Review: Red Hot Chili Peppers "Stadium Arcadium"

"28 songs and it doesn't suck. The Red Hot Chili Peppers come full circle with a mammoth double disk". rolling stone

I agree completely. The Red Hots seemed to have pigeon-holed themselves as the godfathers of the extremely boring rap-rock movement of early 00's, think LimkB, 'nuff said, and this was an important record for them after 2 really fine efforts on more traditional pop - rock: californication and by the way.

With Stadium Arcadium, they distanced themselves from the 'alternative' pack in a magnanomous way and I've recently heard radio DJ's call them 'classic rock' because this record incorporates more Hendricks as usual, but it also has moments of Sabbath and dare I say it the Bee Gees. This IS also their third decade together as a band so I do agree, 'classic' is a perfect word for the record.

While I think the individual members are very talented in their own rights, their x-factor is John Frusciante, a student of music history and a genuine songwriter of immense simplicity.

That in itself is where most artists lose it. The one that comes to mind is yngwie malmsteen. His schtick is to play faster than any other artist out there and his music sounds stale, over anaylized and forced because of it.

John Frusciante takes his sweet time to build each song with the simplest of melodies and he knows his way around dynamics. Sometimes its just a 3 note lick to accentuate the vocals or bass while other times he can blister you ears with his knowlege of theory in a Randy Rhoads kind of way. Regardless, this kid knows where to place his notes and as Mozart did over 200 years ago, he places them in the perfect spot.

Talked to a CSR outta India Today

I called to pay our car bill by phone tonight and while we were waiting for our approval (their computers were down) we got to talking to our CSR. She was from Mumbia India.



We traded recipes, she gave us her favorite Dal and we gave her our Soup Beans and Cornbread and somehow we got got to the subject of what we make for a living

She told us that she makes 18,000 rubee's a month and she only gets paid once a month. Thanks to our friends @ finance.yahoo.com/ we found out that...

Currency Conversion Results
Symbol Indian Rupee Exchange Rate U.S. Dollar
INRUSD=X 18000 Oct 27 398.31823

That's a little more than our car payment...Flo


Downtown Mumbai

Current mood: shocked
Category: Travel and Places

NetFlix Wishlist Suggestions

We thought of some more movies we would like to suggest to help build your NetFlix wish lists tonight.


1) Sweet Dreams www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...id=1018371

2) Blue Sky www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...362686_0_0

3) King Kong www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...022392_1_0

Note: OK, we're on a Jessica Lange kick, she's awesome, sue us


4) Reversal of Fortune www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...d=60004511

5) Dead Ringers www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...331020_0_0

Note: OK, we're on a Jeremy Irons kick as well, he's so perfect at playing bizarre / funny roles, well worth your time



6) League of their own www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...eid=691124

Note: Excellent true story, great directing and Madonna actually acts in it, kinda.



7) Miami Blues www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...d=60030307

Note: one of the funniest comedies ever



8) Regarding Henry www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...d=60029917

Note: Harrison became one of our favorite actors with this role



9) White Palace www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...id=1119306

Note: a very entertaining relationship movie set in St Louis MO of all places



10) Chaplin: The Movie www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...416273_0_0

Note: excellent bio on one of the first stars of stage and screen (wow I sound a little like Ebert here...haha)



11) Murderball www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...d=70021128

Note: Sundance award winning documentary on an eXtreme quadriplegic sport, looks inspiring



12) Dracula www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...kid=147042

Note: one of our childhood favorites, excellent movie – weird eyes



13) Flirting with Disaster www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...232706_0_0

Note: Stiller is Stellar in this one with an incredible ensemble cast



14) Nashville www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...985693_0_0

15) Gosford Park www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...d=60021796

16) The Player www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...456666_0_0

17) McCabe & Mrs. Miller www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...999491_0_0

Note: Robert Altman, the king of all star casts and social / political commentaries



18) Red Dawn www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...eid=896678

Note: Another great ensemble cast from the 80's kinda like the Breakfast Club but with guns



19) Taps www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...882572_0_0

Note: Penn and Hutton basically started out their incredible careers with this one



20) Drug Store Cowboy www.netflix.com/MovieDisp...eid=462211

Note: Another ensemble cast in a dirty yet entertaining look at the life of junkies


We hope these look interesting to you. Let us know what ya think….Flo

endnote: these movies are not our top 20 movies in no way shape or form, while they are terrific, they represent movies that we would like to see or haven't seen in a while and would like to view ASAP. Our top 20 will be posted shortly if there is enough interest.

