More than a feeling.

Billboard September 2

• The advertisement cover is for the VMAs, which I didn't watch this year.
• I think my parents were actually here then.
• So, I saw Hollywoodland last night, and I'm ready to start making some Oscar predictions.
• Diane Lane will be nominated, because Diane Lane is nominated for an Oscar any time she leaves her house.
• Affleck may be nominated, too. Depends on how they split the Leo DiCaprio/Marky Mark lead/supporting actor for Scorsese's new movie.
• The Academy really likes to snub Marty, but they seem to want to have DiCaprio's children, so it's a tough call on nominations.
• Won't win, though.
• Depending on how the midterm election goes and what the cultural climate is this January, I think this is Forest Whitacker's year for an Oscar, for playing Idi Amin.
• Well, we'll see. My predictions are usually the more spot-on the closer I make them to the winner's announcement, as anyone who slogged through all my Oscar blogging last time can attest to.
• I can't decide, but I think I like that new Killers single.
• "When You Were Young"
• It's a weird mess of things and influences, and I like that.
• Weird messes, that is.
• God, Jet sucks.
• They're just boring.
• Oh, I love the part in the Killers song about the Devil's water.
• Ridiculous!
• (I'm listening to the song right now, in case you were wondering why I keep bringing it up.)
• Hey! The Blue Man Group!
• ha
• I took the third season of Arrested Development home this weekend and now I'm sad because there's no more new Arrested Development for me to watch.
• There's a new Primal Scream record?
• I know it's ridiculous, but I really love Hot Fuss. It's such a fun record.
• Ever notice how MTV celebrates every damn birthday it can? I mean, it just doesn't seem like that long ago when I sat through all their 20th birthday crap.
• Plus, this is the 25the for the channel; you know in a couple years we'll be dealing with the 25th anniversary of the VMAs.
• No one toots their own horn like MTV...
• Dear god, they've published a picture of that stupid Britney Spears/Madonna kiss.
• If I really wanted to see bad fake lesbianing designed to make the boys hot, I'd still be going to Saturday night 80s night.
• The singers/frontspeople for Keane and the Darkness are both in rehab.
• There's a really interesting super-group in there somewhere.
• Right now I'm listening to the Cold War Kids. It's pretty okay so far.
• Michel Gondry's going to be directing a Beck video.
• I miss old, scruffy, cohosting 120 Minutes with Thurston, setting his acoustic on fire in someone's backyard Beck.
• He's allowed to grow and change, but I'm allowed to prefer One Foot in the Grave.
• Even though I really secretly can't stand the local bar here, I have to love that "Satan Gave Me a Taco" is on their jukebox.
• Ricky Martin's doing an Unplugged.
• I didn't know that show was still even in existence.
• It's like the elusive Elvis Costello Storytellers, which I used to see commercials for all the damn time but I never actually got to see.
• 6 question is with Trey Anastasio.
• urk
• Hellogoodbye sound like something I would hear on WPTS while I was driving to drop off my Stanley Kubrick final paper.
• Which is kind of pretty awesome, if you're into that kind of hard-core nostalgia for 6-7 years ago.
• "This American Life" is going to have a show on Showtime next year.
• Must. Make. Friends. With. People. Who. Have. Showtime.