Review Tuesday: An Isolated Incident by Susan R. Sloan

Every so often you come across a book you've never heard of by no one you know and it's AMAZING. Pleasant surprises are good. AN ISOLATED INCIDENT BY Susan R. Sloan is one of those pleasant surprises.

Well, maybe not so pleasant. This book is about how a small town implodes when the daughter of an affluent family turns up brutally murdered.

The story is full of twists and turns and evidence is given to steer you this way and that, and builds to a crescendo, and an EXPLOSIVE surprise ending.

The book was a lot of fun to read. It was tense at parts, and totally drew you in. The writing is spectacular. Plus there's the underlying social commentary about how an isolated incident in a small town can change EVERYTHING. Definitely worth reading, give it a shot!
 

Find it on Amazon

Happy Birthday, Johnny!

Anarchy In The U.K.

by the Sex Pistols

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc89WTEh-jE

Right! Now ha ha ha...

I am an antichrist

I am an anarchist

Don't know what I want

But I know how to get it

I wanna destroy the passerby

'Cause I wanna be Anarchy

Now don't worry

Anarchy for the UK

It's coming sometime and maybe

I give a wrong time stop a traffic line

Your future dream is a shopping scheme

'Cause I wanna be Anarchy

In the city

How many ways to get what you want

I use the best

I use the rest

I use the N.M.E

I use Anarchy

'Cause I wanna be Anarchy

It's the only way to be

Is this the M.P.L.A or

Is this the U.D.A or

Is this the I.R.A

I thought it was the UK

Or just another country

Another council tenancy

I wanna be Anarchy

And I wanna be Anarchy

(Oh what a name)

And I wanna be an anarchist

(I get pissed, destroy!)

Iron Maiden to release En Vivo! on March 27th

Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) is proud to announce the release of “EN VIVO!,” a new live IRON MAIDEN Blu-ray™, 2-DVDSet and double soundtrack album, on Tuesday, March 27, in the U.S. (available internationally, Monday, March 26). The 2 LP picture disc vinyl comes out on 4/10. A trailer for the release can be seen here: http://youtu.be/HVimi8oElBU.

“EN VIVO!” was filmed on April 10, 2011, in front of over 50,000 ecstatic fans at the Estadio Nacional, Santiago, during the Round The World In 66 Days leg of The Final Frontier World Tour, and captures a magnificent performance by the band, ardently embraced by the legendary Latino passion and energy of their Chilean fans. With spectacular stage backdrops, dynamic musicianship and a literally jaw-dropping appearance by Eddie, this live show encapsulates to perfection the heart and soul of Iron Maiden 2011.

Bass player and founding member Steve Harris comments, “For The Final Frontier Tour, it was really important to me that we filmed in South America as we’re always so overwhelmed by the fans’ reaction when we go to that part of the world and I wanted to reflect that in the filming. After much consideration, we chose the Santiago show as we felt it was one of our best performances of the entire tour and to play at the prestigious Estadio Nacional was a landmark moment for us. For reasons known to our fans, it took a long time before we got to play our first show in Chile, and once we did get to play a show, the response was so phenomenal we just had to keep coming back, and it’s got better and better each time!”

The concert was filmed digitally using 22 HD cameras and an octocam (a flying camera which captures aerial crowd scenes), recorded in both stereo and 5.1 audio and mixed by Maiden’s longstanding producer, Kevin “Caveman” Shirley, all of which serves to accentuate the incredible atmosphere of this compelling performance. Extensive use is made of split screens so fans can follow the individual members more closely, and the set list moves seamlessly between songs from Maiden’s most recent studio album, 2010’s The Final Frontier, through to classic fan favorites via the band’s vast and varied catalogue (full set listing below).Disc two of the DVD set is a bonus disc containing an 88-minute documentary, Behind The Beast. This is also an entirely in-house production by Maiden’s own Krew, led by Andy Matthews, and is intended as an interesting and revealing high quality “home movie” for their fans to see how Iron Maiden put on a tour and what goes on behind the scenes at a show. It describes the extraordinary story of one of the most acclaimed and ambitious touring shows in the world. It illustrates the day-to-day life and complex tasks of the Maiden Killer Krew and the other characters behind the scenes. The expertise and experience, the problem-solving and successes, the sheer scale and immense difficulties of the undertaking come to life through the day-to-day coverage of the tour and the background work of the crews in sound, lighting, carpentry, production and set design. As well as interviews with the Iron Maiden crew, it interweaves anecdotes from the band and their fans, and includes footage of the live show in this comprehensive guide to the intricacies of staging massive, live stadium shows around the world out of the belly of a Boeing 757. The bonus disc also contains an extended version of the promo video “Satellite 15…The Final Frontier,” a video about the making of “Satellite 15…The Final Frontier” plus the opening video sequence to The Final Frontier World Tour.In addition to the Blu-ray™, the 2-DVD set will initially be available as a Limited Edition double DVD in a Collectors’ Steel Book Case and Double Vinyl Picture Disc. As well as a traditional 2-CD soundtrack album, EN VIVO! will also be available as a digital download audio album and digital download video.

