The Sandbox Recap 7.02.09 by Intern Erin
Bah Weep Granah Weep Ninny Bong and what a beautiful day, huh? Noah better get that arc rearing to go!
6 a.m.
Info Burrito in 101.7 seconds
New issue of the Boston Phoenix out, introducing us to the new Best 50 bands around the nation, Monkey butt (Ed and Fletcher's fake band) is not featured in this list. Red Sox had a 6-5 win over Baltimore and this time they were the team to rally back. Ben Franklin predicted July 2nd as Independence Day, so in that case, happy indie day! The death toll in Massachusetts thanks to the swine is now up to 3. Break out the curry, it's now okay to have gay sex in a certain part of India! Speaking of which, 60% of Bostonians say they are sexually satisfied. Atlanta's at a sexy 70%. The Church is playing tonight with the dude from Swerve in Foxboro.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is out this week as well as Public Enemies with Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. The Black Eyed Peas take out the Jonas Bros for the number one album of the week. And speaking of those boys, the older, weirder looking one (21 years old) proposed to his longtime Jersey girlfriend, Danielle. I'm sure there's a couple tweens crying out there, but as long as Joe and Nick are still sort of up for grabs, the world's 14-year-olds can rest easy. Happy birthday to that crazy lez, Lindsay Lohan.
Michael Brodeur from the Phoenix, Music Editor about the new issue
The 50 States issue is back for the '09 edition. Michael Brodeur, the music editor of the Phoenix, and his team have been working up to this issue for past few months, searching for the best new or emerging band from each state. Fletcher asked if he had chose any bands that had any guitar in them? "Plenty," replied Brodeur. "We chose a lot of metal." Charlie suggested that Brodeur check out phenomenal local bands Bless your Bacon and Best Dad. (Never heard of them? Yeah, us either. Maybe because Charlie made them up and tried to catch Brodeur in the act discovering fake bands!) Where do they find these bands? "MySpace, college radio stations, bands with band friends, it's a very long process, really." Also a couple featured singer/songwriters in the mix, mostly hip-hop newbies.
7 a.m.
Henry Santoro's 180: Covering Half of Everything
We, the commoners of the commonwealth are getting the shaft once again. Mass Pike employees are blowing through tolls for free with a transponder they get just for the job. Now we understand there are certain perks that come with jobs. For example, Fletcher can get into concerts at the House of Blues and Paradise, but he can't get tickets through the company for U2. Over half of the Pike's employees get a free ride on the toll road. They raised our taxes to bail out these guys that want a free ride. But when they are in debt because of it, there's got to be sacrifices made for the sake of getting out of debt.
Losing the perk is better than losing pay. Most perks are gone from jobs now. If you have to drive somewhere, park somewhere, you're paying, not your company. It's all about the politics. Is it really going to make that much of a difference if they start paying now? They'll really add up and the pike sure has a lot of employees. If they and we were rolling in dough, then who cares, but they need to be affected from the economy just as the rest of us are. If they're doing it on the way to work, that's one thing, but if they're just going up the Pike to go shopping and take advantage of the perk, that's a different story.
The Sandbox Gives You the Gifts
Congrats to Ally, the tenth caller at the sound of the Kraken! Ally went through about 8 already taken prize numbers and then chose no. 12, which was a 4-pack of tickets to the All Points West festival in Jersey City the weekend of July 31st to August 2nd. In need of a road trip, she was overwhelmed with excitement! Only a few prizes are left on the board, so make sure to check which numbers are available online and we'll be right back at it next week with the Kraken!
Maura from Idolator.com putting Perez to shame with her music blog!
The open casket funeral at Neverland that everyone was invited to scheduled for tomorrow has been cancelled and is not happening. What will happen with the closets full of Michael Jackson unreleased music? Going to be like Tupac with new music coming out every year after this death? One can only imagine that the Jackson family is going to make bank off of those, but we'll have to just wait and see.
