OMFG you guys, I can't even tell you how much this MAKES MY FUCKING DAY!!!



And now I think I need to go read Shiny Shiny Pants and Bleached Blonde Hair aka the One Where Jeff Tweedy Writes Britney/Lance fic, because YES! God, I love them.

(Wow, I just remembered that I totally wrote Britney/Lance for remix once, omg.)

In other news, just a heads up to make sure to download this week's This American Life--they're doing a follow-up to last year's "Giant Pool of Money" in conjunction with the guys over at Planet Money, and if you ever wanted to understand how the sub-prime mortgage crisis happened or why we had the economic catastrophe in the first place, "Giant Pool of Money" explains it really well and is available right here for free.

And finally, I am going to create a community this week to host the TV podcast thingy I talked about last week. The name I've thought up for it is a bit retarded though, so give me suggestions! I really really suck at naming things. (The true reason I don't write original fic. I can't NAME anything.)

Had an awesome weekend. Polvo's tonight for Eric's birthday, which means margarita and fajitas for me! YUM.

You guys, I don't think I even have words to describe how incredibly fucking happy and excited and OMGOMGOMG this makes me:





It's Britney (bitch) singing 'You Oughta Know'. YES. AND SHE IS SINGING LIVE. And she sounds amazing. I told you guys she could sing! What better song for Britney could there possibly be? She should record a version of this because, just. YES. It applies to Britney in so many ways, it's ridiculous: "An older version of me? / Is she perverted like me? / Would she go down on you in a theater? / Does she speak eloquently? / And would she have your baby? / I'm sure she'd make a really excellent mother."

Before y'all jump on the "OMG SHE'S NOT OVER JUJU" train, note that she's probably talking about KFed, if, you know, she's directing the song toward anyone at all, because this IS Britney, after all, and, well. It's Britney.

If it was directed at Justin, though, I would just like to say that it totally PWNs his "Rehab" covers from when he was on tour and Britney was having mental breakdowns everywhere. I never thought I'd say this but... Britney's bitter is so much classier than Justin's. LOL FOREVER.

In other news, I finished my first draft of my fic for aificathon. And dear lord, people, it is the craziest shit I have ever written. Crazier that 'Mean Boys' AND the zoo fic, although less of a mind fuck, I think. mehrin has made me some amazing art that I am a million times excited about, and musicboxgirl has been helping me with a soundtrack which now somehow includes White Zombie, Enya, Pearl Jam doing a Live cover, and Miley Cyrus. I TOLD YOU IT WAS CRAZY! Just waiting for my betas to get back to me (although I'm pretty sure this fic is so freaky it's unbeta-able.)

Good times.

1. Work is bad today. I can't pay someone because she was never appointed to work in the first place, which is my boss's fault, but of course Boss is out sick because she had surgery last Friday, so I'm screwed. I hope this girl doesn't REALLY need her $75, because she totally isn't getting it.

2. PLUS, I hate when I don't know how to do something, and the person who DOES know how to do it is jerking me around instead of just getting shit done. So fucking annoying.

3. I found out my best friend from the 7th grade until pretty much I moved to Texas and we lost touch just had a baby. o.0

4. Al Franken won his senate seat, finally!! Which means that the Democrats have a super-majority. Except not really, because it's doubtful Ted Kennedy will ever return to vote in the senate, and that other guy, the 90-year-old dude, is probably not going back, either. Senators HAVE to be elected, so it might be a long while before we have new ones from Massachusetts and wherever that other old dude is from. Sigh.

5. Still, what is UP with no movement on DADT and DOMA? I know there's a lot of stuff going on with the collapse of the global economy and the elections in Iran and trying to push through health care reform and all that, but STILL. This is getting ridiculous.

6. One of the stories on This American Life this week was about Lindy England, the reservist from the Abu Ghraib torture pictures. It was so interesting, because this is a woman who took the fall for basically the entirety of Bush's torture regime, even though her role in the scandal was tiny and the entire picture debacle was basically a red herring to distract the world from what was actually going on in Abu Ghraib--torture so horrible it sometimes ended in death. ( That's not to make light of humiliation tactics and how wrong those are, but when you consider that Lindy and her fellow reservists were the only people ever punished for the torture regime, it's kind of insane. )

7. Today, if I have time this afternoon, I'm going to go through all my fic and add warnings. I use warnings in communities, but not on my actual journal, and that's not good. People coming from rec links will never see those warnings. So yeah, need to do that. But--question. I think the thing I will need to warn for the most is like... depictions of mental illness. Is there some standard warning for that? I can't even think of how to word it.

