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Bob Barker: "I have been told that on The Price is Right, the ONE DOLLAR BID is Mean but that the Two Dollar Bid is THE MEANEST!


We are now passing "It's a Small World." "It's a Small World" opened forty years ago this Sunday, May 28, and has been driving people batty ever since - LaughingPlace.com

Best Headline of the Day - Strippers Fight Outside Burning Club - with great video of flames engulfing a building, followed by a close up of stiletto heels, the hearty sun blocked out by choking black smoke, a fireman draining his hose, and handcuffed bare-belly wig-strappin booty-licious trash getting hauled off to the pokey - Link Here

Six years old, four foot seven, 210 pounds. No, it's not Bobby Chrstina, it's Dzhambulat! The next generation in Russian tanks! Link Here

The Girl Next Door! The Dreamer! The Partier! The Career Girl! Right now, they only hate themselves, but soon, thanks to ABC's "How to Get the Guy, we'll learn to hate them as well. Tick tock tick tock... who will get the guy? Who will achieve a greater sense of self-respect. Who will be the first to end up at the bottom of the pool???? Link Here

From Neatorama, Sato Shintaro’s Twilight Zone (Tokyo and Osaka at Night). "These shots were taken in the streets of Tokyo and Osaka at night , and in them I have avoided the more aesthetically pleasing locations such as seaside areas and the well-known "subcenters" in favor of the everyday disorder of the streets. Take a brightly-lit busy street bustling with people and remove the people: the purpose of the lighting is lost and only the glow remains - providing a glimpse of the streets we know well from a less familiar perspective." For more, click here.

This is EXPEDITION EVEREST, the latest Disney thrill ride on the boards. This one is inhabiting DisneyWorld's Animal Kingdon sub-part, and The Re-Imagineering Blog has something to say about it. And, for a change, it's actually something positive. More pics can be found here.

Soma FM is listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting from San Francisco. I've had it on all day and plan to have it on all night. The site carries nine stations:

SPACE STATION SOMA - Tune in, turn on, space out. Spaced-out ambient and mid-tempo electronica
GROOVE SALAD - A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves.
SECRET AGENT (my personal preference) - The soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious, dangerous life. For Spies and PIs too!
ILLINOIS STREET LOUNGE - Classic bachelor pad, playful exotica and vintage music of tomorrow.
INDIE POP ROCKS - Your favorite classic indie pop tracks.
BEAT BLENDER - A late night blend of deep-house and downtempo chill.
CLIQHOP - Blips'n'beeps backed mostly w/beats. Intelligent Dance Music.
DRONE ZONE - Served best chilled, safe with most medications. Atmospheric textures with minimal beats.
TAG'S TRANCE TRIP - Progressive house / trance. Tip top tunes.

As I type, there are 2658 people listening. This one is worth the look, the bookmark, and the return visits. Click Here!

Should YouTube drop the links, you can check out the skit at Crooks and Liars. Long live Commissioner of Baseball George W. Bush!

The song I have not been able to stop playing for the last month has been "If You Let Me Stay" by Terence Trent D'Arby, an artist whose brilliant work was often eclipsed (certainly with me when he first hit radio) by his gratingly obscene ego. If you're not familiar, and like what you hear below, make the worthy purchase of his two best albums, Introducing the Hardline... and Symphony or Damn. Here's the backstory:

D'Arby's debut album, Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, released in 1987, is his best-known and, in commercial terms, most successful work. The album, which produced such hits as "If You Let Me Stay" "Wishing Well" "Dance Little Sister" and "Sign Your Name" sold over a million copies in the first three days of its release, and its sales currently total over 12 million. The album also earned D'Arby a Grammy Award in March 1988 in the category Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male.


D'Arby's follow-up was the somewhat more experimental and serious Neither Fish Nor Flesh: A Soundtrack of Love, Faith, Hope & Destruction (1989). It gathered generally hostile reviews from the critics, and was not commercially as successful as its predecessor. With a bloated self-important title like that, one can see why.

It took four more years and a move to Los Angeles until his next project, Symphony or Damn (1993) was released. The record touched many of the issues that had been raised also in Neither Fish Nor Flesh, but was musically more straightforward and rocky than its predecessors (best track - "She Kissed Me"). It gathered favourable reviews and gained much airplay in major music stations.




In 1995 D'Arby released Vibrator, which largely followed Symphony or Damn in its musical direction. Also it was well received, but like the previous album, failed to reinstate the artist back to the public status that he had enjoyed at the time of his first release.

During the 1990s the relations between D'Arby and his record label Columbia Records had became strained, eventually leading to his departure in 1996. This was followed by a four-year spell, during which he recorded Terence Trent D'Arby's Solar Return, which was not released. In 2000, he bought the rights to the album, and left the record company.

In 1999, D'Arby was briefly hired by INXS to replace his friend, late vocalist Michael Hutchence, so the band could play at the opening of facilities for the Sydney Olympics.

