My parents are in a Tampa Bay Rays rap video

Mom shows up around :32, and Pops makes his cameo at :38, almost getting knocked out by "Cristol." I'm speechless.

Historic Weekend 2k8

I am moving this weekend. Again. Fourth time in four years. My new apartment, down the street on scenic Cambridge Street in ARC, will be a half-disco, half-dwelling, and I'm stoked as fuck to have an entire apartment to myself, the Fierce and Lolabear SB.

So as if I didn't have enough on my mind this weekend, there's about eight billion things going on around Boston.

Friday: Dance party at the pill. You may have heard if it.
Saturday: Biggest part of the summer at Marina Bay Beach Club -- Armand Van Helden, Junior Sanchez, Hot Pink Delorean, Hearthrob DJ crew, Soul Clap. Damn.
Sunday: Does It Offend You Yeah? at Great Scott, with me opening shit up.
Monday: I want to catch DFA's the Juan MacLean at Mid-Easy, though I doubt I will.
Tuesday: Madfuck LA electro duo Guns N Bombs at Middlesex, though I can't find a listing for it other than their own page. Huh.

Of course, all this shit was detailed in today's Boston Herald Hotline, which also talks about tonight's Julesy B. benefit at the Mid-Easy.

See you in September, when life, after roughly 17 months of hell, finally becomes awesome again. <3.

Bacon vodka

Jake's Dixie Roadhouse out of the hipster-yuppie burial ground known as Waltham has done some amazing things with bacon in recent years, but even I don't know if I can roll with this.

Bacon vodka.

Cocktails on the 'u include "Bloody pig," "Baconator Martini" and "Bacon - My Greasy Lover." Holy fuck, my heart just exploded from typing this. I wasn't a fan of the chocolate bacon I got about a year ago, andcan not imagine how these two favorites of mine will jive. Road trip to Jake's anyone?

BM Linx "Kids on Fire" video

BM LINX just released the video for lead single "Kids On Fire." This song absolutely kills, and the Sept. 26 show at the pill should be a motherfucker. The album Black Entertainment hits in November, but the trio is doing a preview party/show at NYC's Mercury Lounge on Sept. 9.

ITP: B Side update, style cal

Today's Hotline confirms the rumors of the B-Side Lounge cocktail conversion to a beer bar, and hypes the Motion Sick's Giambi-approved 'Stache Wednesday party at Church and the Walkmen raising mad loot for cancer hospitals through album downloads.

The Style Calendar is worth reading if only for the "Whitey Buldging" headline on the RRB White Party 2.

Free Show: 46 days notice

So "Free Admission" is the new $5 cover, and O'Brien's is the new something. Well, it will be. My boys Run Run Run from Los Angeles needed a show, so instead of having them play at 8pm at Johnny D's in Slummerville I bought out O'Brien's Pub to host a free show and dance party. Get crunked.

B-Side Lounge closing?

Here comes another reason to never cross the Charles -- according to the jibber-jabber on Chowhound, the B-Side Lounge in Cambridge is closing. Thank God Ben Affleck and J-Lo aren't together anymore, or this would be front page news.

Regardless, it's a bumer, as the retro cocktail dive was a cool joint for the sophisticated hipster. Word is the owners of West Mass.'s Moan & Dove and Dirty Truth bars are taking over in just a few weeks, and implementing more of a Deep Ellum / Publick House snooty beer-bar type place. Say-lah...

I Love Money: 12 Pack RIP

So not only did VH1 renege on their promise for BACK TO BACK episodes of I<3$ last night, but the new episode they *did* show turned out to be 12 Pack's last stand. WTF City.

Come on Toastee, how could you? Whiteboy ain'cho frien! Megan won't get you past the online beaver shot level of the porn community. Devastating. I had my boy 12 Pack tagged to win the whole thing, and now my world is shattered. I'm on the phone right now with the Party Boys' management about throwing a cougar dance party at O'Brien's around Christmastime, around when I should be over not getting to see my secret boyfriend on TV every Sunday night.

I watched last night's episode twice, and I can't think of anything else to talk about other than 12 Pack's exit. Whiteboy had to go. God dammit.

**EDIT: wait a second, does he have star tattoos around his nips? Uhhhh.... well, it should be noted that that pic was found on jockohomo.com

In the Papers, Aug. 21 edition

As I pick up my shattered ego from witnessing the Faint at the Roxy last night (Decent enough new album, didn't do anything for me live; but they played "Glass Dance" as the opener which was awesome, and allowed me to leave after seven songs and four $9 drinks later). From today's Boston Herald:

- The lovely and talented Miss Jordan Valentine has swapped Sinners for Saints as the former World's Greatest Sinners front woman has a new bag, Jordan Valentine & the Sunday Saints. Playing the Plough for free this Saturday.


- Other Cheap Weekend Thrills include fantasy football draft party at Game On, Allston squirt gun fight this Saturday and the August Moon fest in Quincy.

- Style Calendar: Ladies Luxury at the Marina Bay Beach Club; running of the brides and other random fashion notes for the week.

New Morrissey album cover?

We all know that Morrissey's new album, "Years of Refusal," will be delayed until Feb. 2. But rumors are floating that this photo will serve as cover art:

I kinda dig it. Mozzer lookin' spry.