Good Morning

The creative studio Crush + Lovely has been going around different cities asking people a simple question. Their newest installment takes place in Brooklyn and the question asked is "Where would you like to wake up?" Simple enough. I'm sure you can draw some psychological inference from peoples answers. but who the eff cares. Just watch the vid cause you might just see something beautiful.

Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn from Fifty People, One Question on Vimeo.

Hell Yea!!!

Tracy Morgan enjoying life.

Brooke Langton

I have Swingers playing in the background as I get ready for the evening and I can't help but be reminded of how effing beautiful Brooke Langton was, and very possibly still is. The chick is a stunner, she's "money baby."

Teachers Gone Awry

Reports are coming out of a female teacher in Queens that slept with her 14 year old student. For some reason I find these stories interesting, mostly because of Van Halen's infamous Hot for Teacher. To be honest all men as young lads have dreamed a dream that parlayed into a similar scenario, and no, we can't help it.

Anyway, while getting more info on the story I came across a website dedicated to teacher misdeeds and I must say, I feel queasy. Hearing one of these stories is sorta entertaining every few months, but after seeing the site and realizing that they have at least a new post everyday, I realize that something just ain't right.

If you want to you can go to badbadteacher.com and check it out yourself, but dude, it's not as cool as you think it might be... it's actually quite scary.

Memorial Weekend

In honor of Memorial weekend we bring you a story of a retired soldier who not only saved a man's life yesterday, but also gave hundreds of people the gift of "time."

Lai Jiansheng is 66 years old and served in the Chinese military. Yesterday during his commute he came upon a traffic jam caused by a man threatening to jump of the Haizhu Bridge in Guangzhou. The would be suicide offender had recently lost nearly 2 million yen ($300,000) in a bad construction deal. After learning of the situation, Mr. Jiansheng offered his negotiating skills to the police, but they declined.

However, after waiting five hours for the situation to be resolved and the bridge to reopen, Mr. Jiansheng decide to take matters into his own hands. He broke past the police barricade, climbed out to the jumper, shook the dude's hand and then pushed him off the bridge.

No worries, the pushed survived because he landed on the air cushion that was set up below. Mr. Jiansheng's reasoning behind the push:

"I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish," the newspaper quoted Mr Lai as saying.

"Their action violates a lot of public interests. They do not really dare to kill themselves. Instead, they just want to raise the relevant government authorities' attention to their appeals."

I'm not sure if the jumper was making any appeals to the government, but I do agree with the fact that suicide is a selfish act when attempted by adults who are able to reason properly. Mr. Jiansheng did not attempt to kill the man, he only wanted to resolve a nuisance and save some people some time, and that is exactly what he accomplished. This Memorial weekend let us all try to be like Mr. Jiansheng by pushing the annoying things in life out of our way so we can free up time to focus on the important things in life.

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Last Day Dream

Chris Milk's short film (42 seconds short) of the important things in life flashing before one's eyes. Rather awesome video.

Happy Mother's Day! from Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg, the Motherlovers

The guys who brought you "D*ck In A Box" are back with "Motherlover" featuring Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson. (Saturday Night Live still isn't good, but at least this is entertaining.)

Watch:

Pick Of The Day

"Two babies compete in "Nakizumo," or "Crying Sumo." The Japanese contest consists of two babies being held by sumo wrestlers, who stare each other down until one of them cries."

Man, I love the Japanese.

photo and caption courtesy of these guys.

baby you the best, you the best i ever had: drake cakes and a little haterad

i remember when justin timberlake got that crucifix tat, dropped britney and then the justified album shortly thereafter. i remember the absence of trepidation when he got on stage with the clipse at the 02 vma's and how that pairing made me less embarrassed to have actually downloaded the last nsync album in its entirety. and somehow by transitive property, because clipse=gully, and clipse endorsed timbo, timbo=gully and i was ok for having surreptitiously left myself voicemails of myself singing "gone" to see what i sounded like. right?

which brings me to degrassi high. for a brief time in college, some friends and i would get together and watch degrassi high: the next generation. now for those of y'all who read this blog and, like me, are also heterosexual males and share my penchant for justin timberlake and degrassi high and are still reading this right now, i'm sure you remember jimmy, the wheel chair bound former basketball star. for those of you who read this blog, are heterosexual males, share my penchant for justin timberlake and degrassi high, are still reading this right now, remember jimmy...

let me start over.

