Monday, March 31, 2008
Interesting conversation in German
Ich bin nicht genug bequem meine Deutche fur das Auto zu verkaufen. Ich habe Deutch and der Universitat von
Es ist mir komisch. Letzte jahre, ich habe eine Espaniol classes genommen. Wann ich diese classe genemt, meine Deutch is zuruck gekommen. Sehr fremd, nicht war?
From:
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:10 AM
To: jb@jbandsandy.com
Subject: Re: You've received a question about your eBay item,
Du brauchst dir um das Geld keine Gedanken zu machen ist morgen oder übermorgen auf deinem Konto.
Ich freue
Ich habe beim letzten mal großes Pech gehabt, war angeblich ein US Marine Colonel aber alls nur gelogen.
Jetzt hat meine Frau natürlich Angst wieder Pech zu haben.
Danke
Gruss
Frank
March article for Rare Magazine
The new issue is out this week and I give my REAL take on the iphone. Here is what I wrote for the March issue about Guitar Hero.
This is the perfect opportunity to try to reach out to the musicians of
Everybody else is at home, pretending to be rock stars, playing this new video game which looks and feels like a fisherprice toy. The notes come at you on an on screen guitar fret, and you mash on one of your four buttons along with music, by matching the button with the same colored button. It let’s you imagine your reading musical notes and playing classic rock songs, but really it’s a combination of Frogger and Bop the Weasel. The computer makes it sound as if you are an amazing guitarist. The players, or posers, are led to believe that they can rock. It even goes so far in the game description to say “
You should hear Guitar Hero players talk. They talk about how they “Rock” and “kick ass.” It’s an insulting joke on real musicians like you that have dedicated your lives to music. Some Hero players, after some villiage idiot button mashing, are seriously considering starting a band. I tell them it’s fine as long as they are going to take the Barbie Dream Car to their next gig at Legoland.
Thinking you can actually play the guitar from experience at Guitar Hero is the equivalent of thinking you can fly the space shuttle because you grew up on the Asteroids video game. Perhaps you are qualified to perform brain surgery because you could removed the wrench on the board game Operation.
If you haven’t encountered a Hero nut yet, you will. They are completely insane. They will talk about how they rocked it so hard they were asked to do an encore. They will reminisce about specific songs they have mastered, where their tour bus is heading and songs they have managed to unlock such as, “China Grove” or “American Woman”.
Sweet Child O’ Mine
You Really Got Me
Crazy Train
In-A-Godda-Da-Vida
Don’t Fear the Reaper
Friday, March 28, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Summer Heights High
this show is going to be all the rage. I don't really feel comfortable publishing the vid links on here because of the language... but this show could be huge. It's called "Summer Heights High" out of Australia. You can get some previews/episodes on youtube.com.
Very funny... think, The Office with high schoolers. Very funny. jb
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Pregnant man
--But Thomas opted to KEEP his female reproductive organs. Two years ago, when he and Nancy decided to try to get pregnant, Thomas stopped taking the testosterone, and they started looking into in-vitro insemination.
--Thomas says they've met a LOT of opposition. They were rejected by EIGHT fertility doctors before they found one who would help them . . . and it took them a year to get access to a sperm bank that was willing to work with them.
--Thomas says that even many of their family and friends have been unsupportive of their decision . . . and most of
--Thomas was already able to get pregnant once . . . last year, with triplets . . . but there were complications and they lost the pregnancy. But this time, everything's going well . . . and on July 3rd, Thomas and Nancy expect to have a new baby girl.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
ENJOY SOME PICTURES OF THE WORLD'S TALLEST LIVING MAN:
When Leonid Stadnyk of the
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Sexy Vegetarians
--21-year-old Shona Barnthouse of
Kristy Lee Cook and Tigers
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid285859616/bclid294430730/bctid1460747235
Tropic Thunder
The trailer for that new comedy, "Tropic Thunder" . . . starring BEN STILLER, JACK BLACK and ROBERT DOWNEY JR. as a white actor who dyes his skin brown to earn a part written for a black man . . . is online. Check it out here . . .
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
A life for sale
Monday, March 17, 2008
GABRIELLE CARTERIS CLAIMS SHE SUFFERED SEVERE NERVE DAMAGE WHILE FILMING A LIFETIME TV-MOVIE:
--It happened back in February of 2006, during the filming of a future classic called "Past Tense". In one scene, an attacker was supposed to choke Gabrielle's character . . . and then pull her down a flight of stairs.
