Billosh World: December 2004

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: December 19, 2004 - December 25, 2004 Archives

JMM giving Harold Jr. the business. I totally agree. This Republican Lite thing Harold is going for is not sitting well with me.

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: December 19, 2004 - December 25, 2004 Archives

Beanland info

Locker Room Affairs - The sordid history of the biggest taboo in sports. By Josh Levin

I love this. Any publicity for Australian Rules Football is good publicity.

Locker Room Affairs - The sordid history of the biggest taboo in sports. By Josh Levin

Yahoo! News - Researchers find gay penguins in Japanese aquariums: report

Of course there gay look how they walk and they are always so nicely dressed.

Yahoo! News - Researchers find gay penguins in Japanese aquariums: report

Josh's Top Ten Albums of the Year

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Number One

Band: The Black Keys

Album: Rubber Factory

Synopsis: Why are still reading this? Go out and buy it right now!

Choice Cuts: Every single one of them.

Josh's Top Ten Albums of the Year

Honorable Mention (in no particular order)

Everlast- White Trash Beautiful
The Gamble Brothers Band- Back to the Bottom
Van Hunt- Self-titled
Scissor Sisters- Self-titled
North Mississippi Allstars- Hill Country Review
Jaime Cullum- Twentysomething
Todd Snider- East Nashville Skyline
Jay Farrar- Stone Steel & Bright lights
Eliot Smith- From a Basement on the Hill
Paco- This is Where We Live
Angela McCluskey- The Things We Do

Josh's Top Ten Albums of the Year

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Number 2

Band: Ringside

Album: Self-titled

Synopsis: Do you like singer/songwriters but not all the acoustic guitar? Do you you like ambient music but long for good lyrics to go along with the beat? Well, have no fear my friend because Ringside is here. This two man outfit combines great song-writing looped over enough beats and samples to make even the Beastie Boys jealous.

Choice Cut: Spanishfaster

Josh's Top Ten Album's of The Year

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Number 3

Band: Secret Machines

Album: Now here is Nowhere

Synopsis: Another three piece from New York or from outer space I'm not sure. Lyrics are reminiscent of Ziggy Stardust. The attitude is all upper east-side hipster. However, the straw that really stirs this drink is the drummer who apparently is possessed by the ghost of John Bonham. All of this combines to deliver a sonic boom through your head phones that creates a world of sound all its own.

Choice Cut: Sad and Lonely

Josh's Top Ten Album's of The Year

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Number 4

Band: Franz Ferdinand

Album: Self-titled

Synopsis: The Archdukes themselves. These guys came barreling out of Scotland this year and into every critics top ten list this year. For once the critics have it right. They prove that rock music can be tunes that make you air guitar in your room and rock your body on the dance floor.

Choice Cut: Take Me out

Josh's Top Ten Album's of The Year

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Number 5

Band: Snow Patrol

Album: Final Straw

Synopsis: This band seemed to get lost in the mix of the new Emo-Brit invasion and it is shame. This album has the soul of Lou Barlow all over it. If you combine Folk Implosion and Sebadoh together this is what you would come up with. The lyrics are catchy and the tunes have lo-fi buzz that at times breaks into some astoundingly broad soundscapes.

Choice Cut: Wow

Josh's Top Ten Albums of the Year

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Number 6

Band: Keane

Album: Hopes & Fears

Synopsis: If your searching for the next Coldplay this might just be the ticket. This three piece group from England lost their guitarists and decided they didn't need guitars in their songs anyway. The result is an album with the piano as the centerpiece combined with lyrics that remind you of what it felt like to be a thirteen girl even if you never were one.

Choice Cut: Somewhere Only We Know

Josh's Top Ten Albums of the year

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Number 7

Band: Elefant

Album: Self titled

Synopsis: Sort of like Pavement meets the Smiths. What else need to be said?

Choice Cut: Misfit

Josh's Top Ten Albums of the Year

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Number 8

Band: Wilco

Album: A Ghost is Born

Synopsis: After Yankee Hotel Foxtrot became a watershed moment not only for this band but the music industry the boys in Jeff Tweedy's side project had a choice.(I like to believe he and Jay are just on hiatus from Uncle Tupelo.) They could either kill themselves by trying to top their previous success or scale things down a bit and make the album that was right for them at the time. They chose the latter and produced an album that works without being too ambitious. Would have been higher but there is a twelve minute song that is nothing but buzzes and whirrs that is really annoying.

