Fiji. And other Monday Ramblings

I personally thought Budweiser had the best commercials in the Super Bowl. Never did see the Rascal Flatts spot. But I confess that a promo for Survivor Fiji also caught my attention.

Now really. How tough can it be to survive in Fiji?

I would like to find out. Anyone else?

In the meantime, however, I do have a tour stop on the Producer J. World Tour in the Southern Hemisphere this spring. (And actually, the airline I'm flying offers a stop in Fiji, if I'd be so inclined.) Although I'm beginning to think the likelihood of co-ordinating my work schedule, the schedules of my daughter and hubby whom I'm leaving behind, and a piece of equipment than needs to cross the Pacific on schedule in order to pull this off might be akin to the likelihood of me winning the 5K I'm running next weekend.

We get some interesting stuff in the mail here at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Clearly... or maybe not so clearly... we do pretty much nothing but country related programming out of here on a daily basis. However, sometimes we get on a mailing list for other genres of music, which can be interesting.

Today a CD single came through with a title that I can not type here, being a family-friendly blog and all. There were 3 versions of the song:

1. Main
2. Clean
3. Squeaky clean

It had a skull of some sort on the cover and did not make it to my CD player.

I was highly amused to get an email today from some rocket science department or another inside XM that began with this sentence:

By now IT Operations is sure that everyone is aware of the changes to the starting and ending dates for daylight savings time.

Umm... don't be so sure. Upon Googling for more information I see that America is doing something wacky, and apparently the rest of the world may or may not follow. Am I the only one who was in the dark (pun kind of intended) about this? Apparently it's going to create all kinds of computer scheduling nightmares. Joy.

There are 2 songs out right now that I really can't stand to hear. Today I heard 'em back to back. So I thought I'd throw them out there and get some other opinions.

First is the new Jack Ingram song "Lips of An Angel." I know it's a rock remake, although I've never heard the original. Lyrically I think the song is just stupid. (My girl's in the next room. Sometimes I. Wish she was you.) Like something a pop boy band should be singing on Radio Disney. Country music is better than that, isn't it? The music grates on my nerves too. We get a crazy amount of requests for it though. (And it certainly wouldn't be the first time a song I didn't like was a monster smash hit.) What is it about that song? Am I the only one that doesn't like it? Do you love it?

The other is the new Little Texas single "Your Woman." Again - it sounds like a rock song. I can't stand the sound of this one either - although it comes more from the music this time than the lyrics. It doesn't sound country, and it doesn't sound like Little Texas. Which is what happens when you change lead singers.

On the subject of musical band members, I'm working with Emerson Drive later this month. Their website doesn't list the band members by name. (Probably because they keep changing.) I'm counting on my friends north of the border (*cough*susan*cough*) to give me a crash course.

Ok, I've rambled long enough for tonight. (Don't believe the time stamp on this blog, I started making notes earlier today, but am actually posting around 7pm.) Tomorrow we're going to talk about a mutual songwriter acauaintance a lot of us have, and a show she's doing for XM.