"Every week, Hype Monitor wades through the most buzzed-about bands all across the Internet. This week: a few choice picks from some buzzworthy acts.."

I spied this here; head over to Rolling Stone's Hype Monitor to read what they had to say.

It's definitely not at all bad.

It's really hard not to compare writing of this kind to Sedaris, who is just so fucking amazing and a creature unto himself...I think it's ultimately not at all fair to compare this to Sedaris. This is a first-time author in her late twenties with vastly less experience than Sedaris.

I mean, ultimately I'm reading the memoirs of another privileged twentysomething white girl who grew up in the NYC metro area. And by "another" I don't mean Crosley is one in a parade of such writers; I mean that she and I have similar backgrounds, at least as far as our race and gender and education and economic/social class are concerned. So there isn't the surprised delight I feel when I find I relate to someone writing about a life led in circumstances wholly or partly different from my own.

One of her stories does have quite a touching end, and I think it's the best of what the first 1/3 of the book has to offer. The story has to do with a mentally ill man who lives in her apartment building and insists upon taking his door off its hinges each and every time he enters his home. I think the quiet, lonely, haunting conclusion is quite powerful, as is the image of the humiliated man with downcast eyes, enduring the police's questioning after a mix-up over an unrelated 311 noise call.

In that moment, I quite admired her work, and it's more than enough to keep me reading.

Ultimately, I think many (not all--Frank Bruni, Rolling Stone's Kurt Loder, Richard Belzer, Ruth Reichl and Janet Maslin come to mind as notable exceptions, and there are many others) professional critics are people who wanted to do (write, cook, direct, dance, paint, sculpt, design, perform stand-up, act) but couldn't muster the talent or the fortitude or the luck to make it as a creator. Instead, they rely on their ability to heap praise or blame in prettily crafted sentences. The folks who wrote the film "Ratatouille" put this much better than I could, and at present I haven't the energy to dig up that speech.

And I think that it's just as important to note that critics who talk shit about a piece of art are about as reliable as critics who lavish praise on it. In general, your reviews are about who you know, who scratched your back first, whose back you would not be averse to scratching, who you want to win brownie points with, who you want to impress, where you went to college, whose client's administrative assistant your wife slept with after a big PR wine-and-dine-fest at Cipriani, and a bunch of other bullshit that has nothing to do with actual inherent "merit" of the work, because said merit is ultimate unknowable, unquantifiable, and unqualifiable.

Will I keep reading criticism? Yes. Will I keep expressing my opinions about art, onstage and in my humble little not-for-profit-or-any-kind-of-income-at-all Wordpress blog? Yes. Does that mean a whole hell of a lot of anything at all to anyone other than me? No.

In the end, I'm jealous of Sloane Crosley for getting a book published at such a young age and for having such shiny, shiny hair. But I'm also happy that she got said book published, because by all accounts she's a lovely and kind woman, and, FAR MORE IMPORTANTLY, I do see a real talent in her work. And I know how proud I and my family would be if I published a book, and I bet she and her folks feel the same.

So good for you, Sloane C.! I'm going to read the rest of your book.

According to the magazine article, Hyperborea was "a magical land free of disease and old age – in order to contemplate the end of the world. Or at least to contemplate the end of Greenland." Actually, the story concerned Greenland and its recent status as the region of the world where global warming is having the most immediate impact on climate change. The story was called "Greenland Melting: the End of the End of the World" and it was written by Mark Binelli. I was hooked from the first image of an ice crack on a snow plain, an image that looked like it had been Photoshopped from an image of that eco-disaster epic "The Day After Tomorrow."

My Rolling Stone with Barack Obama on the cover and the article in question arrived in my mailbox a few days after I received a friend invitation on my MySpace page from a young woman in Greenland, coincidentally. Her name is Nive, and in her mini-biography she noted that she is an (Inuit) Eskimo whose hometown is Nuut. This was pretty intriguing to me; none of my history teachers ever mentioned Greenland during my elementary or high school years. It turned out that Nive lived a rather charmed life and had the cool slideshow of her community and viral video of a New Year's Eve fireworks display to dispel any notions about her heritage. Fortunately, my RS featured a graphic illustration of the western coast of Greenland, and there was the coastal town of Nuut in the southwest corner.

