New Punks Cover Old Punks

Get ready for a punk-rock education when the new Tony Hawk video game hits stores this fall.

Publisher Activision announced that the next video game in the hit skateboarding series — "Tony Hawk's American Wasteland" — will feature 14 classic punk songs covered by some of today's hottest punk and hardcore bands. My Chemical Romance will cover the Misfits' "Astro Zombies." Fall Out Boy will handle the Gorilla Biscuits' "Start Today." Other bands on the roster include Thursday, Taking Back Sunday and Alkaline Trio.

"Tony Hawk's American Wasteland" takes the series to a sprawling Los Angeles skate world styled after the punk scene of the '70s and '80s. The 14 covers will be featured in the game as well as on a soundtrack from Vagrant Records.

Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz said part of his band's enthusiasm for the project came from being able to teach a new generation about punk heroes like the band they covered, New York's legendary Gorilla Biscuits. "It's a band that we grew up on and thought was really cool," Wentz said. "It's definitely influenced Fall Out Boy, so it's definitely cool to be a stepping stone for that band for people to check them out."

The tracks were recorded earlier this summer while many of the bands were on the road. "A lot of the songs were being rehearsed during soundchecks for Warped Tour or wherever they would be," said Tim Riley, head of worldwide music for Activision.

"It's kind of weird," said My Chemical Romance's Mikey Way. "We all showed up at Warped Tour and everybody was kind of like, 'Yo, what song did you do?' "

Jumping on a "Tony Hawk" soundtrack was a natural for many of the bands, whose roots are in skateboarding. "For six, seven years of my life that's all I did was skateboard," said Thrice's Teppei Teranishi.

"We all grew up skateboarding," said Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio. "I don't know that we were ever very good."

But what some of the bands lacked in skateboarding skills they seemed to make up for in gaming ability. "A 'Tony Hawk' game has always been in our bus or van," said My Chemical Romance's Ray Toro. "In some way, shape or form, somebody's always playing it."

Toro's skill with the game may have even helped with his band's song for "American Wasteland." "When we were recording the song, I was actually picturing playing the game to the song," he said.

Toro isn't the only soundtrack performer with a jones for "Hawk." "Those were like some of the best games that have ever been made," Fall Out Boy's Joe Trohman said. "You could play them for hours upon end."

"You did, actually," bandmate Patrick Stump replied.

"I rule at them," Trohman said. "I'll challenge anyone."

Track listing for the "Tony Hawk's American Wasteland" soundtrack, according to Activision:

* Taking Back Sunday - The Descendents' "Suburban Home"/"I Like Food"
* Senses Fail - Suicidal Tendencies' "Institutionalized"
* Alkaline Trio - TSOL's "Wash Away"/"Beneath the Shadows"
* Emanuel - The Stooges' "Search and Destroy"
* Fall Out Boy - The Gorilla Biscuits' "Start Today"
* Thursday - The Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen in Love?"
* From Autumn to Ashes - Fear's "Let's Have a War"
* Hot Snakes - Government Issue's "Time to Escape"
* Thrice - Minor Threat's "Seeing Red"/"Screaming at a Wall"
* Saves the Day - The Dead Boys' "Sonic Reducer"
* My Chemical Romance - The Misfits' "Astro Zombies"
* Rise Against - Black Flag's "Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie"/"Fix Me"
* Dropkick Murphys - The Adolescents' "Who Is Who"
* The Bled - Bad Brains' "House of Suffering"

Big news coming soon

I know it's been a long "week". I'll be back soon with some big news. Care to guess what it is???

A week in the woods

I'm going on vacation. I'll be in a tent for a week. We're going camping at Hershey Park. It's fun because you have the camping part and the amusement park part. There are showers and toilets, but we are sleeping in tents all week.

Then next sunday Me and the wife and another couple are going to NYC for an overnight trip where our goal is to spend $2,100 in 24 hours without buying jewelery or expensive stuff like that. We can only pay to do stuff, and buy food and drinks.

We've been saving money each week at bowling for the past two years, and now it's time to spend.

Yes, I bowl. I'm in a Sunday night league with my wife and this other couple. We do it as a guaranteed night out . We drink a lot and usually go out to eat afterwards. We do this thing where each person has to pay fifty cents for each frame where they don't get a strike or spare. So each couple ends up putting about $15 a week into the kitty and now the kitty is at $2,100.

So I'll be out of the loop for a week.

Have fun, stay safe! See you on the 27th!

I knew girls were evil

I knew girls were evil. Now I have proof. Check it out.

OK, now I've seen everything

This can't be real, can it?

