Leslie and the LY's

I'm going to guess that unless you've heard me talk about her previously, you probably don't know who Leslie Hall is, or her band, Leslie and the LY's.

The band started at an open mic night in the little town of Ames, Iowa in 2004, and since then has gained an immense following on the interwebs.
While Leslie produces most of her songs using Apples Garage Band program, when she goes on tour she is accompanied by band mates to play various instruments.
I find the whole concept of Leslie and the Ly's strangely intriguing. The songs are totally unique and off the wall, but I think half of the charm is the quirky fashion of Leslie. She always performs wearing various incarnations of the gold spandex cat suit pictured above. If you visit her official site, you'll find she has a fascination with gem sweaters, and thusly has created a gem sweater mobile museum (which also doubles as her tour bus).
Below is an early music video for my favorite song (though not the studio version) from Leslie and the LY's, "Zombie Killer"
Enjoy!

Quote of the Day

I watched the Project Runway season premier tonight. Though you can't really see it from the picture above, this dress had a big wad of colorful fabric shooting out of the back of it.
Here is how Heidi Klum described it:
"Her model looked like she was pooing fabric."
Best. Quote. Ever.

Colour like.no.other

Hey. I don't know how many of you have seen the Sony Bravia ads below, but they are beautiful.

The first one with the paint was shot in Glascow, Scotland using eighteen and a half thousand gallons of environmentally friendly paint.

The second was shot in San Fransisco and used a quarter of a million colored rubber balls.

Both of them were made for the European market. I don't know why Sony never released them for the United States.

Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen a cool Bravia ad here. Eh, oh well. Enjoy the show.

Mediacom: Not Delivering On The Promise

I have been a customer of Mediacom for several years now, so I think I've earned the right to say that they suck monkey ass. They don't suck monkey ass in a customer-service kind of way, but in the product they offer. I've actually had nothing but good experiences with their customer service, but damn, are they sucking ass with their product.
I, as you know, am a High-Def junkie. When we were getting ready to move, I decided to do a little research on other options besides Mediacom. I looked up Dish Network and DirecTV, and was astonished at the leaps and bounds they had made in their HD programming over the last couple of years. Both offer 70'ish plus channels of high definition programming, with the promise of more on the way. This made my less-than-a-dozen HD channels on Mediacom look downright embarrassing. Not for me, for Mediacom. I gave them a call, and told them I was incredibly dis-satisfied with their HD package, and they gave me a 25% service discount plus free DVR service for a year. Yeah, that's great and all, but it doesn't increase my HD viewing experience. Their explanation was something to do with the bandwidth for delivering HD (yank yank) versus what satellite can do.
Anyway, when we moved to the townhouse, we spoke with some third party for-hire maintenance man who said that they really didn't like us having satellite, and it would only be tolerated if some equipment was already on the premises, which it didn't look like, so I gave good old Mediacom a call and scheduled to have it transferred to the new place.
When the Mediacom guy came to get everything set up at the townhouse, he commented on what a nice job someone did setting the place up for satellite in terms of wiring and even noted there was a DirecTV on the roof already. I was pretty shocked.
Anyway, to make a long story longer, I made an appointment to have a Mid-America Wireless satellite installer come out tomorrow and look at the wiring to see if the place is indeed satellite ready. If it is, I then have to choose between Dish Network and DirecTV. I know some of you have one or the other. Which one should I get?
Either way, Mediacom are shetbags and I can't wait to get rid of them.

Blogger/Blogspot is a Piece of Shit?

Okay. Now I'm pissed off. Not only is my whole blog displaying like clown vomit, and it has been all week, but I cant even add a page element. I've been trying to add a links list with links to my friends blogs and each time I get it all set up and hit save, it says that there was some kind of error. Blogspot, why are you a big piece of feces?

-Angry Kody