8. Saw Britney's new video for 'Radar.' I am kind of EH about it. On the one hand, she looks AMAZING. On the other hand, it's pretty boring. It's no 'If U Seek Amy.' In fact, let's just pause a moment to remember how amazing that video is:



9. Adam continues to delight me. I wish I could go to the tour. *sadface* Notice that we haven't heard from HiFi at all this week? I WONDER WHY.

10. SYTYCD tonight. It better not suck again.

So exactly a week ago I went to see the legendary Miss Britney Spears, LIVE IN CONCERT OMG. And I promised a recap. I don't know that I have much to say aside from how it was awesome, but I will give it a go.

As those of you who followed me on Twitter that night know, I got to my seat pretty much right as the opening act, The Pussycat Dolls started their set. The seat to my left was empty because I guess the girl who sold me my ticket couldn't find another buyer. To my right, a group of super cute college girls who were very very excited to see BRITNEY OMG. Like, so excited they forgot to drink their beers! That's pretty damn excited. In front of me, two sets of women my age with their gay BFFs. The two pairs didn't know each other when they sat down, but the gay boys took care of that pretty quickly. The rest of their row was a) an older couple probably my mom's age and b) a gay couple who spent most of the PCD making out.

It was a good crowd, to say the least. Gay Boy #1 turned around during the PCD to tell me that I should be prepared for his dancing during Britney. And then he started flirting with Gay Boy #2, and I will just tell you how this story ends--they exchanged numbers after the encore, while their fruitflies looked on approvingly.

Only at a Britney Spears concert, y'all.

So, the PCD were pretty lame, to be honest. Nicole sure can sing, but the girl has a huge ego for a lady who most resembles a tranny. The back-up dolls did not bother to sing. They didn't even bother to pretend to sing. Imagine Lance during 'Gone,' when he barely remembers to hold the microphone to his mouth, only take away the "barely" because most of the time, they didn't. Anyway, they're all decent dancers and I have to say, 'When I Grow Up,' and 'Buttons' are really fucking great songs. AND IT IS SO BOOBIES. The line is "When I grow up / I wanna have boobies." Not GROUPIES, as someone has previously told me, but BOOBIES. This was very obvious by the way they grabbed their boobies (or should I say fun bags?) during that line.

God, I love that song.

Anyway, after the PCD, there were some pretty fun and entertaining circus performers. ( And then the show begins with Britney shooting Perez Hilton in the penis with a rifle and no I am not kidding. )

So, NKOTB are going to be back in Dallas on July 17, which is a Friday. I WANT TO GO. But I don't want to go alone. Is there anyone out there who wants to go see the AMAZING NEW KIDS??

Oh, and guess who is opening for them? JABBAWOKEEZ. Yes. So much win.

Other things that are going on: my neuro appointment last week went fine. It was just an intake so I knew no big secrets would be revealed or whatevs. I have to go back in a few weeks to have the actual testing. It's going to be a bunch of memory tests (which I will fail, sigh), and I'm sure some other random things. And then right afterwards, I am off to see my ladies in Dallas, WOOOT.

Tomorrow is BITSY DAY OMG. I am so fucking excited, you guys. I will be twittering from the concert if I keep my brains intact long enough to type. BRITNEY. I just really love Britney. Don't ask me to explain it. She's like, the antithesis of everything I grew up liking. I was an Ani Difranco/NIN/Liz Phair girl. Tori Amos was too pop for me. And now I am all about the Britney. EEEE!!!

What else? Nothing, really. I'm boring! word2urmomma is in 2 days. I think I might be the only person with a story to post, but that's okay. I do love my story. Speaking of which, some of the Harry Potter femslash comms have been re-tagging all their old entries, so I've had to move some stuff over to JournalFen because it contains underage sex. It's locked here, but if you really feel the need to read some of my old Harry Potter stuff, here is my journalfen link. All my fic is posted over there, and there are tags by fandom and pairing, which is way better than here, where I randomly make up tags when I feel like it.

And now maybe I will attempt to do some work. May the sparkle be with you.

So firstly, everyone should go look at these Britney pics from her first show last night OMGOMG. I want to go so bad! Stupid Ticketmaster! Release more tickets, DAMNIT.

