Top 5 of Jan-Jun 2006

In Alphabetical Order:

Elvis Perkins – Ash Wednesday

¡Forward, Russia! – Give Me a Wall

The Gaskets – Loose Change

Tunng – This Is Tunng: Mother’s Daughter and Other Songs (UK 2005, US 2006)

Man Man – Six Demon Bag

I don't know how to do jumps, so I ranked most of the other dozens of album as the first comment here.

Die Blog Die!

(In German that means "The Blog, The")

This Blog Is Dead.

So please visit my other one here.

So see you there.

Tom Cruise Kills Oprah!

Watch Movie Here.

He also has an interview with Matt Lauer here. Read it, or watch the 13 minute video.

Everytime Tom says "Matt", take a shot of Tequila.

Here is an excerpt:

Cruise: Do you know what Aderol is? Do you know Ritalin? Do you know now that Ritalin is a street drug? Do you understand that?

Lauer: The difference is —

Cruise: No, no, Matt.

Lauer: This wasn't against her will, though.

Cruise: Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt —

Lauer: But this wasn't against her will.

Cruise: Matt, I'm asking you a question.

Lauer: I understand there's abuse of all of these things.

Cruise: No, you see. Here's the problem. You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do.

One of these things isn't like they others...

Here’s a picture from a show I went to two weeks ago (taken by mfr). Notice anything awesome about it? It hasn’t been altered either.

Mary-Kate Olson, Or...

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Courtesy of The Superficial via Stereogum.

Zoo Bulters and Oranges

Today’s word of the day (sanctioned by Dictionary.com) is menagerie. This isn’t a difficult word. If it came up on my SAT six years ago, I would have been very happy. Of course they would have used like: menagerie is to woeful as limerick is to (satirical, dictatorial, supernal, yellow).

Anyway, I particularly like the sentence in which the site uses the word:
“Once, when he was too ill even to visit the zoo, Gerald was provided with a sort of substitute zoo of his own by the family butler, Jomen, who modeled a whole menagerie of animals [from clay]…” --Douglas Botting

Poor Gerald. He was so ill “once” he couldn’t even go to the zoo, the number one place I miss whenever I am sick, like today. “Sorry boss, I can’t go into work today. Hell I’m so sick, I can’t even go to the zoo!”

But hey, I have a “sort of substitute” of the zoo, if I can only command my servant to make one for me out of clay, because as you know, I am too sick to even play with clay. “How many have you made Jomen? Ten? That’s no damn menagerie. Keep going.”

Menagerie rhymes with orangerie, which is like a zoo for orange trees. And wherever there are zoos of orange trees, it smells like oranges. Florida is an orangerie. So why doesn’t “old people smell” smell more like oranges. It definitely does not.

You could also almost rhyme menagerie with la-aund-er-y. but I’ll have my zoo-butler take care of that.