hey. I'm back. hoo-ray.

I've got all sorts of other things I want to talk about, including: a bit I wrote in my boring airport, maybe something about the whole millenials things, obviously a hell of a lot about ALA & New Orleans, the last boy I made out with (I've been sitting on that story for a couple weeks), and how those of us who work with teens avoid being Mr. Rosso (see Fig A), if in fact we do.
But I'm not up to all that yet, and I came back to 2 whole Billboard magazines.
June 17, June 24

• Cheyenn Kimball is going to have a reality show.
  
• It'll be on MTV, so I can get the full scoop from Lara, who has a sad, sad addiction to MTV reality programming.
  
• No exaggeration, no paraphrasing: we ACTUALLY had the following conversation.
  
• Jessy: You'll watch anything MTV puts on, won't you?
  
• Lara: Yes.
  
• Her (Cheyenne, not my sister) hair is doing that flyaway thing that some stylist really thinks makes thin-haired girls look like they've got a ton of hair.
  
• When really it just looks like they need some hard-core conditioning.
  
• And trust me. I know frizzies; I spent the last week in New Orleans, remember?
  
• I have to say I prefer the reality show vehicle of a newcomer to the old model of crap sitcom where, like, the main character's mom owned a club or something.
  
• Or those terrible Fresh Prince episodes where someone owned a record store so that they could have a Tatiana Ali Sings! plotline.
  
• WHO do you think should own the trademark for the phrase "bat out of hell," Meatloaf or Jim Steinman?
  
• This may just be my new favorite stupid argument.
  
• Aw, no one wants to read Street Angel (it's just sitting on our shelves, for months). That's a shame. It's a really great book.
  
• With ninjas! And pirates! And an Irish astronaut! And a mad scientist!
  
• You should read it.
  
• So, I'm having a galley of Vampirates shipped to me.
  
• I'm pretty dang excited.
  
• Q&A with Ringo Starr.
  
• So, we're all in agreement that he's going to be the last living Beatle, right?
  
• Actually, think about it. That's the better scenario.
  
• Because if he kicks first, Paul's just going to get more and more revisionist.
  
• Plus, you know I can't stand Paul McCartney.
  
• Ringo was at least on Shining Time Station.
  
• What's Paul ever done for us, aside from helping Lisa to become more accepting of nonvegetarians?
  
• hmmm, according to Li'l Steven, there may be a Kinks reunion.
  
• I'm not holding my breath.
  
• You know what would be awesome?
  
• The Kinks and Oasis touring together.
  
• Would the Gallaghers team up against the Davies, or would it be older brothers vs younger ones?
  
• I would totally go to that show.
  
• OK, partial lineup for Ringo's All-Star band, 2006 incarnation:
  
• Sheila E
  
• Billy Squier
  
• Richard fucking Marx!
  
• Shit!
  
• (for those of you who aren't Tiff, Brian, Richard, Cindy, Cara, Alison Farinacci, or me, the concept of an inner Richard Marx--much like an inner child--was a running joke of ours circa 2000. I came up with it, of course, because I am a genius. And/or a moron. Brian made a website.)
  
• So now I have to read this stupid interview for pertinent Richard Marx bits.
  
• And there weren't any.
  
• Billy Corgan is wearing a stupid hat.
  
• heh
  
• It looks a lot like the hat that guy wore in the "Get What You Give" video.
  
• Was that what that song was called?
  
• Late 90s "we're more real" rockstar backlash?
  
• Took place in a mall?
  
• Does anyone know what the hell I'm talking about?
  
• We're switching to the 24 now.
  
• Beyonce's on the cover.
  
• The tagline is "Making a 'Bee' Line for Beyonce".
  
• And I am totally not making that up.
  
• Radiohead are going to be forcing their boring crap on us again soon.
  
• So I was in this little punk apparel store in the French Quarter last week, and there were all these great shirts and hoodies with the Ramones, Bowie, Iggy, etc on 'em and the requisite few metal bands some punks decided it was ok to like, and the usual leather cuffs and things.
  
• And they also had all these Radiohead shirts in the window.
  
• It seemed a bit of a disparity.
  
• Store had a really hot guy behind the counter, too.
  
• Who would scratch their heads at Madonna partnering with H&M? Who?
  
• Seems like a perfect combo to me, especially with the cheap disposable trendy stuff she's been pumping out for the last 6 years or so.
  
• Beyonce's shoes look ill-fitting in this photograph.
  
• Oh, I guess Beyonce's decided that a bee is her animal, like how Mariah Carey went all butterfly and shit awhile back.
  
• Oh, add me bitching about Feed to that list of future topics.
  
• I hate the font Nelly Furtado uses for her logo.
  
• And anyway, if she's all thoughtful girl singer, what's she got a damn logo for, anyway?
  
• anyway

Fig A