Queued Up #215

February 22, 2017 | Web Team

1. The Wrecks – Favorite Liar
2. American Authors – I’m Born To Run
3. Lo Moon – Loveless
4. Incubus – Nimble Bastard
5. Spoon – Hot Thoughts
6. All Time Low – Dirty Laundry
7. Marian Hill – Down
8. The Heydaze – Hurt Like Hell (Queued Up Artist Showcase 3/1)
9. Jimmy Eat World – Get Right (PIQNIQ 5/20)
10. Skip Marley – Lions
11. The Maine – Bad Behavior
12. LP – Lost On You
13. Sjowgren – Seventeen
14. The Head and the Heart – Rhythm & Blues
15. Depeche Mode – Where’s The Revolution

1. Kings Of Leon – Reverend
2. Future Islands – Ran
3. Linkin Park – Heavy
4. The Orwells – They Put A Body In The Bayou (Local)
5. Grouplove – Good Morning
6. Declan Mckenna – The Kids Don’t Wanna Come Home
7. Cage The Elephant – Cold Cold Cold
8. K.Flay – Black Wave (PIQNIQ 5/20)
9. Biffy Clyro – Howl
10. The Shins – Name For You
11. Day Wave – Something Here
12. Coin – I Don’t Wanna Dance
13. Judah and the Lion – Suit and Jacket
14. Minus The Bear – Last Kiss
15. Glass Animals – Pork Soda
16. Run The Jewels – Down feat. Joi

Hugh Jackman’s last ride as Wolverine ‘Logan’ is getting great reviews

February 22, 2017 | Kevin

Will the last Wolverine movie to feature Hugh Jackman playing the Marvel mutant deliver on the grave teases we have seen online? It looks like yes. Fans of the X-Men movies and comics have been salivating with the trailers and the R-rating news which promises the most violent and dark version of Weapon X that has ever been portrayed on the big screen. ‘Logan’ hits theaters on March 3rd. Don’t worry, no spoilers here! 

One of my favorite YouTube movie reviewers Christ Stuckman gave it a detailed and positive review after an early screening. Stuckman digs the Western vibe of this movie that plays up an old and broken Logan on his last hurrah with the always wonderful Patrick Stewart reprising the role of Professior X. He gives it an “A-“.

Beyond the Trailer’s Grace Randolph could not hold back dirty words in her review of ‘Logan’ saying this the closest depiction of Wolverine in a movie to his original form in the comic books. She notes that with the fighting, emotional depth, and bleakness of the story are “perfect on every level.” Randolph also notes that this movie has a lot of good comparisons to the acclaimed action classic ‘Terminator 2: Judgement Day’. Plus she reveals we get the purely emotive music of American treasure Johnny Cash music in the credits!  All the feels come out, with claws and tears?!

 

Taking Back Sundays – 2.19.17

February 22, 2017 | Web Team

1. Paramore – That’s What You Get
2. The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
3. Jimmy Eat World – Sweetness
4. My Chemical Romance – Teenagers
5. Gym Class Heroes – Cupid’s Chokehold
6. All Time Low – Something’s Gotta Give
7. Simple Plan – I’d Do Anything
8. Taking Back Sunday – You’re So Last Summer
9. New Found Glory – Head On Collision
10. Minus the Bear – Pachica Sunrise
11. Saosin – Voices
12. Refused – New Noise
13. Super Deluxe – Emo Trip
14. Brand New – Sic Transit Gloria… Glory Fades
15. Story Of The Year – Until The Day I Die

President of Iceland announces that he would ban pineapple as a pizza topping

February 22, 2017 | Nicci

The president of Iceland threw a political bombshell into one of the national conversation today when he took sides in one of the more contentious debates of our times: The “pineapple as a pizza topping” debate. Today Guðni visited a high school in the town of Akureyri in North Iceland. He was then asked about his opinion about pineapples as a pizza topping. Guðni answered that he was fundamentally opposed to putting pineapple on top of a pizza. Then he went one step further, announcing that he would pass a ban on pineapple as a pizza topping if he had the power to pass laws on his own. MORE

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Would You Want to Know When and How You’ll Die?

