The Other Blog

Yes it would appear that everyone Google sometime and they are looking for the most import parts of popular culture. If they Google it enough it might even end up with more than its fifteen minutes of fame. The 1963 hit Surfin Bird by The Trashmen is certainly a song that has had more than its share of fame and is currently topping the Google Top 100. From The Trashmen we move on to Iceland and their economy which is the the trash just as much as ours. Maybe Bjork should hold a benefit concert for the government. I would pay good money assuming I actually had any to see The Sugarcubes.

Moving on from one musical form to a musical family, we find the Cyrus family in the news. Trace tops the ticker for google, but Miley Cyrus aka Destiny Cyrus is never far behind. I have not yet heard anything by Trace Cyrus of Metro Station but I am going to guess that it is overproduced crap with so much spin and polish that it will sell just on name affiliation alone. Speaking of names I just have figured out the naming scheme yet for Billy Ray Cyrus. He appears to suffer the same sort of complex as Sarah Palin, but just not as bad. Maybe the Appalachian form of WTF isn’t as bad as the Alaskan strain. You decide is Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and Trig better or worse that Trace, Brandi, Christopher Cody, Destiny Hope (aka Miley), Braison Hope, and Noah Lindsey. What the hell kind of name for a girl is Noah. (more…)