howdy pardner!

it is no secret that i do not like country music. perhaps it was a combination of my upbringing in middle-of-nowhere illinois and the fact that every woodchips for brains football player that blasted it out of his loud, obnoxious pickup truck that causes a wave of nausea in me every time i hear that twang. god.

now i admit, there was time in high school where i thought i liked it...a lot. in fact, if you were to play a country song from that time period, i can almost guarantee that i know the words to it. this fact makes me wish i had a van gogh period just prior.

imagine my surprise and disgust when a song by garth (who names their kid garth? it's just mean.) brooks came on called 'the american honky tonk bar association'. i liked it.

i must now go shower. i am unclean.