Web Site of Deepest Secrets

This site posts very creative postcards that people send in with their deepest darkest secrets. It's very voyeristic. Secrets Site.

Bombing in London, Breath holding in NYC

Was it just me, or was everyone holding their breath this morning form 8:30-9:00 Eastern waiting for something to happen in NYC after the London bombings?

I think I'm still pretty freaked out from 9/11. I was supposed to be in Manhattan that morning for a meeting and stopped in my office to pick up some papers and ended up on the phone and was delayed about a half an hour, thank god.

Plus my brother and his wife were living in the West Village at the time, which is also downtown for those who don't know NYC. That was scary at the time, because there were worries abot gas leaks and the possibility of more of lower Manhattan blowing up.

The World Series of Poker

You've probably seen bits of it on ESPN in the past. What you probably didn't know is that when ESPN shows it it's actually months atfer it really happens. It's going on right now.

There are over 30 different tournaments that make up the World Series, and there are a lot of great stories this year. Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson, living legends in poker, have each won their 10th WSOP Championship bracelets.

Also, Jennifer Tilly won a Ladies event and Mr. Kotter came in second in one event. Now if we could get Ben Affleck and Phil Helmuth heads up at a final table.

Here are some links if you're interested.

The Best Coverage of the Event -- The Tao of Poker Blog

The Official Site

Some Additional Coverage with a podcast by Phil Gordon who is a well known pro and co-hosts Celebrity Poker Showdown

Why MTV Sucks balls

It's not just the lack of creativity and the most narrow playlist in history. It's the ability to completely fuck up the broadcast of a huge set of concerts.

Everytime there was someone I wanted to see perform on the Live 8 shows, they showed 30 seconds and cut away. If they didn't cut away the idiot VJ's were talking over the performance.

MTV's day was the mid 80's. You're so far behind the curve it's not even funny.

It's over Johnny. Fuse owns your ass.

Disaster on a stick

Let's see...NYC on a hot summer day and a giant trailer truck size popsicle...What could go wrong?

Snapple's attempt at popsicle world record turns into gooey fiasco.


Runoff from the melting strawberry kiwi ice pop pours out the back of a truck in Union Square in Manhattan.

NEW YORK - An attempt to erect the world’s largest popsicle in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film — but much stickier.

The 25-foot-tall, 17½-ton treat of frozen Snapple juice melted faster than expected Tuesday, flooding Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid that sent pedestrians scurrying for higher ground.

Firefighters closed off several streets and used hoses to wash away the sugary goo.

Snapple had been trying to promote a new line of frozen treats by setting a record for the world’s largest popsicle, but called off the stunt before it was pulled fully upright by a construction crane. Authorities said they were worried the thing would collapse in the 80-degree, first-day-of-summer heat.

“What was unsettling was that the fluid just kept coming,” Stuart Claxton of the Guinness Book of World Records told the Daily News. “It was quite a lot of fluid. On a hot day like this, you have to move fast.”

Snapple official Lauren Radcliffe said the company was unlikely to make a second attempt to break the record, set by a 21-foot ice pop in Holland in 1997.

The giant ice pop was supposed to have been able to withstand the heat for some time, and organizers weren’t sure why it didn’t. It had been made in Edison, N.J., and hauled to New York by freezer truck in the morning.

What's the worst thing you've ever said when you were drunk?

I was at a friend's house for a barbeque a couple of weeks ago. I was talking to a friend of his and that guy's girlfriend. The girlfriend had dark hair and skin darker than me. I'm like the whitest person on Earth. I don't know what ethnicity she is and never really gave it a thought.

We were having a good old time talking about what a pain in the butt New York is when they have these big parades like St. Patrick's Day.

Well the Puetro Rican Day Parade was scheduled for the next day. So the girl was complaining about it and in my drunken stupor I said something like "Aren't you going to represent".

I don't know why I said it. I don't even know if this girl was Puerto Rican, Itallian, Dominican or Irish with a tan.... It's like my brain shut off, or maybe I'm a subconcious racist. (Is that even possible?)

What's the worst thing you've ever said drunk?

Cell Phones

Ok, everybody has a cell phone. It's become a necesity. But why do guys wear them on their belt?

I'm no fashion maven, but that looks super dorky. Even worse is those new bluetooth things that clip on to your ear. I see people walking around with them like they never take them off.

If you wear your phone on your belt or clipped to your ear, let me give you some advice. YOU LOOK LIKE A JACKASS!

You have to look like some star trek guy so you don't miss an important call in the supermarket??? Give it a rest dorkwad.