DVD DISC ONE “LIVE AT ESTADIO NACIONAL, SANTIAGO” (approx running time 120 min.)

1. Satellite 15
2. The Final Frontier
3. El Dorado
4. 2 Minutes To Midnight
5. The Talisman
6. Coming Home
7. Dance Of Death
8. The Trooper
9. The Wicker Man
10. Blood Brothers
11. When The Wild Wind Blows
12. The Evil That Men Do
13. Fear Of The Dark
14. Iron Maiden
15. The Number Of The Beast
16. Hallowed Be Thy Name
17. Running Free

BONUS DISC - DVD DISC TWO “BEHIND THE BEAST” (approx running time 102 min.)

1. Behind The Beast documentary
2. Satellite 15…The Final Frontier promo video (director’s cut)
3. The Making of Satellite 15…The Final Frontier promo
4. The Final Frontier World Tour Show Intro

http://www.ironmaiden.com/


En Vivo! trailer url: http://youtu.be/HVimi8oElBU


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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

idoneous \ahy-DOH-nee-uhs\, adjective:

• Appropriate; fit; suitable; apt.

Idoneous is derived from the Latin word idōneus which meant "suitable."

501k

• When one's economic situation has become so tenuous that their entire net worth is in the pockets of their jeans.

Sorry, bro, can't go drinking tonight, the wife raided my 501k.

Trivia

What U.S. university offers a performance degree in bagpipes?

• Carnegie Mellon, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university, founded by Scottish-born steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, has offered the degree since 1990.

History

• 1865 - In America, General Robert E. Lee was named general-in-chief of the Confederate armies.
• 1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. It was ratified by the necessary number of states on December 6, 1865. The amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
• 1876 - All Native American Indians were ordered to move into reservations.
• 1893 - The trademark "Coca-Cola" was first registered in the United States Patent Office.
• 1936 - The radio show "The Green Hornet" debuted.
• 1940 - The first Social Security check was issued by the U.S. Government.
• 1946 - A new constitution in Yugoslavia created six constituent republics (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia) subordinated to a central authority, on the model of the USSR.
• 1950 - U.S. President Truman announced that he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb.
• 1958 - Explorer I was put into orbit around the earth. It was the first U.S. earth satellite.
• 1970 - In New Orleans, LA, the Greatful Dead were busted for possession of LSD and barbituates. The event was alleged to be the inspiration for the song "Truckin."
• 1971 - Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon.
• 1979 - The Clash began their first U.S. tour with Bo Diddley as their opening act.
• 1985 - The final Jeep rolled off the assembly line at the AMC plant in Toledo, OH.
• 1990 - McDonald's Corp. opened its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow, Russia.
• 1995 - U.S. President Clinton invoked presidential emergency authority to provide a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
• 1998 - The Presidents of the United States of America played their final show in Seattle, WA. The show benefited the Chicken Soup Brigade.

Birthdays

• Franz Shubert 1797
• Zane Grey 1872
• Irving Langmuir 1881
• Anna Pavlova 1882
• Eddie Cantor (Iskowitz) 1892
• Freya Stark 1893
• Tallulah Bankhead 1902
• Jersey Joe Walcott 1914
• Garry Moore 1915
• Frank Parker (Paikowski) 1916
• Jackie Robinson 1919
• John Agar 1921
• Mario Lanza 1921
• Carol Channing 1923
• Joanne Dru (LaCock) 1923
• Chuck Willis 1928
• Jean Simmons 1929
• Norman Mailer 1929
• Ernie Banks 1931
• James Franciscus 1934
• Philip Glass 1937
• Suzanne Pleshette 1937
• Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard (Netherlands) 1938
• Stuart Margolin 1940
• Richard Gephardt 1941
• Jessica Walter 1944
• Charlie Musselwhite 1944
• Terry Kath (Chicago) 1946
• Nolan Ryan 1947
• Phil Collins 1951
• Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music) 1951
• Harry Wayne Casey (KC and the Sunshine Band) 1951
• Johnny "Rotten" Lydon (The Sex Pistols) 1956
• Shirley Babashoff 1957
• Kelly Lunch 1959
• Anthony LaPaglia 1959
• Lloyd Cole (Lloyd Cole and The Commotions) 1961
• John Dye 1963
• Al Jaworski (Jesus Jones) 1966
• Minnie Driver 1971
• Portia de Rossi 1973
• Justin Timberlake ('N Sync) 1981

