Hey, hi, kids. Hope your weekend is going well so far.
Personally, I'm in the midst of a long stretch of working at my regular job. I don't mind, though, OT pay is nice, especially when I have a new car to pay for. Then again, I may have mentioned all this already- I'm slightly sleep deprived, thanks to being on a 3am-1:30pm schedule.
Okay, good for Peter Frampton, I guess, for managing to keep his career alive for forty-something years- despite only having four songs that most people could name.
Also- much like the upcoming "Uncle Buck" TV show, I'm pretty sure the people behind the "Independence Day" sequel might have waiting a tad too long.
Harry Connick Jr. was the featured speaker at Loyola University New Orleans' commencement ceremony yesterday after receiving an honorary doctorate of music from
the Jesuit school.
"If you work and pay attention to the smallest details of your work, your relationships, your faith, you'll find that over time you will have created a lot of great things -- things of worth, things of substance and quality," he told the audience of graduates in his hometown.
Connick Jr.'s speech drew on lessons he learned throughout his career as a musician, actor and entertainer, while providing advice for success after graduation.
"I can hold my head high because you and I have something in common: it may have taken me 30 years longer than you, but all of us get degrees from Loyola today," Connick said.
Los Tigres del Norte are out on a summer tour of the US, where they'll be encouraging concertgoers- especially young Latinos- to get out and vote in this year's US presidential elections.
The Grammy-winning Mexican band played Louisville and Grand Rapids already this weekend, and takes the stage in Detroit tonight.
Other dates include a stop tomorrow night in Indianapolis and stops next month in Kansas City, Tulsa, Lakewood (NJ), Long Island, and LA.
Darryl McDaniels of Run DMC says New York police commissioner William Bratton's recent comments labeling rappers as thugs after a shooting at a hip-hop concert is disrespectful and that the commissioner should apologize to rappers like Chuck D, Will Smith, and Kendrick Lamar, whose songs do not promote violence and negative images.
McDaniels said the shooting is not a "hip-hop problem" and that Bratton's statement about "so-called rap artists who are basically thugs that basically celebrate the violence that they live all their lives" did not represent the entirety of the genre.
"He needs to apologize to all the rappers who have come from [the] streets but have never put out anything negative [and] disrespectful to break down ... and destroy their community," McDaniels told The Associated Press.
"There's a million rappers who come from the hood who do not portray, promote or produce products that celebrate or legitimizes any forms of negativity," he said. "The commissioner, he knew better than that. I respect his job, I know it's hard and all of that, but he should have known better."
"Glee" actor Mark Salling was charged Friday with receiving and possessing child pornography after an investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
The charges stem from a December arrest where a laptop, hard drive and USB flash drive were seized from his home and the indictment claims Salling had at least one photo and video of "a prepubescent minor and a minor who had not attained 12 years of age."
Salling faces a mandatory minimum of five years in federal prison if convicted on the charge of receiving child pornography. Both charges carry a statutory maximum of 20 years.
