Something I forgot to mention in my last entry -- Britney Spears recently announced how excited she was that she was able to cover Pat Benatar's "I Love Rock & Roll." Uhhh, Britney? Last I checked, "I Love Rock & Roll" was done by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts. Thanks for playing.

I grabbed The Catcher in the Rye off my bookshelf last night on my way out the door so I could have something to read on the T. It's been a while since I've read it, but I have a bad habit of re-reading books over and over, and especially books I own because they're conveniently located in my apartment, in addition to the fact that I know what's going to happen so I can just kind of leaf through my favorite parts if I'm only looking for something to pick up for a half-hour or something.

Either way, paging through the book, I couldn't remember why I ever liked it. In fact, I couldn't remember why the book is considered an American classic. It's just the story of a scrawny screwup kid who quits school, acts like a smartass in New York, gets beat up a few times, has hormone issues and who's afraid of telling his parents he flunked out of another school. While I'm not advocating that schools ban it like they have, I'm just saying that it doesn't seem all that revolutionary either in content or style that it should be considered one of the Great American Books of All Time. I could probably find a few random blogs of some teenagers that are written better and more interesting than The Catcher in the Rye.