Try curring up with this next time you start a fire. I bet its cozy and delicious!

I knew a guy that was born and raised in Hawaii. He said if you accidentally step in dog poo that means your really lucky. Well this guy must be the luckiest person in the world!
Bird Poo

I don’t really like Pugs. They grunt and always look at you with their bulgy eyes. But I can’t get enough of this pug licking the screen. I want a screen saver of this… please someone make a screen saver!

Slade your last post about Kenny Loggins brought back memories of the amazing 10 videos Channel 101 put out a while back gloriously titled Yacht Rock. The videos have been around for a while… but the never get old. Check them out one at a time and feel the magic.

1 - What A Fool Believes In
2 - Keep The Fire
3 - I’m All Right
4 - Rosanna
5 - Believe In It
6 - The Seed Drill
7 - I Keep Forgetting
8 - Gino
9 - Running With The Devil
10 - FM
“Shut the fuck up… Hall and I wont stand idly by around while you California vagina sailors stab the American airwaves in the balls with your shit…(spin) music”.

Part of living in Los Angeles is becoming so jaded and cynical that you don’t even like music anymore (this is also a part of growing up but I would never want to admit that I’m doing any such thing). The concept of listening to new music just turns you off when you can just cocoon yourself in records from your youth, back when music was GOOD. Hey, we’re all guilty of this.

Well, with “Music Is Still Good!” I hope to prove the above-mentioned notions wrong. Yeah, I hate music review blogs. The thought of some pseudo-hipster record geek with a bad asymmetrical haircut sharing their personal opinions is fucking gross. Well, that’s what I’m going to do now. For your sake, I hope you don’t read it.

In spite of all that, for your sake, I hope you check out the records that I recommend. Restore your faith in music, discover your youth again and remember what made you fall in love with music in the first place!  Music should be passionate and magical like unicorns and fairies. But these days, it’s tough to spot that passion and magic. This is my quest to prove, to the world AND to myself, that today’s music still has it. These are the records that did it for me. Hopefully they will do it for you too.

This week: MGMT.

This NYC duo, formally known as The Management, recently got signed to Columbia Records and just released the debut album “Oracular Spectacular.” They’ve polished up a lot of the tracks from their DIY demo tapes but the content remains some of the best artsy psychedelic dream-funk you will ever hear. Imagine the best local art house film you’ve ever seen translated into big guitars and synth with vocals echoing and reverberating through your mind. They did. And that’s what they recorded. Check out the song “Electric Feel” which is possibly one of my favorite songs of all time. It’s trippy and sexy and catchy as shit. It’s like Prince as a hipster art fag in a Basquiat-era Lower East Side loft. The rest of the album shares the same type of attitude and not without a refreshing (read: not too cliché) sense of humor and a tasteful (read: not too pretentious) level of class. Personally, I don’t expect MGMT to go very far beyond this album. I predict they’ll hit that sophomore jinx and get shelved by their label. But “Oracular Spectacular” is deifnitely a solid album full of creative songs and sounds.

MGMT is playing Saturday Jan 26th at The Echo.

I have been seeing some seriously great shit recently, and I just have to start sharing it with you all. Since I don’t work, I go to the gym during the day because it is free. The LA fitness is in Hollywood is by far the nicest gym in Los Angeles, It puts all 24 hour locations to shame in cleanliness and layout oh and excellent people (wacko) watching.

1. Man brings his 8 pushing 14 year old daughter into the mens locker room, where there were tons of naked dudes walking around. I heard a female voice so I looked over and made eye contact with this young woman, every dude in there was trying to hide from her stares. Why the fuck would a father bring in a girl who was over the age of 1 month old into a locker room full of naked dudes? They have a day care area for shit sake.

2. While completing my 100 lap swim, I happen to look over at the co-ed hot tub area to find an asian man eating sushi in it alone. When I said this place was clean, I meant it, so help me god he had a napkin with in reach.

3. Yesterday while swimming, I shared a lane with Dee Snider of TWISTED SISTER, the whole time swimming I sang, “don’t you hear no evil, don’t you speak no evil, dun dun dun… something, something, YOU’RE GUNNA BURN IN HELL”. I didn’t talk to him, I don’t really like talking to anyone at the gym, but I can tell you, Dee isn’t a good swimmer, he forgot to put his eye goggles on a few times, he dove in when it was only 3 feet deep and he really had HUGE FEET.

4. CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW - The homeless dude who came to hollywood to “make it” and dresses as Johnny Depp out on hollywood blvd.Taking pictures for cash, he has figured out a way to keep his stuff in a locker at the LA fitness and take a shower, dry sauna and hot tub, and then put his costume back on. I’ve seen him over 4 times now, so I pretty much know the routine, but it is terrifying seeing someone in a locker room naked with the jack sparrow make up on.

I know this isn’t the last of the excitement, I’ll keep you up to date with anymore LA Fitness news.

bimbambananas.com claims this puzzle alarm clock is the gadget of the year. Must be a slow year for gadgets. This alarm clock ejects puzzle pieces all over your room and the only way to turn it off is to find the scattered pieces and put the puzzle back together.
Somehow, I’m sure secretly madEx will want this next to his bacon cooking alarm clock.

Feist goes up in sparks. Best video of the new year.

So, now what do you want for breakfast?

This morning I put on my Super Sounds of the 70’s playlist to start the morning off in a mellow way. “This is It” by Kenny Loggins came on and I was reminded of how great some of the music from this era is. If you ONLY know his regrettable Footloose album, or even worse, “Danger Zone” from Top Gun, you’re missing out. I defy anyone to not listen to This is It and not be inspired to take on the day, full force, and then act out some movie montage, complete with working out, getting dressed up, and just being awesome. Besides, Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald singing the chrous = pure gold.