Current mood:	cynical
Current music:	Gary Glitter- "I didn't Know I Loved U Till I Saw U R&R"

Every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n' roll
Here comes the war, orange terror alert, GOODTIMES!

Not that I’ve been sitting here really thinking about it since I have more immediate stuff biting me in the ass. Like my soon-to-be homeless boyfriend who has to start moving out this week. $200 worth of ads, the village voice, in the jersey papers and on-line and no serious leads. So it’s done, and it’s a shame, as well as a big giant pain in the ass:(

I watched the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame ceremony tonight. I taped it when it was on last night but then when I came home from work it was replaying on vh1 again (big surprise!) so I just sat and watched it (except for the v/ end cos I don’t care about the Police.) Ok, 1st off, I have to say I always thought the HOF was a total sham. It is about as Rock n’ Roll as say, George Bush and I hate when people speak of it w/ reverence and give it credit. They have gay high school rules and gay middle school voting. They’ll induct a whole band and leave out one member, they totally over look so many bands that mean so much in the history of rock n’ roll. How can anyone take it seriously? Yet people do.

Still, the Clash were there so they had my attention. I won’t write a 3000-word essay on my take on the whole thing (though I could) but I’ll just make a list of some of the things that struck me...

I fthere was a highlight it was Mick thanking Robin Banks (a.k.a Crocker) Robin Banks!!! Renee and me loved Robin Banks, he was like our punk rock Robin Hood, she even took her pen name from his. It made me so happy to know he and Mick are still friends. But it also made me sad when Mick said he was in Baghdad. Is that the “friend” of Mick’s who’s acting as the human shield then? Oh Robin:(

I never really cared for Tom Morello but I think he gave a great speech. He really understands the importance of the Clash and it was obvious he wasn’t just there presenting cos he was famous enough to be worthy.

I can’t believe how much I missed Topper! Admittedly, he is the member of the band who if there was a fire and I had to rescue everyone that I would carry out last on my back (although Joe would probably tell me to take Topper before him) I would even save Keith Levine first (but I used to have a strange obsession w/ Keith Levine) I knew Topper wasn’t @ the ceremony, I read it last week, but I missed him. (Of course I missed Joe but that’s another story...) Does anyone know why he really wasn’t there now? Maybe I missed Topper so much cos it meant you got a bigger dose of Terry Chimes. Don’t hate me guys, but Terry really seems like he has a stick up his ass or something. Maybe he was just nervous, I don’t know, but he just seemed like the not-too-cool math teacher that all the kids would have a go @. An easy target of uncoolness.

Speaking of cool now (not un cool) Paul is still so cool. Not young and hot now but older and suave. I also think it’s the longest I’ve ever heard Paul speak. I was struck too @ how much older everybody looks. I know I shouldn’t be, it’s been 27 years since they formed but still, I picture them a certain way in my head. It’s silly but I just do. No matter how many years go by I’ll have the image them in their pants w/ the zips. Ah, I like that image.

I should just end it now w/ the vision of nice zippy pants but I’m a ruiner so I’ll say one more, totally non-Clash related thing. I thought the stupidest part of the whole thing was Steven Tyler singing w/ AC/DC. There was no point to it. You could barely hear him, and when you could it sounded so wrong. The vh1 divas version of “You Shook Me All Night Long” came out better. Steven Tyler looked like a dancing girl on stage w/ the band, like someone just handed him a microphone by mistake.

And if you don’t agree w/ any or all of this, that is fine by me. I love everyone, I just happen to have my over razor tongued opinion on things and sometimes I take the time to write it down in here.