Jane says, I've never been in love, I don't know what it is

Everything, well almost everything, feels like it's coming apart. Well, I've got to take an active role -- no one else is going to do it for me -- to take steps towards positive change. I'm not even going to bother getting into it; been thinking about it too much. The trick is to focus on solutions and not the problems and, this is important, to counter the sour with the sweet at every opportunity. Yoga after work helped. A tasty salad for dinner helped. Watching Sanjuro tonight will help. It's the little things, my friends.

Watching Sanjuro will mark the third night in a row I've watched a Toshiro Mifune film. Last night I watched the magnificent Yojimbo, one of the best films I've ever seen, and the night before was Samurai Rebellion. It was my first viewing. I'd heard about the director, Masaki Kobayashi, before, but never got around to checking his films out. I'm glad I did. It was incredible! I rank it as high as any Kurosawa film. I just received Kwaidan, considered one of Kobayashi's masterpieces, in the mail today. I'm eager to view it.

I think in upcoming posts I'm going to delve into my past and see what I can dig up. I need to do some house cleaning. We'll see how it manifests.

A slow day at work. I found myself paying more attention to The River, the radio station we listen to every day. Here's who gives the station a giant erection:

1. John Mayer - I hear him at least twice a day. I don't mind it so much. He's a professional.

2. U2 - They are playing the fuck out of that I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight, or whatever it's called, single. I'm starting to get sick of it. As with John Mayer, they play at least two of their songs a day.

3. Bare Naked Ladies - Heard the If I Had A Million Dollars travesty today. For the first time, I gave the notion that the song was designed to be hated. In other words, the band consciously crafted the most annoyingly corny song that has muddied the airwaves in the last twenty years. Maybe I just want to believe there was some subversive reason for the song.

4. Counting Crows - At least twice a day. I'm going on record saying I want to strangle Adam Duritz and watch the life slowly drain from his body. No court will convict me because it will be a clear case of self defense.

5. Spin Doctors - Weren't they played out way back in the nineties? So why am I being tortured with "Two Princes" every single god-damned day?

6. Dave Matthews - The River loves them some Dave Matthews. At least twice a day. Every day. To me, he's like Bruce Springsteen: I respect him, but something about him makes me want to slap him in the face.

7. Dishwalla - Tell me all your thoughts on God? Fuck you, you rotten motherfuckers! Fuck you!

8. Nora Jones - Her new song is getting a lot of play. I'm a fan.

9. OAR - "I always turn the car around ". Actually, I wouldn't mind if you just kept going. Really, just keep driving.

10. Snow Patrol - I just read somewhere that they "produce delicately refined pop punk songs". I guess that's just a nice way of saying watered down slop.

11. Jane's Addiction - Only "Jane Says" of course. Fine by me. Perry's voice always gives me good vibes.

Oh, I could keep going, but why bother. Off to watch Mifune fuck with people.