Though I’ve been posting sparsely lately, I do realize that most of my rants on this thing lean towards how the general public have accepted bad music. I intend to remedy that soon; I’ve been thinking about how an eight year old could write an episode of ER with a dart board and some index cards with some slim-defined parameters—but more on that later. But I do want to shove some of my disdain for a particular musician down your collective brian-throats by stating that the stupid Vanessa Carlton song A Thousand Miles is the worst thing to happen to advertising since Nike’s “Shoes Eviscerate Lion” campaign. I’ll be damned if I know who Vanessa Carlton is, but I know her song. It ranks up there with Pete Townsend’s My Love Opened The Door (To Your Heart) as cliche for advertising Adam Sandler romantic comedies and the like. Now it’s being bled once again for Zales or Kayes (or some mall-based jeweler) holiday commercials that are in extremely heavy rotation. I implore anyone with the ability to get motion picture to the masses (I’m not talking YouTube, your shit should be on TV or in the theaters) to associate this song with something horrible, like prison rape. Do what Quentin Tarrantino did to Stuck In The Middle With You to this song. Please. It’s killing me with a Thousand Little Knives.

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