Live 8

MOOD: Joyful
SOUNDS: Live 8, of course

Today is dedicated to watching the Live 8 concert on MTV. I slept in this morning and woke up just in time to start watching. I'm also getting some projects done around my house, like rearranging furniture and things, cooking, cleaning the place.

I'm a huge fan of outdoor concerts, especially the ones that include many, many different types of bands. Woodstock, Live Aid, Farm Aid, Lollapalooza, Voodoo Fest, etc. I even like to see what I call the shitty bands, even though they're just ones I either haven't heard of or am just not interested in.

Highlights so far: the most awesome collaborations I've ever seen (I love that spirit), Madonna's performance (swoon, I was clapping and dancing and singing and grinning from ear-to-ear), Natalie Portman's new shaved head (yay!), Sting ("we'll be watching you"), MC Lyte as a correspondent, The Killers, Green Day performing "We Are the Champions," and the constant vignettes on the G8, Live Aid, and the personal stories of the people in Africa affected by the poverty all this is supposed to help eliminate. A million people in Philadelphia (so far) and about that in London, too, I think. Oh, and the fact that no one is making any money off of this, except perhaps MTV, Vonage, and War of the Worlds. This coverage should really be commercial free MTV! Think about donating like you want us all to do through our governments! Duh.

Go sign the petition at One.org and watch MTV for your name to be displayed in the list they show up on the screens behind the musicians. I'm looking for mine, and they better fucking show it soon.