Things from Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire that are still burning

• China
• Television
• North Korea
• Vaccine
• Brooklyn's got a winning team (maybe) 
• Disneyland
• Trouble in the Suez
• Lebanon
• California baseball
• U2 (albeit a different one) 
• Dylan
• John Glenn
• Birth control
• Palestine
• Terror on the airline
• Ayatollah's in Iran
• Foreign debts
• Homeless Vets

It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

via kottke.org

A lunchtime list

Since J and I ran out of topics to discuss over our lunch of GreeNoodles(TM), I suggested we spend 20 minutes trying to think of all the one-named musicians we could, without looking anything up:

• Aaliyah
• Adele
• Apollonia
• Beyonce
• Bjork
• Bono
• Brandi
• Cher 
• Ciara
• Diddy 
• Dido
• Edge
• Feist
• Fergie
• Goapele
• Hammer
• Kelis
• Ke$ha
• Kwame
• Ledisi
• Madonna
• Maxwell
• Monica
• Morrissey
• Nelly
• Ne-Yo
• Peaches
• Prince
• Rihanna
• Sade
• Sting
• Timbaland
• Tricky
• Will.i.am

The Greatness of Neil Diamond

I just read this blog post and started thinking about how Neil Diamond doesn't get nearly the credit he deserves as a songwriter these days. It seems like everyone's preoccupied with trying to be funny and/or ironic to really appreciate how awesome he is. These are some of my favorite Neil Diamond songs, with some of the greatest songwriting of all time.

PS - Happy 70th, Neil!