Found it: X Marks Spot for Jimmy Buffett?

Found it.....

Quote: Memo to Parrotheads: Cheeseburgers in paradise, no problem; drugs in France, well, that's another story...

Jimmy Buffett was briefly detained this week for allegedly having 100 tabs of Ecstasy in his luggage during a trip to the French Riviera.

Per French media reports, the "Margaritaville" mastermind's private jet landed at Toulon-Hyeres International Airport for the start of a vacation in the posh resort town of Saint-Tropez.

But instead of finding his lost shaker of salt, customs officials turned up what they claimed were illicit drugs. Airport officials were quoted in local reports saying the 59-year-old Buffett had more 100 tabs of Ecstasy with him.

He was not arrested, however. Instead, he paid about a $400 fine and was allowed to continue on his way.

Buffett's publicist did not immediately return a call seeking comment Friday. But in a brief interview with the New York Post, the rep disputed French newspaper accounts, saying customs officials had found only 20 pills and claimed it was medicine prescribed by a physician. The spokeswoman did not disclose what the pills were nor did she elaborate on why the entertainer was forced to pay a fine.

The Grammy winner's latest disc, the country-flavored Take the Weather with You, hits stores next Tuesday.

source: yahoo news

Jimmy Buffet Busted for Ecstasy???

I heard it through the grapevine he got busted, couldn't find the story but found his reply to what happened, it's pretty funny all these geezers getting busted lately (see Willie Nelson some pot and mushrooms a few weeks ago), do you believe Jimmie's vitamin excuse'???

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What happened? A message from Jimmy Buffett...
POSTED OCTOBER 6, 2006

I have tried over the years, to live below the radar when it comes to the "celebrity" thing. I see what I do as just a job, a really fun job that has opened the world, its people and places. However, I seem to still have a way of causing commotion now and then.

In Toulon, we arrived at the private terminal to leave and were moving through security, when my captain informed me that we were being ramp checked by French customs and some plainclothes guys. This is nothing new but what was strange was that the search was being conducted as we were leaving - not as we were arriving. No big deal - I thought. I found my bag and opened it up and they went right for a little pouch which contained my prescription medicines which was sitting on top of my clothes, not the most secretive part of my bag. I don't know about you, but at a few months away from turning sixty, I carry a few prescriptions, including a B vitamin supplement, called Foltx.

Well, that's the one that deflated the party balloon for when they examined them you could see a heart on the pill. "Ecstasy," they said. I have never taken it and couldn't tell you the difference between a hit of ecstasy and Excedrin PM. My vices these days consist of boat drinks, beer, wine and the occasional hot fudge sundae. I hadn't even opened the bottle, because my secretary had made a mistake and had sent the wrong prescription. I don't use Foltx any more.

I knew Foltx was a vitamin supplement not a love drug. I paid the fine, gathered my bags and my friends and as soon as they opened that door, I walked, rather rapidly towards my plane and flew out.

In Toulon, the stern faced authorities couldn't take the truth as the simple answer to a few simple questions, trying to turn vitamins into ecstasy. In these days and times, the truth sadly gets lost in the gossip at an alarming rate.

In the end, I will just chalk it up as being something that will happen if you have an adventurous soul and live a nomad life. I will, as my old hero Mark Twain put it, be "lighting out into the territory". The great old humorist Lord Richard Buckley used to say in one of his routines that humor is the absence of terror and that terror is the absence of humor. It seems there are too many people in the world intent on building fences, not bridges between cultures and fueling misinformation with heightened suspicions and senseless interrogations. I never was, nor do I ever intend to answer to or become one of those people. I will take my cue from Lord Buckley and keep on singing and laughing. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

- Jimmy Buffett
Over the Atlantic and on the way home

margaritaville.com/JB_statement.php

Sweet French Pop

I just found 2 french pop bands that remind me of Lennon and McCartney respectively. Enjoy...Flo


reXen
Listen to "Waiting for An Answer"
www.myspace.com/rexen


The Gostins
Listen to "Alright"
www.myspace.com/gostins

Frank Zappa Rules

I just noticed this weekend that a Zappa plays Zappa show is in town, his family and invited guests (Vai, etc.) are touring playing the old standards, gawd I wish I could see that!!!

