You Are Not Johnny Cash.

Something that I've run across every time I come home is how my sleeping patterns don't agree with the best of programming on television. Naturally, I go to bed at sunrise and wake up at sunset. I'm nocturnal. Sadly, my friend, television, is not. The only thing on at 4 am is infomercials, news, and music videos. I always end up with the latter of the three. I stop watching infomercials when I start contemplating buying a whole set of knives because they include a cheese knife (and yes, the guy said "Just look at how well it cuts through that cheese!). News gets a little old after watching the same story three times. Music videos, though, I have four channels of. Five, if you count country, but country isn't music.

The bad thing about music channels is that they all show the same videos. The MTVs, and -sadly- Fuse run rap. Occasionally, you'll get some non-rap-highly-commercialized video thrown on, but that's rare. VH1 shows the poppy stuff. IMF has an excelent mixture, playing videos from all over the world.

One video on all watchable channels is the new Johnny Cash video. Yes, he's dead, but that never stopped people from making money with a corpse. He apparently did a cover of the song, "God's Gonna Cut You Down." The only reason I know it's a cover is because back in my pop music days, Moby took another version of that song and played with it.

I hate this video. The song's fantastic, don't get me wrong. Cash does some of the best covers out there. But nowhere do they show Johnny Cash. No, instead, they show every "celebrity" that we all ask, "why are they famous?" Kanye West, Lisa Marie Presley, Kid Rock, some people I don't know....why the Hell are they all lip-synching to a song by an artist they only care about because it makes them look they know about music? Seriously, what does Justin Timberlake have to do with Johnny Cash? Anyone?

What is it with celebrities? They don't care about anything except face time. "What? This new video by a dead guy will get me on TV? I'm there!"

Now, if I only saw the video once, I'd let it slide...maybe. But the fact they play it every fifteen minutes....it's starting to get on my nerves.

That's it for now. I'm bored.

Neither of these people built a Cadilac one piece at a time.

My God! I'm a tomato!