6/30/09...it's almost July...F me in the A....

1. The Promise Ring - The Deep South



2. Belle & Sebastian - Winter Wooskie



3. The Dresden Dolls - Missed Me



4. Inmates - The Good Life (Live...no Jenny Lewis)



5. Francis Dunnery - Good Life

No disrespect ....

VS.

Meant to Billy Mays...I really liked him and even watched his new show "Pitchmen" on Discovery...not bad. BUT, my main point is my confusion over his death getting more publicity then the fact that Madoff got 150 years in prison.

This guy not only stole billions of dollars, but destroyed foundations, people, and families.

I feel bad for Mays and his family, but I don't know...just doesn't make that much sense to me...

6/29/09....I really hate those $5 Foot Long commericals for Subway...

The one with the girl, in the purple hoody with tattoos...it makes me wanna jump into the TV, eat her face off as punishment and run myself head first into a brick wall covered in broken glass...now, for the music:

1. The Rentals - The Love I'm Searching For (some random ass video, but the song is good quality...)



2. Alex of Phantom Planet - Nobody's Fault (Live, Acoustic on a mandolin!)



3. Jon Brion - Knock Yourself Out (I am in love with this video...it's retarded and HI-larious)



4. The Smiths - Frankly, Mr. Shankly



5. The Get up Kids - Don't hate me

Cops Find 100 Pounds of Pot in Casket

Just thought this was funny....would have been more clever to put an actual dead body in there...amateurs! :)

"A casket minus a cadaver yielded nearly 100 pounds of marijuana after a traffic stop in Dallas.

William Dale Crock of Cave City, Ark., was in jail Friday on a marijuana possession charge, plus traffic and seat belt violations.

Dallas police say Crock was arrested Wednesday when bundles of marijuana were discovered under the casket's cover and pillow.

Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse said the van turned up during surveillance on a suspected drug house. Police stopped the van in Mesquite after noticing Crock not wearing a seat belt. Officers also said he allegedly ran a red light and made an improper lane change.

A drug-sniffing dog alerted officers to the casket in the van.

The online records of the Lew Sterrett Justice Center had no listing for an attorney for Crock."

Third Eye Blind Day...in honor of last night!

1. Slow Motion



Ms. jones taught me english, but I think I just shot her son
Cause he owed me money, with a bullet in the chest you cannot run
Now hes bleeding in a vacant lot
The one in the summer where we used to smoke pot
I guess I didnt mean it
But man you shoulda seen it
His flesh explode

Slow motion
See me let go
We tend to die young
Slow motion
See me let go
What a brother knows
Slow motion
See me let go

Now the cops will get me
But girl, if you would let me
Ill take your pants off
I gotta a little bit of blow
We could both get off
Later bathing in the afterglow
Two lines of coke Id cut with draino
And her nose starts to bleed
A most beautiful ruby red

Slow motion
See me let go
Well remember these days
Slow motion
See me let go
Urban life decays
Slow motion
See me let go

And at home
My sisters eating paint chips again
Maybe thats why shes insane
I shut the door to her moaning
And I shoot smack in my vains
And wouldnt you
See my neighbors beating his wife
Because he hates his life
Theres an arc to his fist as he swings
Oh man, what a beautiful thing

And death slides close to me
Wont grow old to be
A junkie whine-o creep

Hollywood glamourized my wrath
Im the young urban psyco path
I encite murder for your entertainment
Cause I needed the money
Whats your excuse?
The jokes on you

Slow motion
See me let go (aaahh)
Oh yeah
Slow motion
See me let go (aaahh)
Ahhhh
Slow motion
See me let go (aaahh)
Oooh

2. I Want You Back (Jackson 5 Cover!!!!!!)



3. God Of Wine



4. Motorcycle Drive By



5. Company



Start your engines

Can we get the chemicals in
Cause anything's better than this
Mix it up with vicadin
Cause anything's better than this
Little cuts on your wrist,
To try and get back the feeling
And no real friendships exists
That would be an understatement

Tell me the reason
(cannot show up)
Friends you knew before
(hello, how have you been?)
This is your season
(oh I give up)
Just show up
(I can't knock on your door)

Cause I keep bad company
I'm trouble
So go on stay away from me
I play the villain
You don't know where we've been

Lining em up again
Start your engines

Can we get the chemicals in
Old english is making me manic
I go to SuicideGirls again
To check on anything I missed
The stitches don't even begin
To even stop up the bleeding
Can we get the chemicals in
Cause anything's better than this

The city is dying
(at least to me)
The city is dead now
(my kingdom for a friend)
Are you even trying
(to find some peace)
Don't need a reason
(I get some living in)

Cause I keep bad company
I'm in trouble
Last chance stay away from me
I play the villain
You don't know where we've been

Lining em up again
Keep saying this will end

I keep bad company
I'm in trouble
Keep saying this will end
Lining em up again
You know I'll never change

Lining em up again
Start your engines

6/24/09....been a couple days...oops....