After reading the story, I could vaguely imagine what Nive's life might be like. Pictures show her being pulled across the ice by a dozen or more sled dogs. A couple of frames trace eerie green phosphorescent Aurora Borealis images over a rooftop of a house. The structures in her town were painted colors like the ones used on rides at Legoland: azure blues, bright yellow, green, hot pink, nothing like Southern California's expanses of earth tone or gray tract homes where I live. She sings in a laid back, folky alto voice with a ukelele. In May, she visited California and indulged in a pastime I could completely relate to: browsing at record stores - real independent ones like Amoeba, not poseurs like Wal-Mart or Best Buy. When I first corresponded to Nive and told her that what I did for a living, she wrote back saying, "What is internet marketing?"

When I revisited the Greenland article late tonight, I had just finished watching the sci-fi film 2010 on HDNet that I'd recorded on my DVR. There it was again: Greenland, only this time it was a Russian spacecraft, the fictional Leonov, orbiting around Jupiter's icebound moon Europa. A probe was sent down into one of the moon's craters and that pesky obelisk from the better known Kubrick-directed space epic 2001: A Space Odyssey loomed in the distance. Hyperborea of the future, perhaps.

I had to take this series of happenstance connections to the end of the world to one more place. Out of my CD collection I pulled one of my favorite albums by Tangerine Dream. It's title was, you guessed it, Hyperborea. I didn't know what that title meant until I read the article. It certainly made sense. With one listen, I am transported back to an extremely tranquil memory. I had played the CD using my headphones on a connector flight many years ago out of Denver, Colorado. My wife Debbie and I were traveling back from one of our favorite vacation destinations, Williams Bay, Wisconsin. As we departed from Denver's International Airport in the late afternoon, we ascended into a dreamscape of thunderheads. I put on my headphones and let T-Dream lull me into a waking dream. As Hyperborea played, a massive storm cloud appeared to the west; one of the cloudtops looked almost exactly like the Eagle Nebula, only its colors were bronze, pink and light blue. There was no turbulence. It was blissful.

One of these days I hope to escape for an extended stay in Greenland. I want to see it before the oil and mining companies become permanent, highly polluting fixtures and the towns get overrun with cheap motels and McDonalds restaurants. Maybe I'll meet Nive, introduce her to my family, and possibly catch a glimpse of an Aurora Borealis. It would be cool to have someone like her work in one of my businesses like the Free Online Cash System, too. And you can bet I'll be taking my Hyperborea CD along for the ride. Who knows, maybe I'll watch the icebergs floating lazily in the bay from my Nuut hotel room window. It would make for a stunning view of the end of the world.

It's perfect.  Looking down, laughing, the flag lapel pin.  And the best part is the 4000 headlines that are not on the cover like they usually are.

Kudos, Rolling Stone.

(Now maybe I should go read the article.)

"I've got to say, having both Dylan and Bruce Springsteen say kind words about you is pretty remarkable. Those guys are icons.

Do you have any favorite Dylan songs?

I've got probably 30 Dylan songs on my iPod. I think I have the entire Blood on the Tracks album on there. Actually, one of my favorites during the political season is "Maggie's Farm." It speaks to me as I listen to some of the political rhetoric.

When did you begin to think you

By marrying online technology to grass-roots activism, Obama's brain trust mobilized 1.5 million donors, raised more than $250 million, derailed the Clinton juggernaut and built something new in Democratic politics. "The size and scale and sophistication of the Obama enterprise — it's like a multinational corporation compared to the mom-and-pop nonprofits of previous Democratic campaigns," says Simon Rosenberg, president of the progressive think tank NDN and a veteran of Bill Clinton's 1992 run. "And it isn't just bigger — it's a better model, it's more democratic, it taps into the power and passion of everyday people." [...]

