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After my rant on the Grammy’s written last night where I said horribly mean things about Amy Winehouse and Britney Spears, I thought I’d do a little something positive concerning music.

I love the Flaming Lips.  Now my friend Jonathan pronounced his love for them a few weeks ago so I thought I’d rip him off.  I was all prepared to start a rant about how the Flaming Lips have never won a Grammy, until I did a little research and found that they have indeed won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental for the song Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia) which is the last track on my favorite album of theirs: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.  So there went that idea.

The Flaming Lips are pretty much the best thing to come out of Oklahoma City ever.  Oklahoma City loves them so much that they named an alley after them.  Wow OKC, way to really honor them.  Believe me, it’s a beautiful alley.  I was there in the fall.  I walked down the very alley where Wayne wrote She Don’t Use Jelly.  Okay I don’t think that’s true but I did walk down that alley back in October and it had a gorgeous dumpster which made a nice place for this drunk guy I saw to vomit.

I should really start planning these blog posts out.  This is terrible.

Anyway, listen to The Flaming Lips.  They’re pretty darn good.

Remember years and years ago when getting a Grammy meant something?  When the Grammy’s awarded talented musicians and songwriters?  These days, receiving a Grammy tends to mean that you are a no talent hack.  The awards are on as I write this.  I haven’t watched them since I was in junior high and I remember why now…

They are complete and utter doo doo pie.

Two of the songs nominated for song of the year are “Hey there Delilah,” a song the guy wrote after meeting a girl once at a party and that actually creeps out the subject, and “Rehab,” a song written by a disgusting woman for whom rehab has seemed to have failed miserably. 

On the Grammy’s you’ll find that morons like Vince Gill are nominated.  And for God’s sake, Bon Jovi?  Seriously.  Bon Jovi is nominated.  Have any of these people ever listened to Bon Jovi?

Congratulations Amy Winehouse on all your wins.  Enjoy them, because if you keep it up you’ll be dead before the award show next year.  You and Britney both.

Crap.  I’m getting so angry I can’t even continue this post.  Also, Beyonce just came on.

UPDATED:  Well at least they had the guts to give the Album of the Year to the one guy no one expected.  Also, Slayer won a Grammy.  SLAYER!!  Proof that you must have sold your soul to get an award.