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The Urge was a St. Louis-based Rock/Punk/Ska band that started making noise in 1989, but didn’t really hit their big acclaim until the mid ’90s. While their most commercially-successful single was easily “Jump Right In” (man, that video is terrible) from Master of Styles, their most complete and consistent album, at least in my opinion, is Receiving the Gift of Flavor.

Autoblog.com has posted that a live-action adaptation of the Akira manga is in the works.

Amidst all the great animes we’ve been exposed to, Akira stands out. Set in post-apocalyptic Tokyo, the neo-classic featured everything we’ve come to expect from Japan’s animation wizards: stunning artwork, imaginative plot lines and absolutely killer conveyances - particularly the bikes which easily put Tron to shame.

Here are just a few more interesting videos from the lineage of Tool.

Danny Carey Interview

A few years back after Lateralus was released, Danny Carey (the drummer from Tool) did an interview with Jeff Ocheltree for ‘Trust Your Ears: The Drum Tech Explorations of Jeff Ocheltree’, during which he plays the climactic section of the title track of the album (one of my favorites of their entire collection).

This video once again re-affirms why BMW is my favorite car company.

Phil Collins appeared on ‘Telling Stories’ (which appears to be similar to VH1 Story Tellers), and there are a few clips on YouTube of that episode.

So, sometime Friday night my cable modem, in concert with my drastically out-of-date analog drop from the main line caused any semblance of internet to completely vanish from within the boundaries of my house.

I, like many people before me, became overwhelmingly aware of my dependence upon being wired. This was god-awful. I was seeing babies crawl on the ceiling, and I was willing to dive into the worst toilet in Scotland for my fix. I had Julie take a picture of me just to cement the moment:

I was just poking around on Youtube, and ran across this great live video from Sevendust during the Seasons era (2003-ish). It looks like it may be from Saturday Night Live, but I’m not sure, and don’t really care all that much. Given that Clint Lowery is still on guitar (as opposed to Sonny Mayo) and Lajon’s hair is short, this has to be an album promotional for some show - it’s a very good live performance either way.

This has to be the best name for a cheese ever: The Stinking Bishop Cheese.

I just happened to run across it today at work because we had a cheese-pun email-chain going on, and I needed some clever cheese names. I guess it was featured in ‘Wallace & Grommit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit - but I unfortunately haven’t seen the movie.

That one gave me a good laugh, especially when combined with some euphemisms which will not be named here.

This weekend my fiancée and I took a trip to Houston to meet with some friends. While there we decided to partake in a movie, and found ourselves, simply by the nature of timing, buying tickets for Death at a Funeral.

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