Merry Christmas!

I haven't posted in a while and I doubt I will again until after Christmas. I have off work all week, which is sort of nice and sort of sucks, because I'll need money. Oh well. We have our work Christmas party on the 24th and that should be awesome. It almost seems ironic that we're having a work party when it seems like every day is a party, but I'll take it.

Went to a Christmas party the other night that I thought would be fun, but it ended up sucking. Maybe I'll write more later.

Where is my mind?

Well, I've been meaning to update here again, so I guess I will now since I'm no longer sick and just chilling waiting for The Best Show to come on. Tonight Andy Daly is the guest and I was thinking of calling my friend and telling her because she loves Andy Daly. I won't though.

In other unrelated stuff, I'm also trying to sequence a mixtape. I've never really made a mix for anyone before and I'm glad I haven't because it's about the most souldraining thing you can do. Maybe it depends on who you're making it for.

Anyway, so this magazine, Health. Pretty Good. This is the cover from the last time Susan Van Tassel was on, I believe. But today I bought the new issue. Why? I don't need to know about Sephora or seasonal footwear trends. I bought it because it had Susan on the cover. I wish I could find it online. Susan, you are the nation's most beautiful American woman. Rock on.

It's no myth

OK, I don't really hate Oasis that bad. I think they just annoy me somewhat. I read last week that both of the Gallagher brothers are planning solo records now. Yikes.

So I haven't posted in a while for two reasons. First off I've been working a ton and that has been great. Secondly, I've been sick with God knows what the past week and a half. Not this past Monday, but last Monday, I was sure I was getting the flu. However, I didn't get the flu and felt fine from Wednesday all through the weekend until this Monday, when I felt like hell again. So basically this week, I've either been at work or in bed. My joints are stiff, but I don't know if it's because I'm sick or because I've been in bed so much. Usually at work I get moving around and get my blood pumping and then I feel somewhat alright, but I know as soon as I get home I'm going straight to bed. The other day I think I slept like 18 hours.

So anyway, this past weekend I worked and it was crazy fun! Saturday night we were there super late and we had a great time. I'd like to recap all the fun but there was too much. Bah... I'd like to write more, but I'm sick. I'm going back to bed.

Please stick around. Please stick around

What's the deal with this album?

A few months ago on The Best Show Riyadh from Vegas talked about this guy. It's not WALL-E. Anyway, this album is really good. What's weird is that I hadn't planned on getting this until yesterday, when I saw that it made the best of '08 list in Blender, a mag that totally sucks, complete opposite of this album. I was intrigued by the cover and the concept when I read about it weeks ago initially. So then I was like what the heck and got it and it's really cool. It's strange that somebody would do a mixtape that's kind of a concept tribute or deconstruction of Seinfeld, but it really works. It's still shocking to hear Michael Richards go off even two (?) years later. That was brutal.

Nana made you this monkey

Wow, I haven't posted in forever. I don't know what I've been doing. Friday I colored my world blackened - I learned that from Metallica - Saturday I worked and realized that certain behaviors must be curbed. Sunday I chilled with Ryan and Jess. Yesterday I got my ticket to Austin and that was kind of a hit to the budget, but then tonight I worked and made about $90, so that can all go in the bank. I also work Thursday, Friday and Saturday so hopefully, I'll make bucks then and can reimburse myself for the cost of the ticket.

Work has been really cool lately, but the other day I had beverages and thought that it broke bad. It didn't really, I just think that for some reason. It's whatever, I guess.

Man, Christmas is totally on its way and I cannot seem to get psyched on that. I think this Christmas is going to be the craziest and most stressed out of all. My Dad might be showing up in an RV. I wonder when he'll want to leave on his cross country trek? I don't think I can go because I just realized today that it makes no sense for me to go. I don't have the time and there are a few other factors at hand too. Maybe I would go if I had like $10,000, but I don't. It's bullshit.

When black Friday comes....!

I hope that anyone reading this had a tremendous Thanksgiving! I had a pretty good one. I got to see some family and talk with some friends on the phone and that was cool. I was supposed to have to work the holiday, but they gave me off at the last minute because our business was down a bit from last year. Three of us got to be off and they drew names out of a hat.

So today I went out and did a little shopping and that was fun. Super hot girls at the mall, which was like "Whaaaaaaaaat?!" Holy smokes. Then I went over and chilled with my friend's stepdad and mom. We had a pretty good time watching a rerun of the old Daniel Boone TV show. Then I came home and waited to go out to dinner which was at 8:30. I was starving and on top of that we were going to Outback, an establishment where I'd never previously dined. I thought that was alright, but I got this weird salad that had fries in it and was lacking in the steak dept.

I did a new artwork that I thought was alright. The colors took me forever to get right, but I accidentally deleted it. I never accidentally delete stuff, so I'm kind of bummed on that.

Tonight I'm finally catching up on all the NNF episodes that I missed because I just signed up for the season 4 primo like four days ago. So glad that I was off tonight and I'm also off tomorrow, which rules. Don't get me wrong, being at work is totally cool, but I still like a day off now and again.

Last night I cleaned up my hard drive a bit. I really need an external jobbie though because my iPod has only been two thirds full since I got it. Granted that's still 3,400 songs, so I'm getting by. Yesterday's last post was just this art thing I did in MS Paint because I fuck with that waaayyy too much. I thought when you clicked it it would open up to full size, which is really huge, but I guess Picasa shrank it down. If that was printed on a wall I think it would be about 7ft. long. Oh well, I think I'll do more colored square drawings in the future. They titillate me.

I am the chimpy child on who fortune has smiled

So, yesterday we had the first snowfall of the year. That was cool, but I just don't want winter this year at all. The snow really pissed me off and I was pretty grumpy yesterday, I have to say. I had fun at work, but then screwed it up by whining about being a mutant. I'm such an idiot.

On thursday night I got this live album by Sean Cullen, a Canadian comic that I've heard about for a long time (mostly from NNF), but whose stuff I had never come across before. The album is called Live and it's really, really great. I'm just listening to it for the second time, but at the end of the first listen I was thinking that it might be the best stand up album I've ever heard.

Tonight at work shit was chill. Nothing else to add to that really. I owe people emails. I've been listening to more oldies. Be sure to vote in my first ever readers's poll!

Also, I said that I would put up an episode of Never Not Funny. This is a good one, which I think is from early September. It has my favorite guest, Pat Francis and I think it's a great episode for people who are new to the show. Go subscribe in iTunes or go to Pardcast.com and sign up for the primo. Best of luck to you!

