American Idol - Over the past seven years this show has become a total cultural phenomenon in the United States. I'll be the first to admit that I'm completely addicted. From January to May my Tuesday nights are dedicated to watching it live and one of my Wednesday night DVR slot is dedicated to recording it (mainly because I can't sit through an hour of Ryan Seacrest without musical...

Although I suppose to proper terminology would be "laid off" being that our parent company decided to ax it's entire entertainment marketing division (all three of us) this morning. Yet, I'm supposed to "work" til the end of the week.Truth be told - I've been expecting this since our last event got majorly destroyed by a rainstorm and sort of killed our chance of not losing millions. It still...

So I'm sitting here at my desk. It's 1:28pm and my boss is out of the office on a lunch meeting. We're all basically waiting to get fired so I'm kinda blasse about my job right now.To me this counts as a perfect time to write down little anecdotes - whether anyone cares or not -How many of you have "show buddies"?def:show buddies - A person you consistantly see at concerts/shows for so long that...

I woke up this morning at 6:00 am for some strange reason. That's a good hour and a half before my alarm clock normally goes off. Laying in bed I couldn't figure out why I felt so crappy (although I suppose being that I went to sleep at 3am might have had something to do with it). I forced myself back to sleep until the last possible second (7:30am as I have to be in Garden City for work at 9am)...

I just realized there's a journal option on here as well. Yes. Feel free to say "Lucky, you're a moron"Ok, so I've decided to use this journal as well to tell funny little stories about things I've experienced over the last 10 years of working with/around/for bands/artists/labels/venues. Sometimes they might be blind items (as I don't feel like embarassing my friends and especially not people I...