Hey YOU Check This Band Out!

Hello everyone!  I hope all is well.. during my hiatus I broke my blackberry phone and crashed the hard drive on my Mac. Fun times… well I’m back with an Android smartphone.

I also came across this band Young the Giant who have written a pretty damn decent self-titled debut CD.  Now this is certainly an over-inflated comparison considering what the Beatles did, but IMO the CD certainly has hints of early Beatles in it with regards to the simplicity here and there as well as the overall catchiness of it. That’s not to say that it isn’t unique and instrumentally technical either.. there are a lot of experimental parts to the tracks, but they keep everything pretty melodic and catchy.

Anyway, check out their single “My Body” which has a pretty awesome video to go along with a solid song that highlights some of the simplicity I was talkin about.

I will put together a more in-depth review of their album soon.. mainly because it’s so good that I actually want to lol.

Here’s a new update!

First off, sry for the lack of updates lately. Life’s been gettin in the way much too often. But I’ve basically hashed and straightened out the few things I needed to.

I now have a clearer vision of what I want this website to be. I want to give you readers the best of the best of the best. This will be a bit of an aggregate site for (mostly) all entertainment.

There are some really creative people in my life that enjoy entertainment so much so that they want to create that entertainment themselves. I want to bring these minds together to give you their favorites and mine as a “Best of..” List in the categories of:

television, movies, music, internet, sports and miscellaneous consumer goods.*

* – Just to elaborate on that very general “misc consmr goods” category, I’m referring mainly to phones, music players, computers, cars, and any other misc things that we decide to throw in there.

Lastly, I wish you all a safe, happy, healthy and scrumptious Thanksgiving weekend. Enjoy the football, your family and friends and the yummy, yummy food you are blessed/lucky to have. Be THANKFUL.

Don’t forget those who aren’t fortunate enough to have a meal, or a safe and warm place to sleep, or even clean water to drink. Say a prayer to whatever God you may.. Or keep these less fortunate in your mind if you aren’t religious. Being grateful is not only good for your mind, but good for your health.

I love you all.*

* – Except murderers, rapists, kidnappers, etc.. and those filthy rich, greedy ass, already well-off people who stole from the pensions and retirement funds of teachers, police officers, fire fighters, returning vets and average American joes and janes. Those people I dislike very much.

New MGMT = Sophomore Slump.. REALLY REALLY LOW Slump.

I can’t sugar coat it… especially in comparison to their last album Oracular Spectacular, their new album Congradulations is God awful.  They seemed to scrap any notion of having a decent melody and substituted a sort of mix between “experimental” and my least favorite band from high school.

This single is the cream of the crop from their new album.  Yep, I mean it..

They decided to make a confusing ass video with a school grader’s effort for a plot along with some random shit at the end.  They thought they could make an “artsy” video that was random and confusing so you wouldn’t notice that the song blows.  They did not succeed.

Here is said “artsy” video:

I’m actually pretty frustrated that they actually released the album as is.. It really is THAT bad.  Who’s BRIGHT idea over at the record label was it to let this garbage see the light of day on a record shelf??   They should be FIRED.  The LEAST they could have done was have the sense to say, “Okay.. So this sucks, but we can improve it.”  Then re-write and re-arrange some shit and THEN release a product that you can be PROUD of releasing.

The band KNEW and stated in interviews that they were “Sorry” and basically knew it was garbage.  Then WHY release garbage?!?  That really grinds my gears..

Fast Food Porn… Ya might feel a lil dirty afterward.

On a random search one day, I came across some of the most HEINOUS crimes of culinary nature.. not surprisingly, it involves the new KFC “Triple Bypass” Double Down.

I’m sure you’ve heard that it is REALLY unhealthy, but it’s not the WORST thing you could be having. You COULD be having FIVE THOUSAND CALORIES of bacony, sausagey goodness straight from the clogged arteries of the heartland of the United States!

The Bacon Explosion

But just to see where the KFC Double Down stands against the competition…

Courtesy of: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/04/double-down-by-numbers-unhealthiest.html

“We can, of course, be a bit more exacting about this. I’ve created an index based on the amount of fat, sodium and cholesterol that the Double Down and a variety of comparable sandwiches contain as a portion of the USDA daily allowance. (In the fat category, saturated fats are counted double and trans-fats are counted triple.) The index is scaled such that the Original Recipe version of the sandwich receives a score of 1.00, a measure of gluttony that will hereafter be known as The Double Down (DD).**

By this measure, the Double Down is indeed quite unhealthy, but some other sandwiches are just as bad. The Burger King Chicken Tendercrisp (1.00 DDs), which has less cholesterol but more fat and sodium, is comparably unhealthy to the Double Down on balance. The chicken ranch sandwiches from Sonic (0.94 DDs) and Jack-in-the-Box (0.98 DDs) are close. And surprisingly, some sandwiches from “fast casual” restaurants that have a reputation for healthy food do even worse. Panera’s Chipotle Chicken checks in at 1.49 DD’s — it has almost 50 percent more bad stuff than the Double Down — and Boston Market’s Chicken Carver at 1.14. So do some products that stretch the definition of “sandwich”. A chicken burrito from Chipotle with rice, black beans, cheese and corn salsa will cost you 1.16 Double Downs: load it up with sour cream, guacamole, and picante salsa as well and you’re up to 1.69. A pack of five McDonald’s Chicken Selects with a side of ranch sauce is worth 1.23 Double Downs.”

