Month: April 2008

Scoreboard, Brought to You By Birthday Boy Peabo Bryson

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O’NEALS

  1. Charlton Heston’s Cold Dead Hands 99
  2. We Got Nothin’ 88
  3. Young Old and Restless 77
  4. Cutty McWhat? 57

BARDS (Tuesday)

  1. Sofa Kingdom 115
  2. Hurtin’ Dysfunktion 109
  3. Western Omelette 98
  4. Long Ball Larry 96
  5. Your Quiz is on my Bum 84

LOCUST RENDEZVOUS

  1. Susan’s Peters 94
  2. The Jams 86
  3. Mustache Riders 85
  4. Alley Oop 75
  5. No Name Girls 61

BLACK SHEEP

  1. The Axis of Evil Knieval 109
  2. It’s So Damn Hot In Here 104
  3. Herve Villechaize 100
  4. Three’s Company 98
  5. Bosnian Snipers 96

GOOD DOG

    1. Lamda 95 (won in OT)
    2. Fort Awesome 95
    3. American Double D Disorder 90
    4. Shomer Shabbas 77
    5. Positive Guaiacs 73

BARDS (Thursday)

  1. Hurtin Bombs 114
  2. Sofa Kingdom 103
  3. If You’re So Good at Being…96
  4. Western Omelette 83
  5. Sex Farm Woman 81

More rockin’ News

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Remember in Middle School, when you heard that Guns ‘N’ Roses were coming out with a new album, Chinese Democracy, and you just knew it was going to kick ass? And remember how now you are in your 30s and it’s been 10 years since you drank six shots of whiskey in a half hour while listening to Use Your Illusion II? Yeah, well anyways, now that you’re old and have children and thought that the latest Kenny G album was “satisfactory, if a little overproduced”, I have news: Guns n’ Roses is coming out with a new album called Chinese Democracy.

Ken Jennings Rocks

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Ken Jennings is listing his favorite bands in each state, and I gotta admit, I’m amazed at how many good bands Ken Jennings knows. In Pennsylvania it’s the Roots, and in New York he throws out Public Enemy but gives it to Velevet Underground. Then he makes a call that really makes me think that he and I are two peas in a pod: Virginia: Okay, I’ll be damned if I’m going to put Phish and Dave Matthews Band right in a row. Screw you, jam bands. Does the Carter Family count? Fine, GWAR then. GWAR could chew Dave Matthews up and spit him out. Now, I don’t really like GWAR, but the fact that he gave it to a somewhat obscure heavy metal band over the dreadful DMB gets MAJOR props from me. He also gave Connecticut to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, who I think are a bit overrated but still think it’s amazing that a Mormon from the middle of nowhere has heard of them.

In Florida, I disagree (Skynard over Tom Petty in my book), but am impressed that he trashes the garbage from there. Florida is clearly the First State of Sucky Bands. Creed, Matchbox Twenty, Limp Bizkit…and that’s before I even get to the boy bands.

In Hawaii, he goes with Pepper, which is wow. I am amazed that he’s heard of them. They are from Kona (the town I lived in), and I saw them live once with about 25 other people. This is like seeing your buddies high school band getting props from Ken Jennings.

In Maryland he goes with Good Charlotte, but is quick to point out that they are the only group from Maryland he’s ever heard of.

All in all, a pretty impressive list. (Stumbled onto via D-Mac.)

12,000 People Playing Trivia Marathon in Wisconsin


JohnniE pointed this 54 hour trivia event out to me last night, and I did a little research on it today. Pretty interesting. It’s been going on since 1969, and I still haven’t completely figured out how it works, but apparently, people play in teams of like 25, there are 450 teams, and the radio station asks questions on-air. The teams then figure it out, and get points awarded on some convoluted scale depending on how many teams there are. It’s going down this weekend. The video above is the trailer for a movie they did about it a few years ago. Here’s some more info: