David Wild is an Emmy-nominated television writer, a best-selling author and a Contributing Editor for Rolling Stone. But what he really wants to do is write for free on Huffington Post.

Wild is producer of The Chris Isaak Hour on the Bio Channel. You can now follow David at twitter.com/wildaboutmusic

David also wants you to read his brand new book He Is . . . I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Neil Diamond because it's very meaningful and he gets paid for that.

Blog Entries by David Wild

"The World Is Full of Crashing Bores": A Party Playlist for Tareq and Michaele Salahi

15 Comments | Posted December 1, 2009 | 02:18 PM (EST)


As revealed exclusively in a hard-hitting interview on The Today Show in conjunction with Bravo, Tareq and Michaele Salahi turn out to be total crashing bores. Also Michaele's spelling seems questionable.

Still, here's a playlist for America's latest fun couple to be used at the very next party they crash...

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"Boys Keep Swinging": My Special Bunker Playlist For Tiger Woods

83 Comments | Posted November 28, 2009 | 07:30 PM (EST)


I'm a tremendous fan of Tiger Woods. This man has done so much to make golf more interesting. Also driveways.

Here then is my playlist for Tiger to listen to as he recovers from . . . whatever the hell happened.

"BOYS KEEP SWINGING" - David Bowie
"PAR FOR...

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"Thank You Friends": A Very Special Thanksgiving Playlist For The Huffington Post Community

91 Comments | Posted November 24, 2009 | 10:15 AM (EST)


Even in trying times, life is not a thankless task -- at least it should not be. So here to share with all of my Huffington Post friends is my personal Thanksgiving playlist, designed to help put us all in the proper mindset for Thursday's holiday, and arguably for every...

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"Bad Moon Rising": My Playlist For All You Suckers Waiting On Line To See The Twilight Saga: New Moon

130 Comments | Posted November 20, 2009 | 04:07 PM (EST)


I will be rushing out to see The Twilight Saga: New Moon, just as soon as I finish seeing every other film ever made first -- and Zombieland twice.

Fortunately, as the father of two sons, absolutely no one is asking me to see New Moon, which I consider...

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"You Win Again": My Very Gracious Playlist To Congratulate Johnny Depp For Beating Me As Sexiest Man Alive

65 Comments | Posted November 18, 2009 | 07:55 PM (EST)


I know Johnny Depp a little. He is a lovely guy. We met many years ago when I went to do a Rolling Stone cover story on Winona Ryder, and I lost an interview tape in the beanbag chair of the house they were living in then. Johnny generously offered...

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"Beauty Is Only Skin Deep": A Very Pretty Playlist for Carrie Prejean

137 Comments | Posted November 13, 2009 | 11:13 AM (EST)


Love and hate can be blind, and to date, I've mainly turned a blind eye to news on the very important Carrie Prejean front. This is, after all, a story so full of shallow characters that at one point, I actually seem to recall finding myself on the same side...

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Learning To Love My Country: A Playlist to Prepare Rock Newbies Watching the CMA Awards

70 Comments | Posted November 10, 2009 | 08:42 PM (EST)


I grew up in Northern New Jersey, which last time I looked is slightly north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Yet thanks to my late great dad -- an early and vocal proponent of Jewgrass -- my first ever concert was seeing the still brilliant Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at Carnegie...

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Bachmann Tea Party Overdrive: A Tasty and Hot Playlist for Michele and All Her Foxy Friends

81 Comments | Posted November 5, 2009 | 01:20 PM (EST)


I just read here that Representative Michele Bachmann is hosting a very special tea party at the Capitol today. I'm sure it will be a lovely affair, so I wanted to do my part and send along this playlist for Congress' hostess with the mostest.

TEA & THEATRE - The...

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"Getting Better": A Playlist for President Obama on the Anniversary of Election Day

51 Comments | Posted November 3, 2009 | 11:24 AM (EST)


Rome wasn't built in a day, and apparently the United States won't be completely rebuilt in a year either. But here's to things at least "Getting Better."

GETTING BETTER - The Beatles
THIS WILL BE OUR YEAR - The Zombies
LET'S WAIT AWHILE - Janet Jackson
WISHIN'...

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A Pinstriped Playlist for Those Damn New York Yankees

97 Comments | Posted October 30, 2009 | 04:38 PM (EST)


True baseball confession: I'm a recovering New York Yankees fan, now living in Los Angeles, but working for the next week or so in Nashville, Tennessee. In other words, I was on the verge of not even watching the World Series at all after that first lousy game. But then,...

