Dashboard Confessional released another track from their upcoming album, “Crooked Shadows.” The albums is out on February, 9th. This one is called “Heart Beat Here.” The song’s been a part of Dashboard’s live show for a while, so it may sound familiar if you’ve seen them recently.
The band has already given us “We Fight.”
And “Belong” off the album.
Pennies are basically useless at this point . . . if you have one in your house, it almost counts as “clutter” more than it counts as “money.” But DAMN, we’ll still stop in our tracks if we see one.
According to a new survey, 56% of Americans say they’ll stop to pick up a penny if they see one on the street.
And it doesn’t even matter how much money you make. People who make over $80,000-a-year are just a tiny bit less likely to stop for a penny than people who make less than $40,000.
Now . . . SOME of us have higher standards.
11% of people say they’ll only stop for a nickel . . . 6% for a dime . . . 14% for a quarter . . . and 6% won’t stop to pick up ANY coin in the street.
6% won’t stop to pick up ANY coin, not even a quarter.
Millions of Americans keep their money a secret from their partner. One in five people in a live-in relationship admit to “financial infidelity,” keeping a private bank account or credit card, according to a study.
The survey found 31 percent of millennials, 24 percent of people ages 38 to 53 and 17 percent of baby boomers have at some point had an account they keep secret from a partner.
On the other side of the coin (pun intended) 31 percent of those in a relationship think that keeping a credit card, checking account or savings account secret from a partner is worse than cheating physically. More HERE
But what if they are buying you lots of cool stuff with the secret money, still a problem?
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Watch BIlly Corgan talks up the Pumpkins accoustic tour on 101WKQX in Feb 2016
For more than a year now, the rumors and rumblings of the original lineup of Chicago’s own Smashing Pumpkins reuniting have persisted, reaching another fan-fevered pitch last week when Billy Corgan posted this pic of James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin with in a recording studio. So what is the role of bassist D’Arcy Wretzky in this OG Pumpkins good time get-back-together?
Issuing a statement via text to the music blog Blast Echo, the elusive Wretzky says “My apologies to all of the Smashing Pumpkins fans out there who are excited about this oncoming reunion tour of the original members of the band. I know this is a huge disappointment for me, as well, but it’s not going to happen [with me] I only just found about yesterday that the band has decided to go with a different bass player.”
In the same article, Wretzky shared that the band is prepping for a summer tour in July with a different bassist featuring front-man Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha, and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. This assemblage of Pumpkins has performed together sporadically over the last few years including a show in Los Angeles where Iha made a surprise cameo. None of this 2018 tour info has been confirmed by Corgan or anyone else associated with the band at this time.
Alternative Nation has reported that Corgan, Iha, and Chamberlin have been working towards a ‘very special occasion’ a few weeks ago in Los Angeles.
Corgan has been active recently with a Rick Rubin produced solo album ‘Ogilala’ and producing the oldest pro wrestling promotion in the world, National Wrestling Alliance. To be clear, Corgan has kept the Smashing Pumpkins alive with other talented musicians, and Chamberlin has been involved here and there since the 2005 reactivation. All four original members of the Pumpkins have not played together since 1999.
Now we can all dream about those rumors of a My Chemical Romance reunion, but there is no serious signs just yet that it’s going to happen. The news we can confirm with MCR is they posted a new crop of never-before-seen outtakes on their Youtube in the last week. The videos are from some of their classic music videos plus the full 2008 concert movie The Black Parade Is Dead, which was recorded at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City in 2007 – the band’s final performance as The Black Parade.
You can see all of it below and pine for Gerard Way and company returning to the stage.
The nominees for the 2018 Razzie Awards are in, and it’s a crap show of the worst in film.
Transformers: The Last Night is the runaway favorite, earning nine nominations for its exemplary work in being a putrid dung heap of a blockbuster flick. It’ll compete for “Worst Picture” against Baywatch, the Emoji Movie, Fifty Shades Darker and The Mummy.
Fifty Shades Darker was also a multiple-nominee, earning eight nominations; everyone involved must be disciplined. Transformers and Fifty Shades will also go head-to-head in the “Worst Screen Combo” award:
“Any combination of two characters, two sex toys or two sexual positions” (Fifty Shades Darker)
“Any combination of two humans, two robots or two explosions” (Transformers: The Last Knight)
The 38th annual Razzies will be awarded on March 3.
