Wacky Businesses!

People name their businesses after weird things–namely themselves and poor translations.

I think they spelled Jay-Z wrong. Also, I didn’t know that Jay-Z was into decor and alterations.

Yes, yes, Chinese food IS funny.

Music Recommendation: Reigning Sound

I rarely–if ever–use my blog to push a tastemaker agenda, but I’m doing it now. And you are powerless to stop me! HA HA HA HA!!!

Anyway, if you like rock music–including sub-genres like rockabilly, punk, blues, garage or any mixture of these–you will like Reigning Sound. Who are they? Just a bunch of great musicians that influenced the Memphis garage rock explosion of the ’90s and early ’00s, thanks to involvement in bands like The Oblivians and Compulsive Gamblers. Their songs are rooted in love, heartbreak, loss and all those silly feelings things. If you’ve felt it in a relationship, they’ve probably recorded a song about it.

To get to my main point, Reigning Sound put out a fantastic EP, Abdication… For Your Love, last year–one of my favorite albums of 2011. Like the rest of their albums, you probably have not heard it. But here’s the kicker: you can, and you can do so for free. WHA? Are you advocating digital piracy, Genial Black Man? you are probably asking the computer. NO I AM NOT.

In fact, you can download it legitimately and for FREE. The band partnered with automaker Scion (owned by car giant/evil overlord Toyota) as part of their “Audio Visual” music marketing push, and you can get it here: http://www.scionav.com/collection/852/Scion-A/V-Presents:-Reigning-Sound—Abdication…For-Your-Love. Hell, you can even listen to it before downloading it. But as someone that is listening to it right now, I wholeheartedly recommend nabbing the damn thing ASAP. In fact, I’ll think less of you if you don’t.

So that’s my soapbox moment for the day: download that Reigning Sound album. Do it for me, a random stranger that is trying to do some good in this world by guilting readers to carry out his wishes for some reason. You’re welcome.

Bookmans Finds!

Bookmans Entertainment Exchange is one of my favorite places in the Phoenix area to browse for video games, movies, music and books (who would’ve thunk it?). They also attract some of the stranger merchandise one can hope to come across if they enjoy kitsch in ironic or genuine ways.

Here are some recent finds:

I wonder if his marriage to himself was worth the collector status.

Coach Coz might need some coaching on how to get out of creepy-based lawsuits.

• Chapter 1: get a lot of money
• Chapter 2: stop paying taxes
• Chapter 3: get caught by IRS
• Chapter 4: question knowing everything

The overly-publicized OJ Simpson trial is back, in pog form!

It’s not whether you win or lose, but whether you lose–at being a GIGANTIC DICKBAG.

Hey hey hey, where did my melanin go?

I feel kinda bad that this ended up here. No kidding around.

OKAY: It was an evening I shared with a used bookstore…

Sage advice, Lois.

Hey kids, see how men put women in their place back in the good ol’ days–in WACKY cartoon form!

I Am Now a Hashtag Rapper.

Because I can’t let the game be dominated by the likes of Drake and Childish Gambino, I’m BRINGING IT as my alter ego, Darnell Watkins. (That’s my pseudonym for any internet thuggery, by the way. Look it up!) My third verse falls apart and there’s no chorus or bridge, but hashtag rappers aren’t known for fleshing out their stuff, are they?

And now… READ!

Look for my debut mixtape, Farts and Tarts, on the interwebs in March!

IPhone 4s Chinese Launch Mirrors Industrialization

(Courtesy of BBC.co.uk)

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/12/iphone-4s-launch-brings-chaos-in-china/

They’re just like us!

The Most Racist Job Ad Ever?

The Klu Klux Klan just isn’t trying anymore.

Stupid MSN News

It’s been almost 3 years since I pointed out the stupidity of MSN’s news headlines. In that time, plenty has changed in American pop culture: Kim Kardashian got married and divorced, Kardashian momager Kris Jenner had a facelift, and the groundswell of hate against the Kardashians begs to swallow up millions of people underneath their texting shoes.

Any-whodini, the times, they are a-changin’. But what hasn’t changed is MSN’s penchant for writing asinine headlines. And my recent re-exposure to their stupidity (thanks to Microsoft’s latest version of MSN Messenger or whatever they’re calling it) has created a new wrinkle in my forehead. I took that as a sign to document my irrational hate in blog form. Lucky you!

• Let’s be honest: the dog is a better actor. It EMOTES.

• Coke will not rest until we are rid of that OJ problem. Good thing the Juice is no longer loose.

• Now who in their right mind would need anti-bullet underwear? Who’s aiming for their junk?

• NEVERMIND.

• This is a thing? Do they put the plaque on their town sign?

• I hope this goes better than the time Ellen interviewed the whale blowhole.

• You THINK?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• (See above snark)

• Geez, ’80s Madonna/2011 Lady Gaga wouldn’t whine this way.

• The jobs won’t come from the asphalt underneath that overpass, possibly suicidal idiots.

• I guess things really haven’t changed, MSN News. Never change.

Money Fight!

THIS is what the 1% spends their money on–or these are mis-marked prices, whatever:

I’m sure that 2GB micro SD cards were worth $316–back in 2000.

I know Banana Republic can be pricey, but DAMN!

I doubt ANYONE bought this album. I just love the image.

Dollar Tree Finds!

I love browsing dollar stores to find crazy-ass crap. And my latest trip was no different:

What the?

THAT won’t be annoying at all.

“Soft and flexible,” just like Marcus Bachmann’s sex nose during romantic times with the missus.

What the hell is a “Zac Efron”?!

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Oh, Dollar Tree, how I love your wacky goods to sell to unsuspecting people.

Things Found in Golden Corral’s Chocolate Waterfall

• Strawberries

• Knuckle hair

• Fried chicken drumsticks

• Ed Hardy sunglasses

• Band-aid with disturbing growth

• Ink pen with bathing suit girl that turns nude

• Lasagna

• Wedding ring with inscription “May the Force be with you”

• Loose change

• iPhone leaving Foursquare post about being Mayor of Golden Corral’s Chocolate Waterfall in Bolingbrook, Illinois

• Green Lantern power rings of assorted colors

• Roast beef slices

• Litter of chihuahua puppies

• Loose Change, the 9/11 documentary

• Shreds of dignity