That was a shocker this morning. I really don't know anything about the guy except that he was a talented actor--did he have a health condition or substance problem or something? Or was this just one of those sad freak things?

I think I feel bad right now mostly because he was so young and I guess he has a very little daughter. That's awful for her.

Okay, if anyone drops in here this morning hoping for a report from Tribeca last night... sorry. I didn't make it. And I'm pretty disappointed about it, since the special guest was Jason Heywood of The Divorcees and I had really been looking forward to hearing him.

( And the reasons why I didn't make it may be quite boring to those not interested in tales of winter driving and little Appaloosa feet, so the rest of the story is behind the cut. )

So: no musical report, but Mitzi's foot looks all right, and for once I think I may have shown good judgement. Always a first time!

A friend of mine just directed me to this poster:



1) Apparently, using an apostrophe incorrectly is not a new thing.

2) I think I read somewhere that Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees at one point, but my brain refused to accept it.

And that made me remember something else my brain refused to accept at the time:



I understand poor little Peter Noone used to come onstage and sing amidst the still-smoking wreckage from The Who's set.

And speaking of which, I need to get Who's Next on CD one of these days. I used to have it on vinyl--I wonder if my brother has it now?

wldhrsjen3 just posted about approaching a large goal in smaller steps.

Which is great advice but always reminds me of this song:


Not, perhaps, the result we're aiming for. But the video is fun!

After I got home from the trip to Sackville and calmed down, I watched the last part of American Idol. For those of you who watch the show, how often do they get auditions by people who apparently want to be various musical instruments when they grow up? Because in Season One or Two there was a dude who sang the bagpipe arrangement of "Amazing Grace" (I pointed that out on the TWoP board and got referenced in Shack's recap, yay!) And last night there was the dreadlocked dude who sang one line over and over in this weird vibrato ("Leave me alone"--none of the judges ran with it, as far as I could see) and I kept thinking, "this reminds me of something..."

And them I realized it was this:



Truly. And when I tried to explain it to my office mate, I got as far as "Dude sounded like a mouth harp!" and my office mate replied, "The guy with the dreads? I saw him!" So she had the same thought, which has to mean something.

Stick to Buffy for your mouth-harp needs, though. The guy on Idol was just peculiar.