Top movies that have been nominated for both Ocars and Razzies
What’s that corny phrase you see on the give-ya-feels posters, “Dance like no one is watching, SING like no one’s listening”? Well, now you can do one of those with a new device called Beltbox. It’s a small mask that is designed to allow the user to sing as loud as they want without anyone hearing most of it, it comes off like a whisper. It’s meant for actors and singers working toward their next audition or preparing for their next performance but maybe they don’t want to wake up their roommates. And yes, you can bring it into the shower.
It’s quite clever and still allows you to try to belt out all those notes you think you are hitting. I know some wanna-be karaoke kings and queens who could use this one.
The device is not brand new to the market (they are available online) but has started to pick up more popularity with popularity recently.
@Eagles @NBCSPhilly @NBCPhiladelphia @espn @6abc @CBSPhilly pic.twitter.com/yT9tynYQdC
— Anthony (@nms_789) January 22, 2018
This Philly Eagles fans felt the reality of his team into Super Bowl is something he literally ran into in this viral video. The Eagles enter the ‘BIG GAME’ of Pro Football on February 4th against the New England Patriots, after crushing the Minnesota Vikings last night for the NFC Championship. The celebrations were raucous in Philadelphia area, with local officials worried before the game over-zealous fans would climb light poles so they had to grease them with Crisco. Well I guess these same fans decided to just run into the poles instead.
It was 2001. Brandon Flowers was a bellman in his hometown of Las Vegas. Guitarist Dave Keuning wanted to leave his job at Banana Republic, so he posted in a weekly ad looking to start a band. Flowers liked what the ad had to say, according to this article from Rolling Stone:
“Flowers then hopped into his 1992 Geo Metro and headed over to Keuning’s house to get acquainted. They hit it off instantly and before Flowers left, Keuning handed him a cassette tape of five song ideas. The very first one caught his attention immediately and he fleshed it out with lyrics about a jealous guy convinced his girlfriend is cheating on him. “Now I’m falling asleep and she’s calling a cab,” he wrote. “While he’s having a smoke and she’s taking a drag/Now they’re going to bed and my stomach is sick.” Unable to come up with a second verse, he merely repeated the first one again after the chorus. He called it ‘Mr. Brightside.'”
Listen to the rough first version of the song below. — [eric]
I present to you an example of how fast information moves in modern times…and how a rumor can stoke the fire of a fan base that so clearly wants the news to be true.
Alt Press launched a story late last night that says, yes, it appears there is evidence that My Chemical Romance might be touring in 2018. NME had their own version of the story today — and it offers a cold bucket of water to the face of emo fans everywhere.
First, the Alt Press article: they provided a screen shot of the band’s website, which was updated to reflect that a tour announcement was coming soon (📷 : Alt Press)
One little problem: no such information appears on My Chemical Romance’s site, as of the publishing of this article. Check it out for yourself.
That’s where NME’s reporting comes in: they not only point out the missing proof on the website, but track it down to a 2016 post from a fan blog with a similar template to the band’s official site:
ALTPRESS THIS IS A BLOG POST MADE BY FANS 🙁 THIS IS NOT THE TOUR PAGE. I looked at other blogs bc I couldn’t find this page on the site. Also the preview says “official blog”. The other blogs have the same interface and URL. Check the Community section.
And then cry with me. pic.twitter.com/PAOupncjyg
— Pauline (@plnjcrz) January 21, 2018
This could very well be a false alarm. However, MCR has indeed been posting new videos to its YouTube page…this on the heels of posting the entire “The Black Parade Is Dead!” concert on their channel as well. The big question is…why now?
So, they might be getting back together this year. But, they also might not. The only definitive answer? Word from the band themselves, which we will surely post if anything ever comes of this. — [eric]
Some dads feel a little odd sometimes carrying baby-gear around with them when caring for their toddlers, so enter a new trend of baby caring items.
‘Tactical baby gear’ gives gear that has a military feel while you are also stocked up to wipe a baby’s butt and change that diaper. The story is covered in a new article from the Wall Street Journal entitled “Worried About Diaper-Bag Emasculation? We Have One in Camo” and got spoofed big time by Stephen Colbert and former Marine-turned-comedian Rob Riggle on the ‘Late Show’ this week.
The dynamic dudes that gave us 2004’s ‘Shaun of the Dead’ are prepping a new horror-comedy TV series titled ‘Truth Seekers’. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost went on to work on several comedy films like ‘Hot Fuzz’ but their mix of gorey undead action and madcap British humor in the zombie movie is still their definitive work, so it’s interesting to see them taking similar concepts to the small screen for a binge delivery.
Talking to Variety, Pegg said: “Each episode is going to be an adventure, a potential haunting or something. It’ll start as a very parochial idea, a very small business venture for these people, but it will expand as the series goes on to be something far more global. It’s a language everyone understands – the mystery of the unknown. Shaun Of The Dead was a very parochial story set in North London and somehow it managed to get this global reach because everyone understands the language of zombie movies.”