And the oldest Jonas brother Kevin is now engaged to his longtime girlfriend at the age of 21. Maura says this is not very shocking just because it's Kevin. She also says it won't be too much of an upset just because he's the least popular of the three anyways. "Who gets engaged on a Wednesday?" says Charlie. Ed says, "Who gets married in their early twenties? That's never a good idea. I don't care what the excuse is." (Sounds like he's making excuses for his sorry, single ass."
8 a.m.
Qdoba Mega Robo Thunder Phone Query
Henry played the 911 call that was made when a father found his two year old daughter had been strangled to death when the family's 12-foot long pet Burmese python made its way out of it's cage and into the baby's carriage during the middle of the night. Fletcher yelled during the newscast "Don't have a snake when you have a god damn baby! God!" No matter how well you take care of and train that snake, why would you have a snake and a two year old under the same roof?? He ended up stabbing the snak, but it was too late. The little girl had bite marks on her head. If you have kids, should you get rid of the pets for the children's sake?
Charlie used to have a dog and cat, now he's got two kids and a lazy, stupid dog. Always better to get rid of the cat, keep the dog. Ed would rather keep his eyes on the baby and dog all the time than get rid of it. People have to take responsibility of their kids and animals. A caller Laura's family trains horses and when she was young, she and fellow kids were never allowed near the horses until they learned how to treat and ride a horse. Caller Wiley says he had a snake smaller than a child, and he was overcautious about it. "Snakes are known for escaping," said Wiley, "and you need to really secure the cage." Dolly noted, "It's ridiculous to even have a snake that size and that dangerous when you have children in your house, around the neighborhood or if you have friends with kids."
Final Consensus: Henry is a disgusting individual for forcing this story and 911 call on us at 8 o'clock in the morning. But really? What do you expect when you have a 12-foot python in your house with a 2-year-old. That was an accident just waiting to happen. Use your god damn common sense.
Jet help Ed spiffy up his Australian accent!
Cameron Muncey of Jet enlightens the boys on fat-arming and releasing a new album in August from their own record label. Fletcher brings up that the second album was a bit of a flop after the huge success of their first, Get Born. It was an absolute sophomore slump. They'd been on tour for such a long time.
"Everything's really great, really fun, but every now and then some pots and pans can get thrown, like a relationship." Despite those words, they did not in fact break up. Words just got misconstrued on a blog when one member said ‘hiatus' and the world got a little presumptuous about it. They will soon be coming to Boston as a pit stop on their world tour to support their new album: travelling from US, to Europe, to Japan. We're hoping they'll be able to stop by the studio and give us our own intimate performance!
9 a.m.
My Song is Better than Your Song
Author Elijah Wald vs. Rally Driver Tim Penasack. To see a video of the crazy things that Tim's capable of, check out the video page at wfnx.com to see him drive Ed through the forests of NH.
The Challenger's Choice: "The State of Massachusetts" by the Dropkick Murphys, always pumps him up before a race. Plus, in China he walked into a bar that featured a band trying and failing at a cover of this song, which was just great to see.
The Champion's Choice: "Killing Floor" by Howlin Wolf, was impressed with the listeners choice of Aretha, so thought they might want to expand their playlists to the good old classics. There would be no Rolling Stones, no Dropkick Murphys without Howlin Wolf.
And the Winner is: By one vote, Elijah Wald. Dead tie until the very end. But new England forest rally, is a two day event from Friday to Saturday. You have to have the license, safety equipment, the car. Sunday River, Maine. Ed was just tired from holding his head up with that ridiculous helmet.
WTF Line
People really had it out for Santoro for just ruining their morning and entire day really with the audio of the python/dead girl 911 clip. But on the brighter side (more like rainer side, actually) it's almost the weekend, and a good weekend at that! The 4th of July! Enjoy, and the Kraken will return Monday with 4 remaining gifts to give out!
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