1. The Wallflowers feat. Bruce Springsteen - One Headlight (Live)




2. R.E.M. feat. Eddie Vedder - Man On The Moon (Live)



3. Neil Young w/ Pearl Jam - Rockin In The Free World (live)



4. Chris Martin & Noel Gallagher - Live Forever (Live Acoustic)



5. Chris Martin & Noel Gallagher - Yellow (Live Acoustic)



6. Oasis - Eleanor Rigby (Sound Check)

Quality kind of stinks but still cool...

700 NYC Teachers Paid To Do Nothing

I love this country so very much! God knows how many people have no jobs and we pay other people for sitting around with their thumbs in their asses because they used bad language or lied at a "hearing" on whether or not to suspend a student. WHO GIVES A FUCKING SHIT?!?!...uch...I hate everybody...





"Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that's what they want to do.

Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them, the teachers have been banished by the school system to its "rubber rooms" — off-campus office space where they wait months, even years, for their disciplinary hearings.

The 700 or so teachers can practice yoga, work on their novels, paint portraits of their colleagues — pretty much anything but school work. They have summer vacation just like their classroom colleagues and enjoy weekends and holidays through the school year." (full article)

New "Alice In Wonderland"...Tim Burton Style...Ooooooooh....

View the whole gallery here:

http://www.ecranlarge.com/movie_image-view-13403-328976-movie.php

6/18/09...I am running out of videos....

1. Beck - Lost Cause (Live on Letterman)




2. We Are Scientists - After Hours (Live/Acoustic)



3. The Sounds - 4 Songs & a Fight



4. Hagfish - Plain



5. Jenny Wilson - Let My Shoes Lead Me

I'll pay for half those star tattoos to be removed, says the man who engraved 56 on 18-year-old girl's face

The tattooist embroiled in a row with a teenage girl who claims he tattooed 56 stars on her face when she only asked for three has said he will help pay for them to be removed.

Rouslan Toumaniantz said today that Kimberley Vlaminck 'absolutely' agreed she wanted 56 stars tattooed on the left side of her face.

But now the 18-year-old is suing Toumaniantz, claiming she had asked him for only three stars - and had fallen asleep during the procedure, waking up to a nightmare in her Belgian hometown of Courtrai.

full article >>

Man Posed as His Dead Mother...awesome...

Irene Prusik has been dead for six years. But in April, someone showed up at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Brooklyn to renew her driver's license.
The explanation given by prosecutors rivals the Hitchcock classic "Psycho": It was her son, in drag.

Thomas Parkin, 49, was charged Wednesday in the bizarre plot to impersonate his deceased mother so he could collect $117,000 in government benefits. He and the man accused of being his accomplice, Mhilton Rimolo, pleaded not guilty to grand larceny, criminal impersonation and other charges.

WHO GIVES A FUCK?!?

I love these parents that are so mad and outraged by this HUGE scandal...uch...GFY (aka GO FUCK YOURSELF)

Embedded video from CNN Video

6/17/09

Sorry about the delay - been working on another project that I cared about more than You Tube videos! But I'm back... :)

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric (acoustic)

I can't listen to this song without feeling like I am in a movie...not sure why...



2. The Hush Sound - Wine Red





3. Ben Gibbard - Carolina



4. The Promise Ring - Skips A Beat (Over You)

For some reason this person put this song over an image of skeletor from He-Man. Not sure why, but good song, so what ya gonna do?



5. Weezer - Across The Sea (live...amazing quality)

Probably top5 weezer songs...from their first 2 records of course. I just pretend they broke up after Pinkerton...Matt Sharp left, so did the good music...it makes me depressed sometimes...

6/15/09...Groundhog Day....

1. Eliott Smith - Somebody That I Used To Know


2. the strokes - take it or leave it


3. The Rentals - Please Let That Be You



4. Iron and Wine - Naked As We Came



5. She Had the World (Alternate Version)- Panic at the Disco

Dog eats bag of pot, gets high

Just thought this was kind of funny....

6/12/09...it's friday...or is it? I don't know, all the days are blurring

1. the rentals - getting by



2. the weakerthans - the last last one (live version w/ piano...quite cool)



3. Hot Rod Circuit – Consumed By Laziness (Acoustic w/ Max Bemis of Say Anything doing lead vox)




4. Alkaline Trio – Stupid Kid



5. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet

6/11/09....Eh....

