Westsidewill – Wild Off The Air

Check the album review I did on Blame it on Cain here: http://www.westsidewill.com/reviews/review.php?id=50

Some notes:
- I know the date is messed up, nothing I can do about that. I’m sure our tech people will get that fixed up for me.
- I meant to type that I’m NOT an expert in the Rock genre. I’m just not.
- It’s a good album, check it out.

For those of you that are fans of Dancing with the stars, or as the cool kids say DWTS, you already know that Shawn Johnson is a competitor on the show. For those of you who aren’t really sure who Shawn Johnson is let me first start by saying that Shawn Johnson isn’t a dude.

Don’t let the name fool you, she’s a 17 year old gymnast who is doing pretty well (according to someone who watches the show…because I don’t…I should probably…but don’t) but things got a little bit wacky today. Shawn Johnson (with the help of her mother, because she is a minor) filed a restraining order against some crazy person who was stopped by ABC security outside of the DWTS studio area. Normally someone trying to sneak in to see a star isn’t a “restraining order” level offense, but when the crazy has some loaded weapons it is.

The crazy in this case is Robert O’Ryan, 34, (Fun Fact: Robert is twice Shawn’s age…) who claims that he and Shawn were “meant to be”. And not “meant to be” in the innocent, something you just say goofing off way, meant to be in the way that he had duct tape, a handgun, and a shotgun in his car type way. Nothing says love like 2 loaded firearms and duct tape!!!!

Shawn Johnson...Clearly has the crazy voters on her side!

I didn’t realize that dancing with the stars brings out the crazy in…well…the crazies!

So, I am going to assume that you all have heard that April 1st 2009 the biggest craziest computer virus anyone has seen in years is going to launch. How do “experts” know this is going to happen? Well the computer nerd who created it left that little bit of info in his “virus” code.

What is the name of this virus? The Conficker C computer virus. I don’t know who picks names for computer viruses but I’m going to vote that from now on we do it Hurricane style, you go by name alphabetically! I think it works just find and doesn’t sound as dumb.

Anywhoo back to this super virus. What is it going to do? Well according to experts…they don’t know. Is it just me or do computer experts rarely seem to know what is going on. There is always some bug some where that a “team of experts” is working on and they always come up with some crazy super huge fix for it when there is probably a simple solution. I don’t mean to knock all the IT guys out there…I’m just saying you guys can’t come up with good names for viruses and you can’t seem to fix em. What good are you?

You can read the story that goes a little bit more into detail on CNN.com

Basically it will mess up your shit. So what does this all mean, I’m not really sure but I’ll tell you something that just popped into my head, I’d be willing to bet that the majority of people who own a computer that is infected by Conficker C are men. Why do I say this? Because I got a feeling that it has something to do with which demographic frequent adult/questionable content websites. Do I know this for a fact? No. But I’m just thinking that if I wanted to infect the majority of computer owners with something I would attach it to adult stuff.

Anywhoooooo…After reading that CNN.com article it appears as if the “experts” think that the goal of this virus is to try to make money by selling fake software. What? Yep. Selling fake software…that’s the dumbest thing I have heard since:

Yeah…

Anyway if you want to read some serious stuff about the virus, let’s say you’re a computer nerd or something, you can read an analysis of Conficker C

I don’t even know if that analysis is in English.

Get Ready for the wildest April Fools Day EVER!!!!!!!!

So following today’s news that M.I.A is really 33 and not whatever age she had originally said she was, it got me thinking, what other celebs take Miguel Tejada approach and lie about their age to be younger.

Here is my top 5 list of…you probably aren’t that age are you?

Akon - Yeah it's kinda creepy knowing I was grinding on a 14 year old right?

1) Akon
Age: 25 (in 2006) This year: 31 (yeah that works) Birth Certificate age: 35

Fun Fact: Akon claims he doesn’t know his real age …Of course, who does know their real age? I mean it’s not like there is any sort of record of Birth out there…wait? There is? Oh…

I'm 30...aren't I?

2) Justin Timberlake
Age: 28

Fun Fact: There has always been rumors out there that there is NO WAY this guy is 28. And I kind of agree with it – the argument here is that he lied about his age when he was “11″ to get into some sort of crappy talent competition and he had to roll with that lie forever. I’m not saying it’s true, I’m just saying it LOOKS like it’s probably true.

