Say That You'll Stay, Forever and a Day, In the Time of My Life

Congratulations to Mr. Mike May for correctly naming "Cigarette Smoke" by the Arctic Monkeys as the Thursday Song of the Day. Mike, I'm sorry for holding your day in the spotlight for a little while, but I decided that I needed a short weekend sabbatical from the blog in order to "refresh, reprepare, reread, and repent" in the words of Prof. CrimPro.

It was a good weekend with the boys down in the Hill Country at Lake Buchanan. You might think that I should have known that playing a game of soccer in Chacos would not be a good idea, but there I was, running up and down the pitch, wincing as I anticipated the pain that was to come. The team of Brandon Maenius, Luke Reeves, Jake Wardell, Bo Mechinus, and yours truly ended up losing to the squad of Lance Agan, Will Smyth, Jordan Gay, Garrett Oakley, Shane Spencer, and Nate Low by the score of 10-9. You'll notice that our team was only composed of 5 brave souls while our opponents had 6 players at their disposal. I'll let you decide who put forth the more valiant effort, and yes, I'm still bitter that we lost.

For the rant of the evening, I'm looking at corporate America nabbing one of my favorite songs and making it their own. When some marketing department decided to feature "All Around the World" by Oasis for its newest slate of commercials they committed a heinous act. Instead of making people think of BritPop genius, they think of Cingular merging with AT&T in some sort of bizarre corporate mating ritual, the likes of which have not been reached since Cadillac co-opted Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll." Here's a quick memo to advertising gurus: Feel free to use the work of SmashMouth, but think twice before you take valid rock and roll and use it to schill cell phones.