a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/Cookie%20Monster.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/200/Cookie%20Monster.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //aI am bitter today. I am very bitter. It seems an eternity ago that I read the article in The Wall Street Journal likening the Cookie Monster to death metal. The article included commentaries about how some bands think its a joke, and shrug it off, while some fans get down right pissed off at the reference. It was a lazy Friday when I read it, and I neglected to write anything about it. After all, how many posts do I need that include Trivium; seriously? Well, a href=”http://bestweekever.blogs.com/best_week_ever_blog/2006/02/cookie_monster_.html”BWE/a has a commentary of it now. Bitter, because I am. I think that could be the name of an emo band, if i were to march that road. Getting back to things, a href=”http://www.necrophagist.de/Seiten/necrophagist_main.html”Necrophagist/a dropped their guitarist, and if you want some solid math-ish/death metal (Cookie Monster vocals included), check it out.br /br /a href=”http://shop.relapse.com/dbmedia/audio/Necrophagist%20-%20Stabwound3.mp3″Necrophagist “Stabwound”/a (mp3)br /a href=”http://shop.relapse.com/dbmedia/audio/Necrophagist%20-%20Seven.mp3″Necrophagist “Seven”/a (mp3)br /br /br /br /br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/Van%20Halen.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/200/Van%20Halen.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //aIt’s rumored that Van Halen will be the next band taking a walk down the road of reality television…span style=”font-style: italic;”Rock Star/span, which featured INXS last season, will be searching for a new lead singer for the label-less band. Is it just me, or (gasp), is Van-Hagar looking really good at this point in time? (for the record, Van-Hagar is and never will look good, this statement was made as a joke, do not hold it against me)br /br /br /br /br /br /br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/Scott%20Stapp%2C%20a%20silly%20drunk.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/200/Scott%20Stapp%2C%20a%20silly%20drunk.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //aa href=”http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1524214/20060213/stapp_scott.jhtml?headlines=true”Scott Stapp is a silly drunk/a. That isn’t slander, from what I’ve learned, because it is a TRUTHity. He is in fact a drunk AND he’s silly. This past weekend he got married to a former Ms. New York, had his seven year old son as the best man, then proceeded to get arrested at LAX for being WASTED. See, a silly drunk. Hey, remember that time that he got a href=”http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=208450″thrashed by a bunch of neo-hippies/a? Yeah, that was sick tight. Well…my friend Jon still thinks a style=”font-style: italic;” href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2path=ASIN/B000005B4Tamp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;tag=culturebully-20camp=1789amp;creative=9325″My Own Prison/aimg src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=culturebully-20l=as2amp;o=1a=B000005B4T” alt=”" style=”border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;” border=”0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ / is a good album, and I tend to agree. My friend Jon also says of Stapp “He’s probably my hero (but that’s probably not true);” I tend to agree with that as well.br /br /br /br /br /br /br /br /br /I received somewhat of a press release on this Montreal band Plajia. The email he first song I listened to, “Sleeping” really sounded a lot like The Flaming Lips’ last album. You be the judge:br /br /a href=”http://www.plajia.com/mp3/Plajia_Cecilias_Children.mp3″Plajia “Cecilias Children”/a (mp3)br /a href=”http://www.plajia.com/mp3/Plajia_The_Party.mp3″Plajia “The Party”/a (mp3)br /a href=”http://www.plajia.com/mp3/Plajia_Sleeping.mp3″Plajia “Sleeping”/a (mp3)br /a href=”http://www.plajia.com/mp3/Plajia_Singers_Being_All_Alone.mp3″Plajia “Singers Being All Alone”/a (mp3)br /a href=”http://www.plajia.com/mp3/Plajia_What_Is_Your_Sign.mp3″Plajia “What Is Your Sign?”/a (mp3)br /a href=”http://www.plajia.com/mp3/Plajia_I_Seek_You.mp3″Plajia “I Seek You”/a (mp3)br /a href=”http://www.plajia.com/mp3/Plajia_%20Am_I%20A_Magician.mp3″Plajia “Am I A Magician?”/a (mp3)br /br /a href=”http://www.plajia.com/”Plajia: Official Site/a