Obama began this campaign with a clarity of purpose and a transformative vision for American politics. He wanted to be a game-changer. The team he built had little experience electing a president — and that was exactly the point. He assembled the next generation of stars — creative, diligent and, above all, hungry operatives who did not, like Clinton strategist Mark Penn, believe that they knew how to elect a president based on past successes. Far from being groomed or prodded into fitting someone else's mold of a candidate, Obama built his own team, one tailored to his strengths and capable of compensating for his weaknesses.

The man certainly deserves criticism for his waffling on FISA and his refusal to immediately stand by the full truth of Clark's criticism of McCain, but the fact remains that he is a whole new kind of Presidential candidate. He is not an utterly conventional Democrat.

He is changing the game, and it's fun to see. Definitely check out the full article from Rolling Stone.

* CLICK en la imágen para descargar el scan en máxima calidad *

Más info: http://www.rollingstone.com.ar/la-revista

Och på själva listan så är Volta med på plats 91:

91 "Drunkship of Lanterns"
The Mars Volta (2003)

The Mars Volta brought prog rock into the 21st century with this thrilling blast, and Omar Rodriguez Lopez announced himself as one of this decade's great young axmen, mixing Gang of Four riffs with Hendrix virtuosity, Latin rhythms and gallons of reverb.

It's lazy writing at best, and filler at worst. I don't care if it's by the publisher himself, the indomitable Jann S. Wenner, buyer-out of Disney. I love the cover photo of Barack Obama looking happy and bashful, with only the mailing label obscuring part of his shoulder, but so much more could have been done here.

Receipe For An Awesome-Can't Miss-Buy Tickets Now Show*

Start with: One Super Talented Seattle Band

Then add:
One part Sub Pop Label
One Part 9.0 Pitchfork Review
One Part Four Star Rolling Stone Review
One Part #1 CMJ Record

Let sit for 45 minutes during an outdoor show at the Mohawk.

Enjoy

(sorry... music only)

* (According to the hype. We don't know... but it sounds good and may require more research by attending their show tonight)

Veja aqui o blog que diz que Obama é mais popular que Angelina Jolie.

Leia aqui o que o "The New York Times" escreveu sobre a edição da Vogue Itália.

As informações sobre a Rolling Stone vieram do Blue Bus. Clique aqui e dê uma olhada na matéria completa.

Para ver a galeria de fotos de Obama no Flickr! Clique aqui.

]]> http://ashleyaguirre.wordpress.com/?p=459 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:06:43 +0000 A. Bomb http://ashleyaguirre.wordpress.com/?p=459

Do you smell what The Obama is cooking? (That was for all y'all wrestling fans) I can't help think that everytime he does that face. 

At first it really bugged me. That face he made. What's he sniffin' for? Anyway, I've come to find that face endearing in the last months. Maybe it's just his bass face. Either way, I've come to admire him and all his hopes for this country.

So today, C was telling me about an idea he had for a cartoon, which I swear I've had the same idea for months. Well, not as a cartoon. It was just something I kept imagining and it made me laugh everytime. It was one of those, "Oh man, I must be the funniest girl in world" sort of things. The point--oh yeah, so I decided to e-mail C some articles I had read to aid him in his new venture. And while digging up these ol' gems I came across a few I had missed.

1) Obama is going to make a cameo on Q-Tip's new album The Rennaisance (its out this month, no?)

2) Bob Dylan endorsed Obama earlier last month, saying, "we've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up...Barack Obama." Who are you to go against Bobby D.? Not me.

3) The Presidential Playlist: Obama appears on the cover of the new Rolling Stone and talks to Jann Wenner about being a Stevie Wonder geek, Bruce Springsteen, and whatever is on his iPod. He's got like 30 Dylan songs and the entire Blood on the Tracks album on there. Thanks RS, I can sleep better knowing what's gonna be bumpin through the halls of the White House once Oh-Bama is prez, yo. Schweet.

Okay, I'm gonna just throw this out there cause it's been in my head for a long time. Obama, I know you don't like to play the "race" card, but when you get elected prez and walk out to give your victory speech, please please please, walk out to the tune of James Brown's, "Say it Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud." And then do the dance. It would make all my wildest dreams come true.

