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Happy Easter everyone. Lets start out today with a few quotes from my favorite comedians regarding this festive holiday.
"I was over in Australia during Easter. Interesting to note they celebrate Easter the same way we do: commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit left chocolate eggs in the night "That's the story of Jesus!"
Who comes up with this shit? I've read the Bible, I can't find the word 'bunny' or 'chocolate' anywhere in that fuckin' book. It's no wonder we're fucked up as a race! I mean, why not "A goldfish left Lincoln Logs in your sock drawer!" I mean, at least a fish, jumping out of its bowl, and crawling across your bedroom floor with Lincoln Logs on its back has a supernatural connotation! 'Look mummy, there's a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer!' 'That's the story of Jesus!'" -- Bill Hicks from Rant In E Minor
"Well, you tell me! It’s got nothing to do with it, has it! You know, people going, uhh, “Remember kids,” the kids who’re eating the chocolate eggs, uhh, “Jesus died for your sins.” “Yeah, I know, it’s great! No, no no, it’s bad, it’s bad! No, it’s bad! It’s very bad. It’s terrible! Whatever you want, I mean – just keep giving me these eggs.”
And the bunny rabbits! Where do they come into the crucifixion? There were no bunny rabbits up on the hill going, “Hey – you – what, are you going to put those crosses in our – bur – warrens? We live below this hill, all right?” Bunny rabbits are for shagging, eggs are for fertility. It’s a festival – it’s the spring festival!"-- Eddie Izzard from Dress To KIll
Both are obviously funnier in their respective original contexts.
So then...does this omen mean the Red Sox will finally win the Series this year?
Shhhhhhhhh! Listen....that sound you hear? It's either Coolfer whooping it up or it's the Celtics backing into the playoffs, depending on where your loyalties lie. The Kings were about the only team in the league playing as bad as the C's, who have lost 4 straight while needing just one win to get into the second season. Argh.
Actually that sound might be the collective sigh of relief from Duke fans everywhere as Coach K sez, "I ain't goin' no where"! Blue Devil for life yo!
Pavement + Jay Z = The Slack album! My faves are Zurich Your Shoulder and 99 Problems Here [via 5500 via Stereogum]
Moz tells the Guardian 'Somebody has to be me'. Good thing it's not me, huh? Also check out NME's rundown of the upcoming record FYI - the first Lollapalooza date is July 14 at Seattle's White River Amphitheatre. [NME link also from 5500]
In today's section of downloading is not hurting the music industry...
A look at Apple vs. Apple.
Kill Bill Vol. 2 isn't even out yet and QT is blabbing about Vol. 3.
Yo, pour out a little of your 40 oz. tonight for Weird Al Yankovic. His parents died over the weekend of carbon monoxide poisoning. Damn. That was front page news at CNN all day today.
Don't sleep (no pun intended), Kurt Cobain wasn't the only Seattle musician to have an unfortunate anniversary this month.
Guinness = good for you. I am a former Guinness junkie but the beer was ruined for me after I went overboard on my trip to Dublin in 2001. I went over to catch the Super Furries play and proceeded to drink 33 pints in 4 days. My guts were brown after that. I have only had 2 pints of stout since then. But it was worth it. [link via Largehearted Boy]
Idiots! The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club!
i was doing the 90s pop culture quiz in entertainment weekly the other day, and there was a "match the front man to the appropriate grunge band" -- layne staley was obvs. one of them. i thought to myself, "now, didn't he die?," but i had no idea it was on the same date as cobain. that's sort of incredible.
Nobody's playing as poorly as the Celtics. Not even the Kings. Well, after watching part of that Sixers game yesterday, I might have to say they're currently the worst team in league. That was gross.
Yeah, P2P doesn't hurt CD sales. I believe that like I believe the Celtics are going to win it all. And I'll tell you on thing P2P REALLY hurts: online music sales, and since THAT is the future of music retail, the RIAA will continue to sue.
I'm feeling a bit more confident my Pacers wouldn't choke against the C's like last year, now that Ron Artest has found some way to regulate his brain waves and Isiah Thomas is gone.
By the way, did anyone else see that during the last Knicks game at Indiana, Zeke wouldn't sit in the stands? That he just hung out in a tunnel? What a punk.