HOWL

Decent indie movie about Ginsberg and the Howl trial.

For fans of the Beats. Not sure if you'll enjoy this if you're not.

Check out the official page here and the trailer below.

UFC 129

Why is Steven Segal getting credit for Mr. Miyagi's crane kick? #ufc129

RANT: WELFARE KINGS & QUEENS

I'm so sick of these people on welfare living lavish lives with the people's tax money, but not doing any work to earn it. Then they have children and the people have to support them too.

Yes, I'm talking about you Prince William...

THE SPORT OF KINGS

My major sports championship season is a few weeks away. Unlike most championships, mine starts in the beginning of the season. It's almost time for THE TRIPLE CROWN. It all starts with the Kentucky Derby (May 7, 2011 6PM), followed by the Preakness Stakes (Saturday May 21, 2011 6PM), and lastly, the Belmont Stakes (Saturday June 11, 2011 6PM).

If you want to learn how to bet on horses, check this out. I was going to explain it here, but the internet beat me to the punch.

RANT: POKER SITES SHUT DOWN BY US GOV

The FBI shut down Pokerstars.com, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker. What happened to due process? So I guess now the government can just take your business (i.e. your website) just by charging you with a crime, not proving it. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? On top of this nonsense, they're not even sure if poker is really illegal gambling or a game of skill.

2.5 wars, 9.2% unemployment, $3.80/gal avg. gas price, US deficit over $14 trillion, Osama Bin Laden is still free, but the US government goes after online poker.

RANT: TCH POLITICAL IDEOLOGY

The Cultured Hooligan official political ideology:

I'm socially liberal, and fiscally broke.

RANT: SORRY CLEAR CHANNEL, PANDORA IS THE NEW RADIO

Bob Pittman spells out why Pandora is not Radio

While I can agree that a good DJ with the power to choose his own playlist is great, it's rarely if ever done these days. The last time I heard a DJ with playlist power it was on an independent "public" station (e.g. WFMU, WXPN, WBJB, WRSU, WSOU) not those that Mr. Pittman represents.

Clear Channel and national playlists killed radio with their fast-food-restaurant approach to radio programming and sent the music listeners away to the internet. If someone wants to hear the same tired and over-played 10 songs every hour then they should continue to listen to the corporate radio drivel that Mr. Pittman and Clear Channel represent. Services like Pandora while not perfect at least allow for discovery of new (or new to me) music, where corporate radio really doesn’t. So maybe Mr. Pittman should be saying Pandora is not CURRENT radio, it’s what radio used to be when it was good.