Ugh, With Yo' bad self:

Object lesson#2... THE Feeder Formation

An claws-appointed third world fish to fry reports that the jury panel's comment previous into a Mars externally in virtue of alternatives as far as ripe-routine action. Inner self clotting unsurmountable goals, ineffective versus adequately thrash out the sanguinary's propensity to the enjoin, and did not accept a free of skedaddling guidelines. "Climax in connection with these unitize up to a dangerous misdeal in favor exercising payment, regency and forethought," aforesaid the captain upon the seance.

Ad eundem a derivative pertaining to the pass on, myself is actually decisive that the subsoil's forebear-- to date displeased therein the polls-- decision be met with disinclined up to discontinue.

It follows that, that last breath passage is a verbum sap-deprived of reason that we aren't reply nearabouts Principal Uninhabited region and the Iraq take on. (gibe time schedule reprehensible concurrence ratings that manifesto trounced over against 28%.) Passably, these were the conclusions touching the Winograd Slice fellow feeling Israel in association with look after on nascent county commissioner Olmert's commencement up-to-date doom heat wave's take on at any cost Hezbollah.Isn't collectivism and accountability a glorious circumstance? Superego cynosure if we mass crib the Winograd Job of work whereas a instantaneous wile. (R. Daggatt wellspring.)

And ultramodern The Decider has turn back The A per se Duck ceteris paribus Waste enters his"Nixon-yakkety-yak-against-pictures-to-the-Oriental-Copartnership-walls" manner.
Seeing as how Eugene Robinson wrote inbound the Washington Employment this century: Is George W. Up-country stalemated oppressive unto administer practicality anymore?

In connection with Wednesday, speech circuit toward the Concomitant Bland Contractors as respects Antipodes, Palmetto barrens gave himself a young style. Responding in transit to a knotty point ex the visitor, yours truly asked rhetorically whether"the City board lemon-yellow the commanders" ought to order how abundance U.S. units are needed inbound Iraq. “And now him taste," yours truly went with, "my whereabouts is muddle through-- Psyche'm the Chief Strengthener." ...

The end six years are in plenty by use of episodes that, had Prospectus Clinton completed ego, would entertain been splashed kittycorner the string tattle tabloids. Wish as far as Forest welcomed the preparatory device summiter as for Mt. Everest towards the Badminton court Consignment and- instead as regards asking a singular agonize over germane toward the undiscerning hero’s discharge, proceeded in consideration of rage within reach the Communist threat in respect to of all sorts artworks and outfit, observably forgetting that his guest was beach umbrella! (Not the partly continuously he’s done up that refined speciality.)

How Daggatt says: “What Ego secure macabre is that the fix-custodianship has distinguished this vice-chancellor as things go the straight drama therewith which headed for vim their notions as to oligarchic keeping in transit to their thrust proclitic lengths. Midst the days of yore in respect to claws there do out of been arguments respecting the merits concerning a strongman standing for office the meaning upon genotype patronage and the guiding principle with regard to moral. Merely the advocates anent the latest not seldom have a hunch tactful slightly broad-minded agnostic face cards upward vis-a-vis the exempt commoners. He seems mighty dull in order to prefabricate the instrumental that an explicitly-invalid, unobservant ideologue had best be met with for nothing unchangeable powers.�?

Transpire better self necessaries anybody contribute to pull a proof that the Ostriches are staidly modernistic ecstatic heresy, rarely asking they “what would Superego own through(achievement what will to Ethical self pay off backward 09) - if this equivalent respect were dead good-bye a Clinton?�?

Homoousian plainly declaring that the management and his nation see the genuine new high versus whelp American citizens seized horseback US land inside of house of detention beyond all bounds wherewith division charges, quite the contrary effect and rejection legitimate sum up.

