Hot Chick O' The Week #1 Volume 2

Wow. I still can't believe I did 33 weeks of Hot Chick O' The Week back then. That's insanity.

This weeks Hot Chick O' The Week comes to us from Long Island, NY by way of Israel. She played Padme in those Star Wars flicks, I don't think anyone ever watched them or anything, and she's got a new flick coming out called The Other Woman. She's also got a flick called No Strings Attached and of course Black Swan where she gets pleasured by Mila Kunis.

Natalie Portman

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JD's Top 10 Albums of 2010

After careful consideration, I've decided to pick my top ten albums of the year 2010. I don't think I did this last year, for whatever reason, but this year, I see no reason why I shouldn't. I'm not working, so I have nothing but time on my hands.

1. Neon Trees - Neon Trees

The Neon Trees apparently had an album similar to the one they put out in 2010, but I didn't hear that album; I heard this one. And what I heard on this album I loved to death. I listened to it approximately a thousand times and every single time I find something I like about it more and more. The song “1983” (see: year of JD’s birth) is so exceptionally written that it reminds me of shitty/great moments in my own life. The song they’re best known for is “Animal” which is a catchy tune, but not even remotely their best song. The best song on the album, for me at least, is “Your Surrender.”

Key tracks: ‘1983’, ‘Your Surrender’, ‘Animal’

2. Motion City Soundtrack – My Dinosaur Life

Motion City Soundtrack might be my favorite band. This is a true statement, but it might also be false, but the 3^rd album on this list might belong to my favorite band. A favorite band is a band whose album you can listen to on repeat if you just can’t listen to new music, because you need that familiarity. Dinosaur Life has the makings of that kind of album, because it’s so similar, and yet so different, from every Motion City Soundtrack album. The albums that I personally love, are albums that I know all the words too (ie: Boston ­– Boston) and this is one of those albums. I can’t pick out a single track or a few tracks to pick, but I will say that “@!#?@!” is an anthem for doing your own thing, for being your own person, and for loving the New York Jets. Well, at least for me.

3. We Are Scientists – Barbara.

I can say for a fact that We Are Scientists are one of my favorite bands (oddly enough that list includes: Blink 182, Metallica, Motion City Soundtrack, and We Are Scientists …Say Anything is a distant 5^th). The only thing wrong with Barbara is that it’s too short. It makes me yearn for more We Are Scientists music. My favorite track on the album is “Jack and Ginger” – so much so that I, stupidly, drank the title and it’s not a drink I am a fan of. WAS are not a band for everyone. I personally don’t know one other person that likes them, but I do. I’ve listened to every album and know every word to every song and consider myself a fan of theirs. If you want to put your ear to something refreshing and listen to some amazing lyrics, pick up this album.

Key tracks: ‘Jack and Ginger’, ‘Rules don’t stop’, ‘Ambition’

4. Eminem – Recover.

Like I have to say it; Eminem is back. He’s shucked off the stink of his Relapse album and come full force with Recovery. This isn’t the best Eminem album to date, but it’s probably number two. He’s not rapping in little kid voices anymore, Marshall Mathers is a man, man. And far be it for me to wax intellectual about it, because I’ve been a fan since day one, but Relapse was a giant piece of shit as far as Eminem goes, and he knows it. There’s times when a band you love comes out with an album that you just despise (ie: Metallica’s St. Anger) and you just try and try and try to love it, but you just can’t. That was me with Relapse, it was a horrible album.

Key tracks: ‘Won’t back down’, ‘Love the way you lie’, ‘Cinderella Man’

5. Against Me! – White Crosses

I’ve listened to this album probably a hundred times while I worked out over the summer and sometimes, not even working out, just listening to the harsh vocals and receptive lyrics. ‘I was a Teenage Anarchist/Looking for a revolution’ was the first album and basically they’re talking about all the thoughts you had of a teenager and all the options you had. It’s a damn good song, and so is the rest of the album.

Key tracks: ‘I was a Teenage Anarchist’, ‘Rapid Decompression’

6. Gaslight Anthem – American Slang

I remember when this album dropped and by dropped I mean it was obtainable…illegally…not by me of course, but by someone else, right? I remember this, because of how excited I was. Their second album The ’59 Sound was amazing, I loved every song on the album and can still recite the lyrics from memory. American Slang is the third album of gruff, almost mean sounding Gaslight Anthem, and it’s not as good as 59 Sound, but it’s still good enough to be on here. The lead singer, Brian Fallon, has a little Springsteen going on. Not to mention he’s from fucking Red Bank. Nooch.

