GIVE ME SOMETHING TO BREAK!

Say what you will about Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit, but when I am angry beyond belief, there is nothing that expresses my sheer madness and frustration like the song, Break Stuff. Listening to this track on full blast, with eyes closed, teeth gritted, and fists clenched is pretty much the only thing that will keep me from tossing a computer moniter out a 45th floor window! I will spare you the details, but someone's gone and pissed me off good today, so I need this song right now. You can't tell me you've never been so mad you just wanted to break something! If, for nothing else, thank you Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit for giving me Break Stuff!!

Break Stuff
By: Limp Bizkit
It's just one of those days
When ya don't wanna wake up
Everything is fucked, everybody sucks.
You don't really know why
But you wanna justify rippin' someone's head off
No human contact
And if you interact your life is on contract
Your best bet is to stay away mother fucker!
It's just one of those days!

It's all about the he says she says bullshit
I think you better quit lettin' shit slip
Or you'll be leavin with a fat lip
It's all about the he says she says bullshit
I think you better quit talkin' that shit

It's just one of those days
Feelin' like a freight train
First one to complain
Leaves with a blood stain
Damn right I'm a maniac
You better watch your back
Cuz I'm fuckin' up your program
And if you're stuck up
You just lucked up
Next in line to get fucked up
Your best bet is to stay away motherfucker!
It's just one of those days!

It's all about the he says she says bullshit.
I think you better quit lettin shit slip
Or you'll be leavin with a fat lip
It's all about the he says she says bullshit
I think you better quit talkin that shit, punk
So come and get it

I feel like shit
My suggestion is to keep your distance
Cuz right now I'm dangerous
We've all felt like shit
And been treated like shit
All those motherfuckers, that want to step up

I hope ya knowI pack a chainsaw
I'll skin your ass raw
And if my day keeps going this way
I just might break something tonight
I pack a chainsaw
I'll skin your ass raw
And if my day keeps going this wayI just might break something tonight
I pack a chainsaw
I'll skin your ass raw
And if my day keeps going this wayI just might break your fuckin' face tonight

Give me something to break
Give me somthing to break
Just give me stuff to break
How 'bout your fuckin' face?

I hope you know I pack a chainsaw, what?
A chainsaw, what?, a mutherfuckin' chainsaw, what?
So come and get it

It's all about the he says she says bullshit.
I think you better quit lettin shit slip
Or you'll be leavin with a fat lip
It's all about the he says she says bullshit
I think you better quit talkin that shitPunk, so come and get it

Lemonheads Update

I received the following Lemonheads update via myspace bulletin this afternoon:

The Lemonheads have announced plans for a winter tour of the U.S. The tour, which begins November 30th in San Francisco and currently wraps December 22nd in Boston, will mark the first time that Evan Dando, drummer Bill Stevenson (Descendents, Black Flag) and bassist Karl Alvarez (Descendents), the trio that recorded the latest Lemonheads disc, will perform live as a group.Following the tour, the band plans to begin work on a follow-up to 2006’s The Lemonheads (9/26/06, Vagrant), which will conclude a series of more than 150 solo and full-band shows around the world that Evan Dando has played in support of The Lemonheads. Next up, Evan will be opening for The Jesus & Mary Chain on several of their October U.S. dates. Dando and Stevenson co-produced The Lemonheads, and Stevenson wrote or co-wrote three of its eleven songs; long-time Australian collaborator Tom Morgan added another two. There are also cameos galore: from bassist Josh Lattanzi, Garth Hudson (who plays keyboards on ‘Black Gown’ and ‘December’), and guitar work by Dinosaur JR’s J. Mascis.

EVAN DANDO SOLO:

10/20 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues

10/22 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues

10/23 – Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern Theatre

10/26 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore

10/28 – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium(supporting The Jesus & Mary Chain)

THE LEMONHEADS:

11/30 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s

12/1 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour

12/2 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues Orange County

12/4 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah

12/5 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress

12/8 – Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theatre

12/9 – Kansas City, MO @ The Record Bar

12/10 – Minneapolis, N @ Varsity Theater

12/11 – Chicago, IL @ Double Door

12/12 – Chicago, IL @ Double Door

12/13 – Maryland Heights, MO @ Harrah’s Casino – Voodoo Lounge

12/14 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s

12/15 – Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig

12/17 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop

12/18 – Lancaster, PA @ The Chameleon

12/19 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat

12/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero

12/21 – New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom

12/22 – Cambridge, MA @ Middle East – Downstairs(all dates with Racoon)

Sadly, the gorgeous bass player that has been playing with Evan for the past year will not be in tow this round, but I'm still down to hit up The Highline in December! Maybe he'll come and hang out in the audience???