Secondly, for those of you who like to know what's going on in the world, This American Life did another hour show on the banking crisis and explained what the fuck is going on to us lowly mortals who don't automatically understand what "mark it to market" means and so on. You can download it for free right here. I believe it's only free for a week, so if you would like to understand why we are, in fact, in a second Great Depression (Awesome Depression? Grand Depression??), this will help a lot towards that understanding.

What I came out of it with was: Americans' collective debt right now is EQUAL TO the GDP. This isn't just banks making bad loans (although the did) or mortgage-backed securities, or the insane debt bundling and division that inflated rating scores. This is a fundamental flaw in the attitudes of Americans who live off credit. The last time Americans' personal debt equaled the GDP? Yup, the Great Depression. To give you a comparison: in the 40s, 50s, 60s, & 70s, debt was less than 50% GDP. We only broke 50% in the late 80s, and you know what happened then--the Savings & Loan crisis. From 2000-2007, debt rose from a little over 50% to 100%.

( All I can say is, that's a lot of fucking iPhones. )

So, let's discuss some fandom-related stuff.

Firstly, my J2 people--do you have any desire to read what was going to be my big bang, since I am not going to finish it anyway? I would even happily give it away to someone, if they wanted to attempt to finish it. Or something.

Secondly, I would just like to point out that whether he meant this to be a reference to me or not, mostlikely2 totally used my whole thing about how Peter Sarsgaard makes everyone gay in his American Idol recap from last week.

Thirdly, I am trying to get Britney tickets for the Dallas show at the end of the month, and contrary to what all my gossip blogs are telling me, there are NOT plenty of seats available! Ticketmaster can't even find me ONE seat. In any section. Fucking scalpers and promoters probably bought them all. Sigh. Well, I am going to keep trying. Usually they open up more seats as the show gets closer. I remember trying to get wendy to go see Justin the first leg. I had just been in Houston and the Dallas show was, I believe the next night, and when I checked, there were still tons of tickets available. SO. I have hope.

Fourthly, I have written like 2 sentences of BritC. I am so nervous about this fic. Seriously, do not expect much because, well, I think I have lost my fic-fu, and. I don't even know if I will be able to finish it much less if it will be good. But I'm excited about it! And that's more than I've been about any fic since Papa Was A Rodeo.

Which reminds me, two of my fics got rec'd last week! And that pleased me a lot more than is probably necessary. I think it's because they weren't J2. Well, one of them was the happy hooker fic, but that's half bassez! So. It just feels good to be acknowledged in the fandom I'm currently IN, as opposed to the one I'm barely on the fringes of anymore. Also, it's nice to be recognized for fics I actually like. What IS it about that freaking Manny fic that people love so much? Of all my CW rpf, that is my least favorite! Of course, I still like the mix tape one where Jared is like, insane in the membrane, so who knows. Maybe my perception is just all wacked out.

Lastly, the new crack van popslash reccer is going to do all BSB again. Which is fine, except that I am continually disappointed by characterization in BSB fic. I am always left wanting more, or feeling like these people have no discernible qualities that make them THEM. Yes, AJ has tattoos and addiction problems, I get it. But where is his personality? What is he all ABOUT? The only one who really gets good character sketches and who writers delve into deeply is Nick. Which is great, but I feel like if the rest of the boys were characterized so thoroughly, I might actually enjoy the fic. Instead, I am going to have to read Merlin fic. OH, and someone is reccing TORTALL FIC OMG. I have been reading those and they're delightful.

1) The good news is, it's not lupus! It's never lupus. I can say this, and I haven't even watched House yet. It's still downloading.

2) The bad news is, I think I have an idea for fic.

3) But it's BritC. And it's SERIOUS. And like, about mental illness and healing and all that shit.

4) Yeah, look, I DON'T KNOW. But it's an idea which is better than all the no ideas I've been having lately, so hush.

5) The worst news yet: I like a song by The Academy Is... and that is against every moral fiber of my being based on the pretension of having an ellipsis in their band name ALONE. Save me.

Last night I went to see Let the Right One In, which is a (I think) Swedish film about a boy who meets a vampire. It's kind of like Twlight while still being the exact opposite of Twilight in any way. And it's amazing. Everyone should go see it. And damn, but Sweden has a lot of snow.

Speaking of vampires, the new stuff that's come out about Sam Lutfi and Adnan Ghalib working together to try to harass and manipulate Britney is really scary. I know Lutfi has done this kind of thing before, to other people. He seems to have focused on Britney as his target and the guy seems like a sociopath, honestly. If even half of what Lynne Spears said in her testimony is true... no wonder Britney wants them in prison.

