While running for president, George W. asked "Is our children learning?"  While pushing for renewal of his No Child Left Behind law, he answered his question; "Childrens do learn."  Fortunately, not from him.  My spell checker has a fit whenever I quote Bush.  I hope the Daily Show writers thank God every night for a president who writes their material for them.

Was listening to my last podcast in the car today...I said "cover" about a gagillion times.  Whoever can guess closest to the number of times I said "cover" gets a free "Attaboy (or girl)".

Chose covers for my second podcast.  I've always been a big fan of covers, love to see songs interpreted in different styles, how some groups can really nail a cover, where others can ruin a song almost so badly that you never want to even hear the original again (hello, Madonna, American Pie?  ugh.).  So here's a sampling of covers from my library, hope you enjoy them.

I read that Robert Jordan died the other day.  He's the author of one of the most amazing fantasy series of all time, The Wheel of Time.  His characters invade your mind and soul, becoming part of your family.  Just an outstanding author.

My very first thought (after "holy shit!") was, "Fuck...what's going to happen to the rest of the story?!  I hope he wrote an outline."

I'm going to hell.

Here's a little about me and what I want to accomplish with this podcast and blog.  I have a serious and deep love for music bordering on obsession, and I feel it is my duty...nay, quest....to share my tastes in music with the world.  That's pretty much it.  I'll probably post some blog entries here and there, because I do love to write, but my political leanings and inability to censor myself or think before I speak may end up getting me a visit from Homeland Security.  So I'll try a little self restraint.

My musical taste is pretty broad, but my favorites, in no particular order, are:

Harry Chapin, 80's stuff, oldies (real oldies, not the stuff they call oldies now, which includes songs from the late 70's and 80's...or does that just mean I'm old?), show tunes, and comedy...that's twisted comedy songs, like Weird Al, Stephen Lynch, stuff like that...

That's just a few.

Please send requests, comments, questions, etc. to ottopodcast@comcast.net, unless you acutally have my real email, which is probably about 99% of my current audience.  I will play anything.  Honest.