Check out the video of her talking about it here:
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
they took at the scene of NICK HOGAN'S accident last August .
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
HERE'S WHAT THE NEVERLAND RANCH LOOKS LIKE TODAY:
Monday, March 10, 2008
The Best Place for a woman to live
The United Nations came up with a list of the best countries for WOMEN to live. They determined which countries are best for women based on education, standard of living, long life span and purchasing power.
Woman punishes her kid with a pressure washer
--On February 24th, 22-year-old Nicki Ramirez was at a self-serve car wash in
--When her two-year-old daughter began throwing a temper tantrum, Nicki's friend, who was with her, pulled the little girl out of the car. Then, Nicki sprayed her own daughter with a high-powered pressure washer in the head, face and chest.
(--To give you some perspective on how brutal that is, the force of a typical pressure washer is about 60 times more powerful than a garden hose.)
--Surveillance cameras caught the whole thing on tape . . . and the video started making the rounds on the news and on the Interweb.
--Last Thursday . . . after Nicki saw the tape on the news . . . she turned herself in to police. But according to Nicki, the whole thing's been blown WAY out of proportion.
--She says she was just using the water hose to, quote, "calm down" her daughter.
--She also points out that a nurse examined the little girl and couldn't find any evidence of injuries. Of course, since it had been 11 days since the girl had been sprayed, the nurse says any redness, welts, or bruising could have already gone away.
--And what's worse? This woman . . . this VILE creature who sprays her kid in the face with a high pressure water hose to calm her down . . . is five months pregnant.
--On Saturday, Nicki was released from jail on $1,000 bail. She's facing felony child abuse charges.
(Associated Press /
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Riding with the kiddo
I truly am grateful that on a random Sunday I can impulsively go get my daughter a new bike. She had so much fun on her new bike and has so much fun she just starts laughing as we're cruising along. This is a good chance to thank everyone who has donated to Bikes for Kids over the past 11 years. You've given a lot of kids a lot of joy in their lives. As my daughter kept screaming on the bike "This is more fun than you think it is!"
What a great day.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
David Hernandez from American Idol
.) In addition to allegedly being a male stripper . . . "American Idol" stud DAVID HERNANDEZ has also performed on cruise ships as part of a quartet called the VINYL FOUR. (--Which is probably far more embarrassing than being a stripper.)
(--Here's video of the Vinyl Four performing BILLY JOEL'S "The Longest Time". David is the one on the far right . . .)
Robert Downey Jr. will play a black man in an upcoming movies
--The movie is about a group of actors filming a mega-budget Vietnam War movie. But the writer and director get fed up with their prima donna cast, and just abandon them in the jungle, where they become involved in a real-life conflict.
--But they're such morons, they think it's all part of the movie.
--Anyway, Downey's character is a very serious, Oscar-winning actor. And because the character he's playing in the Vietnam flick was originally written as a black man, Downey's character DYES HIS SKIN BROWN, so he can play it as it was originally written.
It's a Ben Stiller Movies called "Tropic Thunder"
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Is Hillary making Obama appear darker?
SOME OBAMA SUPPORTERS ARE ACCUSING HILLARY OF MAKING OBAMA BLACKER IN A TV AD:
(Dailykos.com / Hillaryproject.com / Wired)
This is the video by Gnarls Barkely that is can cause Seizures
(--The video is set in the early '90s on a public access-type program . . . and yes, that's JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE playing the host of the show.)
Paris pulls a good prank on us
Here's his page . . . (--It's private, but you can see his picture, next to which he writes, quote, "
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=105855892
--Here's his page on IMDB.com . . .
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Iphone
Think having an iphone is cool? Wait till you read what I have to say about it in the April issue of Rare Magazine...
Lost Fans will love this
Monday, March 3, 2008
What Made Milwaukee Famous
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AMY WINEHOUSE HAS A SKIN DISEASE CALLED IMPETIGO:
Barack Hoopin
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Custom shimano shoes
cycling shoe. The shoe is heated and then all the air is sucked out.
Amazing.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Bike racing
better than a couple weeks ago. This sport is so much fun when you do
the proper preparation. Without it, it's miserable. Today was
somewhere in between. Finally bouncy g back from that jan flu. Gotta
drop some weight for sure.
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