You gotta be shittin me!

Ok, so if you live anywhere near a Baskin Robbins store, or perhaps have browsed the Baskin Robbins website lately, you will be well aware that this month's flavor of the month is Oreo Cookie. In fact, my local Baskin Robbins has made every effort to ensure that no passer-by has any question as to the oreo pushing promotion. The windows are plastered with large, color glossies, picturing mouth watering sundaes that could sooner be climed than eaten! There are even advertisements for Oreo-flavored treats on the floor of the store, I would assume, for the shy people, and/ or very very short people in the neighborhood.

Being a sucker for propaganda, especially that with a chocolaty, frozen subject matter, I decided to pop in for a sweet treat. To my utter dismay, despite all the signage, and hullabaloo for the oreo explosion, when I eagerly ordered a treat of the same name I was told in no uncertain terms that they were "out of oreos"! Are you shitting me?

"Dude?", I asked hoping that the ice cream scooper was playing a joke on me. "How is that possible?" "Isn't it oreo month?" He simply shrugged, and apologized. Not to be denied, I offered to go buy my own oreos from another, better stocked establishment then return for a sundae that looked like the 5-foot image on the window that had lured me in. He started at me with a confused look on his face.

After frowning, huffing, puffing and pacing back and forth in front of the now unappealing cooler of second-rate ice cream flavors, I grumpily ordered a two-scoop hot fudge sundae with peanut butter cup ice cream, whipped cream, and a cherry on top.

As I paid for my sub-par dessert, I snidley asked. "So should I call ahead next time?" As if my question had gone unheard the cashier replied, "Have a nice day".

Psssssh! Can you believe that crap?

Sean Penn and Eddie Vedder on Charlie Rose 9/21/07

SPIN PEARL JAM SCREENING CONTEST

The cool kids at SPIN have decided to give away tickets to the Imagine in Cornice screening at the Ziegfeld Theater in NYC next Tuesday, September 25.

CLICK HERE for details! Good luck!

Imagine in Cornice DVD Screening in HD!

To mark the release of their new DVD, Imagine in Cornice, chronicling the European leg of their 2006 tour, Pearl Jam has announced special big-screen screenings around the country next Tuesday, September 25th. The New York area screening will be at the Ziegfeld Theater, at 8pm. Tickets are $15, general admission. I really really want to go, but I have a soccer game at 7:30, and I will just never make it :(

I dunno, maybe I can swing something, but until I get it sorted, y'all better get your tickets. Oh, and theres a problem with the online purchasing so if you want to make sure you get one, you better go pick it up at the box office.

Foo Fighters Album Release Party Tonight

I have convinced myself in the past 32 hours or so that I really need to be at Irving Plaza tonight to hear the Foo Fighters play songs from their new album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, which will be in stores September 25th. Krock is promoting the show, and I know I'm good at getting tickets from radio stations, but I'm running out of time, so who can get me in tonight, hmmm?????

Eddie Vedder on Being a Daddy

Here's an article that was published yesterday on People.com

Eddie Vedder: Fatherhood 'Fueled my Anger' WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 2007 09:00 AM EDT
By Nicholas White

Alternative-rock icon Eddie Vedder spearheaded a '90s Seattle musical sound around adolescent angst. Now a 40-something father of a toddler, Vedder says he hasn't mellowed.

"When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it," Vedder told reporters at Tuesday's Into the Wild press conference in West Hollywood. "I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't."

Vedder, 42, says, "It was a different reaction. It wasn't the glowy lovey-dovey. It fueled my anger." Vedder's daughter, Olivia, was born to girlfriend Jill McCormick in 2004.

The Pearl Jam frontman, who performs on the film's soundtrack and is friends with Into the Wild director Sean Penn, blames current events for his emotions.

