The Other Blog Meat

So, you guys might find this interesting? We have a page or web page or site that we can go to in order to access our website “statistics”. For example, I can see how many “hits” The New Dark Ages has received from Latvia in the month of April (answer: 512). Who knew? Also, I can see how many people have visited the NDA (10,205 unique users) and how many of those people bookmarked the site (968). I can clearly see that 80.6% of NDA readers are pimpin’ on Windows and 57.1% are viewing the site via MS Internet Explorer (28.2% are on Firefox). These numbers are all very entertaining and informative at the same time.

But, perhaps the most telling statistical of all is the Top 10 Keyphrase Search list. It’s given to me in a top ten list and you might find the results quite shocking!

This Top Ten list tells me what “phrases” people used in various search engines (ex. Aks Jeeves) in order to find The New Dark Ages. What is fascinating are the results. And here they are…

#9: “sean ewing”

#7: “futurama”

#4: “new dark age”

#3: “grey goose pear”

#2: “newdarkages.net”

AND #1… no shit… I am not kidding…

#1: “bacon”

I don’t remember writing anything about bacon, ever, but apparently 5.1% of the traffic we received via search engines found us that way. I don’t drink Grey Goose Pear, either. Don’t touch the swill. But, that’s not the point.

The deal is who doesn’t love bacon!? This in turn means, who doesn’t love The New Dark Ages!? Come to think of it, that might be a great question for Aks Jeeves.

So, in conclusion, if you have any statistically speaking questions please feel free to forward them my way via the comment section below and I will answer them in the comments section below.

OK, thanks! And thanks for makin’ bacon #1!!

Tim & Eric's Cat Film Festival!

We Hate Mixtapes #8

We Hate Mixtapes Volume 8

1. Airborne - Wussy
2. Monsters - Ruby Vileos
3. Flying Pizza - Swearing at Motorists
4. Love Wheel - Daniel Johnston
5. Lovin' Her Was Easier - Richard Buckner (covering Kris Kristofferson)
6. Hold On, Hold On - Neko Case
7. Square One - Tom Petty
8. Roscoe - Midlake
9. Can't See Your Face No More - David Vandervelde
10. Sleepin' Around - Peter Walker
11. Love What You Do - The Divine Comedy
12. I Need Some Fine Wine... - The Cardigans
13. Go Tell The Woman - Grinderman
14. Beautiful Mind - Golden Smog
15. Golden Skans - Klaxons
16. Must Be The Moon - !!!
17. Dr. Strangeluv - Blonde Redhead

http://www.mediafire.com/?6zmzwj5yw2k

Mix courtesy of one Miss Jessica Faller. Enjoy!

This Week in Rock & Roll TV: April 23 - 29, 2007

Here's the line-up:

MON 23: *The Black Keys on Conan
MON 23: *The Thermals on Carson Daly
TUE 24: Amy Winehouse on Leno
TUE 24: The Stooges on Kimmel
WED 25: The Fratellis on Letterman
WED 25: Blue October & Andrew W.K. on Conan
THU 26: Arctic Monkeys on Kimmel
FRI 27: The Mars Volta on Henry Rollins Show [IFC]
FRI 27: Jarvis Cocker on Letterman
FRI 27: Kings Of Leon on Leno
SAT 28: *The Raconteurs & Cat Power on Austin City Limits
SAT 28: The Devil and Daniel Johnston [STZ]
SUN 29: Bands Reunited - ABC [VH1C]
SUN 29: Subterranean [MTV2]

* = Episode previously aired

Check local listings for show times and channels in your
area.

High Holidays

More like the high holidaze get it?!?!?! do u get it!??!?!?!? holy shit o man o shit

here's a mix that i got in the mail from my dealer. sorry i couldn't get it to you sooner.

1. Chris Tucker - It's Friday
2. Rick James - Mary Jane
3. Archers of Loaf - Smokin' Pot in the Hot City
4. Amy Winehouse - Addicted
5. Bob Marley and The Wailers - Waiting in Vain
6. American Analog Set - The Green Green Grass (TTA Version)
7. Van Morrison - And it Stoned Me
8. Bone Thugs N Harmony - Weed Song
9. NRBQ - Wacky Tobacky
10. Bubble Puppy - Hot Smoke and Sasafrass
11. Broseph - Reggie Hits a One-Hitter
12. Andrew W.K. - When I'm High
13. Tobin Mueller and CenterStage Productions - The Good Guys
14. Scott Joplin - Weed Leaf Rag (Sam Craighead Remix)
15. Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day

http://www.mediafire.com/?0zv23wkzywz

Friday Night Flights

It’s a testament to our fair city (Columbus, Ohio)’s musical scenery that we have so many FANtastic bands playing on tomorrows holiest of Danish holidays: 4/20.

