Although I had originally told myself to hold out on buying Star Trek on Blu-ray, I found myself heading to Best Buy after work last Tuesday.  I could not resist owning and watching this summer’s biggest action blockbuster on my PS3/Blu-ray player with HDMI cable connected to my Toshiba LCD TV!  B’dis good!

Star Trek  \m/  \m/  \m/  \m/

Friday night after work I went to go pick up Moon, a friend of mine from Columbia who was in town visiting his dad, and went out to Ground Zero for a benefit show with EVERY MANS ENEMY.  Neither of us were feeling great as both of us were having ‘digestive issues’ so we stopped and picked up anti-diarrhea medicine which seemed to settle us both.

We got to the show a little after nine and PARALLEL THEORY was already on stage followed by CHIVALRY featuring former members of EVERY MANS ENEMY.  Next was OBC (ORDER BY CORRUPTION) and then FROM TOMORROW featuring Epps, formerly of HEADSNAP.  EVERY MANS ENEMY went on last to close out the night and help with some of the prize drawings for the benefit.

It was great getting to see some people I haven’t seen in a while since I haven’t been to GZ in quite some time.  Moon spent most of the night getting hammered since I was the good ol’ DD and ended the evening talking to ‘Ralph’ in the GZ bathroom.  I had to go in and guide him out to the car where his empty Walgreens plastic bag awaited him so he blow more chunks on our way back to his dad’s house.  To his credit, he managed not to get a single drop of vomit in my car.  Kudos!

I didn’t get home and in my bed until around 4 a.m. so, needless to say, I was a little less-than-perky getting up five hours later to come in and do an on-air shift.  Quite a few people told me I sounded hungover even though I had only had a shot of Jager(meister) and a Captain (Morgan’s) and Coke earlier the night before.  I was just exhausted and I was hoarse from having to scream in everyone’s ear every time I tried to talk to someone during the show.

When I got off at 2, I went home and ordered some pizza from Wedgy’s and had P1 All Day Toker deliver.  I don’t think I opened my door once the rest of the weekend….

Here’s the story from our sister station New Radio 106.3 WORD:

John Ludwig, the man accused of killing another man in a crash in April, pleaded guilty to reckless homicide Monday in court.

The judge sentenced Ludwig to five years in prison, which is suspended to three years of probation. Ludwig must also serve 500 hours of community service. The state had recommended a 10-year sentence.

The defense called several character witnesses, including Ludwig’s high school football coach, the Lincoln County, Ga. sheriff and Ludwig’s pastor.

Troopers have said that Ludwig was driving more than 85 mph and lost control of his Maserati on April 25. The car sped across a field before plowing into the back of the home of 62-year-old Frederic “Bill” Bardsley. Bardsley was killed. His wife, who was upstairs, was unhurt. Ludwig suffered minor injuries.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo Now you know the story. Lot of people are talking about this! What do you think? Is it wrong? Do you feel that money paid for this guy’s freedom? I saw a great quote on a comment about this saying, “Greenville, SC bought and paid for by John Ludwig.” So I leave it too you now. comment the blog or call the show. Either way let your voice be heard!

OO and here’s the pic of the crash!

I started thinking about the pre season college football polls today. You have TCU at #4 and Boise St. At #6, but I have to think Boise St. could be in that spot if not for a pre-season poll that put TCU arbitrarily ahead of them. That all only really matters is FSU manages to beat Florida and Auburn manages to beat Alabama. It’d be even better if my (drawn out of a hat) Texas Longhorns drop a game and you wind up with some combination of TCU/Cincinnati/Pittsburgh/Boise St. playing in the championship game. Basically I always want what’s worst for the BCS and this year gives us a very good chance at that if some of these shaky-looking top 3 teams will only stumble before the bowls are set.
As it stands, though, its bad for the BCS when you’re looking at 5 undefeated teams and a once-beaten SEC runner-up who only lost to the unbeaten #1 ranked SEC champion.

Otherwise, I’m going to have to get Modern Warfare 2 just because people will not stop telling me how incredibly great it is. And I’m personally really excited for Left 4 Dead 2. You know me and zombies. It’s a match made in purgatory. That’s an undead, not-really-alive-but-obviously-not-dead joke. And a strong one.

