Rock God Cred Report:

Click here to check out Bob Dylan’s new Christmas video for the tune “Must Be Santa”

Buy “Christmas In The Heart”…all of Bob Dylan’s royalties from sales Christmas In The Heart will be donated to Feeding America in the United States , Crisis in the United Kingdom , and the World Food Programme in 80 developing nations around the world.

First, Heartbreak Warfare - Yes, I know.  Shut up, Mayer’s a musical genius!  Rumor has it the lyrics were written about Jennifer Aniston.

And~ If I Ever Leave This World Alive – Flogging Molly’s brogue-ish anthem was my favorite part of P.S. I Love You, which I otherwise would love to punch.

"She actually won two Academy Awards for Best Actress? Wow."

It’s Saturday, and I’m YouTube-ing again. 

Video #1: Freaky wasp

Props to Ted for turning me on to Tarantula Hawk Wasps

Wooooooowww.  These are some bad-ass bugs for sure.   Taratula Hawks (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) stalk, grapple with, and (if all goes well) paralyse their large spider prey with a painful sting rivalled only by that of the dreaded Bullet Ant.  The stunned spider, still alive, is dragged into a dugout nest, where the female wasp lays a single egg on the body of her victim.  When the egg hatches, the tarantula is eaten alive by the voracious young larva.  Don’t parasitoids just freak you right out???  Despite the ferocious feeding habits, these wasps are actually quite docile, and really rather stunning – gorgeous deep blue-black body highlighted by glinting rust-coloured wings. 

Video #2: Freaky diva

Because today I am totally obsessed with Lady Gaga (why did I not know how freakin’ COOL she is until recently?  Huh?  Why did no one TELL me???) you get the way-over-the-top-bloody-über-drama spectacle that was her rendition of Paparazzi at the VMA awards…

The theatre geek in me simply adores her edgy drama, her huge stage presence, the use of costuming,  makeup, lighting, good sets and props to set a tone…the fact that the woman can hella sing is just gravy.

“And all of my dreams are only dreams
And all of my schemes are only schemes
And if this is my punishment
Then I want my crime to fit”

I’ll keep this one short and sweet. I don’t like the Fakery, the band better known to the world as The Bravery.  You want contrived? Check? You want boring? Check? You want lacking in ideas and a band bereft of any inclination towards anything resembling a tune. You’ve got the Bravery. Here’s their new single called Slow Poison. Enjoy it now because I’m sure you’ll forget about it by this coming Tuesday, the first of December when the record Stir The Blood is released.

Before I get the hate comments, let me simply state that I thought the self-titled debut record was decent enough with songs like Unconditional & An Honest Mistake. The problem for me was simply that a) the record did not meet the hype which was really not their fault, to be fair. b) much like the The Fillers’ Hot Mess aka The Killers’ Hot Fuss, the record was extremely top heavy and by the second half, you knew what you were getting, weren’t floored by what you heard before and found yourself filing the record away in your cabinet.  That’s not what I want from the music I listen to. I want something vital. I want something to fall in love with the process of discovering music all over again. Never mind the fact that if you listen closely, the chorus closely resembles that of Bombers Bay by Echo & The Bunnymen, it only adds to the Bravery’s list of crimes against humanity. It all adds up to why The Fakery simply don’t do it for me and there you have it.

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“Slow Poison” by The Bravery, taken from the forthcoming Island/Def Jam release, “Stir The Blood”

By Streams of Praise

I almost forgot how beautiful the Chinese Language can be and this song reminded me of a moment in time past where He was there through life’s uncertainties.

Jailbreaking your iPhone allows you to install unauthorised apps that Apple have not yet allowed (for example unlocking or video recording).

This post is brought to you by ASPA Mobile Phone Repair

Once you’ve jailbroken your iPhone you’ll notice a new app in your Springboard, called CYDIA. Cydia is the hackers version of the iTunes App Store. Once you open Cydia, you’ll be bombarded with the biggest list of apps EVER most of which are free. Whilst this is awesome, the sheer volume of apps makes it very hard to make educated choices on what apps to install, an

d it’s very easy to install totally useless apps and waste your time. So we’ve compiled a beginners guide to Cydia, 10 apps that will get you going with your jailbroken device and make your iPhone life easier and more useful in the process.

Winterboard
Winterboard is the ‘control’ app for the way your iPhone looks and sounds, once you’ve installed winterboard, you can then go back in to Cydia and choose from the plethora of themes that range from Lock Screens, to wallpapers to soundsets.

Upon installing these Themes, you won’t actually notice anything, until you go back in to

Winterboard and ‘tick’ the themes ACTIVE. On hitting the home screen, the Springboard will freeze and then restart, and your new theme settings will be active.

*Featured theme at top of this article is GRADIANCE V3

iBlackList
iBlackList serves two main purposes, primarily it allows you to create Blacklists and Whitelists for your contacts. Depending on your setup, iBlackList will allow or disallow certain contacts to get through to you. This also works for SMS messages and automatically deletes messages from contacts you don’t want to hear from.

Simply put, MxTube is YouTube with the ability to download videos for offline viewing. This is great because it downloads the high quality streams and plays back at a higher quality than the iPhone’s native YouTube app. MxTube is in beta, and sometimes crashes, which is a little frustrating, however it’s quite possibly our favourite Jailbreak app.

SwirlyMMS
MMS Picture Messaging is not a feature of the iPhone as standard. SwirlyMMS fixes this problem and allows you to send and receive photos to any mobile that has Picture Messaging. The latest version of SwirlyMMS contains all the access settings for all networks.

Video Recorder 3G
The iPhone is remarkably good at playing back video, but sadly it lacks the processing power to record video well. iPhone Video Recorder 3G is the answer. Whilst the quality is still very blurry and at maximum records at 15 (blurry) frames a second, it’s better than nothing. Don’t bank on be able to use this to capture those special moments with clarity though. We’ll have to wait for a good camera in the next iPhone for that…

LogoMe
The iPhone is remarkably good at playing back video, but sadly it lacks the processing power to record video well. iPhone Video Recorder 3G is the answer. Whilst the quality is still very blurry and at maximum records at 15 (blurry) frames a second, it’s better than nothing. Don’t bank on be able to use this to capture those special moments with clarity though. We’ll have to wait for a good camera in the next iPhone for that…

LogoMe
Select any image and LogoMe will replace the Apple logo on start up with an image of your choice. It’s a little bit of fun, and really serves no purpose, but we’re nerds and it’s fun!

Reminder (aka Notifier)
Once you’ve installed iBlackList and turned on your Notifications Privacy you will need a way to see if you have messages at a glance. This is where Reminder comes in to play. This app adds some small icons to the top bar of your iPhone and shows when you have an SMS, Mail, MMS, Missed call or IM.

KeyVib
KeyVib makes your iPhone vibrate on every key click when typing emails or SMS. Whilst it drains the battery a little bit more than usual, it makes typing that little bit more responsive. Try it out, some people love it, some people hate it.

Make It Mine
Make It Mine allows you to change the carrier name (or remove it totally as shown above). Also it lets you change the clock to read anything else you want it to. We like the idea of removing the Carrier name entirely, because it makes the iPhone top bar look less busy.

Apps like ‘Stocks’ are pretty useless for everyone, and we’re not sure why Apple have included it as a basic app. However, most people would prefer it wasn’t visible. Poof! allows you to ‘hide’ apps that you don’t want to see.

Rock God Cred Report:

Click here to check a 70’s lost classic from UFO “Love to Love”…this album is greatness…great tune that used to grace the classic rock stations in the 70’s.

Buy “Lights Out (extra tracks)”…an essential album in any classic rock collection.

The Vinyl District Report:

Click here to go to TVD to check The Jam covering the Beatles “And Your Bird Can Sing”, Jimi Hendrix “Little Wing”, Queen “Spread Your Wings (Live 78)”, and more.

Snuhthing Anything Report:

Click here to go to SA to check Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers “Stories We Could Tell”…plus other good tunes

Licorice Pizza Report:

Click here to go to LP to check ZZ Top “TV Dinners”

Hii! Piektdiena klāt!! Šodien nobeidzās mana darba nedēļa,beidzās eksperiments ar nosaukumu “5 dienas bez alus”  (tīri oki beidzās, šodien atļāvos beidzot kārtīgi alu padzerties ), un kā jau piektdienām pienākas, šī bija jauka un interesanta un nedēļa jau vispār bij kolosāla.. easy trīs dienas, emociju pilna un nesaprotamā ceturtdiena, un tad nu beidzot..  PIEKTDIENA!

Weekenda tune ir šis:

Vai arī šis..

abi labi..