I've been working on my Big Bang. But honestly, I am not sure I'm going to finish it. Because I feel like... if I'm going to write a story that I'm the only one who likes/understands it, then I might as well be writing popslash :/ We'll see. I have over 8000 words. I'm sure I could turn it into something people might like, I just don't know if I *want* to. 500 people signed up, so it's not like I'd be missed if I dropped.

That is still insane to me. 500!! I don't think popslash even HAS 500 people, much less 500 willing to write 20,000 words. I think like 3 people signed up for word2urmomma and that was exciting to me! (Still haven't decided if I'm writing or which pairing... so many decisions to make.)

And that is all. I am feeling very blah today. Blah.

Johnny Wright needs to DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE. And also shut up forever, thank you. From the new OK Magazine via Pop Sugar:

Apparently not everyone is excited for her to hit the road — Britney's former manager Johnny Wright recently spoke to OK Magazine about how he doesn't think she is ready to tour yet. He said, "A comeback is not what I wish for Britney. What I wish for her is to settle down and find real happiness. All her essential relationships have been torn apart. She's been divorced twice, she doesn't have custody of her kids, she's being pushed back into being a money machine."

First of all, her first marriage was *annulled* and I know most people don't care, but I'm sure she doesn't think of it as a marriage or a break up, seeing as she wasn't even dating the guy. Secondly, this is the same fucktard who's SUING HER RIGHT NOW for percentages he apparently never got paid when she was crazy and being held hostage and drugged by Sam Lutfi.

Secondly, he is not her manager anymore, he hasn't known Britney for years, and he has NO PLACE saying anything about her. I wonder if he'd be so quick to make such a statement about Lance or JC or any of the Backstreet Boys. He is SO SLIMY.

Johnny Wright is on my list. JC is right not to trust him. Also, I would really like to see a cage match between Johnny and Larry Rudolph. Larry's small, but I bet he's great with metal chairs.

I will not let myself get upset by things that people who should know better say about Britney.

*rinse*

*repeat*

Okay fine whatever, I'm upset. I'm in LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE mode. I won't make a video though, I promise. I am just very... unhappy with the way certain parts of pop fandom are acting towards Britney. She's not a whore and she's not a terrible person, okay? She has a mental illness and she will be stigmatized by that for life; anything she does can now be labeled "crazy" and she will have to deal with that forever, not to mention the actual illness, which is a very very difficult mental illness to deal with and can take years and years to find a balance.

Maybe I relate too much. I just don't understand how people can watch a woman have two public breakdowns and be on the verge of death, basically--how they can know all of the terrible things that happened to her while she was in the midst of her struggle with bipolar disorder and letting people like Sam Lutfi into her life to hold her hostage and drug her against her will and God knows what else... I can't understand how people can know these things, and have no empathy or compassion.

And I'm warning you right now, if anyone says anything about her mental illness, the validity thereof, or implies that she "should've kept her legs closed" or anything like that, I will defriend you immediately.

This post has been brought to you by my sense of over-identification and also, me being sick of people being so judgmental of sluts. Because you know what? I've probably fucked more people than Britney has. So shut the fuck up about sluts. As Salt-N-Peppa would say, it ain't none of your business.

1) Am I the only one who really enjoys 'Mmm Papi'?

2) Does anyone still need Britney's new album??

3) I need to make some new Britney icons. Does anyone happen to have any of the new promo pics handy?

4) Nothing else to say. Oh, JC is made of fail. He never went to see Lance. FAIL, JC. I don't care how cute you looked on Sunday or that Justin said you were the smart one. Clearly Justin is delusional because you are made of FAAAAIIIIILLLLL.

5) People not made of fail: Bitsy, Lance, and RAHMBAMA.

You guys. I AM LISTENING TO CIRCUS. And. AND. It is amazing. The BALLADS are good. Blur. Jesus. How many times have I felt like that? This is her Exile in Guyville. I mean it. For Britney, this shit is genius-levels of subversive. It's the usual awesome pop and dance stuff we usual get, but... WITH CONTENT. Like. Songs that have MEANING. It's like every song is the video for 'Me Against the Music.'

I am blown away. BY BITSY. And no, it's not just the vicodin.

Also, I finally get what "If You Seek Amy" means. Heh. And this song is so fucking good.