you know how radio plays the same three songs all day over and over again with a brief pause in the middle for the old school at noon? here in jerz those three songs are "we like her too" by li'l wayne, "knock you down" by keri hilson, and "best i ever had" aka "you the f^ckin best" by drake.

who's drake you might ask? none other than jimmy from degrassi high. and somehow this fact eluded me even as i skimmed through all the "who's next?" posts (drake, charles hamilton, blu & exile, asher roth, cory gunz, etc. - answer is nobody) on boxden and realraptalk and their ilk. anyway, i'm not gonna lie, dude is kinda nice.

which leads me to my real question. i thought timbo's cross over was impressive, but how are you gonna cross over from a teen dramedy on nogin to doing tracks with li'l wayne and singing your own hooks, getting signed to hip hop since 1978 and whatnot? and you're canadian? i played it all wrong man. i never should've said no to that guest spot on "the parent hood." word to zaria.

here's the mp3.

Best I Ever Had - Drake

justin timberlake presents: the phone

in keeping with the great tradition of stealing my ideas, mtv's newest reality concoction the phone features girl-guy tandems competing to apprehend an unknown criminal. because nobody cares about anybody over the age of 24, most of the contestants are college kids, at least somewhat attractive, and racially ambiguous. still, the movie within a show steez is enough to keep it sufficiently interesting.

this week the plot of said "movie" involves a corporate conspiracy with deadly consequences.

every week, the subplot is the burgeoning relationship between the participants. the most satisfying twist in the show's 60 minutes is that any money accrued goes to only one member of the winning team, who then decides whether to reward their teammates hard work or walk away with the money. this week, joseph malloque is on the losing end and left in tears at the 50 yard line of Qwest Field having squandered the chance to help his obese brother get healthy (he does not elaborate). anyway, he got played by some broad whose explanation was that joey was practically a stranger and that there are two types of people in the world- those who return lost wallets and those who don't. and she don't. joey's brother may be obese casey whatever your last name is, but you madam are swoll with the acrid pus of human indifference.

twists and turns aside, the most alarming thing about this show is how comfortable these people are in front of the camera. has reality television become so ingrained in the cultural lexicon that everybody expects their fifteen minutes even when they come forthwith and without explanation?

the show is hosted not by justin timberlake himself, but a dubious european guy with an infinite supply of winter coats. and seattle figures in prominently, but in the least cool way imaginable.

DOPE.

British illustrator James Jarvis has released "Onwards," his first animation project in collaboration with Nike Running. This four minute video is guaranteed to have you smiling and may even inspire you to get off your tush and do something active.

Simply dope.


Onwards from AKQA on Vimeo.

Shepard Smith Goes Crazy and gets it right

Shepard Smith, Roger Goodell's wife Jane Skinner, and the blond gal with the really big boobs are the only Fox News Channel people my mind can take. Today the Shep went off on this whole torture issue and if I was surrounded by a bunch of nincompoops who rather divide the country than use a lil commonsense, I would try to knock somebody out as well.

The fact is that the U.S. has never clearly defined what torture is and what it is not, but they did say that waterboarding, as well as some of the other acts recently committed on detainees, is torture. Now keep in mind that we as a country have declared that we don't torture and have made a national and international promise that we will not torture. Shoot, McCain the Maverick himself helped make it a law.

However, according to the memos that have been released by the current administration, the previous administration authorized torturous acts to be acted out on detainees held in military prisons such as Gitmo. Remember now that the majority of the detainees in these prisons have not actually been charged with a crime, so in other words we were torturing possible informants. Not only that, but the "informants" have been locked up for years. Try giving up info on a person or place you haven't seen since 2002. Not easy huh? Now try doing while getting your head smashed into a wall or playfully drowning. Just a lil bit harder. On The Wire, detectives gave infromants cash, the Bush admin gave possible informants lungs full of water.

Torture is illegal. The previous administration made it clear that they knew the legalities of it. Whether torture is effective or not can be debated till the cows come home, but the person who side stepped the law and authorized the use of torture needs to face the consequences. I truly believed that the Bush years would be viewed in a better light after some time, but it now looks like that will never happen. You did your daddy proud.

A $4 Hamburger!! Mickey D, You Crazy!

The beautiful taste of a perfectly cooked and condiment painted hamburger, stuffed in between a pillowy bun is unmatched. I was recently brought back to the goodness of a hamburger after avoiding them for the past few months. Never again will I go more than two weeks without one.

