Today's rant

I stayed up late last night to watch Jay Leno. Lance Armstrong was on and I have been a fan of his for a few years now. I watch the tour on TV and kept up with it while mission in Florida with our youth. I like that he is from Texas, and he seems to stand for some wonderful stuff.
I also really enjoy the guys from American Chopper becuase they are funny and entertaining. They unveiled the LiveStrong Bike last night on Leno. It was one of the best late night lineups for a show like that in a long time. Tonight, music inspired by The Passion of the Christ is on featuring Third Day and Stephen Curtis CHapman, looks like bedtime at 12:35 again tonight. East Coast stinks for latenight TV.

But speaking about Lance Armstrong brings up a little issue that is gnawing at me. Back in May I bought a LIVESTRONG bracelet while in New York. Months later, they are sold out and the latest in a line of spiritual type ideas turned into a status symbol of pop culture (remember WWJD from the late 90's). Hollywood stars have them, some olympians even have two. The skeptical side of me wonders of all of those athletes with NIKE endorsements really gave their buck to cancer research or if NIKE had buckets of them in the olympic village to try to further popularize the bands through NBC's horrible olympic coverage. What really pisses me off is the folks who are selling these things on ebay for $25 bucks. I dont believe for a second that they are donating every extra penny they make to LAF and cancer research. I really hope they are, but am too cynical to beleive that.

So, since I have lived stronger than my LiveStrong bracelet, it broke last week, I will wear mine, one of the first made, patched together with a paper clip until the market is saturated. Then once the market is saturated, if it is, I will wear them longer than everyone else, to prove to everyone else that I am praying for cancer victims and cancer research, and though I can sometimes hit the front edge of a fashion trend, this is no such trend for me, but something that tugs at the base of my heart for some reason.

Finally, I am a bit suspicious of Lance's last year and the break up of his family, but I think I have decided to say a sentance prayer for that every time he and/or Sheryl Crow comes up. They are both really cool people and have done some interesting things in their personal lives (Remember My favorite mistake). None of it is really our business, but as a rule a family that is together is usually better than one that is split up by divorce.

Gear Update
I am signed up for my first guitar lesson tomorrow and just felt convicted to say that: though I have gear, I am only pretending to be a real musician. I got nothing but an Adam Sandler song or two under my belt.