There’s not much to it.
It’s a duck… that’s drumming with his little feet!
GIVE HIM A RECORD DEAL!!!!!
Ok, I hope this cutie made your day a little bit better.
Listen to NEW Pearl Jam: Dance of the Clairvoyants
You guys! The wait is finally over! The greatest band in the history of ever is back with new music! That’s right, Pearl Jam has finally dropped a new song off their highly anticipated new album “Gigaton” and you can check it out below. We are officially a long way from Jeremy at this point. I think it sounds like Arcade Fire/Talking Heads and am super curious about what you think, so be sure to leave your review in the comments. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to listen to this 10 billion times. Be excellent to each other!
Pearl Jam is back. New single “Dance of the Clairvoyants” available everywhere now: https://t.co/iLx3gYdkrc
“‘Dance’ was a perfect storm of experimentation and real collaboration… We’ve opened some new doors creatively and that’s exciting.” – Jeff Ament pic.twitter.com/LrFKihqDda
— Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) January 22, 2020
Great way to meet the parents
Who said chivalry was dead!
This nice young man brought his drunk, assumed to be girlfriend, home to get to bed.
Sounds like a great story right? Well, it is, except he hadn’t met her parents yet…
“Hey, uh… Heres your daughter. I really like her!”
Absolute nightmare.
Please say a prayer for our young friend here.
She left her windows down during a blizzard!
We all make mistakes, but this is pretty stupid.
guys, MOM
left her WINDOW DOWN —
in the BLIZZARD pic.twitter.com/9PJYh1g72p— Kenny SC Sharpe (@kscSharpe) January 18, 2020
I pray to all that is good in this world that insurance will pay for this.
Also, why would her windows be down in the winter in the first place?
Too many questions and not enough answers.
I could have killed my girlfriend
I’m in the middle of a nap. My phone rings and it’s my girlfriend. I wake up and look at the phone. I hesitate and think to myself, should I answer this? Or should I just pretend I didn’t see it and go back to sleep? Against my better judgment, I answered the phone and my girlfriend Steph was in an extreme panic! She was speaking very frantically and she was hard to understand. I had no idea what the heck was going on but thankfully I answered the phone because there seems to be an emergency happening.
Once She calmed her nerves down a little bit and I woke up a little bit more I was able to find out what was going on. She starts by telling me, “this may be the dumbest thing in the world”. At that moment I was hit with relief. It obviously wasn’t a real issue, and I won’t have to put my pants on. Thank goodness.
She asked me, “if I got shocked by my cars static electricity and then the gas pump shocked me, is it safe to turn on my car?” Haha! What?!? She then said “google says it’s dangerous and I shouldn’t start my car”. Again, haha! I died. I’ve never heard that before. I obviously told her to start her car and that she will be fine. After a few moments of convincing her google is wrong she finally started up her car and everything was fine. Duh.
But what if everything wasn’t fine and her car blew up?
BOOM!
Did I murder her?
Would it be my fault? I can’t do prison time guys, I’m a lover not a fighter. Either way, what a weird way to be woken up.
Have you ever heard of anything like this before? Is she crazy? Am I crazy?
Thanks for reading. O’Doyle rules.
– Justin
Get excited for new Pearl Jam music
Pearl Jam are preparing to drop a new record on March 27th, called ‘Gigaton’. Here is the tracklist for the album:
01. Who Ever Said
02. Superblood Wolfmoon
03. Dance of the Clairvoyants
04. Quick Escape
05. Alright
06. Seven O’Clock
07. Never Destination
08. Take the Long Way
09. Buckle Up
10. Come Then Goes
11. Retrograde
12. River Cross
Listen to 101WKQX this week as we are expecting to get a new track from PJ on air very soon.
As for when you can see Eddie and the boys in Chicago live in 2020, that’s up in the air. They have announced extensive dates across the United States, Europe, and beyond but nothing in our area just yet.
Gigaton. Out March 27th. Which track are you most excited to hear?
More info and pre-order: https://t.co/uDIWRrKT1y pic.twitter.com/il6Zvb22bh
— Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) January 20, 2020
Bob Vollmer is retiring after almost 60 years
If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. That must be the case for Bob Vollmer who is retiring from Indiana Department of Natural Resources after almost 60 years… he is an incredible 102 years old!
According to CNN, “he plans to do a lot of reading and farming. He also wants to travel to some of the South Pacific Islands where he served during the war. His mom lived to be 108.
