Just One of Those Days....

Happy Autumn, Everyone!
As I was driving into work on this partly sunny, kinda wet October morning, I was flipping around the radio stations and came across some 'Lovin', Touchin', 'Squeezin'' on one of the stations. And I will admit, my morning voice is kind of hoarse for singing, but I sang along anyways - and just had such a good feeling afterwards, I switched over to my iPod and started playing all the Journey on my iPod.

It just felt like one of those days - a Journey-type of day. Their songs are simple, heartfelt, and have so much melody - it's hard not to sing along, whether you're a Journey fan or not. It also seems to be a karaoke-fan favorite.

So as I was singing along to Journey, not caring who saw me on the roads, I was also thinking that I should go find a band that can play all these great songs and other great songs for me to sing. This is what we call a daydream. But anyways....if I couldn't find a real band to let me be their front-woman, maybe I could join a wedding band and get my gagas that way - singing for a captive audience...love songs and dance songs and feel good songs. Doesn't it sound super-fun?

Now if only I didn't have a pesky case of stage fright!

Oh yeah - I've also decided to make it an Erasure-type of day. I saw the video for 'A Little Respect' this morning while making the bed (on VH-1 Classic), coupled with watching some 'Breakfast Club' - and I think you've got just about an 80's type of day. But for now, we're starting with some Erasure and we'll slowly make our way into Journey!

JUST Missed the Mark

As I was window and real shopping at Pentagon City Mall yesterday, I ran across a big banner that was hanging between each of it's floors in the Macy's wing - a big advertisement for the new 90210.
Picture this:

It's Back - 90210

Season Premiere on

9-02-08

Do you get it? 9-02-10 vs 9-02-08? SO CLOSE, yet so far...nice try marketing people.

And it wasn't so much that they missed the mark with the advertising (cause if it were pre-September 2nd, I don't think it would've drawn me into watching the program) - but it was the fact that they were trying to draw you around the date and show by showing how similar (but not the same) they were - by making the font of the zip code and the premiere date almost the exact same size.

I'm sure the show's producers didn't want to hold off their reincarnation gem for another two years just so they could do the whole matchy thing with the date - and what if September 2nd, 2010 does not fall on their scheduled night? That would be just a marketing nightmare. Secondly, yesterday was 09/28/08 - the premiere has come and gone - get some new banners already, Pentagon City Mall Office!

I guess the only way the marketing people can really make their idea work is:
1) hope their show gets picked up for a season 3
2) and that their show switches from Tuesday nights to Thursday nights (yes, I looked in my perpetual calendar)
so they can finally use:

Catch the Season 3 Premiere of
90210

on

9-02-10

ooooh ahhhh.