Rock Star alter egos are growing in numbers "You're forming a fake band -- that's what you do," says Sadri, calling the game "the best part of karaoke, adding in a drummer and guitars."
The Magpie Developer Jeff Atwood is one of the best programmer/writers around. I love reading his stuff, some I agree wholeheartedly with, other stuff we disagree, but this post is about a dead-on as they come. This idea has been floating in my head for a long time, but it is hard for me to conceptualize it in words, Atwood does a brilliant job at it. Must read for any developer.
Andy Olmsted's Last Blog Entry. (Warning: Pretty rough) No matter how you feel politically about the war, this reminds you that each number people throw around as statistics is a human life. This is extremely well written, and pretty rough on your soul towards the end, but something everyone should read. Its a shitty situation all around, but there is always a human face behind the statistics and I want to make sure I never forget that.
To preserve his body during the voyage home, the second-in-command stored Nelson's body in the ship's vat of rum and halted all liquor rations to the crew. Not a bad idea, but when the ship reached port, officials went to retrieve Nelson's body and found the vat dry.
Disregarding good taste (in every sense), the crew had been secretly drinking from it the entire way home. After that, naval rum was referred to as Nelson's Blood.
making vodka pills in 24 hours Recently, Chef Fabian was experimenting further with the Adria/Torreblanca technique of making 'vodka pills.' I use this word to describe the process of making liquid-filled candies by pouring flavored alcohol syrups into cornstarch and letting it set until a hard outer shell forms.
Strategy Letter VI - joelonsoftware.com As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play drums in a rock and roll band, and in either case, your program would run faster. Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.
Entire Article is Dead On. A must read for anyone in the software biz.
What if, instead of burning up minutes on your cellphone plan, you could make free or cheap calls over the wireless networks that allow Internet access in many coffee shops, airports and homes?
New phones coming on the market will allow just that.
Instead of relying on standard cellphone networks, the phones will make use of the anarchic global patchwork of so-called Wi-Fi hotspots. Other models will be able to switch easily between the two modes.
The phones, while a potential money-saver for consumers, could cause big problems for cellphone companies. They have invested billions in their nationwide networks of cell towers, and they could find that customers are bypassing them in favor of Wi-Fi connections. The struggling Bell operating companies could also suffer if the new phones accelerate the trend toward cheap Internet-based calling, reducing the need for a standard phone line in homes with wireless networks.
I loathe Fox News, I have not watched it in awhile, but a friend emailed me this and it does make me laugh.
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"bloody and gruesome"???? Aren't these the same people who show all of the dead soldiers and Iraqi's? I seem to recall them showing a beheading at one point. Well if they can't take a joke, F'em. The actual video is hilarious though. At one point they're cutting through the chain with a hacksaw or something and a random New Yorker stops to freaking help them steal the bike. Lets go Yankee's.
"As if executing a cosmic air kiss, Earth and Mars will come as close as they desire in the wee hours of Wednesday during an historical event that has captivated the attention of skywatchers around the globe.
The two planets will be separated by 34,646,418 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) at 5:51 a.m. ET (1051 GMT) on Aug. 27.
Not since the Neanderthals shared this planet with early humans have the two worlds been so close."
Amazingly interesting website. For those that don't understand why it is so amazing, it is because someone in Israel created this website so that Lebanese Citizens could submit information about Hezbollah via the web (with the utmost goal of targeting the correct places and not civilians in Lebanon with Israeli military). From how I am interpreting this website, it is not Gov't sanctioned and is ran by citizens of Israel. Not that i don't think it is actually a good plan (I assume Military Intel Gathering is probably much like Business Marketing, any information/publicity is better than none). Here is what pops into my head when seeing this:
1.) Much like many things on the web, the person who put this up believes in the sanctity of the information provided. (ie. who doesn't think Hezbollah is smart enough to submit false info via this shiny interface)?
2.) It is forward thinking and creates a statement for both Israel and it citizens. It creates a statement on many fronts.
3.) It circumvents many news agencies (where it will inevitable get spun) by using viral marketing and word of mouth/blog circulation. (maybe even giving it more credibility?)