"I realized that I was getting more angry – the exact opposite – and maybe it was because of the times, three years ago and what's still happening. ... All of a sudden, I saw the world as her world that they were [messing] with. That really pissed me off."

He has kept a low profile in recent years, and fatherhood has forced Vedder to question his attitude about life, he says.

"I don't know what I'm going to say when she sees pictures of me hanging 30 feet off a rafter, over a crowd," Vedder says. "At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless."

One of Pearl Jam's most popular songs, "Alive," is reportedly based semi-autobiographically on Vedder's childhood. Vedder insists that as a father he won't repeat his caretakers' mistakes.

"I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived," he says. "I know that she's going to go through a time where she has to assert her independence. I'm going to have to just encourage that."

And rest assured, Pearl Jam fans ... the rocker feels good about his daddy abilities.

Vedder boasts, "I think she's going to have a great upbringing. ... Already, she's [been] provided a life of travel. I didn't get to New York until 25 or Europe until I was 26. She's been to all these places six or seven times. She's beyond me in terms of her comfortability around other people, to this day."

SOURCE

Eddie at LA Premier

Into The Wild premiered in LA last night, and our boy was looking as dapper as ever! Ohhh, to be Jena Malone in that photo *sigh*....


Did you pick up your copy of the soundtrack yet? What are you waiting for? Its brilliant! :)

Tonight's Delights

Free Shows anyone? Tonight The Hold Steady will be playing a FREE show at 7 World Trade Park. They will follow two openers: Illinois and Old 97s, which begin at 5:30. Check OhMyRockness for further deets.

THEN LATER.....Every Monday night, various bloggers host a FREE party at the Knitting Factory, aptly titled Blogger's Delight. I'll be attending tonight, and rumor has it there will be cupcakes!

Tonight: Disconap hosts The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, "a New York three-piece who plays dreamy, noisy POP with boy/girl vocals, blissful melodies and blistering mechanical drums." Doors at 9pm.

On Notice

If you've seen the Colbert Report on Comedy Central, you've seen his clever "On Notice" board, where he puts things that piss him off "on notice". Shipbrook.com has a personal "On Notice" generator, where you, too can put stuff on notice. Since I like to complain sometimes, I have decided to put some stuff on notice....

worst prank ever!

I like jokes as much as the next guy but this video brings the harmless little prank to horrifying levels! See what happens when a guy proposes to his girlfriend on the jumbo tron at Yankee Stadium without even knowing it- OUCH!



from collegehumor.com

ITW Full Album Streamed

96.3 WROV, the Rock of Virginia, is streaming the full Into The Wild Soundtrack Album. Its good quality too.

Click here to listen.

Horse tranquilizers?

I'm sure that many of you, like me, were anxiously awaiting Britney's performance (sad attempt at a come back) on tonight's MTV Video Music Awards. Ironically despite my recent career switch, this year I watched the show from home instead of from the actual audience (F Vegas!), and part of me wanted to boycott the show all together (can we say poor sport?), but I absolutely had to watch Britney. Honestly, I was rooting for her. I really wanted her to come out and blow the nay sayers away, and prove that she really could pull herself up by the trailer trash boot straps and get it together- returning to her pop princess status.

Unfortunately, Britney did no such thing! Not only did she lip synch- uh actually she didn't even really move her lips all that much- but she hardly even "danced". Basically what we saw tonight was a sad, pathetic, out of shape former icon stare in fear/sedated stupor into the eyes of the nation and prove that she's totally lost every shred of dignity AND performance skill she ever had. The song was sub par, and she didn't even pretend to sing it. She couldn't dance, instead stumbling around as if her shoes were too tight, she had to poop, and she had forgotten the routine. She looked like a frightened deer in headlights, or, as I see the situation, like a heavily medicated train wreck. I watched most of the "performance" with my mouth agape and my hands pressed to my cheeks. She couldn't have been worse if she had fallen off the stage like Beyonce, peed her pants like fergie, AND lip synched to the wrong song like Ashly Simpson.

I didn't think it would be that bad, but it was...it sooooo was. I'm sorry Britney, but I cannot tell a lie. You blew donkey balls tonight. Big hairy donkey balls.

