We're all drowning in information.

Open any magazine, turn on any TV or radio station, and you're bombarded by advertising that tells you what to think, what to buy, what's really cool and what's totally hot. It's too much. How do you know what's really good?

The Head Butler thinks he knows.

Head Butler's bet is that the stuff he loves --- the Good Stuff --- is what smart, curious people really want. So he's going to let everyone else tell you about Donald Trump, Jessica Simpson, Sean Hannity, Mitch Albom, thrillers that look like video games and high school comedies that could have been written by high schoolers. He's going to skip the over-hyped new releases you read about five minutes ago and won't care about five minutes from now. Instead, he's going to tell you about books, films and music you might cherish for the rest of your life.

You like Van Morrison. The Butler recommends Van's little known and three-decades-old masterpiece - Astral Weeks. You loved "Silence of the Lambs". Try the super-scary 1952 novel called The Killer Inside Me.

And who is this head butler anyway?

The Head Butler is Jesse Kornbluth, a New York-based journalist, Internet editor and author. As a journalist, he has been a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, New York, Architectural Digest and Departures, and a contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, etc.

I'm not sure these credentials confer him as an an arbiter of taste. But he likes Astral Week's, and that's good enough for me.