Here's a Sean Cullen video of two good songs.

Yes!

"From Jimmy Pardo's hit podcast "Never Not Funny," it's the T-shirt everyone's asking for. Now you, too, can convey exasperation when a friend or loved one is unable to grasp the concept of popcorn served in a bag. The stunning retro logo design has been painstakingly weathered to evoke a bygone era when bagged popcorn was the exception, not the rule. Screen printed on the softest, smoothest and best-looking red American Apparel 100% cotton jersey tee. $20"

If I read AST more often, I would have known about this and posted it with the 'Bag o' corn, friend!' post. I want my blog to be the number one search result for the words 'bag', 'corn' and 'friend'. Just either of those words on their own. Anyway, check the AST store for more 'Bag o' corn, friend' related products. Yes, they have a chip clip!

I know you would

So these two days have been alright. Last night I got to chill with Ryan for the first time in almost a month so that was good. We went to Giant and I wanted to get these microwaveable wings. Well, last time I bought them they were like $7.99 for a decent sized bag. So in Giant I grab these two bags which I didn't realize were twice the size of the ones I normally buy. I get to the register and ring them up and they're $18.99 each. For some reason I still bought both. This morning I was like "Why the hell did I still buy two?!" Oh well, it's not like I won't eat them and they are really good, although I'm sure they're horrible nutrition-wise.
Hanging out with Ryan and Jess was really fun and I even got to see Mike for a little while. We cracked jokes and watched Prison Break, which is the most insane show I've ever seen. They do stuff on that show that couldn't ever really happen. It's so inane. Then we watched some live Queen on Ondemand and that was incredible. We planned to exchange gifts for Christmas and I think that will totally rock. Later we watched Scream Queens on VH1. Watching most TV is a good reminder for me of why I barely watch any TV. I'm just on the internet all the time.

Today was just whatever. I have to work at 11am tomorrow, which is early for me. I hate working during the day time because the atmosphere is kind of lame, but I might be working with a girl I get along good with, so that could be fun. I guess it's just the lunch crowd that I don't like dealing with. Take the good with the bad, I guess.
I decided not to put up a playlist because really, who gives a shit, but I will upload this song that I've been loving lately. I seem to be on a real 2006 kick for some reason. Listening to songs from back then reminds me of when I could travel. This song reminds me of going to Colorado even though most of the time I was out there I was listening to Johnny Cash. Anyway, check out this song, it's awesome.
Bonnie Prince Billy - No Bad News

Ahh,..... the internet

"Bag o'corn, friend!!" - Jimmy Pardo
I've gotten a surprisingly high number of hits since my last post. The phrase, taken from episode 319 (I'm pretty sure) of the award winning podcast Never Not Funny, is just so fun to say. It's even more fun to shout. If you've never heard the show, you don't know what you're missing. I never thought I would pay for a podcast, but after about 90 solidly hilarious episodes of the pardcast I had no chance but to sign the fuck up and follow Jimmy, Matt and 3rd chair Pat Francis (my favorite guest!) into the next stage. At less than $.77 an episode why wouldn't I? I need to find out what shitty concert Jimmy's going to next. In just a few short months I will have been listening to Never Not Funny for three years. Boy, did the time fly. If you're not into paying for the podcast yet, you can still download the first 20 minutes of each episode from iTunes. Just look under comedy podcasts.
I'll probably put up an episode later in the week as a sampler.

What else? I've got to change the header graphic again. This one seems like it's been up forever. I blame that on the fact that I've been spending way too much time dicking around on the internet lately. I've been listening to a ton of new music lately though and that's been good. I think that later this week, maybe later today I'm going to put up a playlist. Be like McCain's daughter.
Work tonight was chill. Right before work was Pineapple Express, so that was cool. At work this old dude totally walked out on his check. That kind of sucked. Mostly tonight I just chilled while everybody played Mariokart on these two DSes(?) these girls brought in. I didn't know that DSes could play each other via WiFi. That was cool. Also at work in one of the refrigerators I found my toy black Berettas from my Halloween costume. Sweet. I'm off the next two days. Woo hoo!

Bag o' corn, friend!

I am so tired today it isn't even funny. I don't know what I did. So today is a good day just to relax and catch up on podcasts and stuff.
I had to work yesterday and that was pretty cool, but we were dead so nobody really made any money. I finished up early, came home and I think I was in bed by like 12. Tomorrow is going to be awesome. We have the awesomest crew and Sundays are always chill. Also, I checked my bank account and I have more money than I thought I did, so that rocks.

I don't really have anything to say at all, so I don't know why I'm posting. At work yesterday I realized that the laziest guitar solo in the history of recorded music is during Oasis' Don't Go Away, right after the line "Me and you, what's goin' on?" That's a pretty lazy song in general. I can't find a video that I can embed here. I don't want to put Oasis on my blog, anyway. I work with this dude who really likes them, so I get to hear them all the time. They're not terrible, I just don't particularly like them. Anyway, if you hear Don't Go Away, listen for the guitar part. Actually, you won't have to listen that closely because it'll jump out at you. It's that uncreative and sloppy.

One week later

Damn, I can't believe it's been a week since I last posted. For some reason tonight felt like a Friday, hence the staying up until all hours. Lately, my sleep has been really weird, but I got a lot of good sleep last night, so I'm not too worried about it.

I've worked every day since Sunday and that has been alright. I went out Saturday for a friend's birthday -she was turning 21 at midnight- and spent way too much money. I'm glad that I never go to bars anymore because I can't seem to hang on to any of my money once I start crushing liquor. Months ago I would go to Coakley's a few times a week and I was easily spending over $100 a week in that place. Fantastic place though if you're ever in the area. Anyway, so I've curbed my spending a lot and that's been great. But now when I do go out and spend money like an asshole, I feel like one the next day. Oh well, I had fun going out on Saturday night and even got to make my second stop of the year at Pete's. This town never changes. Oh also on Saturday I drove for a mile and a half with a cop behind me when I person my size would be way over the legal limit. Don't drive drunk. Unless it's from New Cumberland to Lemoyne. Then you have to.

Anyway, so what else. I'm supposed to write this letter to my Grandma for, like, ever. I already have it written, it's just a matter of putting it in the mail. I probably need to rewrite as it was written about three weeks ago. I don't know, it's not like there have been any new developments. What the fuck ever. I forgot to play the lottery today. I hate that.

Work has been really chill and everything there has been really fun. Sunday night we just chilled. Monday I worked during the day and we talked about Radiohead. Last night and tonight we were pretty busy but I was able to cap off both nights in a good way because my coworkers are awesome and we enjoy the same things.