Beyonce - Doesn't really look like a chick in her 20's right?

3) Beyonce
Age: 28 – Rumored Age: 34

Fun Fact: There are all sorts of claims out there that Beyonce is lying about her age, and they don’t just stop with Gabrielle Union claiming the 2 were friends as Teens – but again that proves nothing. Do I think that she is probably not 28? Yep. I don’t think she’s 34 either – I think she took the baseball player/Justin Timberlake approach and dropped 2 year off the age.

Peter Gammons...yeah I say I'm old, but I'm really SUPER OLD!

4) Peter Gammons
Age: 64 – My guess at his age? 100

Fun Fact: Peter Gammons has always looked like a super duper old guy, I’m just saying that he probably isn’t 64, he’s gotta be 100.

Tommie Harris: Rumor at the combine was that the Medical Teams from different Teams seemed to think he had the joints of a 35 year old...weird?

5) Tommie Harris
Age: 25 – My Guess? 30

Fun Fact: Tommie Harris is injured every other game for the friggin Bears! I mean what sort of “25″ year old gets injured every single game? Honestly? Because I really can’t name any. So here is what I’m guessing Tommie was held back a few times…dominated every level he was on in football…and now his age has caught up to him. (Yes, I’m a Bears fan. And, yes I’m getting frustrated with a guy who makes a bazillion bucks to play football not playing football.)

Hope everyone enjoyed the list! It was done in fun, I don’t really think anyone above is 100…I’m just saying don’t be surprised if you find out that they are!

I know this post will have exactly zero to do with anything…

But…

Here’s the thing, I made the greatest Panini ever and I want to share my awesome recipe with the world…

We’ll call it “The Nooge”…after it’s creator…myself…

Ingredients:
- 2 slices of bread (you might want to have a little bit thicker bread, The Nooge get’s messy ladies…)
- Peanut Butter
- Jelly
- Those small marshmallows
- Spray EVOlive Oil if you got it (the reg. stuff will do if you don’t have the spray)
* And of course you are going to need a Panini maker – I am not really sure if a frying pan will do, but I know a george forman grill will do)

Directions:
1. Spread a generous amount of peanutbutter on one of the pieces of the bread (It’s ok to get a bit wild with this, although the more you put the messier The Nooge is…if you don’t mind the Nooge getting on your face then go crazy)
2. Put the jelly in the center of the piece of bread that has the peanut butter on it. So have a little lake of jelly if you will AND DO NOT SPREAD IT TO THE EDGES!!!!!
3. Spread a generous amount of those little marshmallows all over the piece of bread that has the jelly and PB on it. Don’t be afraid to put these towards the edges they don’t leak out as quickly.
4. Put the other piece of bread on top…now you have a sandwich
5. Spray that EVOlive Oil on the top AND bottom of the sandwich (enough to cover the bread in a layer of oil, but don’t put TOO much, depending on the thickness of bread you should be able to tell how much is too much)
6. Throw that sandwich in the Panini maker. (My panini maker has a temp knob – I like to put it about 3/4 of the way)
7. It should take about 3.5 minutes or less to cook. Keep an eye on it, when it looks like the jelly/pb/marshmallow is about to leak out REMOVE THE PANINI FROM MAKER!!
8. Let cool for about a minute, then cut in half (you don’t have to…but I have to cut my sandwiches in half cause I’m kind of like a 5th grader)
9. Enjoy. This is going to be messy, but if you’re careful you should be fine. Remember the closer you put the jelly to the edges the more dangerous it’s going to become while you’re eating it!

And…That’s my blog for the day. I’m telling you – get out there and make The Nooge.

With today being St. Patrick’s Day I thought I would drop some fun facts about the Holiday.