Rock God Cred Report:

Click here to check a 70’s gem from The Marshall Tucker Band “Desert Skies”…always dug this tune.

Buy “Carolina Dreams”

Popdose Report:

Click here to go to Popdose to check Sheriff “When I’m With You”…plus some solo stuff from Styx guitarist Tommy Shaw “Lonely School”, “(Remos Theme) What If”, and “Ever Since The World Began”…and the Sherbs “I Have The Skill”

The Decibel Tolls Report:

Click here to go to TDT to check George Harrison “Thanks For The Pepperoni”

Fades In Slowly Report:

Click here to go to FIS to check a batch of Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett “1970 Peel Session”…”Baby Lemonade”, “Effervescening Elephant”, “Gigolo Aunt”, “Terrapin”, and “Two of a Kind”

(Quick Intro): D1 (Nate)… Mc/ Rapper/Producer/Lover/ All-Round-Fly-Guy…Coming Outta Geelong City, Aus!

Check Me Out: http://www.myspce.com/d1musik…Holla @ Ya.Boy…

” GRIND TIME “

You-tubing away as I do I came across a battle league called “Grind Time” this League is based on pre-written rhymes however the Mc’s that battle in this league are beasts!

I’ve watched this league grow to become the No. #1 battle league in the WORLD!!

Differently worth checking out…

http://www.grintimenow.com or http://www.youtube.com/drect

A few favorite Mc’s of mine….Dumbfoundead, F.L.O, Locksmith, Conceited, Sahtyre…This league is U.S based but has battlers from around the globe. One day I hope to see an Australian off branch, Grind Time (Down Under) with your host D1, haha!

Hope You Enjoyed… Much Love // Ya.No.1 Guest Blogger D1…

Hey! Long time no see!!! Sorry about that. There were some complications going on with the settings in the Matrix of Life; some corrupted code that I needed to take care of.

As you can see, it's a pretty difficult programming language to play around with.

So, I’m going to explain some things that have been going on – or, more like, have gone on. For example, everyone in my class yesterday had an official publishing party, without the girls and poles of course (and, instead, all boys), so what we were supposed to do was make a public speech where you introduce the winner of a certain award. The award was for the best participant in orgies. And, if you haven’t noticed, I have just finished cracking a joke. Though it probably wasn’t quite funny.

Some of us were given special roles, though, since we made considerable progress, or could not do much more progress than had already been done. I have a perfect 13 for my ITBS, meaning, my reading and writing capabilities are supposedly at college level, and I’m only in eighth grade. If I can’t brag, I can gloat. If I can’t do it in public, I can do it on a blog – however public a blog is as well.

So what role did I play? I was “DJ” (Dick Jerker) – though I think that’s more of a euphemism. I was just the put-music-during-transitions-from-public-speech-to-public-speech person, which was quite enjoyable for me, since I like poppin’ and then showin’ off my tunes (as in my penis).

I'd rather listen to myTunes.

Like, Cult of Personality, or some other cool ones like White Light by Gorillaz, Feather by Nujabes (featuring some other guy who does the rapping), Prodigy, Motorhead, but, of course, Led Zeppelin.

I had perfect timing on the breaks for the most part, and people actually liked the music. I tried to put music of all genres insofar as they fit the occasion. Mostly hip hop and rock. This is because audience’s won’t always have the same tastes – some will think rap is shitty. I’m not a big fan of rap, except for some jazz rap. So I compromised, and put some jazz rap, which I call candy rap.

Candy rap.

Primarily because it has a sweetening instrumental sound that soothes the ear, backing up the rap so it sounds like spoken word – I also call that hip hop.

I always knew my music wasn’t shitty, like a pile of shit. Sometimes the audience bobbed their heads, and sometimes the “award winners” (actors, really) would dance to it also, just to make themselves look absolutely ridiculous.

I was the Jesus of music during the whole show, yet I had not gotten nailed.

DJ Jesus: "I turned whine into music. And I turntabled music into dance."

My language arts teacher also decided to let me borrow his Operation Ivy CD for me to listen to, also. It was radical, dude. \m/

Damn it, it’s getting dark. And I hate that, because it sort of numbs my mind a little. But, oh well. I’ll find some excitement and adventure again eventually.