4.) It shows a different way that war can be waged on the internet (exempt of hacking).
5.) I would love to see the response (and IPs that have been recorded, tracerouted, to certain originating countries) that this gets.
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This image of a peppercorn and a grain of salt taken by David McCarthy is the overall winner (and close-up category winner) in this year's Visions of Science Photographic Awards.
Very very cool pic. Check out the full version by clicking to pic to go to the BBC site.
GEORGE: See, this should be a show. This is the show.
JERRY: What?
GEORGE: This. Just talking.
JERRY: (dismissing) Yeah, right.
GEORGE: I'm really serious. I think that's a good idea.
JERRY: Just talking? Well what's the show about?
GEORGE: It's about nothing.
JERRY: No story?
GEORGE: No forget the story.
JERRY: You've got to have a story.
GEORGE: Who says you gotta have a story? Remember when we were waiting for,
for that table in that Chinese restaurant that time? That could be a TV
show.
Bobafred and a couple of other Atlanta area bloggers have a pretty cool alternative media project which debuted this week. Go check it out over at liftlift.tv , totally worth it. I am eager to see where it leads. Kudos to the editor also.
Before this CD I guess technically they were 6, now with Cut Chemist gone I guess they really are 5. But Man after listening to this once through, 5 works damn well. I have a feeling this will be much more infectious than Power in Numbers was. This is awesome. Highlights for me are: In the House, and Red Hot. The Dave song isn't bad, just not the best.
Jurassic 5 - Feedback
We bought these tix a few months back when Chastain announced the show (a little later than they announced their summer schedule package). I was excited to actually get to see Guster in a larger venue and eager to see if they would pack the place which is a step up from the normal Athens/Atlanta area venues they play. I think around 4k/5k people were at this show. I am sure that the double billing with Ray LaMontagne brought in a bunch of people also.
LaMontagne opened, was kind of a disappointment. I really love Trouble, and I don't think there a bad song on the album. LaMontagne played about 6 songs off this album and 2 from a new album which I believe will be coming out in late August. He seemed fairly charismatic, I don't know if it was the oppressive heat, or just not enough riffing with the bandmates, but all the songs sounded EXACTLY as they are on the CD with no variation. There are a lot of people that enjoy this, but I personally don't. I like to see some variety, sometimes it can erk me when it just doesn't sound good, but I love a good jam band, and I also love it when a band slows something down and create something new with a song. After seeing LaMontagne i don't think I would ever pay to see him solo unless it was at a much smaller (read: BAR) venue. It seems like you need to see him in a setting like that after hearing his part of the show.
Guster was as good as Guster always is. They are just the definition of a band that gets the crowd into the show. I think they may have actually surpassed DMB (for me personally) as the band that dialogues with the audience to a large degree and switches stuff up based on how the audience is giving the band feedback. Ryan the lead singer had multiple dialogs with the audience in which he repeated that he was majorly weirded out about the all the wine and cheese eaters at the tables surrounding the stage, and commented about the lavish flower arrangements people had brought in. He also must have been really into food at some point (or still is) because he asked the crowd to bring him something to eat at one point, and there was a ton of food brought on stage and he was rolling off the names of foreign dishes and french cheeses like it was old news to him.
The setlist was pretty big (maybe 20 songs) which spanned all 5 albums, which was great. Although I enjoy the new album I really like the older, more up beat, songs of Gold Fly and Lost and Gone Forever. I was really hoping for the old school bongo cover of Killing the Name of, but alas it seems that might only be a college memory. If you have never seen Guster live, then the next best thing is to poke around the Live Music Archive and pull some live shows or grab some of the better recorded ones off iTunes. They simply rock live.
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Bastard, I'm jealous you got to see guster. Was it full band with a bass player and all that or was it just the guitars and the bongos?
I was at the concert too... my first time at Chastain, but my 5th or 6th time seeing Guster. Ray was good, but his set was definitely too short and a little interaction with the crowd couldn't have hurt either. Guster was awesome... not my -favorite- show from them, but they never disappoint when you see them live.
it's official, The Smashing Pumpkins are currently writing songs for their upcoming album, their first since 2000. no release date has yet been set, but the band plans to begin recording this summer.
