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I’m not sure if I should criticize bands like Journey for milking their fanbase or commend them for their marketing savvy. I guess this new customized Mp3 player doesn’t really cross the line of bad taste since it’s still promoting their new music. Apparently the band teamed up with ZVUE to release a special 1GB mp3 player preloaded with the new Revelation album. It’s currently available at your local Walmart and Sam’s Club.

I guess I’ll refrain from getting on my high horse until Journey ends up in “Kiss” mechandising territory with Arnel Pineda action figures and Neil Schon pillow cases.

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- Alec Baldwin - The New Yorker interview - I love Baldwin’s quote about 30 Rock and NBC: “If the show does succeed, it’ll be something of a fucking miracle, because NBC hasn’t done a fucking thing to help this show at all. This show is the red-headed stepchild in the lineup. They’ve gone out of their way to wring the last drops out of ‘My Name Is Earl’ and ‘Scrubs.’ Those shows are done! They’re cooked! Yet they do a one-hour episode of ‘Earl’! You’ve got to be fucking kidding me!”

- Brian Wilson opens up about life, lyrics.. - It’s still hard to believe fragile, ol’ Brian Wilson is still releasing new material. I’ve got Wilson’s new disc and will be reviewing it soon. stay tuned.

- David Duchovny battles porn addiction - oh come on! porn? is that even a real problem? I suspect Duchovny’s just doing some damage control to distract the media from his box office bomb, X Files: I Want to Believe.

- Peter Noble of NoblePR recently forwarded a photo of the original promotional poster of Martha and the Muffins‘ 1983 album Danseparc. View the photo of the poster, here. and if you haven’t already read it, check out my review of their recent reissue of Danseparc.

- Humble Bob stuffs himself with 11 pounds of Chili Spaghetti. - ugh. my stomach is upset just from reading this!! and where does it all go after the competition is over? on second thought, maybe I shouldn’t ask…

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the forecast calls for rain on wednesday which means that I probably won’t go see the Regeneration Tour at the local amphitheater. The outdoor venue isn’t covered so if it rains, the audience WILL most definitely get soaked. and even though I was looking forward to seeing all those retro 80’s bands- ABC, Human League, Belinda Carlisle, Naked Eyes and Flock of Seagulls, they’re not really worth the trouble of standing out in the pouring rain for four hours. ABC and the Human League are the main reasons why I’d want to see the show. Hopefully I’ll get another chance to see them live sometime in the near future.

ABC performing Poison Arrow at the NEC 17May08

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Took the kids to watch the new Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie this weekend. I wasn’t expecting much since the overall rotten tomatoes score for the movie is at a lowly 4%. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the “tomatometer” that low before!! Anyway, my kids wanted to see the movie no matter what the critics said so we went. And not surprisingly, the kids ended up liking it and I was left wondering if there was anything noteworthy to write about in the flick. and that’s just it. all I felt about it was: “meh”. The battle scenes were pretty cool I must say but the story and character interactions weren’t all that memorable. I still can’t recall what went on in the story except for some deception by Count Dooku and some kidnapped slimy Hutt baby. Oh and I can confirm that the character animation in the film definitely has an eerie “Thunderbirds” marionettes feel to them. I’m not sure if it was a knowing “wink” to the old 60’s TV show but it made the characters a bit stiff and odd looking. It’s sad to see that George Lucas has to continue to milk this cash cow but … hey, my kids don’t seem to mind..

Star Wars: The Clone Wars trailer

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boy, that Todd Rundgren review took a lot out of me. That was probably the most extensive review I’ve posted here. I’m not sure I can be THAT detailed for every album review but for the ones I find special, I probably will. Here’s what I got coming soon here on retroblog: ABC’s Traffic, Rick Springfield’s latest, Extreme, Guthrie Guvan, Fiction Plane and Sam Phillips.
so stay tuned! and please feel free to leave me some feedback. How am I doing so far? the good, the bad. anything you’d like to see on the blog? let me know.

