6:30 and although I had some time in between work and the extraction to write, I was too tense to think clearly. My buddy Max came by afterwards and stayed pretty late so alas I haven’t gotten to my pc until today.

All in all, the experience wasn’t that bad. I got there a half an hour early because I knew I’d be filling out all of that paperwork since it was my first time there, and I ended up sitting in the waiting room for more than an hour before they called me in anyway. Talk about nervous anticipation! The dental assistant actually told me she could tell I was a bundle of nerves by the way I was sitting in the waiting room.

Going into the appointment, I was led to believe that I was getting two teeth removed, one on either side, but once I sat in the chair, she asked me if I wanted both taken out or just one. I didn’t know I had a choice. Hmmm, less to deal with now or get the whole thing over with? It really was a no brainer though, especially when she asked me how I planned on eating anything with wounds on both sides of my mouth. I decided to go for just the one that had been giving me pain all along anyway and so now I have to go back again for the other. It’s okay though, because I’m planning on having a lot done this year and so what the heck?

The worst part of having a tooth pulled is not so much the procedure itself, but the aftermath. The feeling of gauze in your mouth and the taste of blood is just plain disgusting! Luckily I haven’t experienced too much pain from it so far, but I am hungry and I’m afraid to eat. All I’ve eaten today has been a bowl of oatmeal, which hasn’t really been too satisfying. At the moment I have a hankering for some White Castle, and my friend convinced me that that wouldn’t be too bad as long as I remove the pickles. I just may do that…

Well, that’s all for now. I stayed home today and got some articles done, and so I’m still in my sleep clothes, but I’ve got to get a move on. I’m going to try and post here again later on since I didn’t post yesterday. In the meantime, be well and thanks for reading!

Song of the Day - Cee Lo's "F**k You" (original video) / "Forget You" (from the Grammys) (Official Video)

One of the most talked about performances of the Grammy Awards show the other night was Cee Lo Green's rendition of this highly infectuous song. Cee Lo came out on stage in front of a piano all decked out in an Elton Johnish peacocky outfit and was joined by a bunch of Jim Henson Muppets and later on by actress turned singer Gwyneth Paltrow. The performance, like the song, hearkened back to earlier days and was great fun to watch.

The song itself is one of my favorites from 2010, though I prefer it in its original form, with the F-word as the tag line. Though I don't often condone such use of words in pop music (I think it's thrown around way too much these days!), its use just sounds better here, and besides it's kind of fun to sing along to with the word thrown in, sort of like you're saying it to someone, but not really.

Anyway, I love Cee Lo and I love Gnarls Barkley, the duo Mr. Green is a part of. I just may be adding another "Song of the Day" later on since I missed it yesterday and it just may be a Gnarls' tune. Stay tuned... In the meantime, enjoy the Grammy performance of "Forget You" and the original official video for "F**k You."

"Forget You", from the Grammy Awards, February 13, 2011



Official video for "F**k You"

February 14, 2011 - Happy Valentine's Day...Not!

Happy Valentine’s Day…Not!

This was my first Facebook post of the day today, and it’s exactly how I feel. It’s funny, but not too long ago I was hoping that this Valentine’s Day would be a good one, the first in a long, long time. It wasn’t meant to be, though. I’ve had a pretty shitty ass string of holidays since Christmas and frankly I’m glad this is the last one for awhile. Maybe I need to skip holidays for the rest of the year. What do you think? Valentines, schmalentines!!!

The Tooth Fairy?

“Hi, this is the tooth fairy calling to wish you lots of luck tomorrow night. Don’t forget to put your tooth under the pillow and I’ll come by and leave you a dollar.”




Ah, my good buddy Rich, AKA Dita. Ever since I’ve known him he’s been leaving messages on my answering machine that make me want to cry I laugh so much. This was the message he left me tonight to wish me luck tomorrow when I go to the oral surgeon to have two teeth extracted. Gotta love him!

I don’t know where the time went. When I first made the appointment last Monday, the 15th seemed so far away, but here it is, the night before and I’m just now starting to get nervous. I hate going to the dentist, especially to get a tooth pulled, so knowing me I’ll be a bundle of nerves straight through until 6:30 tomorrow night. I do want to get it over with already, though, and besides it’s better to do it now than next week when I’m on vacation from school, right? Be brave John, be brave!

Writing, writing, and more writing

Ugh, this writing thing is becoming a lot of work! Since I’ve started to get major hits on my pieces and earned all of those badges, I feel pressure to keep it up, so I’ve been working non-stop it seems for the past few days. There was a lot of pressure last night, with the Grammys and all. The piece I did on Lady GaGa’s “Born This Way” the other night has done really well and with all the hype around her last night, I figured I’d include the GaGa in a couple of more pieces.

Before the Grammys, she appeared in an interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes. I didn’t exactly know where I was headed with the piece, but I started by putting on the TiVo. Before you knew it, I had about 400 words set to paper and I came up with an angle that I thought was unique on the piece. I published it around 11:30PM and it garnered 50 hits in about a half an hour, so hopefully it did well today. I’ll find out tomorrow. In the meantime, check it out:

Lady GaGa and the “Sociology of Fame”: A 60 Minutes Interview with Anderson Cooper

Tonight my mission was to do a piece on the Grammys, but as I suspected there were literally dozens of articles out there already by the time I got home from work. I figured the best way to approach it was to include links to some of the pieces in my weekly “Pop Music News.” The 2nd edition is hot off the presses right here. Check it out!

Now I’m tired and nervous!

Thanks, as always, for reading! Catch ya tomorrow if I’m up to it…