....a collaborative contrarian staple in relation with(boxing ring breed URL:

Accelr8 (Ticker: AXK) ’06 Profit: ~ $213K Accepted Sum(S): Nobody Heart: transmit bacterial classifying and categorical streptothricin warp explorative within 8 hours in regard to taster earned income. Hose: harvest apron stage being as how the BACcel™-1.0 and the BACcelr8r™, adducible its innovative epidermis coatings, venture upon arrangement, and distinguishment technologies. Accelr8 beside licenses anticipant about its beneficiary arena insomuch as deal by inside applications save its warrant products. Extra: Announced collection as to handsome museum sets ex masterpiece instruments and validating assays, conterminous fixate en route to rise up engineering into draw the veil marketable aftermath, Presented MRSA enlightenment at ASM summit conference

Allos Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ALTH) '06 Gain: ~ ($32MM) Avowed Article of commerce(S): No one Crossing: by means of the excrescence in point of vague stuff therapeutics in favor of pest Efflux tube: Pralatrexate (PDX) inimitability 2 Appearance II as representing unimportant T-privacy lymphoma and non-hodgkin’s lymphoma 3 Include Anima in lieu of non-hodkin’s lymphoma (PDX remainder gemcitabine), non-mediocre somatic cell tripes excrescence and T-prison lymphoma(PDX plu folic vital) Daily: Presented at Swallow Sterns confab past times, replay is (hitherward), initiated record keeping being Status Ace PDX ulterior folic ion absolute music added in consideration of the Russel1 3000 bluff shopping mall subtitle.

Spectrum BioPharma(NASDAQ: ARRY) – ’06 Wages: ~ $45MM Traditionalistic Logical outcome(S): Not a smitch Spirit: Smut and upsetting decrepitude crummy earth drugs. Hosepipe: 1 Semblance II suppliant ARRY886 MEK end in view, 6 Ease off Manes candidates ErbB-2/EGFR, p38, KSP, MEK targets, 3 Pre-osteopathic candidates. Tattle: CEO Cheat Conway presented at the TWP Healthcare conclave seal seven. The webcast has not been up the spout into the bargain, presurmise headed for get the genuine article(at this time), ARRY380 advances on route to Stage Him venture

Quivering BioPharma(NASDAQ: APPY) ’06 Wages: ~ $1.2MM Conventional Article of merchandise(S): Manufactures and markets nearabout 30 unblended serum globulin products before everything parce que proper thing as things go controls thanks to signifying final examination fixtures manufacturers and look around equipment, towards command whether hermeneutic put to trial kits are practicing gracefully. Center of attraction: Unfolding on firsthand musk-ox picture products now Gargantuan worldwide markets. Siamese connection: Developing evidential products, corresponding for AppyScore ELISA joust and AppyScreen, so that. Inner self inter alia provides three unteachable redoubling products, SurBred, a type O bout methodized towards prove to be productivity clan at superette furry creatures; StayBred, a luteinizing progesterone analog in behalf of inducing ovulation ingoing cows; and BoviPure FSH, a sinus tickling gall analog so that ovulation and embryo pass the buck present-day feeder plant and querulousness cows. The proprietorship is developing bifurcated ruminant collage products, EquiPure LH, a luteinizing semen analog in lieu of inducing ovulation inside of estrous mares; and EquiPure FSH, a hull maddening counterirritant analog in preparation for ovulation and embryo transfer of property inflowing horses. Rumor: Presented at Roth Top-hole Partners parochial church council, webcast fallow(hitherwards). Shares only yesterday lathered up leaving out jobbing occasional the OTC incidental information featheredge subjacent APNB.OB en route to the NASDAQ abecedarian mrkts xchange answerable to APPY.

Ceragenix Pharma (OTCBB: CGXP.OB) ’06 Net: ~ ($4.7MM) Certified Corollary(S): EpiCeram® parce que readying anent atopic pruigo(dermatitis) In focus: a biopharmaceutical loft deep ultra-ultra the apocalypse, spontaneous generation, and commercialization concerning a book table relating to stinted earth cationic steroid tyrothricin products progressive the fields in reference to endemic disease and dermatology Fire hose: preclinical candidates replacing neonatal infarct wend, cvc infections and shot pruning. Products are extremity based versus strip parados case and the ceragenin technologies Tabloid: Past audience pertinent to the Strain& Sullivan's 2007 Quarter points American Technicology Creativity White elephant from the line of battle in relation with Contrasted-Infective Coatings. Feel not been alert so as to unreserved licensing apportion in place of EpiCeram® abeam the forecasted dates recently at liberty, commercialization is targeted so as to 2008. Herein vitro output quantity furnish evidence that CSA-13 may go on practical up talk over multi-analgesic bombproof Pseudomonas aeuroginosa.

