Eddie is engaged

Hello,

Here's the biggest news in the music world that I could find. Eddie Van Halen is engaged. Apparantally he's been engaged to his publicist and longtime girlfriend since August. Her name is Janie Liszewski. Van Halen very famously has been married before, he was married to Valerie Bertinelli for several years. They have a son together, Wolfgang, who is the bassist for the current lineup of Van Halen.

Other music news: Taylor Hicks has signed a deal to release his next CD through an indie distributor. He was dropped from the contract he won after winning "American Idol", that must have been a really weak season. He also has performed in "Grease". Since "AI", Hicks has been desperately trying to stay relevant. However I think his problem is that he has never been relevant. He won "American Idol" by sort of being the anti "American Idol". Where's the Soul Patrol when you need them. His inconsequential new CD will be out Februay 10th. So Taylor thanks for coming but it is now time to fade into obscurity. I hope you enjoyed your 15 minutes of fame. Be grateful that is 15 more minutes than most people enjoy.

Kanye West has threatened to release his next CD on November 25th. Consider yourself warned! In much better music news, Depeche Mode has announced their next CD will be released in early Spring 2009. They also announced a 28 date European tour starting May 10th. North and South America dates will be announced at a later date. It is closing in on being the last time you can see some of these great 80's bands before they lose everything that made them popular in the first place.

A brief bit of movie news: I watched the Michael J. Fox movie "The Secret Of My Success" the other day. This movie also stars Helen Slater as the babe, whatever happened to her anyway? (I know calling her the babe is sexist but that is essentially what she plays even though she is a high powered exectutive. It is interesting she does not have a secretary, but Michael J. Fox does.) This is a cheesy movie but I really enjoyed seeing it again for the first time in several years. This movie holds up fairly well, especially in this era of corporate raiders.

Sports news: the Boston Red Sox defeated the LA Angels last night to win that series. So the two League Championship Series are now set. It will be Boston vs. the Tampa Bay Rays in the ALCS. The ALCS starts Friday night in Tampa Bay. In the NLCS it will be the Dodgers vs. the Philadelphia Phillies. The NLCS starts Thursday in Philadelphia. I would like to see both the Dodgers and Red Sox win. However when two of my teams played against each other, that was no fun. I am really conflicted.

That is it for today. I should be back Thursday, themusicaddict