One of the best song writers ever in my opinion, now back with one of the best bands ever. I hope it is as good as I want it to be.
SMASHING PUMPKINS
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I literally have Siamese Dream in my CD changer in my car right now. One of the best albums ever made, in my opinion. SP used to be my favorite group, but fell to the wayside with their later albums. I hope this one is a return to the beginning of their career.
"They first interacted in the mid-90's, on a rainy night in Athens, Ga., back when Burton was still an unknown telecommunications student at the University of Georgia. Goodie Mob was playing a show with OutKast, and there was a local talent contest to see who would serve as the opening act. Burton enlisted a few friends and created an ad hoc group dubiously dubbed Rhyme & Reason. They placed second in the contest, but they still got to perform at the show. Afterward, Burton gave Cee-Lo a CD of music he had been working on, because he knew Cee-Lo's tastes went outside the normal parameters of rap."
"He knew I liked Portishead," Cee-Lo said. "That was our unspoken bond. When he told me he dug Portishead, that was all I needed to know."
Considering the consciously genre-defying construction of "St. Elsewhere," it might seem almost paradoxically predictable that the druggy, suicidal soundscapes of a white British trip-hop act served as the foundation for a musical relationship between two black guys in Georgia. "When I played my music for Cee-Lo," Burton says, "he moved his body in the way I imagined this music was supposed to make people react. So I thought, Maybe I've found the singer for these songs."
#1. It totally cracks me up that CNN thinks this is news, much less a cover story. How bout some real news...
#2. It was neat hearing 2 world leaders talk so candidly
#3. It make me like Bush more (ever so slightly, mind you).
CNN.com - Bush caught off-guard in chat with Blair - Jul 17, 2006
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Did you see what Juan Cole thought of it? I agreed with his assessment http://www.juancole.com/2006/07/bush-lean-on-syria-i-cobbled-bush.html#comments
"Casing for the movie has now been completed with Kiefer Sutherland assuming voicing duties for Raistlin Majere. Sutherland is of course best known as Jack Bauer from TV`s '24', however he also has a string of acclaimed movie roles to his credit. Sutherland joins a voice cast which includes Lucy Lawless ('Xena: Warrior Princess') as Goldmoon, Michael Rosenbaum ('Smallville') as Tanis Half-Elven, and Michelle Trachtenberg ('Buffy the Vampire Slayer') as Tika Waylan, for the animated movie adaptation of 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight'.
Other significant roles in the film include:
Fred Tatasciore (Flint Fireforge)
Rino Romano (Caramon Majere)
Jason Marsden (Tasslehoff Burrfoot)
Mark Worden (Sturm Brightblade)"
I think that everyone who is reading this lives in an extremely pivotal point in human history. I am sure that every thinker since the dawn of man has always considered their lifetime of their generation as the generation ushering in the most change, so I have no delusions that I might not be alone (throughout history) but the last 15 years have no doubt ushered in an era of communication between people all over the world, or the human race. The reason that I think this time period is so neat is because we are living in what is essentially the wild west period of the internet. I am sure that over the next 5 - 10 years, with the onslaught of DRM, and state mandated internet activity monitors and this lawless town that is the internet will get sheriff's and a formal over site system and become a regular town. I honestly think that we will see little things like this that remind us all that there is beauty is the ability for anyone anywhere being able to speak there mind, but hurry and read the thread (most notably Dovster (Israel) and BEYFlyer (Beirut)) and the exchange of words between them and the world community at large (on a Frequent Flier Miles website for that matter). You better hurry and read it quick though, because like their governments the thread will soon be hijacked by people on the outer ends of the spectrum from both governments and it will turn into all out message board war (just like their countries). This thread should be saved somewhere and posted on the wall of every world leader.
FlyerTalk scoops the world with news report!
Yet if Reed does win, these analysts add, that could potentially hurt incumbent Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue, who's favored to win re-election in the fall. While candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run separate campaigns in Georgia, Democrats would obviously try to link Reed -- and Abramoff -- to Perdue. "Reed puts a whole new dynamic in the race," says InsiderAdvantage's Towery.