This Tide Pod Challenge thing is getting out of hand. This call-to-dumb-action meme trend has been springing up with the attention-craving teens biting in the laundry detergent pods in hopes of instant internet glory but it’s incredibly dangerous and poisonous. It’s gotten so bad, Proctor & Gamble who make Tide have launched a public safety campaign to make sure people don’t put the detergent in their mouths. The weird trend has sent some people to hospital, but it has sparked some fun edible alternatives.
A Brooklyn pizzeria named Vinnie’s has jumped in to save the day from “harmful if swallowed” to ‘delightful if swallowed’ with their ‘Pied Pod’. It’s a delish mini-calzone with dyed-cheese on the top giving it same color scheme as the Tide Pod, but it’s edible and tastes good!
VICE got to check out ‘Pied Pods’ in person and relayed their approval.
“Listen. We’re concerned about the youths. They’re eating laundry detergent pods. We needed to do something,” Vinnie’s Pizzeria in Brooklyn wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post on Thursday. “Our Pied Pods have [those] bright, alluring colors that youths crave BUT are 100 percent edible and 100 percent not poison.”
The ‘Pied Pods’ are not a permanent part of the menu at Vinnie’s, in response to this owner
Sean Berthiaume says “If people start coming in and asking for them, then I’ll put them on the menu.”
What should Tide PODs be used for? DOING LAUNDRY. Nothing else.
Eating a Tide POD is a BAD IDEA, and we asked our friend @robgronkowski to help explain. pic.twitter.com/0JnFdhnsWZ
— Tide (@tide) January 12, 2018
It’s quite the first world problem when you can’t keep track of your current binges on Netflix, are they going to be yanked off the streaming service before the month? Wait, is my favorite cartoon from my youth coming to the Net of Flix next month? Leave it to a useful internet tool to simplify the issue with Flixable.
It works pretty easy with clean interface that let’s you search what’s coming, what’s going, and when those changes will happen plus it gives you IMDB ratings for the titles which is independent of Netflix internal user rating system.
In other Netflix news, comedian Mo’Nique has claimed the popular video platform is sexist and racist, after reportedly low balling the comedy legend for a possible stand-up special. The award-winning comic claims to her followers that the she was offered $500,000 for a special when comparatively other popular comics like Amy Schumer, Chris Rock, and Dave Chapelle were offered millions more. She claims her tenure and merits in comedy should give her much more value, and she clarifies in the video interview with TMZ that she is not deriding the value of her fellow comedians, but simply standing up for herself and other black women.
When entertainment blog Vulture reached out to Netflix for a comment, they responded “Netflix does not comment on contract negotiations.”
On the same day they announced their HUGE Wrigley Field show on September 8th (ENTER TO WIN TICKETS HERE) and their new album ‘M A N I A’ out today, Fall Out Boy performed their new single ‘ Hold Me Tight or Don’t’ on ‘the Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ on CBS last night.
Here is their latest song of ‘M A N I A’ , ‘Church’. You can get the whole album on major streaming platforms.
Just exactly HOW did Matt Bellamy of Muse end up in a Beatles cover band? And just exactly HOW did he end up playing with Paul McCartney the other night? Insanity.
Matt playing Macca with Macca. He’s a happy dude. Wonder if they are going to take the Dr. Peppers Jaded Hearts Club Band on the road?
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The Foo Fighters are opening pop-up bars hotel in Australia. Sidney gets “Foo Fighters Hotel” January 24th to the 27th. Then they’re hitting Melbourne, Australia with “The Fooie Bar” from the 27th to the 30th. They also have their own beer for the special events! The brew will be called “Foo Town.” It’s a lager being provided by a brewery called Young Henrys. There band posted a rundown of everything they have planned.
AUSTRALIA… FANCY A PINT? ANNOUNCING #FOOFIGHTERSHOTEL #THEFOOIEBAR POP UP PUBS IN SYDNEY & MELBOURNE!
EXCL MERCH, PRIZES & LTD “FOO TOWN” BREW.
GET ALL THE INFO HERE: https://t.co/NlaqALvm1S pic.twitter.com/NAMTQCxSz7— Foo Fighters (@foofighters) January 18, 2018
Again, the crappy part, it’s happening on the other side of the world. But, this should give us hope to at least get our hands on a can of Foo brew when they come to Wrigley for two shows in July. You can score your way in to the show HERE.
“Super Troopers 2” hits theaters on 4/20. Thank God for crowdfunding.
