Published Again

This time a Karaoke bar review, which can be found HERE.

I went in today asking about money, found out i won't be getting paid 'till April. What a crock. They gave me a copy of the paper and some complements though - shame the Tbilisi Life(!) insert wasn't there. Hopefully they'll hold on to one for me for a week, yeah? So far i'm 2 for 2 in a publication that will publish anything, so at least i can string words together into a sentence.

This weekend i'm going up to Gori to see the Stalin museum, gonna try and write a feature article w/pics. that's 1,000 words people. I dunno if i'm up to it. But if Stalin's death mask doesn't insipre you to write, by god what will.

I've been thinking of writing more feature article type stuff, so's I can fo' sho get it published in Georgia Today, and then try and whore it out to, y'know, wherever. It'd be pretty rad to be published in a "real" newspaper, y'know? or even a magazine. I am a glutton for rejection.

To celebrate the good times I went to G.U.R.U. Music, which is a record and DVD store in my neck of the woods. Most of the movies are in rooskie talk but the music selection is choice. If i need me some Eminem, WHAM i'm good. Also, if i need some Wham, EMINEM I'm good.

Anyways, for 10 lari i found a CD containing mp3s of BB King Live in Kansas city (1972), To Know You is to Love You (1973), Live in Cannes (1983), B.B.'s Boogie (1993), Deuces Wild (1997), Blues on the Bayon [sic] (1998), Let the Good Times Roll (1999), Classics (2000), and Reflections (2003).

And I'm like yea rite. But it had "is you is or is you ain't my baby" and i'm like well dang if that ain't like the best song ever, so when this turns out to be like scratched to hell and have 5 songs maybe that'll be one of 'em. So i buy it.

Lo and Behold, it's got everything. Every single track. All in MP3 format, at that. Just moved it right on to the old HDD. All of this brought to me by the Diamond Collection MP3 Series. No lie, that's how its written. Anyways, the best joke in all of this is the warning at the bottom.

(c) & (P) 2007. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, reproduction, hiring, public performance, and broadcasting prohibited.

now, simply ignoring the fact that I do not plan to hire B.B. king without some kind of authorization, nor will i put on a public appearance of this CD for prying eyes to see doesn't kill the humor for me. There is NO FUCKING WAY The Diamond Collection MP3 Series has anything even remotely resembling permission to be selling 9 of BB King's albums. No Fucking Way. Impossible. Cannot be the case. Despite the fact that the spine advertises the fact that it is a "P E R F E C T C O M P I L A T I O N", there is no goddamn way that diabetic ol' mufugga has given this russian bootleg anything even looking like authorisation if you squint.

Wanna know how i know?

Inside there's an advertisement for Playboy-Tris. That's tetris, with skuzzy looking playboy bunnies in the background, titties 'n all. The real great bit is that by playing the game you'd be OBSCURING the titties. What the hell kind of incentive is that? Also featured: a game called S.T.A.B., A game with Peter Jackson's King Kong pictured, but the screencap is totally just the SNES version of Pitfall, and some other game with a russian title but looks like the NES batman game. Just sayin'.

Also, other MP3 Series entries include: Deep Forest, AC/DC, Bjork, and Arabesque.

But hey, the music's spot on. I'll have to pick up another of these collections later. I saw a CD advertising 13 of Cannibal Corpse's album, which is simply appalling. But maybe they've got like The Doors or something.