LOVE THE LIFESTYLE IF YOU FEEL IT

Brain salad cuz my brain is, well... salad. Spent a few days holed up on the UWS - entertained because of the memories it invoked and because my idle chatter was most likely the catalyst for the Wat's dream about us being on Gossip Girl, despite the fact that neither one of us has seen an episode. (Imran, if you're reading this - you were in the dream as well. Don't get any ideas).

The Rock of Love Bus finale proved anti-climactic. While Taya threw us for a loop by using the "hold out and win" method, any thrill was lost when Bret in fact chose her. The two of them had ZERO chemistry in their embrace, and he didn't even give her the fucking ring she so painstakingly selected! As Gurj said this morning, it was something along the lines of "Taya, I'll give you the ring so long as the 1% of me that is perturbed by your eyebrows shuts off." The major upside was the preceding marathon that made me realize how fucking amazing it would be for MTV to relaunch that Singled Out show with Ashley as Jenny McCarthy. You would know all this by now if you read my Twitter.

I got the new Doves album but haven't had a chance to listen. Been listening to the L'Amour LA Morgue remixes and - of all things - Hundred Reasons. Fuck that band is good. "Dissolve" came up in my iPod's shuffle and I've been revisiting ever since. Speaking of the shuffle, I now have the Prodigy and Primal Scream vying for "best strut soundtrack" honors.

Either them, or John Carpenter's score when the Duke arrives in Escape From New York. That film, coincidentally, is also the inspiration for this year's new look for hunks. Take note. This is the future.



**Just an addendum: Listened to the first half of the Doves record on the way to work this morning... so good. Not sure that it touches The Last Broadcast, but then again, little can. When it came out, Broadcast became the perfect soundtrack to my life in London. "There Goes the Fear" was played in every indie disco and every radio station and I distinctly remember going to the record store right off the Camden tube to buy the album the day it was released. So yeah, its tough for Doves to top themselves, but Kingdom of Rust is far better than their last offering, thats for sure.