Don't cry to me.

Evanescence

Call Me When You're Sober

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RrA-R5VHQs

Don't cry to me.

If you loved me, you would be here with me.

You want me, come find me.

Make up your mind.

Should have let you fall,

Lose it all,

So maybe you can remember yourself.

Can't keep believing,

We're only deceiving ourselves,

And I'm sick of the lies,

And you're too late.

Don't cry to me.

If you loved me, you would be here with me.

You want me, come find me.

Make up your mind.

Couldn't take the blame,

Sick with shame.

Must be exhausting to lose your own game.

Selfishly hated,

No wonder you're jaded,

You can't play the victim this time.

And you're too late.

So, don't cry to me.

If you loved me, you would be here with me.

You love me, come find me.

Make up your mind.

You never call me when you're sober,

You only want it 'cause it's over - it's over.

How could I have burned paradise.

How could I, you were never mine?

So, don't cry to me.

If you loved me, you would be here with me.

Don't lie to me, just get your things.

I've made up your mind.

Look forward to Monday! 01/30/2012

Kate Beckinsale

Underworld Awakening Photocall in Madrid

January 25, 2012

Classy and Sexy

Hotty of the day!

cred to ou

Weekend Box Office: 01/30/2012

Box Office

1. The Grey $20M

2. Underworld: Awakening $12.5M

3. One for the Money $11.8M

4. Red Tails $10.4M
5. Man on a Ledge $8.25M

The new Liam Neeson action flick THE GREY took the #1 spot over the weekend. Nothing else came close. The other new movies, One for the Money and Man on a Ledge, both did pitifully.

Monday, January 30, 2012

neoterism \nee-OT-uh-riz-uhm\, noun:

1. An innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.

2. The use of new words, terms, or expressions.

Though it did not come into English usage until the late 1800s, neoterism originally comes from the Greek word neōterismós which meant "an attempt to change."

Trash angel

Lying on the back, waving your arms and legs to form the impression of an angel, in a pile of trash. Typically performed by drunks in New York

Vanessa's night ended when she fell over the pile of garbage on the curb and performed trash angels in the street til the cab arrived.

Trivia

The first players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League were required to attend what special evening classes during spring training?

• Charm school classes, run by the Helena Rubenstein Beauty Salon. The AAGPBL, which existed from 1943 to 1954, was memorialized in the 1992 film A League of Their Own.

History

• 1649 - England's King Charles I was beheaded.
• 1933 - "The Lone Ranger" was heard on radio for the first time. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955.
• 1933 - Adolf Hitler was named the German Chancellor.
• 1972 - In Northern Ireland, British soldiers shot and killed thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers. The day is known as "Bloody Sunday."
• 1973 - KISS played their first show at Popcorn (The Coventry Club) in Queens, NY. The band performed 2 sets at the club that night for a crowd of under 10 people.
• 2002 - Slobodan Milosevic accused the U.N. war crimes tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him. Milosevic was defending his actions during the Balkan wars.

Birthdays

• Anton Checkhov 1860
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S.) 1882
• Roy Eldridge (Gene Krupa's Band) 1911
• David Wayne 1914
• John Ireland 1914
• Bennie Leighton 1921
• Gene Martin 1922
• Dick Martin 1922
• Barbara Hale 1922
• Dorothy Malone 1925
• Douglas Engelbart 1925
• Gene Hackman 1931
• Louis Rukeyser 1933
• Tammy Grimes 1934
• Horst Jankowski 1936
• Boris Spassky 1937
• Vanessa Redgrave 1937
• Norma Jean 1938
• Dick Cheney 1941
• Joe Terranova (Danny and the Juniors) 1941
• Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane) 1942
• Steve Marriott (Humble Pie & Small Faces) 1947
• William King (The Commodores) 1949
• Charles Dutton 1951
• Brett Butler 1958
• Jody Watley 1959
• Christian Bale 1974

Now THIS is a burger!