Meanwhile the artist, still known as Terence Trent D'Arby, had as a result of a series of dreams, adapted to use the name Sananda Maitreya. His name was legally changed to that on October 4, 2001. Many speculate it was less a dream-state revelation and more an attempt to divorce himself from the controversial and trouble-making reputation he had developed under the "TTD" phase of his career.

2001 also saw Maitreya moving back to Europe and Germany, as he resettled in Munich and started his own independent record label, Sananda Records. The year also marked his first album release in six years, as the unreleased Terence Trent D'Arby's Soular Return was revamped into Wildcard. The album, which received a warm critical welcome, was at first available for free through his website, and later gained also a commercial release through a one-album distribution deal with Universal Music.

In 2002 Maitreya moved to Milan, Italy, and began working on his next project, Angels & Vampires - Volume I. Rough demo versions of the songs were initially released through Weedshare, allowing the fans to get a glimpse of the work as it evolved. In July 29, 2005, the fully mastered album was finally released through his webshop utilizing the mp3 format.

In July 2005 Maitreya started working on Angels & Vampires - Volume II, he released chapter after chapter online as soon he finished recording the songs. On April 29, 2006 he released the fully finished and mastered album in his webshop.

For more information, you can join Maitreya's MySpace page, with music available for sampling.

Here, animator Tennessee Reid Norton and company put the rotoscoping to fantastic use on a music video for "Anysound" by The Vines. (t/y Red Hatchet Films)

Meet the world's first Grizzly bear-polar bear hybrid. How cool! Let's shoot it!

Spoilers for TONIGHT's episode of LOST below. If you don't want to know what becomes (or doesn't become) of Libby, DO NOT CLICK BELOW! In fact, SCROLL NO FURTHER!

It was last night in bed, while watching Season 4 of Cheers that I was made aware of what many consider to be the single greatest baseball team in the history of the sport.

The Cheers team having just been beaten in softball by rival Gary's Old Town Tavern, returns to the bar in ignominious defeat as Sam regrettably proclaims to Diane that "they were playing better than the '27 Yankees." To that, Woody adds, "He's exaggerating, Miss Chambers. There were only nine of them." A great line!

I wasn't sure if this was just a throw-away line tossed in by a writer who thought no one would bother to check (no internet to run to way back then), but it turned out to be the real thing.

Were they the greatest team of all-time?

The 1927 team, which won 110 games, included Babe Ruth's 60 homers and a sweep of the World Series from the Pittsburgh Pirates. They also took the 1926 pennant and another four-game sweep in 1928.

Ruth's 1926-28 home-run output was 47, 60 and 54. His batting averages were .372, .356 and .323 and he batted in 452 runs. He hit third.

Behind him was Lou Gehrig. Nine years his junior, Gehrig hit 47 home runs in 1927 with a .373 average and 175 runs batted it. Only Ruth had ever hit more homers.

Behind Gehrig were two right-handed sluggers, Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri, the second baseman. Lazzeri's 18 homers ranked third in the whole league. Meusel knocked in 103 runs, Lazzeri, 102. Meusel's 24 stolen bases left him second only to George Sisler's 27 in the American League, and Lazzeri stole 22.

Murderer's Row - the 1927 New York Yankees Page has some great pics of Ruth, Gehrig, and Meusel. It also unfortunately has a grating syntehsized version of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" accompanying it, so down your speakers. (It doesn't repeat once if plays through the first time.)

9 Ft, 550 Lb shark caught off coast of Great Britain with a simple fishing rod. Check out the pics here.

Enjoy THE PINK SCARE. "Some youg men choose to congregate together... with CANDLES!" Written, produced and directed by Ben Fannin, a filmmaker in Los Angeles, and a heck of a guy. For more of his work, check out his site, www.The-Television.com

Jeff's follow-up can be found here (srcoll down to the lower half of the page - Whitless.com

World's oldest woman celebrates 128th birthday, and doesn't look a day over 114. Spends most of her days sleeping, and no longer speaks. Ah, that's the life - Reuters

It's MINI KISS! Watch them rock the house on "I've Got a Secret" TONIGHT AT 11:30 PM (8:30 on some L.A. cable outlets) only on GSN - The Network for Games!

Michael "Do not pass the Laemlle Sunset 5. Do not collect Arclight receipts."

This is Valley of Gwombi, a stop-motion, animated film by Los Angeles filmmaker Michael Granberry. Anyone remember the 70's Sid and Marty Krofft show Land of the Lost? Gwombi answers the question all us kids had: "Why don't the dinosaurs just eat them?"

Michael, and avid aniamtion junkie and current Robot Chicken fanatic wrote and directed it, created all the props, scenery and characters, and provided all the voices himself. This work was done entirely with sets he created on top the desk in the bedroom. For more information, photos and his daily production blog, with lots of behind-the-scenes secrets, check out his company website, RedHatchetFilms.com.