So long

About 3 years ago...maybe more
Me and my cousin thought up the idea for Wasted Superstars.
Well, it wasn't so much of an idea,
more a really cool name.

And I had high hopes for it.
So I started a blog, and invited the most learned minds to join me on it.
But like a jugganaut out of control...things got out of control.
My vision of what I wanted became wildly warped as different ideas came in.

So I'm going to no longer be writing on Wasted Superstars blog,
I'll still be The Man, and I'll still be getting pissed off, still repping Wasted Superstars
But I won't be writing for Wasted Superstars.

I'm Wasted 'till I die

Proposition eight

For those in the state of California, Proposition Eight was to ban gay marriage in the state of california.

Part of me wishes I registered to vote in CA.
At one point of my life I was going to apply for a California Drivers Permit when I was 15 but I never got around to really learning how to drive. I spent enough time in CA back then but I'd always feel the strong need to come back home to manhattan.

I was thinking maybe things would've been different if I spent that time in SF instead of LA.

I so would've voted against Prop. 8. I don't think it matters who you love and decide to spend your life with. I find the entire California voting system for propositions highly interesting. There have always been other propositions that I wish I could vote for.

Alas, its the wish of a manhattan voter.
I think I can be a bicoastal voter.
NVM I will be
And I hope Prop. 4 fails miserably.

New York City's Times square is a madhouse.

It's a madhouse. this modern life.

I'm at a starbucks by times square and its crazy.
Everyone is so excited about Obama.
And I am too.

I voted for him.

Everyone outside is excited for change.
Fuck you joe the plumber.

This has given me some hope in life, just a bit...
maybe i can do the things I say I can do..

Go obama. You deserve the limelight and I believe you can do great things for america and its stance in the world.

I am a proud american right about now (dosen't happen too often) and maybe sam is too, just maybe?
But he's more british than american, obviously.

It's so last season.

I'm really fookin bored of the credit crunch, you can't get away from it, the papers are bleeding it dry as usual and it's like an advertiser's paradise because everything now has the credit crunch tag, as if it's going to make you want to buy it more because the large global companies care about us through these hard times and want to give us more for our money.

I know alot of people are feeling the pinch but it's so tedious hearing about it all the time. One thing's for sure I won't be buying Morrison's new economy range, which comes in fetching fluorescent yellow packaging, there's no way you'll be able to hide it under other quality goods. The shame of it!

tea and phone calls

I had a nice chat with sam today.
It made my day a bit.

for the moment things are going pretty well right now, but i am aware it can blow up in my face.
I wish I could just go to LA where things are warmer and hang out with Sam and Peter..
take them around the city I loathe...but only to the places that ever made me happy as a child.
Because when I was a child, I loved California.
It was a place with open spaces, you got to ride in cars, and EVERYONE HAD A POOL! You could swim in the winter!

I'd only want to go to LA if Either peter or Sam or both were there..

there are a list of places in LA that made me happy when i was a kid..
ill compile a list soon enough.

in the meantime i miss peter and sam.

the future of bbc

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/29/russell-brand-jonathan-ross-bbc

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/29/bbc-russell-brand

This is not helping my fears.

If the BBC becomes so diluted like popular american radio, I'll cry.
What will i listen to on my computer?

maybe xfm, if it manages to last.........

Poor Russell Brand & the state of UK radio

I do like Russell Brand.
I loved his Radio 2 show.

So what, it was a prank call. Really?
I don't understand. UK radio was always supposed to be better than US radio.
That's why I listen to the BBC and XFM all so religiously.

Not too long ago, Alex Zane was suspended for a week for allegedly playing a song about rape.

That sucked cause I couldn't listen to alex zane on a real radio when I was in london.

The Associated Press has said this case is reminiscent of the antics of American "shock jocks" like Opie and Anthony. In 2002, DJ team Opie and Anthony were fired by CBS Radio after broadcasting a live account of two listeners having sex in New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral.

But they are back on the radio, at 92.3 KROCK in new york. Opie and Anthony aren't as talented as russell brand.

The state of UK radio worries me.
How Global bought out the entire GCAP media empire for 375 million pounds.
Global is aiming to be the next USA Clear Channel Radio empire.
Clear Channel stations- like New York's Z100 manafacture nothing but diluted noncreative safe crap (or rubbish). They have Ryan Seacrest, ew. AND ITS NATIONALIZED across clear channel top 40 stations! GAWD!
Clear Channel's programming of shows on similar formats are clones of each other.
Look what's happening with the Heart and Galaxy brands. I don't know much about Galaxy or Heart, but I can figure all that was manafactured on very expensive marketing data and research from all sorts of media firms.
Creative brands like XFM I fear are going to be phased out. South wales gone. Scotland gone.
Virgin radio is in ashes, viva la Absolute.
If Radio 1 ever gets privatised, they could too be spitting out rubbish like Capital FM.


I've been reading in the guardian how there have been talks to privatize Radio 1 and 2.
The Guardian has even written how Radio one has failed to capture its demographics as set by Ofcom. So what are they going to do rehaul the station to dumb it down? I would rather hope not.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/24/commercialradio-bbc

The one thing I love about BBC radio 1 2 6 music is the creativity and diversity of the programming. I can listen to the best new music by Huw or Lamacq- a little bit of shaun keavney, annie macs mashups, pete tong, rob da bank, mikey davies punk show, etc.
You hear it all, from punk to dance to stuff like russell brand on radio 2.

Or you Did hear russell brand.. It's such a scandal. It is a shame that I can't hear my Russell Brand anymore.

The reason it's such a scandal is because it was on BBC. Tim Shaw has done much worse at Kerrang Radio and no one's talking about it.

I predict when Russell Brand comes back on radio, he will rise from the ashes.

The BBC has been talking about regulating "possible offensive" programming...
So what? It's going to be as boring and drabby as American Radio?
New York City is a plain example of that.
New York City has some of the worst radio available to young people 15-24.
sorry I don't fancy diluted hip-hop or crappy top 40. Blah.

Even I would rather listen to the oldies station in new york than anything else, really.
LA radio is alright. Better than New York by far but not quite UK.

Pulled off from the guardian:

The Director-General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, today launches a staunch defence of the BBC's creativity by warning the corporation will not 'overreact' to the tumultuous events of the past week that tarnished the careers of two of its most famous presenters.

In today's Observer, Thompson insists the BBC will do everything in its power to ensure the breakdown in editorial standards that resulted in the broadcast of obscene phone calls from Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand to the answering machine of the Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs never happens again.

But while acknowledging there are 'absolute boundaries which we must never cross', and that on this occasion the corporation got it 'spectacularly wrong', he insists the BBC's creativity must be allowed to thrive, despite calls for it to rein in its ambitions following the explosive row that has raised profound questions about the broadcaster's wide-ranging remit.

Damn Tories all overreacting to this.
Just put back my russell brand and jonathan ross.
This sachsgate controversy has gotten out of hand.
REALLY.
I thought the UK media was always more liberal (and more informative) than US media in general.

I just hope the programming creativity of BBC Radio WILL NOT BE COMPROMISED.
If it continues down this road, it could end up as terrible as American Radio.
Actually not all american radio is bad, but most of it really is.