Well Nelly and Tim McGraw did it. But before that these gems managed to combine country line dancing and hip hop. Strap in folks, it's a hilariously bumpy ride.

 

I have a phone I hate. I mean it's a piece of crap. The ringer decides to change on its own. Sometimes it won't even ring at all! Not to mention the amount of times it'll cycle through the rings while in my pocket. You're walking in the grocery store and it's "HELLO MOTO!". Bah. I gotta upgrade at some point. I mean phones are practically computers now. The video below is a great example of the versatility of the iphone.

You'd think that in the middle of 2010 that this sort of thing would barely even be noticed. Especially on the pop scene where soooo many people have went here before. Maybe it's because Miley is 17. But you know it's not about the age it's because it's a kiss with someone of the same *gasp* sex.

 

Jessica Simpson has recently gotten the ball rolling on banning the marketing of a terrible, terrible fitness video she did in 2005 with a company called SpeedFit. How terrible? Well I did some digging, and by digging I mean searched youtube, and found it... well at least some of it. The video embedded below has excerpts from it plus some choice words from Jessica's business manager about the video.

God I love the concept of video songs. They make already pretty cool songs even cooler. Sure some of these songs already have videos but they are lip synched from the oriignal studio track. Video songs is someone playing all the parts of the songs themselves and editting the video to make sure it's all mixed and timed properly. That takes a lot of work and patience. A few blogs back I introduced you to Pomplamoose and their awesomeness. Now allow me to introduce you to Paul Detah.

This past Mother's Day L'il Wayne sent out a very special message to the multiple mothers of his children and his own Mom. It's surprisingly eloquent. Have a read and try not to shed a tear.

 

It’s not many words in the world more powerful than “mother.” Those six letters can bring joy, just like they bring pain. It can invoke excitement just as quickly as it can anger, depending on the context, I guess. For myself, it means more than I can ever possibly describe, but I will try. I associate the term with immeasurable strength, beautiful patience and infinite wisdom.

You can probably already tell, but the main reason for this letter is to pay tribute to every positive matriarch on Mother’s Day. In my eyes, that day is 365 days a year, but I understand the significance of the holiday. The love between a mother and her offspring is hands down the most beautiful thing God created. More than money, more than fame, more than cars. You know why? Because true love is the only thing that lasts from the moment you’re born to the second you perish. To all the mothers who read this letter, I hope this day allows you to feel the love and respect you so rightfully deserve. You are the role models, not me.

To the mothers of my beautiful children, there remains nothing but love, adoration and respect coming from my heart. Even with the mistakes I’ve made in my life, you give me reason to smile in a place where they attempt to break your spirit each day the sun rises. I love my babies with all my heart. And the fact you brought them into this world only gives me more and more motivation to write these words. Happy Mother’s Day.

Last but not least, my own mother, Ms. Cita. You are my heart and you are my soul. Please don’t ever forget that. We’ve been through everything one could possibly imagine together. With each obstacle that has come our way, you have handled it with the grace and dignity I can only hope to mimic. Even writing this, it’s tough to come to grips with the fact I cannot spend this special day with you. Like you always preached, a man must accept his own actions – good and bad – and learn from them. And that’s what I’m doing. Mom, I love you more than you will ever know. Probably more than I love my own self. Enjoy Mother’s Day because you deserve it. Also, find comfort knowing your son loves you and misses you like crazy.

To everyone, again, I cannot stress this enough, thank you so, so much for the support. My spirits are sky high thanks to you all. It makes the day pass faster knowing people out there care about you and want you to do well. I pray the letters keep coming in at the volume they are right now, especially the overseas ones. They let me know life still does move on, even if I forget at times. I just ask that you all keep the letters to one page. And keep sending the pictures, too. Some of you are talented beyond belief with the drawings and paintings.

I’ll go ahead and end the letter here, but again Happy Mother’s Day to each and every lady who has raised/is raising her kids the best way possible. Take care. God bless. Live life. Show love.

“I can trust my loving Savior
When I fear the world’s alarms;
There’s no safer place of resting
Than His everlasting arms”

In Canada we rarely have anything resembling a "rock star" politician. The last real one was Pierre Trudeau. Ever since then we've been inundated with boring rich white guys. Cept maybe Chretien. He choked out a protestor once. Anyway my point is, how cool would it be to have our very own Barack Obama? Championing causes that sane people actually support. Actually doing something to make the world a better place instead of just lining the pockets of his rich buddies.

