Gucci Mane – All About The Money

Gucci Mane – Wasted

Triple C’s – Trickn Off

Gucci Mane – Excuse Me (Diplo Remix)

Gucci Mane – Pillz (remix)

I know there’s at least a couple bike people on the Bloglin so I thought I would share my most recent build. I treated myself to a new frame and fork a couple weeks ago that’s finally ready for the road and I couldn’t be happier with the outcome.

I had my eye on the Ridley Oval since last fall but I gave up on the idea when I found out that the Canadian distributor wasn’t going to stock them this year. Much to my luck a few random Oval frames found their way to Canadian warehouse just in time for a new Spring build.

By no means were the last couple frames I was riding loose but they were nothing in comparison to the Oval’s geometry. No turning required with this bike, but rather a lot of lean. A whole lot of lean in this cup. The toe overlap is definitely providing a learning curve.

Anyone else out there with any Spring builds they want to share in the comments? Anything! Fly whips, scrapers, hooptys, whatever!

So. More crazy travels to SF. To be honest, I wouldn’t normally bore you with the specifics and details of my tedious, overly-adult life, but the past few weeks have found me bumping into great- and interesting-ness so I figured what the hell. Or what the hello, as I seem to want to type over and over again.

This weekend saw the wife and I hauling our bones back down to San Francisco for a few concurrent special occasions. As the toy- and/or comics-minded of you may already know, the geniuses at Wondercon decided to schedule, um, Wondercon, for the same weekend as Easter. Which made for an at-once crazy busy and crazy empty SF. It was weird. To add to the madness—a daisy-chain of insanity, really—the fine folks at Super7 organized a big show with Gargamel—the Japanese vinyl toymakers, NOT the gravelly-voiced smurf foil—and they sort of brought the heat. In addition to releasing a couple of new head sculpts for S7′s Monster Family line of toys, they brought a staggering 120-ish customs to sell.

We also had a chance to check out the fabled and mysterious Alameda Flea Market/Swap Meet on Sunday which was…a disaster. It’s raining, it’s cold, and all I got was this (awesome) lawn gnome. One of those types of affairs. Anyway, the whole set is here, but I figured I’d pull a few highlights to make you all jealous at my awesome, glamour-filled, yes-sir-mr.-west, lifestyle. To wit.

PS: Wouldn’t the above photo qualify as Bear Porn? Whatever happened to Bear Porn?

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St. Patrick’s Day used to be a very real, much anticipated excuse for me and my friends to go out and drink. Drink more than usual. It used to actually be on my calendar.

Now that I am a thirtysomething unhipster, it is an excuse for my wife to send me (even more) clips of singing muppets.

Ideally, I would like both things all at once…I could be a drunken, hard-partying, holiday-longing-for responsible, hard-working adult, but I guess if I have to choose one over the other, Animal chases the snakes.

I hate all holidays except for Halloween and the Fourth of July.  Every other holiday mostly serves to make lonely people miserable and aggravate family stresses to the point where people are screaming at each other and throwing shit. I think that Christmas, Valentines Day and New Years Eve are all evil and wrong. Thanksgiving is a little bit of a fence sitter but it still makes people feel like shit.

Despite hating the holidays I do like the week after the holidays when all the candy is half off.  I was in a Rite Aid where I picked up a Snoopy Valentine that contained really bad peanut butter cups, a Hello Kitty valentine with chalky candy bracelets inside and a Barbie valentine with conversation hearts in it.  I actually like these godawful candies even though I know it is wrong.  These were weirder than the ones I was used to.  Half of the candies just said “OH BOY” but the others ranged from confusing to threatening.

I am supposing that these hearts were made by people in another country who got some old conversation hearts and English words which they then programmed into the machine that prints words onto candy hearts in a very computer-like font. I like to imagine little girls faxing each other or Barbie being so in love with someone that she is moved to fax him a very passionate letter.

I am not sure if the candy is saying that things are hopeless or encouraging you to hope less. Either way, grim.

