Westsidewill - Wild Off The Air

For those of you that listened to the show…Hopefully ALL OF YOU…you know that the DJ’s and some staff have been given this next week off! We will be back Friday with all NEW shows, but this week we have something very special planned for the Unsigned Artist Showcase so give it a listen!

For those of you that are wondering I will be taking my Vacation in Florida. Where in Florida you ask? Some place near Bradenton, where my grandmother lives, for my grandmothers 90th birthday.

Fun Fact: I hate flying. I’m like John Madden, so me and my 2 brothers are driving to Florida! From where we are in Illinois to where we are going in Florida it’s about 20 hours + 1 hour for the time difference. We are doing the drive straight through…I think I’m gonna get a book on Tape(CD) for when I drive…Maybe learn Karate by book on tape?

Another fun fact: I just saw on the news that when men see women in bikini’s they are more likely to make bad decisions. Great job on the study, I think I could have told them that, give me the $5million grant that took!

Anywhoooo, Handshakes and High Fives till next Friday!

The Nooge

If you would have asked me a week ago what I thought of Timbaland, I would have said something along the lines of “He seems like an alright guy, and appears to be one of the better producers.” If you were to ask me that same question today, I’d probably say something like “I used to think he was an alright guy and a decent producer, but now I just think he’s a scam artist.”

Why do I have this sudden change of heart you ask? Simple, really. I found out that Timbaland has apparantly been jacking beats from music in other countries and using it for artists in America, then playing it off as “sampling” and not stealing. When pressed for the difference between the two, he put it so elequently, saying “everybody samples from everybody every day” and that one of his victims made it seem like he “went into his house and took it from his computer.” Oh, Mr. Timbaland. Is there really a difference between using computer software to digitally jack someone’s song, stripping it down to the basic instrumental, and playing it off as your own or literally going into someone’s computer and taking the song? Seriously. I’m trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, but when I saw the large amount of evidence against him I didn’t have much of a choice to think of him as a shady character. Especially considering a) sampling refers to giving someone else credit for the work you’re using, while Timbaland has claimed full producing credit for all of these songs, and b) no royalties have ever been paid to the people he has jacked these beats from.

I can’t get the video embedding to work, so check this out afterwards and form your own opinion.

Honestly, how blatant is that? And that’s not even the half of it. I would go into more detail, but everything you need to know is here.

Down with Timbaland.

knowledge is power,

Matt

And that name is New Kids on the Block or NKOTB for short (I assume that’s like their elemental symbol).

You may have read Matt L.’s blog about NKOTB coming back, and we all had a good laugh. Now they are laughing at us.

Give them credit, they came up with a plan and executed it. The plan is as follows:

Step 1: Dominate the 80’s and Early 90’s doing whatever with who knows how many 18 year old groupies.

Step 2: Take a few years off, recharge. Fail at acting and other pursuits.

Step 3: Come back. Now do whatever with 18 - 40 year old groupies.

If you ask me you spell sex crazed boy-banders; N-K-O-T-B!!!!

I kid. I made up this whole blog so we can all enjoy their new single!

And high five to whoever made that video on youtube, all sorts of great behind the scenes clips that I’m sure someone wants to see!!!

So you like mainstream music? Sure we all do, here are 5 songs that you should check out:

5. G Unit “I like the Way she Do it”

This is a really cool song, it’s about time G Unit made some quality music right? Anywhoo, I know the video is out, but this is the actual full song (With Buck!)

4. G Unit “I fucked your girl”

What’s that you say? The first song I posted didn’t have enough 50 cent singing…Oh well here’s one that will make it better!

3. Busta Rhymes ft. Linkin Park “We Made It”

Fun Fact Busta Rhymes took his name from this dude: Buster Rhymes

2. Cobra Starship “Guilty Pleasure”

If you ignore that Stump fella in the video, it’s a catchy song….

1. Fall Out Boy “Beat It”

I have an idea, let’s have a band that I hate ruin a song that used to be awesome…whatever you guys can decide but I think they should stick to acting in Cobra Starship videos….

All in all a neat list, check each of the songs and decide if you like em yourself!!!!!

I was browsing the internet on my phone the other day, and I came across this feel-good story of your everyday, small-town parrot who made good on a promise. So the story goes that the police found this parrot on a nearby rooftop, and took it back to the station for the night. After he was transferred to the care of a veterinarian while the police were searching for clues as to his ownership, the parrot began talking to the vet, saying “I’m Mr. Yosuke Nakamura” and then went on to give his complete numerical address. Turns out, the address was the right one and the parrot was returned to the Nakamura family.
But perhaps the best part of the story is that the parrot was completely silent when the police talked to him. Yosuke apparently wasn’t keen on opening up to police officials. One of the police officials later commented, saying “I tried to be friendly and talked to him, but he completely ignored me.” My guess is the Japanese are breeding an army of killer parrots that excel in thievery. Why else would they be trained to not talk to the cops? Chew on that one.

