Today

I went to the market to buy some milk, and it was ten cents cheaper then it was yesterday, I was amazed! I really was....

Now that Micheal Jackson is Buried....

I can say the following things...

1) To all of those who never lost respect for him, and loved his music; Y'all are doing his memory justice, keep on doing what you do.

2) to the media; fuck all of you and your post death ass kissing and praise, if you all loved him so much, then why did you'd you praise him and give him all these accolades when he was alive instead of putting him on a cross.

and finally...

3) to all of the people that even in death, put Jackson on a cross, claiming he was "a pedophile" and "a freak" and so many other things, even though he was proven innocent of all charges ever filed against him when those that accused him got on the stand and completely screwed up their "stories", and continued to bash a man just because he wasn't like them, and their apparently droll little lives; All of you can go to hell and suck demonic cock after its violated your mother in every whole she has. Seriously, you fucking petty fucking vultures sicken me. I hope your families realize that chances are you'll get cut down just as bad when you die. Assholes.


there, I said it... I'm done now.


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BC

Alittle Something Different

I always loved the song Vincent, always was compared to him, the whole tortured and insane genius thing, I loved when i first heard Don McLean's version, and i've loved every version sense, but this... this wins it all....



So beautiful, tragic and beautiful all at once....


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BC

So, Some Thoughts....

I was dreading waking up this morning, given the events of yesterday, meaning the death of Micheal Jackson, I was dreading the fall out, because lets face it, no matter what, when someone of Micheal's stature passes on, there is no chance to duck and cover, or no place to hide during that inevitable media storm that is to come of it. It happens every single time, and each time, as someone in the entertainment news business, I hate to cover it. Not because I don't believe in paying tribute to a fallen entertainer, I believe in that whole heartedly, I just happen to find alot of these memorials and tributes fake and in alot of cases done as a way to ease one's guilt for things said while said famous person was alive.

Now, even though I was a lifelong fan of Micheal's, I won't say that I didn't find alot of the things Micheal did in his life strange and confusing, its impossible to not atleast question the oddity of alot of it, but, when you look back through history, at all of the entertainers of all sorts who had the iconic status that Jackson had in his life, each and every one of them has spent just as much time mired in rumors and controversy, then they had in the spotlight. Marilyn Monroe was a good example of what i'm talking about, and even in death, all these years later she still is a controversial figure, as I am sure Jackson will be controversial long after he's buried in the ground, rumors of his "faked death" already starting to surface, I would venture to guess that he will end up akin to Elvis Presley, where the rumors still surface 30 years after his death of sightings. There are countless others I could use as examples, but you get the idea, there have always been and will always be iconicly famous people who's personal lives confuse and intrigue us, in both a positive and negative cogitations. Its just part of ascertaining that level of fame, its been going on through all recorded history, and will continue to do so even long after all of us are dead.

As for Jackson himself, I guess its impossible to avoid the black crowd that hung over Micheal's last 15 or so years, I never did buy the molestation rumors that dogged him sense the middle 1990s, unlike most people I was always raised to never convict someone on hearsay with no solid evidence, especially when you put the accuser, and in Jackson's case, the parents of the accuser on the stand for several days and their story tends to fall apart and becomes evident that its all just a ploy to exploit a very rich man for money. Infact through my research i discovered that his original accuser, recanted his story at the age of 18 and claimed his parents were behind it all, and that the second trial fell apart when the parents told a different story out right. So I guess each can take that as they wish, personally that it all sounds like crap, but I'm just one guy. I guess the real factor is that people always want to put someone famous on a cross for something, regardless of proof or not, such is the nature of the beast that is icon status.

I will always remember Micheal though, as the greatest performer of all time. There was no one that put on a stage show like him, no one, and there never will be, he was so far beyond the cutting edge that there was not a word for a Micheal Jackson concert, and not just the ones recorded for dvds or shown on tv, he came out and knocked it out of the park every single time he stepped on stage. My only real regret is, that his children never got to see him do his thing, which apparently was important to him. I guess too that its sad they'll never see him do his magic, but also, that he was 4 million in debt, ironically, he was worth more to them dead then alive. Such a sad end to the greatest man to ever step on a stage to sing.

And that actually brings me to the other thing I'd like to say about this matter. if there is all this admiration and praise and all this love for him now that he's gone, I have to ask the one thing thats on my mind, "where the hell was this love before now?". I see all these people praising Micheal and his work, and how he had such a hard life, and overcame so much, and mentioning he was acquitted of all those child molestation charges, and all of that. All of this praise is great and deserving, but now I'm just left wondering one thing....

where in the hell where all of you with all of this when he was alive?

It jut sounds to me like alot of people are trying to make up for putting a guy on a cross simply because he was mentally ill and tried to keep it secret, sure, he thought he was 10 years old, and yes, he did the things that 10 year olds do, and yes for a 50 year old man that seemed strange, but what the hell? Why did you all start praising him and stuff now, when you dammed him in life... it doesn't make any sense to me..

anyway, thats my two cents.

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BC

You know what i don't get?

Lady GaGa

seriously... what is the deal with this woman? I don't get it... why is the whole world like all in love with this bizzare mix of Amy Winehouse's drug addiction and completely out in space all the time nature, Bjork's ability to say random shit thats completely off the wall and Jem from Jem and the Holograms completely cartoonishly 1980s fashion, all mixed into one, seriously, I don't get this.. I really don't... Normally i don't miss the boat on these things, I can look at whoever the hot singer de jour is and totally get why, but on this one? I'm totally lost.

