January 31, 2006
 Official 2006 Coachella artist lineup
 As performers Bloc Party once said, “so here we are.” Finally, we get to end all the hype and stew over making reservations. Well, I, for one, will not be going, as I’m not that excited about the headliners, or hardly any band on the 2nd day.
Better luck next year, yo.
Most excited about: Sigur Ros outside at night?
Best first name/last name: Gnarls/Blunt
Best day: Day 1
Best act with a !, *, or & in their name: The Go! Team
Best act with an animal in the name: The Octopus Project
Best DJ: Mylo
Most double-taken name: Little Louie Vega
Biggest re-formation: Tool
Best American band: My Morning Jacket
Best British band: Franz Ferdinand
Best anywhere else band: Sigur Ros
Most misleading name: Youth Group
 Ostrich
With the equivalent of two dozen chicken eggs in one ostrich egg, you pretty much can’t eat anything else for the rest of the day afterwards. To eat the whole thing, you should wash it down with coffee to keep you awake. Usually takes 18 hours.
 Caviar
Who doesn’t enjoy the taste of whale or fish eggs? Combined with a fine champagne, these sea jewels indulge your taste buds, but I don’t recommend any caviar or bubbly less than $5,000.
 Cobra
Is the taste of cobra yolk worth dying for?
Very much so. While most cobras can indeed kill you, only a couple are truly deadly. Once you capture your reward, fry them using a light caramel glaze. Huge mongoose decoy highly recommended for capture.
 Alligator
Gator eggs go great with Tabasco sauce and hash browns. Once, I incubated a gator egg, and when the youngin’ was big enough, he mauled a neighborhood cat, at which point I “released him into the wild”.
 Platypus
I’m not sure about their delicacy or legality status, but these marsupial eggs have a robust flavor much like a packet of Poprocks going off in a bowl of salsa.
Seven dead in California post office shooting
 Over the last five years, postal service workers have formed strong gang alliances among themselves, and this is just some of the violence boiling over. The shooter is from the gang, the “Stamps”, and was targeting rivals of the gang, the “Weird Little Trucks”. How many more will die in this bitter turf war?
Coretta Scott King Dies at 78
She always made me think of Francis Scott Key.
Female Mexican Wrestler Hunted As Serial Killer
The broad-shouldered gal is known as the “Little Old Lady Killer”, and has the second-highest average victim age rate in serial killer history behind only Tom Johnson of Alabama, who in 1943, counted a 112-year-old and a 108-year-old amongst his victims.
Bull gets into stands, tears spectators a new one
There’s some high-quality video of it, too. The best part is when the bull starts eating that man. Who knew bulls had such a taste for humans?
January 30, 2006
January 27, 2006
 I first caught wind of Grandaddy when they opened for Coldplay in Dallas in 2000. Between the sound and the video, they blew my mind and I immediately latched on. They easily stole the show . It was an elec-ternative revolution in my world .
These sentimental jokers from Modesto won me over and I had to hear everything they put out. Sophtware Slump is easily one of my favorite albums of all time. Sumday occupied my cd player for months. I got every album and EP I could get my hands on. I even have an orange Grandaddy sticker on my car bumper.
 The other day when I listened to “Wives of Farmers”, it felt nostalgic, but I didn’t think it’d be this nostalgic. I still want “So You’ll Aim Toward the Sky” played at my funeral.
It breaks my heart that they’re ending it, but at least they’re giving us a going away album, I guess. I am definitely not OK with their decay. Start growing your protest beards, please.
Grandaddy Call It Quits
 Something in my skull just popped. I can feel my brain leaking. Why, O Lord, why? Please, please, please, please, please say it ain’t so. Fellas, fellas, take some time off for yourselves, do whatever, chill, get away from it for a while, sip on some ‘ritas, take a trip to Barbados, learn how to quilt. Whatever. Just don’t tell me it’s over for good.
Celtics trade Davis, Blount to T’Wolves for Szcxzcwzcerbiak, Oklololkoanaoandi
We got rid of Blount! Hooooowee! So awesome. I’m diggin this trade. Should be an interesting rest of the year.
Other dimensions might soon be detected
Ah, is there anything neutrino detectors can’t do?
Russian Soldier Loses Legs, Genitals After Hazing
I know it’s like -96°F there these days, but is that an excuse to ruin the bottom half of a man? I think I’d just rather have ‘em go ahead and do the top half while they’re at it.
January 26, 2006
Official rating: 82 + 4 rock out points = 86
Note: Yeah, I know the pictures suck. Better than nothing.
 This was the first show of The Walkmen’s January Northeast mini-tour with Mazarin. The gigs are to show off their new songs, which will be on their new album, which comes out in April. According to Hamiltonious, the new album and its title track will be called “All Hands On [Deck?] [Us?] [Me?]“. It was hard to understand.
 They ripped through a bunch of new songs, all of which were fiery and more serrated. He didn’t mention hardly any names, except for “Louisiana”. They played “The Rat” third, snuck in “Little House of Savages”, and “Wake Up” and “We’ve Been Had” in the encore. All in all, a solid job of debuting the new material. They also had some technical problem with the keyboard, which the entire band and I laughed at.
Looking forward to when they come back around again in support of the album.
 As for Mazarin, they did an admirable job opening, and their style fit like a mitten.
They jammed dutifully through their album, and made a few people take notice. The last time I was supposed to see them was with Rogue Wave, but they pulled out at the last minute, so there was just that much more anticipation for this show, and I was wholly impressed. A solid start to my ‘06 concert season.
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