• Is this thing on?

    Kings of Leon’s new cd just came out the other day.  Their promo for it apparently is hating on hipsters and Iron Chef.

    Cold War Kids got a new song!

    My Morning Jacket played on Letterman for an hour before the show and with the Roots on Jimmy Fallon the other day. Nothing new, just their hits.

    Tracy Morgan and Chris Rock as Simon Garfunkel?

    Matterpus informed me that one of my favorite rappers, Rhymefest, is running for Alderman of the 20th ward of Chicago. Definitely makes more sense than Wyclef running for President of Haiti or Akon running for president of Senegal.

    The best news is from Mike, allegedly U2 and Danger Mouse! and then David Guetta? Fuck yeah?!

  • Shameless in Chicago

    Shameless is a BBC dramedy about a down-and-out family trying to survive with a hopelessly disappointing albatross of a father.  I didn’t like it that much, but there are a few people that read this blog really liked it.  There is funny moments, but they were sometimes hard to laugh at when they are amidst such depressing things and undecipherable British-slang.  Well it was/is popular enough that it is now getting the Office treatment and getting remade on Showtime for an American audience (it looks like even a sometimes shot for shot remake judging from the trailer).  It is now being set in Chicago and starring William H. Macy; nice to see is he getting a role that isn’t the dopey soft-spoken pushover.  Showtime’s marketing is pretty good in tricking me into watching their shows, so I will probably end up watching a few of the shows.  Sorry to get all Maureen Ryan there, but check out the trailers below and see what you think:

    British:

    American:

  • This is for all the ladies out there.

    I know I was warned about posting on the same day but I thought this was worth it. Via Cracked.com

    Housework Can Protect You From Breast Cancer

    We completely realize this sounds like a fake study invented by some douchebags sitting around in a bar. That’s not the case, as far as we can tell.
    A link between physical activity and protection from all kinds of diseases has been known for years in the medical community, right alongside the mind-blowing connection between breathing and not being dead. But in a UK study destined to be quoted by every Cheeto-eating jackass misogynist in the world until the end of days, the type of activity that protected women the most from breast cancer wasn’t sports or manual labor, but moderate housework.

    The 2006 UK Cancer Research study on more than 200,000 women from nine European countries found that the women who spent 16 to 17 hours a week doing typical household chores like cooking or cleaning had a 20 percent reduced chance of developing breast cancer. And that’s just with menopausal patients. The risk of breast cancer in women younger than 50 who also did a moderate amount of housework was 30 percent lower than in the women who didn’t.

    In fact, housework was found to be more beneficial toward the prevention of breast cancer than exercise or holding down a physical job.

    The research of course doesn’t argue that housework has innate magical healing properties, nor does it suggest that you stop exercising or going to work. But combining those activities with the kind of sustained light exercise you get from daily chores is what did the trick. So keep that in mind the next time you spend 45 minutes shampooing beer out of the living room curtains.

    Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18795_6-habits-you-didnt-know-were-keeping-you-alive_p2.html#ixzz12MKcx7i2

  • L&O: R&B… &ElectroHouse

    I like when the plot of a Law & Order show is stretched to incorporate their new endeavor, like when Jerry Orbach was the uncle of a new cop with the special victims unit in L&O: SVU or, in a recent L&O:SVU, when Liv has to go to Los Angeles and work with Skeet Skeet to promote L&O: LA.  It goes to show the amount of care/effort into the new franchises to get people on the show.  Objection. Relevancy!?

    Well the reason that I bring it up was that I jamming out to the amazing song in the first couple seconds of that first episode and discovered Make the Girl Dance.  Two french djs that sound influenced or just from the same electro “scene” as Justice and Ed Banger Records. Check out the video for Baby, Baby, Baby, or this video that got me hooked on them, Kill Me:

    French Electro music isn’t your scene? I couldn’t decide if it was worth its own post, but Solomon Burke just passed away. If you are unfamiliar with how amazing of a singer he was, just check out the music from other blogs’ tributes to him. He co-wrote “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love.” Another favorite is his cover of “Maggie’s Farm.”

  • Lunchbreak!

    photobomb

    So I know neither of the people in the foreground. But thus is the art of the photobomb. I daresay Joan may even be proud of this.

    Yesterday was my first dose of NFL RedZone, where you are cut to every game that has a team in the redzone, is threatening, just scored, on a 2 minute drive, etc. Ideally, you see every touchdown from every game, even if its split screen. Oh yeah, and without commericals. Like NPR for meatheads. Needless to say, I was a zombie yesterday. The best is when there’s a lull of like 3-4 minutes, they put on a montage of every touchdown thus far that day; I think thats the video on the home page of the link above.

    This, however, did not help my fantasy team, the Bitch Hunters, which is now 0-5-0 with Joseph Addai out. But, my buddy Brock did show me KissingSuzyKolber.com. Its a blog dedicated to the NFL. And however dorky that sounds, or he sounds in his posts, just remember what website you are reading this on. He really hates Chicago quarterbacks, be it his joy in Cutler\’s sacks, or these hilarious commentaries from the Sex Cannon, Rex Grossman.

    The dude also loves memes, a word i just found the definition for on Google Dictionary. Cigar Guy is my absolute favorite. There’s this cool picture where Tiger hits the cameraman at the Ryder Cup. Neat, but the guy with headdress and cigar is hard to un-notice after someone telling you. So, the internet gave him the Neil treatment. and may I go so far as to request Neil in the same get-up?

    Hulu said I’d like this new cast member on SNL’s Denzel impersonation. They were right. Jay Pharoah is apparently pretty damn good.  But I gotta start gettin to class. We learn how champagne is made today in Hort!