Okay, so now that we’ve established that fast food really IS as unhealthy as it is advertised.. let’s take it JUST a little further…

The Double-double Down

Courtesy of: http://icanhasinternets.com/2010/04/double-double-down-sandwich/

For those of you not familiar with In-N-Out (they’re just on the westcoast for now…but even Ronald McDonald prefers them) its probably one of the best chain hamburger restaurants you’ll come by. There is nothing better than a Double-Double (2 beef patties & 2 cheese slices) made Animal Style (with grilled onions & mustard with extra ’sauce’) on a late Friday night.

I’ve spent upwards of an hour and a half just to get me a burger from them. Yes…they are THAT good. Although there menu is pretty much just burgers, fries and shakes, they have a whole slew of secret menu items you can order. From the Flying Dutchman (2 beef patties & 2 cheese slices, nothing else) to Protein Style burgers (no bun, wrapped in iceberg lettuce leaf).

One thing that is certainly not on their secret (or regular) menu is the Double-Double Down Sandwich. This was made by a couple of brilliant kids in Southern California (Brian Obnoxious & Karl Schubach). Basically it consists of bun, cheese, beef patty, fried chicken breast, Colonel sauce, cheese, bacon, fried chicken breast, lettuce tomato, special sauce, cheese, beef patty and bun.

That’s sounds like a damn good meal to me. They’ve tagged it #thisiswhyyourefat, #getintoit, #fatboys, #goodolamerica#culinaryachievement & #call911 and I think they are all very fitting. Hats off to you gentlemen…hats off to you. Makes me crave the Burger King Double Bacon Rodeo State Fair Cheeseburger or the Long John Silver’s Deep-fried Bottom of the Sea Wrap.

Miscellaneous Double Down + Equally Unhealthy Fast Food Items

Courtesy of: http://icanhasinternets.com/2010/04/more-kfc-double-down-porn/

First up is the McKFC Double Up or Double Over from Reid at eHamOnRye. It’s your favorite sandwich from McDonald’s the classic Big Mac with a KFC Double Downs thrown in the middle for good measure.

Next up we have the KFC Quad Down from RalphabetSoup. Image eating 2 of the Double Downs stacked one on each other. That would be 1020 calories, 64 grams of fat and 2225 milligrams of sodium (or nearly 2 times your recommended daily intake).

Lastly we bring you the wise use of the classic KFC biscuit for a Biscuit Double-Down Sandwich from Q at Brand Eating. For only $1 more he brings the Double Down into much needed territory with the always delicious, buttery biscuit. Hats off for him to thinking of this. It’s truly inspired. I’m sure KFC will take note and add it to the menu shortly. This one leaves me saying…”Why didn’t I think of that?”

UPDATE: I’ve found a few other Double Down homebrews that are making me hungry, especially that Buffalo Double Down.

staringispolite’s Double-Double Down homage (In-N-Out 2×2 & KFC Double Down)

sonofdisaster’s Buffalo Double Down (KFC Double Down with Buffalo Chicken)

chrshidefkim’s Double Down to the Second Power (2 KFC Double Downs with lettuce, tomato and bun)

DMZilla’s McDonald’s Southern Style Double Cheese Apple Pie Burger (McDonald’s Double Cheeseburger, Southern Chicken Filet & Apple Pie)

lg’s Double-Double Down homage (In-N-Out 2×2 & KFC Double Down)

torchio’s Twice Doubled Down (2 Stacked KFC Double Downs)

kamikazeemcee’s McDouble McChicken Double Down (KFC Double Down between McDonald’s McDouble & McChicken Sandwich)

If you’re like me and have never heard of a thing called a “Luther Burger,” I’ll let you ON YOUR OWN check out what a Luther burger actually is and what would happen if you combined that idea with the infamous Double Down.

But to end this bit of fast food porn, I’ll leave you with the WHOLE COW BURGER.

Courtesy of: http://topcultured.com/in-n-outs-100×100/

Everybody gets knocked down, how quick are you gonna get up?

Ya know, sometimes Nike does some inspirational shit.. those times are few and far between, so let’s cherish this while we still can.

The band that actually does that song is called The Hours and the song is called “Ali in the Jungle.” I know, I know.. he kinda sounds like Coldplay at first. I made that mistake too.

