COACHELLA 2009 LINE-UP UNVEILED – Fake?

•January 28, 2009 • 2 Comments
According to Ryan Seacrest…hmmm…promoter says the line-up below is fake..

worth a trip to the desert?

FRIDAY

Nine Inch Nails
Morrissey
Orbital
Franz Ferdinand
Puscifer
Katy Perry
Digitalism
The Presets
K’s Choice
Conor Oberst
X
Metric
The Black Keys
Shpongle
Turbonegro
Bassnectar
Fair To Midland
Ladytron
Cage
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Hercules & Love Affair
Mickey Avalon
The Gaslight Anthem
Laura Marling
The Whip
The Bloody Beetroots
Kristina Sky
The Airborne Toxic Event
Friendly Fires
Straight Line Stitch
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.
Shadrach Kabango
Los Campesinos!
O’Death

The Wishing Tree
Floater
Alias Westlord
Snailhouse
Asteroids Galaxy Tour
Miyavi
Kevin Rudolf
TINARIWEN
Heartless Bastards
Drop The Lime
Lucent Dossier

SATURDAY

The Killers
Neil Young
Primus
Basement Jaxx
TV On The Radio
Mike Patton Rahzel
Adele
Immortal Technique
Atmosphere
One Day As A Lion
Girl Talk
Primal Scream
Coolof (The Knife)
KT Tunstall
Crystal Castles
Amon Tobin
M.A.N.D.Y.
She & Him
Roni Size
Kimya Dawson
Glasvegas
The Black Marquee
Jade Everett
Jamie T
Foals
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
No Age
Late Of The Pier
Sebastian Tellier
Peanut Butter Wolf
The Flobots
Radio Luxembourg
Ice Cream Floats
Flying Lotus
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
The Bug
White Lies
The Knux
The Captains Intangible
Mad Marge & The Stonecutters
N.A.S.A.
Mexican Institute Of Sound
Eric Mcfadden Trio
Soniko
Kira Willey
Lucent Dossier
Kim H & Danny R

SUNDAY

Paul McCartney
Foo Fighters
Public Enemy
Chemical Brothers
Keane
Poe
MSTRKRFT
Fleet Foxes
Band Of Horses
Lupe Fiasco
Skunk Anansie
Planet Of The Drums
Jenny Lewis
Imogen Heap
The Heavy
The Shins
Black Mountain
Asobi Seksu
Gus Black
Alabama 3
The Faint
The Sounds
The Ting Tings
Yeasayer
Conjure One
The Bees
Bizarre
Surkin
The Greencards
The Hold Steady
Uh Huh Her
Christopher Lawrence
A Place To Bury Strangers
Carolina Chocolate Drops
The Death Set
Florence & The Machine
Anna Ternheim
Weston Boys
Tommy Mills & The Jade Amenity
Gutevolk
Buraka Som Sistema
Lucent Dossier

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Words English People Should Never Say

•January 26, 2009 • 8 Comments

There are many benefits to speaking the queens english. However, in an effort to fit in, many english people start to use the local venacular, especially over here in the U S of A. This highlights a specific problem that has to be addressed head on.

There are some words that Americans can say that just sound right when they say them. But several of these words are now being used liberally by English peeps (the Scots can usually get away with it) and they just sound terrible. They sound awkward, butchered, inane, foolish. Friends, feel free to smack me in the mouth if I use any of them.

Here’s the list I came up with, let me know if you think of others and I’ll post the results.

Cool

Awesome (sidenote-this is perhaps the single most overused word in the American vocabulary…it means you are literally in awe…so please really think about what you’re describing feeling awesome about. There are plenty of substitutes for awesome, trust me, look them up)

Dude

Parking Structure

Soccer

Vacation

Grits

Den (as in, let’s go to the den to watch telly)

Pastor

Cup of Joe

Acclimate

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Microsoft Cheese aka Songsmith Commercial

•January 25, 2009 • 2 Comments

This is so bad, not so bad that it transcends itself, and in fact becomes good, it’s just embarrassingly awful. Toe-curling in fact.

Vodpod videos no longer available.

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Wham? – Graham Coxon faces reality

•January 22, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Now the fab Blur are getting back together, I’m reminded of an overheard conversation in the Lyric on Great Windmill Street in London where the band used to drink.

damon & graham

Graham Coxon was always moaning about Damon Albarn and one day told Richard the licensee that he’d had enough and was leaving.

The licensee replied, “I have two words for you. Andrew Ridgley.”

Therein, lies a tale.

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Fave British Bushism’s

•January 20, 2009 • 2 Comments

As we bid au revoir to #43, some bushism’s uttered with a British twist.

