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The first track of KISS’ new studio album Sonic Boom (first one in 11 years) Modern Day Delilah came out this week. KISS claimed that they were going for a “classic Destroyer-era sound” and after a couple listens it’s not bad… but not as awesome as I was expecting after all the hype about vintage gear, no outside songwriters and Paul Stanley producing. Either way — looks like their won’t be a vinyl release initially but I’ll still be there at WalMart (barf) with my fellow KISS fans on October 6th to pick it up on CD.

P.S. Also… Gene… can you please make sure Vancouver is on the fall tour schedule?  Thanks.

The heat wave has pretty much melted my desire to blog lately but here’s a video I just had to post…

This is my new favourite thing to say.

Anyone who gets a word tattooed across their foreheads should probably have their head examined regardless of what the word is. But if that word is “racist”, well they should probably just be shoved into a rocket and sent to another planet to live by themselves.

LIFE Goes Inside Today’s KKK

Ok, Silent Library is an MTV game show adapted from a segment on a Japanese variety show (weird… Americans stealing a game show concept) where contestants work together as a team and endure a sequence of punishments while trying to remain quiet as long as possible so they can win more money.

Here’s a clip from the Japanese version… which isn’t technically a game show, but follows the same basic premise. The punishments are unusually cruel but holy shit are they ever hilarious.

Mmmm… digging this.

This is the actual trailer for 2012, a movie starring John Cusack coming out this November:

And an alternate take that looks 100% more interesting and accurate:

Well isn’t that the sweetest peach…

Hi stevepalmer,

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I guess last.fm figured out a revenue model for their awesome and (until very recently) free service.  I guess it’s worth $3/mo but geez… this is the first I’ve heard of a trial or that it would not be free someday.  Thanks for the heads up guys.

Even though I haven’t updated my work in a while, here’s a little micro-site I did for my bandmate Bob to help him in his job hunt for production work. I’m not sure who did the photos but I’ll add a credit when I find out — it’s easy to design something around a great shot like this.

Rupert Murdoch, eat your heart out!