20061027

beer-o-diversity

I loves it...A big beer gut of an article about beer and the modern world.

Review to follow, mayhaps!

20061024

2 Jackasses (or is it 3?)

During a debate with his Democratic rival, Senator Conrad Burns of Montana said that President Bush (who this week compared Iraq to Vietnam) has a secret plan for winning the war, but that Bush is not going to share his plan with the world. White House press secretary Tony Snow compared the President to "one of those guys at the gym who plays about 40 chessboards at once."

~via Harpers Weekly

20061023

moments of huh?

I was in a local branch of Billy Bob's Big-Assed Bank recently, and they had some music playing in there.
I always find it interesting to listen to the music that's playing at an establishment. Sometimes it's very complementary music to the industry (WISH), and much more frequently, as in this case, it's a bizarre and "huh?" experience.

So I'm waiting in line, and listening to Gnarls Barkley's song 'crazy'.
Granted, it is a tough song to decipher with the speed of the lyrics, but a rough translation is something like this:
I remember when
I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so pleasant about that phase
Even your emotions had an echo
And so much space
Hmm mmmm
And when you're out there
Without care
Yeah I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much
Mmm
I'll remind you that I was at Bank of America. I refer you to a song from my childhood:
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong?
If you guessed this one is not like the others,
Then you're absolutely...right!

Yeah. I think i might go over to Vox. Lyrics are nice and all, but i think i want to post up songs and vids.

Ketchup, Blogger, Ketchup!

20061012

i really like radiohead.

I've seen them a few times, including once in a pub in oxford (if my memory serves [usually it won't serve me {sometimes we quarrel}] right) in early 1991.

So i bumped into this band here, The Easy Star All-Stars version of OK Computer. And i really didn't like it, until i smacked into Karma Police. Holy shivers. Not to be not mentioned, we are not Let Down by the track of the same name.
Kinda like when you first hear Luther Wright & the Wrongs doing Pink Floyd's The Wall*. And they tear into In The Flesh, and you shudder like Ian McShane in Sexy Beast (Also, who doesn't love McShane as Swearengen in "Cocksuckerwood"? And her'e s Mr. Wu's take on everything).


* - the Easy Star's also are somewhat famous for their Dub Side of the Moon project. I think it is, mostly, meh.

p.s. - big ups to the chadfox, who posted up a great concert in SF history. More to come? I hope so!

20061006

need a sad laugh?

it's quite funny. get your tongue out of your check.

speedtest - careful!

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