Lemonade

I can now be found at...

2010-12-09T02:44:00.002-05:00

http://modestagenda.blogspot.com/

Since I stopped writing this blog new things on the web have taken shape which kind of make updating this thing seem outmoded. I hoped you had fun if you landed here by searching for something or just hitting next blog or whatever. The new blog will be better trust me. At least it will be updated more often.

:)

Thanks

I forget where I left off...

2010-03-31T09:03:00.000-04:00

I'm too lazy to look right now. So I've begun a new writing project and a new blog for it, but I don't want to let this blog totally fall by the wayside as I had for the last year. So writing that has consumed me for now and I'm happy to be on that project.
This past weekend I decided I need to take a break from drinking as it's really fucking my shit up in a major way. Like I'm so fucked up it isn't even funny. I was supposed to meet my friends Scott and Ryan on Sunday and didn't do that. I really should have and it's not like I drnk on Sunday, I just forgot that in addition to getting my taxes done by Scott I was supposed to try out to be the leadsinger in their new band. Yeah, my life is like that now. Everything's weird. I'll write more later.

WTF pt. 1

2010-03-24T04:19:00.006-04:00

So I'm back at blogging after a nearly year long unintentional hiatus. I'm trying to write another blog right now, so that has made me want to start this thing up again. Damn, I can't believe I've been on Blogger, in one capacity or another for 4 and a half years. That just seems crazy and I remember when I started Alienface back in 2005. It was only one post for a few months, maybe like 3 and then it started and I had fun killing time with it when I used to have my office job. Good memories, not that my life right now isn't OK too.

Damn, I have no idea where to start to wrap up all the things that have happened since the last time I wrote. Quick rundown: Got a new job at Pete's, got a girlfriend, got dumped, quit my restaurant job in favor of being a bartender, now generally happy and just trying to get back into writing. :) (ugggh Facebook habit)

I'm sure as time goes on with this blog and as I try to kick it's ass into gear again, I'll go into more detail about certain things that I may have left out or just kind of glossed over, but it's been such a crazy time that I don't know where to begin, so I'll just let things come about organically. If you're reading this I'd love to hear from you and how you found it/what you think.

Let me just bring you up to speed on where things are today, nearly the end of March 2010. I fucking still live with my Mom due to financial troubles on both our ends and her lack of wanting to get her situation right. I have also been lolligagging when it comes to my finances as I not only work at a bar, but also drink way, way, way too often and therefore spend all of my money, which is just terrible. I have it curbed pretty well for now, but for a while there, I was spending several hundred a month on a bar tab. So pathetic. This was happening mostly at the beginning of this year. It was totally the worst, I have never scraped by with bills or anything else so bad in my life. All because I would just go to the bar every night and blow $40 and try to forget my problems. It was terrible, but I've stopped that and am trying to rebuild my savings once again. I think the problem is that I have so few monthly bills that I forget I should be saving money like I used to.

Well, whatever, blogging will be a good distraction and a nice outlet.

This blog is coming back

2009-12-14T06:03:00.002-05:00

I can't believe it's been so long. It will return this week with new adventures!

Snoozy Monday

2009-05-04T16:55:00.002-04:00

Uggghh. I have two days off and nothing to do. I want to head out of the house today and maybe just go to the bookstore or something. I haven't seen George in forever and I'd really like to see him if he's there.

The past two days here have been rainy and pretty dreary. I worked yesterday and that was cool. Then I went out to say Bon Voyage to a friend that is headed to Europe. I hope she has a great trip!

Last night I stayed up too late and was doing a little art on the computer. i have no cellphone right now. Again. I got it wet this time and it totally died. It turned on long enough for me to call one person and then died again. This is after I dried it out for a day. Oh well, the phone only cost $9 anyway.

This weekend was alright. I had fun at work on Friday and then went to a pretty decent party. Saturday I chilled at Pete's for way too long and am definitely going to avoid that today and tomorrow. I really need to start putting more money in the bank. Saving up is something I'm great at, but lately haven't really thought much about it.

Kiss of death

2009-04-29T16:17:00.002-04:00

Never write that you're going to post more. I've gone almost a month without an update, but some stuff has gone on. I've been spending too much time at Pete's lately. Way too much time. It's not even that I'm really drinking that much I just go there to hang out with the crew really. Some cool kids there that I'm glad I've become friends with over the course of the last few months. Now is the time though where I'm realizing I need to knock it off.

