Archive for November, 2008

More Obama for yo mama

November 27, 2008

who-is-barack-obama

Click here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Totally bullshitting this post.

November 20, 2008

funny-picture-photo-child-toilet-massdistraction-pic

Ugh.

Talk to me

November 18, 2008

ben
No, seriously. I’m working a WERS pledge drive…and there’s *lots* of action. So, comment on this post. We’ll have a conversation. It’ll be fun.

Just filling space.

November 18, 2008

random-phases
Yep. Just wasting some time. Yep.

Take On Me: Literal Video Version

November 18, 2008

Love the song.  Love this premise.  Love this video.

(M)The(Y)100(A)Greatest(S)Singers(S)

November 17, 2008
aretha

She made number one...deservedly! I wish I could say the same of everyone else on the list.

Oh, Rolling Stone. For a second there, I thought your latest list would make some sense.

1 | Aretha Franklin by Mary J. Blige

2 | Ray Charles by Billy Joel

3 | Elvis Presley by Robert Plant

4 | Sam Cooke by Van Morrison

5 | John Lennon by Jackson Browne

6 | Marvin Gaye by Alicia Keys

Can’t complain. Then this happens.

7 | Bob Dylan by Bono

Okay…don’t get me wrong. I love me some Dylan. He’s a brilliant songwriter and a pretty good instrumentalist.
Honor him for those things. Not his “singing”. Have any of the surveyed singers…Mick Fleetwood, James Hetfield, Tony Iommi…wait, Mick Fleetwood and Tony Iommi sing? Well, I guess Yusuf Islam and three of the Beach Boys makes up for it, right? Actually, that doesn’t even begin to explain…

16 | Mick Jagger by Lenny Kravitz

Again, a rock “legend” honored for the wrong freaking reason. Hell, it’s pretty insulting to all those singers out there that the Rolling Stone has once again received a much greater honor than he deserves. The Stones are, at best, a good band. NOT the greatest or most dangerous band in history, gosh darn it. I’ll try to make the rest quick.

37 | Neil Young

45 | Kurt Cobain

62 | Lou Reed

81 | John Lee Hooker by Bonnie Raitt

These guys are/were talented and all, but to call them some of the greatest singers is a stretch. Neil Young’s nasal whine is only slightly less irritating than Dylan’s, kinda like how Cobain’s grunge was only slightly less irritating than all the other music of the early 90s. And those talk-singers Reed and Hooker have no business here.
Yet, where’s Tony Bennett? Guy’s 82 and can hold his own against number nine, Stevie Wonder. Nice work, Stevie, but you couldn’t beat Dylan?
Shit, even Freddie Mercury couldn’t beat Bobby D. Look, morons, this isn’t a list of the greatest artists…it’s one of the greatest singers. Again, I love Dylan, but honor him for things he’s actually good at. Otherwise, he’ll top the list of “Artists who look the best with harmonica holders”. And yes, Rolling Stone, I expect compensation for coming up with your next idiotic list.

Right now I’m listening to…

November 17, 2008

rubber_soul
For more, click here.

?

November 17, 2008

astronauts

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts hitched a giant shipping crate full of home improvement “goodies” to the international space station on Monday, a critical step for boosting the population in orbit.

And this isn’t on a certain news site because…

This whole Obama thing…

November 17, 2008

…is old news now, so I’ll get all the videos up here as fast as I can. Click here, here, and here, but not here.
obama8

Piano lessons with yours truly!

November 14, 2008