Man, Sunday night this woman came in and gave me the biggest sob story I'd ever heard in my life. In fact, I've never even had someone give me a sob story, but hers was a great one to start with. In retrospect, I think she was just trying to get free shit. She did get a free soda and I covered the tax on her kids meal, so maybe she's on to something. It was weird though. She was there for this singles dance which we have once a month in one of the banquet rooms. Hey old people, you stink!!!!! Seriously. If you told me last week that old people smell I would have thought you meant like in a cute way. Get 150 of them in a room though and see what happens. Holy man!!

So right now I'm just listening to WFMU and chilling. Tonight I just surfed the net and worked on some stupid shit. Listened to some '80s and some oldies just surfing channels in the radio feature in information Tunes. Speaking of WFMU I got a friend at work to at least act like she's going to check out The Best Show. I don't know when I'll see her again so it'll be interesting to see if she actually checks it out. I'm definitely not going to keep bringing it up.

Anyway, I'm off today. Maybe I'll go get McDonalds Steak and Eggs bagel. Probably not though. I should get some sleep. I've got Pineapple Express shit to do later and I can't miss that.

Hell's Belle's

Here we go with an edit!

TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
I uploaded this for a guy at work tonight so I figured I'd post it here once again, as I did when it first came out in 2006 (old blog). This is a really fantastic album if you haven't already heard it. Lately I have been itching to hear it. It's ironic too because as much as I love this record I am just now listening to the new one, Dear Science, which I've had for about two months it seems. The new album's good, but Return To Cookie Mountain is better.





Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07
This is pretty good too if you like his stuff. I loved Blood Visions. It's definitely linked to a certain time for me and that's what can make an album just amazing sometimes.

Anyway, today I didn't do anything except work and read the newspaper. Work was great except for a few small problems. I thought I did alright, but later figured I came up about ten bucks short on the night. I did eat a great steak though.
At work we are all in the habit of reading our horoscopes and comparing the number of stars we have for the day. Today I had five stars (which I always seem to, go figure) and the little 'Tonight:' thing said 'talking over dinner'. Talking over dinner is what I see every night, so what's up? But then I had dinner with a friend and it ended up being cool.

I made a candy run midway through the night and found the most awesome Laffy Taffy thats shaped like a Slim Jim. Bought 8 of those even though I was really looking for a new Twizzlers product called Twerps which are super good. My friend at work said he was wild about Twerps but had begun to wonder if they weren't just around for a limited time (to appeal to the college kids?). Twerps are like a much bigger Twizzler with crazy filling in the middle. They're not long like a Twizzler though, they're just a half inch section of one (think Nib). My friend said what he liked about them was the continuation of the idea that started with Bonkers in the '80s. Get two different textures of gummy stuff and combine them. That's my take on everything.

At work tonight there was trivia and this question had nearly everyone stumped for about twenty minutes. Everyone had the first two, which you dear reader, will no doubt get in seconds flat but the third one is pretty tough. Check it:

What are the top three highest grossing movie franchises where every major character is British?

They can be played by Americans or whoever but the characters are British. Franchises, people. Highest grossing.


So Barack Obama! Here we go, ladies and gentlemen!

Nice!

Today I woke up, voted and went to work. It was nice to get to work and know that I wouldn't have to pay attention to what was going on until it was settled. I am so happy that it isn't ongoing into tomorrow afternoon. Even though I know that the next four years will filled with challenges and new problems, I'm so glad that Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be our leaders. I hope things go well for us all. So that's that. Also on January 21st, 2009, I hope that we will deploy special ops forces into Pakistan who will go completely undetected, moving only in shadow until Osama Bin Laden is captured. Let's treat this thing like it's 2002 all over again!

Tonight at work was really cool and I made pretty decent money. By the time the election had been called, most of the people were gone and everyone who was working at the time had voted for Obama so we had the TVs turned up and were watching the footage of Grant Park right before Obama's speech. Earlier in the night I had come home to burn a CD for this girl and I tried to tune into The Best Show to see if the winner of the mayubernatorial election had been announced. I heard a snippet of, I believe, Paul F. Tompkins calling in, but am listening now to see if my guy, A.P. Mike, actually pulled out a W.

Anyway, then I headed back to work to finish up. Getting out of there tonight wasn't bad at all. I worked with all cool girls tonight and we had a pretty easy time. It's fun because most of the girls I work with I actually love. Seriously, they were so cool and nice to me when I used to totally suck at my job. When I first started, Oh my God, some of the questions I asked. But they were cool and as I've gotten better they've become even cooler and we have way more fun now than we first did. What can I say? I love them.

OK, Tom is reading the results of the Newbridge Mayubernatorial election now! Here we go!

15. Joe The Plumber

14. Paul from Consolidated Cardboard

13. Thor from Newbridge

12. Chief Ray Ploppleton

11. Tor Halversom

10. Dr. Fred Meyers

09. Bob

08. Bishop Pablo Fontana

07. Todd Palin

06. Zachary Brimstead esq.

05. Hammerhead

04. Pudge Palfner

03. Marky Ramone (2,927 votes)

02. Associate Producer Mike (3,005 votes)

01. Philly Boy Roy Zeigler (3,136 votes)

A fantastic acceptance call from Roy tonight. It's nice to see someone elected who has a clear vision of where he wants to take Newbridge.

Weird weekend

So this weekend was alright. The parties that I went to were pretty fun, even though I was barely at the one my coworkers were throwing. I showed up there and immediately left with two of my friends. Then we came back and left right away to go to a nearby bar. Both nights were pretty fun, but could have been better. One of my friends was Marilyn Monroe as a robot and all I can say about that is fugettaboutit. There was supposed to be a dance off between two girls that I work with, but one girl didn't show up. There were a lot less people from work than I thought there would be. After the party on Saturday there was a bit of a dust up, which kind of put a damper on things. Then we thought that the cops were going to come. At this point in the night I lost track of both my Ruffstuff Electronic Blasters. So they're somewhere out there.

Not much to say about the party Friday night. The coolest part about that was that we walked to a riverfront bar using the crazy railroad access roads and bridges that link this part of Lemoyne to the street that runs along the river. That was cool. No girls at this party though, which it really could have used.

Yesterday was chill, but I was feeling a little hungover. I never get a hangover, so when I do it really puts a damper on things. Anyway, I went to restaurant for a little bit and then came home and went to sleep. That was kind of annoying too, because I went to sleep so early that I was up by three, but had no energy to really do anything.

