here, after the Luna Halo video are my anskers

Dan threatens: so uhh… *ahem* uhh… Vancouver next month? I swear I will ask this every week from here on in until you say yes!Also, do you have any tips for avoiding (or better, reversing) job/industry burn-out?

not going to van next month. id go if foxxy would return my calls. id go if i wasnt changing the world. id go if i wasnt going to oregon early in the month. id go if i didnt have the best job ever.

the way to avoid or reverse job/industry burn-out is quit your job immediately and only sign on with companies who you respect and who respect you right back. also surround yourself with smart people at work. only smart people. if the smart people around you all agree that your workplace blows then be the smartest one and quit.

timmay!!!!! lists: 1. anything to say about obama filling in for kennedy at the wesleyan commencement?

(damn “watershed moment” is taking place just three miles from where i grew up)

2. will the dems narrowly defeat mccain or trounce mccain in a telephone free landslide victory?

3. will the celtics win one of the next two games?

1. i feel badly for the grads because when i saw obama he wasnt all that awesoma.

2. the winner of the next election will be the one who has control over the voting machines.

3. the celtics are like the yankees. they bought that team. bought teams always lose on the road. they dont deserve to play the lakers. itd be nice if they did cuz the lakers would sweep em. but they dont deserve it. if you cant win in atlanta you will never win in staples.

bicyclemark offers: Can I get you anything from Thailand?

1. one of everything please. and some tom kha kai. extra spicy.

panajane asks: There is a bar. It’s full of badasses and bad seeds, mean motherfuckers. As you enter the bar what song would play?

Tsar “Straight”

People try to talk, try to waste my time
everybody’s chatter puts a weight on my mind
but I fake it and I make it like I don’t understand
Got a chemical smile
I’m a moustache man

And I’m straight (straight)
each and every way
People come from miles just to hear me say
that I’m straight (straight)
I’m bent like a stick
Goin out with a bang, comin’ in with the click
Cuz I’m stra-i-a-aight
stra-i-a-aight
stra-i-a-aight
stra-i-a-aight
And now

People think they’re straight but they’re bent like a hook
See Dick Jane every trick in the book
Gonna get your mini van
get your Vons Club on
There’s somethin’ here to steal from everyone

And I’m straight
and this is the style
every Dianetic on the Miracle Mile knows
knows I’m straight (straight)
I said Hell yeah
Goin’ through the Devil like a bat outta Hell
Stra-i-a-aight
stra-i-a-aight
stra-i-a-aight
stra-i-a-aight
And the whole world has to answer right now
tell you once again, who’s straight?

There’s gonna come a day
maybe wont be long
flippin’ through the funny papers of who’s come and gone
You can try to glean a meaning in the message I leave
you’ll find I’m straight and will beyond belief

Straight!

zona doles up: would you ever give it up to teach it at a college or university?

Yes but first I would like to have something worthwhile to teach em.

Mike wonder: have you heard of Luna Halo? Do you like their sound?

Havent. No. They should go back to being hair dressers.

Smelly Danielly offers: Ok so I asked you questions last Friday but then missed your Saturday answers so I don’t know what they were and I can’t go back to read it. Do you have archives or no?! How do I find them!?

I do have archives but theyre hidden. I want people to come here every day. No backsies. No wait till Fridaysies. Just nowsies. Like now, see?

plop yr questions in the comment box and pray for the best

Pork & Beans from their new cd “The Red Album” embraces some of the more popular YouTube vids of this young century. it’s great to see the weeze partying with pop culture. and it helps the song go down easier.

yesterday the band released their first in hopefully a long series of “webisodes”, this one is webisode 0 starring your boy Rivers

whats great about this webisode is that longtime friend of weezer Justin was just telling me that rivers built a studio next to his malibu home that was sorta like his room growing up. and bam there it is in webisode 0.

god i love this band

update Valleywag has all the videos that =w= referenced in pork n beans here

here are some pics from her big day

what i liked the most was the shout out to StL rapper Nelly on the bouquets:

see the rest from part 1 here

The line to talk about tax and taxes is long. So long that the guy who says 40 has to say 41? 42? Because people just can’t wait all day and they leave and kill themselves. The trees around city hall should be palm trees to prevent the suicide hangings.

I have to prove that the busblog is not a business. Shouldn’t be hard cuz I haven’t had any good amount of ads here in a long time and even then it wasn’t like I was rolling in it.

Anyway this waiting room is a good reason against socialized Medicine. The people arent friendly they make you feel like you’re supposed to know all the rules. They don’t seem to care about all the people waiting. 43 my number is 56. I don’t blame the workers bc they have up incentive to make this faster nicer funner. There’s no music here on any level no song in peoples voices no nothing. Its like the DMV but slower and sadder. 43. I think I want a nap

Update: disregard all of my whines. I was treated so kindly. The woman who helped me was do smart. This city rules and now I look forward to socialized meds if this I’d what it can be like. Seriously.

carrie underwood trying to flash america

btw richard rushfield was behind the scenes all week at idol, first time any journalist was given so much access, and he writes about it wonderfully. A peek:

“Really girls,” cries choreographer Mandy Moore. “I have only an hour and 15 minutes left with you and you have 75 hours until the show.”

