A Little Family Guy Bathroom Humor

This clip from this past Sunday's Family Guy just cracks me up.

A Quick Threefer

RECYCLE: This father and his two daughters have produced only 32 pounds of garbage over the past 12 months. Nice.

FREAKY: Enjoy the 20 Most Outrageous Heavy Metal Album Covers. That pretty much says it all.

YUM-O: Garden & Gun (gotta get me a subscription!) magazine's 100 Southern Foods You Absolutely Positively Must Try Before You Die

Slumdog Millionaire

It's an excellent movie - one of the best I've seen this year.

Have A Merry Little Christmas

Here's Christina Aguilera and Brian McKnight. Enjoy your holidays, people...

Five-Banger

MEATY: Smell like the King – just not like Elvis

SOLE: Practice your shoe-heaving, and see how many times you can hit Dubya in this online game

IDOLATRY: Simon Cowell drops some hints about the new season of American Idol here

ADS: The 32 Freakiest Ads of 2008 – I think that says it all

REALLY?: Looks like Hollywood just can’t help remaking old sci-fi movies – even if it’s unnecessary – here’s 13 upcoming movies in the pipeline

Threefer

CONTROL: In Dubai, the rules of nature just don’t matter – their beaches will have cooled sand and man-made breezes

MONIKER: And you thought Chad Johnson was stupid for changing his name to “Ocho Cinco” – click here to find out what Tampa Bay Buccaneer Greg White changed his name to

PICS: Check out a 17-image preview from NME’s photo yearbook of the year’s best music photography here

photo: Wikipedia

Blues, by Paul Rose...

Yeah, it's another busy week. But don't let that stop you from watching British guitarist Paul Rose tear it up on his guitar with the Paul Rose Band.

Threefer

ADDY: A town in England is changing its street names to Rolling Stones song titles

THE CREAM: Rolling Stone deems its top albums of the year here

BARGAIN: $240,000 for Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber? Such a deal.

Watchmen...New Footage

The Watchmen footage that was previewed at Comic-Con 2008 is now available for viewing...

It's A Major Award...

Say you're having trouble finding a holiday gift for that certain someone - perhaps a little something seasonal and tasteful from FRAGILE would suffice? Yep, that's right, kids, you can pick up leg lamps like the ones from A Christmas Story over here.

Falling Slowly, Covered

I've been hit by some sort of cold or flu this week, which kept me up all last night wearing a winter hat to stop myself from shivering. But at least my nose has stopped gushing like a faucet. On a lighter note, here's a lovely duet - it's Edie Carey and Rose Cousins covering the gorgeous song "Falling Slowly" (made famous in the movie Once) on acoustic guitars. Take a listen.

Does Chris Martin Really Surf With The Alien?

It seems like everybody wants a piece of Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" these days, even guitar virtuosos. I'm sure you've heard about the Joe Satriani vs. Coldplay dustup - Mr. Satriani is claiming that Coldplay ganked a the melody from his 2004 guitar instrumental "If I Could Fly." You haven't heard his piece? Youtube comes to the rescue, with a nice little mash-up (not created by me).

I Sing Your Face Electric

Check out this video by Tokyo artist Daito Manabe – it’s kind of freaky. Turns out a little electricity can bring a little happiness…sort of. Anyway you can get further explanation over at the Smithsonian Surprising Science Blog here where I initially discovered it…

23 Rainy Days @ The Firehouse Grill Friday

23 Rainy Days has constantly been improving with each batch of new songs they’ve released, and their new album, A Wonderful Disaster, is no exception. They embrace their influences (The Cure, The Smiths) while expanding on them, and they do it beautifully, creating a gorgeous expansive sound, lush with electric guitars and syths. And lead singer Ian MacGregor’s Cure-ish vocals fit the rather depressive lyrics like a hand to a glove. If you like what you hear, check them out this Friday, December 5th at The Firehouse Grill in Fairfax, VA.

MP3: Blackest Days – 23 Rainy Days
MP3: Goodnight and Goodbye – 23 Rainy Days

New Springsteen Video

My Lucky Day


Here's the video for Bruce Springsteen's "My Lucky Day," the second single from his upcoming new album Working On A Dream. It'll be dropping January 27th.

Threefer

SMACK: Need heroin but you're short on cash? Head to Switzerland – it’s legal, and it’s free!

HOUSING: Cracked.com reveals the secret of how to write every single episode of House!

BETTER: One of my favorite Sports Illustrated writers, Paul Zimmerman (Dr. Z), suffered two strokes a week ago, but appears to be recovering, says Peter King – I hope Paul Zimmerman continues to get better