This Devin Graham character just travels around on other people's dime and makes these crazy ass videos. Kudos to him or his idea team, because every time I watch one of his videos I instantly want to be there doing what they are doing. Honestly I have figured out his business model, now all we have to do is find some hot girls and buy a camera
Great idea + hot girls + party atmosphere + cool camera + Cool camera angles = Internet Gold
I'm pretty pissed that they didn't have a helmet cam on any of these shots. AND he simply took his bicycle video and put a slip and slide in it and just doubled down on that ass without lifting a creative finger...very sneaky Mr. Graham...veeeerrrry sneaky
P.S. Who invited Kenny Powers and his wave runner...
For those of you who didn't know, Red Hot Chili Peppers released a new album this week. I'm With You, the 10th studio album by the band, the first album since 2006's Stadium Arcadium, features yet another new guitarist replacing John Frusciante, who left the band in 2009, but trust me, this album is much better than the Dave Navarro, drug induced One Hot Minute.
The Chili Peppers keep with the familiar style of their more recent music, but with a noticeable new style in guitarist Josh Klinghoffer. The band even calls it out saying, "This is a new band, same name, but it's a new band."
The band credits the Rolling Stones as a big influence of the new material. I don't hear it really, but then again I don't listen to the Rolling Stones. The lengthy album (14 tracks) has gotten very favorable reviews, and I agree with most of them, though I might have chosen a different single to kick the album off with. But if you like the later works of RHCP, this album should fit nicely into your existing play lists.
You can stream the album right here, though I don't know how long it will be available. Let me know what you think.
Have you ever thought to yourself "gee, I wonder what happened to the pants Cam Newton wore in the BCS National Championship Game?" No? Well, I haven't either. But that doesn't mean their final destination isn't worth checking out. According to this article at The War Eagle Reader, the pant ended up ensconcing Playboy Playmate Jaime Edmondson. I've linked to the article but I've already given you the goods.
Birmingham's The Great Book of John has released their second album. The self titled record can be streamed http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/20. The band carries 3 members from Wild Sweet Orange, and while this band is more laid back, folk rock you can still hear that pop that made WSO so famous. Frontman Taylor Hollingsworth sounds a lot like George Harrison in the way he scoops and dives his notes, almost like he's singing with a steel guitar effect. It's refreshingly different from most of whats going on out there right now. I might add some more after I've heard the whole album a couple of times.
A few thoughts:
1. Everyone talks about how important Iowa is for the presidential election, yet Mitt Romney didn't even bother to show up here. Does Mitt know something that the rest of us don't know? No one has really even pointed this out in the media. In fact, most still consider him the frontrunner despite the fact that he finished below a write-in candidate (Rick Perry) who announced his candidacy the day of the poll.
2. Ron Paul finished second only 1% behind Bachmann. Everyone is saying it is huge for Bachmann that she won, but hardly anyone has mentioned the fact that he finished a close second with little money spent on the event compared to the winner.
3. Tim Pawlenty has now pulled himself out of the race. This was just a matter of time considering his inability to be a "sexy" Republican candidate. It appears that it is a matter of time before Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum do the same.
4. WTF is Sarah Palin up to? Her tour of American historical sights just happened to take her to Iowa?! Here is my theory on her. She will eventually join the race, but has strategically stayed out to avoid any media scrutiny until right before the Iowa caucus. A shrewd political move that doesn't surprise me one bit. She has to be one of the most disingenuous politicians I have ever seen.
5. Finally, the absurdity of American politics is on full display any time we talk about Iowa. It is completely stupid that Iowa...fucking Iowa...has as much influence on politics as it does. It is a state full of Christian social conservative corn farmers whose biggest city is smaller than Birmingham. What was the big hit at the Iowa State Fair this year? Fried butter. That's right, butter on a stick that is deep fried. That's what the people who have a major influence on American politics are into. Iowa is a huge reason why the federal government keeps subsidizing corn farmers, so that politicians can bribe farmers into nominating them for the presidency. Why the Hell does this tiny state that hardly represents America have so much influence? The state of Iowa hijacked American politics, and it blows my mind that other states refuse to move their primaries up to take some of that influence.
As we get closer to the start of the season the college football world has been dominated less (luckily) by talks about bag men and free suits and more about actual football. Well, yesterday it got even more interesting with serious talks about Texas A&M moving to the Southeastern Conference. From recent media reports, Texas A&M feels the demise of the Big 12 is imminent but the catalyst for this move seems to be the Longhorn Network and the perception that it would give the University of Texas an even greater advantage among the remaining Big 12 schools.
Given that this move by TAMU may soon become a reality it is worth discussing how this would affect the current SEC schools, specifically, Auburn and Alabama. War Blogle has a good discussion of this here. One possibility is that Auburn would move to the eastern division. This means Auburn and Alabama could possibly each other twice in one year: the traditional Iron Bowl and again in the SEC championship game. If this were the case I think the Iron Bowl would have to be moved up in the schedule.
Another possibility that has been discussed is adding a 14th team from the eastern United States. However, this could possibly put longstanding rivalries such as Auburn-Georgia and Alabama-Tennessee in jeopardy of not being played every year. That certainly would not sit well with most fans.
So, what do you guys think? Are you for or against this move? Should we be okay with Auburn moving to the eastern division? And if a 14th team is added what schools are possible candidates and what benefits would they bring to the conference?
So apparently the Lee County Sheriffs department broke the bank to put on this "Operation Iron Snare." They even hired a fancy marketing company to organize it all......
"First we got to have a cool name for the operation, Next we got to have some signs, everyone has to be in Auburn and Alabama garb, oh yeah and we got to have some Van Halen Jammin in the background."
Honestly.....What the fuck? This Chris Hansen type shit is way over the top.....Unless you are going to sell commercials and air this on a prime time slot, why are you going so over the top to do this thing?
These cops are lazy as shit and spending way too much money when they could just go to these peoples houses and knock on the door for a fraction of the cost. Did you see how many fucking people they had to take that one guy down???
The look on his face was pretty classic though once he realized that he wasn't winning the tickets.
I honestly think we should put these people on a chain gang and have them work off their fines and child support. I mean they already owe money and they aren't going to be able to make any money while they are in jail, and then we have to pay for their food and shit while they are in jail. I seriously think that their should be percentage fines for the different laws you break out there. If you don't pay child support you are fined X percentage based on your yearly income, if you refuse to work then you come work for the GOV in an orange jumpsuit.
If you get a DUI its 10% of your yearly income, that way its a harsh penalty, you don't have to waste money on a stupid trial that costs twice as much as the fine anyway and people don't have to waste money on lawyers. WIN WIN WIN.
Take for instance this shit with lindsey lohan. If they would just fine her 20k every time she did something, they wouldn't have to spend money on all these different trials. You would have to make the amount high enough for people to learn their lesson. But I seriously think that a bunch of the crimes out there could be lumped into different fine categories and that we should use the people in jail on the less serious crimes to actually produce something, then we cold combat china's no minimum wage policy.
