1987 YJ Wrangler [inside pictures]

Free Coldplay Album For Download

My fellow free music lovers, I recieved this email today:

Free live album available now
DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE COPY OF
LEFTRIGHTLEFTRIGHTLEFT

Hello again. Earlier today, the free download
of Coldplay's new live album, LeftRightLeftRightLeft, was made available - click here to download your free copy from Coldplay.com now. Today is also the day of the band's first North American tour date, in West Palm Beach, where the first copies of the LRLRL CD will be given away.

The CD will then be handed out to all fans at every remaining Coldplay live
shows in 2009 (apart from Festival shows). The free download will also be
available from Coldplay.com until the band play their final 2009 show. We
hope you like it.

You can also try this direct link. The demand has been high so you may have to try again later or refresh the page a few times but it is indeed there.

Remember: Free, Legal music downloading is your friend.

MTV's Made To Audition Nashville Teens

One of my favorite daily web stops Nashvillest is reporting that MTV's Made will be at Rocketown on May 22nd from 8-11am to interview young people ages 15-24 for the show.

If you are a teen with a dream, glory hog, or budding starlet looking for your 15 minutes of fame this might be your golden ticket.

1987 YJ Wrangler For Sale

The Question Echoes On

Jesus is the authority, and it's basically all a matter of perspective. As the heavens are higher than the earth, His ways are higher than ours.

I was reading about this great storm and how terrified these men were as they were being tossed about in their boat (Mark 4:35-40). The greatest part was that the storm that made them panic made Jesus drowsy. What put fear in their eyes put Him to sleep. What they felt was a tomb, He felt was a cradle.

Then He gets up, tells the wind and water to be still and then there is a perfect calm.

They had asked, "dont you care if we drown?!" Of course He cared, but He had a different perspective. He saw the storm as a little shower. One that He was in complete control of.
He replies, "Do you still have no faith!"

...even today the question echoes on...

Why We Have To Watch Crap Movies.

[Or Why I Won't Be Seeing Watchmen]

Ladies and gentlemen. This may be seen as an oversimplification but I submit to you a simple tenet: if we keep going to the movie theaters in droves to watch crap movies, thus making crap movie producing people rich, we will do nothing but perpetuate the crap movie market.

If you are happy with the steady stream of flicks that appeal to the baser undersides of our human nature, then feel free to disregard this post. As for me, I feel like I'm being made a fool of everytime I see how much money some of these movies yank out of our pockets. We easily shell out $10 at a time for the sake of 2 hours in front of the silver screen all the while being happily deluded.

My case in point is G4TV's review of Watchmen. This paragraph sums things up the best:

If there is one weakness in the cast, it’s the performance of Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre. Akerman’s performance sums up the entire movie -- great to look at, but hollow. Granted, I don’t think she was given great material to work with as her character’s dialogue seemed flat. However, she didn’t do anything with what she was given, especially considering that her relationship with Doctor Manhattan is central to the emotional core of the film. She’s undeniably hot, however, and you get to see her naked.

The paragraph that stands out the most to me from pluggedinonline.com's review was this:

An old-school female superhero kisses another woman. The two are later found dead in bed together, the words "lesbian whores" scrawled in blood across the walls. A male superhero is a sadist. A villain is said to be a masochist who follows superheroes around, begging to be beaten.

That's the tame stuff. Watchmen put the "graphic" in "graphic novel" when it was released piecemeal in 1986 and '87. It's as bloody a comic book as you'll likely see, and it, as Slate reports, "helped kick off a decadent death spiral that would see adolescent violence peddled as adult content full of rape, murder and corpse-burning."

We are stooges and the blockbuster makers know how to take advantage of us accordingly. Although, it isn't really taking advantage if we blindly and willingly follow, movie in and movie out. I guess that is what has me thinking the most right now.

G4's Full Watchmen Review
Plugged In Online's Full Review

I highly recommend bookmarking http://www.pluggedinonline.com/ This site reviews popular movies and breaks them down into content levels. They will let you know plot direction, violent content, sexual content, spiritual content, language, and more. The reviews are balanced and well written. I can't begin to describe how much I've been saved by not going out to see things that would violate my personal ethics and how much money I've saved by not going out and seeing crap movies that would needlessly violate my wallet. Check it out and I think that you too will find it to be a useful oar as you glide across the sea of entertainment.

Introducing The Mayor Of Magtown

So I have launched my cartoon blog The Mayor of Magtown. It consists of scenes from the Mayor's life. He is a flashy magazine man who is stuck in a construction paper town.

He doesn't understand the people around him and they very obviously could care less how important he used to be back in Magazine Town.

Stop by often, tell others to do the same, I want to gain some support because I really hope to do a book some day. Leave your comments as well!

http://themagtowncartoon.com/

thanks!