Chastened, but still effervescent with mirth, the room falls silent. “Okay,” Mandy said, “we’re going to go on a field trip.” She led them through the studio’s hallway to a cold, dark, fire escape-like stairwell, making them line up on either side and practice walking down while singing the chorus of “She Works Hard for the Money.”

“The reality is, on stage, we’re a lot wider. We just need to see you walk down the stairs into the screen,” Mandy tells them, demonstrating how to fan out across the tiny landing when they reach the bottom.

“I know you’re tired, but ladies, when you walk down stairs you need to turn your body and step. It’s not a profile thing. Now let’s try it again.

“OK, blondes, no chewing gum this time!” shouts gravelly-voiced rocker contestant Amanda Overmyer.
Back in the studio, the ladies spent the next hour remorselessly drilling, dissecting and perfecting every step of the two group numbers they will perform.

Given that the group members are not trained dancers but singers, Moore says she attempts to keep the steps fairly simple. “I try to push the envelope on what I can give them. I don’t want them to look silly on stage, but I want them to do more then step, toe, step, and I know they can handle more.”

Despite the simplicity of the basic steps, a mind-numbing amount of tweaks and adjustments are integrated. Just watching, one reels attempting to keep track of all that is occurring in the number, and wonders how the performers manage to learn all this, on top of learning the vocals, worrying about costumes, interviews and everything else that fills the life of an Idol contestant.

Breaking into two groups, they rehearse filing past each other to the music. “Pass into each other and remember, girls, you’re going to be in heels, so when you move, make it like this,” she demonstrates a broader step. “1-2-3-4. Four steps will get you there.”

The whole thing is pretty interesting, read it here.

And yes I also liked when the USC marching band and song girls showed up during one of the comedy bits.

on the side of this blog, because people are spoiling american idol’s results for the west coast.

also regular Twitter is spoiling it, so stay away from there if you wanna watch the show in peace.

however here are some funny tweets in the last 30 minutes or so:

apstew
@ hopes no one tweets who wins American Idol before he has a chance to watch it tonight when he gets home…is it really necessary?

alpaq
twitter spoils American Idol…never mind, I don’t watch American Idol

knoosh
@ijustine Justine, you gave it away! American Idol has not played on the West Coast yet!

troys
Spurs vs. Lakers>American Idol

icadrews
DVR literally ran out as Ryan goes “And the winner of American Idol is David–”
marlinex
crap….i think a just saw an american idol tweet spoiler. logging off until it’s over!

dublwrap
No traffic. No planes flying. No birds chirping. No signs of life. Must be American Idol Final. Bring back Gene Gene the Dancing Machine.

Djade
Unfortunately I am an idiot and just sat at my computer and ruined the American Idol finale for myself. Shit. That was pretty anticlimactic.

Chris_Lott
Well american idol is over what am i going to do on tuesday and wednesday at work?

jkendrick
No power in Mobile Tech Manor!: Oh No! The final live American Idol is on and the power just went off

scottph
wondering how many westcoast @ijustine followers love her for ruining American Idol for them. Classy

chelpixie
remind me not to look at Twitter before I watch Lost on Thursday. Spoilers re: American Idol are everywhere.

scottph
wondering how many @ijustine westcoast followers like how she gave away the winner for American Idol.

stales
note to self: don’t tivo american idol and log into Twitter before watching finals. Glad I don’t follow that show!

amandolinb
Thanks to all those on the East Coast for spoiling the American Idol Finale…. You are AWESOME.

Blogography
Good thing I couldn’t care less about American Idol… massive spoilage blowing through the Twitterverse.

rgremill
Our DVR did not capture the winner of American Idol. So frustrating!!! And the Winner is………

socalgirl
American Idol spoiled for me on west coast next year no twitter before finals bummer..next year consider the time zones when twittering

Tweets via Twittermap.com, photo via AmericanIdol.com

well spencer has a second blog, a directors cut blog called goldenfiddr that he does on a tumblr platform.

i havent really figured out why youd want a tumblr blog (are they easier than a blogger blog?) but some of the cool kids are getting them so, i dunno.

anyways spence found this cool video of two of my favorite fat dudes: tom arnold and mr chris farley. and they seem to be hanging out in the glendale galleria which is now about to be a sorta white elephant now that they opened a new The Grove next door. whatevs.

– american airlines, starting june 15th, will charge you $15 if you check your bag

– spike lee is pissed at clint eastwood for omitting black troops in his WWII films

– a donkey was arrested in mexico on sunday

– burger king is going to make a burger big enough to feed six

– ron paul got two delegates yesterday

– some “green” cars are fast and hot

– a goat survived a baaaaaad 50 foot plunge from a bridge

– the view ladies had a heated debate about prescott bush’s nazi ties

– Mr. Right wears yellow plastic kanye glasses and flaunts his $20s on craigslist

– the Svengali behind the backstreet boys and nsync is going to prison for 25 years

– mad pony kristin is now a lawyer