Don’t throw me off of the Zeppelin yet. If I’ve predicted the total of my next paycheck correctly, I should be able to buy my ticket to Europe tomorrow. Then, of course, I’ll be broke for a week until next Friday.

I would have had the money last week, but since I overdrew my checking account by forty dollars due to miscommunication, Bank of America decided to rip me off and charge me a $30 fee – five times. I got them to reverse two of them. I had to ask a manager to reverse the other three, though she refused because they refunded the first $60 as a “courtesy”. So I overdrew my account because I thought I had money on it. I made a mistake, and I admit that. Everyone makes mistakes, so why can’t they make an exception this one time? I would have understood if they refused after I did it multiple times and took advantage of leniency. From this entire episode, however, I have learned three lessons: one, Bank of America’s customer service sucks; two, use overdraft protection; and three, switch to another bank.

Anyway, I’m sitting here on the couch watching CNN recapping the Grammy Awards, and I would like to pose one of a few questions: Why the hell does Paul McCartney still have a music career? He’s an old grandfather with a waning voice and a following that is based on the fact that he is only one of two Beatles still alive. I know the Beatles “revolutionized” music, blah, blah, blah, blah, but I simply do not understand why Paul is acclaimed as a gifted solo artist.

Aside from the Beatles, The Rolling Stones is probably another band that is overrated. I was not able to tune into the Super Bowl (nor would I have wanted to), but judging from the clips and news coverage, the Stones’ performance was horrible. I think it’s about time that they each retired to their own English mansions and spare the world of sixty-year-old rockers with wrinkles bigger than their talent. Has anyone seen what Keith Richards looks like? I have the urge to inject him with a few thousand cc’s of botox myself. There are cancer survivors who have gone through intensive chemotherapy that look better than this guy.

Okay, so I’m brutal and there are probably people out there that claim my taste in music is questionable. I do like techno, world, and new age among other genres. My reasons for not liking the above mentioned bands are most likely the same reason why people don’t like what I like. I’m all open for criticism.