Cardiel Parts 1-4

Epiclylaterd on VBS is doing an episode on John Cardiel. Parts 5-8 are here

Random Radiohead stuff

Rolling stone has a great photo retrospective of the band since their beginnings here. Also, the great new cover article is here (just scroll down a bit). I was really psyched to see this cover at the grocery store yesterday. Right in the middle of checking out the article Ryan called me to tell me he got a new apartment. That is awesome news because I can give him so much furniture that I won't need because I'm moving back in with my mom. In a way it sucks to have to move back home at 30, but I love my mom and it will be mututally beneficial for both of us on the bill-paying front.

Today

Today my job called to see if I could come in to work. I tried calling them back but no dice. I don't just want to just show up because they'll probably send me home without pay. It sucks so much looking for work. Everyday I scour the paper but nothing seems fit for me. Unemployment is weird because you have to be available for work at all times. So when my job calls me and tells me to give them a call, I do, but they never pick up the phone. I think they're playing some kind of games where they'll try to say I'm not available for work, but I am it's just that they don't pick up their end of the bargain by answering the phone when I return their calls.

Wow, an incoherent post

It's like 12:30 at night and I'm sitting here trying to write some stuff and nothing seems to be flowing. It's very disheartening and I'm really bummed out by it. I want to write this crazy, awesome private eye story that I've been thinking about since this past summer, but it just doesn't seem to be working. I'm so unemployed and feeling so damn worthless. I just waste so much time and don't get anything done. It's really making me crazy. But oh well, tomorrow is another day. I hope I wake up with the will to look for a job tomorrow, but I can just see myself being lazy and unmotivated. I didn't even begin to look through the paper today. Right now I'm listening to Never Not Funny and just unwinding. Next, I'll catch up on Guys With Feelings.

Last night I again chilled with Mike and Ryan in the basement and we had a pretty good time. Mike is really caught up in playing Warcraft lately, so whenever I say I chilled with Mike and Ryan it's mostly just Ryan and I hanging out with Mike making the occasional appearance to get a beer or smoke a cig with us. Ryan and I watched some live Radiohead on DVD and then some television. I saw Deal Or No Deal for the first time. That's not a bad show.

At some point Ryan went to pick up this girl he's been hanging out with and I got to idulge my strange love of Nickelodeon's tween hit Drake & Josh. I have no idea why I like it or why I like iCarly, which is kind of an even dumber show. It's not that it's a dumb show, I can see why kids are into it, I just can't tell why I'm into it. I guess maybe the comedy of these show reminds me of when I was younger and found a lot more stuff funny, like cheesy stuff as opposed to some really biting or witty comedy. I don't know, I just like cheesy shit, I guess. But yeah I've been watching shows aimed at 12 year olds lately and I enjoy it.
Towards the end of the night we were watching SNL and Mike came down and chilled for a little while. Bon Jovi was the host and it was actually a pretty good episode. The other night Mike, Ryan and I went for a little ride and Mike had The Pixies "Where Is My Mind" on this mixtape in his car and that shit rocked. It was so weird because I've been watching this Dustin Dollin part (from Baker2G) on Youtube and that's the song in it. So that song has been in my head all week and then Boom! It magically appears on Mike's mixtape. I didn't even know he liked The Pixies.

Today Ryan and I had a crazy incident at Denny's with this cop who was investigating something that had apparently gone down there either this morning or last night. Basically, we just got really wigged out and then had to eat our breakfast with this cop taking pictures all over the place in Denny's. It was so weird too because he entered Denny's at the exact time we did and at first we thought everybody there figured that he was there for something having to do with us. like we had done some mischief and then ducked into the restaurant hoping to evade the police. People do that type of thing all the time around here. I don't know how many times I've been in a restaurant or bar and the cops come in looking for someone. It was a really unnerving experience but we can laugh at it now. It was also weird that the waitress knew we wanted to be seated in smoking. I guess we just look like people who want to waste money on shit that will kill you. The cop really freaked us out and it was like part of Pulp Fiction or something when he came in and we were waiting to be seated.

Then I came back to my Mom's house where I'm writing this right now. I spent the afternoon hanging with her and the dogs and it was a pretty nice, relaxing day. I so need to get up and get busy on the job hunt tomorrow, but I bet that I'll just remain a lazy pile.

So last night I hung out with Ryan and Mike at the basement bar and we had a pretty good time. We finished watching The Grateful Dead movie, which was really amazing. I could actually see myself getting into the Dead from it. I wish I had been alive while they were in their heyday. Is it hayday or heyday? But anyway, I totally wish that I could have gone to see them play live. The kids in the audience (I think it was filmed at the Fillmore in SF) seemed to really be having an other worldly experience. I guess drugs help with that quite a bit.

