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Obama's Elf

Although this is stupid, it makes me laugh...hard.

More Eliza...

College Humor wrote a parody of Beyonce’s “If I Were A Boy”, and Eliza recorded the vocals for it. She's not in the video, but it is her voice. She's given a credit at the end of the vid. Go HERE to check it out.

Indie Artists in the Hood

I've never been a huge rap music fan (unless you include my "LL Cool J stage" from around 1986 or so) but I do find myself really getting into the folk or indie artist covers of rap songs that have enjoyed a certain level of popularity over the last several years. I'm referring to artists like Nina Gordon who does a cover of NWA's "Straight Outta Compton", or Dynamite Hack's version of NWA's "Boyz N Da Hood" and who can forget Ben Fold's doing "Bitches Ain't Shit" which was originally performed by Dr. Dre. For some reason the odd marriage of the acoustic music and the gangsta lyrics appeals to me. If you're not familiar with the songs I'm referring to, check out the vids below.

M & M Turns One!

My niece and Godchild turned one yesterday. Here is the required pic of her with cake all over her face...pretty cute kid, huh? She takes after her Uncle.

I love the look of disdain on her face - as if she's thinking, "Why the hell did you people put that piece of cake in front of me? You HAD to know I was just going to put it all over my face and in my hair. What did you EXPECT me to do with it, I'm ONE".

Lauren O'Connell' s New Album, "The Shakes", to be Released Soon

You may recall that I did a review of Lauren O'Connell's first album in a previous post. Lauren's sophomore effort is due out soon.

Here's a listing of the tracks on her upcoming album, many of which can be found on Lauren's YouTube page.

From Chambers, Slow
Chicken Wire
The Pilot
Things I Panic About
I Don't Mind
Bystander
Oncoming Traffic
1988
Sweet Lament
Tangled Up Kites

Here's some info on the release of the CD and a taste of her new work.

Corvette Knuckles

My buddy Russ, who's the inspiration for the name of this blog, emailed today. He read my "200th Post" entry from Thursday and must have checked out the link that I provided for the knuckletattoos.com website. On that site, there is a virtual Knuckle Tattoo Gun. All you have to do is type in the text that you want on your knuckle tattoo and hit submit. All of the coolness/none of the pain.

Here's Russ's submission: