For the next two weeks, I will be helping out WBAL TV with a story on the Kinoki Detox Foot Pad. According to the Kinoki web site, it’s a product that is made to “assist your body in the removal of heavy metals, metabolic wastes, toxins, and other chemicals, ” and will “Boost Your Energy Level” as well as, “Improve Your Health and Wellness.” Please see the informative commercial here:
cut copy, 5.17.08, sonar 
Line up: Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D., Rihanna, and Kanye ta theDate: May 17th 2008
Venue: Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ
Weather: very nice, then a little drizzle
The Crew: John and Bobbie
Mechanical Bulls: 0
The Crowd: Teenie boppers, lots of them, and lots of them passed out drunk
What did I wear: Chucks, jeans, black hoodie
Beverage(s?) of choice: Captain and Diet/Jack and Diet, very expensive
Show lowlight: missed Lupe- very sad
Show highlight: oh so many! I really enjoyed N.E.R.D.’s set with this little sample of the White Stripes
Video highlight:\
Comments: Bobbie and I had a blast at this show. So many great highlights. Lupe joining Kanye on stage one of my favorites “Touch the Sky,” Rihanna coverd M.I.A. and N.E.R.D. reminding me how great “Rockstar” is.
Why The Water?
For me it's the bands combination of glass-blinking drums, looped thrash guitar and symbiotic melodies from Klink's key-IPOD-axe setup that orchestrates their own blue collar sound
What do you think? Give a listen to this video below.
Of late they have been spending their time fine tuning a new EP at their east Catonsvil
le apartment. Both James Klink and Dan Cohan live together and also makeup the two person outfit. The band is preparing for two upcoming shows in the Baltimore area at the 13th Floor (may 23rd) and the SOWEBO festival (may 25th).
Recently, The Water opened up for another electro-noise band, the Benevento/Russo Duo at the 8x10 Club in Federal Hill. The Duo has come a long way since their early days performing in the New York City alt-jazz scene with famed residencies at the Knitting Factory making $100 bucks a night playing indie songs stretched out in twenty minutes jams.
Similar in layout, the Water's two person sound machine might be quickly compared to the Duo because the rigs looks so damn similar. But let your ears be the judge. This summer The Water will be working the ports of Baltimore, playing wherever there is an outlet and a cooler. Get out to one of their shows and have a little taste of true Boh-driven, balmer Water; trust me, it's refreshing.
You would figure as a guy who spent many years in Missouri I would know a thing or two about Missouri traditions. But I don’t. I have just recently heard of a St. Louis tradition known as the Gooey Butter Cake, and I can’t tell if it looks good or not. According to Wiki, the Gooey Butter Cake has a “bottom layer of buttery yellow cake and a top layer of either egg and cream cheese, or butter and sugar. It is generally served as a type of coffee cake and not as a dessert cake.” The Office's Phyllis says the cake will in fact put you in “immediate cardiac arrest,” and that sounds delicious. Watch this video where Steve Carell talks to Phyllis about Gooey Butter Cake:
Just call it fun with the Flip Cam, but one day I decided to document my drive home and put it to music. My daily commute home starts on TV Hill at the WBAL building, goes through Woodberry and Hampden, continues onto the JFX, and ends on the corner of St. Paul and Biddle in MT Vernon. The video is shortened for time constraints. The song used in the video comes from the Athens, GA group known as The Whigs. Its called "I Never Want to Go Home" from their last release Mission Control out on ATO records.