Sunday, January 29, 2012

hotchpot \HOCH-pot\, noun:

• the bringing together of shares or properties in order to divide them equally.

Dating back to the early 1200s, hotchpot literally meant "shake-pot" in Anglo-French. It is related to the word hodgepodge

Trivia

What inspired ice-cream maker William Dreyer to name a flavor Rocky Road?

• The 1929 stock market crash. With his candy-making partner Joseph Edy, Dreyer introduced the flavor just weeks after the crash. He thought the name would make people smile because it described both the economy and the texture of his blend of walnuts (now almonds), marshmallows, and chocolate ice cream.

History

• 1979 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer disbanded.
• 1987 - "Physician’s Weekly" announced that the smile on the face of Leonardo DeVinci's Mona Lisa was caused by a "...facial paralysis resulting from a swollen nerve behind the ear."
• 1996 - Garth Brooks refused to accept his American Music Award for Favorite Overall Artist. Brooks said that Hootie and the Blowfish had done more for music that year than he did.
• 2002 - Dream Theater's album "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" was released.
• 2007 - KISS' Rock The Nation Live! DVD was officially certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Birthdays

• Thomas Paine 1737
• William McKinley (U.S.) 1843
• Lawrence Hargrave 1850
• W.C. Fields 1880
• Huddie Ledbetter 1889
• Allen B. DuMont 1901
• Joe Primeau 1906
• "Professor" Irwin Corey 1912
• Victor Mature 1916
• John Raitty 1917
• John Forsythe 1918
• Paddy Chayefsky 1923
• Noel Harrison 1936
• Germaine Greer 1939
• Katherine Ross 1942
• Claudine Longet 1942
• Tom Selleck 1945
• David Byron (Uriah Heep) 1947
• Marc Singer 1948
• Tommy Erdelyi (The Ramones) 1952
• Ann Jillian 1950
• Louie Perez (Los Lobos) 1953
• Oprah Winfrey 1954
• Diane Delano 1957
• Irlene Mandrell 1957
• Judy Norton Taylor 1958
• Johnny Spampinato (NRBQ) 1959
• Greg Louganis 1960
• Eddie Jackson (Queensryche) 1961
• David Baynton-Power (James) 1961
• Nicholas Turturro 1962
• Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) 1964
• Dominik Hasek (NHL) 1965
• Edward Burns 1968
• Aeneas Williams (NFL) 1968
• Thomas Jane 1969
• Heather Graham 1970
• Sara Gilbert 1975
• Andrew Keegan 1979
• Jonny Lang 1981

 

Alessadra Ambrosio



Cuz why not?

Saturday, January 28, 2012

birr \bur\, noun:

1. A whirring sound.
2. Emphasis in statement, speech, etc.
3. A whirring sound.

verb:

1. To move with or make a whirring sound.

Birr is derived from the Icelandic word byrr meaning "favorable wind."
Trivia
When does a porcupine acquire a fully developed set of quills?

• Within days—sometimes hours—of birth. The quills are initially soft and bendable, but they harden quickly.

History

• 1871 - France surrendered in the Franco-Prussian War.
• 1878 - The first telephone switchboard was installed in New Haven, CT.
• 1915 - The Coast Guard was created by an act of the U.S. Congress to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.
• 1918 - The Bolsheviks occupied Helsinki, Finland.
• 1956 - Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national television on "The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show" on CBS.
• 1965 - The Who made their first appearance on the British TV rock show "Ready Steady Go!"
• 1965 - General Motors reported the biggest profit of any U.S. company in history.
• 1973 - CBS-TV debuted "Barnaby Jones."
• 1978 - At the request of a fan, Ted Nugent autographed a man's arm with a bowie knife.
• 1999 - Ford Motor Company announced the purchase of Sweden's Volvo AB for $6.45 billion.