I don't know what I'll do today. I want to avoid karaoke night at all costs.

Happy Halloween!

Hell yeah! I had a pretty good day off today. I woke up super late, but still managed to go out and get stuff for my Halloween costume. Up until last night I didn't really have an idea of what I was going to be, but I decided to go as Mr. White from Reservoir Dogs. After scouring stores for a little while I was able to find camouflage Berettas at K-Mart. Thank God, because I did not want to have to go into my attic looking for an old toy gun. The Berettas sealed the deal that a character from the Tarantino classic was a good choice. Had I been forced to go in search of a pretty solid looking old Uzi that's up there somewhere, I was just going to go as a bank robber. This hinged on whether or not I could find a cheap monkey mask. Like the rubber band kind preferrably, but I would have gone to a rubber mask if I had to. If I couldn't find a decent looking gun, I would have just gotten a plastic knife and gone as The Monkey Mask Killer.

It was really hard finding realistic looking toy guns in stores. All the guns nowadays are like space guns. It was frustrating because I was looking for street guns. I first went to Toys'r'Us and all they had were NERF guns. Also no monkey masks of any type. Then I went to Spencer's gifts and that was horrible. They had this crappy faux haunting music playing and the mask selection was really lacking. Inside the mall kids were going store to store trick or treating. Inside the mall! That's something new. Thank God for this one young lady at a hairstylist place that was handing out candy as Catwoman.

Anyway, then I went to K-Mart and bought the twin Ruffstuff Electronic Blasters. Ruffstuff is like a hardcore division of BuzzBeeToys. These are great replicas. I bought some flat black Krylon and spraypainted them so they look more real. Now, I've just gotta find a good skinny black tie. That's one thing I noticed looking at pictures of the Reservoir Dogs guys. They had skinny ties.

This party I'm going to on Saturday should be really fun, if I can get there early enough in the night. I hope we don't get decimated on Saturday night because I'd like to be at the party by 11:30 at the latest. Well, I can't wait to see what happens. My boy Ed and I were thinking of going as referees but I couldn't find the shirt. Plus, I went out today really leaning towards a robber or some kind of armed prankster.

Tomorrow night I have to work, but then I'm going to a different Halloween party down the street with a few of the open micrphone guys. There better be chicks at these two parties. So far all the chicks who will be at the party on Saturday including the ones throwing the party are taken. Screw it though, I'm really looking forward to both parties.

Damn, today in my travels I forgot to look for a tape adapter to hook my iPod up in the car. I must get one tomorrow when I go to pay my Old Navy bill.

I think I'm going to listen to this album from now until Sunday afternoon. It's definitely not music that you want to hear all the time, but sometimes it really just hits the spot and this weekend will be such a time.

Here's a link to download the album. I found it on a forum just now after realizing that I had in in seperate files and didn't feel like uploading.

Here are the best tracks. Sure to start your Halloween weekend off right.

Stabbed in the Face (the single!)

Village Oblivia (hands down the best track! Sotoughohmygod!)

Black Vomit (I like this one too)

This album makes your life a horror movie and that's what I really like about it. Try it today, won't you?

So since last time I wrote I went on a bit of an album binge. I got a bunch of stuff that is pretty good, including the new Cold War Kids and Jay Reatard. The new Jay Reatard, which is a collection of his singles from '06 and '07 is super great. You can download it from the link provided. That site, Indieducky has tons of reviews and downloads of albums by today's toppest young stars. I got CWK and the new Delta Spirit album from there. The Delta Spirit, at least what I've heard at work is really cool. I've got to make time to listen to the whole thing soon.

So today I should be looking for a job, but I'd sooner put a gun to my head. My friend at work was telling me how her friend did that when he was like 15 and that's really sad. She said he was her best friend too so that sucks for her.

Last night I went to the restaurant to hang out with my friends while they closed. We had a pretty good time just talking about dating, concerts, music and religion. We were talking about Scientology and how fucked up that is. Maybe I'll get sued now.

Damn, I've got two Halloween parties to go to this weekend and I have no idea what to go as. Like I don't really want to spend any money on anything, not even a green wig. Oh well, whatever. Last night while we were hanging out my friend was saying how she saw Leprechaun In Da Hood too and how she thought it was funny. It kind of was.

Anyway, not much to write at this point. Check this video of photoshop goodness just in time for all hallows eve.

Horror movies

So since last time I really wrote, some crazy shit has gone down. Work has been really fun and this past week the high jinx were never higher or jinxier!

Exciting drama at the beginning of the week followed by days filled with laughing and rocking out.

Let me see, the last night I worked was Thursday night and that was pretty chill. We weren't that busy, but i really wasn't feeling well at the beginning of the night so that was alright. Thursday was open mic and I was curious about various factors of how that would be. Who would be there? Would they be cool? I still had these two dudes who were drinking coffees forever so I had to hang out. That's the biz, I guess. Finally, the band start playing and everything was cool. The dudes left and then I left for a second only to come back and find that the place had almost completely cleared out. It was really surreal. Like I'm thinking for a second, wondering if I somehow lost track of an hour. It was really Twilight Zone like. But my one pain in the ass friend was there and that kind of started to make things suck. I feel bad for the dude because he's pretty much fucked for life, but still. So that was a bag of suck. Still though I was working with cool people and that made closing fun and efficient.

The next day I just emailed people and then went to get my tire fixed. I had been rolling my fullsize spare since I got back from NY in early August. It only cost fifteen bucks to patch it up. I should have done it sooner. Then I went and picked up Ryan and Jess to go to Baltimore. This was really fun because traffic was really messed up in our entire area. There was this armed robbery/ high speed chase/ shootout with the cops that had the highways shut down. This meant that every light in the entire area; Lemoyne, Camp Hill, Mechanicsburg had what Seth Charles would call "stacking".

I'm not being sarcastic when I say that it was fun though. Where I live traffic isn't typically bad at all really ever, so when it is suddenly really bad, you get to go into crazy cabbie mode and use all of your little tricks and shortcuts. We bypassed all of Market St. in Camp Hill by going up into the quiet neighborhoods. Then I came over the hill right by where my Grandma used to live. Hell Yeah! We went from the bypass to 17th st. in like five minutes. Jess has one of those tapes that you can put in your tapedeck to play your iPod, so we were cranking tunes the whole time. I've got to get one of those. I never looked into car iPod accessories because I always thought you had to tune in with your radio, which I've seen be troublesome.

