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Good work KJP.

I finally watched "Hot Tub Time Machine" this weekend. Instant classic. Rob Corddry deserves an Oscar or some sort of reward based his performances in "HTTM" and "Harold and Kumar: Escape from gitmo". He is over the top and out of control. And that is good... It possibly has one of my favorite movie quotes of all times. I totally relate to this because I had a friend that was an a**hole and couldn't keep his mouth shut. When they are at the Hospital to see Lou. Doctor:"You are his friends aren't you?" "If by friends you mean he's an a**hole, but he's our a**hole. Then yes, we are his friends."

I am waiting for lunchtime to go running and some (hopefully) sun to warm me up..

In other news. The PD ran the Cleve-Burgh article on the front page of the Sunday opinion section that ran in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette a couple of weeks ago, and after it made the round on the internet...

EVD, I am just ornery today so don't take it personal. It's been a long week.... And answering your assement of the the music of the 60's. My question is; wasn't it derivative of jazz, blues, folk, C&W, early rock n' roll/rock a billy and soul music? The music that you listen to during your formative (say 15-25) always seems to remain the original to you, making it harder to realize that when you do some exploring that a lot was lifted from other artists. At least that is what I have seen from my personal experience. This gets to my point that influence has as much to do with the massive influence of the boomers on pop culture for the last 40 years as it does the quality of the music. The biggest influential change I see the artists of the 60's accomplishing was the move of popular music singers from the realm of merely entertainers sing other peoples songs to more autonmous artist singing and playing their own compositions. Musically I would have to say that Hendrix probably added the most original element to music, adding another dimension with tone control, feedback and overdriving the amp to the R&B/Blues skills that he learned to play on the Chitlin' circuit as a back up player.

Well it was huge deal for Apple because it meant that they reached settlement and would quit being sued by Apple Records, the Beatles and their families. :P

^ I am guessing that wasn't very random after reading that. At least they let him go so he could make his court date on Monday.

KJP, I think that we have a couple of opinions being thrown out there on the Beatles. David thinks that they only have two or three good song, while I think they were tremendusly talented and influential, but undeserving of being head and sholders above other artists in a lot of people's musical heiarchies. I am student of pop music history and well read on the achievemnt and exploits of most classic rock artists. I understand that the Beatles originally cut their chops playing covers of early American RnR in Liverpool and Hamburg. Then Epstein clean them up and convinced them to wear suits and sing songs about holding hands...well you know the rest. I guess that my point is the Beatles get a lot of credit for things that were really an Arms Race musically between them, the stones, Dylan, the who, Brian Wilson and plenty of others. But the Beatles get a ton of extra credit because they were married to the Boomers collective psyche because of how huge they were during the intial British Invasion. Also music played a huge part in the rapid culture change in the second half of the 60's but then again I feel that a lot of people give music too much credit for causing the change rather than being a soundtrack/ product of the change caused by the draft, the huge demographic the boomers and their quest for their own idenity.

I like this video even better...They have a great sense of humour.

^ Agreed. Sounds too random to be random. Sounds like a shady cover story to me. You usually don't tell the police or the newspaper that you owe your bookie or dealer $10k and he was looking to get the money one way or another. If it isn't, talk about bad luck on that guys part.

^ There is always good music being made, you just got to adjust your bifocals and look a little harder for it... :P Although the Beatles are definately preferable to DanB's Doo-wop groups....

^Yup. He was nominated for an Best Supporting Actor for "The Departed". Academy Awards, USA Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s) 2007 Nominated Oscar Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for: The Departed (2006). Whoa this has potential to be off the wall, he is in an upcoming movie written and directed by Seth MccFarlane about a grown man who's Teddy Bear comes to life due to a childhood wish. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637725/

I still haven't seen Hot Tub Time Machine but it seems to a shoo in for my goofball comedy rotation along with Super Troopers, Office Space, Blazing Saddles and the like. I forgot that Aniston was in Office Space. She is pretty bad in most of the movies she has done. I watched The Bounty Hunter on Netflix the other weekend. It wasn't horrible but it was far from great, pretty mediocre romantic comedy. Lets put it this way for $10 a month unlimited streaming movies, it was an OK waste of time. If I had spent $20 plus to see it at the theater I would have been very unhappy.

