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3 new anticipated albums

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:44:18 GMT

Tool - 10,000 Days

Their new album is definitely just like every other tool album, which apart from meaning that it's an ass-kicking tour de force, means that:

- its got a KILLER opening song

- its got the usual experimental schtick snuck in there, but this time it's at the end of the album where I can safely click the stop button.

- their continued obsession with bongos

- its just good music

Best Song - Vicarious

8.5/10

Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops

A band from Texas that actually makes music that isn't for gay cowboys and drunk rednecks?! Their sophomore album takes a big change in musical direction, going from the spacial sonic stoner music of their debut album into the much more melodic and poppy sound on their new album. Thankfully, these youngsters know how to craft a good song, and not the usual pop drivel that oozes out of my car stereo these days. Good stuff.

Best Song - Lightning Blue Eyes

8/10

Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam

I thought these fuckers just released a greatest hits album a while back?! Well apparently since they've moved to a new record label, they've been set free and have called this new album "the best work they've done in a long time". Too bad the same can't be said for that hideous album cover. Did they hire a multi-million design firm to put a papaya on a blue screen? The music though is OK at best, not bad but not anything spectacular either, which can probably be said for every other Pearl Jam album since "Vs.". But Eddie Vedder is still one of the best vocalists out there.

Best Song - Couldn't tell, nothing stood out

6.5/10

God Bless the Flaming Lips

Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:05:54 GMT

Only one thing has gotten me through the drudgery of studying for my finals this term, and that is The Flaming Lips.

Why?

Because the band members of the Flaming Lips are HAPPY people who make HAPPY music. I'm so sick and tired of all the fucking emo bands out there now and this whole emo obsession that's taken over. It is utterly retarded. Take your groveling self-pity elsewhere. That goes for emo bands like Coldplay, Fall Out Boy, and whatever bullshit band who employs some high-pitched singer who whines about how all the problems he's facing.

The Flaming Lips make HAPPY music and it's so incredibly refreshing that I've almost forgotten what it feels like to be happy.

Now my favorite music critic will exemplify exactly why happiness starved people love the Flaming Lips. Take it away Brad....

"And that leaves my favorite track. Not about a guy who saves the world, or travelling to outer space, or anything empirically uplifting, “Christmas at the Zoo” is probably the best example in the Lips catalog of why I love Wayne Coyne, and why you should too. The plot: Wayne and his friends break into the zoo on Christmas eve, hoping to free the animals. They get in and open up all the cages, but the animals, for some reason, refuse to leave the zoo. And somehow he can make this utterly captivating and nearly fucking life-affirming. “All of the animals agree they’re not happy at the zoo! But they prefer to save themselves, they seem to think they could! The elephants, orangutans, all the birds and kangaroos all say ‘thanks, but no thanks man, to be concerned is good!’” And then there are like Santa’s sleigh Christmas bells at the end, right at the “It started to snow on Christmas eve!” line! And how Wayne whistles the final verse is just the happiest thing ever recorded by anyone. Ever."

*Goes back to listening with a SMILE on my face*

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Sat, 12 Nov 2005 06:09:31 GMT

Friday, November 11, 2005

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:46:25 GMT

Top 10 Funniest Bushisms of All Time

The Top Ten Funniest (and Saddest) Mistakes, Misstatements, Bloopers and Blunders By President George W. Bush (so far...)

1. "I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport." —Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2001

2. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." —Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004

3. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

4. "There's no doubt in my mind that we should allow the world worst leaders to hold America hostage, to threaten our peace, to threaten our friends and allies with the world's worst weapons." —South Bend, Indiana, Sept. 5, 2002.

5. "There's an old...saying in Tennessee...I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says Fool me once...(3 second pause)... Shame on...(4 second pause)...Shame on you....(6 second pause)...Fool me...Can't get fooled again." —Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 17, 2002.

6. "See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." —Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003

7. "The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the -- the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." —Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2003.

8 "I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend." —on visiting Denmark, Washington D.C., June 29, 2005

9. "Wow! Brazil is big." after being shown a map of Brazil by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2005

10. A TIE BETWEEN:
"Rarely is the question asked, 'Is our children learning'?"
—Florence, S.C. Jan 11 2000
"The illiteracy level of our children are appalling." —Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 20004

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 05:31:04 GMT

Pixies

“This band is FUCKING INSANELY GOOD.” – Chris

“I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies.” – Kurt Cobain

“Puneta!” – Black Francis

Formed in Boston in the latter half of the eighties, the Pixies have, arguably, a bigger stamp on the last fifteen years of rock music than any other band. Their soft-loud dynamics, simple, effective basslines, screaming guitars, and melodic know-how influenced countless bands in the early nineties, some worthy, some not. Kurt Cobain claimed, at every possibly opportunity, that Nirvana were nothing more than a Pixies rip-off. The Toadies were a Pixies ripoff, right down to the fucked-up lyrical matter and unattractive female bass player. Listen to any of their albums today, and you’re bound to hear between 5 and 10 chord sequences that have since been beaten into the ground by the band’s clueless, self-loathing followers. The first ten seconds of “Debaser” alone have probably launched the careers of too many bands to reasonably count. And yet, despite all this, the Pixies to this day remain totally unique in the history of popular music.