February 22, 2017 | Nicci

Would you want to know when and how you’ll die?  According to a new survey, only 1% of people would want the ability to find that out . . . and see the rest of their future too.  The majority of people don’t want ANY spoilers about their future. READ MORE

 

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This Lego collector’s house is a world of stackable plastic bricks

February 21, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(chicagoreader.com)

One factor is how anal you get with your sorting,” explains Alysa Kirkpatrick, a highly experienced Lego builder and ambassador for ChiLUG, the Chicago Area Lego Users Group. “If you’re constantly organizing your Lego, you’re probably pretty dedicated.” Which brings her to another determining factor: whether you pluralize the word “Lego.” If you’re a pro, you know “Legos” aren’t a thing—only Lego pieces, or bricks. (MORE HERE)

More of this in the world please!! Thank you.

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College Student grades ex-girlfriend’s apology letter, gives it a D-

February 21, 2017 | Kevin

Florida college student Nick Lutz had an apparent bad breakup with an ex-girlfriend where she felt compelled to write him an apology letter, so Lutz did the real 2017 thing by posting it to Twitter but he also took out the red pen and graded it. Yep, he did that and spoiler, she did not do well. Lutz gave her a 61 out of 100, earning a grade of D-. Maybe he’s grading on a curve compared to other relationships he has been in?

Savagery in the grandest degree.

The Twitter post has truly gone viral in astronomical way over the weekend with over 105,000 re-tweets along with media coverage from Cosmopolitan and numerous international news outlets. So even if Lutz’s ex is r sorry for whatever vague thing she did this now-over relationship,  she likely regrets writing this letter right it now.

This is a pretty savage move that we disect on the upcoming episode of Not Ready for Broadcast with Marconi and myself. We don’t have the same stance on whether or not this was the right thing to do. That episode will hit the webs later this week. Our debate about this, gets to be pretty heated and silly at the same time. Listen to our most current episode here. Subscribe on iTunes and share the chatty fun.

2.19.17 – Alt_Backspace

February 21, 2017 | Web Team

1. Blur – There\’s No Other Way
2. Concrete Blonde – Joey
3. Tripping Daisy – I Got A Girl
4. Meat Puppets – Backwater
5. The Smiths – Heaven Knows I\’m Miserable Now
6. Hole – Miss World
7. Face To Face – Disconnected
8. O.M.D. – If You Leave
9. Pearl Jam – Glorified G
10. Beastie Boys – Body Movin\’
11. Bush – Glycerine
12. The Replacements – I Will Dare
13. Peter Schilling – Major Tom (Coming Home)

1. Alice In Chains – No excuses
2. R.E.M. – Fall On Me
3. Letters To Cleo – Here And Now
4. Cracker – Get Off This
5. Peter Murphy – Cuts You Up
6. Radiohead – Just
7. Smashing Pumpkins – Never Let Me Down Again (cool cover)
8. Wall Of Voodoo – Mexican Radio
9. Weezer – El Scorcho
10. Lo Fidelity All Stars – Battle Flag
11. Presidents Of The USA – Peaches
12. INXS – This Time
13. The Police – So Lonely

Will You Be My Friend?

February 21, 2017 | Nicci

Making friends as a grown ass adult is hard! It’s awkward and makes you feel like you’re in High School again…

Here a some tips on how to do it – OR you can be weird like me and go around asking strangers to be your friend.

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Celebrate Kurt Cobain’s 50th birthday with the last Nirvana song recorded

February 20, 2017 | Kevin

On a day that would have been Kurt Coban’s 50th birthday, let’s remember the final song recorded by Nirvana “You Know Your’re Right”. The track was released in 2002 for a greatest hits collection by band after a lawsuit over the rights to iconic band’s music was settled between Kurt’s wife Courtney Love and the surviving members of the band Dave Grohl and Krist Noveselic.

The song which carries all of the biting elements that Cobain was known for with hissnarky lyrics, loud riffs that hang with you, and Grohl’s drum vibe that hits you in the chest. It was written in 1993 and through bootlegs online you can hear Nirvana play the song on their final Chicago show at the Aragon in October 1993. It was also a successful song, earning Nirvana their first song to top Billboard’s Mainstream Rock and Alternative charts. As a fan of the band, this track slides in perfectly with their best songs which is pretty amazing when you think it came out so long after their big run.

Rolling Stone unearthed this bootleg recording from Nirvana’s final concert in 1994 in Munich, Germany.