Luckily the highway we had to take to Baltimore was open and traffic was fine. I think we got to Baltimore in an hour flat thanks to me being one of America's 50 most solid road drivers. Ryan drove back and we made it back really fast too. We listened to Werewolves and Lollipops and those two loved it. We continued the party back at Ryan's until about 4:30. Then I came home made a pizza, didn't eat it and passed out. Great night!!!!!

Today I woke up sort of early. I called Ryan and went over there. I guess it's the season but we've been watching a lot of horror movies lately. The Exorcist was the last one and I think Jess liked it, but Ryan and I having only seen the rerelease, were miffed at the lack of crabwalk. I've been watching horror on my own too. I've started Friday the 13th part 6 like four times, but never finish it. That movies is, uh not so good, but today the three of us watched the worst movie ever made in any genre. Leprachaun In The Hood.

This movie is an affront to everybody alive. Ice T is in it, Ryan said he loves the Leprechaun movies, it was raining like a bitch, so we were like "OK, let's check it out." Damn. I had never seen any movie from the series, so I didn't know that the Leprechaun could be turned to stone by his little amulet. Twice in the movie at key times, it's placed on his neck by somehow blowing up into the air, spreading out and landing perfectly around his neck. I don't think anyone could do that if they tried, let alone once in Harlem and then later in South Central. I didn't know where the heck the first scene took place (where a dude gets his afro pick jammed in his neck) but I just found an online script (Ryan will be psyched!)!!!!! http://www.lepconnie.com/scriptlep5.html. Anyway, then Ice T's character blasts the Leprechaun with steam instead of giving him back his magic flute and the steam blows the amulet up into the air and it falls around his neck and he turns into wood. Then Mack Daddy, Ice T's character moves to Compton or wherever and starts his own rap label.

Long story short! Postmaster P and his boys Stray Bullet and Butch are a rap group. They are all about the postive message, but when Mack Daddy won't give them a record deal they decide to rob his place and trash it. This is how the Leprechaun gets free. They piss off Mack Daddy. Leprechaun is after them because they steal his flute away from Mack Daddy. They try to pawn a guitar to afford new equipment and when they can't they just throw it in a dumpster. Leprechaun breaks Ice T's right index finger off yet he still shoots a gun with that hand for the rest of the movie. The DJ for the rap group knows all this chemistry shit and at one point set the Leprechaun on fire by mixing douche and toothpaste on a towel and then hooking it up to electricity. He gets fucked up from that but somehow magically heals. Every single black stereotype ever is highlighted and the heroes, after reading Leprechauns For Dummies, dress as hoes to get the Leprechaun to smoke a joint with them that has four leaf clovers in it.

At one point a cross dressing dude named Fontaine even tries to seduce the Leprechaun and gets killed! When they smoke the joint with the clovers it makes the Lep pass out and they steal the flute back. They need to flute to make people like their rap songs. Mack Daddy's shows up and kills Butch and then they do whatever leads the amulet to go up into the air and come down on Leprechaun's neck. But Postmaster P made some kind of deal with him so it cuts to him on a stage in Vegas where he's rapping and the crowd loves him even though he's just repeating the same dumbass rhyme over and over. Then it cuts to the side of the stage and the Leprechaun is there so you know he's ruling shit. Then Leprechaun raps, then his zombie fly girls sing a reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaally uncomfortably stupid song and the movie's over.

I think throughout the movie we all looked at each other like, "What?" about two hundred times. Some scenes were just downright terrible where others you could tell were intentionally funny and OK. Early in the movie Mack Daddy pulls a switchblade, then a small baseball bat out of his fro. That sets you up for a comedy, but there was really no other funny stuff for pretty much the whole movie. It was ridiculous!!!

Anyway, then I watched some of Shaun of The Dead and that made up for how sucky the previous movie was.

Damn, we've been listening to this a ton at work and it's killing. MGMT - Electric Feel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJXar_27tWQ (can't embed? C'mon MGMT!!)

NOFX at Rams Head in Baltimore

So last night Ryan, Jess and I went to see NOFX and four opening bands at Rams Head Live in Baltimore and it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!! I haven't seen a punk band in a club in a long time and it's almost such a great experience that you can never hang on to the memory of all the fun. It would take up too much of your brain.
First of all the place that we saw them was Rams Head Live which is right in inner harbor pretty much. The nicest thing for us was that you just stay on 83 take one exit and make a right and you're parking your car. The venue itself could not have been cooler. It seemed like they had 10 separate bars on three levels. I didn't count or even go to the third level, but that's how it seemed. You could see the stage from almost anywhere and they also had many TV screens scattered throughout as well. Really great place, and drinks were cheap for a show where you're pretty much captive. I took advantage of that and even managed to pass one or two off to J-dog.

The band played a ton of killer songs including Dinosaurs Will Die, which I was psyched to hear and they did a killer cover of Rancid's Radio too. They seemed to be having fun, but did, at some point, sort of make fun of the wishy washy Baltimore crowd. The coolest thing for me and Ryan was that we were running into friends from here and there throughout the night. Even some of Ryan's Jersey buddies were there, which surprised him. Anyway, wish I had gotten some pics in retrospect, but I didn't take my camera because I didn't know how wild shit would get. I was smoking a cig outside and got to say hi to Fat Mike right as he was heading from the bus to the stage, so that was cool.
I don't think I'll ever miss NOFX again if they come around. The show was fucking excellent and they have terrific fans who know how to have fun.

Some comedy

These tracks are from the Comedy Death Ray double album that came out a while back. I was just listening to the Jimmy Pardo and Neil Hamburger tracks and I've just got to share them. They're so good! Andy Daly is also great as well. I really want to get his new CD Nine Sweaters which is out on AST records. Anyway, check these out and enjoy! If you like what you hear, get the album!

Patton Oswalt

Jimmy Pardo

Neil Hamburger

Scott Aukerman

Chris Hardwick

Andy Daly

I wanna be your dog

See more Natalie Portman videos at Funny or Die

Hee hee heew!

I haven't posted much lately, but figure that I will now because I'm just chilling. Tonight I worked and it was really fun. I'm really having fun finally getting to know my other coworkers besides just the one manager. We have so much fun every night, listening to tunes and cracking wise. Being really busy can still kind of suck, but it makes the night go faster, so that's not really that bad. It still sucks though.

Oh yeah, I totally fucked up and didn't go to see KRS last Saturday night. Total chump move, but at the time I just didn't feel like it. I didn't have tickets, had no idea what time it started etc. So that was lame. Earlier this week I sent a Youtube video to my dad where KRS is dissing all the rich rappers saying that they're too rich to make raw hip hop. My dad totally went off on him, because my dad kind of doesn't know shit sometimes.

