The 2005 Ho's Choice Music Awards This has been an amazing year for my favorite artists. Several of the albums released in the first half of the year were hailed as each artist's "return to glory," marking the end of the experimental stages that most grunge-era bands went through in an attempt to topple rap/R&B and make rock popular again. Let me make this very clear - every one of the artists, albums, and songs listed here are amazing! Trying to pick a clear winner in the bunch was not an easy task. Discovery Artist of the Year - Elbow Even though they are much closer in sound to Doves, I first learned about Elbow from an Oasis forum several months back. The band is cool enough to host clips of a lot of their songs on their website, so once I'd been intrigued enough by the clips, I went to a used music store and picked up their first two albums - brilliant. They just released their third album this past fall, which I've only heard portions of onlin...
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December's Balls of the Month Award or And I Thought Greyhound Stations in NYC Were Bad... This kid is pretty unbelievable. I'm not saying I agree with his statement that terrorists are "pure evil" or other such moral ideals, but to run away to Iraq at 16 to get a good story, that kid's gotta have the biggest rocks in Florida. Way to go, kid. Now the question is - where do I have to go to beat that?
The 2005 Ho Music Awards Contestants or Yes, This Is Rather Late Here are the current nominees for each award for this year's HMAs. Usually I like to get these published by the beginning of November, but the past month was very busy and it had to be put off. Song of the Year One of These Days ~ Doves Pass Me Down the Wine ~ Oasis Hollow ~ Better Than Ezra Fix You ~ Coldplay Now Comes the Night ~ Rob Thomas Album of the Year Some Cities ~ Doves Rebel, Sweetheart ~ The Wallflowers Don't Believe the Truth ~ Oasis X&Y ~ Coldplay Retro Songs of the Year [As usual, these songs are simply listed instead of debated over, since I can choose as many as I want. Therefore, those songs stay unlisted until the day of the awards.] Discovery Artist of the Year Elbow Glen Phillips Toad the Wet Sprocket Input is always welcome, although in the end I hold total veto power.
A Terrible Burden or Hardly Funny First, I want to apologize for bringing the word "Iraq" to Musing. I never wanted to see it happen either, but the article below took me to a new level of "speechlessly pissed off" that I didn't even know existed. Allow me to direct your attention to the following address. Enjoy the words of our glorious vice-president before you continue reading. Finished? Disgusted? I hope so. Let me repeat my favorite part: "We never had the burden of proof," he said, adding that it had been up to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to prove to the world that he didn't have such weapons. Are you fucking kidding me? The burden of proof? If that's how the Bush Administration is going to try to convince us that we weren't misled on issues about the war in Iraq, then it's a miracle that people haven't shown up with pitchforks and Molotov cocktails at the front gates of the White House. I don't even know what...
Learning How To Spell Fiance or Maybe You'll Even Be Invited For a guy, the hardest part of The Whole Engagement Thing is buying The Ring. You don't buy a ring unless you have decided to take the relationship all the way to The Next Level. Yet, as someone has been telling me for weeks, there's still something very magical about putting The Ring on her finger and hearing her return that "yes." Even if she didn't wait for The Question to cross my lips. Yup. She said yes. I'm still reeling, too.
Attention Rev. Kieran McHugh or This Makes Me Appreciate My Fan Base Even More How many of you have heard/read about this ? [Thanks to /. for first bringing this to my attention.] Are you serious, Reverend? I hope your students stage such a revolt that you think your students have been possessed, although it sounds like your already might be given to that inclination. Giving you the benefit of the doubt in regards to your intentions of saving your students from obscene advances by sexual predators, your response is still of equal but opposite obscenity. Typically, the thought of the ACLU makes me shudder, but in this scenario I would gladly bring the ACLU to your doorstep to give you a legal slap across the face. Let me put this situation in your terms. Let's say I'm the President of the United States. One day, I decide that God isn't a safe topic anymore. Religion gets people all excited, even violent sometimes. Best to just shut down all conversation about God/Yah...
The Greatest Murder Mystery of All Time or Re-re-re-re-reading Pays Off Ahhhh, the Age-old question: "Who killed Asmodean?" Give me your thoughts on this. Four of the Forsaken were plotting together during TFoH - Lanfear, Graendal, Sammael, and Rahvin. TFoH, pg 390: "He will concentrate on you, Sammael," [Rahvin] said in a deep voice. "If need be, one close to him will die, plainly at your order. He will come for you. And while he is fixed on you alone, the three of us, linked, will take him." Rahvin was balefired in Caemlyn before Asmo died, so he's out. Sammael was waiting in Illian, expecting Rand to come charging across the continent to kill him. Although it seems possible that Sammy could have Traveled to Cairhien when he learned of Rahvin's death to deal with Asmo, RJ ruled out this possibility at a book signing a couple of years ago. Lanfear was in Cairhien, but had just fallen through the doors into Finnland. Supposedly, the killer i...