“Evidently, I’ve got some pretty good genes, doctors tell me that’s one reason I’m still going. I got good lungs.”
Vollmer plans to retire on February 6, which is already special to him because it’s also the day he got married.”
Congratulations Bob!!
<3 Lauren
(screenshot of Bob Vollmer from WTHR’s video.)
This parent tackled his sons wrestling opponent!
We all know those parents who want their kids to go pro and take sports way too seriously.
Well, this dad takes it to a whole new level.
I’m sure this kid’s home life isn’t stressful at all.
Maybe this was just a dad reflex. So when he saw his little baby boy being pinned nature just took over and he had to protect!
Dumb, stupid, idiot face of the day: This good Samaritan
This dumb, stupid, idiot face of the day makes me genuinely mad.
A man in Michigan bought a couch from a thrift store and when he got it home he found a little surprise inside the cushions.
OVER $43,000!
And he gave it BACK!
WHAT ARE YOU DOING DUDE.
Does he know how much rent that could cover? How many beers that can buy!
Forget this guy! He’s a big ol’ dumb dumb.
Congrats on being today’s dumb, stupid, idiot face Michigan man… you dummy.
These cousins are having a baby, Utah is not happy about it
They’ve known each other their whole lives.
They were best friends, they fell in love, and… they’re first cousins.
Meet Angela and Michael. They’re the kissing cousins.
And they’re PREGNANT!
Ew! Also, this proves that the two have had sex, which is illegal in their home state of Utah.
The cousin couple is facing $10,000 in fines and up to 5 years in prison.
Don’t worry though, this is being turned into a documentary so we’ll keep you updated as the story progresses.
Hot-dogging Rollerblader gets slammed by car door
We have seen people do reckless things to show off on camera and seek out viral fame, well this video from Youtuber Sonny is just that except the awkward ending is hilarious. This is not your usual wipeout clip where someone is really hurt, but it’s more how this inline skating show-off gets knocked down awkward right in the middle of this surprised women’s smoke break.
Hoverboarding dentist filmed himself extracting a tooth. Now, he’s in big legal trouble.
An Alaskan dentist has been found guilty on dozens of charges, one of which was filming himself performing dental work on a hoverboard — and sending it to friends.
The other charges are related to Medicare fraud because, SURPRISE — the guy who thought he could get away with filming an unconscious, non-consenting patient is also the same kind of guy who would charge patients for unnecessary procedures and then hide the money from his partners, according to this press release from the State of Alaska. In all, he reportedly pocketed a quarter million dollars.
Now, I don’t even know if this is LEGAL, but he may have been better off PROMOTING himself in the open as the Hoverboarding Dentist. He’d probably be rich and NOT facing sentencing in April of 2020, which may include restitution and jail time. — [eric]
[📷: Elias Sch. from Pixabay]
My Chemical Romance announce UK stadium show with creepy video
My Chemical Romance’s reunion tour continues to roll out with online teasers and vague theatrical content to build to more shows following last month’s epic record-breaking show at the Shrine Expo in Los Angeles. The band’s fans lost it this weekend when a show announcement video featuring skeleton faced hooded figures gathered in a forest for a ceremony and the reveal the band will play the 30,000 capacity Stadium MK in Milton Keyes, England on June 20th.This show announcement was such a big deal it’s trending at number 10 on YouTube.
MCR is already committed to several big festival dates in Japan, New Zealand, Australia,and more. Obviously the speculation is running rampant as to where the Black Parade will be marching in Chicago this coming festival season but when we know we will pass it on here.
These five things from the 1990’s are TOTALLY still available today.
It’s always fun to listen to the retro alternative from the 1990s on Alt_Backspace every weekend….but how committed are you to keeping this fine decade alive? Would you consider spending your hard earned time and/or cash on things that have survived the test of time (sorta)? From the looks of it, the people behind these products are hoping you still might. Here are five things from the nineties that are still hanging around today:
Get beeped with your very own pager.
A company that has been in business since 1988 is still doing their thing — one-way numeric and alpha-numeric pagers. In fact, you can get a free pager just for signing up for prepaid service. And according to the coverage map, the city of Chicago is COVERED. All you need now is to find a pay phone.
Load up the Hampster Dance on your computer.
Granted, the original GeoCities website it once resided at is LONNNG gone, as they shut down more than a decade ago. But the original animation and something close to the original song is still live. And now they have merch.
Add a “Bop It!” to your toy collection.