As for the rest of the show, even though super cutie Mark Ronson DJ'd, I didn't watch it. I was still bitter about not being there. Plus I had other intoxicated hoochies to watch ruin their lives on national television on Rock of Love. If you missed the VMAs tonight, don't worry. Not only can you catch official vids on mtv.com but it will be replayed, as usual, around the clock for the next several days.

Eddie Vedder to appear on David Letterman?

*EDIT* I got confused for a minute. The Toronto gig is associated with the Body of War premier, NOT Into the Wild. Oops. Eddie is just so busy lately...

I love message pit rumors! Today, the pit is buzzing about whether Eddie Vedder might show up at The Late Show with David Letterman on Friday, September 14th. Friday's episodes are taped the preceding Monday evenings.

You see, Sean Penn is a scheduled guest on Letterman for the episode that will air on 9/14, presumably in support of Into The Wild. So far, the musical guest for that episode is as yet undetermined, so what do YOU think?? Eddie and Sean are buddies. Eddie did the soundtrack for Into the Wild. Eddie has to be in Toronto on Tuesday the 11th to perform after the Body of War premier. Don't you think its kinda likely that Eddie will be in NYC on Monday the 10th WITH Sean for the taping of The Late Show, when it is common knowledge that Eddie is fond of Mr. Letterman and his show? Eddie in MY CITY...oh the thought of it gets me pumped already!

Here's to hoping. Lets see what else I can dig up....keep the rumors flowing! :)

Jibber Jabber

I haven't had anything truly exciting to post lately, but I thought I had better post something or you would all think I was missing or something, right? Oh. Anyway...


Reminder: Into the Wild Soundtrack to be released September 18, movie in theaters Sept 21

I've listened to a few tracks from the Into The Wild Soundtrack (aka Eddie Vedder's first solo album) and I have to say that Guaranteed and Long Nights nearly brought me to tears. Some of you will understand what that man's voice does to me but I can only describe my reaction to the low Eddie groan-like drawl in the following way:

My heart expands, my throat grows a lump, my eyes water, my pulse quickens, my breaths become deeper, and a part of me melts into my seat. His voice is that of an angel. I hope he knows that.


Anyhoo, you can pre-order the soundtrack bundle now from TenClub, and you'll get a T-shirt for like $5. Its not all that attractive, but hey, its a $5 T-shirt. Pre-sale ends on 9/11.



























Ramblings about Times Square:
Now that I work in the heart of Times Square, and have to commute through it every morning and evening, I have a few comments I'd like to share.


Times Square should not be open to tourists until at least 10AM, when all of us working citizens are safely at our desks. Further, tourists must be asked to leave between 11:30 and 1:30 to allow workers in the area to access food at lunchtime. Likewise, the sidewalks should be cleared from 5-7pm so we can get to the subway from our offices without cursing the lives of tourists or punching innocent babies out of frustration. What's to see here anyway that you can't see on any episode of Taxi Cab Confessions, Law and Order, or countless other TV shows and movies. Ya might as well just stay in your hotel room, snack from the mini bar, and watch The View on the boob tube. I think we'd all be happier. Have I made myself clear?


The streets in Times Square always smell like vomit. Are there really that many people that actually vomit in the streets around here, or is it just that the discarded food and beverages ferment and churn in the gut of the city, thereby releasing a vomit-esque odor? Either way, its gross, but it helps to curb one's appetite if you're lookin to lose a few "el bees". Oh, and the creamy brown puddles that look like spilled coffee at every street corner are not actually spilled coffee. They're something far more foul and rancid. Think about how the blended cow balls on Fear Factor kinda resemble a strawberry milkshake from our living rooms. Same idea. Steer clear.


I bet those guys that drive the rickshaws have really bad back problems. Have you ever seen the type of people that pay for those rides? They're usually slothy overweight tourists with 46 shopping bags filled with ridiculously overpriced trinkets and baubles from gift shops and street vendors. Who doesn't need a 3-foot sign with a hand painted panda snuggling "your name" scribed in Chinese characters? How do you know thats really your name anyway? It probably says "Sucker"! if it doesn't then it certainly should. If you ever see someone with one of these paintings hanging in their room, you should seriously question their judgment. And then throw a tomato at them Fozzie Bear style. Yeah, I said it. "Wocka wocka wocka!"

Happy Thursday, suckas!