Digging

Alot of posts today, thought you might like this pic:



This is what happens when we're home with the kids on spring break. I start following links until I arrive here:

http://thesearethethingsilike.com/post/907336834/awnn

If you're at work, don't click around too much as there are some sexy time pictures on the site. If at home, enjoy the naked ladies found here and there.

Wu-Tang Jazz

I saw this story on npr and it's fucking awesome. Logan Walters took old Wu-Tang albums and redesigned them to look like old Blue Note jazz albums.
Slideshow

This grew into a project of mixing Wu-Tang songs and jazz samples. The links below have a sample and it sounds great.

Here's the original story too.

And the full mix-tape of reworked Wu-Tang/jazz remixes will be released soon.

On the cover

Why is it when a star is on the cover of a magazine there is always a line like, "The dirty secrets, sex, the naughty thing they do to unwind, and why they think whores should be paid more"? I know it's to grab the readers attention, but if I were on the cover of a magazine it might go more like, "Citizen Grant - On peace and quiet, video games, books, and why it's nice to just lay on the couch and watch a movie. Also - why he thinks boobs are great." You gotta give them something right?

Charlie Sheen

Where did he go? He was all over the place for a few weeks and now there's nothing.

Octopi, octopods, or octopuses?

Yesterday we took the boys to the Newport Aquarium, which is loads better than the Shedd in Chicago. We saw an octopus that I could have watched all day, a ton of sharks, and an 800lb alligator. It was all quite enjoyable

On the way there we saw two pro-life billboards and one that said "America. Bless God." Maybe he sneezed and we didn't hear it. This got me to thinking about the loads of money people waste on politics. Wouldn't it be nice if instead of putting up expensive billboards that only reinforce people's opinions as opposed to changing them, they put the money to good causes? Why not give money to a charity instead of a group of lobbyists? How about helping the sick and poor instead of inundating our airwaves with hate filled political commercials every two years? I want a candidate that puts out his ideas on the news and televised debates while asking that donations that would go to his campaign instead go to a children's hospital, disaster relief, or disease research. I want someone who can win without having a commercial on TV every thirty seconds. We live in a wasteful world.

Greenhornes show

This past Thursday we saw the Greenhornes, Hacienda, and We are Hex at Radio Radio. We almost missed the show due to babysitter issues, but we got someone to come over at the last minute, so while most of the day sucked a giant pair of balls, everything ended well.

We knew quite a few people there which always makes for a fun night. I got Craig Fox, Patrick Keeler, and Little Jack Lawrence to sign my 45. I almost got tossed out by the door man for walking over a couch to get Patrick's signature, but oh well, I got it. They were all really nice too.

The opening band We are Hex is a local band and they're really good. The lead singer has a Karen O presence on stage and the music is a touch on the dark side. One song has her singing "I'm, I'm the devil" which probably had the street preachers outside in a tizzy.

The show started about an hour later than we thought and being old, we only caught about 40minutes of the Greenhornes set, but they sounded good and burned through quite a few songs so I can't imagine we missed too much. I saw the set lists they were passing around and it didn't look long. I'm guessing we saw more than half.

Now it's on to Matt and Kim in about 2 weeks.

The Greenhornes tonight!

Hooray, we get to go to a concert tonight!

Angry Birds Rio

Oh shit, a new Angry Birds game to waste time with.

Elizabeth Taylor died...

... so here's a clip that The Soup showed quite often:

Messing about

Five or so people might be out there saying, "Hey this page looks a bit different." They would be right. Last night I was setting up a page for our 7 year old (yep, he wanted a blog and now he has one) and noticed new options for layouts and whatnot. Less than five minutes after I had put a background that had books I received a call from a certain Indian chap who is known to whistle like a tea kettle. He says that he is lodging a complaint about the site's new look. As he makes up 20% of my readership, I was quick to change back to a simpler style, which is similar to the old style. He was right, the new look was a bit noisy.

By the way, Logan has more followers than I do after one night.

It really is that bad

Heard of Rebecca Black? Well, her mom paid $2000 for her to record an autotune song and it's being ridiculed all over the internet. I will say it's awful, but she might not be the worst part. If you can make it to the 2:30 mark into, a guy starts rapping. Why a man would do this for a vanity project is beyond me? If he doesn't catch hell for this, there is no justice in the world. Now, what's going on in Libya again?

Worst Tooth Fairies ever

The first time Logan lost a tooth we we're on it. Tooth under pillow, tooth retrieved, dollar left. We were in and out in under 10 seconds. Since then we have had to sneak in at six am to make the exchange which is dangerously close to when the boys wake up. We just forgot one time and had to come up with a story of how we forgot to clean the small amount of blood off the tooth, so we had to do it again the next night, which we thankfully remembered. Then last night at 2:45, Logan came into our room in tears because the tooth was gone and no money was there. Luckily, the tooth had fallen off the bed, so I got him to go back to sleep, which took longer than I was expecting, while I lay in wait reading a book. An hour later, I used my stealthy moves and placed the dollar while swiping the tooth.

