Brad Barrish

A new study being released Monday on the American Academy of Dermatology web site will suggest that 24 percent of Americans between 18 and 50 are tattooed. While I haven't done any scientific studies, it seems like more and more people not only have them, but other people don't seem as shocked by them. I wanted to get tattooed when I was a teen, but waited until I was in my late 20s to start. I just felt like I would be more sure about what I wanted. In hindsight, it was a good decision. I currently have 4 large ones between both arms and plan to get another one this year.

Read as John Perry Barlow leaves Dan Glickman in the dust.

You're 55 years old and these kids are 17 and they're just smarter than you. So you're gonna lose that one.

That's always somewhere in my argument when I'm talking to old an new in the music industry. The big old industry guys need to listen to the younger generation and involve them. There certainly are people in the industry pushing the envelope, but on the whole they are so behind and it's costing them billions.

As performed by George Bush.

I'm Juggernot Bitch!

It gets a little tedious. 9 minutes is a little long. You pretty much get the idea after the first few.

Wow, that's some ad campaign!

I try not to talk much about work-related stuff here, so you'll have to excuse me if I make fun of a particular artist we're doing something with. I was passing by a co-worker's desk who showed me their wikipedia page, which excerpted an interview with them.

In an interview with Blender magazine, the two expressed their disbelief in the process of evolution, with Aly saying, "Are they teaching that in schools now?", and AJ adding, "Evolution is silly. Monkeys? Um, no." Both Aly and AJ are home schooled.

Subsequently, moments later as I was browsing popurls.com, I stumbled upon the Top Ten Myths About Evolution.

Humans and great apes had a common ancestor about 5 million years ago Humans and monkeys had a common ancestor about 50 million years ago. Nowhere, except in the most illiterate anti-evolution literature, will you find a claim that humans evolved from monkeys.

Funny, eh?

I can't remember where I heard +/- for the first time, but it was recently and I'm in love with this song. Don't you love it when that happens? I haven't bothered to read much about them, but I know they've been around for years.  Boy Kill Boy has been a favorite around the office. The album is solid and this is one of the catchiest songs I've heard in a long time. Has this song been on The O.C. yet? It will be. You've been living under a rock if you didn't know the Thom Yorke album leaked last week. Of course I can't stop listening. It's political and pretty. We'll leave it at that. Lily Allen is buzzing all over the internets and you're about to hear why. Shayna already gave me shit about putting Angels & Airwaves on the mix, but umm, these mixes are for me. I ain't trying to impress. Ok, maybe a little. The new Hidden Cameras song is lovely. I wish I could have put it on the mix twice. And Vetiver is so dreamy. Those subtle hand claps! I'm a sucker for hand claps. Have a beautiful June.

01 +/- - Steal the Blueprints
02 Boy Kill Boy - Suzie
03 Hidden Cameras - Awoo
04 Psapp - Hi
05 Thom Yorke - Black Swan
06 Phoenix - Lost And Found
07 Keane - Is It Any Wonder
08 Headlights - TV
09 Angels And Airwaves - Do It For Me Now
10 Gonzalez Jose - Lovestain
11 Vetiver - Been So Long
12 The Black Heart Procession - Not Just Words
13 My Dad vs Yours - Law Of Unintended Consequences
14 Lily Allen - LDN
15 Mark Ronson - Just (Featuring Alex Greenwald)
16 The Roots - Don't Feel Right
17 DangerDoom - Sofa King (Remix)
18 Cloud Cult - Outside Of Your Skin
19 Editors - Orange Crush
20 Cribs - Mirror Kissers
21 The Futureheads - Fallout

I don't read AlterNet very often. I used to read it much more, but it started getting a little to left for me. Shocker, right? They just published an interview with Sam Harris, author of "The End Of Faith." He talks about how people need to be more rational and less relgious if we as humans want to overcome our differences. I agree with a lot of what he has to say.

Interpersonally, we don't challenge everyone's crazy beliefs about medical therapies or alien abduction or astrology or anything else. Yet if the president of the U.S. started talking about how Saturn was coming into the wrong quadrant and is therefore not a good time to launch a war, one would hope that the whole White House press corps would descend on him with a straitjacket. This would be terrifying--to hear somebody with so much power basing any part of his decision-making process on something as disreputable as astrology. Yet we don't have the same response when he's clearly basing some part of his deliberation on faith.

Apparently Colbert gave a fine commencement speech. I'm looking for the audio now. Perhaps Boing-Boing will post a link in the near future?

What the hell is going on in our country?!

The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Conventions that explicitly bans "humiliating and degrading treatment," according to knowledgeable military officials.

What's that one saying about actions speaking louder?

"The rest of the world is completely convinced that we are busy torturing people," said Oona A. Hathaway, an expert in international law at Yale Law School and a former law clerk to then-Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "Whether that is true or not, the fact we keep refusing to provide these protections in our formal directives puts a lot of fuel on the fire. It makes people think we are violating these provisions left and right."