Everything Hits At Once

All the press we've gotten this week has made me realize that people are actually coming to this shindig on Saturday. Like Woah. Spent last night changing up my set list (so focused now!) and testing it out while I was on the treadmill. Best of all, I think I figured out how to sneak in an Oasis track without stepping on the toes of the big Britpop night going on upstairs. I tell ya, trying to come up with 90 minutes of booty shakin' jawns without using any Britpop was quite a challenge. Anyways, hope to see you on Saturday. And if you are a fellow blogger or reader of this site, please come up and say hi before the night is out. I'll have my digicam locked and loaded so expect lots of visual evidence next Monday.

The Chief finally kicks the kanowledge on the upcoming LP from the Brothers Gallagher. He said: "The finished album is my favourite one of the last four. Because we're all contributing to the songwriting there's a different feel to it. In fact the only songs that sound like Oasis are Andy Bell's funnily enough."

"There was an obvious first single but I was singing it," Noel explained. "After 12 years of Oasis, Liam thought that might sound a bit odd, people might think he'd left the band. He threw his cans out the pram." Blahblahblah. This better not suck.

The bands to watch in '05, according to the Beeb. [via Chromewaves]

Oooh! New KCRW Sounds Eclectic CD! Live stuff from The Modfather, Radiohead, The Flaming Lips and Interpol.

...Trail of Dead warm up the promo machine for their new record, which apprently is pretty damn good.

The year in Morrissey.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for cat pics.

Wha? No real time broadcast feed of the MacWorld keynote speech? Wha' happened? Stevie's throwing HIS cans out of the pram because of all the product leaks that have been going around lately. Like the Motorola iTunes phone.

I'm sure there's a joke in here somehwere.

So get this, some fucktard is suing NBC because he watched contestants on Fear Factor eat rat guts that had been mixed together in a blender. According to the AP: Austin Aitken told The Associated Press he watches "Fear Factor" often and had no problem with past installments where the reality show's participants ate worms and insects in pursuit of a $50,000 prize -- but eating rats went "too far.

Asked why he didn't shut off his television before the rat-eating segment, Aitken said he couldn't do it quick enough. Well at least we know where that imaginary line in the sand is now.

**UPDATE** I totally forgot to give a big shout out to Furdell.com for sending along some of the methods they use to combat comment spam. Sounds like a winner to me, I'll have to get my vast array of IT people to look into that. Many thanks!