Let’s start with what St. Patrick’s Day is:

As I assume everyone can figure out, St. Patrick’s Day is a day or “feast” to celebrate St. Patrick. Who exactly is St. Patrick you ask? Well his birth name was Maewyn Succat, I’m not sure who decided to call him Pat but whatever, and no one is really sure when he was born people figure it to be around the 380′s or early 400′s (He was a Roman Britain, which means when Rome was controlling parts of Great Britain he was born in Great Britain). When he was 16 is about the time when things get interesting – he was captured by PIRATES! That’s right folks, PIRATES! The Pirates took him from Wales all the way to Ireland as a slave (yeah…real long trip…get a map if you don’t get it.) Now after that things get a bit foggy, and by a bit foggy I mean really foggy. No one is really sure what Patrick did when he returned home to Wales – and then back to Ireland – nor is anyone really sure what Church he was a part of. But they are sure he was a Catholic guy who went to Ireland as a missionary (converting people and what not). It is also a legend that he drove the snakes from Ireland, although Ireland probably never had “snakes” some scholars and what not assume “snakes” means druids – and “drove” means converted. The point is not a whole lot is known about St. Patrick, I mean he’s rumored to have lived to 120 years old (which…probably isn’t true in our view of years). The most fun thing that I learned about him is that his Father was a Deacon and his grandfather was a Priest…yeah…you know the type of Priest who can’t have sex or kids…turns out back in those days things were a little willy nilly in the Catholic Church.

Anywhooooooo long story short St. Patrick was captured by pirates eventually returned to Ireland, converted some Druids by teaching the sign of the holy trinity using a clover/shamrock (lucky charms style!), and now is a Saint (With his feast or “Saint Patrick’s Day” being celebrated on his estimated day of death.)

Fun Saint Patrick’s Day Facts:

The longest-running Saint Patrick’s Day celebrations in the U.S. are:
Boston, Massachusetts, since 1737
New York City, since 1762 (247th Consecutive Parade in 2008)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1771
Morristown, New Jersey, since 1780
New Orleans, Louisiana, since 1809
Buffalo, New York, since 1811
Savannah, Georgia, since 1813
Carbondale, Pennsylvania, since 1833
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, since 1843
Chicago, Illinois, since 1843
New Haven, Connecticut, since 1845
Saint Paul, Minnesota, since 1851[31]
San Francisco, California, since 1852
Scranton, Pennsylvania, since 1862
Cleveland, Ohio, since 1867
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, since 1869[32]
Kansas City, Missouri, since 1873
Butte, Montana, since 1882
Source: Wikipedia

*Butte Montana? Really? I think that ones a real shocker to me – and maybe Savannah Georgia – when I think of those 2 places I don’t really think they are North East enough to have a ton of Irish immigrants, but what do I know?

Savannah Georgia claims to have the largest attendance of any of these celebrations with 750,000 in 2006. For some reason I don’t think that’s 100% accurate…I’m just saying.

Another fun fact: Saint Patrick is the Patron saint of Engineers! That’s right nerds get your drink on today for your patron saint (did I ever tell you guys the story about how I was going to be a mechanical engineer? Well it’s a long story for another time.)

- Did you know Saint Patrick didn’t wear green vestments but BLUE?
- St Patrick was a guy known to get his drink on! After chastising an innkeeper who served a short measure of whiskey he said that everyone should “Have a drop of the hard stuff” on feast day.
- In the custom known as “drowning the shamrock”, the shamrock that has been worn on a lapel or hat is put in the last drink of the evening. And you’ll most likely see that shamrock again in a few hours!
- Who celebrated St. Patrick’s Day First? The United States, more specifically Boston.
- Did you know that over 34 million in the U.S. claim Irish ancestry – not too shabby for a country that only has around 3.5 million people.
- The largest St. Patrick’s Day celebration in the Southern Hemisphere is held in Sydney, Australia
- On St. Patrick’s Day, you can bring yourself good luck by finding a four-leaf clover, wearing green, and kissing the Blarney Stone. And for you ladies out there, there is also the rumor that you can kiss the Nooge for luck…I’m just saying what the word on the street is!

Well, that’s what I got for Saint Patrick’s day, but you want to know what my Favorite thing about the Irish (being partially Irish myself) is?

The Boston Celtic Cheerleaders:

Thanks Ireland!

I kid!

Have a great Saint Patrick’s Day!!!

