Hello,

Two weeks ago today the King of Pop passed away. Two days ago was his memorial at the Staples Center. Apparantally that cost 1.4 million dollars and the city of L.A. is wanting some of that money back. 31 million people watched the Jackson Memorial on TV with more people on-line. Some people estimate that the online audience was equal to the TV audience.

My love of "Mad Men" continues to grow. Last night I watched Season 1, Episode's 10 to 12. There's one more episode left for that season, but it was too late to watch it last night. I'll watch it shortly and then I'd like to watch some of the episodes from Season Two again. I'm hoping that will help me fill in all the blanks for this great show. By the way the DVD of Season 2 of "Mad Men" will be out July 14th.

I'm not a big internet radio listener but there are some good internet radio stations. One of them is Pandora. Pandora was able to make a long-term deal and will be around for many years to come. Not only that but Pandora continues to be a free service as long as you listen to 40 hours or less a month. If you hit 40 hours you will be given an option to go unlimited for that month for 99C. That is a very good deal. There are no commericals or lame djs. You can also rate songs that you like and hate and Pandora will match up future song selections to your taste. Internet radio is so much better than terrestial radio.

Finally songs rockin' my iPod. I'm still listening to a lot of Michael Jackson songs so a lot of these songs are Jackson songs. The man was an incredible song writer and performer. Also he and his people were very good at picking other people's songs for him to sing. 1) "Hunter"- Dido 2) "Wanna Be Startin' Something"- MJ 3) "They Don't Care About Us"- MJ 4)"In The Closet"- MJ 5) "Black or White"- MJ
6) "Who Is It?"-"Thriller"- MJ 8) "Beat It"- MJ 9) "Sad Songs"- The Pendletons 10) "Crazy On You"- Carly Smithson from "American Idol" Season 7 11) "Common People"- William Shatner (yes that William Shatner) and Ben Folds 12) "Like A Virgin"- Madonna 13) "Copacabana"- Barry Manilow 14) "Never Again"- Nickleback 15) "White Wedding"- Billy Idol 16 & 17) "Modern Swinger" and "Busy Signals"- The Pink Spiders 18) "Camisado"- Panic At The Disco 19) "Vacation"- The Go Gos

Unless something dramatic happens I probably won't be back until Sunday. Have a great weekend, themusicaddict