This thing is so over the top offensive that I find it difficult to believe that it is serious.

These were only three of my favorites. I might try and find some videos of more.

I am not a big fan of Skype and haven’t been one for a long time. On the flip side, I have always liked Microsoft products for some reason. I just hope Microsoft can straighten Skype out or if they can’t, put them out of their misery.

The whole eBay/Skype thing didn’t make much sense to me. I know they thought that it would help buyer/seller communication but who really wants that? The best part about eBay was that you didn’t have to waste time talking with other people. You just clicked a bunch of times and a few days later you got your stuff in the mail.

The only time you should ever want to talk to someone is when you had a problem and needed to contact Tech Support, but since eBay always tried to stay above little things like buyer/seller disputes, it seemed odd that they would want to get involved, even in such a peripheral way.

I hope Microsoft gets their money’s worth. Part of me doubts it, but I wouldn’t be broken hearted if I was proven wrong.

A judge oversentences kids to private detention facilities in exchange for a kickback. This seems like a modern day slave trade to me. Unfortunately, I seriously doubt if he gets the harshest sentence available to him. However, I wonder how many other judges do something like this.

2. 100 Percent – I’ve never been sure if the lyrics are about a serial rapist/murderer, but I like the cadence of the words along with the music.

3. My Friend Goo – This song has the tendancy to get stuck in me head for days.

4. Moist Vagina – I like Moist Vagina, what else is there to say?

5. Bull In The Heather – This song made me go out and buy Experimental Jet Set Trash And No Star after hearing it once.

Amy Winehouse – Love Is A Losing Game:

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Inspiration Information:

I am currently at the part where they are trying to find out if the Fish Man killed Latonya Wallace, which was changed to whether The Araber killed Adena Watson. On TV, this was a great storyline.  In real life, it is heartbreaking.

My favorite episode of H:LOTS is ‘Three Men and Adena’. It was an episode long interrogation with Bayliss and Pembleton trying to get a confession from The Araber. The three actors should have all gotten Emmys, Oscars, Tonys and whatever other awards there were.

This scene is ten minutes long, but it doesn’t feel like it. It is still haunting after all these years.

I have already decided that when I am done with Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets, I am reading David Simon’s The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood which he made into a miniseries for HBO called ‘The Corner‘, which was another great piece of television.

NOTE: All of the links in this post are Amazon sponsored links.

This video is from the album version of the song and not from the soundtrack. I think the difference is the R+J version has clips from the movie. I’m not sure because I have never seen either of them before today.

Also, in the YouTube comments (yes, I know I should avoid them like ball hungry Great Danes) someone mentioned “OMG justin bieber ruined this song!” I take the statement to mean he made a cover of the song. If that is the case, I don’t know what the big deal is. This isn’t 199-something, there are as many options to avoid hearing a song as there are to hear one. It’s not like back in the day when you had to listen to radio in order to hear new music. Subscribe to some cool music blogs and podcasts and avoid the FCC-neutered radio industry.

And now that my “You kids have it easy, why back in my time…” moment is over, everyone listen to the video and have a good day.

The first song from their debut album ‘12 Jealous Roses’ is called ‘Pleasure’. The first two times the chorus was sung, it included the phrase “I smash my own bones just to hear them crack…”, which I thought was a great line.  However, on the third go around, that part of the chorus changed to “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die…” This was definitely a bit of a departure and I had never heard that line before.

Years later I found out the “shot a man in Reno” line came from ’Folsom Prison Blues’, and was written by Johnny Cash. When he was writing the song, he was trying to think of the worst possible reason for one person to kill another and just to watch someone else die was pretty much it.

I sought out a copy of ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ and I liked it. In fact, I liked it so much I bought the three CD set, ‘The Essential Johnny Cash (1955-1983)’, which quickly became one of my favorite collections of music. I compare all other country artists to Johnny Cash and if they don’t come close to his sound, then I don’t like them. Needless to say, I haven’t liked much country music that has come out since 1983 and I don’t feel bad about it at all.

While I am a huge fan of the earlier Johnny stuff, I respect what Rick Rubin brought to the table with the ‘American Recordings’. I know that ‘Hurt’ was the big hit of those sessions, but my favorite song of Older Johnny was ‘Ain’t No Grave’, which is Johnny Cash’s final studio recording and the music behind The Johnny Cash Project.

Here is Pleasure by The Dancing Hoods:

Here is Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash:

And here is Ain’t No Grave by Johnny Cash:

Mates Of State cover The Replacements

I wasn’t that familiar with The AV Club before this, but I think I will spend some time on their website.