I did the photo shoot for the Neato Mosquito poster this past Saturday. It was fun and it went really well. We had a green screen in a suburban garage and that was the setting for what hopefully helps sell the movie to people. There’s a ton of pressure on my goofy face and a biscuit. We’ll see. Either way, it’s exciting to see what’s going to happen with this little piece of film.

I’m one of the few people left who like boxing and Saturday night convinced me that Floyd Mayweather Vs Manny Pacquiao is not that big a fight. It will be if it happens. Two million people will buy it on pay per view for 60 bucks a pop, people will pay thousands for good ringside seats, and it’ll be a huge event on a Saturday night. But the fight isn’t something you want to see if you like Mayweather and you saw what Pac Man did to Miguel Cotto on Saturday night.
Miguel Cotto is a perfectly game fighter with good speed and good power, but he couldn’t keep up, defend, counter, or hurt Manny Pacquiao.
Manny truly has everything you’d need to be the best fighter in the world. Anyone who beats him will have to slickly defend against his tenacity and relentless power punching, but also counter effectively enough to win on points. So you have to survive 12 rounds against his power, and find enough offense to win at least 7 of those rounds on points. Against a fast, slick fighter who can hardly be countered by anything. This is not going to be easy, not for Floyd Mayweather, and not even for someone like Sugar Ray Lewis or Marvin Hagler. It’s a fight built to suit Sugary Ray Robinson, but he’s dead and can’t very well take the fight in 2009.

I have an admission to make while I’m at it. I really, really hope I wind up with some Cirque du Soleil tickets for this weekend at the Bi-Lo Center. I’ve heard this Allegria show is very good and involves lots of high acts. And by high acts, I mean acts taking place many feet above the floor of the arena. Not stoned acts, at least as far as I know.

There is news that Brock Lesnar might never fight again due to some mysterious intestinal disorder that has him hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic and facing major surgery. I’m sure details will come out, though it all seems a little mysterious at the moment. What sucks is, that Brock Lesnar/Shane Carwin fight may never happen and UFC might be stuck putting up another interim championship in the heavyweight division. That’s too bad. The best possible outcome in the short term is a four-man tournament with Shane Carwin, Cain Velasquez, Junior dos Santos, and Minotauro Nogueira. Then they’re gonna need a whole lot more heavyweights so I’d say it’s the right time to have all these monsters in the house on The Ultimate Fighter.
All in all, UFC is having a tough run of it right now. Even if Lesnar were healthy right now, Carwin would be out of the November 21st fight for sure and probably the January 2nd makeup date due to his MCL injury. Minotauro is out at the moment with yet another staph infection (don’t hang out in dirty Brazilian bath houses) and there’s still no one around to offer a legit challenge for the welterweight or middleweight titles. But they still have a slew of talented 205-pound fighters and some 155-pound fighters. But not much in between, or beyond 205.

Strikeforce, on the other hand, has managed to pick up the top heavyweight, a couple of top-tier light heavyweights like Gegard Mousasi, and even a couple of middlweights who’d be nice to see in the cage with Anderson Silva. And good for Strikeforce. I’m happy to have another game in town, as long as Dana White has better luck over the next few months and gets back to the quality shows he was putting on for the first 9 months of 2009.

We’ll start our 28-hour Big Ass Broadcast on Thursday. That’s an adventure in itself. I’m thinking we’re going to surprise a bunch of people this year and raise a huge total for Toys for Tots. And it’s all about the numbers where we’re concerned. That’s our pride as a P1 Family, but more importantly, it’s toys for kids to play with and not many things are more important to childhood than having toys to distract you from all the grown-up worries the rest of us are consumed by. I wish I could play Connect Four to get away sometimes. Or Hungry Hungry Hippos. I sort of want to roll around on the rug playing with some G.I. Joe’s right now. We could finally see who wins when G.I. Joe meets the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and exactly which side the Ghostbusters are really on.
See how much fun that is? That’s precisely why everyone who ever hears the Toys For Tots broadcast should be moved to stop by, say hello, and drop off at least one of those delightful new, unwrapped toys. Nothing you do all year will make you feel better.