What is Alexa? I really am not that sure, the guys here at WestSideWill just showed me a few things about it and thanks to a quick summary by Doug I kind of get the drift – Alexa is a website that ranks the “traffic” of other websites. So basically it tells you how popular you are in this world (although you have to have some sort of Toolbar on your browser to count). I always knew Alexa was a site that ranked websites but up until now I wasn’t exactly up on all the odds and ends of what was going on with that site, I think I am now.

But when you find something new you like to take it out for a test drive, and that’s what I did. I was searching Alexa.com to find all the websites in the world that WestSideWill.com was better than – and there are A TON! I think the ranking system goes up to something like 28,000,000 and as of this very posting WestSideWill.com is ranked 378,178 (and like golf a low score is great) – so I thought a fun post would be to show all of the really cool websites we are better than!

JenSterger.com
Rank: 1,559,503
I’m not really sure how the world works, but the fact that we here at WestSideWill.com are over 1.1 million spots better than Jenn Sterger is kind of weird. Does this mean we’re hotter than Jenn Sterger? (By the way her site has pics/bio/and a BLOG that she writes – so there is content there – no idea why it isn’t super popular (To be fair not EVERYONE knows who she is. You kind of have to know sports – she doesn’t really do anything else)

Jenn Sterger Hot...But according to alexa not as hot as WestSideWill Radio

ValeKilmer.com
Rank: 1,376,809
Well here is when things are starting to get weird, we are about a million spots better than Val Kilmer’s offical site, but he’s about 200,000 slots ahead of Jenn Sterger? I have to say that I think Jenn Sterger’s fans need to step it up! And what the damn is with the ‘E’ ValEKilmer.com???

Val Kilmer > Jenn Sterger?!?!

The Professional Cheerleader Blog
Rank: 414,641
Well…I kind of figured we would be popular, but better than a blog that just posts pics of professional cheerleaders?!?! How is that even possible – I mean the site isn’t “porn” but generally speaking sites that have to do with pretty girls on a daily basis usually kick butt – does this mean we are better than professional cheerleaders?

Go Bulls!

Pinfalls.com
Rank: 4,207,847
The official Jake “The Snake” Roberts WEBSITE!!! And we are about 4 million spots better? How can this be? I mean look at the dude, he has a belt, and isn’t dead yet – so he has that going for him!

Jake The Snake Roberts

Reignman.com
Rank: 5,714,303
The official Shawn Kemp website…within 5.5 Million of us here at WestSideWill Radio…which if you told me this 15 years ago I would never have believed – partly because 15 years ago I didn’t know what the internet was…

Shawn Kemp...Reignman, Did you know he has like 100 kids?!

And…That’s all I got for today! Just was having some fun with alexa.com – don’t take the rankings too seriously. All the the “Rank” data is as of TODAY March 15.

Lil’ Mama…fairly talented rap artists…attention wanting judge on ABDC…and now the latest woman to really stand up for a guy who clearly beat the hell out of a woman.

Lil’ Mama sat down and gave an interview to MTV recently, and they posted it on their site here: Lil Mama Chris Brown Supporter

Basically what she says is that she would work with Chris Brown again AND

“I haven’t spoken to Chris Brown in a while,” she said. “Was I surprised [about what happened]? [I was] very surprised to hear how people went about speaking on what happened.”

So…she’s surprised to hear that people went on to speak about what happened…but…she feels the need to speak about what happened and it’s cool?

“[I was] very surprised because there were allegations of Chris Brown and Rihanna having a fight and everyone just went crazy — the media, his fans, her fans. I mean, everybody just lost their minds,” she said. “Nobody knows what happens still to this day, but everybody’s talking. I don’t understand that.”

Yeah…no one knows what happened, I mean Rihanna clearly beat the hell out of herself.

But I’m not mad at Lil’ Mama, I’m pretty sure she isn’t in the running for any sort of Detective of the year awards or anything, I think what I’m trying to point out with this blog is that if you give celebrities a gun 8/10 are going to shoot themselves in the foot. The gun in this case is giving them a forum to speak about the Chris Brown thing – if they are really dumb enough to think that the things they say aren’t losing them fans then…well…they are dumb.

