Mr. Cool ICE is quite popular on the internet. A friend showed me this other blog which posted something similar to me 19 days after my original post. Not that I trademarked the word “douche” or the use of that photo of “Mr. Cool ICE”. This is a just a good example of what blogging is about: robbing everyone else on the internet.
Mr. Cool ICE is German. (I think?) And as far as I can tell, quite proud of his tattoos. For now. If anyone speaks german, I’d love a transcript of some of this video.
WordPress.com is cool. I’ve used Blogger before but I like WordPress better. They’ve added some nice upgrades over the past years. On of them is the “Blog Stats” option, which shows you a simple set of metrics on how people find your site. There is a section for “search terms” used to find your site (ie. from Google, Yahoo, whatever) and also for which sites directly linked to you. You can see what people clicked on, number of hits daily, etc.
All that kind of thing.
The last site I had, (now defunct), got a lot of traffic from search engines because I had jokingly mentioned Kirstie Alley once. When I say “a lot” I mean over 10 hits a day, which is a goodly chunk for a small time douche blogger like myself. Most hits on this site now seem to come from the search “Bon Iver” (or something related.) That is awesome because people need to listen to his music. Now.
Anyway, today as I work/blog from home I saw I got a hit from a link here:
The post is in French. GoogleTranslated, it reads:
Repost perhaps, but I tell myself that there is in there for lolknuts matter … (I also found, yesterday, provided he has not thought about filing the patent …) link
The thought of a French person (or anyone) searching for “lolknut” pictures made me chuckle.
I just got into the Black Keys earlier this month, after seeing a random post on Stereogum. I then proceeded to listen to their albums “Magic Potion” and “Thickfreakness” almost every day via Rhapsody. I saw they had a new album coming out, which means 1 thing: Tour!
However at this point, it was already too late to get tickets to their show at First Ave, as it was sold out.
I checked Ticketmaster. I checked First Avenue’s website. I checked Nick’s Sports World and the Electric Fetus. No tickets to be found. I cursed the gods of Poor Timing.
Many poor souls like myself were searching for tickets. I finally found a post of an individual who was selling 4 tickets for $50 each. This was an $18 a ticket dollar show.
A bit steep. But when it comes down to it, I liked this band, and the possibility of bootlegging their show was worth $50 to me. In addition, I have, in the past, been known to buy extra tickets to popular shows and resell them at higher cost. Some unenlightened souls may call this practice Scalping.
I also call it Scalping.
So at this point, $50… I figure: what goes around comes around. No dice though, Mr. Craigslist was also sold out. So I checked eBay.
Scalping is now legal in Minnesota which means there are ticket dealers and websites dedicated to scalping. Such a website did have tickets available. The price?
There is a phone on my desk at work. No one ever, in my tenure here, has called me on it.
To clarify, called me on it looking for me.
Today the phone rang softly, as it is pushed to the farthest corner of the desk, forlorn and forgotten. It was again, a wrong number. The conversation went as follows:
Her: “Hello may I speak to your customer service representative?”
Me: “I think you have the wrong number. Who are you trying to reach?”
Her: “Progressive?”
Me: “You have the wrong number.”
Her: “I mean, I’m from Progressive. I’m calling for <my company>.”
Me: “Ok. Well we don’t have a customer service department.”
Her: “Well who would I speak to if I had a problem with your product?”
Me: “Which product would that be?”
There is a pause before she says: “…Any?”
I chuckle softly and answer “Well I guess I don’t know.”
7th St. Entry, 8:00pm.
Fight your way through the snow and the crowds of St. Patrick’s Day carpetbaggers. I am really interested to see how the ultrafuzz distortion sounds live. Should be a good time, although in response to the festivities this weekend, I will not have the traditional Newcastle in hand.
This is the beauty of Rhapsody’s music service. You pay $12 a month to stream music from a huge catalog of music. This catalog contains pretty much every artist you’ve ever heard of, minus those who have a stranglehold on their rights, (such as Led Zeppelin and the Beatles.) If you happen to be like me, and you’re either at your computer for hours a day at work, or you have a computer in the room you most frequent (the “salle de choix” to use the French) then there is just no reason not to have Rhapsody.
Other than the fact that you hate music.
Anyway back to The Black Keys. They’ve been around for ages but I had never heard them before. They’ve got this heavy, raw blues sound that brings me right back to the classic rock I was inundated with as a kid. I can get over the fuzz tone on Daniel Auerbach’s guitar. It sounds awesome. Some might call it timeless… others might call it tired. I’m in the former camp.
I can’t find any free mp3s to provide at this time; but that’s what we’ve got Youtube for!
If like me, you happen to live in the lovely (thawing) state of Minnesota, these guys are going to be at First Avenue next month, on Friday, April 11. (Tickets)
“Are you ready? Because we are going to f*** your ears.”
My taste in videos is as nonsensical as the rest of my humor.
A cop prepares to bust a group of students celebrating 4/20 underneath a parachute. Hilarity ensues.
Smash Bros. Brawl was released this past weekend. I haven’t had a chance to play it, but in celebration, here are a couple Smash Bros. themed videos. Specifically celebrating Captain Falcon.Show me your moves!
M. Ward - To Go Home (EP)
Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
Black Keys - Magic Potion
Black Keys - Thickfreakness
Son House - The Original Delta Blues