This past weekend I went to VA to be a witness to the baptism of my new Goddaughter, which makes me a Godfather, which is cool. I got to ride in a helicopter and that was the thrill of a lifetime as well. The drive down there was five hours of sheer enjoyment. Just cranking tunes and speeding down the highway. I listened to Animal Collective, the new Dan Deacon album called 'Bromst', which I really like, and some metal. My friend got me into this band called All Shall Perish whose latest album 'Awaken The Dreamers' definitely made it easier to hit the gas and avoid the wackos on the DC beltway. I also listened to the last Vetiver album. I've had it forever, but never bothered to listen to it until this weekend. It's pretty good, but I haven't bothered to track down any other stuff by them.

I've been so tired since I got back though. When I came back Monday evening I didn't even stop home, I just went straight to Pete's. That was boring, so I went home only to find plumbers there and no running water. So I went back to Pete's and tried to text people to find something to do. I ended up going and hanging out with my friends in their backyard. They have a sweet pond back there where there are frogs and all sorts of stuff. They're having a party there on Friday, so that should definitely be fun.

Yesterday I worked, but made the worst money ever. Work was fun though and I worked with all cool people. I have a weird thing going on right now, but that's nothing new. I don't feel like writing about it here, but it's kind of consuming my mind. I've been spending too much time on Facebook, which is lame as fuck too. Blaaaaaaaaaah. I'll write more soon.

A little lost...

2009-04-29T03:43:00.002-04:00

Heard this on Uhh Yeah Dude (ep 163. see links) and was instantly in love with it. Got the album but have yet to really go through it. I'll update soon.

For knowledge and defense. Never for attack.

2009-04-07T01:01:00.007-04:00

Today was a pretty good day! I got up early and took care of a bunch of stuff that I'd been putting off. My registration had expired on my car, so I went and got that renewed. Now I just need to get it inspected. I still have to get my taxes done, but that'll happen soon. I went to B&N looking for the book on Thom Yorke, but ended up buying Malcolm Gladwell's 'Blink' instead. Holy shit, I was in Borders yesterday for like 3 hours looking for Blink or The Hero With a Thousand Faces and couldn't find either one. I almost bought Eugene Mirman's 'The Will to Whatevs', but changed my mind at the last second.

When I was in the store this older customer comes up to this guy working there and is like "Yeah, in the '80s I read an autobiography of Lee Iacocca (Talking Straight, 1988), and I really liked it.... do you have any books like that?" How awesome is that? And the guy wasn't even like "Yeah, so, um..." He started off strong like he was going to have a question that any normal person would ask. Wait, maybe that is normal at a bookstore. Wackjobs! I've heard tale of B&N nuttiness. I don't know it just made me laugh at the time.

Anyway, so back to today... I rented Role Models, but haven't watched it yet. I wrote to my dad and that was alright. I'm trying to get back on the horse with writing lately. Since I got back from Austin I've just wanted to hang out and I worked a ton, so I haven't been online much at all. I'm actually two episodes behind on The Best Show and that's rare for me.

Right now, what I'm really psyched on is starting this skateboard venture at my buddy's art space/ restaurant/ coffee shop/ venue. I just need a little area in there to put ten decks on the wall. I'm looking into working with Eastern Skateboard Supply, since they seem to have a kickass selection. I figure I'll order 20 decks initially and see how it goes from there. I have to call them to see if there's a minimum number of decks I have to order and what pricing is.

If things go well I know we want to do a small independent company out of there and I'd be down for that too once we get to know the kids and what they're into. The place he's running is so diversified with everything he's doing out of one spot, that even if one of the area's bigger, more established shops opens up in the area, I don't think it'll hurt our skateboard business, because we're not a skateshop, we're just selling boards for the fuck of it. I think it'll definitely bring in more foot traffic and parents who bring the kids in and then go "Oh wow! This is actually a sweet little tapas place where I can get coffee, check out some art..... oh they have bands? It's BYOB?! I am so fucking going to make this place my chillzone!" I'm hoping those are the momshells (thanks, Jonathan and Seth) I'm told that the art sales have been going really well and the place is getting a ton of local press. It's a great place!

