I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I like to watch Bret Michael try to "find his soulmate," but I'm doing it and I'm doing it without squinting. I bring this up because I never get to watch it on time or even at a reasonable hour. It came on at 02.00AM and I watched, and I was disappointed to see that yet again, that stupid girl with the cheek piercings (I know, ridiculous) was given another chance. Whatever, I'm getting side tracked. My point is that I watched it tonight (this morning) and after it was over, something wonderful happened. VH1 has programming called "Nocturnal State" that comes on way late at night and ends way early in the morning, but enables VH1 to still consider itself a music channel. I don't usually watch this programming because it gives me an overdose of Ingrid Michaelson and Sara Bareilles and other artists I generally respect but don't want to listen to, but I hadn't found the remote yet and so I continued to watch. The first song on caught my attention.
His name is Donavon Frankenreiter, and though he sells out shows and has imitators on Youtube, I've somehow not heard of him. I was thinking he sounded a lot like Jack Johnson, and I decided to Wiki (I love how that's become a verb. Wiki-Wiki) him to see what his influences were and find out more about him, and sure enough, he's a long time friend of Jack Johnson's, and in fact used to rent a room at his parents' house in Oahu, Hawaii. This is just terrific. I never wanted to admit publicly my love for Jack Johnson, and now I don't have to (I just did! It felt great!). I have a whole new artist who sounds incredibly similar to admit my love for.
Terrific. Anyway, the song I heard was called Day Dreamer, and if you're like me and don't want to admit that you like Jack Johnson, listen to his music. It's a wonderful compromise.
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