Guardian Unlimited reports:

Rap artists are accustomed to name-checking prestige car, clothing and jewellery brands in their lyrics. But if McDonald's has its way Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z and 50 Cent may soon be giving it up for the humble beefburger.

The fast-food giant is reported to be launching a campaign that will offer financial incentives to rap artists who mention its Big Mac burger in their lyrics. McDonald's will not pay an upfront fee, but intends to pay the artist between $1 and $5 (53p-£2.68) each time a track is played on the radio. It hopes to have several such songs on the airwaves by the summer.

from the prp:

The forthcoming Melvins tribute album, "We Reach: The Music Of The Melvins", has been pushed back to a summer 2005 release date via Fractured Transmitter Record Co.. The album is expected to feature covers done by the Dillinger Escape Plan, Meshuggah, Mastodon, Strapping Young Lad, Keelhaul, House Of Low Culture, Meatjack, Lickgoldensky, Absentee (ex-Mushroomhead frontman Jason Mann), Dog Fashion Disco, Disengage and Abdullah, plus a cover performed by Jess Margera of CKY, and another done by Matt Pike of High On Fire.

Oh Dog!

ps. For the love of eric, please go to Daxpierson.com and help out in anyway you can (even if it is just sending him a card at the hospital)

what a wild four days. i didn't really do anything, but there was never a dull moment. a lot of people to see in a short span of time. i didn't even get all of them.

i spent 7 hours (total) in a car with this fuckass

it started out on friday, picking sledg up at the greyhound station. greyhound stations all smell the same. dirty feet mixed with runts candy. not pleasant. i showed up early, so i sat at the station, waiting. i kept catching a silver-haired old man with a tweed suit and an eye patch sneaking peeks at me. kind of strange. i imagined him as the god of frost. he had a cane and some really gaudy, ornate rings. he really looked like he possesed powers.

my two favourite fucktards.

anyway, een and i make the trek back to valley, listening to the jerky boys the whole way, laughing our asses off. it was cold, dark and dreary, but we had a damn good time, if een was a girl, i'd hecka want to date him. is that weird?

this is like the time i caught zac masturbaiting, except this time, he's workin' his biceps.

the next few days were filled with beer, conversation and an overwhelming sense of merriment. the weather was fucking miserable, but nothing a good heater and a sturdy winter jacket couldn't remedy.

cute and funny -- what a combo.

i had the pleasure of meeting the infamous 'heather' -- we hit it off fairly well. she's definitely a special girl, that's about all i can say.

I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE JERYL ON THE HORNS.

so, this morning, i wake up at eight, pick up bean around nine, go visit my padre, get a bite to eat and hit the road. we had to get him to the greyhound station in corvallis by 1:40. i thought we had budgeted more than enough time to make the trek, but we cut it damn short. we pulled into corvallis around 1:35. luckily, een was able to get a bus ticket. i sure as hell didn't want to spend another 24 hours with that fuckface. kidding.

sweet jesus, it's lenny kravitz!

overall, i'd say it was a damn fine spring break. uneventful yet heartwarming, short but worthwhile. i love you all.

POOPY POOP

There is an MP3 available on ipecac's website of a song off the upcoming Locust ep. Just thought you would like to know.


also Check this shit out, i dont even have words that describe this beautiful creation opf the 80's:

1. go to ifilm.com
2. click on the viral videos section
3. click on Mr. T's Rap Song
4. Masturbate

50 CENT DISAPPOINTED HIS BULLETPROOF CARS HAVEN'T BEEN SHOT AT

from contactmusic.com:

50 CENT

Rapper 50 CENT is disappointed nobody has tried to shoot him while he's been out driving - because he spent $200,000 (GBP105,000) bulletproofing two of his cars.

The MAGIC STICK hitmaker, who was shot nine times in an attack before rising to fame, has spent a lot of time and money on ensuring he's safe when he's on the road - but he's never had the opportunity to put the efficiency of the safeguards to the test.

He tells BLENDER magazine, "I have two (bulletproof vehicles), one in New York, one in LA, and it was about 100 grand each,

"I'm actually disappointed though: Nobody's shot me. I spent a lot of money on that s**t!"

love
sledg

...for a war that should have never began in the first place.

first go to http://www.afsc.org/ then watch the "wage peace movie" (it's short), then sign the petition, it is already +30,000 strong, and also if you are able make a donation and wear the "wage peace bracelet". Then copy this post and send email to your friends and famalies to get as many people who agree to do the same thing. Together our voices can be heard and together we can make the difference. Murder is never an acceptable answer to any problem, we can stop this.

