The max is in control...
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Captain has requested that you stow and lock your tray tables, return your seats to the full upright position, and fasten your seatbelts.
We are about to enter Snippet Wednesday!!!
Air-sickness bags can be found in the seat pocket in front of you.
Mix-up
So you remember me saying yesterday how I hadn't really given the Cloud Nothings album enough of a listen to give it a fully fleshed-out review, but I liked it, right? Well, I suddenly realized the reason why... I wasn't planning on that album being my April review. I was actually going to review Of Monsters and Men's debut album My Head is an Animal. But, because I was so muckity muck in my cranium, I haven't really listened to that one enough either. Oy! I'd be a terrible professional music reviewer.
Marilyn
Betcha thought this might be a snippet about how the Marilyn Monroe statue is leaving Chicago next week, didn't ya? It's not. This is actually about the new Marilyn Manson album Born Villain and just how much I FREAKIN' LOVE IT! I've never listened to a Manson album before. I've really only ever heard the singles that so many of you know. It was never enough to compel me to want to seek out any of his full length albums to listen to. For whatever reason, I gave this one a listen and I just think it's amazing. Gonna have to listen to it several more times in the very near future!
Lavatory
Yesterday, I made a pitstop at a Panera Bread near where Katie works in between taking her to lunch and picking her up after her shift ended. Being that I need to take a pee pee break, I hightailed it to the bathrooms at the back of the restaurant prior to ordering. Much to my chagrin, a woman was in there cleaning the bathroom. She saw me standing there and said she was more than willing to let me cut in and she'd leave. I told her to go ahead and finish. I mean, seriously, how often are we afforded the privelege of evacuating ourselves in a public bathroom that is CLEAN? Like never.
It was nice.
#newsfail
Just a couple hours ago, I received a CNN Breaking News alert that four players on the New Orleans Saints were suspended in conjunction with the bounty investigation that's been going on for some time now. The body of the email simply said "Four New Orleans Saints players suspended over bounty program in which players were paid to injure opponents." No names of the players and no link to an article with more information anywhere in the email.
Even when I went to CNN.com to get some details, the Breaking News banner did not allow clickthroughs to an article. I had to scour the tiny little headlines below before I found something nestled snugly.
That's just all kinds of bad web production. If you're going to be that brief in an email, link to more information even if the article is a work in progress. Put the headline in there and add to it as you go. You need to offer up more than a one liner sans details. And banners should clickthrough. PERIOD.
Ha! Just got another CNN Breaking News alert as I was typing up this snippet about charges being filed in the hazing death of a Florida A&M drum major. No link. No additional information.
Fail, CNN.
NES
A lot of bands these days have been trying to find unique ways to package digital (read: "MP3") copies of their albums to make them interesting. While I maintain that The Flaming Lips' use of a gummy skull is one of the coolest I've ever seen, despite the ridonkulous expense of it, this one comes in a very close second...
A band named Fort Atlantic has packaged a digital copy of their upcoming album in recycled NES game cartridge cases. How awesome is that? A little USB cable comes out the opening to let you plug it into your computer and retrieve the files. There is also a contest to win a version of it that comes in the gold cartridges used for The Legend of Zelda. ME WANT! And at only $25, it's much more reasonable, albeit less edible, alternative to the gummy skull.
MDJ
Katie and I were out running errands last night and she read on her phone that Jessica Simpson and her ex-NFL player/boyfriend announced the birth of their child. At this point, Katie complained that this kid is going to have all kinds of gender identity issues growing up. "Why?" I asked. She told me the name of their baby was Maxwell Drew Johnson. "I don't get it. What's wrong with that? Pretty solid boy's name. No neutering that name at all." "They gave this name to a girl." Ohhhhhh... yeah. I'm going to have to agree with her on that one. Maxwell Drew for a girl? Not so much.
Adios, peeps!
Marilyn Manson albums can be a mixed bag of filler songs in between the singles and hits. I am loving this new album as well and it's got a better flow to it then the last 4 albums. "Mechanical Animals" was the last album that I could listen from start to finish without wanting to skips songs. Before that, it was "Antichrist Superstar"
It's always nice to have a clean bathroom, especially if you can hold the pee for a few minutes longer.
Posted by: Marty Mankins | Wednesday, 02 May 2012 at 03:08 PM
Maybe the inconsistency you're talking about is the reason it feels like it's been more than decade since he's put out an album.
Posted by: kapgar | Wednesday, 02 May 2012 at 05:36 PM
Yeah, that does explain the feeling quite well. The last album "The High End Of Low" was just 3 years ago and it dropped off the radar pretty quick.
Posted by: Marty Mankins | Wednesday, 02 May 2012 at 05:43 PM
I have never even heard of that album. Yikes.
Posted by: kapgar | Wednesday, 02 May 2012 at 07:29 PM