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Song Of The Day: John Mayer ‘Born and Raised.’ Mayer’s new album (‘Born and Raised’) in my opinion, isn’t his strongest effort. In fact, when he underwent surgery on his vocal chords, the doctors may have disposed of some of his songwriting skills. The highlights of the album are too few to constitute giving it a mediocre review. The first single ‘Shadow Days,’ is blatent rip off of George Harrison’s first solo effort, not to say it’s void of all charm, because the song is catchy and well played. ‘Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967,’ has the potential to be a great song if it weren’t for Mayer’s obvious questions that even a high school letter men-ed quarterback would get: (‘Cause when you’re done with this world. You know the next is up to you.’) The first time I heard that, I said out loud to no one, ‘No shit, Sherlock.’ The rest of the album is watered down Laurel Canyon wanna-be classic rock by a still contemporary artist. But then I heard the title track ‘Born and Raised,’ featuring Graham Nash and David Crosby (Mayer’s attempt at being Crosby, Mayer, and Nash) I got excited. This is the best song on the album; thanks in part to half of CSNY. But the arrangement is strange; the harmonies pop in and out in some strange places, especially at the end of the tune when their voices blend for only 4 beats. Had they gone for, I don’t know, 24 more beats, the song may have caused people to hit repeat a few time. It’s a nice quiet song that still gives me hope for the future of John Mayer, because if this album is Mayer’s Swan Song, then that bird is going drown.
I really don’t get any of the critics giving the CD and “A” or a “B”. It’s different, I’ll give you that. I’ll wait for his next album in supposedly one year. Three-hundred-and-sixty-five, three-hundred-and-sixty-four, three-hundred-and-sixty-three…
Tip: don’t watch horror movies if you have a creepy cat
FLAME WAR The sun’s corona as seen in the 171-Angstrom wavelength by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. (Photo: NASA via Rex Features / The Telegraph)
Our cover this week: some freakiness about the universe. Who doesn’t love a good space story!?
'Life over war': US veterans return medals at NATO summit
Dozens of anti-war veterans tossed their medals onto a Chicago street Sunday near where NATO began its two-day summit, calling them “representations of hate,” “lies” and “cheap tokens,” and with some making emotional pleas for forgiveness from the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. With many dressed in military fatigues, they had filed through the streets in formation, chanting “N-A-T-O, NATO has got to go,” and “No NATO, no war, we don’t work for you no more,” leading about 2,000 protesters on a 2.5-mile march. After “retiring” an American flag they carried through the streets and giving it to a woman whose soldier son committed suicide, they began hurtling their war service medals into the air — a rare form of protest that was last done on a large scale by 900 Vietnam veterans in 1971.
n asteroid called 2012 DA14 will pass close enough to Earth that it might hit a communications satellite. ”That’s very unlikely, but we can’t rule it out,” said Paul Chodas, a planetary astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
The space rock is estimated at around 45 meters wide but it will be passing very close to earth on a regular basis due to it’s orbit.
The asteroid could swing close enough to our planet to disrupt some orbiting satellites on February 15, 2013. Although the International Space Station, circling the planet in low-Earth orbit (about 1,200 miles/2,000 kilometers up, or closer), is in no danger, Chodas said.
(via fyeahuniverse)
Day in the life of Hollywood executive.
- Wake up.
- Look around room.
- Make movie based on first thing you see
- even if it’s a Hasbro game
- just because you can get $200 million and some studio time
- and some Macs for special effects
- from your coked-up studio friends
- who sank your battleship.
The stars at night never looked this good!
The International Earth and Sky Photo Contest announced its winners for the best in nightscape photography. Jia Hao, of China, won first place in the Beauty of the Night Sky category for his December 2011 capture of comet Lovejoy over Perth, Australia (center photo).
Sometimes you just got to air out
I don’t usually put who said the quote in the post, but I just had to because it came out of Howard’s mouth :)
Karma can kick your ass
