The Gram­mys are a strange show. The pro­duc­tion is out­stand­ing [at least until 9 p.m.] and then, like an M. Night movie, they throw in a point­less plot twist to wreck the mood. Do Gram­mys vot­ers not even know what Zeit­geist means? Maybe more appro­pri­ate­ly: do they know they help cre­ate it?

There’s this and this. Then this and this. But then also this, this and that. Is some seri­ous trend­fuck­ing some­how not in order? Not to say that dis­co does­n’t deserve anoth­er chance, but does it have to be like this? Is some­thing not artis­ti­cal­ly suc­cess­ful unless it rad­i­cal­izes the main­stream by becom­ing main­stream? Isn’t this how dis­co went from being underground/black/hispanic/gay to whitewashed?

Check out Rup­ture’s Mud­dUp! great pod­cast at WFMU. Wait until the Dex­plic­it exclu­sive. Then wait for the ‘Kiss Kiss’ remix. I’m fond of that song, and the New Young Pony Club remix too. It’s rare that I put the words ‘great’ and ‘pod­cast’ togeth­er, but Rup­ture’s a natural.

A few quick things:

1. I’ve delet­ed my upcoming.org account. First off, it was a pret­ty lame social net­work. Sec­ond, the thought of Microsoft mak­ing it even less fun chilled me to the core. I’m going with Google cal­en­dar from here on out. Flickr makes me ner­vous too. Del.icio.us, both bor­ing and use­ful, seems per­fect­ly adapt­able to the Microsoft hivemind.
2. If you have a rec­om­men­da­tion for a Mac-friend­ly FTP client [web-based pre­ferred], let me know. I’m look­ing for one that isn’t such a chore.
3. As always, if you know of a great blog that you’re sure I’m not read­ing, please let me know about it! If it’s yours, that’s fine too! I just rearranged my feed read­er and I’m look­ing to bal­ance out the Val­ley­wags and Sil­i­con Alley Insid­ers with more food, wine, music and movie blogs. Help me out!
4. So remem­ber how I won that fit club thing back in ’06 and then grad­u­al­ly back­slid after get­ting laid off? Well, here’s me redeem­ing myself by get­ting back to the gym and start­ing off with a train­er to help whip me into shape. There’s a full slate of great run­ning events ahead and I intend to take part in most of them, includ­ing the Broad St. Run and the Philly marathon in Novem­ber. Wish me luck!

I can’t say too much about this for pro­fes­sion­al rea­sons, but music in the infor­ma­tion age is a strange busi­ness that does­n’t often make much sense. There’s also a part of me that wish­es that some­one out there would look past the self-inter­est­ed rhetoric and take this as a chal­lenge to envi­sion some­thing tru­ly spectacular.