It is amazing to me that Ralph Reed's connections to Abramoff that he would have even ran in this election. I don't think he has one ounce of "family values" that he claims to have and he sure as hell isn't getting my vote, but I was interested in the connection (at least that is perceived) in this article. I am a big fan of Sonny, but I never would have connected a Reed win to Sonny's campaign.
It is interesting to see our local elections on a National Stage
Ralph Reed, Jack Abramoff and a plan for "mortgaging old black people"Texas Tribe Sues Reed, Abramoff Over Casino CrusadeRalph Reed and the gospel truth
Some of the American characters on NBC's The Office are going to come face-to-face with their British alter-egos! American executive producer Ben Silverman says next season we can expect to see Mackenzie Crook, who played Gareth; Martin Freeman, who played Tim; and Lucy Davis, who played Dawn on the American version of the show. These are essentially the alter egos to Dwight, Jim, and Pam. I think I'm most excited to see Dwight butt heads with militaristic Gareth, but I know my heart will be torn between Jim and Tim!
Weirdness. I loved the BBC version much more than the US version, but the US version is insanely funny. Wonder how this will work out. Will Pam fall for Jim? Will Tim go for Dawn? Will Dawn and Pam's boyfriends find some homoerotic moment in the warehouse?
British cast to appear on American version of The Office - TV Squad
I won't pretend that the Syd Barrett Era of Floyd was my favorite. I enjoyed Piper at the Gates, still that time period of Floyd was good music, just not my favorite Floyd Music. The "Kinks" ish sounds kinda ended after Barrett left and then Floyd migrated to that ethereal Waters/Gilmour sound on concept albums (Dark Side of the Moon, Atome Heart Mother, etc) which was the enjoyable stuff for me. I once heard Shine on You Crazy Diamond (parts 1 -7 :) was a song about how Barrett went a little off his rocker at one point, either due to the excess of LSD from the Piper/Saucerful of Secrets Era or something and they wrote about it. But I will always remember a quote I heard from one of the band mates after Barrett left who said that he would try to brush his teeth by jumping up and down and holding the tooth brush still. I am sure he an eventful life.
I was going to post this on the left hand side under interesting links, but it is pretty interesting graphic.
It is an animated map of the obesity problem in America. What is so surprising to me is that it is such a new phenomenon. The map only starts in 1980.
Obesity in America
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I can assure you that the Obesity problem has been around before 1980 but the CDC didn't start concerning themselves with it until 1980. It's pretty evident to me what the causes are. The types of jobs that people have now are increasingly less active, fast food is a staple in a lot of diets, no one is really willing to get off their asses and exercise, etc. The big concern to me is childhood obesity. The parents aren't around and the kid isn't going to eat right by his/herself. I see new diabetes cases everytime I go into a doctors office. It's scary. What's more scary is the people who won't do anything to control it.
Take me, I am 6'4 and about 220 lbs. My BMI is 26.8, which is considered overweight. I have about 9% body fat.
Weight lifting and exercise has become a bigger part of our culture in the last 20 years. BMI does not distinguish between good weight and bad weight.
Another problem is this: where do these statistics come from? If I am not mistaken, they come from patient data at doctors offices rather than a random representative survey of America. We can assume that obesity and poor health are highly correlated, so a higher percentage of fatties are going to the doctor and are over-represented in the BMI data.
Having said all that, BMI is probably a fairly good first approximation of our country's fattitude, but I would only consider it a rough estimate at best. The map was neat though.
Under all of my obesity is a tight and ripped body of steel. This is something the report missed. Just because I carry a few extra pounds on my body doesn't mean that I'm not healthy. I do it to protect my muscles and to keep my marriage safe. If I were in great shape it wouldn't be fair to the women of the world and it wouldn't be fair to my wife. I'm just trying to do what's right.
MC, I've always hated that damned BMI bull. I'm with you there. It has never considered lean mass. Ever since the first time I've caclulated my BMI I've been around the 24-26 range. According to the powers that be I've been overweight all my life. Hell I was even overweight when I was 5% bodyfat. I'm really suprised that someone hasn't come out with another way of determining obesity.
Or maybe I just want to be able to see my favorite bands without some inebriated douchebag loudly and violently humping the monitor speakers during quiet songs in a cloud of his own cologne.
In theory, anyone who�s passionate about music�whether a genre or a specific band�is also passionate about that music reaching a wider audience. But they�re actually not: they�re passionate with qualifiers. When I say that I want as many people as possible to like my favorite bands, what I actually mean is that I want as many people as possible to like my favorite bands for the right reasons�not necessarily my reasons�but the right ones (whatever they are). Or maybe what I actually mean is that I want as many people as possible to support my favorite bands; I only want these people to go to shows for the right reasons.
This is a supurb read.
I would be lying if I said I didn�t go through a faze of listening to music just to hear the next big thing. I still have the same tenacity in finding new artists to listen to, but I do it solely for the pleasure of hearing something new now. This is most certainly because I am no longer in college, and no long live in one of the best places to listen to local music.
I live about an hour outside Atlanta, and although we do go into the city to see concerts and bands, or nights when I don�t get home from work till 7 or 8, it is much harder to get dressed and load back up to head back to Atlanta. We were 10 mins away usually from great venues in Athens, and if anyone ever came into town that I had even heard of might be good, me and D would try to go. (And sometimes record it).
Unfortunately though now real life has caught up, and Lindz is very good about going with me to see bands that are not necessarily playing large venues (and a lot of times she tells me about the shows before I even realize the band is playing here). I just know that if I am going to be paying $20 + a 50% ticketbastard markup then I want to make sure I am going to be able to get to the show and stay for the entire thing. So it majorly pisses me off if the crowd is lame, I know it is entirely selfish, and I know I was one of those people at some point in my life, but it just gets old after a while, even sooner after you have spent $70 on the evening. Every now and then we happen upon some gems, where the act isn�t huge yet and the music is splendid and the ticket price is reasonable or below reasonable, and the artist actually comes out to meet people after the show. Those are the best shows and the ones that no matter how many more times you see the artists, you will always remember, and if you are lucky get to hear again.
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First off, I miss Athens. And even though you sort of complain about going to shows in Atlanta, at least you have the opportunity to hear new music. I've seen some great shows down here but in the 4 years I've been in SoFla I've seen maybe 3. And those shows I had tickets weeks in advance. I haven't stumbled onto anything down here. There is one radio station that doesn't play top 40 or reggaeton. I can't wait to get back to Atlanta. Dealing with lame ass crowds is just an unfortunate part of going to shows. I hate the fanboys and fangirls just as much as the next guy. I just can't wait to return to good music. I miss Athens.
But this service is now going to go through the internet* and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.
Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.
So you want to talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes.
We aren't earning anything by going on that internet. Now I'm not saying you have to or you want to discrimnate against those people [�]
The regulatory approach is wrong. Your approach is regulatory in the sense that it says "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet". No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time. [�]
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
This guy is 1 of the 100 elected to make decisions for all of us about technology regulation for the entire United States.
Wow. We are in good hands.
I might just have to write him an internet about this.
L. Bob Rife would have been proud.
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Not only is he 1 of the 100 law makers in the Senate, but he's 4th in line for the presidency...
Mostly due to the fact that he's a crotchity old man (president pro tempore of the Senate).
I consider myself a conservative (if you read this blog regularly over the last few years you might wonder why), but here is a perfect example:
It is a sad, sad July 4th when the people that we elect are more worried about something like this, than something like this.
I love this country, but sometimes it's elected leadership boggles my mind.
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It's like I always say:
The party in power is always corrupt, while the minority party is always crazy.
I think that the second matter is being reviewed and that our elected leadership should let the right people deal with the matter. Sometimes you just need to believe in something good and that religious persecution no matter how small should not be a reason to turn away from a problem. I think July 4th is a day to remember the good things about our country and try to honor those that have given everything to keep it free and not dwell on bad things. At least for one day. Just my thought.
I agree that the second matter is being dealt with (and at a pretty swift manner), I won't play the 'what ifs' to say it could have been avoided. I do wish I had your positive faith in the current set of elected officials (not limited to a certain party) anon.