My friend down in Delaware, or I guess now, Virginia Beach, texted me last night asking if I wanted a Corgi puppy. Corgis are so fucking rad! I want a baby one!

Killer episode of The Best Show this week. Great Philly Boy Roy call too os. Just a great show all the way around, but I will really miss Julie's calls. New regime, I guess. I can't wait for Paul F. Tompkins to be on next week. I bet he'll be on the show a lot more now that he's based in NY. I think he's going to kill it as host of Best Week Ever. I never really watch that show but I'm thinkin' bout startin'. That was some Sarah Palin downhome can do spirit! God, I hope everyone votes against her. She will make a terrible president and I think that's the reality. President or not, I'm saying watch John McCain not make it to 2012. It's just a feeling that I have. Also, I think Barack Obama will be assassinated. For reals.

The Exorcist

Today, I chilled for a little while at home and then went over to Ryan's. He was showing me GTA 4 and it was badass. Then he, Jess, Walter and I watched The Exorcist, which was class. I hadn't seen it in a really long time and the version I saw had some extra added creepy stuff in it, which this one lacked. Anyway, then I just headed home.

I was messing with the radio feature in iTunes tonight because I wanted to see if I could find Coast To Coast, but didn't find it. I did find this really awesome oldies channel though called K- LUV, which is under Hits of the 70's, 80's and '90s. Anyway, on the channel I heard Ricky Nelson's song Young Emotions, so that lead me to seek out the song for download. Well, I stumbled across an awesome, amazing set of blogs!

This one focuses on compilations!
http://jake-and-elwood-11.blogspot.com/

This one focuses on the '90s!!
http://jake-and-elwood-99.blogspot.com/
(I'm listebning to the Scatman John right now and I think it's time people gave this a chance. I am not even kidding.)

This one is about the modern age!
http://jake-and-elwood-33.blogspot.com/

From the above links you can find their other blogs for the '60s, 70s and '80s! Total overload. I'm still just looking around, but I'm loving what I've found so far.

Yes

I was finally able to download iTunes 8 today after about 10 unsuccessful tries in the past three weeks. I was getting an error message and then cancelling, when I should have just been patient and let the installer do its thing. This is good, because I was hoping to bring a new iPod into this world pretty soon and I didn't think, with it being a newer generation Nano, that it would work with an older version of iTunes. So I am relieved.

Not much to write about lately. I've been working for the past few days and that has been superfun and I made killer money on Monday, so that was awesome. Ahhh, going to work. That's one of my core values right there. At work we've been listening to The Shins Wincing the Night Away and the new Kings Of Leon a bunch. I guess a bunch of the guys are going to see Cold War Kids later this month in Philly, but I haven't heard their new album. The other night there were all these businessmen who were drinking a ton, so we ended up being there super late. It was just my managers and I and the DJ and we were doing our closing duties and they had the new Ben Folds on. I haven't paid attention to Ben Folds in a long time, but the GM told me a story about how he actually met them years back when they were just starting to get a following. Pre Brick.

So today's my day off and I'm just catching up with emails and about to listen to last night's Best Show. You can click on the link to the right and hear it too. I'll probably write more later.

weekend

Well, fall has begun here and so far it's pretty cool. I found out the other day that I'm going to see KRS-ONE next weekend in the 'burg. I haven't been downtown in so long, but I really want to see the teacher. Ryan and I were just talking last weekend about how awesome KRS is, but Ryan has never heard Live Hardcore Worldwide, so he has no idea how great KRS is live. Anyway, it actually worked out where I'm off next Saturday night, so there's no way I'm missing that even if I have to go alone. Then two weeks later I'm going with the homies to see NOFX at Ram's Head in Baltimore.

Work is going good and I'm making more money each night that I go in, so that's really awesome. Especially after my horrible attempt to get a new job the other day which I can't remember if I mentioned on the blog. Anyway, I drove 170 miles for no reason all before two in the afternoon. All for nothing because I had to turn around and go to work before I even found the place I was looking for! So that sucked!

Erin Wasson. You can find more here if you scroll way down.

F that noise

I got rid of my C box on the side because it was lame and added a more worthwhile link to the infamous blue Best Show On WFMU archive page. The C box was kind of lame because for every 100 hits I'd get I'd get one dude on there going, "Um....... frankly..... um..... yuh." So fuck that.

Today I finally got to hang out with Ryan and Mike for the first time in a while. Ryan, Jess and I went to Wal Mart so Ryan could get an HDMI cable for his new PS3. That was cool and I looked at external hard drives, but didn't see the size I wanted. All they have is 160 and 320gb and I just need a 60gb one. Well, after searching around online just now it looks like all of the companies have discontinued their 60gb hard drives. That suck because I don't need all kinds of crazy memory when I only have a 30gb ipod. Oh well, I'm sure it will work itself out. Maybe I'll just look on ebay.

At Wal Mart, because children under 25 are all scum, I ended up yelling down the aisle at these kids who I thought were Ryan and Jess. Both these kids were wearing almost identical clothing and the girl even had the same color hoodie as Jess. I don't think they noticed when I bellowed "Did he find it?! Oh!" Then laughed and took off. It's funny how when something like that happens you sort of run around all nervous for a second until you find your actual friends and tell them about it. That hasn't happened to me in a long time and it was funny and weird. Anyway, Ryan found the cable he needed, we got some food and then split.

For the first time since ever, we hung out at Ryan's and didn't drink! That's monumental! Most of the drinking is my fault because I always take a bottle over, but tonight we just all chilled. Mike came over and we watched I Love Money, which was like a recap episode. I've never seen the show but I don't get what's good about it. Just looks meh to me. We did see the preview for the new season of The Pickup Artist, which starts October 12th. I plan on watching that this season. Now that I officially have no life, I've got to start building a list of shows to watch and keep up with. That's what everyone else does, right?

Also, Ryan got NOFX tickets for October 24th in Baltimore! So awesome and only $20! That's going to rock. I haven't seen them in 10 years and that was just a little half hour set at the Warped Tour.

Natalie is single again!

Mount Foomore

So this week was pretty standard. I didn't job hunt like I wanted to, but I will get on that soon. Bah! It sucks!

For the past few days I was searching for this piece of classical and finally found it last night. It's Smetana's Moldau and it's pretty awesome. It's about twelve minutes long and it really builds and it's just great. I was actually looking for it for my mom because she was asking for it. I'm sort of teaching her to use iTunes now because I told her I'd get her an ipod. The only thing is I don't think she'll ever actually use it.

