June 19th, 2014

June 19th, 2014

I have found that when it comes to Wasps, the ones that get inside my house, have no other desire in life but to force me to kill them.  They never seem to want to get "out" of the house, and any coaxing leads to them wanting to sting me.  I have a high tolerance, and no allergic reaction, for bee stings of most types(yellow hornets hurt real bad), so the trick is on them.   They don't deter me, they only make me angry.  Now, Dirt Dobbers and I have been on friendly terms for a long while.  The fact that when they find themselves inside, they look for clean air and try to get the hell out means I like them even more.  This year, without fail, when I opened my door, I don't even have to coax a dirt dobber with a few swats of my hat, they just go instantly out the door with a "thanks for not killing me" look on their face.  Wasps are so inconsiderate.

The first part of Ballbreaker as an album is a weird sort of step back in two ways.  First off, its a step back to the more poppy bluesy sound of the Blow Up Your Video album, with a more successful take on it.  But strangely instead of being blues rock like 70's era ACDC, it goes through ZZ Top and Rolling Stones style honky tonk sounds that was never really a strong part of ACDC's sound.  It is welcome though, because there are some outstanding, swinging rock music in the album.  Hard as a Rock is good, also Cover you in Oil, which both were released as singles.  I really like some of the lesser knowns like Honey Roll.  Its full blown swinging honky tonk rock, but its damn catchy.  Starting at Burnin' Alive we get more into the blues rock and heavy rock we expect from ACDC.  After Burnin' finishes, we get Hail Ceasar which is exactly what you expect from ACDC, and is probably the best hard rock song on the album(though I think Honey Roll maybe my fav overall).  The only real hold back to it is the repetition of choruses near the end, which hurt albums such as Flick of the Switch and Let There Be Rock.  The album ends with a pretty good combo of Whiskey on the Rocks and Ballbreaker.  Solid album overall.

Chelsea Handler is a horrible human being that has made her notoriety in the same way Kathy Griffin and Joan Rivers(and her clone spawn) has; sucking the teet of E! programming.  E! is probably my most hated and useless channel to ever exist and when I heard that CBS wanted to replace Craig Ferguson with her, I was sort of relieved because I 'd not have to care about late night television for the rest of my life most likely.  Well it looks like after making her a new studio, guaranteeing a drama free leaving of Craig Fergusson, and a show coming after Stephen Colbert(another Viacom darling, Comedy Central is owned and operated by the idiotic frat boy brother of E!'s snotty stuck up bitch), got them no points with Handler.  She's going to head up Netflix's "Late Style" style talk show.  I wonder where that leaves CBS's group.  For years they've never been able to touch the time slot after Dave because it was in his contract.  Dave continually put stuff there that did nothing but piss off executives for years.  Getting Chelsea would've been a major "win" for "TV" people everywhere that thinks we're all a bunch of dumb assholes that like watching people be snarky and shitty to one another.