Oooh. 'Unusual You'. I really like this song. And another song that's surprising in content.

'Kill the Lights'. I've heard this but now I know it reminds me of 'When I Grow Up' only without the ridiculous lyrics. Love it.

'Out from Under.' ANOTHER BALLAD I LIKE. It's very 'Irreplaceable.' Um, this might make me sound like a crazy Justin/Britney shipper, but come on, who are we kidding... I am always going to think this song is about Justin and 'Rehab' is about Britney. Just saying. I really like this song. And I really like 'Rehab.' Rehab is a bit CMAR at the beginning. This one is just. I like it.

'Circus.' It's supposed to be the next single. It's okay. I don't like it as much as "If You Seek Amy" and "Blur" and "Out from Under."

'Lace and Leather.' OMG. SO MUCH LOVE. kinky!Britney might be my favorite.

'Phonography' sounds like something JC would produce. Also using the word "freaky" is very JC. HAhahaha omg this is totally 'Ayo Technology' only not horrible and with awesome JC twidly production. Not even disco clapping for a JC song though. AND THERE'S A MR TELEPHONE MAN REFERENCE. Omg, Bobby Brown, eat your heart out.

'Rock Me In.' Good dance song. And that's about it.

Okay, that's all the Brit I have. Overall... A++. I probably prefer Blackout just for dancery and fun, but this album has some seriously awesome songs on it, and whereas Blackout was mostly devoid of content, this has some real statements disguised as pop songs. I hope they release 'If You Seek Amy' as a single, because the video for that would be AMAZING.

Okay I lied. I didn't write anything down from Total Finale Live. However, I have a few things to say:

1) JC looked DAMN GOOD and for the first time in a long time, I found him attractive.

2) Seeing Justin and JC together again. *hearts* JC is the smart one! I KNOW BECAUSE JUSTIN TOLD ME. And Justin telling JC, "You look exactly the same!" (as he did during their first performance). I miss them already. *sniffs*

3) BACKSTREEEET!!! That was probably my favorite moment. Even though I knew it was pre-taped. Just seeing the crowd singing along, and even the people watching the clip outside in Times Square and in the studio... I was smiling the whole time, I'm not going to lie.

4) Howie looked fucking HOT AS FUCK OMG. How does he DO that? Sometimes he's just Howie, and kind of dorky and whatever. And then sometimes he's HOT HOWIE and I'm just all... *grabby hands*

5) Nick however... needs to gain weight? Weird! But true! He's looking a little too thin. They have such a great vibe together performing. And they sounded AMAZING and why didn't they come to Texas?? DAMN THEM. Not really. I heart them. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

6) BITSY. OMG BITSY. I kept watching after TRL ended because they started this thing about Britney and I am a sucker for anything Britney-related. Seriously, I don't know what it is about her. I've loved her since 1999. Since 'Sometimes.' I remember my sophmore year of college, I made dazifudo watch Britney Live from Hawaii with me and we had to keep messing with the antenna to get the picture to come in. And I didn't even LIKE pop music. I liked Nirvana and NIN. But I loved Britney. And I STILL love Britney.

7) I'm sure other stuff happened but those were the important parts for me. *sniffs* It's all over, folks. And I still can't believe they couldn't get Lance and Joey and Chris out there. I WANT MY BOYBAND BACK.

I think I pulled a rib muscle from coughing. IT HURTS OMG. Every time I cough, which is like every two minutes for REAL, it's a stabbing, shooting pain in my ribs.

I want to go home and take drugs and not wake up until this is all over :(

In other news, I saw the pictures/video of Britney at Madonna's concert last night!! God, she looks so amazing. I've only seen one site with pictures of Justin as well, and that sort of amuses me. I mean, Justin is a Big Deal, but apparently Britney is Way Bigger A Deal. I also think the whole speculation about OMG BRITNEY AND JUSTIN CANNOT COME IN CONTACT OR THE WORLD WILL END is pretty funny. She's been married twice, had two kids, and two mental breakdowns since they broke up. I'm pretty sure Justin's over her, and I'm pretty sure he's not who she's thinking about anymore.

Still, I would love a picture of them together. If they acted like normal exes who were okay with each other, though, than it wouldn't be the circus the media turns it into.

Britney also won album of the year for Blackout at the EMAs. Which, I know it was probably a sympathy vote more than anything else, but Blackout was a fucking good album and it deserved acknowledgment. Just because she was incapable of promoting it doesn't make the album less good.