1. Dismemberment Plan - The City



2. Elliott Smith - Miss Misery



3. Dan Andriano of Alkaline Trio - My Standard Break From Life (live/acoustic)



4. Cruiserweight - You Were Right



5. The Get Up Kids - Mass Pike (live)



6. Cruiserweight - You Don't Get It!

6/10/09

1. Rooney - When Did Your Heart Go Missing (Acoustic)



2. Shout Out Louds - 100 Degrees (GREAT fucking homemade video...silly and stupid but funny)



3. Jets To Brazil - You're The One I Want



4. The Sounds - No One Sleeps When I'm Awake



5. The Killers - Believe Me Natalie

6/9/09...I need Dr. Marvin to give a prescription for a vacation from myself....

I know it's been a couple days...life kind of gets in the way of the play list...

1. The Sounds - Much Too Long (Good damn song...it just is...)



2. Matt Skiba - Next To You



"You're walking the thin line
Between here and out of control
You kept me in mind
You got the paper cuts to prove it
Your sea sick smile
Screams sweet nausea
'76 was a good year for me
It's been uphill since then
Don't cry or stop to wonder why
We crashed out the thunder
On the floor down from the ceiling
It was nice waking up next to you
Then you crossed the line
Between here and out of this world
You blow my mind
Like a colt '45 every time
Don't cry or stop to wonder why
We crossed out our thunder
On the floor down from the ceiling
It's been nice waking up next to you
Don't cry or stop to wonder why
We crossed out our thunder
On the floor down from the ceiling
It's been nice waking up next to...
You...
And our sea sick smiles
Screaming home sweet home."

3. Amanda Palmer - Have To Drive



4. Counting Crows - A Murder Of One



5. Frou Frou - Maddening Shroud

Introducing America's First Black, Female Rabbi

Found this article on CNN.com and just thought I had to share it...I don't know...just seemed like a good idea...leave me alone...I had a long night....






Alysa Stanton poses in front of an ark in the synagogue at Hebrew Union College, Thursday, May 21, 2009, in Cincinnati. Stanton is to be ordained June 6, as mainstream Judaism's first black woman rabbi. She will become the rabbi at Congregation Bayt Shalom in Greenville, N.C., on Aug. 1.







The path to the pulpit has been as colorful as it has been unusual for Alysa Stanton, 45, America's first-ever female African-American rabbi. Stanton, who was born to a Christian family, was formally ordained on June 6, having completed seven years of rabbinical training at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. Stanton will now assume her new role as the first nonwhite rabbi of Congregation Bayt Shalom, a 60-family synagogue in Greenville, N.C.

"This is an exciting next step in my journey," says Stanton, who feels both blessed and burdened by her "first-ever" status. "I'm honored and awed by this achievement," she continues. "But I am foremost a rabbi who happens to be African-American, not The African-American Rabbi." (See pictures of African-American Firsts at LIFE.com.)

Two decades ago, an African-American leader in a synagogue might have been about as likely as an African American in the White House. But Stanton's ascendancy reflects the slowly changing face of America's Jews. According to Diane Tobin, a demographer with the San Francisco-based Institute for Jewish and Community Research (IJCR), some 20% of American Jewry is now non-Caucasian. While there is no data specifically on black Jews, "a large percentage [of nonwhite Jews] are African American," Tobin says. "Most arrive via conversion, adoption or mixed Jewish-black marriages," she adds, "and are far from Judaism's fringes and part of traditional communities."

That would fairly describe Rabbi Stanton's journey. Her childhood in Ohio was a conventional one, but, as a self-described "old soul," Stanton says she was propelled early on by a search for spiritual nourishment, which led her far beyond her Pentecostal roots. She was attracted initially to Eastern religions and Evangelicalism, until her family moved to a predominantly Jewish suburb of Cleveland. Curious about the mezuzahs in the doorways of neighboring homes — along with other unfamiliar Jewish customs — Stanton turned for guidance to a Catholic uncle who occasionally worshipped at a local temple.

By her 20s, Stanton had found a permanent home in Judaism, and formally converted to the religion after a year of study with a rabbi in Denver. Her family and community, however, were skeptical of her defection to the synagogue. There was a sense of betrayal, Stanton concedes, but there was also the reality that Stanton would never quite look like your average American Jew. "I definitely don't blend in," Stanton says. "Worldwide, Jews come in every color and hue, but in America, mainstream Judaism is definitely an Anglo demographic." (See the top 10 religion stories of 2008.)

But Stanton's outsider status did nothing to keep her from becoming the ultimate Jewish insider, an officially ordained rabbi. She beat out some half-dozen candidates for the position of rabbi at Congregation Bayt Shalom in North Carolina. Much of Stanton's appeal, says synagogue president Michael Barondes, lies in her ability to connect and communicate powerfully, both from the pulpit and face-to-face. Those are skills Stanton honed during an earlier career, before entering the seminary — as a psychotherapist specializing in grief and loss. She helped counsel victims of the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School. "She knows intuitively how to listen to people," says Barondes. "And as a one-synagogue town, we need a rabbi who can reach out to all of our members."

