New Bands I’m Diggin’
December 29, 2007 by Ryan
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Again and again we’re seeing why we don’t need record companies. Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” shows that even big bands can release albums on their own over the internet. I recently ran across the Doritos Contest where they are going to give some band a big break and let them play the Super Bowl Halftime based off of internet voting. Actually, to be more accurate I ran across this post from TechCrunch, “Digg May Land Digg Girl Record Contract”. Which led me to Kina Grannis and the video to the right. The “Digg Song” that she did gained her lots of notoriety but she is definitely a much better artist than just a gimmick song.
After voting for Kina on the Doritos thing, I decided to listen to the 10 other finalists. All were pretty good, I imagine they had to be to get to be finalist, but a couple did stand out:
- Dominic Castillo & the Rock Savants: I’ll be voting for them in the contest as well. The song is a great “funny duet,” to quote them.
- Landon Austin: Great voice. He’s probably so popular right now at school!
- Barra Libre: I have to admit, I was going to skip over this one because of the spanish name…really stupid. Very cool, big band/almost ska feeling song. Definitely, listen to this one too!
I know that I’ve posted about it before but I still haven’t gotten over Paramore! I found on MTV the live performance that turned me on to them here and included one of the songs here.
Two, Three, Four!
After looking around MTV.com for that Paramore show I also ran into Flyleaf. Their single is catchy, particularly the chorus, enough to check them out.
Yep, Everyone’s Dirty…Now What?
December 14, 2007 by Ryan
Here’s a great question:
Which is worse? Barry Bonds who has hit a ton of homeruns, won NL MVP 7 times, and holds one of the most hallowed records in baseball or Roger Clemens who has tossed a ton of K’s, won 7 Cy Young Awards, and 2 World Series rings
- Micah Bate
Let me just say that I called Clemens! We all knew the Mitchell Report would be big and it is. Tons of names. Tons of big names. It kind of pains me to see my childhood hero Wally Joyner on there, but, as I have stated in other posts, it was a different time. I’m not saying it’s right. I’m not saying the players are less to blame than the trainers or the owners or the commissioner. Hopefully, this presents a big enough shakeup to where real changes can be made to prevent the use of performance enhancing substances.
I still say that you can’t asterisk the whole era! I would not be a baseball fan today if it weren’t for that era! And I don’t think many of you would. But that can be debated and quarreled over, the more important point now is: Let’s make the right changes and MOVE ON!
Update
Here’s a great quote I found from Bro. Murphy on ESPN:
It’s disappointing and discouraging, but this is the moment baseball has been waiting for to shock us into action. Now we have a golden opportunity to quit the fighting between the union and the owners and, like Sen. Mitchell said, turn the testing over to a truly independent agency that can help solve this problem. It’s an opportunity I hope baseball doesn’t miss. We can still change the culture of baseball.
- Dale Murphy, seven-time NL All-Star and two-time MVP. Since retiring in 1993, Murphy runs “I Won’t Cheat,” a grassroots foundation aimed at helping America’s youth make the right choices when it comes to cheating and performance-enhancing drugs.
Wizard of Outer Zone?!
December 8, 2007 by Ryan
I don’t know how many of you caught the previews for the Sci-Fi Channel Mini-Series Tin Man. My wife and I saw them and decided to watch it. I was really excited about the idea: a new take on the Wizard of Oz. I was even more intrigued when I saw some of the casting: Zooey Deschanel (Elf, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) as “Dorothy” & Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler from X2) as “The Scarecrow”.
Here is a chat I had with Dan of CinemaGaslight.com about the it: Read more