-sarah

I will go in with anyone who wants to buy a bulk anount of bracelets to support this organization and their highly noble cause... this is all to important to look the other way.

I have 50 gmail invites. If anyone wants a free gmail account, leave your e-mail addy in a comment.

i love you all.

yes, eric is awesome.

The mail tribune put out an article written by Damien Mann the day after Evans death, i didn't know Evan but the way the article was presented really upset me. I'm sick of the newspapers trying to make examples of the tragic deaths of young people, "he should have been wearing a helmet", "a toxicology screen is being done to see if drugs were involved", "skateboarders aren't allowed on streets where the speed limit is over 25 mph", ""helmets are to be worn at all times in the city while skating", ect. #1 the speed limit where Evan was hit is 20 mph at all times, it is a school zone, #2 helmets are only required at the skatepark, semantics aside the way the article was written showed no compassion for the tragic loos of a life, and the grief that it has caused his family and friends, long story short i got pissed off and wrote the guy an email expressing my feelings... (read on please this is important)

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so yesterday i went to the south of quito. i know this doesn't mean much to y'all, but let me put it this way: it took a good 45 minutes to get there by cab, and when i got out at the hospital i thought i was in a completely different world. a much poorer world. this is the part of quito my resident director would tell me to never go to. eleanor, my buddy, was helping a group of canadian doctors who are down here doing hip-replacements and club-foot surgeries. they spoke very little spanish, she was translating. she told me to come down to check it out, see what she's been doing, etc. it was a really humbling experience.

afterwards, eleanor and i decided to get ice cream. went to crepes & waffles, got massive bowls of good stuff, followed by actual good coffee with bailey's. yummy. chatted it up for awhile, shot the shit, etc.

left there and decided to go to our respective homes to prep for the evening. we were going to go salsa dancing. walking towards the ecovia (public transport) i dropped a .50 coin. didn't even notice until a guy tapped me on the shoulder and handed it to me. so i have this warm fuzzy feeling, right? like maybe this place isn't so bad after all.

get onto the ecovia, it's crowded. this guy, who i thought was headed towards the door to get off (i was standing next to the door) stands inbetween eleanor and i. we thought it was weird, but... well, whatever. i tried to move out of his way so he could get to the door, but he didn't want to.

got off about two stops later. i moved to be next to eleanor to chat, and five seconds later i realized the fucker had stolen my wallet from my backpack. arg!!!! i was so mad... i even had my bag in front of me with my hand on it. not cool! so i had to cancel credit and debit card, and now i have to replace my citizenship card.

worse part is, it was my favorite red, ninewest wallet that matches my favorite, red ninewest purse. so not cool!!!

the warm fuzzies are gone.

bleh.


siempre.....

Head, from Korn, getting babtised in the river jordan. What a fucking crazy world, huh?

I just got back from the computer lab. I've spent way too much time there in the past three days. Sunday, i logged damn near 8 hours, monday a good 4 and today, probably around 4 as well. All for a silly program that manually resolves domain names to IP addresses. It seems like it'd be easy, right? FUCK NO, whoever designed the DNS protocol was a fucking madman. I don't think i've ever been so confused, and the only resource i had to reference was THIS. Seriously, go look at it -- fuck, huh?

i know i'm just bitching, but i think it is well founded. this week, month, term has been insane. I can't wait to go home. I plan to hug jeryl, slap wispy, hatespoon tallon, high-five een, say hi to sarah and maybe makeout with eli, if he is lucky.

anyway, i just remembered i have to go back to the lab to print off a fucking report. DAMNIT.

iloveyouall.

First off, Suspended Animation is amazing. Truly crazy.

Second of all, have any of you seen my motivation? I have no motivation to do anything these days. I came into work early to get some work done and ended up watching soccer on TV. I don't even like soccer, what the fuck is wrong with me?

This term needs to end, soon. It started out all fine-and-dandy, but as things progressed, it became a little much. All of my classes have at least one assignment due per week plus a lab plus a bi-weekly project. Schoolwork coupled with my work at The Daily Barometer has left me little time to have fun and stuff.