What makes me say this now? Quite simply, the hilarious White House Correspondents Dinner. Normally that sounds as boring as watching paint dry. But, I want you to watch his opening remarks, the rest is kinda boring, especially the Jay Leno part. Then picture Stephen Harper trying to deliver the same lines. Doesn't work does it? C'mon Canada, we're cooler than this. We can have our own Barack. Just vote for the coolest guy or girl next time.

 

Well. I just turned 30 and like a responsible grown up, I'm now a home owner. My wife and I just signed the papers and the financiing is all but complete. Just waiting on some paper work to be faxed back.

It's funny, but somehow it really hasn't hit me yet. I've always rented my entire life. If something goes wrong with the house, you call someone and it's fixed (eventually) and at no cost to you. Now however, if my furnace or hot water tank goes out, I gotta pay for it. I gotta mow the lawn. Thankfully though, our inspection revealed that the house we are buying is in tip top shape. Just some minor caulking is needed and it would be advisable to change the grade of our concrete patio to avoid a drainage issue. Sure that sounds complicated, but my wife is more of a handyman than I am and looks forward to doing it herself. ... I'll bring her beer as she works.

But there are plenty of upsides to owning your own home. We don't have to ask permission to redesign the house. The money we dole out each month isn't going into the black pit of a landlord's pocket, it's going right back into ours... with a little bit for the bank. We can have as many pets as we want... not that we need more cat hair than we have from the two cats we already have. And then there's intangible. Feeling of pride in one's home. I honestly cannot say that I've ever given a crap about any of the rentals I've lived in. It was always cleaned enough to get our security deposit back. But now I'm going to be way more interested in cleaning and maintenance because now it's mine, not someone elses.

Now I'm starting to get nervous. If you have any advice for the new home owner, email me quentin@kraze1013.com

Some people have great partners, I have the perfect one. My wife, to celebrate my 30th birthday, got me 30 presents for 30 years. Unbelievable. Here's a listing. Mind you, there are more than 30 individual gifts, they were in 30 seperate giftbags however.

1. Argyle T-Shirt
2. Ketchup Flavoured Popcorn Seasoning
3. Beef Jerky
4. Mango Bath Ball
5. Axe 2-Sided Shower Tool
6. Big Turk Bar
7. 4 Pack of Twix Bars
8. $30 Wal-Mart Gift Card
9. $40 Old Navy Gift Card
10. $10 Chapters Gift Card
11. Raspberry Lemonade Blistex
12. Strawberry Creamsicle Edible Body Lotion ;-)
13. Wireless Mouse
14. David Beckham's Instinct Cologne (Now I can attract Posh Spice. Yay?)
15. Muse T-Shirt
16. The Board Game Risk
17. Long Handled BBQ Brush
18. Underwear
19. Socks
20. Flip Flops
21. Heavy Duty BBQ Spatula
22. Leather Wallet
23. Firecracker Jalapeno Kettle Cooked Peanuts
24. Nerds
25. Nerd Eggs
26. Dentyne Shiver Gum
27. Dean Koontz - Forever Odd
28. 2 Picture Frames
29. BBQ Grilling Basket
30. Paint Brushes
31. Paint Roller
32. Marinade Injector
33. Inner Tube
34. Sink Strainer
35. Over-The-Door Hooks
36. AA Batteries
37. Parmesean Grater
38. Dashboard Hula Girl
39. Lint Roller
40. Speaker T-Shirt

And the centrepiece to it all, a Toronto Maple Leafs hat. Of course... my wife is turning 30 in November. Somehow, I think that maybe there was an ulterior motive to all this.

Happy Easter from me, my family, and... THE MUPPETS!

 

OK maybe that's an exaggeration. But it is kinda disappointing. Blackfalds didn't make the top 5 of Kraft Hockeyville. But hey it was a fun ride while it lasted right? And hey there's always next year! There are still 5 very deserving communities in the running. Including Pat O'Reilly Memorial Stadium in Bishop's Falls, Newfoundland. A place where I've actually been and the people who run the whole thing are some of the nicest people I've ever met and Bishop's Falls is a great town. To help them or any other community out, you can still vote here.

I love scouring youtube and the rest of the internet for cool videos and docs. And while puppies, kitties, and little kids are great, they're not possessing of much actual talent. Am I asking too much?

Seriously though, "Leave Britney Alone" guy gained fame by being a whining, melodramatic fanboy. People with actual skill are not necessarily hard to find, but are far more enjoyable.

