My backyard this week...

I bet you thought your Thanksgiving sucked. I bet you had to sit through several marginal meals (depending on how many step-families and in-laws were involved), defend the merits of your liberal arts degree with Uncle Morty, and then be insulted when your mother insisted you take home all the left left-overs because, you know, "with your salary, who knows when you'll eat like this again...".

And I'm sure you feel martyred.

Well, did your Thanksgiving involve a broken hand of mysterious origins?

I didn't think so.

So ha. I win this year.

Well this is interesting...


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Upon further research, I find all of this a little sick and sad...

My question is, how did this journalist cut through the accent to get this interview? I've been watching interviews with Mad Bob for 15 years and I still can't understand him...

The Cure Not Deluded by Revival

ROME (Reuters) - Goth rockers The Cure are enjoying an unexpected revival, but frontman Robert Smith isn't letting it go to his head.

"It's very flattering," Smith told Reuters Television late on Thursday after performing at the MTV Europe Music Awards, his first MTV event in 15 years. "But I'm not stupid enough to think it's an Indian summer.

"We realize that this upsurge in media attention is almost entirely due to very good young bands picking up on The Cure," added Smith, who wore his trademark red lipstick and heavy eyeliner under an unruly mop of hair.

When asked whether his fans should expect a new album on the back of the renewed popularity, Smith said: "Even when we were at our commercial peak in the late 1980s and early 1990s it didn't ever influence what I did."

After more than a decade of virtual obscurity, The Cure has reappeared on the international music stage amid praise from new alternative bands.

On Thursday night The Cure played for some 200,000 fans who turned out for a concert also featuring pop star Anastacia in front of Rome's Colosseum before showing up at the MTV awards on the outskirts of town.

But Smith said The Cure always avoided taking the main road to success.

"The reasons why we do what we do have always been the same and they're not really aspirational. It's never been something I wanted in order to get somewhere."

Just in case you've forgotten...



Cornelius rules.

Song of the day: "Another View Point" - Cornelius.

PBS does indeed rock (thanks to McJason for this one).

Song of the day: "Hello Texas" by whoever that redneck is.

"We're tryin' to find her, but people say she's crazy."

-- OutKast member Antwan "Big Boi" Patton, on his desire to work with reclusive English singer Kate Bush. I'm not going to even speculate the how's or why's of this situation.

Modest Mouse on SNL tonight. Check your local listings kids. This should be good...(snicker snicker)

Song of the day: "Doin' the Cockroach" - Modest Mouse

VICTORY 2004: PRESIDENT'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH INVITING THE 55 MILLION AMERICA-HATERS WHO VOTED AGAINST GOD TO BEND OVER AND TAKE IT LIKE A PRISON BITCH

Song of the day: "Biggest Killer in American History" - Bad Religion