See, the Pixies were one of the biggest contributing authors to the book of alternative rock, but they had also had a ton of other aspects which have yet to be imitated. Sometimes these “other” aspects were downright annoying, yes, but they help the Pixies stand out both from their contemporaries and their followers. Black Francis spent part of his college years in Puerto Rico, so he loved surf-rock and weird Spanish music. Bassist Kim Deal’s ethereal backing vocals provided an excellent contrast to Black’s often incomprehensible (yet better than Geddy Lee!) screeching about “slicing up eyeballs” (Black was, vocally, the singular influence on Jack White, by the way). They could alternately play fast and loose like punks, yelp like possessed iguanas, and write melody lines the envy of most other bands to ever grace this planet, and sometimes did all three in the same song. Black Francis has a ridiculous sense of humor that, when it goes overboard, annoys the living crap out of me, but when used in moderation proves goofy and fun. Its absence from the band’s last two records might be what makes most Pixies fans rate them lower than the band’s first two, but, in my humble opinion, that is a total crock of shit. I like both pairs just as much! I even think Doolittle is obviously flawed in places! Ha! But putting all this aside, they were one of the greatest indie-rock bands of all time, and all of their records, bar possibly Bossanova, are absolutely essential for the like three fans of the genre who don’t already have them. If you hate smarmy college kids and get off on Bob Seger records, though, you should probably stay away.

Lineup! The baby-faced, chubby man turned to the side in front is lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and possessor of a very boring name Charles Thompson, who rechristened himself “Black Francis” before taking lead of the Pixies, and re-rechristened himself “Frank Black” before going solo. He’s basically the tyrant of the group, and his Billy Corgan-esque creative control helped contribute to the band’s early breakup, since bassist Kim Deal (far right), a decent songwriter in her own right, was only able to convince Mr. Francis to allow two of her compositions on Pixies records (one of which blows!). The remaining two members are, on the left, drummer David Lovering (oh my god is that Trevor Linden?!) and, next to him, lead guitarist Joey Santiago. I don’t really refer to either one of them much in the reviews, because drumming isn’t why you buy Pixies albums and I never have any idea who of Joey and Black is playing what guitar part in a given song, but they’re probably really nice guys, too.

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Midterms are...... OVER BABY! I OWNED those bitches. Well not really, I've only gotten the marks back for one of them which I'm proud to say was above the class average. Suckas! And I even studied a chapter I didn't need to for that midterm (of course I didn't know that, I'm no study freak).

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:57:08 GMT

System Of A Down

“I like to think we’re like a cross between Pink Floyd and Slayer.” – Shavo Odadjian

“Whatever.” – Al

“Al, dude, you should really check out the new System Of A Down album. It’s really good.” – Me

“Whatever.” – Al

Man, do I love these guys. And less than a year ago, I thought they were shit! How wrong I was. HOW WRONG I WAS! Though System Of A Down gets played to hell on all those “modern rock alternative” radio stations and MTV and whatnot, they have about 1,000 times more talent and creativity than most of the other bands that reside in those same locales COMBINED. These schizophrenic Armenian thrash metal weirdos have pretty much ruled my ass since I finally picked up Toxicity last summer, as they’re somehow able to be really fast and loud, really funny, really smart, and (often) really gorgeous (sounding, that is) all at the same time. If modern “nu-metal” or whatever you want to call it took a few more cues from these guys instead of just trying to sound as much like Nirvana or Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains as possible (or, worse yet, play RAP METAL), maybe, just maybe, 99% of it wouldn’t suck giant fat donkey shit.

OK, now let me introduce you to these four nice Armenians from SoCal. From right to left (Ooooo! I’m switching it up! Gotta watch me! I too quick fo’ you!), we first have, in the suit, drummer John Dolmayan, who you could say is just the drummer, but he does lay down some pretty neat and original sounding parts sometimes (love that fill in “Toxicity!”). Then there’s guitarist, occasional (really cool) singer, and the main musical mind of the band, Daron Malakian. I dig him. He’s a cool dude, man. Sitting down with the shirt with the big numbers on it is bassist Shavo Odadjian, and there’s really nothing to say about him besides “he’s the bassist” and “he has a really long goatee.” On the left there’s the star of the band, and, to me, the most fascinating (at least fascinating-sounding) frontman around today, Serj Tankian. He’s actually a VERY talented singer (as opposed to, ofcourse, Geddy Lee). What makes him so cool is that, despite being a good singer, he usually chooses NOT to sing. He goes from full-on death metal snarl to Icelandic yodel to goofy high-pitched squeak without even blinking. Man, he’s the shit. Plus, they all have long goatees, so that’s cool as well. When they’re playing live, they don’t headbang, they GOATEE-BANG. Sweet. Man, do I love these guys.

Hypnotize comes out November 22 and the single has already come out. Man it's so fucking badass.

