The Grammys

I've had a lot of down time on my hands since Harvard-Westlake's winter break ended as I haven't started a new job yet, so I started watching "Twin Peaks" on the CBS website.  First of all, this show is incredibly fucked up but somehow still so good.  And it also got me to watch Blue Velvet for the first time.  This movie is also incredibly weird, and also very long, although I was surprisingly engrossed and it didn't feel over 2 hours at ALL.  In fact, I was surprised when the end came about since it didn't seem like enough time had gone by for it to be over already.  Maybe I'm just a David Lynch kind of person... although my one attempt to watch Mulholland Drive was kind of a fail.

Anyway, this is all very far from my original point, which is that during the online "Twin Peaks" episodes they incessantly showed these commercials for a contest to sing Katy Perry's song "I Kissed a Girl" at the Grammy awards (I'm not really 100% sure what the prize is, although I think there's a cash component).  This reminded me of this guy Max Vernon who went to my high school.  I didn't really know him during school, he was just a friend of my best friend's older brother, but I knew of him.  Actually, I ran in to him in New York City once.  I think that's pretty much the only time I've ever talked to him.  It was outside the theater after seeing the revival of Sweeney Todd (directed by John Doyle and starring my new friend Michael Cerveris!), and we briefly discussed how great Patti Lupone is and then I had to go.

So, anyway, he has this cover of "I Kissed a Girl" that's really popular on the internet (it's actually really good, especially considering that I don't really like the song itself all that much), and I recently came to learn he entered the CBS contest.  So here's the link to go vote for him:

http://www.cbs.com/specials/grammys/moment/video_player.php?vid=93

Now, why should you do this?  Because:

a) it's pretty good

and

b) (the selfish reason) I think it would be really cool if someone I know (or... kinda know... or... kinda used to know...) won the contest

I don't know when the Grammys are exactly, but I think they're the first or second week of February so there's still some time left.

So... yeah.  That's about it.  Like I said, I haven't started a new job yet, so there's not much to report.

My parents are at Obama's inauguration today.  I could have gone, and I so very very much wish I had, but I guess I can't change anything.  So I'll get the scoop from them soon and that'll be that.