Erin Munson's Journal

Picture this: driving on 24 West before the tunnel. As usual, traffic is stopped a long way before the tunnel as people try to merge in to those two lanes. Frustrating, yes. So when this happens I need a mix to cheer me up and something I can sing along with to take my mind off of the traffic.

1. Motion City Soundtrack - The Future Freaks Me Out (I Am The Movie)
2. Blu Sanders - Laughing on the Worst Day of Our Lives (5 to Care About)
3. Donavon Frankenreiter - What'cha Know About (Donavon Frankenreiter)
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Cabron (By The Way)
5. Beauty and the Beast - Gaston
6. ReeveOliver - Young and Dumb (ReeveOliver [9/21])
7. Stephen Lynch - Superhero
8. Tidal Wave - Longwave
9. Queen - Bohemian Rapshody
10. Powderfinger - A Song Called Everything (Vulture Street)
11. Billy Joel - Why Should I Worry (Greatest Hits Vol.2)
12. CCR - Down on the Corner
13. Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
14. Guns 'N Roses - Paradise City
15. OAR - Hey Girl
16. The Proclaimers - 500 Miles
17. Pete Murray - Fall Your Way
18. Pearl Jam - Even Flow (Ten)

If you find a formula that works, it would be beneficial to stick to it. With the story of “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” and its remake “Mr. Deeds,” the formula is slightly different but achieves a similar outcome. However, when the same ideas are used multiple times, new ideas for movies don’t get produced. Because the big movie companies are recycling old movies like aluminum cans, are we as a society losing out on new, original concepts for films?

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It is often said that politicians are dirty and they don’t fight fairly, citing their opponents weaknesses rather than promoting their own strengths. But now, that argument can also be applied to how politicians (or at least the current RNC) treat some reporters. In a segment titled “Kill the Messenger,” Bob Garfield spoke with Ryan Lizza, a journalist from The New Republic magazine about the tactics that have been used by the Republicans to discredit reporters showing Bush in an unfavorable light.

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As a kid, I would always watch Unsolved Mysteries. Quite honestly, it used to freak me out because of the re-enactments they would use. Murderers sneaking around, ghostly figures floating in the dark and kidnappers caught in the act all looked real to me. I found out about a month ago that they still show re-runs on TV, so I checked it out for this criticism piece. Let me just say that I am disappointed in my naivety as a child. Those re-enactments are full of bad acting, bad hair (hey, it was the 80s), and bad voice overs. The only thing that still gave me the creeps about that show was the host, Robert Stack.

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In late March, a radio network was born with one common goal - to oust President Bush from the White House in the 2004 election. Air America was the liberal answer to the commonly conservative Republican talk radio circuit. Jeanane Garafalo, Al Franken and Randi Rhodes are the Democrats answers to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Bob Garfield spoke to Paula Span, a Washington Post Magazine reporter who surveyed Air America for her publication. She explains how the network has gone from 16 to 33 stations, in most major cities across the nation, including San Francisco.

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