wilde

it looks like most of our 12 guys are picked for this year's show. i got kinda pissed today. i wasn't invited to the selection meeting. five or six bigwigs were there, along with jay and paul. i asked jay why i wasn't going to be a part of it. i mean, i'm supposedly a producer now, right? more important, i pointed out, was the fact that of the 22 semi-finalists we were going to chose from, i interviewed and auditioned 12 of them (that's more than half for anyone not so good at math).

whatever. i should just let it go.

so, on the european side, four of the six they picked were my guys...including a young kid i talked to in norwich. as we were talking, he told me his sister (whom he has a big age gap with) was a pop singer back in the 80s. i was like, "might i have heard anything she did?" he goes, "a song called 'kids in america'". then i go, 'kids in america!' kim wilde is your sister!". then i look down at his application, and sure enough, his name is marty wilde.

okay, so it's not the most amazing thing ever, but i thought it was cool. his whole family lives in close proximity of each other, so when i go over there to do the day-in-the-life feature, you know damn well we're taking a drive to kim's house and i'm meeting her. maybe i'll even have her sign the sleeve of the 45 i have :)