A Wisconsin man was sent to the slammer for an operating while intoxicated charge. This was not the first incident the man had been involved with that night. Earlier in the night, the same guy got into a fistfight over the TV show ‘How I Met Your Mother’.
On top of OWI and getting beaten to a pulp in the fistfight, the man was charged with two counts of bail jumping for violating terms that required him not to drink. A tough night to say the least.
When asked why the two men were fighting about the TV show, the man arrested didn’t give much information, all he said is that they both loved the show. I guess what he’s saying is that it was a crime of passion.
Few things are more exciting than taking home a new 55-inch TV. The new technology, the clearer picture, and the enhanced sound are all wonderful new experiences that a new TV should bring the viewer. Instead, this brand new TV was met with a hammer.
This TV was not only hit with a hammer, it was absolutely destroyed by this kid. It was a brutal attack done with what had to have been perfect execution. Of course, when asked why the kid did it, he simply responded with, “Sissy did it.”
An unidentified person has been plaguing Sin City with the boldest fashion choice of them all. For some reason, little red cowboy hats have been appearing on pigeons’ head. The only reasonable onlooker is that the “rodeo might be in town”.
Naturally, there are concerns over the animal’s safety. The pigeon advocacy group known as Lofty Hopes thought the hats were cute at first, but once they realized that something didn’t add up, they immediately became concern. Pigeons don’t just decide to wear cowboy hats!
We tip our caps to the cowboy hat bandit who has decided to take on this project. It’s truly bizarre, we don’t understand it, but we kind of like it. At the very least, it’s very cute.
Variety reported today on Netflix testing a new feature for the streaming service that devours all of our free time, and it could make it feel more like traditional channel surfing TV. It’s called ‘Watch Now’ , and it basically plays like your scrolling through ‘what’s on’ Netflix rather then spending the entire time it would take to pick out a show, one just pops up.
The video above is screen captured footage of what it looks like. It’s worth noting this is just a test, and it’s not going to prevent you from going through the titles to select your own movie or show on-demand.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants everyone to start the new year with a clean slate. So she’s put together a program that would erase drivers parking tickets from the past.
Here’s the thing, you only have FIVE DAYS to apply for this program!
Imagine you’re at work, it’s just a normal day. Your answering emails, making small talk by the water cooler, and avoiding your boss.
Then all of a sudden an ear-shattering screech a crash and the Star-Spangled Banner starts blaring all around you.
This is exactly what happened, well minus the star-spangled banner part, at a Virginia office complex when a Bald eagle decided to make a surprise visit.
Source: WAVY
Turns out this was a tax preparation office. So my assumption is that this is a secret agent eagle sent by the IRS looking for anything to audit the good people of America on.
Classic IRS.
The eagle quickly flew away, assumably to the IRS’s secret eagle nesting location, without any serious injuries.
I thought people in Portland were supposed to be all chill and weird. But these two ladies show that trash is just an American value.
The most interesting part of this fight is how unafraid the lady on the outside of the car is. I mean that’s a four-door SUV going full speed in reverse and she tried to kick it out of the way like it was a sock on the ground while she was doing laundry!
Foo Fighters are known for having very interactive experiences with fans at their shows. You may have seen the videos with Dave Grohl bringing kids on stage to play guitar or crowd-surfing wheelchair-bound party people. Well, now we can add the beer-chugging Santa to the list. This video comes from Consequence of Sound, where Grohl brought the rowdy shirtless Saint Nick to shotgun a beer.
The Foos are prepping a new album in 2020 with a couple of big festivals already booked including Boston Calling where they will co-headline with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Ryan Reynolds is a national treasure and must be protected at all costs. The sequel to the controversial Peloton commerical:
And the original, for reference:
And if I can make a suggestion, ‘Just Friends’ with Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart and Anna Faris might be my favorite Christmas Movie, 10/10 recommend. Happy holidays!
“House prices have been rising in all 50 states, but Northwest Indiana homeowners are benefiting from one of the biggest rises of home values in the nation.
The Region ranked seventh nationwide in house price appreciation over the past year, according to newly released federal data.
The Gary Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Lake, Porter, Newton and Jasper counties, has seen a 7.9% increase in home prices year-over-year and a 2.3% jump in the third quarter, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The state of Indiana ranks fifth nationally in house price appreciation with a 7.4% year-over-year increase, trailing only Idaho, Maine, Arizona, and Utah.”
And alternatively, “Nationally, the lowest appreciation in home prices nationwide in the third quarter was neighboring Illinois, where house prices increased by just 1.9% year-over-year.”