Lil Mama: Scholar...Detective...Icon

I think the problem with Lil Mama is that she is admittedly confused:

“I have not heard from Rihanna,” she continued. “I see her in the media, taking pictures, going to events and living her life as she does normally, so I’m still confused. I don’t know what’s going on.”

Yeah…this is one of those cases that is super hard to figure out…If Lil Mama can’t figure it out, who can?

I don’t think there is going to be any sort of backlash at Lil Mama for being the 100th person to dive into the shallow end of the pool here, but I just find it interesting that celebrities, no matter how small, are really that oblivious to the things they say. Read the MTV article, it’s interesting…

If you listen to today’s unsigned artist showcase you’ll hear Dave “Get nasty” on Nickelodeon for leaving it’s invite to Chris Brown on the table for the Kid’s Choice Awards.

Now – is it just me or is this one of the dumbest things that you have ever heard of? Chris Brown clearly beat the hell out of a young lady, I know innocent till proven guilty…but that’s just in the court of law not common sense, and then Nick decided to let that one slide. I guess in the grand scheme of the world there are worse things that one can do to someone – but still it was a terrible event that I really don’t think that Nick should get behind. As it turns out Chris Brown and his camp had the common sense to withdraw himself from consideration for any awards – but Nick didn’t.

I’m sure there are a million excuses and millions of people to blame for this but let’s just call it like we see it, Chris Brown is an asshat for beating a woman. It’s his fault, he put Viacom/Nick in a spot where they had to make a choice, and for some reason with this whole Chris Brown thing no one seems to want to put their 2 cents in. Well I will, Chris Brown is a piece of crap who wouldn’t have the balls to lay his hands on a man like he did with Rihanna. In fact I’m pretty sure the only fights Mr. Brown could win are with a woman…who MAY weight 110 lbs. So the fact the Nick decided that they didn’t want to say that makes them no better than Mr. Brown. This is one of those times where you have to put your foot down and explain to some moron what is, and what is not acceptable behavior.

To be fair there are rumors that Rihanna hit Chris Brown first, and of course some of you have probably read the responses by some posters on the MTV.com website, oddly enough…Viacom owned like Nick, where there are guys posting their feelings that if a woman hits you first you have every right to dismantle her like Chris did. That’s where ignorance comes into play. Personally I blame the school system. You don’t have every right to beat the hell out of someone who hit you, you do however have a right to reasonably defend yourself. I don’t know about you but when a 110 pound girl comes at me I would hope that I could hold her arms back…or at least BLOCK her swings without having to punch her in the face a few times. Maybe Chris and I have different opinions of what reasonable is.

But the fact remains that Nick/Viacom probably dropped the ball on this one – but the blame is all on Chris Brown for putting them in that spot.

What do you think about Chris Brown/Nick?!?!?! Let us know!

The Radio bumps are back my amigos! Yeah I busted out the 2 years of high school spanish on you because I was so excited…for those of you who don’t know what a radio bump is I’m going to walk you through the process right now.

Requirement:
- None. You can be a FAN OR ARTIST we’d love to have bumps from all of you! All you need is a microphone on your computer.

Step 1: Record the following message -“Hey this is (YOUR NAME) of (Band/group) from (City or whatever) and you’re listening to WestSideWill Radio, The #1 source for Unsigned Artist Radio on the Web.”

Or something like that. All we really need you to say is your name, band(if you have one, if you are a fan/solo artist you can skip that), where you are from, and you need to state “You are listening to WestSideWill Radio”. You can ad lib all you want! Have fun with it. You can throw something in there about how great the Nooge is if you want

Step 2: Save is as a .wav OR .mp3. We’d prefer mp3′s but we aren’t really that picky.

Step 3: Email it to our interns at Submissions(at)WestSideWill(Dizzot)com RE: BUMP

Step 4: Be ready to hear yourself on our air!

These bumps are a cool way to promote your band OR hear yourself every single day on WestSideWill Radio (We have over 600,000 listeners each month so be ready to make new friends!)

We use these bumps 2 ways, as whole radio bumps that we throw in random times during our shows and we also cut them up and throw them into show intros. We are going to be busting out a new show intro in a few weeks and we would love some radio bumps!

Any questions you can leave a comment and I or someone will answer them.