but also ice ages and blackouts of rain

Billboard January 28, 2006.

• Great. Now I've got "Snowfall" stuck in my head on a sunny, unseasonably warm day.
  
• Could be worse.
  
• Could still be the storytime song.
  
• "Are you owed royalties? We are looking for you."
  
• Universal Music Group wants your address. So they can send you a big, fat check, presumably.
  
• Why does this remind me of the Simpsons where Wiggum tells people they've won a boat in order to get criminals to turn themselves in?
  
• Goodbye, student loan payments.
  
• This is a really boring issue.
  
• So I've been entertaining myself with the PotterPuffs.
  
• And moving things around the library, of course.
  
• Yay for new reference desks!
  
• I always forget that, technically, P.O.D. are Christian.
  
• I suppose I should order their new album for the library.
  
• New Bob Pollard, too.
  
• Though that one doesn't fall under my work-ordering jurisdiction so much.
  
• Ugh, that cabinet in the new desk stinks.
  
• Live are back?
  
• Why?
  
• oooo! Review of K-Fed's single! heh
  
• It's called "PopoZao".
  
• And there's a ~ thing over the a.
  
• I love when Billboard gets bitchy: "Britney's private dancer"
  
• "I wanna see ya kitty and a little bit of titty"
  
• That's a quote from the song, everybody.
  
• It's also a pickup line that will ABSOLUTELY work on me, 100% of the time.
  
• And maybe my new MySpace headline.
  
• OK, so normally all the pictures on the "Backbeat" page are of execs, people holding those gold record plaques, and random Billboard writers like that crosseyed lady I haven't been mean about in a long time.
  
• And then here's this TOTAL press picture of Jennifer Lopez (who I still not-so-secretly love--She paid her dues! "Waiting for Tonight"! Selena!!) and Marc Anthony looking ROUGH.
  
• Like, Mick Jagger lines around the mouth rough.
  
• jeez.

Oh, and I wanted to say something about my wrong Printz prediction. I was doing the Oscar cynical prediction thing, so I'm glad I got it wrong. (Stay tuned for my cynical 2006 predictions. I like to hear as much of the buzz as possible before I decide.) Plus, I really and truly loved Looking for Alaska, so I'm happy. Not as happy, however, as the author, as depicted in these highly entertaining (at least to me) photographs.