Now, I am tired. My right eye is twitching and I have a spot of a headache. I can't complain though because it is all my doing. Hopefully, we remember next time and just get the damn tooth at 10:30 or so.

Shit! Cock!

Did you know that Dan Aykroyd has a mild form of Tourette's syndrome? Now you do.

A Friday treat

Enjoy!

Happy St Patrick's Day

Don't transpose those letters

If you accidentally type in citizengrant.blogpsot.com, it takes you to a online bible college. I wonder how many other blogs do that. Thanks anonymous comment from the previous post!

Oh, and if you accidentally got this page whilst looking for an online bible college, scroll down a bit and check out the hot Brazilian asses. It will renew your faith.

Lab comments so far

On the earthquake in Japan:

Today would be a good day for Mothra to attack.

On underwater floating garbage islands and Jesus:

That's how Jesus walked on water.
I thought he was wearing platform shoes.
No it was stilts.
(side note, close your eyes and picture that.)

On cricket:

I can't believe Naeem Islam was bowled out without getting a run! I'm going to fly to Bangladesh and burn down his house.

On the picture of the girl in a hardhat in Japan after the quake:

She must have been carrying that in her giant purse.

On the Nokia plants:

They are very worried about the Nokia plants.
The Nokia plants?
No the power plants.
Oh the nuclear plants. I thought you were talking about cell phones.

The purple one

I wonder if Prince still plays "Batdance" at concerts.

Cricket commentary

My boss loves cricket as does the Whistling Indian. Here's a sample of the commentary from today's Bangladesh-England Test Match:

30 overs Commentary Ban 149-3
Bopara returns in place of the ineffective (and expensive) Anderson.Shakib inside-edges a single to fine leg, a delicate dab brings Kayes a single to third man, and Shakib tips-and-runs one to keep the scoreboard ticking. Candidate for "shot of the day" from Kayes as he unleashes a lovely Goweresque cover-driven four to pass 1,000 ODI runs. An attempted bouncer from Bopara sails out of the batsman's reach for a wide - like Swann, he rubs his hand in the turf to try to get a grip on things. But Kayes scampers a couple of leg byes off the last ball, this is all too easy for the Tigers.

Contributor BBC Test Match Special's Athar Ali Khan
"Bangladesh threw their wickets away in the last game, but when you're chasing a low total like this, you can take your time - and they have."

29 overs Commentary Ban 139-3 (TARGET 226)
Colly in for his fourth over, but the Durham veteran is easy pickings for Kayes and Shakib, who continue their policy of risk-free accumulation. Once more, it's four off the over.

28 overs Commentary KAYES FIFTY - Ban 135-3
After his recent disagreements with Umpire Harper and problems gripping the ball, it's no surprise the chuntering Swann's off, he'd be a candidate for a yellow card for dissent if this was a football match. For a moment, we think we're going to see Jonathan Trott bowl, but instead Strauss turns back to Anderson as he desperately tries to break this stand. Shakib guides a single, Kayes (back in his helmet) tickles a two to third man and that's his fifty, from 91 balls. Anderson hasn't had a great World Cup, Cap'n Strauss claps his hands to try to encourage his team, but it's not looking great for them as this stand is now worth 62 - and Bangladesh need 91 from 22 overs.

I have no idea what chuntering means. Crazy cricketeers.

Chris Rock's new play

Chris Rock is in a play called The Motherfucker with the Hat and it's on Broadway. Best name ever.

One for Jess

Horrible call

Wow, what a bullshit call in today's Barca-Arsenal Champions League game. Fronte, how can you support a team that would buy the ref? This is worse than the several non-calls in the Chelsea-Man United game a couple of weeks ago.
<a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/video?vid=18d1b6b6-fe53-434a-85c9-9b6cbb908c8e" target="_new" title="">CL: Van Persie Out!</a>

Simply awful. The ref ruined the game. Barca could have won without the help.

Happy Fat Tuesday

This one's for Fronte. WHAPOW!

A theory

After mere minutes of thinking about it, I have a theory. If you like me, chances are your spouse or significant other won't. I'd say it's a 60-40 shot.

Still hoppin'

Zsa Zsa needs the other leg chopped off dahling, but she won't do it. Crazy old Hungarian.

Commercials

If I see another Proactive commercial or the one with that fucking dog worrying about his stupid fucking bone with "Trouble" playing, I might scream.

Red ring

So the day just got better. I got another red ring of death on the Xbox and microsoft says my warranty is expired. I turned it off and turned it back on again and I got green lights, so I'm just letting it run to see what happens next. Neat.

More sickness

This winter has sucked as far as illnesses go. Logan is sick once again. This time it's a stomach bug. He threw up three times last night. Lindy took care of him then, but I'm staying home with him today. I might take him into work a little later if he's feeling better so I can turn off one of my reactions.

Connor isn't feeling great either. He has a cough which has been passed along to me. I'm ready for spring to get here and the plague to leave.