OH MY GOD!

Bazzilonaire author, J.K. Rowlings, recently announced that one of the main characters of her Harry Potter Series, that Albus Dumbledore is gay. Feel free to read up more here at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21407911/ but basically she waits until the series ends and has made her money (last stop on a US book tour) to make this announcement. A couple things come to mind, and mind you I could care less whether he was gay or not (I cant believe I'm writing about a fictional book character). First, we will have 2 sides to the argument, whether or not a kids book should have a gay main character. Alot of people are giving her praise for bringing the issue to the table, but I see this as kind of cowardly. I mean, if she really thought this was something that should be used to help bring awareness, why wait until the series is finished and she has maxed out her profits? Can you imagine the loss of "muggle" readers if this came out in the 3rd book of 7? Not to mention the drop out rate at Hogwarts would surely send the school into a flat-spin that was headed out to sea. Further, what does this say about the Griffindores and surely the "naming hat" would have called out Dumbledore in front of the whole school ages ago, tarnishing their reputation. We would have parent groups going ape shit about this. Now that its too late, I wonder if people will really even bother to put up a fight. So the question is, Cowardly? Good Planning? or are you like me, and smell SPIN OFF SERIES!!

God, please let me die fighting monkeys.

Monkeys attack Delhi politician

Delhi has long struggled to cope with marauding monkeys

The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.

SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.

The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by.

The High Court ordered the city to find an answer to the problem last year.

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Nova collapses

The company I've been working for for the past year, and have recently quit, has gone bankrupt. Somewhere they still have my last two paychecks, along with the paychecks of some 4,000 other foreigners. At about ¥250,000 ($2000) per paycheck x 4000 = ¥1 billion.

The Co-founder Hisashi Nozomu has disappeared, his directors have resigned. The company is 44 billion yen in debt (but that's only like forty bucks, so that's not too bad)...

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Thriller (voice demo)

Rhuubarbidoo

...Doesn't quite compare to the Muppets video, but it was our (Overture's) first music video and released today on the FatCat site...

NeuDisco

Escort have a bunch of 12"s, none of which I've heard except this muppet-banger. I could bother with listening to them on turntablelab, but then I'd probably go ahead and blow dough wads all over having them shipped here. In the mean time this clip is jeanyus:

Get in that Ass Larry

I don't know if you guys watch this show, but if you don't, I hope this changes your mind. This is from this season, and might be the funniest bit I have seen on TV in years/ever. Enjoy...

The History of Religion in 90 seconds.

From the guy who posted this:
"I work in TV Sports, this tape has circulated amongst our tape rooms for years, I figured it was only natural to be on YouTube. I'm of the understanding it was a statewide beauty pagaent, and Stacy is Miss Douglas County. I have no idea who she is, or if she even knew there was a talent portion of the contest."

Blow Thy Mind

Teenage Mutant Ninja Poodle! More Here...

ECHO 1

In the late 50s NASA was making giant aluminum balloons that was supposed to orbit earth and behave much like the satellites of today. They stood 10 stories tall and amazingly only weighed 132 pounds! Apart from all that they looked fucking awesome. Jared and I saw a similar Flight of the Navigator type blob at Millenium Park in Chicago about three months ago.

There are a few more pictures HERE as well as a good article to go with them.

For the J-Literate idiots

Most guys that are record nuts or work at stores read English to learn about the music they love. When they write about music they drop TONS of English keywords (written in Katakana) to promote the record, persuade the customer, whatever. It's super common to see Japaneseisizeded "Rea!" (rare),"Guruubu!" (groove) or "fankee" (fonkaayyyy [Cameo voice]) at most shops or in magazines.
But this Japanese review of my favorite 12" of late ("Let me do It" by HALO) really cracked me up. It's like 90% Japanenglish hybrid music buzzwords...

オリジナルは45'Sオンリー、フロム・カリフォルニアのインディペンデント・レーベルからほぼプライベート・プレス・オンリーでリリースされた(らしい...)オブスキュア・モダン・ソウルのモンスター・シングルHALO / LET ME DO ITが12"サイズでヴァイナル・リイシュー！クラップも交えたミッド・ブギー・トラックにスペイシーなウワモノからホーンを交えた爽快なウェスト・コースト・モダン・ソウル～ディスコ・チューン。そしてフリップサイドにはなんとEXTENDED DISCO VERSIONを収録！

music from japan

Our friend David has got a new site to replace his old site.
Here he's done a mix of a bunch of Japanese 60's pops & shits.