Yesterday I went to visit my friend's parents, the dude who plays all the guitar, that I mentioned back in August. I hung out with them for a while and we watched Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond and talked. They're cool as hell. We were talking about one of our friends who is in Turkey right now getting married. Actually, I think he already is married, so that's cool. I think he'll be home in a week or two and I can't wait to talk to him. Lately, he's just been emailing sporadically.

Anyway, I came home from their house, walked my dogs and watched the season premiere of The Office, which was good. I normally have to work Thursdays, but I hope that I can see more episodes this season. I keep telling myself that I'll get all the DVDs (I only have season one), but just haven't gotten around to it. Also, last night I listened to this week's Best Show and heard Tom give a thoroughly negative critique of Olivia Munn much to Steve's dismay, I'm sure. Great show this week though. I loved Tom slamming the Mac store and their sales staff. I also loved his plans for cleaning up the circus.

This may be kind of a long entry. I haven't hung out with Mike or Ryan in a while. Ryan said his new job is really stressful and he's been just crashing at night. Understandable. I don't really know what the heck Mike is up to. Anyway, other than people that live in other states, I have no friends. I'm calling it now. Tomorrow might be cool because I'm going to a party with people from work. That should be very fun. The people at my work are wicked cool, but slightly younger than me. Still, they're always inviting me to do stuff or go out. If it wasn't for those dudes, I would seriously have no life right now.

Damn, Hermione!

Lately, I've gotten so many punk albums that it isn't even funny. Pretty much everything I had on tape when I was a kid. So I'm rocking out pretty much constantly now and I love it. Other than that, not too much else going on lately. I got a few comedy albums in the last few days too. I discovered a great new forum called Yahooka that is really cool I got the second disc of the Comedy Death Ray album, which features great sets from Jimmy Pardo, Andy Daly and Neil Hamburger. I might put up the Andy Daly clip, but it's really short, still it's great in an interesting sort of way. Anyway, I want to get the first disc as soon as I can.

Today, I just worked which was pretty cool. I work again tomorrow so that should be cool. I hope I get off early. Tonight I left at 9 which rocked. Well, as you can see there isn't much to write about.

More Palin bullshit

A guy in the next neighborhood over has this in his yard. That's proud right there. The thing is is I don't know if it's meant sarcastically or not. That's the kicker! It's actually funny because it was the first yard sign that I ever heard about through word of mouth. I heard where it was, but the person who told me about it didn't know what it said. Leave it to some goon to create this masterpiece and sell it on Cafepress. Uggghhh. Again, I just wish I knew what the intent was on the part of the person whose yard it adorns!

Tonight I went to see Pineapple Express. It was pretty good. I thought James Franco was awesome in it and I loved the ending when the dudes are having breakfast for no real reason. I loved the Bill Hader thing at the beginning too. I'm trying to think of the preview I saw.... oh yeah, Lakeview Terrace or whatever. Oh yeah and Dark Knight. I know that that's four months too late, but this is kind of a second run theater in the next town where movies go about six weeks before they come out on digital versatile disc. I actually went to see the movie because my Mom wanted to. Saturday night, hangin' with the mom, why not? I thought that the audience which was mostly kids was pretty cool and not texting or answering their phones. Relatively shenanigan free crowd, I thought. Probably because, well, hopefully, they were mostly high.

Here's another awesome poster I found in the search results for the Palin sign.

I've been watching this show called Backstage Passport on Fuse. I don't know if each season of the show follows a different band and I just happened to get Fuse while the NOFX season was airing or what. Actually I don't really know when these episodes aired because I just watch it on demand. Thanks, Comcast! I love NOFX and the show basically follows them on this tour to all these different South American countries, Indonesia and Isreal. At least those are the ones I've seen. Anyway, if you have Fuse check the show out. It rocks.

Anyway, because I've been watching the show I wanted to actually buy a CD yesterday. The CD was the first NOFX live album, I Heard They Suck Live. On their website I had seen that they had another forthcoming live record, They've Actually Gotten Worse Live. The website said it came out November 20th. Anyway, I go to FYE yesterday and BOOM! There it is! Two months ahead of schedule. Even on Amazon it says 11/20, but if you click on it, you can purchase it. Anyway, I was somewhat miffed that the record store didn't have the earlier live album, but this new one is great. All the fun of I Heard They Suck, but done with mostly newer songs. There are even electric versions of acoustic songs like Whoops I OD'd and You're Wrong. I know there are a ton of people who hate NOFX, but fuck that! They're fantastic at what they do. On the other side of the spectrum I love Bad Religion, but I like comedy and dorkiness too, what can I say? So anyway, I'm listening to a lot more punk now. I mentioned that I got the new TVOTR, but I haven't listened to a track off it yet. Tomorrow, I need to look for new Kings Of Leon.
EDIT: I'm dumb. The NOFX album wasn't in record stores early, it was released 11/20/07. You'll have this.

This week was pretty sweet. I worked every other day, so that was cool. I'm making enough now that I never have to dip into savings for money anymore. My brother wrote and said that I should come out to Los Angeles, which is something I've been dying to do, but I'm not sure I'll have money. Damn, I would love to go out there though so I could go to UCB Jr.

A new week begins

My mind is a blur when I think about what I've been doing the past few days. I've been working quite a bit and I guess that's sort of making the days run together. Also, I keep beginning to watch movies and then stopping five minutes in to turn the channel. I have too many channels now!!

The other day my Dad wrote me appalled because he saw Tokio Hotel on Jimmy Kimmel (because there was a chance my brother was going to be on). I have no idea about what they sing or anything and I couldn't find a picture on the web that I feel like posting. I guess they won the MTV best new artist award at the VMA's, which is cool as long as Katy Perry didn't win. I can't stand Katy Perry for some reason. I Kissed A Girl has the most compressed sounding vocals I've ever heard. God, that song was everywhere for a while and I hated it! I'm ready for some good new music for fall. After keeping my eyes peeled for the new TV On The Radio album for weeks I forgot about it for a week and a half and it leaked, so I must go find that tonight or tomorrow. Update: I just found it after 15 seconds of searching. I hope it's good.

At work we've been listening to a lot of Kings Of Leon lately. The song Knocked Up comes up on shuffle a ton. We were saying yesterday how we all really like the song and how the CD changer must like it too.
I have to work again tomorrow, so tonight I haven't really done much but watch Adult Swim and a ton of CNN. Big whoopty doo. I'll write more tomorrow.