I'MMM JUSSST SIIIITINGGG INN MYYY CAAAR AAAND WAAAITINNG FOOOOR MYYYY GIIIIRLLL!!!!!

When it comes out Mezmerize and Hypnotize will form the greatest double album of my life so far. ROCK ON!

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:06:33 GMT

Real companies, unfortunate domain names:

Pen Island - penisland.com
Amgen Italia - amgenitalia.com
Who Represents - whorepresents.com
Experts Exchange - expertsexchange.com
Mole Station Nursery - molestationnursery.com

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:58:47 GMT

Random fucking awesome band #4362

YES

“Steve Howe is the Michael Jordan of prog-rock!” – Jack Black

“When I start listening to ‘Hold On,’ I can’t stop listening to it for like forty-five minutes. It is ALL ABOUT ‘Hold On!’” – Al

“Yes…Yes!!! Oh, god…YES!!!!!!!!!” – Your mom

“Yes represent everything wrong with progressive rock, and deserve every bit of ridicule that I give them. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go masturbate while listening to this White Stripes record.” – A modern music critic

Yes fucking rules, except for their goddamn name. Along with Pink Floyd they are my two favorite prog rock bands. I bet today's generation doesn't even know what the hell prog rock is. I weep, I weep for the children.

Yes
The Yes Album
90125
Close To The Edge
Fragile

Those are the best YES albums. Yes FOR THE WIN!

Saturday, September 24, 2005

Sat, 24 Sep 2005 07:09:48 GMT

It's awesome how so many collective minds instantly thought of Rita Repusla.

I guess she is one of the more popular Ritas in the world. She has drill boobs +10000 points, so there's really no contest.

Rita Hayworth[x] meh.
Rita Rudner[x] so not funny.
Rita (the singing cat on Animaniacs)[x] the only Animaniacs segment i would change the channel on. the mindy and buttons segments really pissed me off too.

so yeah, Repusla wins by a landslide vote.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:59:28 GMT

Since I hate American politicians so much I thought I'd bestow upon the world the one true politician, JESUS MATAYOSHI.

Matayoshi Mitsuo (又吉光雄) is an eccentric Japanese politician, self-styled as The only God Mitsuo Matayoshi Jesus Christ (唯一神又吉光雄・イエス・キリスト) or Matayoshi Jesus (又吉イエス). He is the leader of the World Economic Community Party (世界経済共同体党).

He was born in Ginowan on February 5, 1944. After graduating Chuo University in Tokyo in 1968, he moved back to Okinawa and ran a juku, a private school to which students went after their regular classes in official schools. He was also trained as a preacher of a protestant sect, and did religious activity. After a life of preacher he has developed a particular concepts of Christianity, strongly influenced by Eschatology. In 1997 He established the World Economic Community Party (世界経済共同体党) based on his conviction that he is the God and Christ.

This only begins to describe the one true politician. BEHOLD, the wondrous beliefs of JESUS MATAYOSHI.

His concept is both religious and political, a mix of Eschatology like Augustine's De civitas Dei and modern political moralistic conservatism. According to his program he will do the Last Judgement as the Christ but the way to do this is totally within the current political system and its legitimacy. His first step as the Savior is to be appointed the prime minister of Japan. Then he will reform Japanese society and then the United Nations should offer him the honor of its General Secretary. Then Matayoshi Jesus will reign over the whole world with two legitimate authorities, not only religious but also political. After his Judgement he will throw out those who make the current world corrupted into the Fire (see Revelation).

To understand the intensely complex beliefs of this man is to listen to his speeches and be in awe and amazement at the power of this man's words and actions. BEHOLD, the official Jesus Matayoshi campaign poster!

For those who need a translation:
"After the Upper House Election, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should hand the seat of the Prime Minister to Jesus Matayoshi, the one true God. If he cannot, he should cut his belly and die. Jesus Matayoshi, the one true God, will throw him into the fiery depths of hell. The reason is that before you kill another person you should die yourself. The same goes to those voters who do not vote for Jesus Matayoshi, the one true God. You will understand the specific reason in election advertisements."

AMAZING, SIMPLY AMAZING. Oh Jesus Matayoshi, please continue to enlighten the unknowning humans of this planet! Teach me your ways so that I may be saved from the eternal fiery damnations of hell!

Alas, the dim-witted citizens of Japan do not understand what this man is capable of. Jesus Matayoshi has the power to heal this corrupt world and lead us to the land of lollipops and laughter. But no, Jesus Matayoshi has yet to be elected. Damn those Japanese bastards. Just look at his incredibly unique political strategy.

He has presented himself in many elections but he has not won yet. He has become well-known for his eccentric campaigns where he urges opponents to commit suicide by hara-kiri (disembowelment, note that he avoids the more polite seppuku) and says that he will cast them into Gehenna. Like most Japanese politicians, he campaigns in a single small regulation size mini-van fitted with oversized loudspeakers. Unlike most however, he blasts his campaign slogans in a ridiculous, stylized, kabuki-inspired voice.

So there you have it, JESUS MATAYOSHI, the one true politician.
http://www.matayoshi.org/