OMG! WTF?

So, like a lot of kids this Christmas, I received an iTunes gift card.  Yes, I pay for my music if I really like the artist, so I definitely appreciated the gift.  I had no idea what to download, so I posed the question to my facebook pals.

I got several suggestions:  Jason Mraz, Black Kids, The Virgins, Ludacris, and The Very Best.

I’d heard some of them before, but the one that caught my attention the most was The Very Best, which is a collaboration between this singer from Malawi named Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit.  It’s basically a bunch of remixes and mash ups with this guy singing in his native language.  It’s pretty different and awesome.

Plus, you can download the whole album for free on their myspace!!!

http://www.myspace.com/theverybestmyspace

This is the coolest thing I’ve found on the internet today. Gotta give this chick props for reaching out to horny young ESL lads everywhere and offering her free expertise on the English language and the origins and meanings of an extensive variety of words. Kinda reminds me of when Van Wilder and Taj make a killing off charging kids for using their ‘Topless Tutors’ service, except HotForWords is way awesomer because it’s free. The Russian accent is the icing on the cake.

I saw this posted on a BBS — there was no attribution.

1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
3. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
4. Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
5. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
6. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.
7. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
8. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.
9. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

I stole this article from here.

My mom just showed me this really neat site called www.blackcabsessions.com where bands are picked up and play live acoustic songs in the back of a moving black cab.  There are over 60 different videos with bands like Death Cab for Cutie, Badly Drawn Boy and The Kooks. 

So precious.

More and more everyday, I am starting to believe all those doomsday prophets who were predicting the demise of old media and how they would lose the battle to the wonders of the internet.

I have no TV.  I can watch any tv show or movie on my laptop.  Even the most obscure, cancelled, old piece of crap or gold, whatever my little heart desires.  Why would I pay for cable that comes with a bunch of channels I don’t watch?

I don’t listen to the radio.  Why would I put up with annoying radio hosts, commercials, crappy songs I don’t like, and songs I used to like but don’t anymore due to excessive repetition? 

I want something different, I want to be able to listen to the 111 worst songs of all time, and now I can, thanks to the wonderfully diverse selection of radio stations available on AOL Radio.   There is even a station called WTF!!