Today is the Day

Brandon Boyd has just released his debut solo album called "The Wild Trapeze". When you buy the cd, either in a pack with a t-shirt and/or letter from Brandon, you get a link to download the album so you don't have to wait for it in the mail! Check out how to buy yours here:
Buy The Wild Trapeze

As always, check out my website www.breemccool.com for the newest uptodate show information and reporting! If you haven't seen them yet there are Warped Tour TwentyTen photos up that you must see!

In the film world...


News of the Weird...

That is disgusting...
Among the unique dining experiences of the Beijing Zoo is the ability of patrons to view an exhibit of frolicking hippopotamuses and then step into the zoo's restaurant and dine on such dishes as toe of hippopotamus. Also available: kangaroo tail, deer penis, ant soup and other delectables. Animal welfare activists condemned the dining experience, according to a dispatch in London's Guardian. [The Guardian (London), 5-21-10]

Jah Man!
Virginia state inmate Kendall Gibson, who is serving 47 years for abduction and robbery committed at age 18, has spent the last 10 years in the prison's "hole," 23 hours a day in a cell "the size of a gas station restroom" (wrote an Associated Press reporter), not because he's a danger to the prison population, but because he won't cut his hair. Gibson is a Rastafarian and says his dreadlocks are devoutly authorized by the spiritual Lord, Jah. (A 1999 Virginia prison regulation requires administrative segregation for long-hairs.) [The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, S.C.)-AP, 5-7-10]

I'm IN!
British mechanical engineer John Tyrer told an audience at the annual meeting of the Institute of Physics in Brighton, England, in March (1998) that he and his colleagues were using lasers to design a more comfortable bra. "A breast imposes various load distributions ... and vibrational problems as the woman walks," he said, and he criticized the "strap design" that "transmits the load to the wrong places." According to Tyrer, the technology, "Electron Speckle Pattern Interfermometry," analyzes the way a three-dimensional surface (like a bra) changes when a force is applied to it. [London Daily Telegraph, 3-16-98]

In Twilight World...
Eclipse premiered this last week and I've seen it twice. It's cool, you can point and laugh but I love it for what it is! David did a wonderous job at making it look scary and suspensful

Just in case you were wondering about the shows coming up:

MGMT at the Greek
Friday July 16th 7PM

She and Him, Bird and the Bee, The Swell Season at the Hollywood Bowl
Sunday July 18th 7PM

Imogen Heap at the Greek
Saturday June 19th 7PM

Vans Warped Tour at Seaside Park
Sun June 27th 11AM

The New Pornographers, The Dodos, Imaad Wasif at the Music Box
Mon/Tues July 19/20 7PM

Wolf Parade at the Wiltern
Sat July 31 7PM

Rodrigo Y Gabriella at the Greek
Wed August 18th 7:30PM

Dave Matthews Band at the Hollywood Bowl
August 23rd 8:00PM

Norah Jones at the Greek
Wed August 25 7:30PM

David Gray/Ray LaMontagne at the Greek
Wed Sep 8 7PM

Honda Civic Tour: Paramore, Tegan and Sara at Honda Center
Sun Sept 19 7PM

Band of Horses at the Greek
Sat Sep 25

Dane Cook at the Greek
Sat/Sun Oct 2/3 8PM

Jack Johnson at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Tues Oct 12 7PM