I Can Do Without...

--Billy Joel

--Paul Simon

--Art Garfunkel

--Simon and Garfunkel

--ESPN anchors

--Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock

--Kevin Bacon

--Combo remote controls

--the Dish when I want Cable and Cable when I want the Dish

--distinguishing between Ruby Tuesday, TGI Friday and Applebees

--political talking points

--rachel maddow

--ed schulz

--when they show people IM'ing or emailing "in real time" in movie scenes, especially with the words materializing on screen; alternatively and even worse is when they have the typist mouthing - audibly or not - the words they are typing rather than show you the words appearing on screen. imagine your hearing me speak out the words you are reading....right....now.

--any use of cell phones in movie scenes

--the militarization of the NFL

--the second round of awful patriotic music at baseball games. even the first one is un-ncecessary

--people who mock the mock turtleneck

--GM's, players and coaches who dismiss their futility by saying they just need to execute better; conveniently absolving themselves of any blame for just plain sucking, or having devised a bad plan

--the banjo

--drum solos. and that means everyone. keith moon, charlie watts, john bonham, trucks and johansson, i don't care who. no one's.

--live albums with gratuitously extended applause intros and outros. goes double when said cut is desired to go on a tape mix