Don't Worry Clemson, Rick Astley Still Loves You!

As you sat there and watched the same tired offensive schemes from last year being shut down by Bama, and scratched your head wondering, how did they know? Well, don't think they didn't watch film on you all. Next week Clemson faces the Citadel-and the Bushido will still be there. Now here's some Rick Astley w/pop-up video (oh that's too much) for you to lick your wounds.

Friday Funnies: Will Ferrell and the Sumo vs. Suma dilemma!

College football season is upon us and with the Trojans headed to the house Thomas Jefferson built tomorrow, I thought that I would share this video of Will Ferrell doing something right in his wheel-house: a funny skit confusing “sumo” with “SUMA” (the Los Angeles Area Children’s foundation) for Pete Carroll’s charity. Love the SC diaper Will!

Friday Funnies: Do You Feel Lucky Punk!

Well do you? Yes, with the last official weekend of summer, I thought it apropos to post this Dirty Harry Grill or what some folks would call the official grill of the NRA. Have a safe, fun, college-football filled weekend.

You're A Class Act John McCain!

Johnny Mac shows some class, I especially like this line: “Tomorrow, we’ll be back at it. But tonight, Senator, a job well done.” Bravo John McCain.

Video hosted on You-Tune by JohnMcCain.com

Serendipity and Suds: Coast Brewery's Cask Party Tonight @ Gene's

I stopped by Coast Brewery after "work" on Tuesday to "float" a couple of ideas, talk shop and sample Coast's new Altbier (6.2% ABV/35 IBUs, "hopped it like it was hot"-der Deutscheland with Perle and Hersbrucker hops) with Dave. He gave his usual hospitable diatribes of humor and good brew wisdom as well as leaving me with some literature and a slot to fill on my social agenda-tonight, Coast will have a cask party at Gene's Haufbrau (Hwy 17-across from Gerald's-you know where it is) featuring their Chocolate Rye Brown casked in chocolate beans-thumbs up from the Bushido and even your girlfriend will like it. The casking gets started at 6pm and with 2 casks, I am hopeful there will be some left by the time I get there.

Serendipity and a photo shoot
Last Wednesday I was on my way to Gene's Haufbrau to pick up a pint of Coast IPA and a to-go order of wings with the Webbed-one, when the peripherals picked-up one of my favorite creatures in nature, Blondus-in-lingerius, from the Latin-blond in lingerie (see photo). I called the Treo absorbed Webbed-one back to the I Heart store-front, a local boutique made popular by one of our hometown favorites and all around sweetheart-owner worldy popular from her appearance on Tv's The Bachelor. I digress; it was one of those surreal moments, stocked full of dueling thoughts of "is this really happening" and "dude, snap a picture with your new phone." As you can see, the little devil on the shoulder saying, "snap a picture" beat out the other guy-Mr. White who just can't believe, there is a professional, lingerie-model shoot going on in front of me. To the model and the photographer who has to waste the extra time photo-shopping some idiot with his cell-phone and tongue hanging out of the background of the picture-my bad, I am truly sorry!

WTF Is Dubya Doing?

The G-Man told me about this picture and I had to find it myself-brilliant! Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh were showing the Prez how they give each other the "good job" tap on the posterior and Dubya decided to give it the “old college try”. Despite the best efforts of our quite brazen president, someone should of told him, (Sir) you don't have to back hand a ho'.

WTF? Does this man not have any shame-wait, what am I saying? Although a Baptist, married man and President of the United States of America, Dubya is still just a man; even a gay dude would be tempted (see picture). But I think this calls for the ol' patented, "Hecka-of-a-job there Brownie!"
Photo courtesy of Reuters.com

This Is Awkward...

Kerri Walsh actually makes back-sweat attractive; Dubya-not so much! (Photos courtesy of Reuters.com)

Synchronized Swimming Is A Great Sport!

Dear Olympic Committee,
Thank you for making Synchronized Swimming a sport. Yours truly, the Bushido!

Doobie Dubya!

That's puff-puff give Mr. President! Dang this is a good Olympics!

Friday Funnies: Tropic Thunder

The premise sounds interesting enough: Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr, (all actors, portraying actors in a movie within a movie) filming an action flick (Vietnam/War/Buddy movie) in the middle of the jungle when their movie all of the sudden becomes the "real deal" as a group of drug-lords think they are an American SF unit sent into take down their opporation.

