Its quite understandable that when you get two supergroups like U2 and Green Day together in order to collaborate on a project you are going to get some overlap. Obviously both Billy Joe and Bono get to sing. You will have more guitar players than either group is used to, which isn’t really a problem. Even having two bass players on the same track may yeild some cool stuff.
But what do the drummers do? These guys are not The Dead and there is no way that two drummers could fit on this song. So who gets to play? Do they flip a coin or each maybe get one drumstick?
Here is the video. I would rate this song as a D. I wish they would have just covered House of the Rising Sun.
My bad day was quickly turned around when I found out the new Bright Eyes album is available for streaming on the Saddle Creek website. It does not go on sale until tomorrow, but you should check it out today.
I am starting a new feature on this site. Every Wednesday I will review a Manhattan Chipotle restaurant. When I finally eat at every Chipotle in Manhattan I will either be in the hospital with heart disease or speak fluent Spanish. I am hoping for the Spanish.
The rules are that I will get the same chicken fajita burrito at each location and rate the following categories of the experience:
Ambiance
Size/Taste
Integrity
The overall grade will determine the Chipotle location that I frequent.
The first location is on 6th Avenue between 21st and 22nd streets in Chelsea.
Ambiance: B-
I passed a homeless man on my walk there (yes that counts) and I had to admit that it felt a little bad that I would be feasting shortly while he was hungry. Fortunately, he was not around on my return trip. There were also not hot girls that I could gawk at while standing in line. The most redeeming aspect was the witty and reassuring sign on the counter (I may steal the message for a food product I am involved in).
Size/Taste: B-
I will say that the Fajita was huge, much bigger than usual. the rice was a bit dry and the peppers and onions were a little wilted so the taste was just ok.
Integrity: C-
OK, now there are issues. The burrito ripped about 3/4 of the way in, and it was leaking “juice”. An argument could be made that the burrito ripped because of its massive, mass but my assessment lead me to believe that there was more than enough tortilla to compensate for the size if it had been rolled more perfectly. I am also taking issue with the angle of the roll. I understand that Chipotle has the tragic flow of ingredient segregation, but this was insane. I don’t think I had one bite with both chicken and rice.
Overall Grade: C+ You guys can do better and you know it.
Here is an article about Kenneth Lay’s conviction being vacated because the “poor guy” died while vacationing in Aspen after he was convicted of the largest corporate fraud in history.
Can we erase any doubt that corporations own the US Government.
… means that something is gonna happen. The reason that Dylan was probably the greatest artist of the 20th century and possibly longer is that his lyrics are timeless.
10,000 talkers whose tongues are all broken
That kind of describes the Jon Stewart video below, and pretty much the entire politically landscape.
I once received a very hateful letter in which it was said that I “didn’t have a modicum of common sense”. At the time, although I new the guy was a complete asshole, I thought that he was a decent writer. The phrase just sounds well constructed and almost familiar.
Maybe the reason that the phrase read so well wasn’t that Mark (asshole) is a great writer, maybe the reason was that the phrase is so cliche it is actually the example sentence in the dictionary. What a knob.
And not to be cliche myself, but the American justice system does not even posses a modicum of common sense. I just read a report that the child pornography case against John Karr was dropped. So the record of events for this guy goes something like this:
Karr admits to killing Jon Bennet
He is flown first class to the US
He is found innocent because of DNA evidence
And now the prosecutors screwed up so badly that he doesn’t have to register as a sex offender.
How is it possible that we live in a country where every Friday NBC broadcasts a show where they clearly entrap and arrest would be sex offenders yet we cannot register the most famous sex offender on the planet after he admitted to two different crimes?
Its not that we can’t convict him, we can’t register him. He was an American living in Thailand for godsake. You should automatically be registered if you spend more than 4 consecutive days in Thailand, he was living there. I wouldn’t trust my kids around a 40 year old guy that ate Thai food a lot.
I’m sick of yelling at my computer screen. Write your congressman or something.
The DVD reminder is sure unique, but who cares. You have to be more than just unique.
In my business we have written product description and selling points that stress the uniqueness of a product, but no more. The real question is, “What makes the product unique, and is that quality valuable or remarkable?” For the DVD rewinder, the quality that makes it unique is stupidity and uselessness. Not exactly valuable and remarkable.
My bad day was quickly turned around when I found out the new Bright Eyes album is available for streaming on the 