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Say It Ain't So Joe: A Playlist for Senator Joseph Lieberman

94 Comments | Posted October 27, 2009 | 07:16 PM (EST)


Here are some tunes meant to encourage the Senator from the fine state of Aetna to change his mind about a public option and actually act independently of his insurance donors when it comes to fixing health care.

SAY IT AIN'T SO JOE - Roger Daltrey
POLITICAL WORLD...

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The Tweet Life: Please Follow Me Now, Or My Twitter Posse Just Might Kick Your Blogger Ass

25 Comments | Posted October 23, 2009 | 10:07 AM (EST)


Birth.

Marriage.

Parenthood.

Sure, those can all be fairly nice occasions, but when you come right down to it, does any other rite of passage in this Tweet life compare to the joy of getting your 1000th follower on Twitter? Thanks to Mr. Brad Paisley -- or...

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"Move On Up": An Uplifting Playlist for Dow 10000

60 Comments | Posted October 19, 2009 | 02:01 PM (EST)


Prosperity is not simply just around the corner; it's all over this playlist.

Here's to sticking around for the rising.


MOVE ON UP - Curtis Mayfield
NO DEPRESSION - Uncle Tupelo
IT'S MONEY THAT I LOVE - Randy Newman
WALL STREET SHUFFLE - 10CC

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"Where Do The Children Play": A Playlist For Balloon Boy

63 Comments | Posted October 16, 2009 | 06:20 PM (EST)


Take Jon & Kate Plus 8, then add aliens, reality TV and vomit. A recipe for disaster? Or another marginal reason for me to mention some good tunes?

WE'RE A HAPPY FAMILY - The Ramones
LEARN TO FLY - Foo Fighters
FAMILY AFFAIR - Sly & The Family...

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The Perfect Semitic Storm: Five Reasons Everybody Should Buy the New Christmas Albums by Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan And Barry Manilow This Season

76 Comments | Posted October 14, 2009 | 03:23 PM (EST)


1) Don't crucify me, but sometimes it takes a Jew to make truly great Christmas music. Irving Berlin wrote "White Christmas" poolside at the Arizona Biltmore, and let's not forget about the classic A Christmas Gift For You by Phil Spector who won't be poolside anytime soon. This phenomenon is...

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Waiting on the World to Change: A Playlist for Our Nobel Peace Prize-Winning President

68 Comments | Posted October 9, 2009 | 10:26 AM (EST)


Congratulations, Mr. President. Seriously. Big fan. Big Prize. Still, here's a celebratory playlist that I really hope will inspire you to keep earning this glittering prize in the days and years to come.


EYES ON THE PRIZE - Bruce Springsteen
PEACE ON EARTH - U2
WAR...

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Paying the Cost To Be the Boss: A Playlist for David Letterman

73 Comments | Posted October 3, 2009 | 11:28 PM (EST)


I have always greatly admired David Letterman, and I consider him to be one of the most enduring and defining wits of our times. And no, I won't stop watching a TV show because consenting adults were having sex -- in fact, that's why I watch HBO. That said, David...

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The End of the Innocence: A Swiss Prison Playlist for Roman Polanski Behind Bars

92 Comments | Posted September 28, 2009 | 11:57 PM (EST)


I like "Rosemary's Baby" as much as the next aging cineaste, but as a parent I must confess that I like actual babies even more. Call me old fashioned, but I still believe that kids should not be taken advantage of sexually -- even by a significant filmmaker. And so...

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Shock The Monkey: A Playlist To Help Ease Kirk Cameron's Evolutionary Growing Pains

129 Comments | Posted September 23, 2009 | 12:42 AM (EST)


Kirk Cameron seems like a really nice guy. Unfortunately, the Artist Formerly Known as Mike Seaver seems like a really nice guy who's evolved into a willfully ignorant idiot. If you haven't seen the new and improved edition of Charles Darwin's "On The Origin of The Species" that Alan...

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Bigmouth Strikes Again: A Post-VMA Playlist for Kanye West

126 Comments | Posted September 13, 2009 | 11:24 PM (EST)


I love Kanye West. Seriously, I think Kanye West is one of the great popular artists of our times. So does Kanye West. That sort of supreme self-confidence -- and a certain careless genius for self-promotion -- helps explain why Kanye manages to get himself in high-profile trouble at award...

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