"Contra"-versy
Downey Jr. performed the role in what they call in the biz, "black-face" (see: Al Jolson) and evidently this is ruffling a few feathers around the blogosphere (link to FlowTv article) and the use of the "R" word is gathering another group of protestors, including former Brady Bunch star, Maureen McCormick (who's brother is "mentally challenged"). (Link to article on StarPulse). Last week, our buddy "the news guy" Warren Peper and Carolyn Murray introduced the Holy City viewing audience to a story (link to line-penned by Larry Collins) about mentally challenged people who work at Delicious Delights, a local bakery, who won't go and see the movie because the term, "retard" is used in the movie 17-times. Obviously, these are the same people who (do) go to R-rated movies, boycott the entire city of Boston, Jimmy Fallon's old Boston love-birds skit on SNL, etc over the use of the word "retard".

But here's what sofa-king retarded: I was talking about this segment the other day and said the words, "mentally handicapped", which led to a thirty minute beach-out from some lady (one must be careful when out of their element and talking politics at a Chattanooga Applebee's) for my lack of the proper semantics for those with an extra protein in the genetic make-up. But WTF people? Why can't we just let this be a movie satire about the people in show-business? Are we that hyper-sensitive as a nation that our American zeitgeist is more in tune with defensive and subjective terminology, than we are with "real" issues? But to leave you on a high note: Stiller's movie is being protested by the dame who played Marcia Brady on television's Brady Bunch, the same role played by Stiller's wife and former smoking hot chick on "Hey Dude" (Christine Taylor) in the movie version, "The Brady Bunch Movie". Btw, the latter Marcia Brady is also in Tropic Thunder.

Regardless of the controversy, I think I will shell out the 9 bucks to see this flick.

Friday Funnies: J-Tra for President

I have to admit, Jay-Bird got me good on this one. At first I was worried that I was on the news (I thought they might have done a American-Fat-so-segment and they blurred out my face but you could totally tell it was me because of the shirt I was wearing, JET, I saw your fat-arse on the news-ha-ha) but then I knew we were in for a laugh when it said, Channel 3 Election Coverage. Wait until the end of the video and you can play the same joke on your friends. Have a good weekend.
-JET

The Black Keys on "Live From Abbey Road"

For every passion or profession, there's a handful of meaningful places significant to your craft; the sort of place where the hairs of your neck stand on end when you cross the threshold entering into the hallowed ground: artists have the Lourve, architects have Rome, kids have Disneyland, stoners have a strip-mall with a Taco Bell, 7-11 and Gamestop, Christians have St. Peter's (which artists and architects dig as well), rednecks have monster-truck rallies and rock musicians have among other places, the Abbey Road Recording Studio. Most people only know of Abbey Road from the famous Beatles' album (Abbey Road) cover of the band walking single-file across the cross-walk with a VW Bug up on the curb, which the average person would probably assume the album is simply named after the street and not the studio at #3 Abbey Road, St. John's Wood, London UK.

"Her Majesty"
The Abbey Road Studio is stacked in history. From Blumlein's inventions to EMI's recordings of a laundry list of talented musicians: the Beatles, Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here”, Fiona Apple, Oasis, U2, Foo Fighters, Mika, Stevie Wonder, et. al. And let's not forget the mixing of such movies as "Star Wars-1, 2, 3, 5 & 6", "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", etc.


Serendipity (aka: "Golden Slumbers")
Just by happen stance, I was up late the other night watching some quite bizarre British series) when I saw the commercial for "Live From Abbey Road" and thought, plenty of room on the DVR, let's see what this show is all about. I cut it on as I was doing some tinkering on some bottling equipment in the brew-house and I heard the Black Keys in the shorts-introductions. Yahtzee! There's Dan Auerbach carrying his kid into the studio, giving a little chat on his way into "work". I immediately wanted to call Dale and every other person I shopped the Keys to when I was back in Ohio (how do people from Akron not know of these guys?) in June, but alas, it was a bit late for a phone call, so this post will have to do.

