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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Mother Arrested For Tattooing Baby
That’s a common thing parents do to keep memories of their kids. But this story definitely caught my attention and had me asking myself, ‘Is this chick serious’? What kind of parent would even want to do this to a child. This person needs to be arrested!A women from Albany, New York – A local New York State resident, Franny Trokerns was arrested early this morning after being turned in by her babysitter. After the babysitter noticed the child was constantly screaming as if the baby was pain she took the baby’s clothes off to give her a bath and saw the baby had a REAL tattoo on the her right arm.
The babysitter was in disbelief and immediately called authorities. The mother works as a dancer at a local strip bar and apparently during a night of heavy drinking of shots she allowed her on-and-off-again boyfriend Derrek Honsteads (a tattoo artist) to tattoo her 9 month old baby for a little practice!
Another story has surfaced about a dad who decided to give his child a tattoo while he was drunk. Here is actual footage of a drunk dad tattooing a baby. What the hell is wrong with people?
Source: http://kissfm969.com/mother-arrested-for-tattooing-baby/
10 albums that reach legal drinking age in 2013
Congratulations, 1994 babies! You’ve finally made it to legal drinking age in Canada, which means one of two things: Either you’ll enjoy consuming alcohol responsibly—like, uh, we do—or you’ll wake up next Saturday morning in an anonymous stranger’s bathtub. Of course, you’re not alone on your journey to new-minted adulthood. Here, 10 albums that no longer need fake IDs.
Green Day—Dookie
Dookie, which cemented Green Day as a juvenile pop-punk force, is finally leaving its adolescence. Where, undoubtedly, it spent all its time secretly drinking outside all-ages pop-punk shows.
Notorious B.I.G.—Ready to Die
It’s hard to believe it’s been 19 years since Christopher Wallace changed the rap world with Ready to Die, one of the pillars of East Coast rap (and hip hop, period). We’re pouring out a 40 oz. of Private Stock in its honour.
Weezer—Weezer (The Blue Album)
This nerd-rock juggernaut garnishes its Shirley Temples with a splash of Japanese schoolgirl tears.
Bush X— Sixteen Stone
“We live in a wheel, where everyone steals,” sings Gavin Rossdale in “Glycerine,” Bush X’s smash 1994 single. “And when we rise, it’s like strawberry fields.” We get the sense that Sixteen Stone was hitting the bottle long before its 19th birthday.
Beastie Boys—Ill Communication
Ill Communication is finally old enough to purchase a Brass Monkey—a drink typically consisting of orange juice and malt liquor. The only question: Colt 45 or OE?
Soundgarden—Superunknown
Nine out of 10 heshers call Superunkown their grunge album of choice. Accordingly, it’s best accompanied with a round of Jagerbombs and bong rips, all consumed in the comfort of your mom’s basement.
Nirvana—Unplugged in New York
Unplugged In New York is still Nirvana’s unofficial best-of album. (Sorry, From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah.) Still, Kurt’s progeny probably shouldn’t mix booze with its antidepressants.
The Offspring—Smash
At the ripe old age of 19, Smash is nearly old enough to be Offspring guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman’s grandchild. So, raise a Rusty Nail to Noods and one of finest punk albums of the ’90s.
Blur—Parklife
Congratulations, Parklife. Your park-drinking life is a thing of the past. A Newcastle Brown Ale to you, chap.
Korn—Korn
Despite Jonathan Davis’ work as an EDM producer and Reginald “Fieldy” Avisu’s efforts as a reborn Christian, Korn’s self-titled debut is still the band’s finest effort. We’re mixing up a stiff Faygo-mouthwash-tini in its honour. Clinky clink!
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
40 Years Later: The Story Of KISS & Makeup
Forty years ago this week, on January 30, 1973, the band formerly known as Wicked Lester played its first gig under its new name. To three people. In a long-forgotten venue in Queens called the Popcorn Club (later renamed the Coventry). Why is this notable, you ask? Well, because that was the first official concert by a not-so-little band called KISS. And four decades, 100 million in album sales, multiple lineup changes, thousands of pieces of mass-produced merchandise, and countless gallons of facepaint later, KISS (or at least founding members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley) are still rocking and rolling all nite and partying ev-er-y day.
While the group's characters--Paul Stanley's Starchild, Peter Criss's Catman, Ace Frehley's Spaceman, and Gene Simmons's Demon--weren't yet fully formed when KISS took the stage that fateful night in Queens (their legendary platform-footed characters would make their true debut 10 days later, at the Daisy club in Amityville, New York), the KISS guys already knew that they wanted to put their own, much more macho spin on the early 1970s' prevailing glam-rock style.
"At the same time that we were forming in New York, there was a very big glitter scene, where boys were basically acting like girls and putting on makeu
p," Gene Simmons recalled during an interview with '90s fanzine Porkchops & Applesauce, conducted shortly before the original KISS lineup kissed and made up in 1996. "Y'know, all the skinny little guys, hairless boys. Well, we were more like football players; all of us were over 6 feet tall, and it just wasn't convincing! The very first pictures we took when the band first got together, we looked like drag queens. But we knew we wanted to get outlandish. We weren't a Grateful Dead kind of band that would get onstage and look worse than the roadie delivering our stuff. Which doesn't negate what the Dead and other bands were doing; it just wasn't us. Getting up onstage was almost a holy place for us, like church, so being onstage looking like a bum wasn't my idea of respect. That's where the makeup and dressing up came in. It would have obviously been a lot easier to get up onstage in jeans and T-shirts and go, 'Okay, here we are--we're the Ramones!' And that would have been just as valid, but it would not have been honest."
