It's your window to weight gain!

Well, I read this story today. Seems like the folks at KFC take the "original recipe" pretty seriously. Personally, I don't see what the big deal is... I prefer Popeye's. So anyway, it reminded me of this scene from "So I married an Axe Murderer" that's pretty funny (taken from IMDb) See the picture below to get a look at the beady eyes for yourself.

Stuart Mackenzie: Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
Tony Giardino: So who's in this Pentavirate?
Stuart Mackenzie: The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, *and* Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee *beady* eyes, and that smug look on his face. "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"
Charlie Mackenzie: Dad, how can you hate "The Colonel"?
Stuart Mackenzie: Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass!

The zombies are everywhere

This weekend I heard mention of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies on NPR's quiz show "Wait, Wait, don't tell me" (which is actually a pretty funny show) and now today in Dinosaur Comics. Click here to hear the "Wait, Wait" bit about zombies. Click the link and then click "Bluff the listener" it's pretty funny.

"So ya thought ya might like to go to the show"

Yesterday, I was talking with Sarah about "The Wall". I had a song from the album in my head and couldn't remember which one it was. It turned out to be the first track of the album In the Flesh? The ablum was released before I was born so I don't really remember the first time I listened to the whole album, and learned it more by hearing the songs as singles. So my question is... when "The Wall" came out did people listening know how good the songs were? Did they hear them and think... "this song will be played on rock radio stations for years to come", or "someday my kids will know the words to these songs"? This is just one example of an influential album that I was thinking about. What about the the first time people "Sgt. Pepper's" or the "White Album" did they know?

So the question for you dear readers is, what album have you had this experience with or have you ever had it? A time when you remember where you were the first time you heard a CD and knew during that first listen that you were listening to something that would transcend generations and genres. I can remember getting a sense of that feeling with "Nevermind." I can think of a few other times too, but I'd like to hear your comments on the matter, even if you've never really had that sense or felt an initial listen to an album was going to be huge. Also when I say huge, that doesn't have to mean commercially successful. I'm more interested in the influence of the album either on other artists or even just on you as a person.

Don't get me started... oh, wait this time it's ok

It's easy to get me started on something... and sometimes that's a good thing. So I got an email from Grant about Sun Kil Moon, the guy with an album that has a lot of tracks about dead boxers. Anyway, I guess he wanted to hear some more of the tracks... and how could I deny him when he emailed me on his birthday? So today I'll tell you about Tiny Cities. So this album consists entirely of Modest Mouse covers. Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon) does a nice job of putting his own spin on the tracks, so the covers have a completely different type of music and feel. To show you what I mean, I put the first track I heard from this album (heard it playing on the impact back in 2005) onto the SPs. First, I put the Modest Mouse version with Sun Kil Moon version right after. I'm also putting up a poll to see which one people like better, so vote on that too.

"Local" NBA teams

I thought this was pretty interesting. I found it through the True Hoop blog on ESPN. I guess someone had a little spare time on their hands. Looks like the Detroit area team is not too bad.

great northern

great band from cal i saw recently in boulder. have 2 talented singers, a guy and a girl.
http://www.myspace.com/greatnorthern

Jane Austen is rolling in her grave...

or about to climb out of it to look for brains. Woot likes to have photoshop contests from time to time (they're usually pretty funny). So that's why they mention specifically that this is not a contest... but in fact a real book. Here's the link to the book, if you're too lazy to click my link to the woot article. Just had to throw the cover picture up too, in case you can't be bothered to click either of the two links above.