the bird’s the word,

Matt

Charlie Sheen, the small-town boy who made good on a promise to sleep with as many women as possible as long as he was still relevant in the world, has apparently been asked by his ex, Denise Richards, to donate his sperm so she can have another child with him. The alleged email is said to have been doctored and not written by Richards herself, but I’m going to run with this story while it still has legs.
The “email” claims that Richards pursues Charlie Sheen’s sperm so that she can have “healthy, beautiful children” like the one they have already had together. Well Denise, I got news for you: I wouldn’t exactly call Charlie Sheen healthy, nor would I consider him to be moderately healthy. In fact, let’s just go ahead and say he’s completely unhealthy. I seem to recall him being in Heidi Fleiss’ infamous black book, so you know ol’ Chuck has been casting his line in the community pond more than a few times. Couple that with him being Hollywood’s version of everyone’s creepy uncle that always seems to hang around younger girls (The “Dave” syndrome, as it is professionally called).
So to do Denise Richards a favor, I’ve come up with a top 3 list of possible sperm donors for her, if she really wants to have a healthy child. What can I say, I like playing the role of diplomat.

1) Michael Jackson — we can all be sure he has never touched another woman, let alone had sex with one. (clean sperm…check). He has supreme musical and dancing talents (good genetics…check). And last but not least, we know he’d have no problem staying home and watching the kid for the first 15 years of its life (good parenting skills…check). The only bad marks he received on my scorecard were from being the creepiest person in the world. Three out of four ain’t bad.

2) John Elway — truth be told, if America was really intent on winning this war, we’d have John Elway impregnate every able-bodied woman from coast to coast. Think about it, we’d have thousands of rocket-armed, blond-haired, blue-eyed soldiers with perfect teeth and abs that looked like they were chiseled out of granite. But that would be playing a pickup basketball game on a 6-foot hoop against a bunch of 3rd graders. War is only fun when it’s fair, apparently.

3)

Do I really need to explain why?

stay fresh,

Matt

I failed to report this yesterday, but because it is such an amazing piece of news, and also because it happened relatively close to where I live, I feel like getting news a day late is better than getting no news at all. Anyways, a truck driver driving a rig carrying 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos fell asleep and overturned the truck on I-80, roughly 50 miles from Chicago. As one could imagine, thousands of people in the Chicagoland area were left saying things like “why couldn’t that happen when I’m driving on the highway?” or “if only a milk truck would have crashed right behind it, then I’d really be in business.”
But I think the thing that got lost in all of this is what happens to all of those cookies. Apparently, most of them remained in their original packaging despite spilling out onto the pavement and the grass. But I can’t really imagine the Oreos people re-packaging all those cookies and playing it off like nothing happened to them, nor can I imagine them just throwing thousands of cookies away because they fell out of the box. Catch 22, really. I would just give them to homeless people in Chicago. Not often do they get enjoy the sweet frosting residue off two equally-sweet chocolate cookies. Homeless people are humans too, you know. Let them live a little for crying out loud. Someone start a petition and I’ll be the first to sign it. I would write it up myself, but I don’t want to take credit for such a brilliant idea. Modest Matt, that’s me.

I dunk my cookies,

Matt

Richard Simmons, he of the whiny-voiced, for-a-fitness-guru-I’m-unusually-flabby routine, has struck a deal with Ocean Spray and created his own brand of cranberry juice, appropriately called Cranergy. I’m not sure what those pencil pushers at Ocean Spray were thinking, but who would look at Richard Simmons and think to themselves “whatever that guy’s putting in his body, I want to turn it into a juice, bottle it, and drink it.”
Sure, I could go on and on with the Richard Simmons jokes, what with all things considered. The man has been the punching bag in God-knows how many jokes about a)being gay, b)being eccentric, c)wearing a tank top, and d)prancing around like Peter Pan. But dammit can he make sweating to the oldies look exciting. However, while I am aware that cranberry juice is essential in the sense that it clears up your urinary tract, knowing that Richard Simmons is behind this particular brand won’t inspire me to drink it any more or less than I normally do. Because as we all know, cranberry juice, much like Richard Simmons, is an acquired taste. Drink at your own risk.

cool cat lookin’ for a kitty,

Matt

Simple, he treats it like a business. Let this be a lesson to all of our unsigned artists, do what J.M. does and you’ll get signed!

Some weekend funny! Enjoy the Weekend!

The Nooge

As I was getting ready for the show tonight I found an interesting little tidbit about the rock band Lustra accusing Miley Cyrus of stealing their song, “Scotty Doesn’t Know”. You may recognize that song from the blockbuster hit ‘Eurotrip’.

You can find more details here: http://www.nypost.com/seven/05162008/gossip/pagesix/sounds_familiar__miley_111062.htm

You can listen to both songs below. First Miley Cyrus “Rockstar”

Ok…Now the Original (WITH MATT DAMON!):

I have to admit after listening to all of that I have to think that Miley did in fact jack the track from Lustra. And it seems like Miley’s people think so too, because in her defense a rep said, “She doesn’t write the songs she sings them.” Tell me something I don’t know.

What did we learn today? Find a song with a catchy hook and music, change the words, keep some of the music, and make a hit. It’s not a difficult formula.

…Art is beautiful

The Nooge