Red Eye Lolla/Pitchfork Bullshit from the Red Eye.

This came out the day after the 2009 Lollapalooza line up came out.  The Red Eye does an apples to oranges comparison of Lollapalooza and Pitchfork in which Pitchfork prevails as the “music festival” and Lollapalooza as a “festival with music”.  Whatever the fuck that means.  I don’t really know what would qualify music as a prepositional part of the Lollapalooza festival.  Anyway – sorta erked me that such a pretentious opinion was on the cover of the Red Eye.  Worth a read.

Fest in Show / Chicago Red Eye / Kent Green, April 22, 2009

Janes Addiction as Headliner @ Lollapalooza.

Perfectly put article about Janes Addiction and their upcoming Lollapalooza performance and headliner placement.

Being Caught Pandering / Chicago Reader / Jessica Hopper, Thursday, April 30, 2009

To believe that Jane’s Addiction headlining Lollapalooza again is somehow historic, to be psyched about this recurrence, is like masturbating to the memory of losing your virginity. Sure, it was meaningful when it happened, but 20 years down the line, it’s a pity if this is what’s getting you off. If what was our pinnacle then is still our pinnacle now, it reflects pretty poorly on how we’ve been spending our time.

These are a few of my favorite things.

America Loves on Drugs.

Transparency: America’s Problem Drugs / GOOD Magaine

Wolverine to Stop the Spread of Swine Flu.

20th Century Fox decided to postpone tomorrow’s X-Men Origins:  Wolverine premiere in Mexico City due to the swine hysteria.  Bummer, since Obama made it down to Mexico and back unharmed by the disease and Wolverine is way more bad ass then the O-Bomb.

Why would Wolverine survive the swine flu?  Via Entertainment Weekly:

Because Wolverine can take it. Because he’s got bones of crazy-hard metal and the heart of a genetically modified lion. Because he’s the best at what he does, and what he does isn’t very nice. Because he’s got a hairdo that only he can pull off. Because, even though he’s only five-foot-nothing in the comics, he’s played by the 6′ 2″ Hugh Jackman on the big screen. Because swine flu is something he puts on toast. Because he calls people “bub.”

Don’t you worry about Wolverine. Unless he shows up at your door…flanked by pirates carrying swine flu bagels.

Inspired by Entertainment Weekly’s strong praise (and in an effort to learn Photoshop), I created a piece of art as a tribute to Wolverine’s ability to kick swine flu’s ass:

Glad this shit hasn’t hit Chicago yet, because on Thursday night, I will be using these:

ESPN Hearts Unicorns.

ESPN 4 Unicorns

Someone embedded unicorn code onto ESPN.  If you go here and make the following key strokes:  Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Enter.  Keep hitting enter.  MAGIC HAPPENS ON YOUR SCREEN!

Now, if you care to read about how this happened (though you should just accept that unicorns work in magical ways):

Konami Code turns ESPN.com into a Lisa Frank wonderland / joystiq / by Griffin McElroy, Monday, April 27, 2009

Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine Milk Ad

God’s Day.

‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ case limits student rights / CNN.com / Bill Mears, June 26, 2007

Oklahoma for the Flaming Lips.

After The Flaming Lips’, “Do You Realize?” had gone through an extensive voting process and was named state’s official rock song (AWESOME), the Oklahoma House of Representatives said NO and  shut down the movement of the process. Via the Los Angeles Times:

Rep. Corey Holland, R-Marlow, debated against the resolution, saying he was bothered one of the band members wore a red T-shirt with a yellow sickle and hammer on it when The Flaming Lips came last month to the Capitol when results of an online voting contest showed their song to be the clear-cut winner. “I was really offended by that,” Holland said.

Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City, also spoke against the measure, saying the band has a reputation for using obscene language, recalling band members used offensive language several years ago when the city of Oklahoma City named an alley after the band.

“Their lips ought to be on fire,” Reynolds said.

Today, Governor Brad Henry interfered and announced he plans on signing an executive order naming the song the official rock song.  Being from Illinois, I didn’t realize that governors could make great things happen for people other than senior citizens.  What a cool thing for a Governor to do to throw “the people” some power.

The 10 finalists the Flaming Lips were up against:

“Heartbreak Hotel,” co-written by Oklahoma school teacher Mae Boren Axton and recorded by Elvis Presley
“Let’s Have a Party,” recorded by Wanda Jackson
“Walk, Don’t Run” recorded by the Ventures
“After Midnight,” written and recorded by Oklahoman J.J. Cale and re-released by Eric Clapton
“Never Been to Spain,” by Oklahoman Hoyt Axton and made famous by Three Dog Night
“Home Sweet Oklahoma,” written and recorded by Leon Russell
“Oklahoma,” by the Call
“Move Along,” by the All-American Rejects
“Endless Oklahoma Sky,” by John Moreland and the Black Gold Band

Getting really reved to see the Flaming Lips at Pitchfork.  Follow them via Pitchfork Media.

Fan Headliners for Lollapalooza

Hype of Lolla is in the air with the line up being announced yesterday.  Before the daily schedule is out Lollapalooza is asking fans to create their “Lolla Lineup” – redundant, since we’ll have to do it again when it’s time to make customizable schedules.  The Red Eye, TOC, and Lollapalooza asked twitter-ers to tweet back who they were most excited about from the Lolla line up.   The great thing is we have the capability this year to sort Lolla acts based on fan popularity.

Here are the results as of 11am today kudos to TOC:

Beastie Boys    3257
Kings of Leon    3246
The Killers    3114
Snoop Dogg    2658
Vampire Weekend    2609
TV on the Radio    2366
Arctic Monkeys    2331
The Decemberists    2253
Depeche Mode    2219
Tool    2149
Jane’s Addiction    2144
Ben Folds    2133
Cold War Kids    1979
Animal Collective    1830