Choice Cut: Handshake Drugs

Josh's Top Ten Album's of The Year

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Number 9

Band: Pearl Jam

Album: Rearview Mirror

Synopsis: This two disc set contains all of the bands hits and some of the hard to find rarities. The clever packaging arranges all the rockers on one disc (the up disc) and all of Eddie's melodic character studies on the slow disc (the down disc). This way you can play the down when the ladies want to hear some soulful wailing from Eddie and not ave to worry about them bitching about "Spin the Black Circle."

Choice Cut: Yellowed Leadbetter previously unavailable on a full length album.

Josh 's top 10 Albums of the year

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Number 10

Band: Breaking Laces

Album: Sohcahtoa

Synopsis: A short burst of poppy dirges. This band out of New York has an ear for hooks and catchy lyrics.

Choice Cut: God in Training

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He sees you when your sleeping he knows when your awake. Kinda creepy

Clapton Whips Up Cream Reunion

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Old Slow Hand revealed to BBC Radio 2 last week that he and his former mates in rock's first supergroup, singer-bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker, are planning to reunite for four shows next May at London's Royal Albert Hall, the legendary venue where the power trio played its final gig in 1968.

Yahoo! News - Actor Josh Brolin arrest for alleged spousal battery on Diane Lane

Before I wasn't quite sure. But, now there is no doubt. Josh Brolin must die! If James gets caught in the crossfire that would be okay too.

Yahoo! News - Actor Josh Brolin arrest for alleged spousal battery on Diane Lane

Pixies To Release Comback DVD

PIXIES are set to release a DVD while chronicles their sensational comeback year.

The band have completed an eight-month tour in New York on Saturday night (December 18), and during the jaunt they have been followed by a film crew. The footage will be used for a documentary on the band and possibly an in-concert DVD, according to Billboard.

The group's manager Ken Goes said: "I have collected film from about six or seven full concerts which we plan to edit for a compilation concert DVD.

"There is a possibility that these two DVDs will be combined into one double-disc set, but that is not yet confirmed."

Pixies reformed earlier this year, and the subsequent live shows were the band's first since 1992.

Pixies To Release Comback DVD

bowl picks

Memphis +4 Loss
Cinci -2 Win
Ucla -12 Loss
UAB+ 3.5 Loss
Virginia -5.5 Loss
Toledo -3.5 Loss
Miami-Ohio -2.5 Loss
Notre Dame +3.5 Loss
Colorado -2.5 Win
Okie State -1.5 Loss
Boston College +3 Win
Navy +3 Win
Cal -11.5 Loss
Troy Pick Loss
Bama -3 Loss
Purdue -7 Loss
Boise State +13 Win
Miami -2.5 Win
Wisc. +7 Win
UT +3 Win
West Virginia +8.5 Loss
LSU -6.5 Loss
Pitt +16.5 Loss
Michigan +6.5 Win
Auburn -6.5
OU +3.5

eBay item 4341562323 (Ends Jan-01-05 16:18:07 PST) - "A CHRISTMAS STORY" HOUSE

Buy this house and re-live Ralphy's adventures in the original house from the movie "A Christmas Story". The # 1 Christmas movie of all time. Still attracts hundreds of people from all over who are interested in seeing this historic Christmas icon. The original shed from the movie still stands in the back yard, and will bring back childhood memories.

eBay item 4341562323 (Ends Jan-01-05 16:18:07 PST) - "A CHRISTMAS STORY" HOUSE

Yahoo! News - 'Rings' Star to Play King in New Orleans

Rudy Rudy Rudy!!!

Yahoo! News - 'Rings' Star to Play King in New Orleans

Yahoo! News - Martian Manhunter Need Not Apply

This article fails to mention that J'onn almost single-handedly carried the Justice League International comic series. If they can make Hellboy look cool on screen they can certainly find room for MM.

Yahoo! News - Martian Manhunter Need Not Apply

Yahoo! News - Bush: Iraq Bombers 'Are Having an Effect'

No Shit

Yahoo! News - Bush: Iraq Bombers 'Are Having an Effect'

Walmart.com - Cosco Funsport Playard, Model No. 05-009-THE

the 10 Stages of Coaching Search Emotions

1. Hmm, never heard of that guy before.

2. The more I read, the more I like.

3. Wow -- he's great! I hope we get him.

4. Holy Jesus, he's just about perfect. This guy walks on water and and we can't survive without him. He is The One. If we don't get him, we're doomed.

