Warner Music Group sells for 3.3 Billion!

‎3.3 billion for a music company? Really? If you want to piss away money, I am accepting cash, checks, travelers checks, money orders, itunes gift certificates and tacos.

Sports Gossip? (ill logik)

For those who don’t know, I am a sports junkie. Let me rephrase that. I love sports. You are likely asking yourself why would he down grade like that and not just come out and say it that way. Well here is the thing, I am indeed a huge sports fan. Sports is what I watch on tv 95% of the time… I don’t like movies, I don’t like sitcoms or any of these continuation epic shows like Lost or Heros or that stuff.

I prefer sports, but I am not one of those people that knows every single starting lineup, where they went to school and what their stats are. I love my teams and follow my teams but that’s about it (still don’t know their numbers and stuff).

Any way, so this past weekend I have had my second favorite form of entertainment (music is still number 1), turned into US Weekly from this whole, ARod getting divorced from his wife who is with Lenny Kravitz in Paris, while he stays home with Madonna… stupid. Its lame to me that people who read People Magazine know who Tom Brady, Lance Armstrong, Derek Jeter and Tony Parker are based on who they date/marry. It’s lame. The ARod story even got the back page on the newspaper the day the Yankees were hosting the 4th and final game of a series against the Red Sox. Here in town nonetheless.

Two very cool stories happened this weekend involving athletes that aren’t getting nearly enough love. First, former NFL player turned lame actor Brian Bosworth pulled a woman out of a wrecked car this weekend. Also a current NFL superstar, Tony Gonzalez apparently gave someone the Heimlich Maneuver.

I don’t judge anyone for reading US Weekly or People or whatever. The fact of the matter is though, we are sports fans because we love the game! We don’t care who dates who. We don’t care who cheats on who. If my favorite athlete cheats on his wife today, he is still my favorite athlete tomorrow. I love the game and the athletes, what they do in their private time is up to them.

TO is a Joke (ill logik)

I'm sorry TO... I am no buying this whole don't pick on my teammate nonsense. You threw McNabb and Garcia under the bus, why should I believe you now?

No one brought up blame on Tony Romo in the press conference except for you! Is that your subtle way to place blame on your quarterback without having to take heat form teh reporters yourself?

Sorry TO I'm on to you. You are still the worst teammate in pro sports.

Changes for Lollapalooza? (ill logik)

So I am back at home in Chicago for Thanksgiving this week. I came back because Sister Hazel. They played the Chicago Lighting Festival (along with KT Tunstal and Corbin Bleu... whoever that is). So I am staying th week.

So it was in the Chicago Tribune, that the plan maybe to have second concert in Philly that would include the same idea as Lollapalooza Chicago, however, it won't have all the bands that were in Chicago. It turns out it actually hit a snag in its plan this week. C3 Presents has already announced Loallapalooza will be in Chicago for the next 4 years but that doesn't mean they don't want to expand. They are looking at Belmont Plateau in Philly for 2 or 3 weeks after the Grant Park show.

They are saying that it wouldn't be called Lollapalooza but it would follow the same model. While C3 wants to bring it to Philly... Electric Factory (Live Nation) has other plans. They want to be the one to do it.

All this is fine with me. I am not one of those people who thinks that my toes are being stepped on by having more than one show. I could care less if they do 10 shows... all I know is I will see it in Chicago... and thats fine!

The only part that actually pissed me off were some comments by Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell. The Jane's Addiction front man said, "the scariest predicament we face in the music is that commercialezation has killed off the underground scene. It used to be at Lollapalooza that the audience was full of 20,000 freaks and miscreants and outcasts. But now people look like they walked out of the Gap."

Well Mr. Farrell... what the fuck do you expect when the tickets for 3 days are approaching $200, you have every single sponsor you can think (Adidas, iTunes, AT&T, MySpace, Citi, Play Station, Bud Light, etc.) and you yourself did a song with Fergie! If the show is commercial, the fans will be commercial too. But that doesn't even matter. Since when is a music festival for some people but not others. Isn't that whats beautiful about music? Isn't music the universal art? I coulda sworn it was.

Zambrano Tears Into Wrigley Faithful (ill logik)

So this weekend after Carlos Zambrano has gotten shelled for the again. Zambrano is 0-7 since the begging of August and complained yesterday about being booed by his home fans. He went on to say that this is when the fans should be most behind him because he is struggling.

"I don't accept that the fans were booing at me. I can't understand that. You know, I thought these were the greatest fans in baseball. But they showed me today that they just care about them, and that's not fair, because when you're struggling, you want to feel the support of the fans. No, I don't accept it. I just pointed to my head, and I will remember that because I don't want any bad outings. I know the great moments of my career will come."

I personally don’t boo players that play on my team with a few exceptions. However, it is in fans total right to boo a player. Especially if he just signed a nice big contract and has been in a funk ever since. Especially if he is supposed to be the guaranteed winner in the pitching staff. Especially if you are in a race for a division championship and every single game counts.

When people boo players like Zambrano, they aren’t booing him because he sucks. No, they boo Rex Grossman because he sucks. They boo Zambrano because he is awesome. Because he is one of the best pitchers in the majors and he isn’t playing like it. A month ago he had a legitimate shot at winning 20 games, that idea is way passed.

Carlos, the fans are going to be fans. They will back you when you win. They will get down on you when you lose. Don’t worry about the fans. Just worry about winning a godforsaken game. Please… we need you.

Michael Vick (ill logik)

You want to know my take on the whole thing. In my opinion it’s a disgusting activity. Torturing and killing a dog is disgusting and should be illegal. I in fact do think that Michael Vick should get some jail time for doing this. I find arguing against me to be very hard in this case. If you have an argument please let me know.

The biggest tragedy in this entire case in my opinion has happened after the crime was committed. I watch all these shows and they are saying that Atlanta is split between the races. That is the biggest problem. Why does this happen? Its depressing. When will people think they way they want and not just follow their community? I guess you can say that I am going with the ‘white middle class’ side because that’s what I am. I can promise you I am not. I am going with the moral side. How can you say you love a dog and when you killed its brothers because they couldn’t be used in the sport? For a stupid, disgusting game he gave up everything that he has worked so hard for his entire life. Vick is going to lose everything, the money, the fame and most importantly his freedom. Over a dog fight worth less than he makes a half!

It’s a shame this is happening now. The NFL could use a little good press thanks to Pacman Jones. Now we have someone who the whole country loved and seemed like a good guy going to jail for 18-36 months. Remember when we used to think, ‘why is Marcus Vick so stupid when Michael is so great?’ Well there goes that line of thought. They were hanging around with the same people it just took Michael longer to get caught because it was behind closed doors.