Little update

Since the last time I wrote I've just been working and watching movies. We got a new cable service a few weeks ago, so we now have about 50 more channels than we used to. Last Friday I watched House Of 1,000 Corpses, which was alright. I don't know if I'm really a fan of Rob Zombie's movies, although I would like to see his version of Halloween. The other night I watched Gus Van Sant's Elephant, which I thought was cool.
So get this, OK, I noticed we have G4 now, so I started watching it here and there. I've become a fan of their show, Attack Of The Show, which I had been watching pretty much all week. So on Wednesday night, the one night I didn't watch it, because I was at Ryan's, my brother ended up being on it! He had an awesome segment where they did a parody of a video clip where a guy set fire to his car to get rid of wasps. I ended up catching the show the following day at noon. I thought he did great and thought that the segment was really funny.

Maybe I'll write more later.

I'm no expert

I've been doing a lot of reading political blogs and crazy right wing messageboards in the past few days. People really seem to love the choice of Sarah Palin as the VP for the GOP. People seem to love the "new to Washington" thing. I don't. McCain could quite possibly die in office and I don't think she's cut out to take over. But there are people who are saying that they would vote for her for the position. This whole thing with her daughter being pregnant is really helping her with evangelicals and pro-lifers. Everybody who supports abstinence only programs for the nation's schools are very understanding about this, it seems. I think that she and John McCain are very likely to win the election in November and that pisses me off because if we keep having Republican presidents, I don't think weed will ever be legalized. I wish there was some type of frowning smiley I could put here.
Lifted from the Rapture Ready board:
"I support Sarah Palin and will no doubt be voting for McCain/Palin. I also look forward to Sara Palin's future and think she would make an excellent president. She's clearly the best thing that's happened in politics that I can remember (perhaps since Ronald Reagan)."

Really? Some people make decisions pretty quickly, I guess. Yikes. I am also not hopeful about a debate with Palin v. Joe Biden because I think that Biden will be painted as a bully if he's too forceful with his points. I just see everything breaking bad for the democrats this fall.

The great debate

I'm still getting a lot of hits from people searching for the Newbridge Mayubernatorial Debate, so I'm putting up the MP3 to try and get people into voting and give people a way to get to know the candidates. Represented in this debate are Hammerhead, Philly Boy Roy, Tor Halversom, Zachary Brimstead Esq., Fred Meyers, Pudge Palfner, Timmy Von Trimble, AP Mike and Marky Ramone. Many of the other candidates had dropped out of the race prior to the debate, so these are most of the remaining candidates. Go to Friendsoftom.com (where there's a new forum for new people!) for details and info. Remember, if you like what you hear, please go to iTunes and subscribe under comedy podcasts. I hope you enjoy!

The Best Show on WFMU from August 19, 2008

Real Life To Catch a Predator

Just read about this on Aspecialthing tonight. This guy does his own web show and does stand up too, I think. This video shows one example of how much fucked up shit goes on in Wal Mart parking lots every day. It also shows how quickly and deftly Wal Mart security reacts to potentially dangerous situations. I think it's pretty cool. I'm going to adopt several phrases from this video into my own day to day writing and speech. Check it.


Check him out here too: http://www.justin.tv/dcigs

Just another Saturday night

Since last time I wrote, I've just been doing the same general stuff. Went to B&N on Thursday and saw George. He's chilling. While there I check out some magazines. Anyone seen this magazine Antenna? I don't know what to say about it, just check it out if you get the chance. That is in no way an endorsement of the mag however. I'm having a hard time figuring it out myself. I also checked out this book called Evening Dresses by Alexanrda Black. It was awesome and had dress designs spanning most of the 20th century. It rocked and there was even an Erin O'Connor picture that I'd never seen. Awesome!

Yesterday,I went to the mall to get some new pants for work and I got an awesome jacket too! I can definitely wait for fall, but man do I wanna rock this jacket. After shopping I considered having a beer at the mall. Then I realized that it was about 6:00 so I headed to Coakley's for wings. They have the best wings ever. I lived off them for about two months last winter and it was heaven. Anyway, I get to Coakley's and on Fridays they have $5 pitchers. So I get a pitcher, and I'm talking to a dude I hadn't seen in a while. Anyway, what happens is I totally forget to order wings. Happy hour ends at 7, so the special is over. So that sucked, but whatever. It just gives me a reason to go back to Coakley's in the next few days. Speaking of the simply the best neighborhood pub, they just won the award for, I believe, the sixth year in a row. Anyway, I grab a six pack and then just head home.

Tonight I worked and that was pretty chill. I made better money than normal and that was pretty nice. I also have more shifts this week so that's awesome even though I have to work at 6am next Saturday. I have to make myself get up early this week for some prepro on that.
Got a cool email from Steve who would benefit greatly from the stories contained in the first season of Never Not Funny. Anyway, I meant to watch SNL tonight, but kind of got sucked into like a Crimefiles type of show instead.
I'm waiting on a new episode of Uhh Yeah Dude (see links), but maybe it'll be up tomorrow. Clips from eps 127 and 128. Subscribe in iTunes under comedy podcasts, you won't be sorry.

Radiohead Santa Barbara Webcast

Tonight Radiohead will be webcasting their last American show. Go to Radiohead.com for details. It'll be nice to be able to watch it and not just sit on At Ease reading the setlist tonight. I hope the Santa Barbarians get a wonderful show. I'm glad that the band decided to do this. What a treat!

EDIT: It has started! Go to http://www.radiohead.tv/

Little update: Not a bad show. Glad to hear Talk Show Host, Morning Bell and Go Slowly. I don't normally like Go Slowly, but I liked it tonight. I wish that the show had been shown in color though. Maybe next time.

I had a pretty good day today. I went to Borders to look at magazines for a bit. Looked at records too. Thought about getting Neil Young's After The Gold Rush, but remembered that it's on vinyl somewhere around here. Radiohead covered Tell Me Why Monday night in Hollywood and I wanted to hear the original. Someone probably taped the show so that should be forthcoming, yay! Anyway, I love when Thom Yorke sings Neil, especially the Bridge School cover of After The Gold Rush. This is good though:
Tell Me Why

MP3 of this song upped by Marqueemoon!!

After Borders I went and bought the blank CDs I need to begin to clear off my hard drive. That's going to be fun. Actually, I'm oddly looking forward to putting everything in order and cataloging all the music I've acquired (don't judge!!!) over the past three years.
Came home and watched The Smiths Live at Rockpalast on demand. If you have Comcast it's under Concert.tv. I'd seen parts of it on Youtube before and it was fun to watch it today.
Checked out the FOT chat for a little while. Didn't see any of the DNC.