Christmas music can be extremely annoying with it’s slugging out of the PA system of every store your shopping in. The speakers of the relative you don’t like spending the holidays with. It can be overly sappy and corny to the point where it’s disingenuous. While others just warm your heart like a puppy snuggling in your lap, some are just straight weird songs about the holidays as we are in a very odd holiday season.
Alternative rock has taken it’s ironic swipe over the Christmas music catalog with cover songs and deranged demented tracks take their own snow-shoveled path. Here is my 25 choice cuts of alternative bands doing their own out-there spins on holiday music. Some are inventive covers of songs while others are their own unique deranged winter wonders.
The Walkmen – the Christmas party
A lot of holiday songs have a sense of wider reflections of life. This track with a swagger chorus does that with a spoken word intro. It’s the soundtrack for the person who drinks too much at your family party and says maybe too much.
The Killers – “Joel the Lump of Coal’
The band that you will celebrated on this list quite a bit collaborated on this Christmas weird one.
Fountans of Wayne – I want an alien for Christmas
The truth is out there.
RUN DMC – Christmas Is
The rap legends beat down to the point of the holidays. This is not their only appearance on this list.
The Used – Happy Christmas (War is Over)
The emo standouts delivered this unique take on Johnn Lennon’s peace anthem.
Reel Big Fish – Grandma got ran over by a reindeer
The ska punk kings dig into this humor classic with a chugga chugga riff on top.
First to Eleven “Feliz Navidad”
I want to wish you a merry xmas with a power pop redo here.
The Raveonettes – the Christmas Song
This soft dreamy number paints the picture of the holidays. Yeah, no odd twister here.
Deaht Cab for Cutie – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Taking Back Sunday – 12 Days of Christmas
This is just a delightful acoustic goof off. They riff between the traditional lyrics with their own observations and comedic barbs. Somehow they work child actor Donnie Bonaduce into the lyrics.
The Dandy Warhols – Little Drummer Boy
It utilizes the original lyrics but feels like it’s non-holiday song.
The Futureheads – Christmas was better in the 80’s
Yeah! It was better when this holiday was all about getting toys you wanted. It helps this song gets your head bobbing up and down.
WEEZER – CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION
River Cuomo cracks wise on everything from people spending too much on gifts and how Santa’s weight.
Blink-182 – Not Another Christmas Song
Being down in the dumps this time of year is hard, as it is anytime of year. Blink lay it all out there in the new track released in December 2019.
Tyler Joseph – o come emanuel
Twenty One Pilots singer Tyler Joseph performed this standard on a charity show in his hometown.
Thom Yorke – Silent Night / Reckoning
With his arty drum loop and his crystal clear crooning, the Radiohead frontman performed this standard on stage during a solo show last year. In his always odd innovation, Yorke uses the familiar track to merge into one of his own.
YEAH YEAH YEAHS – ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS
A ting a ding ding lite and sweet track for the season.
JULIAN CASABLANCA – I WISH IT WAS CHRISTMAS TODAY
The Strokes singer took that the long running lofi Saturday Night Live gag and turned it into a jump up and down jam.
SUM 41 & TENASCIOUS D – THINGS I WANT
A faux metal track that reels off a pretty demented wish list with Jack Black doing his signature air raid siren delivery,
THE WOMBATS – IS THIS CHRISTMAS?
A dancey chune that does not have a single jingle bell in an earshot, but a refelctive look at the divisions in society when the holidays are supposed to bring us together.
THE HIVE & CYNDI LAUPER – A CHRISTMAS DUET
A song about how you break up with someone at Christmas only to add to the misery by revealing you did something even worse.
PEARL JAM – SOMEDAY AT CHRISTMAS
PJ has been putting out holiday singles dating all the way back to ‘91 this Jackson 5 cover may be the best one.
28.BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS – WHITE CHRISTMAS
This is rare reggae spin of the most common Christmas standard feels very fun and irreverent.
FITZ & THE TANTRUMS – SANTA STOLE MY LADY
What if Saint Nick stole your girl ? Yeah, Fitz knows how to do a tune like that.
26 .EVERCLEAR – SANTA BABY
Art Alexakis and company cover the standard that demands Santa provide all materialistic needs.
The Zamboni’s ‘Christmas Hockey News’
Almost any track from the Tarquin Records All-Star Holiday Extravaganza album could have a place on this list (one more makes the cut by the way) but this organ driven comedy track talks about noteworthy NHL stars and what they are doing on the big holiday. The lyrics talk about Chicago Blackhawks great Jeremey Roenick getting a brand new bike, so you know it’s just fun.
