Matt and Andrew's CD a Day project

MLB.com is helping to promote the new solo album from Scott Stapp, the guy from Creed. If you buy the album through mlb.com, you get five full-length audio streams, and you can watch him singing two songs live in the mlb.com studios. MLB.com has studios? What the hell for? Aren't they a baseball website? And how can Scott Stapp "have baseball in his blood"? He's from Orlando, who do not have a major league team (although Orlando is near Tampa, and like the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Scott Stapp sucks).
There's cross-promotion, and then there's stupidity. And I'm betting this one's stupidity.

So INXS is back after a big summer-long reality series. Yeah, I know the show ended two months ago (I was a Marty Casey fan, personally), but their new album comes out in a week or two and the tour is starting to sell out, so I feel compelled to comment. Have you guys heard the new song "Dirty Vegas" yet? The new guy (J.D. Fortune, for the uninitiated), sounds EXACTLY like Michael "maybe autoerotic asphyxiation isn't such a good ide..ACK" Hutchence. And maybe that's what the guys in the band really wanted. But it's got to be creepy for ol' J.D. Several years ago, 12p and I were in Lawton, Okla. to open up for the Robbie Krieger Band. Krieger, you might remember, was the guitarist for the Doors, and at the time was playing the county fair and out-of-the-way towns circuit with a set of mostly Doors songs. His son was the lead singer, and he looked waaaay too much like Jim Morrison, to the point that he was obviously fucked up on stage. I feared for the guy's sanity. Think about it: how would you feel if your dad was encouraging you to dress up like one of his buddies (who happens to be dead)?