You have the free show at Carabar with The Rackets, Rosehips, Second State Butchers and Nakamura Lock. Also, you have the dual album release show at Bourbon Street with The Cheater Slicks, Shel Shag and Grafton. Both, high-quality endeavors to say the least. However, we hope you’ll use your CSI navigational system and/or your Yahoo!/Ask Mr. Jeevies Mapsqwest to find a way to swing by those shows while also finding time to hit up our especially IMPORTANT ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY and BAKE-OFFF!! At Little Brother’s Bar!!!!!

Here is the schedule of our show so that you can load it in your Blueberry now (for safe and convenient maneuvering):

9:30 – 10:00 >> Guinea Worms
10:15 – 10:45 >> Beard of Stars
11:00 – 11:30 >> Terribly Empty Pockets
11:45 – 12:15 >> Houseguest
12:30 - ??? >> The Lindsay

Bring your baked goodies or eat other people’s baked goodies for FREE!!!!!!!!!!

Also, bring an extra buck or two for Mother Earth as this is a benefit for Ye Olde Lass.

Also, we have some in-between band shenanigans planned for you that I unfortunately cannot divulge at this time. There has to be some mystery, right?

So, tomorrow night, what’s the plan again!? That’s right. Split yourself into at least three separate pieces and make sure the one that likes sweets and dancin’ comes to Little Brother’s.

See you tomorrow night! Tell yer friends!!!!

P.S. Doors at 8PM :: 18+ :: $5

They Were Fun While They Lasted

Very few TV shows actually hold my attention these days, but it seems as though the ones that do always end up being cancelled in short order. Maybe I’m the problem?

After airing only four episodes and sending the remaining two episodes to die on Saturday nights, NBC has announced the cancellation of Andy Richter’s Andy Barker P.I. The show wasn’t always a scream, but I thought the premise was great, the style unique, and it had room to grow if it would have been given the chance. Tony Hale (formerly of Arrested Development) was brilliant in his video store geek co-star role, but it appears as though Richter is just doomed to failure on network TV. It’s too bad; I kinda like the big lug.

Another show that I was really starting to enjoy -- The Winner, which was produced by Seth MacFarlane and starred ex-The Daily Show correspondent, Rob Corddry -- has seemingly bit the dust. Although there hasn’t been any "official" word yet from FOX, how do you say, their silence speaks volumes. It’s too bad, because this was a show that was as charming as it was wacky and it had some genuinely funny performances by the cast all-around. They could have ditched the obnoxious laugh track, but even that grew on me in an ironic way. I’ll still keep my fingers crossed for this one a bit longer -- and if you want to check out the show for yourself, FOX still has all six episodes streaming on their website.

Last, but not least, there was this excellent show that was airing this time last year that I had been meaning to say something about for a long time now. I guess I felt like if I didn’t acknowledge that it disappeared that it might just magically pop-up on my TV one day. The short-lived situational comedy was called Sons & Daughters and it played on ABC for about two months last Spring. Do you remember it? The show centered around an extended family of dysfunctional dim-wits with just a few "normal" people sprinkled in for good measure -- namely Fred Goss who played the lead character as a neurotic do-gooder to awkward perfection. He spent most episodes obsessing over his own silly insecurities while simultaneously attempting to fix all of his family’s various problems. It sort of felt like Woody Allen directing a Christopher Guest movie. Or maybe it was the other way around? Anyway, the partly-scripted, partly-improvisational style of the program followed the Curb Your Enthusiasm model for comedic success. They just kind of forgot the success part. Still, the show was heartfelt and funny and it’s a real travesty that it never got a shot at season two as the axe dropped in late April 2006 after ten episodes aired, leaving one unaired episode. A rumored DVD is being held up by music licensing issues. This is one show I’d love to see return, ala The Family Guy. But, there’s no reason to think that it will as Goss wrote on a MySpace blog that "Sons & Daughters will not be picked up on another network."

I guess it’s true what the Billy Joel says: "Only the good die young."

Pickle Surprise!

Produced and directed by Tom Rubnitz (1989).

R.I.P. Don Ho

August 13, 1930 – April 14, 2007.

One Week From Tonight... The NDA Bake-OFFF!!

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Ukrainian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki. No shit.

The 2007 NDA March Badness Tournament Winner Is... ALF!!

It was neck-and-neck with Andre The Giant for most of the weekend, but ultimately the furry little fella pulled ahead for good. Here are the final results. When you get a chance please send ALF a note congratulating him on his big win. He'd appreciate that.

