Monthly Archives: May 2009

Der Steroidekoppen!

Msnbc.com:

BRUSSELS - The Belgian bodybuilding championship has been canceled after doping officials showed up and all the competitors fled.

A doping official says bodybuilders just grabbed their gear and ran off when he came into the room.

Verberg je naalden!

Brandi Carlile

We saw Brandi Carlile at the Carrboro Arts Center Friday night. It was a really small space, so everybody had good seats, but because they didn't turn the stage lights higher than "Dim" the whole time, I couldn't get any good pictures. The other 300 people all brought cameras, too. I wonder if they got any good shots...

Canon SD630

It was a good show; she's a great singer, a fine songwriter, they threw in a couple of fun covers, did one song totally unplugged, just shouting it out into the crowd (I got a crappy-quality video of this, which I might post, if I can get it to sound OK). Definitely a good time. See her, if you get the chance. And if you're ever in Carrboro, you should eat at Acme.

Start Your iPods

Behold the Ordered List of random Rock!

  1. Death Cab For Cutie - Cath...
  2. Vladimir Ashkenazy - Chopin Nocturne #17, in B (wow, it's actually on YouTube)
  3. Caribou - Sandy
  4. Liz Phair - Help Me Mary
  5. Alison Krauss - Stay
  6. Talking Heads - Houses In Motion (live)
  7. Elliot Smith - Let's Get Lost
  8. Bears - All I
  9. Apollo Sunshine - Phoney Maroney
  10. John Scofield - Behind Closed Doors

Behold!

Interestingly, to me, 5 of those videos are live because YouTube doesn't have the studio version.

Torture Q

Q: What would it take to set up a Truth Commission to investigate the torture committed by the US ? Whose authority is needed to do this ?

40 Years Ago

Here's the Cashbox US Top 5 singles from this week, 1969:

Tommy Roe - Dizzy
(song starts @ 40s)

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary

Foundations - Build Me Up, Buttercup

1910 Fruitgum Co. - Indian Giver

Jay & Americans - This Magic Moment

I had never heard "Dizzy" nor "Indian Giver".

And then, way down at #80 is MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

Will She Do?

No, she won't.

A man who tried to hire a prostitute to take his 14-year-old son's virginity as a present was spared jail by a British court on Friday.

The Polish national took the boy out in his car and allowed him to pick out the prostitute, who was standing at the side of the road in the red-light district of Nottingham, central England.

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The boy said that they had driven past the girl and his dad pointed to her and said 'will she do?'," Harris said.

"He said 'yes' and they had turned round. He said his dad did this because he was still a virgin and he was taking care of that for him."

Judge Jonathan Teare said he would spare the father jail because of his excellent character and that he believed he did not mean any harm to his son.

"You have a duty of care to your son and that is to look after his moral welfare, not as you might think to break him in to the ways of sex through a prostitute," he said.

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