Today, the great Trini Lopez turns 71. This Latin songbird had a voice that could serenade even the surliest trucker on earth, enjoying a career peak during the early and mid ’60s. My favorite Trini records would have to be Live At PJ’s vol 1 and 2 (but especially two) and the Latin Album. If you can dig on swinging 1960s pop with a south of the border twist, Trini Lopez is your man.

“One more time!”

From Machine Gun Pop’s Bio:

All hip hop bio clichés aside, Eyezon knows struggle all too well. Born in Soweto, South Africa, he learned firsthand the trials associated with segregation, racism, and poverty. Growing up in difficult times with his father gone and his mother exiled to Germany, Eyezon found him self with the opportunity to move to the U.S. and try and start life from scratch. Having heard hip hop music only on mixtapes and recorded radio shows brought to South Africa by his uncle, Eyezon found something intriguing in the music, and although he had no command for the English language, learned the rhythm of the delivery, developing a style all his own as he learned the English language.

His most recent work, 7 Miles From Earth, precedes an upcoming project produced entirely by SEAN LANE. 7miles from earth lp. introduces us to Eyezon as he removes himself from his own community and provides an insightful, critical analysis of life in the 21st century. Whether it was struggling through apartheid, being displaced to the United States, or the experiences that Eyezon has had since, something has triggered a breadth of emotion and vibrancy that is rarely matched on record. Don’t believe it? Listen for yourself. 7 Miles From Earth is available on itunes and via any online outlets

Feelin’ it. Production style similar to Kanye’s. Check his shit here.

The Foo’s tour rider was leaked today at (where else?) www.thesmokinggun.com.

Hit the link for a little lol action.

Personal favorite requests?

-Left over food donated to local homeless shelters or their roadie that looks like Osama bin Laden.

-Their personal recipe for ice.

-The band’s suggestion that hospitality shoplift cool Ikea furniture in order to make the dressing rooms sexier.

-One bag of Pirate’s Booty (not Johnny Depp’s).

-The suggestion that, if red or blue Dixie cups are not provided, a catering Jihad will take place.

Dude you can’t make this kind of shit up. Black Lemurs in Madagascar hunt down Giant Millipedes, biting their head not hard enough to inflict mortal injuries, but just hard enough to coax the millipede into secreting its venomous juices, which the lemurs rub all over their bodies and get stoned as motherfuckers. Recreational zoopharmacognosy? Maybe Terrence McKenna was right!!111

Reviewing the top albums of 1981. A little bizarre, especially when he gets to John Lennon.

Apparently, the coyotes of Southern California have decided that children would make delicious dinners:

Wardens have spotted the coyote that tried to drag a 2-year-old girl from her front yard Tuesday in Lake Arrowhead, about 65 miles east of Los Angeles, but did not have a clear shot to fire. They have since set up traps for it. Authorities were also investigating reports of two possible attacks earlier this year in the same resort town in which a coyote may have bitten two young children in the buttocks as their father barbecued on the deck.

In the latest case, police said her mother was photographing the toddler and her siblings in front of the house when she ran inside to put the camera down. That’s when a coyote tried to make off with the toddler. The girl was treated for wounds to the head and neck, but was expected to survive. Dotti Edwards, a neighbor, came home after the attack and spotted a scrawny coyote in the street. Her neighbors have complained of coyotes in recent weeks with reports of the wild animals sleeping in yards and pestering residents.

“They’re so brazen right now,” she said. “They just stand there and look at you.”

Earlier, a coyote attacked a 2-year-old girl playing in a city park in Chino Hills, a suburb 30 miles east of Los Angeles that is connected to a state park.

The next day, a coyote in the same place made a beeline for another child, but the father scared it away. Since last year, there have been seven coyote attacks in the Chino Hills area, including four in which children were bitten. State wildlife officials have killed 23 coyotes to protect the public

“If they see a young child and they have a chance, yeah they’ll take it,” said Kevin Brennan, a state wildlife biologist.

The problem will be easy enough to solve however. We’ll just keep building building McMansions and suburbs over the land where coyotes have lived for a bajillion years, keep shooting them whenever they act like coyotes, then wait until there’s like three left before deciding that we might actually like to keep them around, for posterity. The American way!