Fiction Plane - Left Side of the Brain

Fiction Plane is probably one of the best non-well known bands out there.  It blows my mind as to why they are not famous.  They have everything that a famous band has - good songs, good lyrics, clean sounding albums, and oh yeah, their frontman is Joe Sumner (Son of Gordon Sumner, aka Sting).

The voice of Joe sounds much like his father's, which is a great thing to mix with a rock band, as history has shown us.  However, this band is not The Police reincarnate, it is a much more "Early 2000's Garage Rock" type band mixed with the Chili Pepper's sound (No, not their style, their SOUND).

I first was exposed to these guys on The Tonight Show, and then saw them open for The Police (wonder how they got that gig?).  Do yourself a favor and check these guys out, they're really cool; and Left Side of the Brain is great front-to-back.  In fact, I've listened to it everyday so far this week. 

PROS

-Catchy songs

-GREAT vocals, especially if you like Sting

-Well produced and clean sounding

CONS

-Too short

-Hmm... hard to find any really, I guess it's not perfect but that's pretty hard to find these days

Overall ranking - 8.5/10

Michael Phelps Picture

Michael Phelps, the latest American hero, has recently been photographed smokin' reefer out of a bong!  Say what?!?!  Yep, he must like to get high.  There has been much criticism surrounding this breaking news event and Phelps has even publicly apologized for it.

Many people have lost respect for this man because of this photo, but I, on the other hand, have gained respect for him.  I used to think he was a real boring dude when I saw his interviews and whatnot, now, I see he's not as boring as I once thought.

I guess this is his secret weapon he used when he needed to down 8,000 calories a day for his training.  He's still a hero in my book.  One thing I would like to tell Mr. Phelps - Don't apologize, whip the media the bird and tell them to screw off because you just set Olympic history - do what you want to do man!

PROS

- Michael Phelps smokin' dope!

CONS

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