Blog Update!

New music blog is coming soon and now it has a name: MUTCHLY. Hook up with us on Twitter now.

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Fresh Blog Coming Soon!

What's up everyone? Just want to give an update...I'm busy working on the design of a new music blog I'm planning on launching this summer. Mark:MyWords has been a blast the past few years but now I want to write about my obsession: Music.

Just bought the domain name, now I'm working on design and content and figuring out logo, mission, the new blog format, new blog host, and how I can design it with my new Mac which is taking some time to figure out. Will let you all know when it's ready to launch.

This blog is going in for a little nip/tuck...

Howdy...it's time for a change so this blog will be quiet for a while as I do a complete overhaul. New name, new look, new address, but same A.D.D. subject matter all to come soon. See you on the other side.

100 Seconds: 3/17/09

Talking Points Memo's daily crunching of the day's political highs and lows...in 100 seconds...with everyone on TV drunk on green beer and belligerent about A.I.G.:



We are slowly inching towards Network (1976) territory:

New Yeah Yeah Yeahs Video

Aaaaah this song "Zero" is sooooo hot. Yeah Yeah Yeahs' new album It's Blitz! comes out soon. Check out the vid and "Get your leather on...":

Chris Cornell Takes A Leap

Chris Cornell ... and ... Timbaland ... made an album together.

WTF, right?

But it works. I played Cornell's new album Scream 3 times today at work. The first couple songs are nowhere near a representation of how fresh the entire album is. It gets better and better with each track, especially once he sings in his lower register, and the tracks are 1 seamless continuous mix.

This dude took a huge risk working with Timbaland, wrote some soul-baring lyrics, and it totally paid off. W.O.W.!

Check out 2 videos from the new album, "Scream":

...and "Part of Me":

No Doubt Still Kickin' It

It's about effin time that No Doubt put all their babies and marriages and families (snooze) aside and get back to making music again. They're going on tour this Summer with Paramore and working on new material.



Hard to believe it was almost 15 years ago (1995) that they broke through with their Tragic Kingdom album. Wow...I was a p.a. at Vh1 then and we played the sh*t out of them. Now Vh1 plays the sh*t out of shows like Tool Academy and Celebrity Rehab. Times do change - sometime not always for the best.

Anyway here's one of their last hits, "It's My Life":


...which was a cover of Talk Talk's excellent original 1984 version:

Jon Stewart vs. CNBC, Part 2

Last night Jon Stewart took another LOL shot at CNBC's Jim Cramer and my 2nd favorite Republican (#1 - Pat Buchanan) Joe Scarborough...with the help of Dora The Explorer and Lauren & Heidi from "The Hills". Hilarity ensues:

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Basic Cable Personality Clash Skirmish '09

100 Seconds: 3/6/09

Talking Points Memo's daily crunching of the day's political highs and lows...in 100 seconds...with rampant pessimism, Donald Trump, and a "drunk" Mika Brzezinski on my favorite morning news show "Morning Joe":

Jon Stewart Rips CNBC A New One

Wow Jon Stewart ripped CNBC to pieces last night after Rick Santelli canceled his scheduled appearance due to the fallout from his "Chicago Tea Party" rant on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade:

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

CNBC Gives Financial Advice

Daily Show Full Episodes
Important Things With Demetri Martin

Political Humor
Joke of the Day

U.S. House & Senate Join YouTube

A month ago the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate joined forces to create a painfully awkward video announcing that both the House and Senate now have YouTube channels:



Am I the only one who thinks House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) is way too tan to be a Republican...from Ohio? He's bordering on Lisa Rinna territory. Just an observation.

100 Seconds: 3/4/09

Talking Points Memo's daily crunching of the day's political highs and lows...in 100 seconds...with RNC "leader" Michael Steele, Tim "where's the details?" Geithner, and British Prime Minister Gordon "Cheerio!" Brown:

Wow the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs is HOT!

It seems like a bajillion years since we heard new music from Yeah Yeah Yeahs but finally their new album It's Blitz! is coming out April 14th (artwork below).



Check out the first single "Zero" (here) from their YouTube page...the track is throwin around some serious 80's synth dance floor grooves (Berlin's "Metro" or Missing Persons "Words" anyone?)



A new track "Heads Will Roll" is also streaming and downloading online (here). Unfortunately it's via Kanye West's blog, but we'll ignore his tool-ness and rejoice in lyrics from Karen O like "Off with your head / Dance 'til you're dead!"



I will obey her orders immediately. Check out "Cheated Hearts" from their last full-length album Show Your Bones:

100 Seconds: 3/3/09

Talking Points Memo's daily crunching of the day's political highs and lows...in 100 seconds...and it's all about Big Poppa Rush Limbaugh and his blowhard-i-ness:

Rewind: U2's First U.S. TV Appearance

In honor of today's release of U2's new album, No Line On The Horizon, let's go back to their first U.S. television debut on the "Tomorrow" show hosted by the chain-smoking late-late talk show pioneer, Tom Snyder. Snyder's more "liberal" show used to come on after Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show" in the 70's and early 80's. This is some pretty vintage U2:



I remember hearing them play on what used to be "alternative radio" (The Cult, The Cure, Dead Kennedys, R.E.M.) back in the early 80's. Their "Unforgettable Fire Tour" was the first concert I ever went to on April 19, 1985 and they were life-altering for a high school sophomore dude in Pittsburgh like me. These guys are my generation's Rolling Stones.