Bop it! Twist it! Pull it! Or in this case, buy it! — the mashup between the games Simon and Whack-A-Mole, that is. A modern looking version is for sale right now through Amazon (free one-day shipping with Prime!).
Give your hip adductors a squeeze with the Thighmaster.
The TV commercials brought Suzanne Somers into your home, doing things with her legs that were….athletic. The Thighmaster is still a part of her website (now available in the “Gold” model!)
Go watch the Hanson brothers in concert.
At the height of “MMMBop,” the governor of Oklahoma declared May 6th “Hanson Day” in the city of Tulsa. That tradition lives on….in fact, it is listed as a three-day event this year. Tickets are available through the band’s website.
1.19.20 Alt_Backspace
Hour 1
- Depeche Mode – Blasphemous Rumors
- The Smithereens – Only A Memory
- Siouxsie And The Banshees – Peek-A-Boo
- Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees
- The Pursuit Of Happiness – I’m An Adult Now
- Garbage – Stupid Girl
- Morrissey – The Last Of The Famous International Playboys
- The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
- Sponge – Molly
- The Wonder Stuff – Caught In My Shadow
- Beck – Devil’s Haircut
- Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
- Soul Asylum – Somebody To Shove
Hour 2
- Nine Inch Nails – Head Like A Hole
- Billy Idol – Rebel Yell
- Urge Overkill – Sister Havana
- The Offspring – Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
- Love And Rockets – So Alive
- EMF – Unbelievable
- Belly – Feed The Tree
- New Order – Regret
- Filter – Take A Picture
- The Jesus And Mary Chain – Head On
- Pearl Jam – Corduroy
- Violent Femmes – Gone Daddy Gone
- Soul Coughing – Circles
Something ridiculous happened at Disneyland
The legend told in the Disney animated classic ‘The Sword in the Stone’ claims that only the most worthy shall pull the sword from the stone. Many visitors to California’s Disneyland have done attempted to do what King Arthur did in that film, but an anonymous source to WDNWT clarified the whole story, saying it was his beefcake buddy to removed the sword which has been next to associated ride since 1983.
Brick-a-vision covered it all here:
Trent Reznor got other great news with NIN’s Rock Hall induction
As if it was not cool enough that he found out that his band NIne Inch Nails would be inducted in Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the same day Trent Reznor’s wife Mariqueen gave birth to the couple’s fifth child together.
We got the sneak preview a couple of days ago, after being sworn to secrecy,” Reznor told Zane Lowe in an interview with Beats 1. “So I came home from the hospital, having a baby, to have a letter I had to open at midnight, that was that news. It was the icing on the cake of a pretty intense day.”
NIN will release new music in 2020 besides accepting the big Hall of Fame honors this spring in Cleveland, Ohio.
Sum 41 show in Paris cancelled after device detonation.
Sum 41 was forced to cancel a show tonight in Paris after a device exploded outside the venue doors.
There are no injuries reported by Alternative Press, who says the explosive device went off outside the main entrance of Les Etoiles while the band was doing a load-in for their second of two shows in the city. Fans are reporting the device to be “firecrackers,” but there was no official confirmation of that.
It is unknown if the incident is related to the protests happening in France over government plans to overhaul the pension system, protests that blocked one of the city’s most famous landmarks on Friday — The Lourve museum. — [eric]
— Sum 41 (@Sum41) January 18, 2020
Green Day fights social media in ‘Oh Yeah’ video
Green Day dropped a new song off their upcoming album ‘Father of All M****er ****ers’ called ‘Oh Yeah’ which utilizes a Joan Jett sample. It follows the title track and ‘Ready Aim Fire’.The video for the track is a satire of our obsessed-with-our-social-media times which unfortunately involves one of the members of the band getting hit by a car.
The sample from the classic hit “Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)”. “Since one of the writers on that song is a total asshole, we decided to donate our royalties from ‘Oh Yeah!’ to Intl. Justice Mission and RAINN,” the band said in a statement and this references convicted pedophile Gary Glitter.
Help us raise money for rare cancers!
Full disclosure: I haven’t ridden a bike in a WHIIIIILLLLEEEE. But I am going to do it for my friend Blair (pictured below) and other survivors/fighters of rare cancers.
Cycle For Survival is 2/8 in downtown Chicago and we are on team ACCelerate Chicago! You can donate and/or join our team HERE.
Thank you, and ^#%$ CANCER!
(Blair, bf Ian and mama Tiffany)
<3 Lauren
