April 2007 Archives

If you haven't seen the lineup announced today for the FRIGGIN' SPECTACULAR Virgin Festival 2007 in Baltimore, let me save you the time of having to look it up. (Especially awesome artists appear in bold because I felt like it.)

Aug. 4
* The Police
* Beastie Boys
* Modest Mouse
* Incubus
* TV On The Radio
* LCD Soundsystem
* Fountains Of Wayne
* Peter Bjorn and John
* Sasha and John Digweed
* The Fratellis
* Danny Tenaglia
* Amy Winehouse
* Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
* Sander Van Doorn
* Shout Out Out Out Out
* Cheap Trick
* Felix Da Housecat
* Paolo Nutini
* Booka Shade
* Miguel Migs
* Fiction Plane

Aug. 5
* The Smashing Pumpkins
* 311
* Interpol
* Yeah Yeah Yeahs
* Velvet Revolver
* Chris Cornell
* The Crystal Method
* Wu Tang Clan
* Matisyahu
* Girl Talk
* Bad Brains
* Deep Dish
* Regina Spektor
* Spoon
* Dieselboy and Andy C
* M.I.A.
* Infected Mushroom
* CSS
* James Zabiela

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I heard Will Ferrell released this video this week, and, being a huge Ferrell fan, immediately went to YouTube to find it. After a few views, I can't quite decide what I think of it. I definitely find the concept funny, but there is something disturbing about seeing it carried out. I don't know ... anyway, I'm interested to hear what other people think. I could go either way.

As someone who grew up watching the play-by-play ice skating dramas of Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, I couldn't help but enjoy the new film "Blades of Glory."

Will Ferrell and the guy from "Napoleon Dynamite" are rival male skaters who become a reluctant couple so they can compete in the pairs division. It's goofy. It's exaggerated. It's probably nowhere near the reality of professional ice skating (or is it?). Still, it's an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours on a weekend evening.

I wonder what local ice skaters think of the film? I know that professional skaters, like those who study ballet, are very serious about what they do. Do they also have a sense of humor?

Did you miss a prequel to a sequel that will hit the silver screen soon?

How about "Pirates of the Caribbean," "Harry Potter" or that movie with with the hills and eyes? It's tough to get into a sequel when the prequel plot is a little fuzzy.

Well, Blockbuster to the rescue. There is a section at most stores that has a wall where prequels to movies with sequels coming out are kept all together.

In all honesty, this wall could have been up for the past year, and I wouldn't have noticed. (Not much of a movie rental person.) Anyway, the place where I discovered it was at the Blockbuster Video at 2196 White St. in York.

The folks over at Sovereign Bank Stadium have announced the first non-baseball entertainment at the new York Revolution home. July 2 will see fireworks and a performance by the York Symphony Orchestra, and Aug. 26 will be called Faith and Family Day and feature a concert by Christian rock band NewSong.

This is good news and all, but it's important to note that both of these events are attached to actual ball games. You want to hear YSO? Buy a ticket to that game. Same goes for NewSong. I guess they're testing the waters over there to see if they get a boost in ticket sales on those game days to show that people really do want to see other forms of entertainment there. I know I do.

Wednesday, I discovered Google.

Well, not really. I mean, I use it every day at work. But we had a presentation here in the office about RSS feeds and learned how you can get them on your Yahoo or Google home page or Web browser (and other ways that I now forget).

My Web broswer is too out-of-date for RSS, so I created a Google account.

And so the door opened into a wonderful world of organizational paradise at my fingertips...

This is definitely worth a look.

Nobody ever said Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was a normal dude, but news that he snorted his father's ashes sort of takes his weirdness to a whole new level.

After a bit of debate here at the office, we decided that it probably was disrespectful to snort any loved one's remains. But being the morbid and disrespectful bunch that we are, well, discussion quickly turned to other potential uses for the urn-bound.

Like, for instance, fertilizer for the garden.
Or, maybe adding a unique smoky flavor to your next barbecue.
The jokes disintegrated from there. We figured we should turn the debate over to you all.

What do you think is the best use for your loved one's ashes?

Word on the street has it that to celebrate Easter, WTPA 93.5-FM will be "resurrecting" famous dead musicians, playing off that whole resurrection theme of Easter. Makes sense, right? I'm sure this won't offend ANY religious folk at all.

One of the things I hate most in life is when products are sold encased in a specially molded sheath of plastic that is virtually indestructible and practically guaranteed to leave anyone who messes with it scratched, swearing, bleeding and frustrated beyond imagination.

This time, I lucked out. Only three of four. (Managed to avoid the bleeding part by using scissors and a pen)