If I Should Die Tonight

This song seems appropriate for the time.
Marvin Gaye - "If I Should Die Tonight"


p.s. that baby that survived the Yemen plane crash earlier this morning is one lucky ass kid.

michael jackson

monday night jam. at the risk of being redundant and obvious this monday night jam is a testament to the late king of pop. his personal history is one ultimately wrought with a sadness as vast in its scope as the joy that is contained in every measure of his music. still my lasting memories of mj will always be good ones; like being seven years old, driving home from virginia with my cousins singing along with "i'll be there" the first time i ever went on vacation away from my parents. and last saturday night, in a car full of those same cousins driving through the grimiest part of newark at 2am with our windows down, grown as hell, bumping p.y.t. and honking at the kids kicking it on the corner gracious enough to reward us with a dance.

here's a slept on mj hit from back in the day.
and here's some people dancing

Music for Today

Yo La Tengo - Today is the Day

sunday night jam

ohhhyessssirrrr....what's the 411(1992)

Sunday Night Jam

A triple threat type night for y'all.

First, we give you Thao Nguyen doing a performance of her song "Big Kids Table" that she did for a Parisian radio station:


Second, we have some Consequence and Kid Cudi doing a little twist on A Tribe Called Quest's "Buggin Out"


The final hit for the night was requested in the comments from last week, actually the only comment from last week. Whatever. It's a little country and a little slow but it might be my favourite Garth Brooks song even though he released it when he was pretending to be Chris Gaines, but "It Don't Matter To The Sun" kicks ass.

Dammit! It's not on youtube. Well if you ever get a chance to listen to it, do so. But don't bother listening to that Rosie Thomas cover. It's good but it ain't no Garth.

To make up for it here is Garth doing "More Than a Memory"

I Was Thinking What You Are Saying

Sometimes I love the guy and other times it's like he is talking jambalaya. This is one of those times I love him.

Maher is pretty spot on with his assesment of Obama: "Get out of the spotlight and do something! You're like Lindsay Lohan."

Obama has good intentions, but good intentions can be wasted without a good fight. To be fair, he has completed a lot of little task, but where are the big things? Why does it seem like he is just dancing around serious change? He is reminding me of that girl is high school that flirted like crazy, but never put out. This needs to change.

Take a gander:

Eff this Attorney

ESPN's Reilly reports on: Alfred G. Rava , who makes $ suing organizations like the Oakland A's for giving women (and only women) "floppy sun hats" as a Mother's Day game-day promotion to support breast cancer. Alfie considers this male-discrimination. It is also quite bankable - he just won a grip of cash. Although I cannot completely fault a man who games a judicial system that is somewhat easy to game, the fact that his mom died of breast cancer makes his practice particularly unsavory.

Alfred G. Rava - men can get breast cancer too. If I were your mammories I would be very afraid.

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.

Dough!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8092942.stm

North Korea Ain't Scared of Nobody

If you pay attention to the news you might be aware of the two U.S. journalist, Euna Lee and Laura Ling (Lisa's sister), who were arrested/captured by Kim Jong Il's cronies. They were charged back in March for illegal entry, but their trial didn't start till last week. Well their scentence has come in and it is not good: 12 years hard labour. Shite!

Both were working for Current TV (Al Gore's little baby) and were doing a story on the China - North Korea border. It is unclear whether they actually crossed the border into N. Korea or if Il's people reached over and grabed them, but whatever happened has resulted into unfavourable circumstances; 12 years of unfavorable circumstances.

Just before the trial started people had a sense of optimism, believing that the two would recieve a little slap on the wrist because New Nuke City didn't want to have to deal with the public and political drama of this while also testing their nuclear program. However, things have gotten dicey with the U.S. and N. Korea with the U.S. threatening sanctions and N. Korea threatening to blow everything up. Hilary Clinton has even gotten all Santa Claus-y by threatening to add N. Korea back to the "Axis of Evil" list.

America prepare yourself for a real life Wag the Dog. Sergeant William Schumann meet Euna Lee and Laura Ling.
(source)

Sunday Night Jam

"I'm still sturdy and flirty till my derby in Jersey"

Naughty by Nature - Jamboree

what makes me happy right now

last sunday while channel surfing i stumbled upon 'Roy Orbison & Friends: Black and White'.

simply amazing.

first of all, roy orbison is ill. if this show was just roy on stage singing his songs i would have been more than content. however, roy's friends happen to be elvis costello, tom waits, bruce springsteen, bonnie raitt (who was fine btw) and k.d lang.
also, the production value on this show is noticeably high. it was filmed in 1987 (a year before roy's death) but aside from their eyewear, it looks like they made it in 2002.

i've posted my favorite performance of the set, 'sweet dreams baby'. really makes me smile. i mean, just look at the three 'backup' singers doin their thang. and the editing is so so smooth (for example, the cut to elvis at 2:31).

enjoy.

Hell Yea!!!

Tracy Morgan enjoying life.