Seriously check out the math on this one...



plus this



plus this



apparently equals, this...



I seriously do not get this, I really don't...

maybe I'm just getting old...


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BC

Time to Rock Out AMV styely

friggin love this song it matches this movie perfectly...



*rocks out*


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BC

My final word on American Idol 8..

Kris Allen can suck it.

The college douchebag with a guitar and all the beers he's ever drank on the shelf over his bed can go to hell.

and tahts all I have to say on that...


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Sigh... Good Bye Allison

Well I guess any chance of American Idol being anything less then Adam and Danny in the finals just got shot down, not that I mind the idea of Danny and Adam going to the finals, I rather find the contrasting styles and the "this is all I know" stories of theirs to be really amazing, sure Danny's doing it for his wife who passed away just before the auditions, and Adam has been working so hard to get noticed time and again, both great stories, both great guys, and I am excited to see them go at it, because well, I'm sorry, Kris Allen? he's going home next week, that kid is way out of his league and the whole "young cute boy who sings soft rock with his douche-guitar" thing just won't allow him to dodge another bullet, no one wants the Blake Lewis effect, I'm seriously just waiting for Kris to attempt to beatbox his way out of something... stupid little shit.

Anyway, as I'm sure you can tell, i'm abit upset about the departure of Allison Iraheta, how a limited in talent kid like Kris Allen could beat out possibly one of the most gifted younger talent they've had in the show's 8 year history, I'll never understand. I mean a goofy looking wanna be guitar indie singer with a very small range and almost zero creativity beat her out? Come on... that ain't right. Kris had one shining moment, he turned a donna summer disco standard into a nice indie pop song, that was it, that was his only moment of shine. I can think of atleast 10 songs Allison did that were shining moments of stardom, hell in truth I'd even put her up there with Jordan Sparks as maybe the best of the younger ones, and well, I do love me some Jordon, so thats saying something.



My thing with Allison is, she has such raw talent, she's got a voice thats so stand out, she's a mix of Anne Wilson from Heart, alittle Janis Joplin, as evident from her last song on the show, abit of Big Mama Thorton, and ALOT of Beth Hart's gruffer side, thats a pretty big list of power rock style vocals right there, and all for a girl thats only 17, thats just mindblowing. In any event, i'm going to miss her, her funny nervousness whenever she would be asked anything about herself, or how she always defined her own style, and wasn't scared of anything.. I look forward to her eventual records, and the great career she's got ahead of her... Hell if i was still actively producing I'd offer to do some tracks with her..

Also, even though I'm upset about this, night wasn't a total loss, I got to laugh at how pissed off the judges all looked when they found out she was going home, and, I was able to remember why for 20 years, I've found Paula Abdol hot... so not so bad over all I guess...

but in the spirit of what i did with the amazing Alexis Grace, I'll leave you with some clips of the brilliant Allison Iraheta, and hope she'll get to shine as bright as she deserves... enjoy..

Her and Adam doing Foghat's "Slow Ride"


her covering "Papa Was A Rolling Stone"


her covering "Alone" by Heart


her covering "Someone to Watch Over Me"


Ok the others i can't seem to find good audio quality slips of, so thats all i'm gonna post... :)

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BC

Yay a new look!

I figured with me giving afew of my other blogs new looks, that I should give this one a new design, I'm diggin it... so much so i felt the need to use an out of date slang term...

Internet Pirates Buy 10 Times More Music Then Others

From ZitDot.com



Piracy may be the bane of the music industry but according to a new study, it may also be its engine. A report from the BI Norwegian School of Management has found that those who download music illegally are also 10 times more likely to pay for songs than those who don’t.

Everybody knows that music sales have continued to fall in recent years, and that filesharing is usually blamed. We are made to imagine legions of internet criminals, their fingers on track-pads, downloading songs via BitTorrent and never paying for anything. One of the only bits of good news amid this doom and gloom is the steady rise in digital music sales. Millions of internet do-gooders, their fingers on track-pads, who pay for songs they like – purchasing them from Amazon or iTunes Music Store. And yet according to Professor Anne-Britt Gran’s new research, these two groups may be the same.

The Norwegian study looked at almost 2,000 online music users, all over the age of 15. Researchers found that those who downloaded “free” music – whether from lawful or seedy sources – were also 10 times more likely to pay for music. This would make music pirates the industry’s largest audience for digital sales.

Wisely, the study did not rely on music pirates’ honesty. Researchers asked music buyers to prove that they had proof of purchase.

The paper’s conclusions emerge just as Sweden’s Pirate Bay trial comes to a close. Pirate Bay’s four defendants, who helped operate the notorious BitTorrent tracker, were sentenced to a year in jail and fined 30m SEK (£2,500,000) in damages.

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So yeah, to all of you whiny bitching billionaire artists who are all "oh downloading music is wrong, because it takes money out of our pockets" even though your albums of factory made pop music are STILL selling the same average of 5 to 7 million copies per go around... guess what? YOU CAN SUCK IT.

unless you're Miley Cyrus, because you're underage and that would send me to jail. But you can still go to hell, I'm sure allowing your one hit wonder father to exploit you so he can make millions off you being chum for a shark tank full of pedophiles has to be good enough to get you into hell...

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