So I’m just minding my business, helping out around my apartment complex so they’ll take money off my rent when I run into something.

2Pac once wrote a poem about “The Rose That Grew From Concrete” where a young girl survives harsh circumstances and surroundings to become a powerful young woman. This isn’t that, but I’m sure 2Pac love of marijuana probably would have prompted him to find some inspiration in this as well.

A few of us were mystified at the fact that somehow, marijuana grew from the dingy, nasty parking lot of the apartment complex. Not only that, it was right next to the dumpster which means it has probably been getting its water from old beer, wine, battery acid and old air conditioner fluid. My guess is if someone were to smoke it, they’d probably see through time.

I’m no weed expert, not even an amateur. I have no idea how it grows, but the kind guy that mows the apartment’s lawns said it’s pretty tough. He then took it for further examination. I will be awaiting his test results.

I’d never step to Josh Homme. First off, he’s a ginger, so there has to be a lot of redheaded rage in there. Second, Queens of the Stone Age are killer. Meaning he will most likely kill as well.

This kid didn’t seem to believe as he proceeded to throw stuff at Homme and have the gall to walk up to the stage for what I’m guessing would have been more than dutch rub and a handshake.

This video is great save for Homme’s use of a few hard ‘F’s’ and I don’t mean the type that rhyme with ‘yuck.’

Here are some other examples of music hard-assery:

Say what you will about Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, such as he has no shoulders and shouldn’t wear makeup. But after seeing him give a Legion of Doom-style dropkick to a heckler, he has my respect.

I have absolutely no clue who the Brian Jonestown Massacre is, but it appears the lead singer lets his pretensions and ego get in the way of the fact that a fan was just making a joke. So the fat gets mighty boot to the face. The sound is sickening.

I love Dave Grohl. That’s no secret. Just to prove he’s one of the nicest guys in rock, he goes to bat for his triangle player when somebody flips them the bird. Hilarity acquired and succeeds.

You can’t do a concert fight compilation without this Gem. As said before, I wouldn’t step to Josh Homme, I sure as the grass is green wouldn’t even look at Tool’s Maynard James Keenan the wrong way (though appears to be quite friendly.) Here, he tackles an idiotic fan and still continues to sing. Win.

From an ad on Myspace….

Sometimes you wonder why some companies even bother. Seriously why forgo the ‘H” in favor of the ‘E’?

So…. did you know that Mike Myers has returned? Have you not seen enough commercials for “The Love Guru?”

Was his appearance at The MTV Movie Awards not enough?

Or how about Saturday Night Live’s re-airing of “The Best of Mike Myers” with inserted new footage of new skits and, of course, “The Love Guru”’s Guru Pitka.

Tonight, his media blitz visits “Inside The Actor’s Studio” with James Lipton asking uncomfortable questions and Myers most likely giving glossed over answers.

This is not to say I don’t necessarily like Mike Myers. But in the past ten years, he went from a huge comeback in “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery” to falling into Eddie Murphy-like lows in “Austin Powers: Goldmember” and “The Cat in the Hat” (I exclude the “Shrek” films as they aren’t really Mike Myers movies.) Similar to Murphy, his past offerings including his work on “Saturday Night Live,” “Wayne’s World” and the original “Austin Powers” showed work of a comedic genius while more recent efforts are clearly just cash-ins for someone who just seems to be half-assing it (i.e. “The Love Guru”.)

So while we’re hit with the ongoing “Love Guru” promotional hurricane tries to convince viewers that A) “The Love Guru” will be funny in some way, shape or form and B) Verne Troyer has a legitimate career - it’s important to note the truths about Myers.

Mike Myers is, or was, a funny man because, as Jerry Seinfeld said, he took things that weren’t necessarily ripe for farce and made them pop-culture staples. Case in point, characters like Dieter and Simon (who loves to do drawrings) were parodies of obscure German artists and whimsical British immigrants. In other hands, they most likely would have been a comic nightmare. But Myers was able to adapt them well enough to where they were fully fleshed-out characters, not a one-note caricature.

Early-to-mid-’90s Mike Myers was golden. He proved that a “Saturday Night Live” sketch could be made into a classic comedy (”Wayne’s World”), showed that he could play it straight and still be funny (the under appreciated flop “So I Married an Axe Murderer”) and showed that parodying the ’70s is funnier than wearing oversized platform shoes and a huge wig.

His fall-off with me was shortly after “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” as it was everything that the original wasn’t. He did away with any subtle jokes and vied for the obvious poop and fart jokes. Along with that, gone was Elizabeth Hurley in favor of eye-candy Heather Graham who proved she truly cannot act her way out of a paper bag. Any thoughts he might return to his old style were quickly diminished after the dated pop-culture references and toilet humor of “Goldmember” and “Cat In The Hat.”

So this Friday, in case you’re not aware, “The Love Guru” comes out. If this isn’t a nail in Mike Myers’ career, then I will weep with no end in sight.

I truly don’t know what happened along the way with Mike Myers where he decided a mixture of subtle humor and more mainstreamed, obvious jokes weren’t funny anymore, but I have my theories. A very good article on the mystery behind Myers, who like Eddie Murphy, seems more than just the laughs and smiles he appears to be in the press. You can read it here as it’s an interesting read.

Secret: Wear this deodorant, act like an idiot

As much as I want to stay away from the bright, shining tube in my living room, I usually concede to watching “America’s Best Dance Crew 2″ or “Best Week Ever.” Usually I DVR them so I don’t have to sit through the mostly annoying commercials. Then there’s those odd chances where I actually watch something as it airs. This is when I hate myself.

There’s a new commercial for the women’s deodorant, Secret. In it, the lady who has applied the deodorant feels so fresh and so happy that she acts like cheerleader on PCP waving to everyone, stopping a taxi (then saying “Nevermind”) and standing in front police car.

Whether it’s a shame or not, I cannot find this clip on the Internets (most likely because no one has the shame or audacity to put it up.) The rule of thumb in advertising is to get people to talk about your product no matter what the costs. This commercial is clearly just a group of ad execs saying “Ah what the hell, let’s make the most vapid, annoying commercial to ever exist in the history of man!”

To that I say, well done. So if see you it, don’t turn the channel. Watch it just long enough for it to anger the blood. Then you can say proudly that you’ve watched women’s history get set back at least 30 years.