Gatsby’s American Dream “Saint Nicolas”
This song from the ‘Taste of Christmas’ comp is a hard rocking goof about Santa somehow fighting the supernatural forces of evil and “seeking the purest of souls”. This not to be taken seriously but that’s the point.
Weezer “O Holy Night”
This religous standard has been belted by high-voiced choir boys well before your Grandpa’s hair was grey but Rivers Cuomo and company give it this distorted emo take that adds a little head-bobbing rock feel. It comes from the 2008 EP ‘Christmas with Weezer’.
Dropkick Murphy’s ‘The Seasons Upon Us’
The video for this crowd-chorus rowdy sing-a-long plays almost like an episode of ‘It’s Always Sunny in (Boston)” with the Murphy’s showing off their dysfunctional family. If this was a soundtrack for a ‘Shameless’ holiday special it would also work.
Brian Dewan “R2D2, We Wish You a Merry Christmas”
Yes, this is real. It’s a cover that is superior to the original song that appeared on the 1980 Star Wars theme cash-grab ‘Christmas in the Stars’ album. This cover features the same computer blips and bloops but Dewan’s nerdy soulfulness over a reserved electric organ hits a sincere tone of love for the rebel droid who held the plans that helped take down the Death Star.
The Killers (featuring Toni Halliday) “Great Big Sled”
Nevada’s sweetest sons the Killers have been putting our Christmas songs almost every year since 2006 for charity, and this songs almost plays a storytelling jam you might on one of their regular albums but it talks of the child-like wonder of Christmas.
Enter to win to see the Killers at the United Center on January 16th
My Chemical Romance ‘All I want for Christmas is You’
All we want for Christmas is an MCR reunion. Give this to me any day over the Mariah Carey version every year.
No Doubt ‘Oi to the World’
This cover of the Vandals is a bouncing gem from the early ‘Tragic Kingdom’ era of Orange County’s finest with a madcap video to boot. Do you think Gwen Stefani will finally respond to my Christmas Cards since I put her band on this list?
Local H “Have Yourself a Merry Christmas”
Scott Lucs gives a charming take on a classic that lends itself to his vocal sneer that we’ve come to expect from him.
The Vandals ‘GrandPa’s Last X-Mas’
Pay attention to the darkly funny lyrics and don’t let your Granddad hear it.
The Pogues feat. Kristy MacColl “Fairtytale in New York’
A love song about being in the drunk tank around the holiday.
Fall Out Boy “What’s This”
Willmete’s finest take this cut from Disney classic “A Nightmare Before Christmas” for a whirl and it gives all the chills of Jack Skeleton discovering that special feeling.
LCD Soundsystem ‘Christmas will break your heart’
When this band regarded as one of the best alt acts in the last 10 years started their comeback in 2015, they got it going with this heart-wrenching breakup with the idea of Christmas itself.
Bad Religion “O Come All Ye Faithful”
This pogo-jumping take on the religious hymn will most likely be heard at any Christmas midnight mass, and that’s ok but it’s a refreshing interpretation that truly soars from these California punk legends.
Low – “Just Like Christmas”
You can almost hear the snow on this number from Duluth alt band Low who featured it on their 1999 holiday EP simply titled ‘Christmas’.
They Might Be Giants ‘Santa’s Beard’
The most loveable weirdos to break out of the 80’s, TMBG were known for venturing into the novelty world of music with some of their album being made for children and while other tracks got animated send-ups on ‘Tiny Toon Adventures’. So of course, they had a killer song about a man being jealous of his wife flirting with Santa.
Jimmy Eat World ‘Last Christmas’ (WHAM cover)
This candy pop tune with George Michael talking of a love lost, gets a bit of accoustic emo sickness from one of best alt bands of the 2000’s.
08.The Killers ‘ Joseph, Better You than Me’
Yes, the Killers make great alt xmas songs and this won’t be the last on the list. This collaboration with rock icon Elton John and Pet Shop Boy’s Neil Tennant is a soulful tribute to Joseph, the earthly fraternal figure who lead Jesus through life. Poor Joseph never got his due in song, but this one really plays out like a Billy Joel broadway smash.
The Flaming LIps ‘Christmas at the Zoo’
Imagine if the animals at the Zoo had theire own wild party. Yeah, well Wayne Coyne and company made their delightful idea into a joyful song that is very easy to sing-a-long with.
