Eat your heart out Good Shepherd Band!!!
New Music Monday
Posted by Benjamin Crum at 6/16/2008 05:49:00 PM 2 comments
Labels: Music, New Music Monday
New Music Monday
The Tallest Man on Earth: A friend from church, Aaron, recommended this guy. Sounds a bit like Dylan, old style folk. Aaron said this guy is really cool... very thick Swedish accent but sounds like old-time American when he sings.
Posted by Benjamin Crum at 6/09/2008 11:34:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Folk, Music, New Music Monday
Unbelieveable
I just read a statistic on the BBC site on motor vehicle accident rates in India. The reported warns to take into consideration the size of India, it is a large/populous nation, still the numbers are startling. More than 100,000 deaths, 2,000,000+ seriously injured per year. This in a nation whose roads are about to get even more congested thanks to the cheapest car in the world, the Tata Nano.
See the BBC report
Tata Nano (Wikipedia)
Posted by Benjamin Crum at 6/09/2008 11:15:00 AM 0 comments
Fictitious Fact Friday
Fact: Just as you can become immune to scorpion stings you can also build an immunity to fire burns. The precise details of how to do this are a little hazy but generally it involves fusing a nomex suit to your skin and then, while your body is cooling, wrap yourself in aluminum foil.
Warning: This method does not protect you from heat from fire, but it will keep you from scorching.
Posted by Benjamin Crum at 6/06/2008 09:26:00 AM 1 comments
Labels: Fictitious Fact Friday, Misc, Random
Bull Whip
Jones!
I'm probably gonna definitely maybe make one of these. As kids I remember pretending to be Indiana Jones, sometimes using a rope or bungee-chord as the iconic bull whip. This looks a lot better (though, it would take a little bit more time). We actually used to be able to 'crack' our whips too, I guess a rope works just as well as a whip for that.
Get more details and instructions here.
Posted by Benjamin Crum at 6/04/2008 03:04:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: just for fun, Misc, movies, nostalgia
For a good time...
It's been a while since I actually wrote something in a post. I have been putting up a lot of music and little movies and stuff, but I haven't really had any random 'blog' worthy rants recently, so here goes:
Not sure if you're familiar with this feature of blogger, but for those of you with a profile the movies and music that you list turn into links and will take you to a list of other bloggers who have listed the same movie or musician. I guess the point of this is to be able to find other people who like what you like, but it seems strange to try to build a passive social network. Anyhow, what I've found is you get really crazy links when you put really crazy movies.
Take my profile for example (you can try this one out for yourself):
I put a bunch of legendary films on my profile like the sequel to Baby Geniuses (SuperBabies), and here's who I got linked to:
You may say it's dishonest to claim to like movies that I, in truth, have never seen. But you would be a spoil-sport to claim such a thing.
Posted by Benjamin Crum at 6/03/2008 10:34:00 AM 3 comments
Labels: Entertainment, Misc, movies, Music, Random
New Music Monday
Okay, so it's actually Monday so here's some music.
First, a band that has been around for a while, but have not made it 'big'... yet! The Black Keys. They rock, but you don't have to take my word for it:
And for those of you who love old Southern Rock, here's one that might touch your heart... The Righteous Path by the Drive-by-Truckers:
Posted by Benjamin Crum at 6/02/2008 11:16:00 AM 1 comments
Labels: Music, New Music Monday, Rock