2005 Grammy Awards

Amybear and I watched some of it together thanks to the lovely people at Verizon and 10-10-987. We would rather be snuggling and watching in the same room, but at least this way we have some shared experience. That really helps when you are long distance. What can I say, we're taking joy in the little things.

One big annoyance this year was that suits seem to be in style again, but nobody is bothering to wear them properly. Take almost everyone in Maroon 5. The suits are too small and they pull across the chest. It makes them look like Pee Wee Herman. Or heroin addicts which is at least appropriate for Scott Weiland. This phenomenon seemed to be confined mostly to the skinny white artists because the black folks and latinos seem to have better sense of style. My mother is a tailor and I've worked in a men's clothing store a time or three myself so this irked me.

Jennifer Lopez and husband Mark Anthony-Lopez sang a much hyped duet. Completely in Spanish. With an extravagant set that made no sense, since the song was completely in Spanish. It was long and awful. Lopez didn't even look good in her dress. It looked like a she was wearing a sequined sack with a big ass belt. And the reviewers of her first album were right, she doesn't have an especially good voice. Mark Anthony looked kind of nasty and ragged, it isn't a good look for him.

On a different note, Third Day won the Grammy for Wire. It's a good album, but I really like their second album, Conspiracy No. 5, better. They seem to have mellowed as they have aged and I'm in a harder rock mood right now.