Random thoughts for a random day

• I finally wrote Scattered Frog's first song, start to finish. Man, that felt good.
  

• It's just a weird feeling knowing that The Beach Boys came frighteningly close to having three songs on their 20/20 album whose composers spent time in prison for murder. Huddie Ledbetter, Charles Manson...but Spector got off on a bad court thingy.

• Speaking of The Beach Boys...I'm still reeling from this...the night before Thanksgiving 2006 my wife and I went to see Brian Wilson at the Beacon Theater in New Yuck City. Admission: free, as a friend of ours is friendly with Jeff Foskett, and he was able to set her up with four tickets. PSML's Leon Lively and his wife were originally bookmarked for two of those tickets, but they had to fly back home that day, so we ended up with them. We picked up the tickets at will call, and with those tickets were ALL-ACCESS PASSES. My wife wanted to use those basically just to thank Jeff after the show, so we went to the green room. Jeff was there, and he surprisingly remembered us after a few meetings in the past. We thanked him, and a few feet away was Ritchie Havens, Al Jardine, Darian Sahanaja, Nelson Bragg, a few guys from one of Nelson's band, and the big guy himself: Brian Wilson. He was pouring himself a cup of coffee or maybe water, whatever was in that pitcher. My wife had the balls to walk up to him and say, "Hi, Brian. I'm Lisa, and this is my husband Sean." He smiled, extended his hand, and said "Hi, Lisa!" Then he extended his hand my way. Wow...holy effing poop...BRIAN GODDAMNED WILSON OFFERED ME A HANDSHAKE!!! AND I SHOOK HIS HAND!!!!!!!! THE GUY WHO DID PET SOUNDS AND SMILE!!!! She continued: "We got together because of Pet Sounds." Brian said, "Whoa! Great!" I don't know what was more amazing...that we got to shake his hand, or that he was not the same Brian we'd seen in years past -- he was very open, very welcoming, and genuinely smiling.

• I have an additional outlook on life. I try to be optimistic as often as I can, so I now say: "Shit happens. And when it does, you flush it."

• Why is it that, when Hurricane Katrina destroyed 25% of the nation's oil refineries, gas prices went up 100%?

• I saw the first episode of The Price Is Right that CBS aired with Drew Carey as the host. I'm okay with the minor changes they made, and Drew seemed very rusty but can probably improve with practice. I was really hoping they'd bring back the head-in-a-triangle thing they used to do with the wheel, but nope. I miss the head-in-a-triangle thing.

• Are you one of those people with a myspace or facebook page but are wary of potential employers seeking you out to see how silly you are? Put on your front page this message: "Attention, those of you seeking out my myspace/facebook account in hopes of finding some dirt on me that you can use against hiring me: this is what I do on my personal time. What I do on my own time is my own fucking business. P.S.: I also have plenty of experience with Microsoft Excel and SAP." Let me know how your job search goes.