I ride the bus with my headphones on now. People can talk, chew gum with their mouths open or talk on cell phones and I could care less! I listen to The Clash‘s London Calling album in total pleasure. I wonder what it was like during the recording of that record. Did they get along? Did they record in the same room? How long did the sessions last? They made a record 20 years ago and it’s better than anything put out today.

It’s St. Valentine’s Day, who gives a crap! I don’t want to send out negative vibes, but that day has just never worked out for me. Valentine’s Day is great if you have someone but I got nothing. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m happy, I just think it would be nice to care about someone and actually have her care back. Is that asking too much? I was just going to go on this big rant about how it’s the city and everybody is on the fast track but the truth is–it’s me. I haven’t made myself available. I built a wall of flesh around myself and blamed “them” for not wanting to go out with me. It’s funny the lies we tell ourselves, isn’t it? Ha, freaking, ha! Hey, here’s some good news; I didn’t get a parking ticket yesterday. I’m going to take my car in the shop this weekend to see what the problem is. Please don’t let it cost $500, PLEASE! J and D wrote to me about Netflix.com yesterday. They said they didn’t have such a good experience. So I canceled it today. I’m not sure how I’m going to rent DVDs now? Getting them and sending them back in the mail is a pain. I registered with a cool website today, Freecar.com. They let you drive a car for two years, for free. You pay for gas and insurance. The only catch is, you have to advertise something on your car. For instance, let’s say Starbucks wants to advertise with freecar.com, they wrap your car in one big ad. You become a rolling endorsement of a product. And you get a car for two years. I think it’s a pretty good deal. Have you seen my car? Anyway, I’m sure there’re hundreds of thousands of people ahead of me. I’m just grasping at straws. OK, that’s it. Have a Happy Valentine’s Day, I’m going to go home tonight and cry myself to sleep. I almost forgot. I enjoyed Walter’s Woody Allen story so much yesterday that I asked my friend Jay to submit something today. It’s a new feature to my site and I call it Jay Recommends… Each week or whenever he feels like it, Jay will recommend a DVD for you to view. OK, so here’s Jay:

Thanks, Bob, for inviting me to contribute a DVD review to your site. Given yesterday’s Academy Award nominations and Steven Soderbergh’s history-making nominations (two for Best Director and two for Best Picture), I was ready to go with an enthusiastic DVD review of one of his recent films that has gone largely overlooked, “The Limey.”However, after finishing my review I made the awful mistake of seeing the new movie”Hannibal.” Now, I’m a big fan of horror movies as much as the next guy and I’ve never been that bothered by the fake movie gore (“Fangoria,” anyone?), but this pretentious piece of crap crossed the line and managed to be both offensive and stomach churning in equal doses. Basically, for the first time in my movie-going history I came this close to losing my popcorn and the only thing that kept me from walking out was the fear of losing it on the way out of the theater. This is supposed to be entertainment? Forget it. Stay at home and, instead, let me recommend another DVD that’s suitable for the entire family: “Fantasia 2000.” Great animation, fantastic music, a bit of humor from Steve Martin, stunning video and audio quality, and that trademark wholesome quality from the folks at Disney. You can’t go wrong.

That’s all. Except to say “Thank you, Bob” and to wish my boy Stevie good luck on Oscar night.