Grant-Lee Phillips may best be known as the front man for Grant Lee Buffalo, however Phillips’ career as a musician starts with his first band, Shiva Burlesque, who recorded two albums prior to Phillips forming Grant Lee Buffalo with Joey Peters and Paul Kimble in 1991. With critical acclaim and a couple of “Modern Rock” hits, the band have a creative, highly literate body of work to their name. In 2000, Phillips began a solo career and recently released a new album Little Moon. This Friday November 20th, Phillips performs on a double bill Free At Noon along with Bob Schneider and on Saturday night November 21st plays a full show at World Cafe Live.

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AOL Comments – The Bathroom Wall Of The Internet

I’ve had an AOL account since the 1800’s. Why America online? No big
reason really. It sounded like a company that might be around for a
while. Over the years, I’ve signed up to other services, forgotten my
name, my address, my password and so on. I’ve wandered aimlessly in
state of digital dementia for years and yet somehow, I’ve kept AOL.
It’s a familiar place. There’s my mail, my horoscope, and the
lightning speed news I’ve come to depend on.

When a bear gets his head stuck in a toilet seat, a moose crashes
through a convenience store window or Sanjay Gupta comes down with the
sniffles, AOL news is there. As much as I’ve come to rely on these
thumbnails of truth, what I’ve really become obsessed with are the AOL
comments that accompany the stories. It’s a kind of bulletin board
where regular folks like you and me, with a broad range of personality
disorders, get to air their grievances.

These grievances are mostly with “Obama,” as they refer to the
President Of The United States, but generally with any and everything
you can imagine. If you haven’t tried it yet, reading the comments is
a wonderful way to pass the hours, if you can avoid having your head
explode. I personally enjoy this challenge. I don’t get enough
physical activity so this is my way of my getting my cardio in. Here’s
how it works. Click on any AOL news story. How about this one? AOL’s
10 Worst Renditions Of The National Anthem: everyone from Roseanne
Barr to Michael Bolton has stepped up to the plate and taken a swing
at this timeless classic and many have perished. It’s not an easy song
to sing. Why isn’t the regular news talking about this? AOL News is!
And so are the people. Ultimately this particular story inspired a
litany of posts on topics like “Diet-itus”, rumors of an Angelina
Jolie bootleg video circulating on the web, the evil of Rap music, and
of course, “Obama”

One who goes by the humble name of Jo writes…
“…Perhaps instead of singing songs about Obama we should have our
children sing our national songs. It appears they’ve been neglected.” Jo

There ya have it… just a regular Jo. Being an American who happens to
be online way too much. I can’t resist a slice of AOL pie now and
then. Whipped cream anyone?