Blog Setting Changes

Just to let you all know I've changed the settings on the blog so that anyone can comment on a posts. I don't know if you guys have paid attention to the site meter but we actually have a few semi-regular readers. So if any of them want to comment anonymously they can do so. If this isn't kosher with anyone feel free to change it.

The good, the bad, and the ugly

The Good.

The Bad.

The Ugly.

Oh, shit! Darren Sharper!

If BET ever gets into sports they need to hire this dude as an analyst.

Free Friday Ear Food/First Listen - The Decemberist - The King is Dead

What's up bitches, FFEF is back in full force in the new year, bringing you some new music from The Decemberist. Our good friends over at NPR are kind enough to stream the new album up till its Jan. 18th release date.

The new album is a step back (in a good way) from there previous go w/ The Hazards of Love, with what seems to be a simpler, lighter sound, which I find welcoming after the heavy, album long story of Hazards. Also, the band seems to have focused in on a folky, blue grass sound which I really enjoy. It even landed them a gig playing along with the likes of Sam Bush and Robert Plant at this year's Telluride Bluegrass Festival, which I would love to go to.

So head on over to NPR and read the review while you listen to the new album.

Enjoy!

National Championship Tickets

I'm sure you have all heard the hullabaloo that demand for tickets to the game has caused. Brought on by the loyalty of the Auburn family, demand for tickets have surpassed previous Superbowl and World Series tickets. It has been projected that of the 72,200 seats, close to 40,000 would be filled with Orange and Blue. Even Bill Newton (linebacker that blocked the two punts in the 'Punt, Bama, Punt' game) can't find tickets to the game.

Here are some links to interesting articles:

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/01/tickets_to_the_bcs_national_ch.html

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40943011

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/01/05/20110105bcs-national-championship-game-tickets-prices.html

And some quotes:

"Right now, it's unprecedented," StubHub founder Dan Rubendall told the Portland Oregonian. "It's absolutely the craziest scene we've ever seen. I mean, this is bigger than any Super Bowl we've seen in 20 years."

“There’s been such a rabid following, that it has driven prices sky-high,” Lehrman said. “So for the first time in a very long time, you’re seeing demand outpace supply.”

2011 Movie Preview

There is no good way to format this on the blog, so simple link will have to suffice. If you are crazy like and me and want to know about movies coming out long before the first trailer airs, then head on over to IGN for their preview of Movies That Will Kick Ass in 2011.

Some of the ones I'm excited about: Harry Potter, Battle: Los Angeles, Source Code, Hangover 2, Sherlock Holmes 2, and Fight Club/S7VEN director David Fincher's take on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

What films/books/music/games are you excited about coming out this year?

Dora Throws a Function

Unstoppable

Drop everything and checkout this video before the powers that be put the kibosh on it. This might be his best production to date.

Foreigners

People, after months of searching I have finally found it. One of the funniest pieces of satire ever written. I first found out about this writer from my intermediate microeconomics professor and quickly read everything he had ever written up to that point. Unfortunately, his writing took a serious dip in both quantity and quality around the turn of the millennium. It could be a result of his age but I think it is attributable to his decreased consumption of cocaine and gin. Be warned, though, that this is likely to be one of the most racist things you've ever laid eyes on. But it's satire so, like Quentin Tarrantino yelling the word "nigger" in Samuel L. Jackson's face, it is socially acceptable. So without further ado I give you P.J. O'Rourke's "Foreigners Around the World: A Brief Survey of the various Foreign Types, Their Chief Characteristics, Customs, and Manners."

If you like this and want to read some of his earlier stuff I highly recommend Parliament of Whores, Republican Party Reptile, and Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism. If you want a brief bio of the man he started life as a dirty hippie doing a bunch of dirty hippy drugs and writing for the National Lampoon. Around the 80's he became a Republican took to freelance writing and traded the weed and acid for cocaine, gin, and whiskey. For most of the last twenty years he's been a right-leaning libertarian writing for The Atlantic, publishing many books, and serving as a fellow for The Cato Institute. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.

EDIT: NOT SAFE FOR WORK!