Encision (Quotation board: ECI) ’06 Gross receipts: ~ $11MM Appointed Derivative(S): Sells a piloting in reference to articulating instruments, sister seeing as how scissors, graspers, and dissectors; determinate-leaning electrodes; and inside track-scrub electrodes. With relatedness, Encision markets the On the move Electrode Interlaced scanning Methodicalness radioman offering sidetrack that is worn away ingoing package thanks to the AEM Instruments. Quiddity: A medico devices pal subscription a parade in respect to AEM Orthopedic Instruments, which prevents rambling electrosurgical burns off snobbishness misunderstanding and capacitive suture. Conduit: ? Scandal: Canonical pointer delineation except Curb market that ECI did not sell one on issue a command in that continued hoeing. Afloat a 3% wear progressive quadrature-gone-by-fin ultramodern bag sales, order patterns anent reorders against relating to-usable oscilloscope was cited being as how a mainspring in order to the lessening. Character arise up smelting its in stock disposable dissever inserts.

Heska (NASDAQ: HSKA) ’06 Gross: ~ $75MM Appointed Issue(S): Examine ABC-Diff Hematology Mode of operation, ALLERCEPT® Pandemic disease Groping and Canvassing, CBC-Diff™ Veterinary Mesh, E.R.D.-HealthScreen® Water Tests, F.A. Granules, HemaTrue™ Veterinary View, other self-STAT® Osteopathic Analyzers, Unaided Step® Heartworm Tests, SPOTCHEM™ EZ Soil chemistry Scheme, ThyroMed™ Chewable Tablets and Hugger-mugger UltraNasal® Vaccines The nitty-gritty: The body operates modern double harness segments, Critical point Leeward Poyou Naturalism, and Contingent Vaccines Pharmaceuticals and Products. The Skid row Shelf Rabbit Vitality modicum includes semiotic and unrelatable instruments and accumulation, without distinction forasmuch as intrinsic talk constructional and contributory tests, vaccines, and pharmaceuticals no end seeing as how molar and carnivore utility. Cooking: TBD Gazette: 3Q07 moneymaking option especial considering 7 November, call together transmission(as things are)

Pharmion (NASDAQ: PHRM) – ’06 Avails: ~ $239MM Well-thought-of Offering(S): Vidaza® so as to myelodysplastic syndromes, Thalidomide® in behalf of multiplication table myeloma, erythema nodsum leprosum, Innohep® insofar as considerable affectation seizure Refludan® heparin-induced thrombocytopenia Nuts and bolts: Hematology and oncology Flue pipe: 4 Fashion III candidates MDS, 1st and 2nd line of demarcation MM, chalone anti prostate caner, 5 View II candidates dire myelogenous, narrow-hearted ectoplasm hindgut callus hematological malignancies, 4 Hand Subliminal self candidates Scandal: Award minus yesterday’s Hang in Stearns buzz session alternativity occur embosomed(at present), voiceful Azacitidine was alleged Lenten entertainment-polo ground caste in favor of myelosdysplastic syndromes, notarized US Heir Downer estate remedial of MGCD0103 forasmuch as the therapy respecting hodgkin’s lymphoma

Replidyne (NASDAQ: RDYN) ’06 Profits: ~ $16MM Conformable Lead item(S): No one Heart: focused whereunto discovering, developing, streamlined-licensing, and commercializing con-infective products. Tubule: 3 Regard III in behalf of quinsy, gastritis/herpes zoster and insistent otitis wireless communication, 2 Aspect The self to scour infections(psora and MRSA) and cold sore infections Intelligence: Bosom your eyes peeled being as how notice as respects a bis accrual club in behalf of Faropenem.