I got dewy eye from putting my head in a litter box one time. That suckkkked.

These seem to be written by and for depressed people who sit around all day by themselves.

I will get you next time.

When?

Don’t leave.

Is timing romantic? So many of these seem to be about the past and the future. “What now?”, “Yes now”, “When?”, “Next time.” It’s like whoever was writing these just passed the portion of the English for Malaysians class where they taught how to refer to things existing in time.

De La Soul – Stakes is High

Pete Rock / J. Dilla – Niggaz Know

A Tribe called quest – Find a Way

Jaylib – Starz

Keith Murray – The Rhyme (Jay Dee Remix)

Puff Daddy ft RUN DMC, Mase, Salt & Pepa, Onyx and Keith Murray – Santa Baby Remix

Snoop Dogg – Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto

Kurtis Blow – Christmas Rapping (live on TOTP jan’80)

Eazy-E – Merry Muthafuckin’ Christmas

Run DMC – Christmas In Hollis

We’re pretty big fans of Andrew W.K. round these parts so we were thrilled to here his recent trip to Viva Radio to perform live on the 67th installment of their Me+You sessions. Andrew wastes no time in celebrating this “High Holiday” weaving behind the piano in a very (to quote Viva Radio’s blog) Harry Nilsson singer-songwriter fashion.

This is a side most people aren’t probably used to hearing from the “Party Hard” rocker, but AWK is truly a consummate musician who rip anthemic rockers or just keep you entertained with his words and piano playing.

Hear the entire Andrew W.K. Me +You session here!

This news clip is surely on its way to becoming 2009′s year ender internet meme so let’s aid the push by sharing it with all of the creeps on the Bloglin!

A 4 year old from Tennessee was found drunk in the middle of the night wandering his neighborhood wearing a dress which he had stolen from under the Christmas tree of his neighbor’s house along with other presents. The boy’s mom explained his intentions as simply wanting to spend Christmas with dad in prison. Cute! Mom also said it was an honest mistake and she’s doing the best parenting job she can and that’s really all you can expect from somebody.

Below is an interview with the neighbors that were burglarized by the drunken 4 year old Grinch.

As soon as I sign into our Facebook account I am usually bombarded by comments and questions about the brand. Last night, some kid started to chat with me about Rage Against the Machine, and how I needed to support them. Wait, what? I mean I like RATM just as much as any other kid who grew up in the 90s, but was this kid messaging me from some small island or 3rd world country that was just getting into RATM? He then sent me a link to a facebook fan page, and it all started to make sense.

Rather than trying to explain it myself, I am going to post an entry direct from Wikipedia:

In December 2009, a campaign was launched on Facebook and Twitter by Jon and Tracy Morter to rebel against the commercialization of the UK music industry. The campaign seeks to generate publicity and try to take the track “Killing in the Name” to the coveted Christmas Number One slot in the UK Singles Chart, which has been dominated for four consecutive years from 2005 by winners from the popular TV show The X Factor.[46] As of 17th December the Facebook group membership stands at over 850,000, and has been acknowledged (and supported) by Tom Morello,[47] Dave Grohl,[48] Paul McCartney,[49] Fightstar,[50] NME, Terry Wogan, BBC 6 Music, John Lydon, Bill Bailey, BBC Radio 1, Demon FM, Enter Shikari, Hadouken!, The Prodigy, Stereophonics, Phoenix FM, Phantom FM, BBC Radio 5 Live, and even the 2004 X Factor winner Steve Brookstein[51], amongst numerous others.

On the morning of 17th December Rage Against The Machine played a slightly censored version of Killing In The Name live on Radio 5 Live, but four repeats of ‘Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me’ were aired before the song was pulled.

The entire concept is pretty amazing to me! What is also shocking is how big of a deal this seemingly is in the UK, but I haven’t heard a word of it in the US. Check out the interview and slightly censored performance by RATM on BBC 5 on December 17th.

Lets do it! Lets all make “Killing in the Name of” the #1 Christmas song in the UK.