5. WE'RE DOOMED.

6. I can't believe we missed out on this guy. Our staff sucks. ND sucks. We effed everything up. Nobody likes us. ND is irrelevant.

7. Hmm. Maybe he didn't want to come in the first place.

8. You know what? There are other guys out there who are probably just as good. Maybe.

9. He was never that good anyway. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I think ND said NO to HIM, not the other way around. He obviously sucks, so thank God we didn't hire him. We dodged a bullet.

10. Hmm, never heard of this guy before...

the 10 Stages of Coaching Search Emotions

Yahoo! News - Christmas crackdown on binge-drinking

I can't decide which is the best excerpt from this article. You decide.

1. "The message is stark and simple: if you brawl in the street, urinate in a doorway or are sick in the curb, you could be slapped with an 80-pound fine," Richard Caborn, a junior minister in charge of alcohol licensing, said.

2. For a sizeable proportion of Britons, binge-drinking is a weekend institution, with the young especially showing a greater taste for blind inebriation and its side effects than many of their European neighbors.

Yahoo! News - Christmas crackdown on binge-drinking

Yahoo! News - In U.S., 44 Percent Say Restrict Muslims

What is this? Russia?

Yahoo! News - In U.S., 44 Percent Say Restrict Muslims

Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.

Changes at the top. Maybe Bush will realize that you need to give these jobs to qualified people who want to serve their country. Up until now he has only given these jobs to whoever was the most politically popular or who would agree with him most. I am beginning to think this guy might not know what he is doing.

Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.

The Sun Herald | 12/16/2004 | Lott: Replace defense chief

Just another lefty coming out of the woodwork.
The Sun Herald | 12/16/2004 | Lott: Replace defense chief

News flash: Notre Dame has sold its soul for football glory... again.

Inside the Media Hatchet Job On ND

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Clear Channel Chooses Fox for News Deal

A marriage made in heaven
Clear Channel Chooses Fox for News Deal

Mmmm, Monster Burger

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Two Hardee's Monster Thickburger packing 1,420 calories and 107 grams of fat are shown with a McDonald salad with chicken Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2004 in St. Louis. Hardees looks to beef up sales with it's new Monster Burger and a multimillin-dollar ad campaign. McDonald's, Wendy's and other rival fast-food giants are offering lower-calorie fare.

Wait a minute, there are still Hardee's restaurants out there.

That's Rush, Mr. Limbaugh if your nasty!

Rush has a mouth malfunction. Justin Timberlake was not involved.
Wonkette : Archive for Media

BELIEVE THE HYPE? BILL MURRAY IN THE LIFE AQUATIC.

Good points. I , of course, love the little bit props he gives to "Quick Change." Here are some memorable lines.

Bank Guard: What the Hell kind of clown are you?
Grimm: The crying on the inside kind, I guess.

Grimm: And he said 'Baby, up your butt with a coconut!' Except... there was no coconut. He didn't have a coconut to my knowledge.

Johnny: This ain't my dick in your back!
Grimm: That's a relief.

BELIEVE THE HYPE? BILL MURRAY IN THE LIFE AQUATIC.

I love "The Right Stuff" as much as the next guy, but come on.

Yahoo! News - Smelly Socks Worn by Ed Harris Sold

The Best looking Man in the World

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Hey Man! This is the Best-Looking Man in the World...

[sung] Get a mip-map-mop and a brim-bram-broom / And clim-clam-clean up the rim-ram-room / 'Cos your bim-bam-baby's coming home tonight.

Get my slim-slam-slippers and my easy chair / Roll your flim-flam-fingers through my greasy hair / And kiss me baby; let me hold you tight.

I've been north and south and east and west / But even a honeybee needs some rest / When I get my jacket and my trousers pressed / I'm gonna follow the swallow right back to the nest.

Don't you wim-wam-worry if my train is late / I'm gonna shim-sham-shuffle on a frim-fram-freight / 'Cos your bim-bam-baby's shaking home tonight.

Flim-Flam / A-Bim Bam / Flim-Flam / A-Rim Ram / Shoop do Wap do do Ow do do Wah.

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Thursday, December 23, 2004

Clapton Whips Up Cream Reunion

bowl picks

Monday, December 20, 2004

Saturday, December 18, 2004

Friday, December 17, 2004

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Mmmm, Monster Burger

Monday, December 13, 2004

The Best looking Man in the World

Saturday, December 11, 2004

Friday, December 10, 2004

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Monday, December 06, 2004

Saturday, December 04, 2004

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