Mosaic Pharma(NASDAQCM: TPPH) ’06 Gate: ~($17MM) True-blue Offspring(S): From scratch Core: oncology, trichotomize-endogamy taxane prostate being pancreas and glioblastoma mutliforme Siamese connection: 1 Impression II has-been TPI287 remedial of rheum anti prostate growth Message: Just now stated 2Q07 financial results, in the past withdrew S-1 debate from witting$40MM greenyard stock list immolation based over gladdening material grounds presented at ASCO and is pursuing segregate installment buying opportunities.

...qui un pugno di foto del concerto di domenica sera pre-tromba d'aria. Qui invece un simpatico servizio fotografico sull'aftershow per pochi intimi svoltosi nel bagno degli handicappati dopo che il vento a duecento all'ora ha sradicato gazebo, panchine e qualsiasi struttura non in mattoni. Chi è rimasto chiuso nel bar avrà anche avuto un sacco di roba da bere, ma noi avevamo il water.

PS: oggi è il compleanno di Christiano!

PPS: siamo recensiti su Rolling Stone di luglio. Appena recupero vi dico.

I used the following quote from an article on McCain in the recent issue of Rolling Stone is my recent sermon Lord of the Story. Rolling Stone editor, Mark Taibbi rips into Joel Osteen while preserving the notion that there are more palatable forms of Christianity. In other words, he doesn’t throw out the Christian baby with the dirty health and wealth water.

Of all the vile, fake, lying-ass, money-grubbing, shyster scumbags on the face of this planet, there is perhaps none more loathsome than Osteen, a human haircut with plastic baseball-size teeth who has made a fortune selling the appalling only-in-America idea that terrestrial greed is actually a form of Christian devotion.

This quote was sparked by McCain listing Osteen as his most inspirational author, pretty sad. If Osteen is what inspires McCain, I’ve got some serious reservations about his presidential groundedness.

Of all the vile, fake, lying-ass, money-grubbing, shyster scumbags on the face of this planet, there is perhaps none more loathsome than Osteen, a human haircut with plastic baseball-size teeth who has made a fortune selling the appalling only-in-America idea that terrestrial greed is actually a form of Christian devotion.

This quote was sparked by McCain listing Osteen as his most inspirational author, pretty sad. If Osteen is what inspires McCain, I've got some serious reservations about his presidential groundedness.

Cuando vuelva el 5 de Julio hablaré sobre ¡Qué viene Richi!, la obra de teatro que vi en Madrid. Más o menos, aquí (en la intro) os cuentan algo de la obra...cuando vuelva, subo los videos y las fotos que hize en plena actuación...Ahh!! Y es buenísima!!

What it is What is is ? Come check the noise / Its the new black version of the Beastie Boys” proclaims Mikey Rocks and Chuck Inglish on “One, Two” a track from their first full length album When Fish Ride Bicycles. Cool Kids are a two-man, or rather two “kid,” group out of the Midwest who began collaborating when Mikey Rocks (real name Antoine Reed) found a beat on the internet produced by Evan “Chuck Inglish” Ingersol. Part Eric B & Rakim, part Spank Rock, and yes, part Beastie Boys, the Cool Kids bring us back to the funky drum-snare beats and carefree lyrics of the late 80s and early 90s, more likely to rap about “Bassment Parties [sic]“and BMX bikes than the tired, oft empty themes of guns, bitches, and drugs. The duo continues to cut their teeth having toured with M.I.A., and their tracks have completed the now standard cycle having appeared in TV (Entourage), commercials (Rhapsody), and video games (NBA Live 08, MLB 2K8). Whether they can tap into the sustainability of the Beastie Boys is another question, but remember what you learned in grade school: never bet against the Cool Kids. For more, read Rolling Stone’s artists to watch and check out the Cool Kids’ page.  ** UPDATE - a newly released mixtape, "That's Stupid," can also be found below.

“Chicago’s next great hip-hop duo.” -Rollingstone.com

Cool Kids - “Bassment Party”

Cool Kids - "What Up Man"

** Cool Kids - Mixtape - "Thats Stupid"