soft rock

In the early '70s, everyone was mellowing out to soft rock music. Singer-songwriters, acoustic guitars, and sun-soaked melodies took over the airwaves and the sound of soft rock was born. Get 168 original soft rock hits on 11 CDs, one FREE!

for the last 40 minutes, i've been watching this time life infomercial. apparently, market research revealed that someone wanted the greatest music pussies of all time all in one place. this includes losers who you forgot made music or made music you tried to forget, like:

1. air supply
2. boz scags
3. benny mardones
4. chicago
5. hall and oates
6. steve winwood
7. rupert holmes (the guy who sings the pina colada song)
   

in addition, they have graham russell and russell hitchcock (the two guys who made up air supply, apparently) enjoying what is quite possibly the most homoerotic ads i've seen in awhile. these silver maned mullet heads are relaxing in their home (i guess they're still living together). each clips starts with them emerging from some room or cuddling on the couch with their silver mullets, singing 'i'm all out of love" with two acoustic guitars. then some random housewife appears and exclaims, "i can't believe i'm here with air supply!"

they then reminence about the absolutely horrible music that headlined high school proms everywhere from 1972 to 1976.

anyway, it's friday, 1:34 am, and i'm working. this is actually nothing new, as i have worked almost seven days a week straight for the past four weeks. this has included some spectacular 2 am nights.

have spent the week in san destin. not a bad place for a company conference. works out nicely, since dr. wintermute's parents live nearby, and we can roll right into thanksgiving. dr. w just landed a few hours ago. i have one more half day at the conference, and then they are driving over to the resort to pick me up.