RUN-DMC ‘Christmas in Hollis’
A song the 80’s rap legends were initially hesitant to record for the charity compilation ‘A Very Special Christmas’ has grown into one of the catchiest holiday bangers of all time. Yeah, how many seasonal songs can you call a ‘banger’? The cornball story of the song is just as good sugary sweet as one of those cookies with green and red sprinkles on it.
Sufjan Stevens ‘Come On! Let’s Boogey the Elf Dance’
Stevens has earned his following for his experimental commitment to big concepts with religious overtones but this playful song is a just more fun then running down the steps as a kid on Christmas morning.
The Ramones ‘Merry Christmas ( I Don’t Wanna Fight Tonight)
The coolest punk band ever demands you hug it out this year.
The Waitresses ‘Christmas Wrapping’
The most popular hit from this new wave outfit talks about in the middle of the shopping rush running into the potential boyfriend. It’s got this early mixture of funk, rap, and disco that ages well.
The Kinks ‘Father Christmas’
This predecessor to pop punk cut sees the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers put a Robin Hood narrative to help us remember the less fortunate during the holidays in which the tough street kids demand that Father Christmas give them money and save the toys “for the little rich boys”. You know the song is good when you lose count of how many bands have covered it.
The Killers “Don’t Shoot me Santa”
This dark twisted tale of a murderous avenger in Santa coming for a misbehaving Brandon Flowers plays out over a shimmy and shake musical ride. It’s certainly not a track to sing-a-long to with Grandma but it’s so weird but also reflects on the bleakness of holidays for those out there not doing well while also laughing at the ‘be good, get good stuff’ concept that we are told as kids. Just remember it’s a dark yet light hearted on the forced cherriness of the seasons, and not to be taken seriously.
Also this is Brandon’s mustache at the peak of odd weirdness.
Kentucky Fried Chicken is upping their game yet again, this time with a yuletide log that smells like their famous “11 Herbs & Spices” fried chicken. The collaboration with Enviro-log is back for the holiday season and it will take the edge off those that have to deal with annoying family.
This is truly a blessed invention, and although their chicken may be inferior to Popeye’s or Harold’s, the yuletide log is may have helped KFC regain brand supremacy.
Fort Pierce, Florida is going to have a merrier Christmas thanks to Khalil Mack. The Bears defender treated his hometown Walmart by paying off 300 layaways last week.
Earlier this year, Mack and the Khalil Mack Foundation donated 100 pairs of cleats to the Fort Pierce Westwood high school football team. Mack is not only one of the best defenders in the game, but one of the best people as well.
The rapper Juice Wrld passed away on Sunday, December 8, after suffering a seizure at Chicago’s Midway airport. The Chicago-born rapper had just turned 21 and was arriving from California when he suffered what is being described as a “medical emergency”.
We hate to see anyone die at such a young age, and we especially hate to see them die at Midway of all places.
The ugly Christmas sweater trend has taken a dark turn. This past week, Walmart had to apologize for its adults-only Christmas sweater that appeared on the Canadian website. The sweater in question showed Santa sitting on a couch, ready to nail some lines of cocaine. The description reads, “We all know how snow works. It’s white, powdery and the best snow comes straight from South America. That’s bad news for jolly old St. Nick, who lives far away in the North Pole. That’s why Santa really likes to savor the moment when he gets his hands on some quality, grade A, Colombian snow.”
Alright, maybe as a society we apologize too much, but this one is pretty bad. We had assumed that it just by happenstance that the sweater looked like Santa was doing cocaine, but no, the description makes it painfully clear that Santa IS doing cocaine.
Walmart pulled the sweater from the website and let it be known that this sweater does not represent their values. We’re not sure if we’d be more or less inclined to shop at Walmart if these were their values.
There’s still time to discover new music before the end of the year! I got you covered. As always, let me know what you think by using #QDUP on social media.
Ebaum’s World shared this monstrosity of a mash-up of the you-can-‘t-avoid-it-in-December song ‘All I Want For Christmas is You’ by Mariah Carey frankensteined into Radiohead’s emotive classic ‘Creep’. Thom Yorke’s heart-wrenching lyrics of longing for someone who rejects him are planted on top of the 60’s pop send up vibes. I doubt we could get Yorke in a Santa suit.
If you want a legitimate holiday depression anthem, well let your ears devour this gem from LCD Soundsystem.
One of the funnier shows of the last 20 years is coming back as Reno 911 is set for a reboot on a new streaming service called Quibi. The series originally ran on Comedy Central from 2003 to 2009, and got a movie. Spoofing dysfunctional Nevada police officers in a faux documentary style with a lot of ridiculous criminals and wild gags.