"Come Together"
"Live From Abbey Road" is split into performances by three different artists, with a bit of filler, "get to know the band" material in between sets. The show kicked off with The Hoosiers (which I think I first heard about on MOKB) a British band who came to the states to ride the colonist's scholarship gravy-train by playing "football" (read soccer) at Indiana University. They thought Indiana was "sofa-king" awesome, they named their band "the Hoosiers". (Dude, there's about 47 states that are so much cooler than Indiana, but to each their own.)

"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
I digress; as the folks at My Old Kentucky Blog note, "They will more than appeal to all fans of the whole brit-pop/new wave/falsetto lead vocals trend that was in full effect a couple years ago." The Hoosiers' first tune, "Goodbye Mr. A" a bit campy in an ELO type of way, but still good enough to toss on the iPod. Their next tune, "Run Rabbit Run" is a little ditty about spousal abuse and loving a woman who doesn't dig you, instead she wants the guy who treats her like crap and beats her. The singer who still cares for her wants that "rabbit to run" (assumingly back to) him-which appears, despite being in a rock and roll band this is the songwriter's first experience with the unwriten rules of dating crazy women with "Daddy-issues". (Special message to the songwriter: You need to write a follow up to the song, something along the lines of "You're sofa-king crazy and I am running rabbit"). Finally, the guys wrap things up with a cover of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" as if people haven't been doing that one since "the world has been turning". Nonetheless, it's a decent cover. It's not as good as What Made Milwaukee Famous' cover of "You May Be Right" but is gets the job done as covers go.

Mr. Sun
Manu Chao the French-born singer and political activist, performed "Bongo Bong/Mr. Bobby", "Bienvenidoa Tijuana" and "Politik Kills". Pretty easy going jams for songs so controversial-I guess you have to listen to the words. I thought this was my first intro to Manu Chao, but I was wrong, I have his song, "Me Gustas Tu" in my iPod-dang that thing has stuff in there I don't even know about.

"The End"
Something I didn't know was how the Black Keys got their name, to which Carney tell a story about how a his dad had befriended a local artist and the guy would call and leave these bizarre messages (i.e. "Jim Carney pick me up a pound of pipe tobacco and a 2-liter Diet Coke-you're a 'black key' if you don't). Auerbach took in all of the history of the place referring to the Blumlein microphones still around the place, that he thought "Blumlein" was just a name engineers threw around, turns out he's a real guy. (Alan Blumlein invented the stereo system) (Link to Alan Blumlein's bio on Abbey Road's site). The best though was when the guys were in the small room off of the studio and talked about the history of the Beatles going in there to eat "sandwiches". And of course, I can't leave out how the guys make their music-by jamming! Btw, the Black Keys will perform at the following locations near the Holy City: the Orange Peel in Asheville (Oct. 3) The House of Blues in Myrtle Beach (Oct. 4th) and the Disco Rodeo in Raleigh (Oct. 5th). For you folks in Ohio, you can check the Black Keys out at the LC Amphitheater on Oct. 9th.

For more on the Black Keys' performance, click here to go to the Sundance Channel's Abbey Road page.

Remembering Jerry!

Thirteen years ago today, Jerry Garcia died of a heart attack after checking into a drug-rehab facility in Forest Knolls, California. I thought that I would include this video of one of my favorite Dead tunes, "Box of Rain"-one of the few songs sung by Phil Lesh, and the song he sang to his father (who was terminally ill with cancer) on his death-bed. As a few of you know, one of my claims to fame is that I was at the last Grateful Dead Show at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 9th, 1995 and the Dead performed "Black Muddy River" for their first encore and then returned on stage to perform "Box of Rain" their last song performed together in their 2,314th Show as Jerry died a month later.

Feed Your iPod: The Hold Steady's "Sequestered in Memphis"

Actually the guys will be "sequestered" at the Pour House this Sunday night. Go to theholdsteady.com for ticket info. Some issues with posting lately, I totally blame myself but understand the new PS3 and Direct TV-too many channels and too much time lost playing. Stay tuned, I have quite a few things in the "drafts" section which need a final review. Have a good weekend. -The Bushido

Feed Your iPod: Neutral Milk Hotel's "Ghost"

I couldn't find a video for this, but here is one of my favorite Neutral Milk Hotel songs, "Ghost" from their album, In the Airplane over the Sea. Enjoy. And Yes Jay-Bird is right there is just something that is wrong with this picture of Paris Hilton holding their album.