Finally, a guy who never made NASCAR because he struggles with tight turns has managed to sling his weight around and get out of jail, though probably not for free.
John Ludwig, of crashing-his-Maserati-through-a-house-and-killing-the-homeowner-while-he-watched-TV-on-his-couch fame was sentenced today to a five-year suspended sentence (the most worthless thing possible) along with 3 years of probation (the second-most worthless thing possible) and 1000 hours of community service (hopefully cleaning septic tanks) while successfully avoiding any jail time beyond the 21 days he served when a reasonably sane judge rescinded bail and considered Ludwig a flight risk.
WYFF News 4 spoke to Thirteeth Circuit Public Defender John Mauldin:
“I believe that poor people have the right to be surprised, to complain and to question the handling of this case. There is an appearance that the type of justice that people get is different for rich and powerful people than it is for poor and disenfranchised people. It is critical that people have confidence in our system and that justice be equal.”

WYFF.com story on John Ludwig case and verdict.

Last Tuesday the new Disney Pixar flick Up was released on DVD and Blu-ray so I, of course, picked it up first thing that morning on the way to the station and watched it first thing after getting home that night.  I enjoyed it just as much the second time around but was able to hold back the tears better than I could in the theater.  Plus the Blu-ray disc (and DVD) includes the animated short “Dug’s Special Mission” which follows Dug up to the point where he enters the film and meets Carl and Russell.  As always, Pixar delivers!

Pixar’s Up  \m/  \m/  \m/  \m/

The next night I picked up my brother Anthony who was staying with me for a couple of nights and we went and traded in one of my Blockbuster online movies for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra on Blu-ray.  The movie had a lot of great special effects and a decent enough plot for a summer blockbuster action flick.  The acting wasn’t superb by any means but, then again, I wasn’t expecting Shakespeare or Gone With the Wind.  Not bad.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra  \m/  \m/  \m/  \

This weekend I pretty much just stayed in watching movies, football and playing Lego Batman on PS3 which I finally completed.  Sunday I managed to make it to the grocery store so I could take a swing at making Mom’s homemade vegetable soup and cornbread.  After about a hundred calls to my mom, I finally succeeded in bringing her recipe to life and managed to do it justice!  I’m so proud of myself!  No soup for you!

I’m a huge fan of acoustic performances and besides just hearing great songs unplugged I really dig artist such at Justin King, Andy McKee, Eric Mongrain and others that can really rip on an Acoustic guitar.  Here are a couple of videos that I thought you would really like.  The first is by Eric Mongrain called Air Tap.  Eric’s style of play is very unique and really cool to watch.  The second video is a performance from John Butler on a 12 string guitar.  Its a really cool instrumental called Ocean!  Check ‘em both out and tell me what you think!!

Carrie Prejean had a little bit of a temper tantrum on Larry King Live last night. Carrie called Larry “inappropriate” when he asked the former beauty pageant contestant on why she settled her lawsuit against the Miss Califonia U-S-A organization. It’s been widely rumored that Carrie settled because the Miss California folks got their hands on her solo sex tape. Carrie had to know that the settlement was gonna be a big part of the show. She unplugged her mic and started shouting from across the room when she couldn’t here Larry King.  Wait for the Blonde moment when she says “I can’t hear you”

I had the opportunity to interview Sherry Woodword of National Geographic’s new show “Dog Town”.  She gave me some great news, because these are the folks that rescued the dogs from Michael Vick’s little dog problem.  I thought you might like to hear it in case you missed it on the air.

Click here to listen now!

I guess I got an old number for the actual amount of tests the South Korea woman took but she just passed her driver’s test!!!!!! She got it on her 950th try!!!!! BE CAREFULL SHE’S ON THE ROAD! Really I can understand that she did “pass” the test but at what point do we say maybe for the safety of EVERYONE ELSE! we give her the test a couple more times to be on the safe side.

Sittin at the house on a Sunday night, about to watch “Dexter”. Apparently, doing a five hour show, five days a week isn’t enough so now I have to blog, lol, I don’t mind it though. Show is well, you guys are cool, thats about all. Gonna leave now with an inside joke for matt and nine. You guys may not like it but I’ll exlplain it one day. Ok, someone who works in our building has this same exact hairstyle. Bye Bye now.
FB.