there was one time, probably about a year ago, when i accidentally said "why does everyone hate creed so much. it's not like they're as bad as, say, limp bizkit." after a friend of mine finished beating me with a bottle of ketchup and a salt shaker [i believe we were at denny's at the time], it came down to this: "they just take themselves so seriously." and of course, the more i'm exposed to that albatross, the more i realize how right this friend was.


the reason i think of this is because i saw a commercial today for the current faith hill album. the current single, "cry" was playing under the narrator's voice for the entirety of the commercial. and, as if the chorus [ "oh would you cryyyyyyyyyyyy a little / ..... / let me know that you're FEEEEEEELING SOME PAIN!" or something like that] weren't ridiculous and overt enough, the final words on the screen: "give faith." i mean, really.


in other news, i watched a bit of vh1's 80's marathon or whatever today...an hour-long spotlight on each of the individual years of the decade, told through film and video clips and interviews with b-list celebrities past and present. [the biggest star? perhaps melissa etheridge or the lead singer of the goo goo dolls or, just briefly, lionel richie.] and what part did i find funniest? why, the part about george michael, and how "faith" and "i want your sex" took over the world, and how i was in second grade at the time. and how i brought the album into class to play during free time. and how mrs. o'brien said "'i want your sex?' [giggles from the class] are you sure this is appropriate?" and i assured her it was. and we got to play it while the class was doing an art project. [i don't recall how long we got to play it.] this was the second truly great moment of my life.


[the first? "hey mom---you sit in da bwue chaiw and i'w sit in the yewow chaiw."]