Spunkytown

what is more fun to say -

al qa qaa, or pujols?

posted by lil bitch @ 2:50 PM 9 comments

I really didn't mean to. I promise. I witnessed the ashley simpson SNL debacle and her performance on some award show tonight. i don't know much about her and don't really care for her as an artist or a person for that matter, but that was a pretty fuckin' rockin comeback to her milli-vanilli-scale disaster over the weekend. she was off-pitch pretty much the whole way through the song, but at least she was singing. and rocking. it was really refreshing to see one of these "top 40" artists not using back up tracks or the 'antares' (i think that's what it's called) pitch correcting machine during a live performance.

Hopefully the new version of band aid's "Do they Know it's Christmas" will match that performance (http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/22/uk.bandaid/index.html). Best Bob Geldof quote in that article: "I'm still waiting to hear back from Robbie Williams and Keane." Hmmm. History in the making.

posted by Tom @ 10:05 PM 4 comments

Dong Zhao! Live! In Hollywood!

I might as well start out with the biggest piece of news I have. Probably the most exciting celebrity sighting in LA so far. I went to see Supergrass play last thursday and met up with some friends after the show outside the venue. After a few minutes, I noticed a very familiar person standing in the crowd, less than ten feet away from us. It wasn't just the person's physical appearance, it was his clothes, the way he stood, and his general out-of-placedness. Yes. The person standing right next to us was Dong Zhao. Beside a new pair of glasses, there was no doubt. After a few moments of hesitation, I decided I had to approach him and confirm this. "Dong?" "Aaaahhh. Hello Tom."

The conversation was relatively normal until he asked me what was going on with the crowd standing around. I looked at him and said "Oh... there was a concert here. You, uh, you weren't there?" "No, I'm looking for a club to go dance." I almost lost it. He was just hanging out in Hollywood by himself looking for a place to dance. Not really visiting anyone, just looking for a club without a cover. I guess I wasn't very helpful with that. I'm still not sure what he was doing in LA, but I did learn that he has been 86'd from 1015 Folsom. Crazy guy...

What else? I went to the Cal-USC game this weekend. I'll let the pundits (randall) discuss the loss and will instead focus on something I found quite disturbing. We were joking about it at the time and actually counting how many SC fans had Bush-Cheney stickers on their USC paraphernalia at the time, but I don't think i can think of anything more offensive than amalgamating sports and politics. It's nothing new I suppose and some would argue there is a lot of political tension in events like the World Cup, but I found this display particularly distasteful. One more reason to dislike that school. Anyway, we spent a lot of time fruitlessly looking for someone with a Simpson jersey and Bush Cheney sticker. I'll settle for a USC player walking around the field with a "Bush for Heisman, Bush for President" sign after the game. What a fucking joke.

The rest of the bank-exclusive 3-day weekend was spent dealing with a stomach flu sustained after eating three USDA servings of garlic pistacchios. Yeah, never eating those again.

posted by Tom @ 9:50 PM 1 comments

The Curse

Hey Kai, is that the Yankees you guys are going to face next? Uh oh. Boston doesn't do so well against them. All kidding aside, you know I want the Sox to demolish the evil empire. It gives me a brief respite from sitting here in Japan thinking about how Oakland didn't make the playoffs, the Niners suck and Cal's special teams blew a game they owned. Yep...I can sympathize with Tom's nephew looking like a bunch of numbers. I've been wanting to post special softball photos on my blog for like forever. But that shit just don't make no sense. Like Jesse, getting caught stealing cheese. Cheese! Dude. Stick with ripping off riffs from T. Rex and the Pixies. That's what I do.

P.S. I've enabled anonymous comments. I think. Also, I'm changing the name of the Rod Stewart link. Because I'm all clever and shit.

P.P.S. "ManRam".

posted by da spunk @ 2:00 AM 0 comments

hotdamm

i got caught shoplifting at Piedmont Groceries last week (awesome). a $4 piece of cheese (uber-lame).

i just made the band a whole 200% less bad-ass. sorry.

posted by jesse @ 2:49 PM 4 comments

pitching a tent for new england sports

what's better than coming into work to find out that the bosox decimated the angels, and the yankees lost? well, actually watching it on tv would have been better, but reading about it online is pretty good, too. hot damn. while basking in my surely short-lived home team glory, i read this quote from the sports guy, and really wanted to share it:

And Colon pitched his best game of the season on Friday night, throwing absolute BBs against the 's in a must-win game. He's almost a force of nature at this point -- the fatter he gets, the better he pitches. By mid-October, he could be 400 pounds and throwing 120 mph. It's inexplicable. If he was a wrestler, he'd be wearing the one-piece trunks with the strap over one shoulder

wow. so, this is what i do when i'm supposed to be feeding the hungry, homing the homeless, literating the illiterate, etc. when i go home at night, it's with joy in my heart that i've made a positive difference in this world.
while you're all listening, i'd like to remind everyone that randy said 'This could be the year for my 49ers.' only three weeks ago. maybe he was joking. or maybe he was drunk. but he was also wrong. dead wrong.

posted by lil bitch @ 9:34 AM 2 comments

special post from Lil D:

how's this for a master piece?

who will respect rodney now?

p.s. kai, you suck!

posted by ilikegettingnormal @ 1:28 AM 0 comments

Is it Magnum or Blue Steel?

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posted by Tom @ 10:39 AM 2 comments