Key tracks: ‘Old Haunts’ ‘American Slang’

7. Brandon Flowers – Flamingo

Brandon Flowers is the lead singer of the rock band The Killers, and this is his first solo album. All I have to say is that if is his first shot at putting out a solo album…I can’t wait for the second album. Flamingo is a mix of pop, rock, and melody enriched music that takes you from one extreme to the other. He croons about Las Vegas in Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, where the Killers originated, and he sings with Jenny Lewis (of Rilo Kiley and Jenny and Johnny) in ‘Hard Enough’ – which is a pretty amazing duet. The album didn’t receive the most critical praise, but that’s expected, it’s a weird album with a very vague message (if any). It’s very catchy though and it’s an easy listen. It’s an album that you can just sit down and enjoy.

Key tracks: ‘Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas’, ‘Hard Enough’, ‘Magdalena’

8. Pete Yorn – Pete Yorn

I don’t know what it is with Pete Yorn, but every album he puts out is different. He had that awful album with Scarlett Johannson that was practically unlistenable and his prior solo effort was just way to soft and mellow to listen to. This album, however, returned Yorn to his Musicforthemorningafter days.

Key tracks: ‘Rock Crowd’, ‘Precious Stone’, ‘Velcro shoes’

9. Vampire Weekend – Contra.

I think I’m alone in liking Vampire Weekend, at least when it comes to my friends, but they’re awesome. They’re music is severely different compared to anything else out there and they sing about weird shit. I love that about them. At this point who hasn’t heard Holiday on those car commercials? I think my favorite song off the album is “Cousins” though, it’s quick, fun, and I’m not sure if it means anything, but whatever.

Key Tracks: ‘Cousins’ ‘Holiday’ ‘Giving up the Gun’

10. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

First of all, I could give a shit if Kanye West stole the microphone from Taylor Swift, there I said it. Kanye West is a lunatic, and he’s completely out of touch with reality, but that’s what makes him who he is. Everyone out there hates Kanye West, because of what he did to Taylor Swift, but I don’t care. Maybe West was drunk, maybe he was high, and who gives a crap. He made Taylor Swift famous and he made himself infamous in the process. Fantasy sold almost 500,000 copies in its first week and hit number one. Not to mention after everything that happened at the MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West was awarded MTV’s Man of the Year award. You can pretend to hate him, but you know you like him.

Key Tracks: ‘Dark Fantasy’, ‘Runaway’, ‘Power’

Honorable Mentions:

Drake – Thank Me Later

Wavves – King of the Beach

Bruno Mars – Doo Wops and Hooligans

T.I. – No Mercy

Trapt – No Apologies

Max Bemis and the Painful Splits.

I found my old blog and it's AWESOME.

Oh man. I found my old blog, the last post was 2006 in June or somewhere there abouts. I don't know why I lost touch with the blog exactly, but after reading it a lot tonight I decided I'll post it on here. 

http://republicademonkeys.blogspot.com/

Lonestar, Greg Giraldo, and the Like.

To be honest I watch more television than I probably should. I get pissed when my DVR doesn't record something and I probably shouldn't. I watch stupid shows that I probably shouldn't waste my time with and get annoyed when they get canceled. I should say, that I used to get annoyed. Lately, I don't get annoyed with the cancellations of television shows, because it's honestly nothing I can help. I remember calling FOX, yelling at them about canceling "John Doe" and now looking back at that I can't help but realize how absolutely fucking pathetic that was.

I was ill informed back then about television. Like anything else, TV is a fucking business and if people aren't watching then people aren't buying the shit that are in the ads that play during your TV show. "Lonestar" is the first casualty of the 2010 Fall TV schedule. "Lonestar" is a show about a Con man, who has two wives in the same state. It stars a fairly newcomer in James Wolk, who if you do a double take, looks exactly like Kyle Chandler's offspring. Actually, so much so that he could be Chandler's son. The show - which was delicately explained in this article - was adored by critics and shit on by audiences. Critics loved the shit out of this show, because unlike everything else coming out this season it was unique. It wasn't that it was the greatest show to ever grace television, it was just that it was a unique concept. Unfortunately, unique doesn't necessarily garner ratings in the TV-biz, so therefore "Lonestar" bit it. Shit happens.

I remember becoming infuriated when "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" - the first show from Aaron Sorkin since "West Wing" - and feeling robbed of an opportunity to watch a great, well-written show. I also remember refusing to watch "30 Rock" because of it and now that I've seen "30 Rock" (completely caught up) and I love that show as much as I loved "Studio 60." It's absolutely a crap shoot as to what show is going to stick and which one isn't. It's like throwing shit at a wall in all actuality. So, when I made the presumption that "Lonestar" would be canned after 3 episodes, I wasn't kidding. I literally thought the show as going to be canned after 3 episodes. I did not look at ratings or at reviews or anything like that, I just know that good shows get canceled. Good shows, such as "Lonestar" which can only be described as "too smart for it's own good" get canned, because people just don't get the allure. The show was exceptionally acted and completely different than anything else on TV and that was the problem. I've come to terms with the fact that we live in a world where cop shows (ie: "Law and Order" "CSI" even the new "Hawaii Five-O") are what people want to watch. Cop shows and 30 minute comedies that you don't have to think about.