I want to go hooooooommmmmeeee.

Justin and Britney performing on stage together with Madonna: DISCUSS.

(I still can't see how Justin would ever in a million years agree to that. Unless maybe Madonna has some serious dirt on him. Heh.)

I went to the doctor! Guess what everyone. I'm sick! Brilliant diagnosis. No actually, she said it sounds like a had a virus and caught a cough when my body was still weak, and it should go away in another week or so. She gave me a ton of sample cough syrup stuff, which is A++. So, I missed 2 hours of work and had to pay $25 for that diagnosis, and another $12 to park on campus/at work. I guess that means no going to the Drafthouse for me this weekend. *sadface* I feel like I can't spend money on anything until my credit cards are all paid off. And since I just bought my plane ticket home for the holidays, I am already all spent out for the month and it's only the 6th. Oy.

Speaking of going home for the holidays, I will be in Toledo, Ohio from December 21-December 30. I leave on Dec 31st at like 6:30am so I am not counting that. Is anyone still interested in a Sparkly Midwestern get-together? Maybe like the 27th or 28th? Let me know and we can figure something out.

YAY.

Was that FUCKING BITSY in the audience??

So, I finished my fic for bittybang this weekend! Um, it's not 20,000 words. YET. I have no doubt it'll get there with editing and scene-adding and such. Right now it's only 18k. This weekend I got to go visit my favorite fan girl, wendy! And this relates to big bang because I was explaining to her that I'm a little worried about this challenge. Specifically, I'm worried that all these fabulous writers are going to spend months working on their fics and then not get any feedback and leave fandom forever and then I won't have anything to read anymore. WHICH WOULD BE TRAGICAL. So I hope that doesn't happen. EEP.

But like I said, this weekend I went to see wendy! We went to the Olympic gymnastics all-stars exhibition and it was very entertaining. Shannon Miller was there! And the Hamm brothers, who I mainly know from watching Ninja Warriors which is sort of like a more hard-core Japanese version of Gladiators without the gladiators. But yes, it was awesome. YAY!

Then we went to TGI Fridays and had fried macaroni and cheese balls, YUM. And I argued with Justine, whose LJ name I don't know, about Backstreet and how they are NOT too old to still be touring. Nick Carter is only 6 months older than me! If he is too old, then that makes me old and NO. DENIED.

Wendy and I also watched Britney, Baby, One More Time, a rather scary mockumentary based on a true story about a male Britney impersonator who a news crew convinces to live as Britney 24/7 while they fake footage for a story. And then we cleansed our brains with the South Park episode about Britney. It was funnier the second time, since I am less worried that she actually WILL try to kill herself now, but the only line I really laughed at again was "That's enough money to buy slaves!"

Oh, Cartman. Always getting to the heart of the matter.

According to many many places, including Crazy Days and Nights, Adnan Jerkface, the papparazo that Britney "dated" is shopping around a sex tape of them from that time when she ran away to Mexico which, I believe, was right after her first hospitalization, but I could be wrong.

This is just gross. I mean, she was clearly not in her right mind. I would consider any sexual relations they had to be non-consensual because she wasn't of sound mind. Is it even legal to sell such a tape? I honestly don't know what the laws around sex tapes are, if they exist.

Doing a little googling, I see that indeed, Britney ran away to Mexico in between emergency psychiatric hospitalizations. I don't see how this could be legal, selling a tape like that. Usually, I don't get angry about things that happen to Britney because I'd just be angry all the fucking time, but this is just too horrible. I have to wonder who would be willing to buy such a tape in the first place. I hope this ends up like the Heath Ledger drug tape thing. It's just... ugh. As a woman--as a woman who's been through psychiatric issues--this just disgusts me.

New Bitsy!!!



I like it. I don't LOVE it, but I like it. It's no 'Gimme More' or 'Piece of Me' but it's a good pop song, good dance song. And she'll be rewarded for putting out a decent song and being able to actually promote it, unlike last year.

I want to hear the stuff she did with Danja, though, because his tracks on Blackout were SO FUCKING GOOD. 'Toy Soldier' is still one of my favorite songs after a year, and I have recently rediscovered how much I love 'Gimme More.' Although I guess this answers the question of whether or not JC worked with Britney--nope. She's got Max Martin, Danja, Avant&Bloodshy, and all her usual folks. JC could write her an awesome song, but I don't think it's going to happen.

ALAS.