My car temp read 103 today! WOOT!!

michelle - It's a scalding (ha!) 71 degrees here in Long Beach. I was out by the Manhattan Beach pier this morning and actually had a cup of hot chocolate! :-)

Listening to: Aerosmith - No More No More

I've seen Howaiti's verison of If I Could Fly, but I searched Cliffs of Dover and found Jack Thammarat and found out he is the Guitar Idol winner of 2009 and then found his videos of If I Could Fly and Flying in a Blue Dream. I didn't know he played any Satriani songs so I got excited.

OMG A ONE ARMED GUITARIST!!!

GuitarMan This will kick your butt

Austin, I actually preferred to drive with the windows down today instead of having the AC on. I've been cooped up in the house all week wiff me pain & sufferin', so I put my hair in a ponytail, cranked the Meatbats, and just enjoyed the hell out of the ride I had to take. Let me add that on the way home it was a bit warmer, so it wasn't so much zen for me on that trip. I was doing 60 in a 45 zone in the passing lane, and two yahoos passed me in the right lane like I was standing still. They both only got as far as right in front of me at every feckin light anyways. lol! It's a damn shame when people drive like their ass is on fire and get nowhere the whole while they're doing it. LOL! Not!

Thank God this heatwave was low humidity here! If it's 85 with high humidity, it's worse than 101 with low humidity. Arizona, yes. Florida, hell no!

Night peeps!

Minimoog is listening to Raised on Rock by the Scorpions.

Sugarfoot: Yep. With the recent rise in our dollar (or drop in yours would be more accurate to say) we Canadians are only coming to shop.

P.S. we are also cruising your women....just so you know.

I went to the Sting concert tonight and it was amazing!!!! He was playing with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra(RPCO) on his "Symphonicity" tour. He played a good amount of his famous songs along with some of his less famous songs that he doctored up with the Orchestra. And he also did about 4 or 5 Police songs. Some of his songs were "I Hung My Head", "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You", "Englishman In New York, "Desert Rose, "Fields Of Gold", "Russians", and much more others.

But I love especially what he did with Moon Over Bourbon Street. (This is not my video, but I'm glad I found it) He was wearing a cool vampire jacket for only that song. And that cool synthesizer in the middle part was just completely awesome.

He was walking in New Orleans late at night once, and he had this distinct feeling like somebody was watching and following him.

I read an analysis of the Justice Department's response to Arizona's immigration law in the New York Times. I thought it was pretty good, so here's the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/us/08immig.html

An excerpt:

In the public outcry that followed passage of Arizona’s new immigration law, President Obama and other critics worried that it would lead to racial profiling. But while that concern has dominated the public debate and inspired a round of boycotts of the state, it played little role in the actual legal challenge the administration filed Tuesday against the law.

In this case it is clear the administration’s arguments in the court of public opinion took a backseat to those expected in the actual courtroom.

I thought all along that the racial profiling claims were ridiculous, and it bugs me that so much of the debate has focused on that when the legal challenge is based on something entirely different. I think everyone is to blame for that--politicians, the public, and the media. It's a knee-jerk reaction, and it doesn't do anyone any good.

Anyway, just sharing...

Listening to: Explosions In The Sky - Catastrophe And The Cure

fatape - Yeah haha thank's for the vid!! Used to love Milton The Monster. Analogy works well - Professor Weirdo and Count Kook - Joe and Mike right?? And who could forget the tincture of tenderness, and they must use only a drop?? That's Joe too.

Yay Spain is in the final - I am guaranteed a dividend from the office sweep - fingers crossed for the biggie.

Ibanezplyr

I think THIS might be the clip you were talking about!!!

I don't know what you're all worried about...he seems pretty 'armless to me!!! TISH BOOM!!!!!

Hi Joe !!! When you come to Rio de Janeiro. Its been a long time

Darn it...

We did a sweepstake at work for the world cup...

my two teams were Germany and Netherlands...

If Germany had won last night it would have meant a guarenteed £40 for me....

Gonna have to wait till sunday now....

Come on Netherlands

What did the Octupus say...

oh never mind...it will be a Spain win coz I never win anything!

Oh the guitars for Win a Jem Ibanez Steve Vai competition were nice!

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/JEMUV/finalists.html

Do the Stu - Thanks for sharing. It's nice to know that among all of the hardships in this country right now, our fine gov't is about to set aside millions of dollars to fight a nearly bankrupt state on a law that should have been passed 30 years ago.

I think the biggest problem with this entire issue is that Washington has had it's d#ck stuffed between it's legs for over 30 years on this issue. One of the most over used terms in every presidential election for 3 decades has been "We need tough immigration law." Well, some woman decides to grow a set and actually implements the plan, and now Washington just can't live with that. They really should just re write this bill a little and make it mandatory that ALL people stopped for ANY reason by the police need to produce a SS card that can be verified. And then everyone can get their feelings hurt over this issue. But atleast it would equal across the board.

Death Cube K - lol. Yep, I also grew up in Maine and I can't think of too many Canadians I met in my lifetime that just had to jump the border and hang out in the woods of Maine with the Black Bear and Moose!