Via Pop Candy, comes graffiti artist Blu.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Just like John Mayer’s ability to fluctuate the like-ability scale, the Foo Fighters manage to put out a decent song every once in a while and do something hilarious to keep me from not liking them anymore. The latest thing is from Stereogum, via gawker, via…. Anyways, its the Foo Fighters rider list, which is a list of things that a band requires of it promoter when it comes to a venue. There is a little rant about bacon that says “Bacon, I call it ‘god’s currency.’ Hell, if it could be breathed, I would.” Check it out here. Its a personal goal of mine to wrap a oreo or a chips-a-hoy in bacon and then deep fry it.

Head to Smoking Gun to check out some great other tour riders too. Rolling Stones required a snooker table, which is not to be confused with a pool table. Van Halen are famously know for requiring brown M&M’s, and actually refusing to play once when that wasn’t met. They are also very specific about their alcohol. I haven’t read that many, but another one is Britney’s Spears’ rider list includes a requirement of an “UNLISTED OUTGOING ONLY telephone” while also saying that “Publishing of this phone number and/or any incoming calls will result in a $5,000 fine payable by the promoter.”

Subway has always been one of my favorite sandwich shoppes (that’s old timey talk for shop).  But recently I feel that the sandwich’s they serve are going downhill.  I believe this all started when they decided to slice their bread differently.  If you can recall the bread used to be cut along the top in a “U” shape, allowing a nice little pocket for your assorted meats, cheeses and veggies.  This new “straight across the middle, but not quite all the way through” cut is ruining the dynamic of a once great sandwich!  It’s madness I tell you, MADNESS!  I probably could have gotten over the new way they slice bread but what I’m about to tell you is downright silly and might quite possibly jeopardize my return visits to Subway.  They are now putting the veggies on the BOTTOM of the sandwich.  What the hell is that?  As a former sandwich artist I find this insulting.  The proper order of ingredients is cheese, meat, veggies, condiments.  You can maybe mix up the cheese/meat order but under no circumstances should vegetables be on the bottom.  Now I have to eat my sandwich upside down…and I’m pissed because that really throws off my bread to meat ratio (because of the aforementioned new cut). I don’t know what this world is coming to, thank goodness Subway still has decent sized cups or they might be the new IHOP.   

Can’t think of anything interesting to post about, just don’t want the top post having “rape” in the title for more than a couple days.  It had its moment, now its time to move on.  Just for the sake of nostolgia, I have a video from an old sesame street.  With all the songs that have “walk” or “run” in the title,  this was the first song that I could think of when asked to get a list of songs for the Y-Me walk this weekend.

Also, via Pop Candy, remember Showbiz Pizza or Chuck E. Cheese Pizza?  Remember the Rock-aFire  Explosion, the animatronic band that played everyones birthday party there?  I didn’t, till I saw the video.  Anyway, there are people that collect the robot musicians from the band.  Here is a video of the band playing “Pop Lock and Drop It.”

Doctor Mooney has some more things worth checking out. It has a post with a couple songs from a Aretha Franklin album. It has a post about the new Black Keys album and an even newer song they posted on their myspace. If you haven’t given them a try yet, do. All You Ever Wanted is a pretty good track. Also, their first video for this album, Attack and Release, has them playing laser tag.
The main thing to check out on Doc Mooney’s is a post about the songs that McCartney and Lennon wrote but didn’t originally record. Songs are pretty good, but listen to Steve Miller Bands “My Dark Hour” its from a 1969 album called Brave New World. The riff of the song is unmistakably the same as “Fly Like An Eagle” from the album with the same name in 1976. Does this mean Steve reused a riff he and McCartney wrote seven years earlier. Does McCartney get credit/royalties for “Fly Like An Eagle?” Either way, its a good song and further proof that anything the Beatles touch turns to gold.