ROOM NOW CLEAN!!!

CORRECT TIME AND DATE FOR DRUM CORPS!!!

There you go! Time and date are correct! Don't you freaking miss it!

I can't tell the difference anymore...

Which one is Sam Beam of Iron and Wine and which one is comedian Zach Galifianakis?
All I know is that I can spell both of their last names properly!

Oh, and here's a picture of me rueing the day that I didn't go see a major music festival this year AGAIN. Not Bonnaroo, not Coachella, not Intonation, pitchfork or Lollapalooza! And I had FREE TICKETS to Intonation, too! I don't think Lisa would've gone for Ghostface as much as I would have. (That and we don't yet have solid connections through which we could drop in and sleep on couches in Chi.)

For the music geek I profess to be, I haven't been able to travel outside of Madison for a good concert (save drum corps shows). ALMOST saw The Roots and Talib Kweli in Milwaukee a few weeks ago, almost saw Queens of the Stone Age last Monday - I have the funds but I'd rather go WITH people than by myself. Help a brother out, Madison area friends (that means you Lisa, Aaron, Mike and Dubuquers!)! But I have seen Tapes n Tapes, His Name is Alive, The Plastic Constellations, Youngblood Brass Band, Decibully and the last two songs of Ben Lee's set in town so I'm not totally missing out here. AND I saw an INCREDIBLE set from the Eels last week! (I hope you Lollapalooza goers stopped by their set!) I'll post some crappy cell phone pics from that show soon. God I need a digital camera...

"I hope I'll never get hit....in the rear again..."

This is the first one of the series of three (the others being Little Richard and Charo, of course) but this one is by far the oddest and funniest. I had been waiting for weeks for this one to be posted somewhere.

ALSO - I have a crapload of drum corps-related posts and videos up on my other blog, Life of Chadams . DON'T NOT CHECK THEM OUT!!!!!!!!

Tell your parents to stop buying crappy music.

Though this is not the actual album cover, their newest album debuted at #2 on the Billboard charts last week. If your parents contiue to buy this crap, radio stations will play it and Maroon 5 and Franz Ferdinand will have to do another crappy en masse performance of said song at the Grammys next year. I guess those two bands owe it to us for not being very good either.

But if we dont act now, Los Lonely Boys will see YOUR parents (and their horrible dancing skills) at your local state fair!

A summer full of CRAP.

Can I just reiterate how HORRIBLE Fergie's "London Bridge" is? Why have pop songs in the last handful of years veered towards this carnival-sounding shit that sounds like it's been written by a team of sugar-filled hyperactive 6-year-olds and whore-bag teens? Her voice is so fucking grating and for someone who's norm is pop music for the grammar school crowd, needs to remember that she's the FARTHEST thing from "gangsta". (As if all of the posturing and rough-chick talk wasn't obviously fake enough.)

And I know I harped on Nelly Furtado, but I think the real criminal of summer pop music is Timbaland - having produced not only "Promiscuous" but "sexyback" as well. Are we to think that after Aaliyah's "Try Again" or multitudes of classics done with Missy Elliott that Furtado's or Timberlake's new singles are worthy to be considered alongside of Timbaland's far superior other work? Or are we also to think that either song belongs in 2006? They sound like bad rejected singles from 1992. I think with Fergie's song or Nelly and Justin's new stuff, pop music makers (and pop music sellers) confuse (in part due to the insurgence of gossip blogs/related celebrity schadenfreude fascination) what people will want to listen to due to curiosity and what people shouldn't have to be subjected to simply because it's a Justin Timberlake song. I mean "sexyback" is definitely a step down from his first album and like I said, Timbaland is phoning it in like he was on a conference call. (Is that a viable hip-hop-style simile? Probably not.) At least there's Gnarls Barkley to save us. More on them later.

Let's never forget how great this album is.

So, I'm assuming a crapton of you have seen Ok Go's "A Million Ways" video already, but have yet to truly delve into the power pop gem that is last year's "Oh No". If there were ever any reason to pick up this album RIGHT NOW, it would be that their new video, "Here It Goes Again" is (dare I say) better, funnier and definitely more expertly executed. Two too good videos supporting two great, hook-filled songs. And there's more on that album that rival these two ass-kickers.