4.2.09

Lil' Thom is coming to town!

Breathe Los Angeles. Just breathe. Pause for a second and look around you. Or not. The city will not notice either way. But consider what you might see if you were not so distracted ignoring all the distractions that exist in this frothy metropolis of ours. That man on the corner who throws a cup into the street and then yells at the passing cars about it. That sign over there really does say "99 cent Empanadas." And yes, P. Diddy's face is painted on two very large buildings on the same street. Pretty neat huh? There's no question of whether LA is the greatest city in the world because I couldn't tell you if it were. No, here we do not have time to worry whether or not this is the best place to live because it's February, it's 80 degrees outside, and there only 4 days, 16 hours, and 46 minutes left until the greatest musical match up of all time will take place: Radiohead and Lil' Wayne will share the stage at the Grammy's.


Now, it has not been rumored that these two giants of contemporary music will do a medley of Tha Carter III and In Rainbows while all the members of Coldplay are forced through a black hole opened up by the mixture of Wayne's and Johnny Greenwood's guitar sounds, where, my eighth grade science teacher assures me, they will be "spaghettified" as they bare witness to the end of a universe in which they exist. Unfortunately most of these things will not happen. However, I am fairly certain that Radiohead's mysterious urge to attend AND perform at the Grammy's can only be due to their deep love of Gangster Rap and the swarming biddies that know all the lyrics to Lollipop by heart.