Mood:  bright

Have you seen the Jimmy Kimmel video "I'm ******* Ben Affleck"?

It's been getting web attention for a week, and I just watched it. It's hilarous! But what strikes me, is the number of people who lined up to be in it. This is a video clip that is created for art--for fun--and not for commerce.

Imagine how many of those artists have teams of dealmakers, and how many contract points have to be negotiated before one of them appears in a movie, television show, or sound recording? But this video was in pure fun, and I don't know when I've laughed so much.

Vince Gill was on tv last week, and he talked about his 43 song CD, which was quite a risk, but was a critical success and just won a Grammy, and he used the phrase, "Try to show people what art looks like, rather than commerce..."

That's the absolute truth. And the commerce has gotten so big and so corporate controlled, that we've lost true sight of what art is about in the first place. So, Thanks Vince for making great music, without selling it out. And thanks Jimmy (and friends) for making a video thats sole purpose was to make people laugh.

We need more of that.