Jen

“XRT is strange.”

That is what Barb and I came up with just a bit ago. They play everything from Stevie Ray Vaughn to The Who to REM to the Ramones. This lead us to rant and rave about: The poor quality of REM's new song, the really, REALLY bad cover of “In your eyes” originally by Peter Gabriel (if anyone knows what arsehole sings the cover, e-mail me), the strange song by Collective Soul?, “She’ll have a perfect day,” that sounds like Elton John is singing on (once again, if you know what I am talking about, e-mail me), and singers who name bands after themselves.

I really have a HUGE problem with singers that name the band after themselves. For instance, Dave Matthews Band. Like you couldn’t come up with a better name. I’m going to guarantee that Dave doesn’t write all the violin, drum, and whatever other instruments that are in that band, parts. I’m going to take a wild guess and say it is a group effort. How would you like to be in a band, make a huge contribution and then have the band be named after your lead singer? Just watch, Greg will write back in about a half-hour, once again, proving me wrong. Ok, just as a disclaimer: If Dave does write all the parts, he must have the biggest heed this side of the world for naming the band after himself.

I should probably just mind my P’s and Q’s. hmmmm. . . I wonder where that saying came from. Oh wait! I know!

“In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at
to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."”

Topic two after lunch.