You're screwing with me? Marky Mark is a better actor, I mean better rapper, I mean underwear model, umm actor... :P Seriously, I agree but I don't mind Wahlberg at all, in fact I find him very enjoyable going all the way back to The Basketball Diaries (OK Rockstar was big steaming bag of Dog Poo, but everybody shares the blame in that trainwreck)

^Cleveland.com comments raise negatively to an art form but in the past articles the Nashville comments have been generally negative towards their proposed project too.

Some hot and fresh good news on brain drain trends in wake of the economic crisis. Where the Brains Are Going By Richard Florida Jan 18 2011, 4:34 PM ET 4 Over the past decade or so, communities across America and the world have been redoubling their efforts to attract and retain college graduates. This makes good economic sense. According to a wide and growing body of research, the competitiveness of places -- nations as well as cities, regions, and states -- turns on their ability to harness human capital. Since young adults are the most mobile members of the population -- people in their mid-20s are three to five times more likely to move than middle aged folks -- the ability to attract them early in life can pay big, lasting dividends. A new study by Brookings demographer William Frey examines trends in the migration decisions of young adults and college grads (as separate groups) over the years 2007-2009. His findings are especially interesting and relevant, since they cover the period since the onset of the economic crisis and reset.... Read More at: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/01/where-the-brains-are-going/69729/#

^^ Spastic colon. Nice touch. How about an irritable prostate too? As a balding man, I am jealous as hell of that head of hair. I wouldn't wish that falling out on anyone. I am kind of indifferent to the Pats and I guess I was rooting against the Jets more than for the Pats. ^Braylon is still a douche though, even if it's impressive as hell that someone that size can do those flips. I wasn't defending him by the way. Just stating what I objectively thought. As somebody said on WFNY today the best possible outcome for two of the four games (Jets/Pats, Squealers/Ratbirds) this weekend if you were a Browns fan was for a meteor to crash into the field vaporizing both teams. But that didn't happen.. Heading out for Cincy right now. See everybody on Wednesday.

It's who he is, I can't blame him. It's show boaty but he just can't contain his razzle or whatever he called it. I'd be pretty damn excited if my team just beat the Pats in the playoffs too. I think he is in a good place there. All they need him to do is draw coverage on every play and make a couple of catches a game. Holmes takes a lot of pressure off of him to perform consistantly that he had here in Cleveland to be a true number 1 reciever, well that and the Jets running game. For example, yesterday he had 2 catches for 50 yards, 1 TD and one incomplete where he miffed his route. Although it would have been funny if the clock hadn't expired when he did it and drew an unsportsman like penalty ala the Dwaayne Rudd helmet toss...

I was watching it and caught it out of the side of my eye, and my intial thought was, who is that D-bag. Oh wait number 17. Shocked. I missed his TD was it anything special?

Did anybody else catch Braylon Edwards cartwheel to a backflip at the end of the Pats-Jets game? Stay classy!

No Doubt. That is a huge hole in their service.

C-dawg. I'd try the battery first, looks like the replacement kits are around $10-$15 on the ineternet for the 4th gen with tools to open the case. The batteries on those just have a plug so the hardest part is opening the case. I have a refurb 5th gen Video ipod still going strong since Christmas 2006. And a 1st gen Touch that I won at a conference in 2007? 2008? Six years old is ancient in ipod years. They age only slightly better than cell phones.

^ that's pretty sweet. Where is it?

Frowns (clevelandfrowns.com) has gone off the deep end over this whole Mangini/Shurmur thing. He used to be a pretty good read, now he is just as out there as Grossi. I am indifferent to Shumur, Mangini had potential, but you can easily justify canning him.

Yes, Cleveland can be mistaken for Siberia for 4 months a year. Dumbfucks...