until I’m ready to use it

“Hold My Life” is playing right now. Billboard January 7, 2006.

• There’s a pretty boy on the red cover wearing a shirt saying “Underage Thinking”, which may be the cheesiest thing I’ve seen so far this year.
  
• Wait, sorry, I forgot about the previews for that Sam Jackson/Eugene Levy thing they played twice before 40yrold Virgin.
  
• But does that count, since I saw it last year as well?
  
• ”The Who” will be touring again this summer. Sorry, Pete, but it’s not really The Who anymore.
  
• So, here’s an ad for Hard Rock Hotel San Diego condos, which, yuck, but it’s a topless vaguely ethnic woman, all sweaty, from the back. We’re invited to check out their website for “more eye candy and important ownership information”.
  
• I’m amused at how old the picture of Michael Jackson they chose to illustrate this story with is. I miss less-obviously crazy Michael, don’t you?
  
• I think Arctic Monkeys might be my new favorite horrible band name.
  
• Any idea what they sound like?
  
• OK, they “serve up hard rock with a Southern flavor,” but isn’t DecembeRadio the crappy emo-est band name you’ve heard in awhile?
  
• Oh, they’re a Christian band. I wonder if that can account for the name…
  
• ”Underage Thinking” is the name of that guy’s album.
  
• He kind of looks like Rory Gilmore would, if she were a boy.
  
• If I cared at all about the Grammies, I would read about their secrets, but—
  
• --O! I feel a Simpsons reference coming on!
  
• Where did George Harrison get that brownie from?
  
• I know Mariah Carey’s all about this butterfly thing and all, but her giant butterfly ring looks like something I got out of a gumball machine in 1987.
  
• Oh man, Gwen Stefani’s got these flowers coming out of her head. Like, it looks like her hair turned into giant fake blossoms and she doesn’t know what to do.
  
• Speaking of Mrs. Rossdale, did everyone read Meg Cabot’s blog (link if you scroll down a hell of a lot) the other day when she was talking about celebrities’ years-in-review? The fake Gwen one was very funny.
  
• I like plurals of words with hyphens like that. Mothers-in-law and such. I was listening to the radio the other day, and they referred to more than one person going past as “passerbies” (I can only assume that’s the correct spelling).
  
• That’s not cool. “Passers-by” is one of my favorite words, and not one I get to use very often.
  
• More about the new Strokes album.
  
• We should order Mary J Blige’s new album for the library.
  
• Man, it’s raining hard right now.