In The News
- Taking a page out of the graphic and well-written books of Jason "Jay" Williams and Kellen "Soldier" Winslow II, Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethisberger got into a serious motorcycle accident. As if that wasn't good enough, he wasn't wearing a helmet. Don't all NFL contracts have a clause prohibiting motorcycle riding? If not, they should. Your job as an NFL player in the off-season is to not involve yourself in activities that are more dangerous than your chosen profession. No skydiving, no firefighting, no lion taming, no alligator wrestling, and certainly no riding a motorcycle (even with a helmet). Fucking idiot. He deserves to miss at least one entire season because of this.
- Check out Conan O'Brien tonight for a band called be your own PET. They're a group of teenagers from Nashville who play some pretty solid garage rock/punk. I've been listening to them for a little over a year, and they are pretty polished for how young they are. I can't wait to see them at Lollapalooza.
- When two lawyers in Florida couldn't agree on the location of a deposition, a federal judge ordered the lawyers to resolve their dispute with a game of rock, paper, scissors. The best part is that the two proposed locations were down the street from each other. Way to waste the shit out your clients' money, guys. Special thanks to Tradd "The Royal We" Fromme for the link.
- The venerable Chicago Tribune has finally written an in-depth article about the greatest hot dog stand in the history of the world: The Wiener Circle. If you've never been there before, check out the article.
- I have put a link to another blog on my side bar. For those of you who were Pi Kapps at IU, you'll know who the author of Haastility is. For everyone else, just check it out already.
- Dean Hess -- the cock-chugging SOB dean at Harbor on The OC who was forced to leave Newport after his affair with Taylor Townsend came to light -- may actually chug cocks. This photo (**for some reason I am unable to upload the photo, but I'll keep trying**) was taken at the corner of Halsted and Cornelia by loyal GMYH reader and frequent Midwestern Eavesdropping contributor RobD. In case you're hard of seeing, that would be Dean Hess (or whoever the hell the actor who played Dean Hess was) on the cover of Gay Chicago, a magazine that is apparently free for the taking from newspaper stands, not unlike the Employment Guide, The Red Eye, or The Onion. We don't know for sure if he is gay because, as you might expect, RobD didn't want to open the magazine stand and take a copy of said magazine, especially given that he was in the epicenter of gay Chicago and someone might get the wrong idea.
- Marc "Tron" Wiescinski sent me this delightfully funny blog post relating college football teams to characters from The Simpsons, as well as this link for what might be the greatest mullet of all-time.
- Sean "Never Been Any" Riesenbeck sent me the link for Overheard at College. Good stuff.
Video Links (all courtesy of Marc "Tron" Wiescinski)
- "28 Day Slater," a short series about a guy who thinks he's AC Slater every February: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3. While I haven't had a chance to watch all of even the first episode, it seems like something that the die hard Save By The Bell fan will enjoy.
- Tom Cruise kills Oprah.
- The best margarine commercial of all-time.
- Some creepy woman playing a key-tar, and really getting into it.
CD Reviews
*GMYH CD Review Scale:
-6 Handrews - Buy it now. NOW!!
-5 Handrews - Excellent album that you should seriously consider purchasing in the near future
-4 Handrews - Very good album that you should at least check out on iTunes
-3 Handrews - If you want it, download it illegally
-2 Handrews - Somewhere between Britney Spears and William Hung
-1 Handrew - Ashlee Simpson
-0 Handrews - Kevin Federline
- The Black Keys - Chulahoma (EP). This 6-song EP features the two guys from Akron playing the songs of Junior Kimbrough, naming the EP after the Mississippi town where Kimbrough owned a famous juke joint. The EP is simply solid blues, which the Black Keys play extremely well. 5 Handrews.
-Official Black Keys website
-Black Keys MySpace site - The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers. In case you haven't heard, The Raconteurs are Jack White's side project, along with Patrick Keeler and Jack Lawrence of The Greenhornes and Brendan Benson. You've probably heard "Steady As She Goes" on the radio, and I think that's probably the best song on the CD. The first time I listened to the CD, I wasn't overly impressed (probably because I was expecting it to sound more like The White Stripes--I miss Meg), but it's gotten better each time I listen to it. 4 Handrews.
-Official Raconteurs website (which is a great site, by the way)
-Raconteurs MySpace site - Township - Township (EP). Led by former Runner & The Thermodynamics frontman Marc Pinansky, Massachusetts-based Township plays good, old-fashioned rock & roll, harkening the classic rock of the late '60s and early '70s. I'm not sure if the EP is available for purchase or not, but if you like what you hear on their MySpace page, you can probably just contact the band as ask for a copy, and they might just send you one for free (that's what they did for me). Or you can just download their songs from their MySpace site for free (don't worry, it's completely legal). 5 Handrews.
-Official Township website
-Township MySpace site - Wolfmother - Wolfmother. You've probably heard their song "Love Train" on iPod commercials, and that's a great song, as are most of their others. From the primal scream that kicks it off, the album is refreshingly familiar, taking obvious influences from early Black Sabbath and early Led Zeppelin. As a whole, the album kind of ran together the first few times I listened to it, but the individual songs themselves are great. I can't wait to see them at Lollapalooza. 4 Handrews.
-Official Wolfmother website
-Wolfmother MySpace site
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