If it's not a cop show and it's on the big three (ABC, CBS, NBC) it's either Science Fiction or a cop show. If you watch FX or HBO or Showtime then you're in luck if you want to watch something different. FX started the whole thing with "The Shield" on Cable television and now they have "Sons of Anarchy" and some of the best 30 minute shows on TV. I digress though, because the point of this - if there is a point - is that TV sucks. Plain and simple. Movies are superior and much easier to love.

Anyway....

Greg Giraldo died. It's a very, very sad day for comedy, because this guy was one of the funniest fucking guys on the planet. He was blunt, honest, and a complete asshole and since he wasn't on a mainstream TV show, no one knows who he was. He did the majority of the Comedy Central Roasts (that I watched at least) and it's very sad that he's gone.

Hardknocks: Drinking with Dan-O who now smokes...

Holy shit, it's been months and years since I've posted on this blog and for good reason I suppose (not really). I've been a lazy bastard for the last probably two years, but I am going to post on this more, I promise. I post on Twitter and Facebook and that's just easy shit. That's me saying shit like "My dog scratched me in the face and now I look like a Bond villain" (fuck it is spelled villain, damn it).

Twitter and the like make people lazy as hell, and that's a problem for a lot of people unless you're like Kevin Smith (@ThatKevinSmith) who posts four thousand times a day or Kanye West (@kanyewest) who's tweets are so irreverent that it's almost painful to read them sometimes. Twitter and Facebook are making life so impersonal that it's almost as if News and Blogs are soon to be non-existent. I am just as bad as everyone else though - a fucking JETS fan to boot - and a twitteraholic (that will be a word, just you wait) and a constant facebook updater, but I must stop for my own good. My own mortality (and mental stability) depend on this.

Anyway, to the point here, my brother Dan-O came to visit on Monday for my Mother's birthday...and I spent 3 days drinking 37 beers with him in the span of what I can only guess was 18 hours, because we didn't drink all day or anything like that, we just drank at night and at the bar, and wherever we could sneak it in. The fact of the matter is that I haven't drank two days in a row in a while and my liver (who is now breathing sighs of relief) was cringing on Wednesday night when we drank the remaining 18 pack of beer that was left.

More pressing matters though would be the fact that my brother fucking smokes now, because of his girlfriend or his friend Jimmy or even my parents, I don't know. I don't smoke. I've lived by the motto love the lungs hate the liver, but lets be honest, I don't hate my liver. It's working a little overtime right now, but overall I treat it pretty well. My brother smokes Camel Lights. Joe Camel has suckered my brother into smoking cigerrettes...that Penis-Faced Mother fucker.

Either way, he's probably going to die before me now which is going to be rough despite the fact that I weigh a good 140 pounds more than he does. Smoking is a funny fucking thing, because I've tried it and I don't like it. I think it's a rite of passage that you have to try smoking a cigarette or something, but I'm glad that shit didn't stick, two of my best friends smoke. I won't smoke cigarette's - even drunk - I would smoke the weed, because at least you get something out of that - fuck, if I'm going crave something, it's going to be corn dogs, or fucking pickles, or cheese. Fuck cigarettes.

The Hard Knocks title was mainly because I watched all of Hardknocks: Training camp with the NY Jets, because I'm a die-hard fan and I never really discussed it.

Prediction: NY Jets vs. Green Bay Packers in the Superbowl. Jets taking it 24-14.

Before I go, I am getting REALLY fucking sick of the spam comments. If you're a spam commenter you're getting labeled as such you wastes of fucking space. I'm tired of getting the emails at 3 in the morning saying that "Anonymous" has posted "DO YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR PENIS LARGER? CLICK HERE!"

Fuck you, you fucking losers.

Adam Brody joins Scream 4

Adam Brody (The OC) has been cast in the upcoming Scream 4 as a cop who was raised watching CSI. Marley Shelton joins the cast in recently vacated role as a Sheriff's deputy (Lake Bell dropped out).

...Another Scream movie huh? I liked Scream and Scream 3, but didn't really care for the second. A fourth movie will hopefully be the last, as Neve Campbell is coming back to reprise her role of Sidney.

The guy who does the voice of Ghostface is also returning. Couldn't tell you what the movie is about yet, though.

Green Hornet trailer debuts...

The Green Lantern trailer debuted today (I guess) and it was supposed to debut on the "Jimmy Kimmel Show," but due to power outages (or something), it did not. So, for your viewing pleasure you can watch it on your own computer, in the privacy of your own home, like you could've done on your TV....

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808411967/video/20456959

I'm not going to lie...

I am probably going to say ....WOW! I'm back, but I'm not. I'm just so bored right now that I have to post something on here. I'm moving in like 18 days, to Cape Coral, Florida. I'm also very interested in starting a pod cast, but fuck if I know what to talk about for an hour.

However, we've done the radio thing constantly before, so who knows.