I was trying to make a long string of YouTube videos with each succeeding one featuring someone covering a song written by the last artist. I got sidetracked by all the misinformation. People tend to give credit to the performer in their own generation to hit with any given really good song rather than do a bit of research and see who actually gave birth to the song.

There are dozens of amateur videos whose titles indicate that they are a cover of the Black Crowes song Hard to Handle. I was a big fan during this band’s heyday and, as a fan, I made it my business to educate myself. This song, and a few other Black Crowes songs are from Otis Redding. I have to get over my indignation, because all classic rock songs will soon be identified by which version of Guitar Hero they appear on

I try to stay focused with my internet activity, but sometimes I get sucked down a rabbit hole. Today I read that Woody Harrelson’s father had confessed to the assassination of JFK. I haven’t corroborated this story with other sources and even if he really did confess, that doesn’t mean that he did it. It is a very compelling story, though. He confessed to two murders after surrendering to police when he was suffering from what may have been a drug induced psychosis. His state of mind was reason enough for the authorities to ignore the JFK confession and yet they convicted him and sentenced him to life for the other crime to which he confessed. You can see an interview with Charles Harrelson on this page. Thank goodness Woody legitimate acting as an outlet for that stuff. Charles Harrelson died in prison last year.

I don’t know if this movie is going to stay up on Google. I haven’t watched it yet, but I did watch an excerpt of it on YouTube a few months ago. Basically it is some small time movers and shakers that got schmoozed and later spurned by the Clintons. One of them is Spiderman creator Stan Lee. Since these are Hollywood types, they have one recourse that the Clintons may have failed to consider when they wrote them off. They made a movie.

I always thought Stan Lee was a little weird because he sometimes drew really bodacious tatas on Aunt May. Maybe I was a little weird for noticing. Maybe I am more than a little weird for remembering it for a couple of decades and then blogging about it. Anyway, the Clintons aren’t very nice.

edit: I have watched 26 minutes of the 90 minute movie. It is pretty unrelenting and illuminating. It paints a much broader picture than I had anticipated. One of the tarriest brushes is wielded by none other than Anne (shudder) Coulter, who benefits from a skillful editor in this movie. Someone who honestly believes that the enemy of their enemy is their friend cherry picked a number of reasonable and believable sounding quotes from the awful harpy. I had to stop watching after 26 minutes, if I can bring myself to watch more, I will update again.

2nd edit: I watched another few seconds of the movie, but I was asked to pause it. I went to Wikipedia to refresh my memory about a key Clinton basher known as Peter Paul. This man is a convicted criminal and has repeatedly committed fraud in various ways, shapes and forms. If he is the driving force behind this movie, I don’t think it deserves that much attention. Maybe the Clintons are guilty of carrying out character assassination on their enemies, but Paul’s character has been dead man walking since the 70s.

She didn’t know she’d been in bed with Ruff McGruff until she turned on the light…

The Worst Time to Suffer From Paranoia is when people are out to get you. I spent an hour pouring over the long Vanity Fair article about the tragic last days of an artistic power couple who had fled Hollywood for New York after a weird series of events and then committed suicide in separate events. The main theme running through the story is that two people who were very much in love had both descended into mental illness. One of the main targets of Theresa Duncan’s paranoia was the church of scientology. It is unclear as to whether there was any actual threat. Any correspondence coming from anyone involved with scientology could be put in the context of justifiable denials and pushback. Given the fact that there are powerful people in Hollywood who belong to this cult, I believe that there probably was some level of malicious damage to the professional and social lives of Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan. Theresa Duncan’s story about befriending Beck and offering to help him escape the cult is dubious because of Beck’s denials, but it is interesting nonetheless.

These kids rock. I had never heard of them until today. Whereas most of the male rockabilly pioneers had tragic ends or scandalous lives that made them household names beyond what was warranted by their music, these two just stopped. She got married at 17 to Johnny Cash’s manager who was in his mid 30s. She quit performing with her baby brother when she had her first child at 19. The young man pictured here was no flash in the pan, he kept performing and writing for most of his life. He wrote Delta Dawn and You’re The Reason God Made Oklahoma. These two had a reunion concert in 1993, 32 years after they had stopped performing together, and they are still at it.

I think Britney Spears should look to women like Lawrencine “Lorrie” Collins for role models. It is already too late in a lot of ways for Britney as far as her legacy as a performer goes, but she can salvage a normal personal life if she would just quit the celebrity thing cold turkey.

I have hardly ever asked for autographs. It is just not my style. I am considering the idea of taking a pen and an album cover with me to an event tomorrow night. If I do this and I am successful, I will most certainly blog about it. This is the second post in a row in which I am blogging about what I am going to blog about in the future.

I recently spent some time trying to comprise a list of big name celebrities who choose to live in small towns. I am not finished, but I decided to ramble on a bit about it anyway. I didn’t have much luck with regard to effective search engine queries for this topic, so I resorted to asking people. I would go to the Internet to verify what people had told me and more than half the time I would find out that the actors or singers have either moved out of the small town or else they ‘divide their time’ between the small town and New York or LA.

If Perez Hilton had just shut up about Rumer, she might be happily hanging around in Idaho. the shopping in Manhattan apparently pwns the shopping in Taos, New Mexico in the eyes of Julia Roberts. Brad Pitt loved the relaxed attitude in post flood New Orleans, but he has to keep his life moving really fast otherwise his relationship might suffer, I think it’s like a shark.

I think Demi and Ashton actually do spend a lot of time living away from Hollyweird.

I tested my level of self absorption with this application about a year ago. It is one of those things that newer bloggers continue to discover. Now that I think of it, I need to point some of my late adopter relatives to this thing. It is fun most of the time. I am a bit depressed. I would consistently get Ashton Kutcher as my best match last year and now he is not even on the list. Hey, he got older too ya know.

The new show from the creators of the OC, Gossip Girl, was once destined to be a feature movie starring Lindsay Lohan. I hate to sound like a gossip, but I have heard that she is hard to work with. When the original plans went awry, the OC’s executive producer was approached with the idea of creating a television series around the popular book series.

Episodes of this guilty pleasure air on CW at 9 p.m. EST on Wednesdays.

The video below is me pretending to gossip. No animals were harmed during the making of this video.