Alice in Chains is doing a live online chat tonight for fans.  IF you dig the band, go to www.livestream.com.  The chat starts at 7pm.

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Smashing Pumpkins frontman and sole original member Billy Corgan opens up to Rolling Stone magazine in his first interview with the publication in a decade. According to excerpts published on the magazine’s website, Corgan says he’s had a rough time in the 10 years since he last spoke with Rolling Stone, revealing that he was waking up every morning for a while and thinking, “Go eat breakfast, or go kill yourself.”

• Corgan discusses his much-reported relationship with Jessica Simpson, saying he “loves” her but declining to get specific: “If I go, ‘Oh, we’re just friends,’ then it’s like, ‘Did they go out, did he dump her or she dump him, what happened?’ It has nothing to do with any of that. Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that. My goal in life is to love whoever I think is worth loving, and I think if people knew her like I knew her, they would love her like I do. It’s really simple.”
• Corgan also talks about his 2009 split with the Pumpkins’ last original member apart from himself, drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, saying that he fired him. He also discusses his father’s heroin addiction, revealing that his dad was arrested two years ago with a needle still in his arm.
• In another excerpt, Corgan asks, “Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do . . . I am influential. I am.”
• The interview appears in the new issue of Rolling Stone, out now.

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go here to see the video…

 http://www.davecarrollmusic.com/

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Tonight at 7:30, Timmins’ own Dave Carroll will be webcasting the release of the third and final installment of his “United Breaks Guitar” series.  These songs are hugely popular and a lot of fun.  I’m sure we’ve all been screwed around by some company at one time or another and it’s nice to see that it’s not just us common folk that have to put up with it.

Here’s the link for the webcast…again, tonight at 7:30!

http://www.davecarrollmusic.com/support/song3webcast/

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Children’s author Dr. Seuss was born in 1904. How about some Dr. Seuss Pickup Lines:

I may not like Green ham or eggs, but I sure love your long, thin legs!

From far or near or here or there, haven’t I seen you before somewhere?

That’s not the only place this Sneetch has a star, Baby.

Y’know, after he stole it, the Grinch hid Christmas — in my pants!

Is that a Cat in your Hat or are you just happy to see me?

My heart ain’t the only thing two sizes too large, if you know what I mean.

On a boat, in a car, with your toes all curled — Oh, the places we’ll go when I rock your world!

Each book makes a million, a zillion, or three. Would you, could you come home with me?

In all of Hooterville, where there’s Hooters supreme, yours are the best of the the Hooters I’ve seen!

I hate this place — the crowd here’s so phony, say, would you care to ride my pony?

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Your chance to tell the Ontario Government to help Timmins comes this Thursday in Sudbury. The CAW and the Save Our Resources Coalition have organized buses to head to Sudbury Thursday to greet Mines Minister Michael Gravelle and top Xstrata officials at a mine opening ceremony.  “We want to show both the government and the company how important the Xstrata facility in Timmins is to the people of the region. This is the community’s golden opportunity to demonstrate it face to face.” Buses leave Timmins at 5am and will return around 6pm. There is no charge to get on the bus but officials need a head count. “Anyone wanting to join the rally, need to contact Brian Watson to confirm a seat before Wednesday at 10am.” 

Officials also advise that you dress for the weather since the event will be held outside

Brian’s phone number is 266-5123

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So, the games have ended….AND WHAT AN ENDING!  I’m assuming you saw the Gold Game of Hockey last night?  If not, you missed one of the biggest games in hockey history (in my humble opinion).  Canada gets out to a lead, USA comes back and with a last second goal - it goes to O.T.  Syd the Kid scores and Canada gets the gold!!  It’ll be a very memorable moment for a lot of us.  That goal really capped off what was a GREAT Winter Games for our country.  One stat that I didn’t know going in was, we have NEVER won a gold medal in Canada.  That’s crazy to me.  However, we finally got one…..thank you Alexandre Bilodeau (am i the only one that got a bit misty when seeing his brother cheer him on?)…then another…and another…finally, we had more golds than anyone else at the games…then we had more golds than any other host nation…THEN we had more golds than anyone ever at a Winter Games.  Truly amazing! 

One of the great lines came from Brian Williams after the hockey game.  He said that the nation would have one giant collective headache tomorrow morning.  But, my GOD, it was all worth it!

GOOD JOB CANADA!!!

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The initial list of inductors was announced for next month’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone reported that Steven Van Zandt will induct the Hollies, Billy Joe Armstrong will do the honors for the Stooges, Trey Anastasio will induct Genesis, Wyclef Jean will salute Jimmy Cliff, and surviving Bee Gees Barry and Robin Gibb will induct ABBA.Jackson Browne will honor music mogul David Geffen and Carole King will pay tribute to the 2010 class of songwriters: Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry, Jesse Stone, Mort Shuman, and Otis Blackwell.

 The 25th annual Rock Hall ceremony is set to take place on March 15th at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City and will air live at 8:30 p.m. on Fuse TV.  I’m pretty sure we don’t get “Fuse TV” in Canada but, you might be able to find it online.

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How lazy are we as a country? According to the Daily Beast, the U.S. takes home the top honors this year but we’re a close number 2?!! Here’s their top 5, based on calories consumed per day, television viewing, Internet usage, and aversion to sports:

1. The United States of America: It’s not even close. America ranked first in calories per day and TV viewing, and earned bronze in the other two categories, a staggeringly dominant non-performance.
2. Canada: They play plenty of sports, but the guys up north spent an average 43 hours online in December, good for gold in that category.
3. Belgium: The country known for its chocolate, waffles, and beer ranked second in calories consumed.
4. Turkey: The Turks claim gold in sports aversion, and finish just out of medal range in Internet usage.
5. Great Britain: The British don’t play sports, either. Plus, one survey declared English men terrible lovers, because they’re “too lazy.”

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Every year, the  fine folks at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, MI,  make a list of words that are so overused, they’re annoying.  Well,  it’s that time of year again kids!!  Personally, I don’t agree with the list at all but, I’m not a university person i dun go went to college!!

1. Shovel-ready: Stick a shovel in it. It’s done.
2. Czar: We have appointed a czar of such-and-such; clearly that’s better than a leader, coordinator or director!
3. Tweet (and all of its variations: tweetaholic, retweet, twitterhea, twitterature, twittersphere): People tweet and retweet, and it’s used so many times, it’s lost its meaning.
4. App: Is there an app for making this annoying word go away? Why can’t we just call them programs again?
5. Sexting: Any dangerous new trend that also happens to have a clever mash-up of words, involves teens and gets television talk show hosts interested, must be banished.
6. Teachable moment: This phrase is used to describe everything from potty-training to politics. It’s time to vote it out!
7. Toxic assets: Whatever happened to simply saying bad stocks, debts or loans?
8. Too big to fail: Does such a thing exist? We’ll never know if a company is too big to fail, unless somehow it does fail and then it will no longer be too big to fail.
9. Bromance: We’re sick of combined words the media create to make them sound catchier, including frenemies, bromances and blogorrhea?
10. Chillaxin’: Heard everywhere from MTV to ESPN to CNN, this bothersome term seeks to combine chillin’ with relaxin’ — and it should get an axin’.

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