Daily Rambling
Does anyone watch or care about the Grammys at this point?  I can't remember paying them any attention for at least a decade, for no real clear reason.  I remember watching it many years ago when Michael Jackson won like 15 of them for Thriller, and the big deal was if he'd take off his shades if he won more than 8 or something like that.  See he was so shy that he couldn't let anyone see his eyes on TV.  How that was figured with him being in a dozen videos, hundreds of concerts, etc, mostly without glasses on I don't recall, but back then he was hugely popular, much loved, and still black, so his eccentricities were seen as cute and interesting, not as part of the altar boy fetishizing freak show he has now become.

The last clear memory of I have of the Grammys are from some years after that, when Jethro Tull won the it the first year they did a Metal award, perplexing pretty much everyone, and setting a tone for the clueless mainstream-themed garbage that wins every Grammy now.

I didn't even know the Grammys were on, and wouldn't have paid it any attention if I had, but looking at Yahoo earlier for some news about an email-reported bankruptcy of an online gaming retailer, (and not finding anything about it) the headline was for the Grammys.  So I clicked through a few links, looking for absurd pictures of any of the semi-musical whores who tend to abound at those events, and had no luck.  Why hold the Grammys if you aren't going to have Brittney Spears plastic tits falling out of some absurd dress?

The list of this year's winners is the same as always, tons of bubblegum pop, wimpy R&B and rap, 95% of which I've mercifully never heard, and 50% of which I've never heard of.  I don't know anyone who listens to pop radio, and I know a lot of people who hate it.  Everyone I know listens to rock or alternative, or perhaps classical or rap, but never wimpy love songs/R&B, which is the crap that seems to be popular.  So how is it popular?  Who sits through that garbage?  I thought the kids all liked poppy bubblegum crap, or else Whap (white-rap/crap) like Limp Bizket or Linkin Park.  And who votes for the awards?  I figured it was all old record execs, which explains god awful crap like whatever the latest mopey noodling by Clapton getting an award every year, but why would they vote for the other stuff?  Have they even heard it?  I couldn't sit through it, and would dislike it all equally, if I were a voter, so god knows how it's arrived at.  It's not like anyone really cares if they get a Grammy or not, the event is pretty much irrelevant at this point anyway.

Tool did win for best metal album, which is cool.  It's the first album of theirs I've not bought, since all the singles I've heard on the radio are such unfocused, meandering, overlong dirges, but I'm sure they are better than whatever else was nominated in their catagory.  Nu Metal is catchy and I like some bands, but they don't deserve awards for their mass-produced and instantly-forgettable shtick.  Even when Tool songs are boring, they are sort of high-quality boredom.

And yes, I hate everything and everyone.

So I finally got my résumé updated and did a cover letter and portfolio and applied for a really cool job today.  I was sort of nervous doing it, mostly since I might get the job.  I'm certainly qualified and could do it well, but yikes!  Lotta responsibility, need to immediately move in and work with a big gaming design team, a total lifestyle change for me, etc.

It's sort of the reverse of asking a gorgeous woman out.  There the nerves are before asking, worrying if she'll reject you, and if she accepts then the date should be the fun part.  With this job the main worry is that they'll say yes, and then what will I do?  Run and hide?

I guess that's an option.

Funny headline a friend sent me, about the ipod, some sort of glorified mp3 player by apple.  Apparently it's got built in Firewire and a good sized HD, and you can just vacuum up anything on a non-secured mac you plug into.  Not that it's hard to steal software, warez certainly abounds, but just walking into a CompUSA, plugging in, and ripping off the office suites on the machines is particularly bold.  I sort of idealize Mac users, like they are happy, peaceful, Photoshop wizard, hippy types who wouldn't stoop to software piracy, which is more the province of the typical AOLing little PC-using spoiled brat 15 y/o who thinks the world owes them a living, with their morality developed to an almost rat-like state.  Must steal shiny! Must horde shiny!

I keep updating content but not posting about it on this page.  Since no one is reading this or the content pages (yet?) that's sort of irrelevant.  I'm thinking about doing an intro page, like with a short description of every section, and links.  It would load when you typed in BlackChampagne.com, and would have a link to this page, which would become index2.shtml or something.  And regular visitors would set their bookmarks to this.  Not exactly a revolutionary concept, and I hate sites that I have to click through 3 or 4 intro pages to get to the actual content, so I'll have to debate it.  I sort of figure a new visitor would be confused by all the nav bar links, and it would be nice if there were one "welcome to hell" page with descriptions of everything.

Anyway, I added a couple of sites to the links page, added a few paragraphs to the writing philosophy page, did indeed yesterday write that quickie story, but abandoned it half way through since it was sucking.  The notes/post mortem on the page is more interesting than the story.  I have added all 4 of the fantasy short stories I've written for Halloween the last few years, they are linked from the main writing page, and I have a big stack of old floppy disks out now, that are part of the endless archives of older short stories of mine.

I'm not burning with any real new story creative fire currently, so I'll probably continue digging up old stuff.

I've also been skimming through the last 6 years of Funny Times, taking 2 or 3 of the best quotes from each one and adding them to my ever-expanding quotes archive, that I of course use for the Quote of the Day.  I'll probably do an archive page for those at some point that people can view.  I've been including the quote with the archived daily blah blah lately, and will continue that, but in theory someone might want to view the quotes w/o going day by day through the daily archives, as well as seem them sorted by type.

I need, I think, to be less analytical and organized on this site.  I have to do that on my other website projects, and I hate sites that are disorganized and don't update their tables of contents or archive pages so you can't find anything but to click through old news links.  However, I shouldn't spend hours sorting old quotes of the day, when I could spend that time doing new content, or something more enjoyable.  Eclecticism is sorta a good thing for a personal website, I think.

Is studied, intentionally-sought, cynically-adopted eclecticism allowed?  Or must it erupt forth naturally?  I guess we'll find out.

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