Living organ donors are the only surgical patients who derive no medical benefit from their procedure and hospitalization. The kidney is also the only major organ that can be donated in whole by a living donor, whereas both the liver and lungs could be donated in segments that eventually regenerate when grafted to the malfunctioning recipient organ.

Call me crazy, but I've always preferred being among the mad people, they're just so much more interesting. Ever since my dad surprised me with a copy of "The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told" collection when I was about nine, I've been nuts for Mr. J. Sure, he's a homicidal maniac, but how can you be mad at a guy who's trying out material on you while he's got a gun pressed to your forehead?

You never forget your first time. Clammy hands tremble as you carefully, but quickly tear away the wrapping. Anxiety swirls and settles in your stomach. Your chest feels like you’re standing next to a car with the bass cranked. Slipping it in dry and stepping back, that new album smell seeps deeply into your nostrils as you push: “PLAY.”

The fact that all of the members of NOFX have survived long enough to dictate the California punk band’s 30+ years of an oral history into the pages of a highly entertaining and readable biography, is a testament to extremely good luck, and/or the legitimate existence of a higher power with a really fucked up sense of humor.

We last saw Skating Polly, the proudly self-labeled “ugly pop” duo of multi-instrumentalist step-sisters Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse, as they literally blew out the speakers of the unfortunately now defunct Brooklyn Night Bazaar. Days later, they’d open for the reunited Babes in Toyland during a string of sold-out UK dates, standing out as much more than just a novelty act of teenagers playing rock star, and further adding to a fan base already comprised of their actual influences and idols.

Considering that we’re speaking of the canonized musician who mockingly pleaded with his audience and critics to rape him repeatedly over a bastardized riff on his most famous guitar riff, a companion compilation to the, at times, uncomfortable to watch: Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck documentary (touted as the final nail in the Cobain coffin) serves as a well-intentioned, but too obvious attempt to exhume and further molest the eternally 27-year-old.