Barondes says Stanton's color played no role in her candidacy, but neither he nor Stanton — a divorced single mother to Shana, 14 — is unaccustomed to the impact of race in America, particularly in the South. Indeed, leaders of the Alabama synagogue where Stanton trained for a year as a student rabbi never believed their white congregation would accept an African-American at the pulpit. Complaints were lodged and calls were made. Yet by the end of her training, the synagogue was deeply saddened to see her go. "Everyone has their initial impressions and outmoded stereotypes," Stanton reflects on the experience. "But these people came to embrace me and my child."

Thanks to other high-profile rabbis, such as Capers Funnye, the African-American leader of Chicago's Beth Shalom B'Nei Zaken synagogue — and First Lady Michelle Obama's second cousin — mainstream American Jewry appears ready to embrace leaders like Stanton. And with African Americans becoming increasingly drawn to Judaism, in part because of the shrinking perception that they are not welcomed by white Jews, the IJCR's Tobin say the timing could not be better for American Jewry to finally reconsider who and what makes a Jew. "Due to assimilation and intermarriage, the stability of the American Jewish community has never been more vulnerable," she says. "If we are to survive we must become more welcoming to people and not just send them away."

Man in New Hamphire arrested for 153rd time!

Paul Baldwin, 49, told a judge Monday he plans to plead guilty to the assault, along with trespassing and alcohol charges. He said he's had a long battle with alcohol and was trying to correct the problem during his most recent one-year jail term, which ended last week.

The Foster's Daily Democrat newspaper said Baldwin's record dates to 1984 and includes 152 other arrests, eight trespass orders, 75 citations, four Social Security aliases and 17 name aliases.

and...while you're at it....

Just in case of a cough of course...

Bring it back! It was pretty damn tasty!

Sprinkle Spangles!

Amanda Palmer Covers Series....she's good!

Below are just a bunch of songs that Amanda Palmer from the Dresden Dolls has covered. They are all pretty unreal, just like she is! Even if you're not a huge fan of hers, watch em...don't be dumb...

Amanda Palmer - Such Great Heights (Iron and Wine)




Amanda Palmer – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)




I Will Follow You Into The Dark (Death Cab For Cutie)



Patience (Guns N’ Roses)




Sweet Dreams (Are made of these) (Eurythmics)

FUCKING UNREAL! If you don’t watch/listen to this, you should be ashamed!



Creep (Radiohead)



Amanda Palmer – 1234 (The Feist)

(Starts about 1:20 into video – she just makes up the lyrics and they’re hilarious)




Umbrella – Rihanna

One down, nine more to go....

6/3/09...Saves The Day...which day? This day....

Didn't plan to have so many Saves The Day videos, but I stumbled upon some really sweet acoustic and live versions and at that point, it was out of my hands...If you like them at all, take a listen. They are actually really good...


1. Anywhere With You



2. Hold



3. Holly Hox Forget Me Nots (live)...

The Saves The Day I remember and love...this is the lineup that defined ages 16 - 21 for me. Awesome to see it again...





4. Driving In The Dark




5. Cars and Calories - (live)

Not sure what's up with Chris' hair and glasses, but hey, what ya gonna do?



6. What Went Wrong





7. Paramore - Hear You Me (Jimmy Eat World Cover)

COMPLETELY unrelated, but stumbled upon it and liked it, so enjoy it and shut your mouth!

Oh, Mothers!..."Police say they've arrested a woman accused of leading an armed robbery gang involving her sons"

Police in Phoenix say they've arrested a woman accused of leading an armed robbery gang involving her 12- and 14-year-old sons.

Police say 51-year-old Cynthia White Roberson coached some of the four boys and three men who were charged with her. The suspects are accused of at least 20 armed robberies in Phoenix and Glendale since late April.

Police say Roberson lost her job six weeks ago and guilted her sons and some of the others into committing the robberies to pay for rent and a car loan.

Many of the robbery victims were also youngsters and were physically assaulted.

One 13-year-old victim was beaten up and forced to empty his pockets — which contained only an orange lollipop.

6/2/09...

1. Interpol - C'mere



2. The Cure - The End Of The World



3. The Weakerthans - Tournament of Hearts



4. Björk - Hyperballad




5. The Honorary Title - Everything I Once Had

Play List June 1st! It's already fucking June...fuck...

1. The National - Start A War (live...and efin amazing!)




2. Jets To Brazil - Further North



3. The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 (Billy Solo Acoustic)



4. Seu Jorge - Life On Mars



5. The Beta Band - Dry The Rain