Ryan was telling me about this festival he goes to every year called The Gathering Of the Vibes in Bridgeport, CT. I guess it takes place on a beach and you just get all freaky for two or three days. He's all like "Aw man, you gotta come this year." I don't know, maybe if things change on the job front and I actually start making money again I'll consider it. Anyway, the Dead movie rocks! We drank some beer until the keg got kicked and then we drank some Jaeger and Dewar's. I didn't really get drunk but had a nice warm buzz on for the film. In a way, I'm glad that we finished watching it because now we can get back to plowing through the entire series of Arrested Development. I think we're on Season 2 disc 1. We spent an entire weekend watching it a few weeks ago and that show is still one of my top 5 comedies ever.

In other news, I got paid from unemployment which is awesome. I've never been able to collect before because something or other was always screwed up, but now I'm getting paid from it and I'm psyched. Amazon is really yanking my chain as far as working goes. Last week they called me three times in one day. First to tell me I had to work, then they called to tell me I didn't have to work. So I was chilling and then they called me in the morning to ask if I could come in! So I got like 15 hours last week, but might have to tell unemployment that I could have had more hours if not for their fucking around. Even when I do show up to work they end up sending us home half the time. It's very annoying to have to get up and go in at 7:30 only to go home by 8.

Band Of Horses 1/24/08

Last night my friend Ryan and I drove up to State College to see Band Of Horses, whose music you might recognize from a few car commercials. They were pretty good as were openers Tyler Ramsey and Cass McCombs and The Middle Class. I think BOH played about 15 songs and the crowd, though kind of subdued and quiet seemed to like it. Of course, they played The Funeral and Is There A Ghost, their two most recognizable songs but the set was great the whole way through. Never a dull moment. They covered a Credence song that I wish I knew the name of. Ryan knows maybe I can find out from him. They also covered some other band and though the song sounded familiar I cannot for the life of me figure out what it was. Every song they played sounded just like you were listening to the album, their singer is really great. I wish I knew more about them. All in all a great show to have it be my first this year.

Here's The Funeral

Bah! Myspace blogging sucks!!

I'm glad that I caught up with Kristi on there but other than that I thought the whole thing was way too glitchy and weird. I did take the opportunity to steer my ultracool Hollywood brother to this blog though, and I think I'll update a lot more oft............................... eh, we'll see how it goes. I always say that I'm going to write more and then drop the ball, so screw it. We'll see what happens. I told my bro that I'd hook up some Best Show clips here and that's what I plan to do for now. Also, a few posts ago, like back in July, I was saying how I misplaced a great Gonz clip when I tore down my blog in a moment of triumphant mania. I found it again so I'll put it back up. Here's to what I hope will be a long and rewarding stint of writing from my corner of the world.



Now for the Best Show clips!

A Call From A Poor Millionaire

Conventions Inc.

Brock Peuchk, Neighborhood Hero

Let me know when you've got these so I can post more and take down the Myspace link to this.

Well I guess that didn't work.

Hello All,
My winter has been both chill and busy. I started working for Amazon.com and it was pretty good but I was working all the time. Just today I got temporarily laid off from that job. That's alright because I couldn't stand working there now that the Christmas rush is over.

So I'm excited and looking forward to what has got to be my fifth stint of unemployment since April. Not that I'm collecting unemployment or anything. I should be so lucky! So that's really about it. I'm going to go watch Conan in a minute but first I shall give a brief recap of what I've been up to since my last post.
In October I began working for a new logistics company and it straight up sucked! I became really depressed and quit blogging or really doing anything but hanging with my friends every possible chance. I couldn't stansd not to be around people and my friends are like the coolest people on the planet hands down. In mid-November I started working for Amazon and had alot of fun during my time there. It was peak season with the holidays, of course, so we were working like 60 hours a week and it was nuts. I had no time to do anything but just work and occasionally go to Mike's or Coakley's.

I really need to get a haircut. I really need to do everything because with working so much I had no time to take care of certain priorities. My dad and my brother both came to town for the holidays and that was great. We watched a ton of movies and I was way behind on movie viewing so that was great. I attended a most excellent Christmas party and found out I'd get to work at Amazon for weeks longer than most of the people I worked with. Over the course of about a month they cut the staff from about 600 down to 35 and I got to stay, so I was pretty psyched. At least I didn't have the stress of being out of work and having to deal with the holidays at the same time. Whoa is me though, it is going to suck looking for a new job.


I've been staying at my mom's all the time because I just feel like it. She has cable and all that and I've been watching TV like never before. I haven't even been listening to music or anything though. My love of Radiohead has dwindled severely. For some reason I'm just not into music at all so it's nothing like a complete 180 on Thom and the boys. I wasn't seriously blown away with the new album like I thought I would be. I became so used to the power of the live versions of those songs that they lost something for me in studio form. then again I'm probably just not in the mood to really enjoy anything lately. It's real fucked up. but I will be posting more. Whoopty-doo!