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let the escalation begin! yup. our ongoing battle with the idiot neighbor is about to change. for better or worse. hopefully for the better but mostly likely headed for the shitter. Our lovely inconsiderate neighbor loves to use our nice little cul-de-sac as his own personal dog park. he let’s his ugly ass dog run wild and free, all over everyone’s front yard. what get’s my goat is that he habitually plays fetch with his dog by throwing his ball into everyone’s yard. especially OUR yard since we live right across from him. WTF??? He obviously has NO respect for other people’s property. And since the dog is used to PLAYING in our yard, he takes a crap on it whenever he feels the urge. motherfucker. we’ve already talked to said neighbor about us not liking his dog in OUR yard but it’s like talking to a brick wall. So, we just made an official complaint to the neighborhood grievance committee. So the neighbor should be getting a visit from a committee member real soon. Not completely sure if it’ll do any good but I’m just simply fed up with finding someone else’s dog shit on my front lawn. Is that asking too much? What’s your take on this?

Here’s a song dedicated to my asshole of a neighbor:

With friends like these, who needs enemies?
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
With friends like these…

I wanna pound you down to powder
Pound you down to powder
I wanna pound you down to powder
Pound you down to powder…
-Jerk by Todd Rundgren

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I’m grateful for all the rain this week especially since we’re all still recovering from a long drought. but man, the mushrooms are having a field day on parts of my lawn. there seems to be an endless supply of these things. I can’t seem to pull them out fast enough!

hhmmm, don’t some of these look a bit phallic to you? ..or is that just my mind in the gutter again?

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yes, yes, we’ve been told over and over that the inexplicable phenomenon known as David Hasselhoff is big in Germany but that doesn’t necessarily explain why the Hoff really needs his own social networking site. [via paste magazine]

simply titled “HoffSpace”, apparently the Hoff needed his very own “myspace”. incredibly, the man’s already got over 9000 registered members. I didn’t get a chance to verify but I assume their all from Germany.

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huzzah! Todd Rundgren heard his fans cries for a brand new set list and has come up with a new set of songs for his summer tour. but instead of drawing from his vast back catalog, Rundgren has decided to play all the songs off of his upcoming studio album titled Arena.
you heard right, brand new songs from an album that hasn’t been released yet. the man’s got balls playing 13 songs that the audience never heard before. but that’s per usual for Todd - doing the unexpected and going against the grain.

here are the updated tour dates -

Wed 7/02/08 West Hollywood, CA Key Club
Thu 7/03/08 San Juan Capistrano, CA The Coach House
Sat 7/05/08 Agoura Hills, CA The Canyon
Sun 7/06/08 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
Tue 7/08/08 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater
Wed 7/09/08 Seattle, WA Triple Door
Fri 7/11/08 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theater
Sun 7/13/08 Beaver Creek, CO Vilar Performing Arts Center
Mon 7/14/08 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater
Tue 7/15/08 Aspen, CO Belly Up
Thu 7/17/08 San Diego, CA House of Blues - San Diego
Sat 7/19/08 Austin, TX Antone’s Nightclub
Sun 7/20/08 Dallas, TX House of Blues - Dallas
Mon 7/21/08 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
Wed 7/23/08 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
Thu 7/24/08 N. Kansas City, MO Voodoo at Harrah’s
Sat 7/26/08 Rochester, NY Nolas
Mon 7/28/08 Bearsville, NY Bearsville Theater
Fri 8/01/08 Buffalo, NY The Tralf
Sat 8/02/08 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata

*Rundgren then joins up with Lou Gramm, Bo Bice, Christopher Cross and Denny Laine for a Beatles Sgt. Peppers tribute called “It was 40 Years Ago Today” for the rest of august. again, with the “unexpected”!

..then in november it’s off to Europe:
Sat 11/15/08 TROMP International Music Festival Eindhoven
Sun 11/16/08 Harmonie Bonn
Tue 11/18/08 Rolling Stone Milan
Thu 11/20/08 Trabendo Paris
Sun 11/23/08 The Forum London

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- the first installment of the Rescue Me minisodes was a bust. the humor felt forced. I’m beginning to think that Denis Leary and company won’t be able to stop this boat from sinking. it’s sad. especially since the first two seasons of the series were so good!

- watched Definitely, Maybe last night. man, can a movie get any more un-original? the writers stole so many chick-flick elements from other more successful movies, I’m surprised they weren’t sued. I should have known just from the lame title. It was dissappointing to watch especially with such a likable cast (Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks and Isla Fisher).

- voting for the Blogger’s Choice Awards is winding down. so if you haven’t already, be sure to cast a vote for RetroBlog. thanks!

- upcoming music reviews I’m working on: new releases by Aimee Mann, Julianne Hough, Chicago, Martha Wainright, Mate of State and Sam Phillips. I’m not sure when I’ll get to them all but rest assure, they are in the works.

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