There were two reasons that made me hesitate coming to South Africa.  Batman was one, but it came out here a week after the US release, so that was not that bad.  The second was Lollapalooza.  Two days ago I was talking to someone from Houston about how much fun the festival was and how we were both missing what seems to be a great time this year.  Then I realized that I was on a day-long wine tour in South Africa and I knew I couldn’t complain about the choice I made.  Anyways, for those back in chicago, Stereogum has a good set of MP3’s from the bands playing there.  Every other music blog should have pictures and posts about Lolla too though.

Alright I did decently good at this quiz but I challenge anyone to beat my 8 right 6 wrong score.

And here’s another quiz about identifying candy bars, the fat kid in my got 13 out of 20. (I predict Joan being much more of a fat kid will get a higher score.)

So I know we all have our favorite Christopher Walken moments, from Pulp Fiction to Poolhall Junkies, from the Fatboy Slim video to countless SNL skits.  But I would have to argue that this one is a chart topper. 

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4166/saturday-night-live-raft-captain

(sorry, i cant fancy embed things like everyone else)

 Here’s a really funny list of songs that some dude decided to call people out on. Even if you don’t agree with some of them it’s worth a read to catch all the slang vocabulary words that he uses. I definitely plan on using the likes of: “deez nuts” and “gunt.“