Archive for August 6th, 2008

N*E*R*D on Conan 8/5/08 (video DL)

Download the video HERE (151MB). From wikipedia: The third album from N.E.R.D and follow-up to 2004’s Fly or Die is called Seeing Sounds. The album was released on June 10, 2008. The first single off the album, titled “Everyone Nose“, was first mentioned on their Billionaire Boys Club blog on January 22, 2008 and was confirmed at SXSW to be the first single from the album. In June 2008, the second single off the album, titled “Spaz”, was used in a TV commercial for the Microsoft Zune.

In March of 2008, the band performed at SXSW in Austin, Texas. While there they filmed a PSA for Rock the Vote saying why they think voting is important and the issues they care about this election year.[2]

From April to June 2008, the band toured with Kanye West as an opening act along with Rihanna and Lupe Fiasco as part of the Glow in the Dark Tour. They have been confirmed to play some adashev at the 2008 Isle of Wight festival on June 13, 2008, as special guests to the Kaiser Chiefs. They have also been confirmed to play on Projekt Revolution’s UK show at Milton Keynes Bowl supporting the two headliners, Linkin Park and Jay-Z. On June 25th, they performed in front of 40,000 people at the Isle of MTV 2008 at the Floriana granaries, Malta with free admission.[3][4]

Oh, how true Common.

I was listening to his track, “Be.” There’s a line in that song that goes, “Bush pushin’ lies, killers immortalized.” And thinking back to the Virginia Tech shooting (as well as other significant mass-murder crimes), the killers are forever infamous and are permanently written in the history books. Isn’t that (in part), what they set out to achieve? To let it be known to others that they did something? Look at Seung-Hui Cho’s wikipedia profile. It’s more detailed and extensive than the majority of other famous figures. Remember the Cho’s package sent to NBC with videos, photos, writings, etc.? Well now they are all over the Internet. I’d say he got exactly what he wanted out of this. Immortalized for sure.