I first heard him in the late 70's and as a kid 'got' his sense of humor immediately. The musicianship on his albums was both incredible and quirky. What a personality. He worked with John Lennon on 1/2 an album, that is cool as hell in my book. I bought his girl's "Valley Girl" 45 in fact, bought that song as well as "Yellow Snow" and "King Tutt" (Steve Martin) at the same time. I recorded an original song in the early 90's with a Zappa Freak band called the Naked Entrepreneurs called "Waiting for the Bus" I should dig out for you all sometime.

Gawd I miss singles....Flo

eBay Address

If interested the for my first eBay Auction goto:

eBay: Day One Update

I told a friend about my entry into the eBay world and he said that he's opening a store in a week or two and he'll give me a better deal than QuikDrop, I'll let you know how it goes.

Is it a way to make a little off junk in your home or are can you start dealing in the stuff after a few succeses and make a business out of this? Like any business, if you do your due dilligence, it may payoff in the long run.

Myself, I'm just getting rid of junk my mother saved for me from my childhood that's been in my attic for 6 years and I have a lot of it, she's a packrat. We're in a 'less is more' stage these days plus we need the extra income pretty bad. I just started Sunday at this so who knows how its going to turn out, I'm am positive we'll going to make something off of the hours of research I've put into it over the last 3 weeks, so anything will be great, if its worth me pursuing it as a side-gig, the jury is still out...Flo

Well I'm Ebaying

For starters its a...

LOT OF VINTAGE STAR WARS FIGURES w/ WEAPONS 70's NR! but hey, ya gotta start somewhere right??

The Kentucky Congressional Race is Heating Up

Let the mud slinging commence. It's worse and more interesting to me for one of Louisville's congressional seats: Anne Northup (8 year incumbant) versus John Yarmuth (local publisher of the LEO - louisville eccentric observer)

He accuses her and Bush of 'failing the country'.

She blasts back with a possible Federal Election Commission investigation and an entire website.

www.theyarmuthrecord.com/

Unfortunate for him he has 20+ years of editorials for...

Ending Social Security
Doubling the Payroll Tax (taxes suck, I'm for a Nat'l sales tax myself)
Taxing SUV's & Pickup Trucks (which are built in Kentucky, this one's gonna kill him)
Taking "Under God" Out of the Pledge of Allegiance (whatever)
On Lowering the Drinking Age (ahhh NO)
On Legalizing Marijuana (this actually is a non-issue to me, this state can sure use the revenue and taxes from this)
On the National Rifle Association /Gun Control
On Gay Marriage (non issue to me, people who are commited should be able to marry and enjoy the advantages)
On Abortion
On Burning the American Flag (while I'm for free speach I'm equally for respect)
On Louisville's South End
On Prescription Drug Plan
On the Death Penalty
On Art and Religion
On Serving in Elected Office and Observations About Himself

I vote on records, Anne has done incredible things for the state, I'm keeping her...Flo

I saw an SUV flip over this morning.

At 9;45AM this morning I took a different route to the office up Interstate 71 North towards Cincy. As soon as I merged off of 264 East, all I saw was a white SUV flipping over in the Southbound lane as hundreds of sheds of Semi parts flew all over the place. The SUV came to a stop as I passed and I noticed the driver was awake, she didn't look hurt, yet looking dazed, obviously.

I immediately called 911 and several minutes later as I entered 265 West, I saw two police squad cars, lights blaring, heading towards the wreck. This was something I've never seen live before and I was shaking as I called my Belle to her the story.

Here's the report from Wave 3 News

SUV Hits Tractor-Trailer On I-71

Sep 21, 2006 12:54 PM

(LOUISVILLE) -- The cable barriers installed along Interstate 71 in eastern Jefferson County appear to be working. They're credited with stopping a median crossover crash Thursday morning.

It happened just north of the Watterson Expressway exchange in the southbound lanes of I-71. We're told a woman driving an SUV looked down for a moment, and came up quickly behind a tractor-trailer.

She swerved, but hit the semi before overturning, stopping at the barrier installation.

LMPD Officer Greg Kellerman says the barriers did their job. "Obviously, they saved the SUV from crossing over. Most of the impact was in the southbound lanes, but it did prevent her from going over into the opposing lanes."

The driver of the car suffered minor cuts on her arms and face. She was wearing a seat belt and police say it kept her from sustaining more serious injuries.

The driver of the tractor-trailer was not hurt.