But here’s there video, which is pretty trippy/cool. So if you’re tripping, this might be cool. Kisbfoijb KLjlefi oijuhdowi.

Happy 4:20!

I know I’m a little late on this.. go figure. For all those pot-friendly friends out there… hope it was grand!

Here’s a Snoop Dogg video to get you into that cheeba cheeba mood.

Snoop Dogg ft. Kid Cudi – “That Tree”

Oops! Someone got shwasted and lost a prototype next gen iPhone.

Courtesy of: www.gizmodo.com

This Is Apple’s Next iPhone

You are looking at Apple’s next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It’s the real thing, and here are all the details.

While Apple may tinker with the final packaging and design of the final phone, it’s clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation iPhone are drastically new and drastically different from what came before. Here’s the detailed list of our findings:

What’s new
• Front-facing video chat camera
• Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)
• Camera flash
• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
• Improved display. It’s unclear if it’s the 960×640 display thrown around before—it certainly looks like it, with the “Connect to iTunes” screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS.
• What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack
• Split buttons for volume
• Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic

What’s changed
• The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or ceramic or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
• An aluminum border going completely around the outside
• Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
• Everything is more squared off
• 3 grams heavier
• 16% Larger battery
• Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery

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Go to www.gizmodo.com for the rest of the article.

Editor’s note: If anyone has questions to whether this is authentic or not.. go to Gizmodo to find out all the evidence that points to real.

Hilarious Moments from the Emmys

Conan hosted the Emmys in 2007, and here are some of the damn funny moments from the show…

Cone Bone’s opening sketches..

Stephen Colbert and John Stewart presenting an award.. Speaking the TRUTH lol..

This one was from a different year.. Ignore the blatant Cap and Trade propaganda, but this one is sort of needed as a lead up to the last one.

Ricky Gervais is still damn hilarious!

Inflation Trumps Avatar’s Claim of #1 Grossing Film

Let’s not forget how badly our leaders have DEBASED our currency.. Our dollar was worth SO much more back in the day.  And it is for this reason that I make the stand that making the claim to be the number one movie EVER without considering inflation is not only inaccurate, but also a little fraudulent.  Why?  Well, because A LOT of people (especially that didn’t see it) will buy the film based on the claim.  But hey, even I can agree that is a little bit nit-picky.

Courtesy of: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/why-avatar-is-not-the-top-grossing-film/

March 1, 2010, 1:29 pm

Why ‘Avatar’ Is Not the Top-Grossing Film

By DAVID LEONHARDT

9 p.m. | Updated

Over the last month, newspapers and film Web sites have proclaimed “Avatar” the highest-grossing film in American history. It isn’t true, at least not in any meaningful sense. It is a figment of flawed statistics, and it’s a nice example of how economic numbers are often misunderstood.

Moviegoers in this country have now spent about $700 million on tickets to “Avatar.” That is the basis for the claim that “Avatar” is the top-grossing movie. No. 2 on the all-time list is “Titanic,” which brought in about $600 million. “Avatar” surpassed “Titanic” in late January.

The problem with these numbers is that they aren’t adjusted for inflation. When you don’t adjust statistics for inflation, you end up with a lot of meaningless comparisons: Almost everything is more expensive than it’s ever been! People are earning vastly more than they ever have! The most successful movies ever are being made right now!

Take a moment to think about that last statement, though. Before World War II, the average American went to the movies about once a week. Today — when people can entertain themselves with cable television, rented movies, the Web and so much more — the average American goes to the movies less than once a month. So it’s hard to argue that this is the golden age of moviegoing, and it’s hard to imagine that 45 of the 50 most successful films of all time have really been made in the last 20 years.

Tell All Your Friends.. Taking Back Sunday is back with their original lineup.

Courtesy of: http://www.altpress.com/news/tbsreunionofficial.htm

Taking Back Sunday confirm reunion of Tell All Your Friends-era lineup

Alternative Press – Scott Heisel on 3/31/10 @ 2:00 PM – altpress.com

When news broke earlier this week of guitarist Matt Fazzi and bassist Matt Rubano parting ways with Taking Back Sunday, word quickly spread that John Nolan and Shaun Cooper, who were both part of what is considered the band’s “original” lineup, were back in TBS. The group has avoided commenting on the issue until today, through the following video posted to their YouTube account. In the minute-long clip, you see all five members of the band–Nolan, Cooper, frontman Adam Lazzara, guitarist Eddie Reyes and drummer Mark O’Connell–at a firing range, followed by the following message:

“Sometimes it takes some time to remember where you were headed in the first place and the people you intended to go there with. There’s no hard feelings, just the future.”

Playing in the background of the clip is what appears to be a new song, although that cannot be confirmed at presstime. You can watch the video below.