This Week in Rock & Roll TV: April 9 - 15, 2007

Here's the line-up:

MON 9: The Alternate Routes on Conan
TUE 10: Andrew Bird on Letterman
TUE 10: Pink on Kimmel
TUE 10: Cold War Kids on Conan
WED 11: LCD Soundsystem on Letterman
THU 12: Of Montreal on Conan
FRI 13: Marilyn Manson & Peaches on Henry Rollins Show [IFC]
FRI 13: The Shins on Leno
FRI 13: Joseph Arthur on Conan
FRI 13: Cold War Kids on Craig Ferguson
SAT 14: 2007 Brit Awards [BBCA]
SAT 14: Shia LaBeouf & Avril Lavigne on SNL
SUN 15: Subterranean [MTV2]

* = Episode previously aired

Check local listings for show times and channels in your
area.

Whatever happened to... William Zabka?

Well??

On The Cineplex... Grindhouse.

So, who is going to see Grindhouse tonight? I’m hitting up the 8PM show at Lennox. Got my ticket yesterday. Yes, I am a nerd. Deal with it!

Also, did you hear how Rose McGowan broke up the sixteen-year marriage of director Robert Rodriguez and wife Elizabeth Avellan during the filming of Planet Terror? Turns out Rodriguez really likes machine guns up his pooper. True story! It's a scene in the movie (whoops! spoiler alert!) Gossipy gossip!! I’m no Liz Smith-Casablanca, that’s for sure.

Anyway, the point is, who’s going??

On The Boober Toober... Human Giant.

It’s been a real long while since MTV has produced anything actually worth watching, but if the buzz surrounding tonight’s series premiere of Human Giant has any basis in reality, this experimental comedy might just buck that sad trend. The comedians that make-up Human Giant (Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer and Jason Woliner) are notorious for their absurdist viewpoints. Their anarchic, low-budget appeal is forged through ultra-brief bits and skits that mock greasy Ari Gold types (''Shutterbugs'') and pompous magicians (''Illusionators''). But, the gag from tonight’s show that has everyone talking is when Ansari is forced to walk around Manhattan blasting the ''shittiest mixtape ever'' from a suitcase-size boom box, 1983-style. Set those DVR’s for 10:30PM SHARP and we'll talk more about this later.

Vikings In A Van

Our friends, Times New Viking, have scored an opening slot on the upcoming Yo La Tengo tour. Go see them play!

4/5 - New Orleans at Tipitina's
4/6 - Houston at Warehouse Live
4/7 - Austin at Stubb's
4/8 - Dallas at the Granada
4/10 - Tulsa at Cain's
4/11- Lawrence at the Granada
4/13- Indianapolis at Vogue
4/14 - Madison at the Barrymore
4/16 - Newport at the Southgate House
4/17 - Cleveland at the Beachland Ballroom
4/18 - Detroit at the Majestic Theatre

Baby Cakes Sees a Play

I Heart Showalter

This is a pretty silly re-enactment or spoof, if you will, of the famous Lily Tomlin/David O. Russell I Heart Huckabees backstage brawl as performed by Paul Rudd and Michael Showalter. NSFW unless you have headphones.

We Hate Mixtapes #7

From our friend "plong" over at Donewaiting...

We Hate Mixtapes #7

http://www.mediafire.com/?f5zwnjywel3

01. Na Na Na Na Naa - Kaiser Chiefs
02. Little Lover So Polite - Silversun Pickups
03. Look a Ghost - Unwound
04. No Rain (Ripped Away Version) - Blind Melon
05. St. Augustine - Band of Horses
06. Gareth Brown Says (NSFW lyrics) - Mclusky
07. Blue Lights - Pretty Girls Make Graves
08. Luno - Bloc Party
09. Relapse - The Receiver
10. In Tunnels - The Receiver
11. Disco Infiltrator - LCD Soundsystem
12. Steak for Chicken (NSFW lyrics) - The Moldy Peaches
13. Mix Tapes - The Nonce
14. Polymer - Bluetip
15. Sleeping Lessons - The Shins
16. Boom Swagger Swagger - Murder City Devils
17. Angel of Death - Dokaka

Thank you, plong.

Book of the Week 13/52

Boomsday



by Christopher Buckley
(Twelve, 2007)




Missy Schwartz for Entertainment Weekly
As might be expected from a novel by the author of Thank You for Smoking, Boomsday spares no one from the sting of satire — not the U.S. government, not the Catholic Church, not the French. Even little old-folks homes get kicked around a bit. The story takes place in a not-so-distant future in which the U.S. is engaged in six wars, the economy is ''flatter'n a pancake'' due to a $1.1 trillion deficit, and citizens under age 35 face tax hikes of 30 percent to pay for the retirement of 77 million baby boomers. For 29-year-old PR maven-cum-blogger Cassandra Devine, this last point is unacceptable. Why should she and her peers (a.k.a. ''Generation W,'' short for whatever) shoulder the burden of that ''self-indulgent, pampered'' group of ''Wrinklies''? Fed up, she devises a plan: Get opportunistic Sen. Randy Jepperson to sponsor a bill urging boomers to commit suicide — voluntarily ''transition'' themselves, in PR speak — at age 70. Soon,