Today I enjoyed a Five Guy's double bacon cheese burger. A very good hamburger but not sure if it's really worth $6 bucks. While I ate it I kept thinking that I could be munching on six hamburgers from the Mickey D's dollar menu for the cost of my Five Guy's burger. Don't get me wrong, Five Guy burgers are really good, but maybe if they were a dollar cheaper they would be even better (this is a recession.)

Imagine how shocked I was when I came home and read the McDonald's now has a $4 hammy. I'm not sure if the American public can handle this. The dollar menu has been working out fine, but I guess Ronald wants a different class of friends. How about you ask the Yankee front office how their new friends are doing?

I will be trying this new hamburger, but dammit I won't like it.

All You Need To Know About Waterboarding

Journalist Mike Guy of Playboy made a bet that he could last 15 seconds of waterboarding. Didn't Christopher Hitchens teach you enough? Apparently not. Mike Guy lost his money.

Watch the vid and gain a little knowledge on the torture our government thought wasn't torture:

Fowl Play: KFC Shows You They Grill

This week KFC rolled out a full scale massive campaign to provide healthy alternatives to their extra crispy and original artery cloggers. The verdict? Delicious.

The initiative is at least in part a response to mounting health concerns over American obesity which manifested itself in the institution of laws requiring fast food restaurants to disclose nutritional values on their menus late last year. According to a press release, the new bangers are about 70 to 180 calories and 4 to 9 grams of fat a piece, or about a third of the respective caloric and fat contents of a serving of original fried.

According to "The Chicago Tribune" all but 100 of KFC's 5000 plus locations are going to holler. Word to Roy Rogers though. Their chicken was the best with that grease all on the outside that you had to wipe off before you could even contemplate eating it and then those poorly made but inexplicably delicious-in-the-context-of-things french fries.

Record Store Day

I don't really mess with wallets anymore. The last time I had a wallet, it was an ill leather one that my grandfather had given me at the age of 7 with the hopes that I'd grow into it someday. Sadly, at age 20, it was stolen out of the glove compartment of my 1991 Toyota Celica. And with it, the only three pieces of plastic I'd seen fit to keep to that point; my driver's license, my ATM card, and my Buzzbin card from "The Wall." The point of this very muddled story: I wish I had a real record store to chill at while I was coming up in the world.

Some people still do, somehow, some way. I'm not sure how the little guy still manages to hack out a living in the age we live in, but I respect their swag and so should you.

Tomorrow is Record Store Day, a global movement that started out in 2007 to foster support for the indie record store, which is as much about music as it is about community. To prove it, many participating record stores are offering food, drinks, giveaways, and live performances.

From the website:

A Record Store Day participating store is defined as a physical retailer whose product line consists of at least 50% music retail, whose company is not publicly traded and whose ownership is at least 70% located in the state of operation. (In other words, we’re dealing with real, live, physical, indie record stores—not online retailers or corporate behemoths).

It's a global movement, peep the website for participating stores. Performers include, but are definitely not limited to:

Prefuse 73 and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart @ Other Music in NYC
Bouncing Souls @ Generation Records in NYC
Talib Kweli, DJ Premier, Sputnik Brown, and others @ Fat Beats
Queensryche @ Music Millenium in Portland
Youth Group @ Main Street Music in Philly
Gorilla Zoe @ Spin Street in Memphis
The Cannabinoids f/ Erykah Badu @ Good Records in Dallas
Silversun Pickups @ Rasputin Music and DVD's in Berkeley, CA
The Black Lips @ Zia Records in Tuscon, AZ
Ra Ra Riot @ Flat Black and Circular in East Lansing, MI


Check the website www.recordstoreday.com for more info.

Kentucky Grilled Chicken

Nuff said. Dropping in NYC today. More on this (and possibly a review) later.

Damn Rednecks

And I really enjoyed Domino's thin crust pizza. No more, no more...

We All Have Worries

the whole premise to this this is stupid, but they sound pretty good and at least they're bringing awareness to a rising problem:

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"Why you gotta be clown'n around?"

It has dawned on me that despite his talent, Lil Wayne looks like a clown. Tattoos are alright sometimes, but when you try telling a story with pictures on your face I begin to have a hard time following. Why aren't facial expressions enough? I feel sorry for his little kid who must think daddy's always sad. To each, their own.