Birthdays

• Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841
• Jose Marti 1853
• William Seward Burroughs 1857
• Artur Rubinstein 1889
• Jackson Pollock 1912
• Jim Bryan 1927
• Acker Bilk 1927
• Ronnie Scott 1927
• Acker (Bernard) Bilk 1929
• Susan Sontag 1933
• Nicholas Pryor 1935
• Alan Alda 1936
• Bill Phillips 1938
• John Beck 1943
• Susan Howard 1943
• Dick Taylor (The Pretty Things) 1943
• Brian Keenan 1944
• Marthe Keller 1945
• Barbi Benton 1950
• Dave Sharp (The Alarm) 1959
• Sam Phillips 1962
• Greg Cook (Ricochet) 1965
• Rakim 1968
• Sara McLachlan 1968
• DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill) 1968
• Katherine Morris 1969
• Joey Fatone Jr. ('N Sync) 1977
• Nick Carter (Backstreet Boys) 1980
• Elijah Wood 1981

MY LOVE FOR YOU IS TICKING CLOCK...

Berzerker!!!

Renault and Ford have joined forces

From my email:

Renault and Ford have joined forces to create the perfect small car for women.

Mixing the Renault 'Clio' and the Ford 'Taurus' they have designed the 'Clitaurus'. It comes in pink, and the average male car thief won't be able to find it - let alone turn it on - even if someone tells him where it is and how to do it.

Rumor has it though, that it leaks transmission fluid once a month, and can be a real bitch to start in the morning! Some have reported that on cold winter mornings, when you really need it, you can't get it to turn over.

New models are initially fun to own, but very costly to maintain, and horribly expensive to get rid of. Used models may initially appear to have curb appeal and a low price, but eventually have an increased appetite for fuel, and the curb weight typically increases with age. Manufacturers are baffled as to how the size of the trunk increases, but say that the paint may just make it LOOK bigger.

This model is not expected to reach collector status. Most owners find it is best to lease one, and replace it each year.

This must be Japanese

They just LOVE bukake, don't they?

From The Chive

Friday, January 27, 2012

conciliate \kuhn-SIL-ee-eyt\, verb:

1. To overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over.
2. To win or gain (goodwill, regard, or favor).
3. To make compatible; reconcile.
4. To become agreeable or reconciled.

Conciliate comes from the Latin word conciliāre meaning "to bring together." It is related to the words council and calendar.

Petri Douche

1. A place/location where a lot of douchebags are known to congregate.
2. A place that attracts and seemingly breeds chavs/douchebags/jackwagons/etc etc.

Oh hell no I'm not going to Wetherspoons, that place is a petri douche!
Or:
urgh why would you want to go to Las Vegas, that place is such a petri douche.
Trivia
In American diner slang of yore, what was a “Noah’s boy”?

• A slice of ham—a reference to Noah’s second son, Ham.

History

• 1880 - Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp.
• 1888 - The National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, DC.
• 1945 - Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
• 1951 - In the U.S., atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats.
• 1956 - Elvis Presley released "Heartbreak Hotel."
• 1967 - At Cape Kennedy, FL, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft.
• 1967 - More than 60 nations signed the Outer Space Treaty which banned the orbiting of nuclear weapons and placing weapons on celestial bodies or space stations.
• 1973 - The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.

Birthdays

• Dante (1/27/1991 - 7/4/2010): diamond back terrapin (turtle), nuclear physicist, noble prize winner, 3 time oscar winner, 6 pulitzer prizes, ninja, dragon slayer, likes krill

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756
• Lewis Carroll 1832
• Jerome Kern 1885
• Harry Ruby (Rubinstein) 1895
• Hyman Rickover 1900
• William Randolph Hearst Jr. 1908
• Milt Raskin 1916
• Skitch (Lyle) Henderson 1918
• David Seville (Chipmunks) 1919
• Donna Reed 1921
• Giovanni Verga 1922
• Bobby 'Blue' Bland 1930
• George Follmer 1934
• Troy Donahue 1936
• James Cromwell 1940
• Tommy Cromwell 1940
• Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) 1944 - Official Pink Floyd Store
• Nedra Talley (The Ronettes) 1947
• Milkail Baryshnikov 1948
• Carl Mannerheim 1951
• Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy) 1951
• Seth Justman (The J. Geils Band) 1951
• Cheryl White (The Whites) 1955
• Richard Young (The Kentucky Headhunters) 1955
• Mimi Rogers 1956
• Cris Collinsworth (NFL) 1959
• Gillian Gilbert (New Order) 1961
• Margo Timmons (Cowboy Junkies) 1961
• Bridget Fonda 1964
• Tracy Lawrence 1968
• Mike Patton (Faith No More) 1968
• Mark Owen 1972
• Mackenenzie Lynn Adkins 1998