You Have Bad Taste In Music

Check this out Click Here. This guy goes to concerts like Justin Timberlake and gets on a megaphone telling everyone attending that they have bad taste in music. Pretty funny stuff.

Evil Site

I just put a button from Gematriculator. It's cool you, they have an algorythm that tells you hw good or evil your site is. Mine is not very evil. I was hoping for higher evil content.

I wonder if these phrases will help:

I'm down with the new White Stripes Album Get Behind Me Satan.
Devil Worship is for the evil people.
Deviled Eggs are delicious.
Have you heard about that mass murder?

Pink Floyd to Re-Unite for London Live 8 Show

London get's Pink Floyd reunion but here's what we get in Philadelphia:

* Will Smith (host)
* 50 Cent
* Bon Jovi
* Dave Matthews Band
* Jay-Z
* Kaiser Chiefs
* Keith Urban
* Maroon 5
* P Diddy
* Rob Thomas
* Sarah McLachlan
* Stevie Wonder

Don't think I'll be standing in the sun all day to see this shit. Maroon 5 and Rob Thomas??? What happened were The Backstreet Boys busy???

Munchkin Land Must Be Missing Their Idiot

Is everone as sick of the asshole formerly known as Tom Cruise as I am?

How do we make this refugee from the lolipop league get the hell off of our tv's?

I mean come on the guy's religion was devised by a guy who wrote science fiction, bad science fiction. He dumped the most beautiful actress so he wouldn't have to pay her $10 million. He's dating a girl who could be his daughter and acting like an idiot on Oprah. Not very manly asshole.

I hope war of the worlds bombs and asshole is doing 1-800-collect commercials as Carrot Top's punchline.

This guy deserves a decent tip

TAMPA, Fla. - A robbery attempt by a masked man and a gunshot wound to the leg didn't stop a pizza delivery man from making his rounds, pies in hand.
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Thomas Stefanelli, 37, said dedication to his job at Hungry Howie's Pizza kept him on the job after a struggle with a robber Saturday night left him bleeding from a bullet wound in his left thigh.

Stefanelli arrived at a home only to realize it was vacant, police said. The masked man approached Stefanelli, pointed a gun and demanded money. Stefanelli said he fought with the man, and two shots were fired. One hit Stefanelli, but he did not immediately notice.

The shooter eventually fled with a second man.

"They figured they were going to make an easy mark by robbing a pizza delivery person," said police spokesman Joe Durkin.

Stefanelli finally noticed his wound. His cell phone wasn't working, so he drove to his next delivery address, dropped off the pie and called his boss to ask him to call the police.

Stefanelli went on to make three more deliveries.

"It bled a little bit, not much," he said.

He was treated and released from a hospital.

No arrests have been made, but police have identified several suspects, Durkin said.

When building Sex Huts don't forget about parking

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German city is rushing to install a series of drive-in wooden "sex garages" in time for next year's Soccer World Cup and an expected boom in the local sex trade, a city official said Wednesday.
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Dortmund, one of 12 cities to host World Cup matches, is anxious to keep prostitutes and their clients off the streets by providing them with discreet places to do business.

Experts estimate as many as 40,000 prostitutes may travel to Germany to offer their services to fans during the tournament.

"The World Cup has put us under added time pressure, as we don't want a situation where prostitutes and their clients disturb residential areas," the official said.

Prostitution is legal in Germany in designated areas.

"In Dortmund we have an official red light district on the outskirts, but there is a problem. There is not enough space for everyone to park."

Dortmund plans to arrange the Dutch-designed huts, which have been introduced in the city of Cologne, another World Cup venue, in an area with condom machines and snack bar.

"Men have to get used to them of course, but a high percentage accept them because they can protect their anonymity," the official said.

"That said there will always be those who want to go behind a bush, under a bridge or into the woods."

Woman's house Knee High in Goat Shit

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman living with 43 goats was evicted from her rented house after the animals left "knee-high" piles of droppings around the garden and laid waste to the building's interior, authorities said on Tuesday.
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A court in the southwestern town of Saarburg said the woman had been forced out because she was behind on her rent and had allowed the condition of the house to deteriorate to such an extent that it may have to be torn down.

"The goats' droppings were basically piled up knee-high around the garden, and inside the house everything was chewed up. And it stank," said court spokesman Manfred Grueter.

"It was total chaos," he added. "It's pretty doubtful as to whether the place can still be lived in."

The woman, a freelance artist in her early forties, had resisted eviction on the grounds her life with the goats had been used to create a "social sculpture" inspired by the German sculptor Joseph Beuys.

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