I'm getting ready to save you an hour of your life: "My Generation" is a terrible show and you shouldn't waste your time watching it.

This pitiful new drama is built on the premise that in the year 2000, a documentary film crew followed nine stereotypes, er, I mean, students through their senior year of high school, and then revisits them 10 years later to see how their lives have turned out.

They are all -- the jock, the overachiever, the beauty queen, the punk, the wallflower, the nerd, the brain, the rich kid, and the rock star -- contrived and annoying.

In my line of work, one constantly hears a great deal of high-falutin' yammering about artistic integrity, What It All Means and so forth -- much of which, quite frankly, is ridiculous. So it was truly refreshing to chat with Roger Daltrey, a man who has most decidedly been to the mountaintop and yet seems to harbor no illusions whatsoever about the cosmic meaning of it all. The interview is in Friday's paper, or right here; and it has where/when details about his Durham performance next week.

Well, it's not The Who (and it's not even the next best thing to The Who, for that matter) but it's still pretty cool in my book: Roger Daltrey will play the Durham Performing Arts Center on Oct. 28 as part of his first solo tour since 1985. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

Pete Townshend has never been shy about selling his songs for commercials, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Really, though -- "My Generation"? In some freaky (well, cheesy) remix?

Seriously?...

Celebrate the first of Rocktober the way anybody with any sense at all does -- with the dulcet tones of The Who.