If you are looking for even more, Cobain and NIrvana nostalgia, seek out “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck”, a wonderfully crafted about Cobain’s life and battle with drugs and depression.

 

VIDEO: Odd but True Presidential Facts, NOT “Alternative Facts”

February 20, 2017 | Kevin

Did George Washington actually have wooden teeth? Was Abraham Lincoln a good fist fighter? Was any President ever a bachelor in office? What President got stuck in a bathtub in the White House? What President won 2 Grammy Awards? All these ridiculous Presidential facts are true, not “alternative facts” as we’ve been hearing about recently. The fine and lovable folks at Good Mythical Morning at laid out all these brain-buzzing trivial questions in this topical episode from 2013.

Here are some absolutely 100% FAKE PRESIDENTIAL FACTS I thought would be fun to type out…

  • Richard Nixon declared the Moon the 51st State in 1969, proclaiming Astronaut Neil Armstong the Moon’s first Governor.
  • Theodore Roosevelt knocked out a bear once with a single punch…That sounds real. Really crazy stores about Teddy here. 
  • Bill Clinton would play Madden on Super Nintendo and get really mad when he lost, throw down the controller, and proclaim the game “CHEATED!”
  • For brief period, it was mandated that all Presidents must grow mutton chops to be considered to be elected,

Here are even more REAL Presidential Facts including what POTUS is on the $1,000 Dollar Bill

VIDEO: Woman gets locked inside a store, Awkward

February 20, 2017 | Kevin

You are on your way home late at night, you go to the store to pick up some items, and before you can leave you find out you are locked inside the store. That happened to this woman Christine Hathaway, who got locked inside a pharmacy by the staff who left her locked inside before she could checkout. It sounds like a premise for one of those clever low-budget horror movies, right?

Don’t worry, she get out out of the store safely about an hour later.

The video story above mentions that the gang from ‘Saved By the Bell’ hid inside a store overnight to buy U2 tickets the next morning. Sleeping in a tent with Screech sounds like an extra penalty they can add to your prison sentence.

New Hotness: Dating Ads On Chicago’s Bus Shelters

February 20, 2017 | Eric

I’ve played fantasy football going on….twenty years now?  If you aren’t familiar with the culture, it may come as no surprise there is usually a cash prize for finishing first.  If you finish last, however,  your league typically shames you.  Say for instance…putting your face on the side of a bus shelter in Chicago:

(larger image link: Imgur)

That’s Ryan.  While he is the only two-time champion of his league, he finished at the bottom of the standings this year.  And after reading more about him (by way of  the Tribune), he and his longtime girlfriend/fiancee split a few months back.  So his friends decided to take out a “singles ad” in Wicker Park (Milwaukee, North, & Damen) — one of the hotbeds of single ladies here in the city.  Its been up for a few days and will run for a month.

His friends were kind enough to list his attributes:  respected educator (he’s a social studies teacher)

His friends were also kind enough to list his cons:  fantasy football loser…and that he “perspires ambitiously.”

With friends like those…who needs enemies?  Or Tinder? — [eric]

 

 

 

Can We Go To Mars Yet?

February 20, 2017 | Russell

SpaceX has another successful landing of their rocket that deployed supplies to the ISS. Can we just go to Mars yet? Check the cool video of the landing below!

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Well, That’s One Way To Beat Traffic

February 19, 2017 | Eric

We don’t deal with HOV lanes here in Chicago.  But Washington is one of the places that have put in express lanes for cars with more than one occupant.  And how one driver tried to skate ahead of traffic is either laughable.  Or commendable.  Or both.

As you can see, Washington State Troopers weren’t fooled.  CLEARLY THIS NICE YOUNG LADY IS WEARING A BLOND WIG.

He was ticketed for two offenses:  speeding and reckless safety device placement on an inanimate object. — [eric]

23 ways to tell a real vs. fake Chicagoan

February 17, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(timeout.com)

Chicago is a proud city, and its residents know how to spot one of their own. If you’re a real Chicagoan, you will find many of the items on the following list a familiar source of frustration. If you’re not a real Chicagoan but someday hope to be, don’t feel ashamed. There are ways to earn city status but fair warning, it won’t be easy. Consider this your introduction and please take notes. One day, you may even find yourself looking down on posers with the rest of us. (MORE HERE)

I thought it was just ask them “what is that big tall building over there?” and if they say “Willis Tower” they have to move to California.

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