May 10, 2007: The United States was a nation the Queen “had come to know very well”, Bush said. “After all, you’ve dined with ten US presidents. You helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 – 1976.”

July 19, 2001: “It is white” — after being asked by a child in Britain what the White House was like.

Feb 23, 2001: “We both use Colgate toothpaste” — after a reporter asked what he had in common with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

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Big Hair Smackdown?

•January 14, 2009 • 6 Comments

Perry versus Blagojevich….who has the most luxuriant hair?

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Take the poll

 

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Support KOOP Community Radio

•January 13, 2009 • 1 Comment

One of the true pleasures in life, is listening to diverse community based radio. You will hear music you absolutely have zero chance of hearing on a commercial station.

It takes $’s for these stations to survive, and these stations need our support to survive.

KOOP, base right here in Austin, TX, is holding a raffle. Buy a ticket, get entered into a drawing to win 2 Platinum passes to the premier interactive conference IN THE WORLD……SXSW.

So come on, get your wallets, purses and hearts open, you’ll be supporting a wonderful resource, and you just might win those valuable passes. Winners announced on valentines day!!

Buy your tix here

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Cat Litter to Cheney?

•January 12, 2009 • Leave a Comment

After catching up with my stack of unread magazines, I stumbled across this interesting piece of information linking cat litter to Dick Cheney.  Here’s the scoop on cat litter…courtesy of Sierra.

The greenest cat litter is made of recycled paper, followed by sawdust, wheat chaff, oat hulls, or other biological materials. But more than half the litter in the United States is made of bentonite–a stripmined clay that leads right to Dick Cheney, which may explain why he raked around in Iraq like it was his personal litter box.

Halliburton, where Cheney was CEO, produces about one-sixth of the 3 million tons of bentonite sold each year, of which 1.7 million tons go into cat litter. Quite a waste of a substance that can be used in iron smelting, environmental cleanup, and wine clarifying.

Neither bentonite nor silica gel litter should be flushed en masse, as they can gum up plumbing, but flushing a few particles probably won’t cause trouble. Most municipal sewage systems can handle pet waste, but it should not be flushed where sea otters live, since studies have found some of these animals to be infected with toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disease carried in cat feces. Because this parasite can severely harm human embryos, pregnant women should avoid handling cat waste.

So know you know cat lovers, start shredding up that cardboard.

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A Spectacle Spectator

•January 10, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Anyone else been watching the new Elvis Costello music show Spectacle on Sundance Channel?

If you haven’t, check it out as fast you can. It’s a delight for anyone remotely interested in music, the craft of songwriting, and the real back story of some of its protagonists.

It stays away from shameless self-promotion, from, the “I’m only here doing the rounds as I’ve got a new release coming out” and it isn’t obvious. No dumb-ass questions. No telegraphed discussions we’ve all heard before.

That means its real. It’s deep, thoughtful, provocative, filled with the unlikely suspects. Starting with Elton John (a producer), to Lou Reed with Julian Schnabel (below), James Taylor (the only dud show so far coz he’s a really boring speaker), Bill Clinton, Tony Bennett and from someone who cut his teeth in the punk/new wave scene in Britain of 77-78, this weeks with The Police, was a delight.

Elvis, Lou Reed & Julian Schnabel

Not at all grotesque, mutual back slapping pandering, but entertaining insights in 3 seperate interviews, before the obligatory band jam with Elvis and his trusty side-men, Steve Nieve and Pete Thomas on drums.

I couldn’t stop grinning as copeland and thomas murdered out the beats on a mix of costello and police mash-ups, culminating on The Cream classic, Sunshine of your love.

There is not much worth watching on TV these days, but do yourself a favor and check out Spectacle. Sundance Channel, usually Wednesdays at 8pm.

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The Thrill of the Mail

•January 5, 2009 • 1 Comment

Call me old-fashioned, but don’t you still get a tingle,  a silent thrill when you receive a letter or card in the mail from a loved one or friend?

Maybe it’s because most of the physical mail most of us receive are bills or unwanted direct mail solicitations, now 2009 is upon us and the festive period is fading into black, as I packed away the xmas cards I received in the mail, the tactile experience of fingering the cards and reading the messages, sent a little shiver down my spine.

It’s comforting to know that someone cared (enough) to buy a card, write out a message, buy stamps and actually then take it to a post-box or post office and mail it. In today’s hectic, wired world, where no-one seems to have enough time for anyone else anymore, or has the attention span of a nano-second, for me, that small gesture speaks volumes.

Actions do indeed speak louder than words.

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