Read a thing today about the battle between Walletbuster and Netflix. The general opinion (in the investing world) is that Netflix is just hunkering down and trying to wait out Blockbuster's money-losing pricing.

They're doing more than that. We were just reading that they're about to implement some sweeping changes to how their friends network stuff works, turning it into a much broader community. If it turns out as good as the plans make it sound, it should be a major value-add over Lackluster.

All I really ask is that they make searching easier. Maybe give me a choice between broad and refined categories, etc. I don't always know what I want to watch - sometimes I like to browse.

To be fair, their "suggestions" are very helpful in finding new things.

I checked and they have implemented it already. Friends is now called "Community" and it includes, among other things, showing you other users that have similar tastes to yours. It'd be cool to find like-minded movie viewers...

So I've got this new guilty pleasure called "Rock of Love" on VH1. It's another one of those reality dating shows where one guy (in this case a heavy metal rocker whose name escapes me but has beautiful eyelashes) is looking for a girlfriend, so they piled 20 or so women into a house together with him, and they're all competing for his attention all the time. Hilarity ensues.

Bret Michaels.

Ratt and Poison are playing Gibson Amphitheater Saturday August 11, anybody want tickets?

No

Free tickets? Possibly (have to check if those are bands the bf likes)

In other news...

Frankfurt, anyone? http://airfare.travelzoo.com/european-airfare/315519

I'm in for Frankfurt.