Considering how iconic the KISS characters have become--inspiring lucrative lines of action figures, lunchboxes, Halloween costumes, even Hello Kitty fashions and coffins--it's amazing that there was no real master plan, marketing team, or celebrity stylist behind the band members' character designs. "Nobody else was involved," Gene recalled to P&A. "I just remember being in a loft in downtown New York, and looking in the mirror and just starting to draw. It was very stream-of-consciousness. What you see is really what just happened."
Even back in those early club days, these creatures of the night were dreaming of stadiums filled with dry-ice smoke and screaming girls, and none of the band members--especially Gene, always the crafty entrepreneur of the group--have ever apologized for harboring such lofty, mass-market ambitions. "There is a credibility line that we completely ignored, and still do," said Gene, proudly. "That credibility line of 'We don't want to be big, we want to be small and play in small, smoky places, and we don't care if anybody like us.' Um, no! We never adhered to that point of view. It seems very self-destructive to me. Anything that prevents a band from becoming as mega as possible is complete idiocy to me. If you think highly enough about the stuff you're doing, you want as many people as possible to listen to it--it has always been about that for us."
However, 10 years after KISS's debut--on September 18, 1983--KISS did leave their larger-than-life, hotter-than-hell cartoon image behind, stripping off their warpaint at an infamous MTV press conference promoting their 11th studio album, Lick It Up. Although that album eventually went platinum, the unmasked men's fresh-scrubbed faces met with mixed reactions from diehard KISS Army recruits at the time. "Everybody hated it," recalled Gene. "People didn't want the paint to come off, but you know what? Tough. It had to happen. You want your heroes to stay the same forever, but then the consequence of that is you get bored with them. We had to take it off. It had run its course.
"New members had come into the band, and then new characters were happening [Vinnie Vincent, aka the Ankh Warrior, and Eric Carr, aka the Fox, had replaced Ace and Peter]. And it just wasn't convincing to us anymore. We had always adhered to the philosophy that if Peter and Ace ever left, then KISS, at least in that form, would cease to be. And I think, instinctively, we did that. Without killing ourselves, without taking the Cobain way out, we simply killed off that version of KISS and did a different version."
Of course, the original, fully facepainted KISS (Gene, Paul, Ace, and Peter) did get back together in 1996, for one of the most-hyped reunions in rock 'n' roll history. Their first joint appearance was a surprise cameo at the 38th Grammy Awards, which was bizarre not only because KISS had never even received a single Grammy nomination in their career, but because they were randomly (if awesomely) introduced by Tupac Shakur, for reasons that have never been satisfyingly explained.
But the makeup didn't stay on forever: Ace left KISS for good in 2002, and Peter followed in 2004. When Ace and Peter's replacements, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer, started sporting the famous Spaceman and Catman makeup onstage, many fans balked, but Gene has pointed out that the group, even in all their clawfoot-booted, cape-brandishing, fire-breathing, blood-spitting glory, can never totally recapture the thrill of their '70s heyday, with or without the warpaint.
"There was a shock value you can never regain again--in the same way that no matter how pretty you are now, you'll never be as cute as you were when you were a baby," he told P&A. "And that's just the cross you have to bear for being around so long. If you're just a shooting star, people say, 'Wow! Look at that explosion!' But if you've been around for a while, it's going to go up and down and up and down. And the idea is really just to enjoy the ride."
Blackberry 10 to be released tomorrow
BlackBerry 10 Launch Event Available Via Webcast on January 30th, 2013
WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - January 28, 2013) - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM)(TSX: RIM) will be broadcasting the BlackBerry® 10 launch event on January 30th, 2013, via webcast. The event will happen simultaneously in New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Dubai, Johannesburg, Jakarta and Delhi. This day will mark the official launch of its new platform - BlackBerry 10, as well as the unveiling of the first two BlackBerry 10 smartphones. Details on the smartphones and their availability will be announced at the event.
A live webcast will be held beginning at 10 am ET, which can be accessed viahttp://www1.rim.com/newsroom.html.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Detroit Red Wings Prospect Charged With Driving Drunk In Teletubby Costume
Riley Sheahan isn't just a super prospect for the Detroit Red Wings' organization -- he also faces a "super-drunk" charge after his arrest for drunken driving in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The 20-year-old Grand Rapids Griffins player was pulled over by police on Oct. 29 after driving down the wrong side of the road clad in a purple Teletubbies costume, a character also known to TV fans and small children of the '90s as "Tinky Winky."
According to a police report obtained by MLive.com, Sheahan also blew a .30 at the police station after his arrest, almost four times the legal limit, and almost twice the limit needed to add a "super-drunk" charge to his current charge of driving under the influence.
Michigan's "super-drunk" laws punish drivers charged for the first time with operating a vehicle under the influence who blow a .17 or higher -- that's more than twice the .08 limit deemed illegal for driving on Michigan roads.
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| Riley Sheahan was arrested in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Oct. 29 dressed in a purple Teletubby costume (Photo: Getty Images/Teletubbies.uk) |
Sheahan has also been charged with providing false information to authorities. The hockey player was carrying the Michigan driver's license of 23-year-old Brendan Smith, his Griffins teammate and fellow Detroit Red Wings prospect, when he was arrested in downtown Grand Rapids. Sheahan was born in St. Catherines, Ontario. As a Canadian citizen, Sheahan could possibly face deportation.
According to Fox Sports, Detroit Red Wings assistant general manager Jim Nill said Sheahan is ''getting help right now and will continue to get help.''
Sheahan was drafted #21 overall by the team in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft and played three years of collegiate hockey at the University of Notre Dame.
His last court date was scheduled for Dec. 13, 2012
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