A relatively new website chatroulette.com is an interesting yet kinda risky site. Basically the premise is you go to the site, hit a button and your webcam is linked into a system where you will chat with people at random. You can choose to end the convo and move on to another anytime and so can your chat partner. However, being so open you have avoid... well... let's just say there's a lot of creepy dudes out there.

However, there are some interesting people on there and this guy is certainly one of them. He's been on youtube since the 8th of March and at the time of this writing that makes 13 days. His first, and only, video has 3.7 million views and has 161,000 plus subscribers. He clearly has discovered internet fame.

What does he do? Well he gets on to chatroulette with his piano and IMPROVS songs about people on webcam. It's hilarious. This guy deserves all god things coming to him. Very talented player and a very funny guy. The internet needs more like him.

So a buddy of mine leads me towards this great site called totallylookslike.com

He had this photo as his profile pic:

 

Needless to say, I nearly died laughing. So I checked out the site. Lots of hilarious pics. But then it occurred to me, why not do one for al the DJs on Kraze? Then I thought, you know, I don't want to offend anybody. So just in case, I decided to NOT do Claire or Rae. Girls can be scary. The guys might beat me up but the girls will no doubt have some sort of twisted, self-esteem destroying revenge that would be served cold. So nuts to that. Here goes. All of these are made with a tool that they have on the website. All you need is the pics on your hard drive. Pretty simple.

 

 

 

 

 

And hey if YOU have the guts to make one of Claire or Rae email quentin@kraze1013.com Heck if you have any funny ones at all, send em to me!

Today I happened upon a little internet blurb about rapper Nas and his "dire" financial situation. And quite frankly it made me sick.

Not only does Nas owe $200,000 in back child support to his estranged wife, Kelis, but he owes $3,365,671.26 in back taxes to the IRS. Celebrities owing money is no big news. But here's the kicker for me. The guy got paid $50,000 for playing at the Sundance Film Festival and blew it all before he even left town.

First off, how in your right mind can you go out and blow that kind of money when it could have went to raising your child? Secondly, how can you blow 50 grand in one weekend? I mean I'm sure he never went to the car dealership so I can only imagine just what frivilous crap he must of spent it on. Or worse yet, what kinds of beggars and hangers-on that comprise most rap entourages that he spent it on.

I'm a guy who's starting out in radio. I'm not trying to get a pity party on the go here but no one gets into radio to get rich. My wife and I are scraping together what kind coin we can to put a downpayment on a house that costs just a little more than what Nas owes in CHILD SUPPORT. I'm painfully aware of the discrepancies in income amongst the world's rich and the world's poor but Nas should be even more so. He's from the Brooklyn projects. I can virtually guarantee you that his parents had to work very hard to scrape together whatever they could to feed their family and keep a roof over their heads and that sometimes they went without so that little Nas could have a good breakfast.

Doesn't this stuff rub off on you? I mean so many rappers come from poor backgrounds but then you see these guys going out and buying $50,000 grills. Teeth decoration! You'd think that out of all people they would realize that money is tenuous and that there's no guarantee that you'll always have that pay cheque. But no, their reaction is the total opposite.

"I have money now! To prove to you that I do, I am going to spend it all not once thinking of what effect it might have on my children and in total disregard how hard my parents worked for years to earn even a small percentage of my current income."

My parents worked their fingers to the bone scraping together an income and raising five kids in outport Newfoundland. I have tremendous respect for what they did on so little. And it did rub off on me. I am careful with my money because I know that anything could happen to change my ability to make a living. Even if I won the lotto, I would never EVER blow my money in this fashion. Just think what you would have done with $50,000. Would you spend it on Cristal and grills?

No, I didn't think so.

Today my wife calls me with some exciting news... the paper work has gone through, she is offically, legally Mrs. Jocelyn Coish. She gets her license very soon and while I'm excited about that, I also pity her. She now has the most reliably mispronounced name on the entire planet.

C-O-I-S-H

You feel like pronouncing it COY-SH right? And no one can blame you. The inexpliciable unpronounced I is right there to screw up just about everyone who's never saw the name before. Maybe it's the Olde English way of spelling it, maybe it's an immigration papers screw up for the first Coish's to enter the New World, either way now she has to automatically spell her name after pronouncing it anytime someone has to write or type it. Every university and college teacher I ever had got it wrong. Every customer service rep automatically thinks I mean Kosh or Koch. It's no fun but I'm not used to it. And it's doubly bad for her as she goes from Carter, easily pronounced and spelled, to my freak show last name.

Oh well. After we get a house, we're going to bring some cursed Coish babies into the world to share in the inconvenience. Someone to shoulder the load. You're welcome son/daughter.