“The Runaways” biopic on Joan Jett & Cherie Currie is in select cities right now, with a wide opening in April. This week at the South By Southwest Festival in the US, Cherie Currie took a break from chopping wood to show how she’s still got it, singing “Cherry Bomb” with “Girl In a Coma”. Rowwwwr.

The “simple” message is: evolve or become obsolete. But there’s nothing simple about the information in this video. I challenge you to watch this ALL the way through, and I challenge you to NOT utter a cuss word out loud at the sheer mind-blowing insanity of it all. Oh, and keep in mind this video is a year old, and obsolete in its numbing information, which really, only makes it more awesome. You’ll see what I mean when you watch.
To best appreciate, fill your room with smoke first.

Something’s up. That’s pretty much all I know or all I can effectively communicate. I could end this blog post right now, and maybe you’d be just as far ahead than if you continue reading. However, I believe that maybe someone can shed some light on all this and take my headache away, cause Tylenol doesn’t seem to be working.
First of all, Global Warming is being debated; some say its real, while others say its a myth. So I don’t want to wage in on that debate. Some other “out-there” theories include 2012 prophecies, a 10th planet or 2nd Sun getting closer to Earth, our magnetosphere falling apart, and even a real-life machine in Alaska called HAARP that is proven to manipulate weather and has been linked to playing around with the sort of things related to earthquakes. (And no, I have not SPARKED UP anything in an attempt to get rid of my headache)
I just want to say, while everything mentioned above is up for debate, it SEEMS that its a stone cold fact that earthquakes are coming hard, fast, and furious, and that’s scary stuff. I only use the word “seems” because, well, I’ve become a cynical bastard when it comes to our world media, government, and the things “we really don’t know.” If you ask me, swine flu was a sham. It was a money-making, fear mongering, alterior-motived pile of steaming poo. And the media ran with it. It was all that anyone would talk about…until Tiger Woods got horny. And then, oh hey, look its the Olympics. Anyway, swine flu is forgotten, and I’m hoping these eerie earthquakes aren’t just a new media darling to scare us. But if it is, its working. I’m freaking out, man.
But supposed facts can’t lie right? According to the US Geological Survey, Planet Earth has on average 134 earthquakes a year that are of a 6.0 magnitude or greater. So far in 2010, we’ve had almost 50 already. We have never before experienced such a frequency of serious quakes, in so little time. Below is just a piece of the alarming list, judge it as you will. Please leave comments & your thoughts, so I can maybe sleep tonight, because hey, maybe earthquakes are just the new swine flu afterall. Why else would Independence Day, Volcano, AND the Core all be on tv today unless someone wanted us in a “doomsday mood”? LOL
January 9th, 2010 – 6.5, off the coast of California
January 12th, 2010 – 7.0, Haiti
January 19th, 2010 – 6.2, Cayman Islands
February 27th, 2010 – 7.0, Okinawa
February 27th, 2010 – 8.8, Chile
March 1st, 2010 – 3.9, Quebec
March 3rd, 2010 – 6.4, Taiwan
March 5th, 2010 – 6.5, Sumatra
March 8th, 2010 – 6.0, Turkey
March 9th, 2010 – 4.4, Hawaii
March 11th, 2010 – 7.7, Chile (can you call it an aftershock 12 days later, when its a 7.7?!)
March 11th, 2010 – 6.9, Chile (okay, that’s probably an aftershock)
March 11th, 2010 – 6.0, Chile (Holy Jeebus, poor Chile)
March 13th, 2010 – 6.4, Indonesia
March 14th, 2010 – 6.6, Japan
Sweet dreams everyone! (If you need some cheering up, check out Rock Sugar below!)

If you haven’t heard of a “mashup”, then you’ve never been REALLY bored at work or at home on a weeknight. (I know that if you’re on a computer bored at home, it usually leads to naughty things anyway). A mashup is simply when a skilled editor takes two songs, strips the vocals of one, and the music of another and puts them together to show the world how cool it is. There’s some good ones, and there’s some bad ones. But the band Rock Sugar (cool guys, bad name) have taken this a step further. They PERFORM mashups live, and they have made an incredible schtick out of combining 80s rock with some of the cooler 80s-era pop songs. THIS is the best they’ve got, but feel free to say no to porn, and yes to doing some more digging on these guys to find all sorts of gems. DON’T STOP THE SANDMAN BABY!

A bucket full of awesome with melted “Oh My God” all over it. Jeff Bridges next film, and the next piece of 3D awesomness

“Now ladies & gentlemen, dig the Who.” Its too bad nobody would get to dig this video from the Rolling Stones “Rock & Roll” circus for over decades. FINALLY released last year, I love it, so I posted it “just cause”

For as long as I live, I’ll never forget last night. While you can’t compare Henderson’s goal to Crosby’s goal to determine which one was better, 2010′s Olympic gold WAS the definitive hockey goal for a whole new generation. And the answer to the question “Where were you when it happend?” will always be, Elgin Street, in Ottawa. And I know full well that this is but one street corner, in one Canadian city, as the WHOLE country came together AS ONE, and we showed the world not only who’s game it is, but how to celebrate it. Click below for my own experiences in the middle of the madness:

And THEN, the march to Parliament

I apologize for the blurriness, its a combination craziness, drunkeness, and a Blackberry Bold’s suckiness. Here’s some clearer shots from other CHEZ nation members:

Thank You Ottawa, Thank You Canada…Thank You Crosby!