I’ve started to try and work things out again with Mickey, after some inner emotional doubt, and then a bit of sullen-ness. Which I think didn’t help much, and I hope she feels better. Sometimes I have no idea what direction I’m taking, or whether I’m doing something awry. But that will only be relevant when it doesn’t work out, right? Right. I hope so.

And, Abe? Well, things have been going fine with him and me, as friends, really. I still rate him a 45. While, last school year, it would’ve been a 25. He says he wishes he would’ve never met me or talked to me, which was a severe blow.  But then he said, well, I’m better than I was last year. I guess he said that only because my eyes met the ground once he said the former. I don’t completely understand, though, of course.

Now I’m going to go to a Thanksgiving family party, to stuff some turkey anally.

Excuse the sexual language, ma'am.

I have a lot of things to give thanks to. Like, maybe boobs, shaven Turkeys, myself..but, I don’t think I’m ready for Thanksgiving. I feel more compelled to ask for something than to give thanks. I want things to get back as they once were; well, just that they ride towards the better.

George Michael will perform two Australian concerts in February, and the first will be in Perth.                                                          

Rumours had been rife that the Too Funky star was headed down under, and today his Australian trip has been confirmed.

Heading to Australia for the first time since 1988, the Wham! star and solo pop vocalist will perform at Member’s Equity Stadium on February 20.  He will then perform in Sydney at Sydney Football Stadium on February 26.

He will perform tracks from the early days, Wham! and his latest material.

Promoter Paul Dainty said it was thrilling to bring Michael back to the country following his Faith tour in the 80s.

“He is a consummate performer and will deliver a stunning show to his fans who have waited 22 years to see him perform in Australia,” Dainty said.

Michael has performed for more than 2 million fans on this 25 Live arena tour so far. More than 350,000 people flocked to his London performances alone.

Michael has sold more than 100 million pop albums, had six American number one singles and won plenty of awards for tunes including Faith, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Careless Whisper, One More Try, Freedom, Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me and Too Funky.

Tickets will go on sale through TicketMaster on December 8.

Source  :  www.watoday.com.au

Rock God Cred Report:

Click here to check a lost classic by Thin Lizzy “Dedication”

Buy “Dedication-The Very Best Of”…a nice starting place for the un-initiated in the Thin Lizzy archives…lots o’ gems!

Heavier Than Air/Echoes In The Wind Report:

Click here to go to HTA to check Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell covering Led Zeppelin “Thank You”

Click here to go to EITW to check Led Zeppelin “Thank You”

Sometimes we all struggle to get motivated for a workout and could all do with a little inspirational kick every now and then, aside from caffeine, which usually works pretty well, music can really put a kick into your workout. Here I’ll list some good songs for you to exercise to on your iPod or any other mp3 device. Obviously you’ve all got different music tastes, some people could think of nothing more unbearable or non motivating than pulling up a Tiesto classic on their iPod, whereas I would much rather listen to that than some Slipknot headbanger, here’s a list of tunes I listen to and then some I’ve found using playlists.com.au, starting with my very own play-list, be warned, they are mostly dance tunes, so skip to the bottom if they don’t interest you!…….

My playlist
Darude – Feel the beat, Kernkraft – Zombie nation, Storm – Time to burn, Tenshi – Goureyella, Encore une Fois – Blunt edit, Spiller – Groovejet, Chicane – Offshore, You’re not alone, Riverside, Darude – Rush, Art of trance – Madagascar, 4 Sttrings – Diving, DJ Tiesto – Solarcoast, DJ Tiesto – Tranceport, Energy 52 – Cafe Del Mar, Scooter – No Fate, Paul Van Dyk – For an Angel, Faithless – God is a DJ, DJ Tiesto – Adagio For Strings.

Rock

Dance, Trance, House

Rap, RnB

Other Popular Workout Songs

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I don’t care who this video offends. This shyt is hilarious, with the right amount of disgustingness. Thanks Houmz…..

Here’s a groovy mix to keep you dancing through your Thanksgiving preparations.

Click here to launch the player >

And here’s the playlist itself >

Everybody’s posting their Thanksgiving “I’m thankful for” lists. Of course I’m thankful for Cubbie. And my fun kids and fabulous family. And lifelong friends and better neighbors than I could ever have imagined.

So my list is a bit more small and selfish. That’s what this inane happy blog is all about, right? I’m thankful for NPR, National Parks, vegetable plates, Internet access, eggs, El Vez, a minivan that seats 8 . . . what else?