Yo, everybody! Just a quick-kick note on the Live 8 concert that happened last weekend in Berlin, London, Rome, Tokyo, and Philadelphia. Yes, Philadelphia. I think it was named after Phil(adelphia) Collins, who performed in the LAST Live Aid show twenty years ago (when he was just 62) and he flew to different cities to play on the same day. That was pretty cool. But about Berlin: The sound sucked, Radio 1 rocked, Green Day was great, Audioslave wailed, Chris Deburgh told us not to pay the ferry-man (whaddever THAT means!) and I got a photo with Bryan Ferry instead (ultra-hip!), who's that cute singer from Wir Sind Helden? and I even got to talk to Tim Robbins. (Always wanted to meet him! What a great actor, thinker, and humanitarian.) I told him that I'm a UCLA fellow, too, just like him, and he sported that famous toothy grin. Told him I've got immense respect for him for all the things he says and does.

WE JUST TRYIN' TO SAVE THE WORLD, YA KNOW!
With a little luck, we're gonna do it, too ...
Peace. -Todd