She should be nice and attractive and... topless. Topless is good!

Wow, this Gnarls Barkley album is blowing up like crazy! . Gnarls Barkley is a collaboration between Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo. Their first album, St. Elsewhere , was released by Warner Music on April 24, 2006 in the UK and is set to be released May 9 in the U.S. by Atlantic/Downtown Records. It was made available for download one week earlier in the U.S. iTunes Music Store and other online download stores. "Crazy", the first single, became the first ever UK number one based on download sales alone. Nuts I tell ya. But damn are they some catchy tunes. Soulful, full of samples and beats galore. Danger Mouse is on a huge roll. Which after hearing about Charles Barkley and John Daly's incredible gambling loses, I'm wondering at what point will Sir Charles come calling for his share of the pot. That Danger Mouse just loves to not make money on any of the work he does huh!

Found this amazing story last week on how young adults in the United States fail to understand the world and their place in it, according to a survey-based report on geographic literacy released today. For example, despite non-stop news coverage since the war began in Iraq in 2003, 63% of Americans aged 18 to 24 failed to locate the country on a map of the Middle East. 70% could not find Iran or Israel. Now, I'm no Columbus or anything, but I know where Iraq, Iran and Israel are. If you would like to test your knowledge, please take thisquiz. I blame this decline on you Steve Jobs. Well, maybe it's because most kids that age learned Geography like this

So, the other night I'm watching Road Trip, well, because there was nothing else on. And that scene where Horatio from SNL puts the kids's french toast in his pants comes on. Holy Snikes, is that scene hilarious. I credit that scene for making me never, EVER!, sending food back because it's not cooked right. Unless I can see the kitchen of course. What ever happened to Tom Green. Last thing I remember was testicle cancer and Drew Barrymore dumping his ass.

Bond's #715, a joyless endeavor. I have to say, Tom Verducci put is so eloquently the other day in this article. He talks about Bond's chase for Ruth, and ulitimately, the chase for Aaron and how something that should be so great, has becomes so joyless and unrewarding. He closes with this, "An athlete being labeled a cheater is worse than being called soft or a loser or even a jerk. And yet that is the verdict on Bonds, a player once gifted with as great a package of all-around baseball skills the game had ever seen. And that, really, is why this tour toward history is so sad." Which sadly is the biggest bummer. Bonds could have been as great as his godfather, Willie Mays, maybe even better. But now, we'll never know how good he was, just that he cheated us all of something great.


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My god, I am loving this new I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS album. The Austin band's first full length, Fear Is On Our Side was released March 7th on Secretly Canadian. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness had worked with Spoon's lead singer, Britt Daniel, who produced their earlier work. On Fear Is On Our Side, former Ministry bassist and programmer Paul Barker, produced and engineered. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness make beautifully haunting music that sees them expand a bit on their earlier work. The vocals are frightengly distant and full of disdain. The guitars soar and crash around linear bass lines and synthy sounding drums. What you could imagine this bands sounds like, dark, brooding and full of mystery, is sort of what you get. And it's damn good.

They are going out to the West Coast w/ the Rogers Sisters, and then come back to NYC to play the Bowery on July 19.

So, has anyone noticed how the worst rapper ever, The Streets, new track, "When He Wasn't Famous", sounds so much like the beat to the "Macarena"? I kid you not. Check it out here This guy is horrible. I'm sorry, I just don't get it!