I just want to hibernate. Spring break, get here ASAP. S.O.S.H.E.L.P.

I'm usually just not a fan of illegal activities. I did my share of downloading the first six months I had a computer, but since then I haven't done any. Maybe I'm just too lazy or too computer illiterate to really do it but I don't do a lot of downloading and I've heard how it can affect artists negatively, not just monetarily. I know a lot of kids today think that "Oh, he's just being a rich rock star asshole," or something like that, but it affects us in different ways, you know. It affects them indirectly without them really knowing. For example, record companies, booking agents and people who book tours pay attention to record sales in certain cities and certain areas and book accordingly for touring. So it affects people in ways they don't even realize it is affecting them! I would tell people downloading my music that one person doing it may not affect anybody, but if it gets bigger and bigger and bigger it really will affect them! The worst case scenario is we could be routed around your town, meaning we won't be playing your town because it says that we haven't sold enough there to nook a concert! That is kind of extreme but it could happen!
Maybe instead of going after people who are downloading, they should go after the programs that you can download it from, you know, and the people who are creating those.

-One of the Hoobastanks, on File-sharing

I'll leave it to you guys to point out all of the holes in that "arguement".

I just want you all to know that I hold, in my hands, a legit, advance copy of the new Fantomas album, Suspended Animation.

I have not yet listened to it, but I thought you should know.

A lifelong acquantence of mine and and of all the Ashland crew passed away yesterday.
It's interesting to me how much someone you know dying, can put things in perspective. Especially something so sudden as this. I couldn't help but feel regrets and sadness for everyone involved. He was a great guy and he will be missed.

This has been a rough year for everyone so far.

Eric's friend in corvallis, Honorary friend Dax Pierson being seriously hurt, Everyone's fav Hunter S Thompson, and now this.

Let's try to make the second half of the year a bit better and look out for each other the best we can. Tell everyone you know just how much you love them. Hold your significant others, hold your friends.

Heavy Hearted,
SLEDG

Picked up the new mars volta at Sam Goody for 8 bucks.

Contrary to what eric has told you, it is pretty rockin. I do agree that there sections of the album that are rediculous and unnecessary.
This album does confuse me.

Eric told me his copy was exactly 80 minutes long. Mine is 76 minutes.
I also dont understand the way the album is cut up into tracks. There are 12 tracks, yet the way that the songs are described on the back of the cd there should be 15, or 5, or 9, or something. I can't find any reason for there to be 12 tracks. And from what ive been able to tell from reading the lyrics, it seems the last song is cut up into 7 tracks, even though there are 5 "movements".

I would agree that the lyrics are silly as well. Kind of a 21st century version of Rush's silly lyrics.
"Dance upon the Wizard's Breath....."

I guess this album is fucking horrible if you want it to be though.

ok im writing a persuasive speech on the oregon death with dignity act... i need some arguments for and against it, if you dont know anything about the law itself it doesnt matter i need opinions of people who know nothing about it, and people who know a lot about it as well, and opinions from all, i get the religious objections but besides that what are some reasons to be against it, for it, even if you are for it what are some arguments you can come up with? this is due in a couple days so please respond and give me some ideas on how you feel about it, i really need arguments against, but for as well, i have to do well on this speech so please any help will help.... (ill be mad if no one helps me on this!!!)

I finally broke down and took out all of my piercings. I'm not really sure why, it just felt like the right time. I'm getting older and it doesn't really fit me anymore. It is a little weird though, as my lobes (they were at 00g) still have huge holes in 'em. I'll be interested to see how they heal. if they heal.

I went and saw Sage Francis on Sunday. He put on a damn good show, despite his damaged throat (which he will have to get surgery to fix). The show was tight, but the crowd, they were terrible. There were kids smoking cigarettes next to me and some frat boys in front of me, popped collars and all.

Jared Paul was doing some spoken word poetry about being a social worker (depressing stuff about adoption and molestation) and the frat boys were making out with their girlies. it was weird. it seemed like they were missing the point.

but yeah, i am so damn ready for this term to be over. I spent friday AND saturday night doing homework, finishing at midnight. almost too much to handle. i tried to pound out this Patrick Wolf interview / record review (check him out -- he's goddamn good) and i can't even write very well, i'm totally oversaturated. it will all be over soon.

i love you all.