But the truth is I don't.
Don't get me wrong, I still had a great forth (I didn't sit all day in bed and dream of a better leadership). This was just something I noted, and was a fairly extreme ends of the spectrum. There seem to be many many other pressing issues that our leadership needs to work on besides changing a PG rating to a G rating on a movie (regardless of religious content).
I did spend all day in bed on the fourth, but it was because the sickness got ahold of me. I think your on point.
I didn't find any joy in celebrating the fourth of July though as things currently stand. I am a human before I am an American, and what we are doing overseas is revolting to me as a human being. I personally find it tacky to superficially celebrate our ideals and freedoms while we work to compromise those ideals abroad. I am not asking anyone to come with me, that is just how I feel. (Which, if you still read my blog Eric, would explain my post on the 4th.)
Brian Burton was born in White Plains, New York; he spent much of his childhood in Spring Valley, New York and lived in Athens, Georgia for a long time where his electronica work was released under the name Pelican City. He also re-mixed work by several local artists, including Neutral Milk Hotel. From 1998 to 2003 Burton also created a series of remix CDs and records under the stage name Danger Mouse (inspired by the British cartoon series DangerMouse).
Burton's first original releases under the name Danger Mouse were his collaborations with rapper Jemini, including the album Ghetto Pop Life, released in 2003 on Lex Records. While the Danger Mouse debut was well received by critics, he did not rise to fame until he created The Grey Album, mixing a cappella versions of Jay Z's The Black Album over beats crafted from samples of The Beatles' White Album. The remix album, originally created just for his friends, spread over the internet and became very popular with both the general audience and critics, with Rolling Stone calling it "the ultimate remix record"[2] and Entertainment Weekly ranking it the best record of the year.[3] Danger Mouse was also named among the Men of the Year by GQ in 2004 and won the 2005 Wired Rave Award.[4]
Travis - The Boy With No Name Travis is back. I wouldn't say I hated 12 memories, it was meant to be very political, I just thought it went a little overboard and was somewhat preachy. Then when the greatest hits CD came out to be honest I was really hoping it didn't mean the end to one of my favorite brit bands. Boy With No Name is everything they were capable of. Supurb CD all the way through. Every song is brilliant. Big Chair is probably my favorite song and the opening to the CD on 3 Times is as good as it gets in music imho.
Pop! Why Bubbles are Great For The Economys (Gross) One of the better economic books I have read in while, where the author gets their premise across in a well written, clear and concise manner. Basically Gross believes that the infrastructure left over after economic bubbles, provides companies with the ability to move forward (maybe more than the original bubble did). Not a hard read, I would definitely suggest it for a day and the beach/lake.
Feist - The Reminder I CANNOT GET "I feel it all" OUT OF MY HEAD. Period. Great album, angelic voice.
Catan - Xbox Live Arcade I am hopelessly addicted to this board-turned-video game on the xbox360. I had never played the board game but had seen it being played in some comic shops growing up. Click the Pick and play the demo, it isn't the 360 interface, but same game.
Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worse Nightmare No Sophomore slump here. Just as good (if not better) than Whatever they Say.
Beautiful Evidence (Tufte) Tufte reads like a text book, most people would say bleh, but the information about "information" that he can deliver is top notch. My first Tufte book was "A Visual Display To Quantitative Information" and it was extremely well done, albeit confusing at time. I think beautiful Evidence is a little easier of a read (I am still only half way through it) and a little easier for myself to understand the ideas he is presenting..
Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather Fountains of Wayne are the Gods of pop music. If Welcome Interstate Managers was a collection of short stories in song form, then Traffic and Weather is an even better collection with more humor. I already feel like CNN has the hottest female anchors, imagining them throwing their lust around like the Title track to the CD makes it even better.
Game of Thrones (Martin) I started this book assuming it was going to be a high fantasy novel. Elfs, Dragons, Magic and the like. It isn't. It IS fantasy but more surrounding the politics and cunning of a few high ranking families. Incest, Murder, Intrigue, unscrupulous midgets. It has it all and more.
