eggsnail and I recently went to L.A. to see my sister. I'll post on the specifics later, but for now here are some pictures.

World renowned website The Pirate Bay is soon to be no more. According to jezebelmusic.com, "The Pirate Bay founders have sold the file-sharing site to a Swedish gaming company." The company, Global Gaming Factory X, plans on making the site "legitimate", thusly killing this online legend.

You will be missed, PirateBay. Yarrrrrrrr.

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When I get bored I get on the internet and spend hours on wikipedia learning about things I don't really care about. Link after link after link until I have managed to redirect from the Civil War to Tenacious D somehow ( Read more... )

I just found the most incredible music site. RateYourMusic.com let's you browse an almost endless number of artists and albums, read user reviews, see average user ratings, as well as create an account (for free) and add your own ratings and reviews. As if all this wasn't enough, as you add artists to your catalog it will show you upcoming releases ( Read more... )

While perusing Drowned In Sound's website I saw a quote from an article written by Stuart Braithwaite, guitar player for post rock gods Mogwai. The blurb read, "It wasn’t meant to end up like this." Intrigued by the cryptic nature of the quote (had I not heard that they were breaking up?) i clicked the link and settled in for heartbreak. Instead, I ( Read more... )

Courtesy of eggsnail and those wonderful folks at Homeland Security, I present you with this:

Terrorist safety protocol has never been so funny.

I've been on a hardcore music jag over the past few days, and I figured I would share some of the gems I've found.

1)Joker's Daughter

2)Florence + The Machine

3)The Phenomenal Handclap Band

4)Lord Cut-Glass

5)Engineers

Check em out and tell me what you think.

Nothing but class from Right Wing America.

I shouldn't be, but I am still shocked at the bigotry and hate in some people.

So, apparently waiting to try and cash in on a human being's death is just out of the question to Sony, hence this little gem Michael Jackson: The Stripped MixesSony Fail #1: They released this the day of Michael Jackson's memorial. Very nice, Sony. Nothing but class ( Read more... )

Anonymous is the shit! any group dedicated to the eradication of the Church of Scientology (in my opinion the most blatantly evil manifestation of religion in the world today) is good by me. If I ever have the chance to I am going to grab my Guy Fawkes mask and join the party ( Read more... )