KRUU 11/19

Overarching Theme: Hip Hop and R&B

Mother Popcorn-James Brown
Apache-Incredible Bongo Band
Thought @ Work-The Roots
Bobo On the Corner-Beastie Boys
Hey Ladies-Beastie Boys
Karma-Alicia Keys
Certainly-Eryka Badu
Nothing Even Matters-Lauryn Hill
I'm in Between and I Try-Macy Gray
Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96-DJ Shadow
Contact-Jurassic 5
I Want You Back-Jackson 5
Oh Happy Day-Lauryn Hill
March-Jason Treuting/Ian Fry
The Freshest Funk-Ian Fry
When Your Heart Stops Beating-Plus 44

TRL without me. . .

. . .is not as cool.

Look at Travis being a badass with one arm.

TRL and kittens

Something very interesting happened the other day. I answered a Craig'slist posting, and I got a call back about it. Ok, not so interesting yet, but what if I said that MTV was the caller. More interesting, yes. TRL? Now you see. The caller, Jennifer, told me that I would be one of 3 drummers who would audition to play with the band Plus 44--Blink 182+1--on TRL, this Friday. Whoa! The deal was that Travis Barker-drummer-hurt his hand and they were going to do some spiel where the lucky drummer (i.e. me) plays with Plus 44 on the song "When your heart stops beating," and then Travis comes up, we trade pleasantries, and he goes up and rocks it with one good left hand and and snare trigger on his left foot. Genius idea, right? Well, it got canned and it isn't happening. Major bummer? Well no. It got me pretty psyched up to be a rock star and I got into ultra-super-duper-Jack-Bauer practice mode, plus TRL is keeping my info for future showcases. All in all, +plus+ sign for me! Oh, and this picture(s) is amazing.

Jack Bauer shoots down the Starship Enterprise and I just woke up.

I just stayed up until 11am finishing season 5 of 24. This is something I recommend--not everyday, nor would it be prudent to do even every other day--but at least once.

Also, you need to check this out.

www.myspace.com/whoisbell

. . .as well as this.

KRUU 11/12

This week's KRUU show had the theme, once again, of The Best of Pop Music.

Here is the playlist:

Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson
Low - Kelly Clarkson
One - Aimee Mann
I Know - Fiona Apple
Mud Football (for Moe Lerner) - Jack Johnson
Marvelous Things - Eisley
La La - Ashlee Simpson
Little Voice - Hilary Duff
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Like a Virgin - Madonna
Oops!...I Did It Again - Britney Spears
Wannabe - Spice Girls
Bad Boys - Miami Sound Machine
Black or White - Michael Jackson
Bambi - Prince
Nausea - Beck
No Such Thing - John Mayer
Wooley Bully - Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs