Now THAT's A Jellyfish

Just surfing the web -- checking out Yahoo's Buzz List, a compilation of the most searched-for items on the web.

#1 was the recently deceased Blues legend Wilson Pickett.

However, #2 was about something called "Nomura's Jellyfish". Curious, I decided to click through to a few articles to see what would be so interesting about a jellyfish.

Now I understand. These whoppers of invertibrate mush and lots n' lots of stinging tentacles can grow upwards of 6 feet and weigh almost 440 pounds. GOOD LORD!!

Wanna see one? London Times link

Lessons Learned

Now you know why your mama told you never to put severed body parts in the food and blame someone else for it.

Link

Good Things About L.A. (an on-going series)

Ya know, L.A. sometimes gets a bad rap - fires, riots, gang violence, smog, shallow people, blah, blah, blah and, yes, it's true at times.

But if you look between the cracks (and the crackheads), you can find some wonderful things about L.A.

So here's an on-going list of things I like about this sprawling metropolis:

1. You need a special mixture for #1: Add a few days of rain, followed by at least one good day of strong winds and you get a rare, but incredible treat - a very sunny city with visibility for miles. When L.A. isn't hiding behind its veil of dirty air, the view is stunning. Especially during the Winter, when the local mountains are touched with a crest of snow.

2. Jonesy's Jukebox on Indie 103.1 - one of the last reasons to own a radio in L.A. Former Sex Pistol's guitar god Steve Jones hosts two hours of pretty much whatever he wants. Today for example, a majority of the show was him singing and playing along to 70s and 80s R & B and Rap. Genius.

3. Amoeba Music in Hollywood - I just made my most recent trek on Sunday for a hit of the best damn record store on Planet Earth. Period. Yes, there's a couple of 'em in the Bay Area but from what I've heard, ours is the biggest.

A Trick On The Eye

If you use MySpace (and by this point, who doesn't?), they've modified their landing page to include promos for some new band. You can click through and hear snippets, get concert dates, etc.

Well, right now there's a band on there called "Test Icicles".

Read that name carefully. Two words. Test and Icicles.

Now read the same name over at a normal reading speed. What word do you see? Is your brain merging the two words into one like mine? Or is it just me?

The First Duh Moment of 2006

Bjork Voted World's Most Eccentric Celebrity.

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Shockers!! I thought showing up to the Oscars in a goose gown was normal. I guess I need to return mine and get a refund...

Music Ho's Top 10 CDs for 2005

NOW that 2005 is officially over, I can come up with a Top 10 list.
(in no particular order)

	Artist	Title
	New Pornographers	Twin Cinema
	Spoon	Gimme Fiction
	Beck	Guero
	Paul McCartney	Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
	Rolling Stones	A Bigger Bang
	Kanye West	Late Registration
	Sufjan Stevens	Illinois
	Super Furry Animals	Love Kraft
	Franz Ferdinand	You Could Have It So Much Better
	Wolf Parade	Apologies to the Queen Mary

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!

Here's to 2006 being a year full of nothing but happiness, joy, and celebrations.

2005 was a tough, challenging, enlightening, and necessary year -- we needed to go through a lot of hard stuff in order to make 2006 something incredible!