Tuneage: Rob Blackledge

Another day, another newly discovered tune. Today I proudly present a dude named Rob Blackledge and his song “should’ve known better”. Its a nice, catchy, piano driven, up beat tune that is sure to invoke thoughts of Erich Hutchinson and Paolo Nutini. He’s got an interesting back  story, almost becoming a major league baseballer but instead going into music…yay! Anyway he seems pretty promising and he released his album about two months ago. I can’t find the song on youtube to be able to post on the blog, but click on the pic below and you can take a listen!!

Favorite Line: “a racing heart, a rising star, just about to make his mark
like nothing could go wrong”

Rob Blackledge picture from last.fm.com

If I Were a Kid: Cool Toy Car

New type of post I will be adding to the bloggy every once in a while on the topic of “if I were a kid”. Meaning, what I would think/do/get a temper tantrum about if I were 12 or younger. So to start this off I bring you a video of the Air Hog, possibly the coolest toy car ever. You can drive it on any flat surface, which means up walls, on ceilings, your flat girlfriend, whatever whatever. I would love to say that this works by magic, and is actually the explanation I prefer, so I won’t ruin the secret that there is actually a fan in the car that allows it to drive on your walls.

Anyway, if I were a kid, hell if I even had rando money to spend now, I would totally buy this. However I doubt it will beat out the coolest nerf RC car I had that shot darts at people.

Tuneage: Danger Radio

Danger Radio…..well this band came out with a new album in 2008 titled Used and Abused that I apparently had on my iTunes for a while, yet didn’t discover until randomly in August 2009. I’m not sure how this happened, but I’m grateful that it did because I was thoroughly surprised and have been able to enjoy their music since. Thus I bring to you the song that started it all for me, “Alive for the First Time”. Its catchy, different, and will generally pump you up. I like this band, they have seemingly been around since the mid 2000′s, yet I haven’t heard much of them before. So check it out!

Favorite Line: ” Burn’t by misconceptions, torn by lies and misbelief, holding strong as I seek intervention.”

check out the song by clicking here!

Tuneage: Erik Hassle

So this piece of tuneage comes from a guy who I guess did something he regrets. Luckily he manages to make a song about it that the ears will enjoy. Nothing too complex here, just a pretty good song that definitely has it’s moments. He could be going somewhere and I’m interested to see wherever that may be. Erik Hassle hails from the land of Sweden, a country which seems to be putting out a lot of solid artists lately. This song is called “Hurtful” and the video is below. I can’t get over how awkward he looks, but its alllll good.

Favorite Line: I can’t decide….its all kinda predictable, but it sounds great!

Also check out a remix of another one of his songs: Don’t Bring Flowers (Plug Remix)

Tuneage: Getting Up Early For The Generator

Found this group the other day and this one song of theirs seems to be haunting me. Haunting me in a good way of course because its stuck in my head and I can’t stop playing it. More important though this song makes me feel good, and thats what good music is all about right. The band is called Freelance Whales and the song is “Generator First Floor”. They did indeed make a “Generator Second Floor” song, but in my opinion it is not as good, although still great in its own right. 1st floor may take a bit to start up, and by all means it is a simple little ditty, but the rhythm and melodies are all there. This song is soothing and good for those who start their day way too early in the morn (5:30 AM for me), and need to get their generator running. Have a listen and feel it out.

Favorite line: “We get up early just to start cranking the generator”

Sell Vatican = End World Hunger

Funny things from Sarah Silverman. I think she’s on to something here….

Its October… time for March!

Important things are going down today amidst the regular foozball and sunday fundays around the nation. Specifically the National Equality March is going down today in Washington, DC.

I’ve thought about this a great deal and I wish I could be there, I think that this is very important. Sadly people try to twist the meaning and the importance of this march by labeling the people marching as gay activists and such (thanks fox news). Simply these are people standing up for what is right in the world like so many people have done before. Thousands of people from all different places and yes, sexual orientations are marching and its about time people stand up for things they believe are right and just. This is about making things better for future generations and garnering understanding in matters that many will go out of their way to distort and ignore. Anyway, I say rock on and its far past time to do away with all this ridiculousness. I’m looking forward to somebody allowing me the right to marry, even though its absurd that in this day and age I have to look forward to that….holla.

NEQ