Yin and Yang

My current June/girly/bridal television watching schedule includes...

• new season of Bridezillas (YAY!!)


• new program called "Rock the Reception" in which a husband and wife choreography team teaches brides and grooms and their wedding party dance routines for their first dance at the reception (FABULOUS!!)


• a documentary about the annual bridal sale mania at Filine's (WILD!!)


• reruns of America's Next Top Model (DON'T JUDGE ME!!)

I make up for the fluffiness of those programs with my NetFlix subscription. Recently...

• Eraserhead


• El Topo


• No Country for Old Men


• There Will be Blood


• Superbad

Sometimes on Sundays, I even put my television on MTV and just let America's Top Model reruns play all day. There's only one cure for that...

Form Your Own Rock Band

Click here to get the name of your band (title of a random Wikipedia article).

Click here to get the name of your first album (last four words of a random quote).

Click here to get your first album cover (third random Flickr picture).

My band: Gilded Hummingbird
Album: Place in the World
Album Cover:


Thanks, Todd!!

Hayes Carll News - I told you he was good

• People Magazine gives Trouble In Mind 3 1/2 stars in the current issue...


• Trouble In Mind is being featured in CBS Sunday Morning's summer music segment this coming Sunday...


• The Tour with the Old 97's started Friday in Houston and runs through June 20th...


• Last Friday's jam packed World Cafe showcase at the Non-Comm convention was a huge success...


• It's A Shame is # 8 on the Texas Music Charts and climbing...


• Trouble in Mind will be #1 at the Americana radio format this week for the third week in a row...

Go go HayesCarll.com for tour information.

2008 Hurricane Names

In case you were wondering...

Arthur
Bertha
Cristobal
Dolly
Edouard
Fay
Gustav
Hanna
Ike
Josephine
Kyle
Laura
Marco
Nana
Omar
Paloma
Rene
Sally
Teddy
Vicky
Wilfred

Fail

The Fail Blog (click here).

The Second Wave

While out and about this afternoon, I stopped at Starbucks and bought this CD (and a caramel frappacino and some espresso coffee beans and some milk chocolate covered graham crackers...for supper).

It's a great CD and I can't help but wonder how many CBGB regulars from the 70s are wondering how it all came to this. How did their cutting edge music end up being sold as a compilation at such a mainstream commercial venture as Starbucks?

Well, put those questions aside you groovy hipsters and just buy the CD. Pretend you're paying a Friday night cover charge and that you're still helping pay the light bill and buy groceries for some of your favorite artists...or their kids...or their grandkids.

1. More Than This - Roxy Music
2. Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders
3. English Roundabout - XTC
4. Just Like Honey - The Jesus and Mary Chain
5. Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
6. Love Will Tear us Apart - Joy Division
7. Hand in Glove - The Smiths
8. Never Stop (Discotheque) - Echo The Bunnymen
9. In Between Days - The Cure
10. I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones
11. Another Nail in My Heart - Squeeze
12. The Ghost in You - The Psychedelic Furs
13. Dancing with Myself - Generation X
14. A Message to You Rudy - The Specials
15. Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club
16. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding - Elvis Costello & The Attractions

EDITED TO ADD:
For a much more knowledgeable review of this CD, check out the comments on this post. Thanks, Arlo.

Tropical Storm Arthur? So soon?

Tropical Storm Arthur has formed in the Gulf of Honduras. Hurricane season doesn't start until tomorrow. Tropical storms are dumb.

For the Olympics: Gymnastics reporter?

Thoughts On the Day

If you unknowingly drop your contact lens on the bathroom counter instead of into your contact lens case and don't notice it until about three hours later when you look at the counter and say, "What the hell is that?", if you drop the lens back into your contact lens case, it will rehydrate and you can wear it for another week. (Don't try this at home.)

I love this stuff...

If you put your Listerine Whitening Strips on backwards, trying to get the pieces of strip off your lip is like trying to get gum out of your hair and trying to spread the rest of it on your teeth is like trying to spread too little pizza dough onto too large of a pan.

Have you seen the car commercials where the incentive for you to buy their vehicle is that they will guarantee that you won't pay more than $2.99 a gallon for gas over the next three years? When did paying $2.99 a gallon for gas become an incentive?

When I was driving to work yesterday, I was stopped by Papa John's waiting for traffic to pass so I could merge. It's a weird little piece of road where you have to crane your neck to watch for traffic, so I always use my side mirror to watch for a point when I can make my move. As I was waiting, I was trying to read the reversed Papa John's marquee through the mirror. In what seemed like a warp in the space-time continuum, in which time slowed down, I read each word on the marquee while the person on the radio sang the same three words:

Song lyric: It's easy to (leave).
Papa John's marquee: It's easy to (order).

Maybe you had to be there.

If you are sleepless...

From Ordinary Comics

RIP - I thought it only came in threes

CORRECTION: Yesterday morning, one of the guys at work told me Charles Nelson Reilly died. Turns out, he was getting him confused with Harvey Korman. Ergo, Dick Martin, Sidney Pollack and Harvey Korman makes three. Thanks, Zina!

5/25/08 - Charles Nelson Reilly (Correction: 5/25/07)

5/27/08 - Dick Martin

5/28/08 - Sidney Pollack

5/29/08 - Harvey Korman

Today's Coffee Pot Conclusion

If a woman wears a shirt cut so low that her breasts are practically screaming, "LOOK!! BREASTS!!", she loses the right to complain that men are staring at her boobs.

Sex and the Kitties

My blogging friends Grimm and Leslie are having a kitten problem. Here's a video Leslie made. Oh, and read their blogs. They're hilarious.

Happy Anniversary, Stu and Kim and A Present for Meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

First, happy anniversary to my brother and sister-in-law!!!

Second, I am soooooooo going to buy this for my Nintendo DS...

Guitar Hero on Tour

Here's a funny video to tell you all about it...