I'm trying to make my posts more frequent and just better overall, but tonight I keep searching for oldies collections. They're a a secret obsession of mine lately and tonight I almost got the Doo-Wop Box. If I didn't have 45 podcasts that I haven't listened to yet, I'd probably be listening to oldies right now. I'm kind of burned out on the music in my collection right now, but that's just because I've been listening to it and enjoying it so much. My one buddy at work got me into The Felice Brothers and I was listening to them a bit tonight. Their new album is good! I've got to give it some more time.

Right now I'm listening to and getting Timelife's Ultimate Oldies and it's pretty great. It's been in the last six months or so that whenever I can't think of what to listen to I just go into the radio feature in iTunes and find some oldies. Certain songs I've really begun to like, so that's why I'm hunting down collections. I had this awesome 15 cd box set I was getting a few weeks back but it was a pain in the ass getting all the discs so I kind of stopped. The good thing about that set was that it had the Monkees and I don't see them on this collection.

Here's a tip though, don't try to write while listening to spoken word podcasts. That's what I always do and my writing really comes out like hell as a result, I think. Some stuff is just typos, but there are usually whole chunks of things that get screwed up. Anyway, it's a mistake I make all the time because there aren't enough hours in the day. I guess it doesn't help that I listen to about 11 podcasts weekly. I gotta cut down on that shit.

What else? I tried to watch Larry Clark's Wassup Rockers the other night, but couldn't get into it. I did watch Gummo on Saturday morning though and that was alright.

These oldies are rockin!

All there's left to do is run

2009-04-02T03:06:00.008-04:00

Hell yeah! Being back in the area is pretty great. Money could be better at work, but I'm still having fun there. More on that to follow. This will probably be a big post.

South By Southwest ROCKED! I will never miss that again as long as I can help it. I saw a ton of bands and great comics too. I don't think I could ever do something like Bonaroo, just because it would be annoying to camp, I think, but SXSW was great because we could go back to a nice apartment each night. We got to make a ton of Whataburger runs and take our time getting up each morning. We caught the bus downtown to 6th street there everyday and it was really easy getting around. The layout of Austin isn't really that much different than Harrisburg. We're one owl shaped building short's about all, really. Frost Bank Tower... good album title.

In Austin I also totally forgot how awesome Taylor Swift's 'Love Story' is because, of course, I was hearing 9,000 other things. Now that I'm back though it's like "Yes! OMG, I forgot about this!!" Also, since I left my buddies who were already into it are even more into it. My one friend said it made her cry once she really listened to the lyrics. This is someone who once chose to play all of Kid A for our Friday night dinner crowd. Anyway, since Sunday we've really been dissecting Swift's work. Every drum fill and quiet moment. None of us can get over the first time she says "Juliette!" That is so sweet. I like the change up in the drums before the first two choruses. TIK -- RIKATIKATIKATOUJ!!
I theorize that it's about this dude and he turns 18 when Taylor is still jailbait and they're both bummed. See, they were both young when they first met, but then the guy had to wait for Julliette, after being seriously chided by her dad to stay away. Then she waits around for ever and gets tired of it. Her faith in the dude fades too. She doesn't even care about her birthday because she's so forlorn, but Romeo knows exactly when it is and I think he shows up that morning like having already covered his bases with the dad and he's just like "go pick out a dress!!!" This is their big day. And it's here we fucking go, 2009!! That's what I've come up with so far.

I hope everyone in America will got on board with this and off board with Beyonce's horrible Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it). That is the worst thing I've ever heard. What is that damn noise that keeps happening? I always wanted to take a sample of someone making making a baloon animal, add lyrics that are like listening to a one sided cell phone conversation at a nail salon, throw in some cello and see what happens.
Worst Song Ever...................................

Best Song on Radio right now!!

Look how many different charts it's on!! Only ever hitting No. 1 on the Hot Counrty Chart in 2008. I hope it tops Adult Contemporary. I already closed that window though, so I don't know if it's up or down this week. Check the chart. This is not about me thinking that Taylor Swift is hot, so get right outta town with that theory.

Blogger's being glitchy, so I'm going to publish this and then I'll come back and add to it in a sec.

Alright everything seems better now.
So what else has been going on? I haven't had a cell phone in about a week and that's been just fine. Having a landline helps I guess, but so far I've only had one call that was important.

I'll write more later.

2009-04-01T04:30:00.005-04:00

Damn, do these guys have me in a trance lately. I've seen them live and just thought whatever, but Merriweather Post Pavilion is amazing. I have to admit though, that I only like the first six tracks and I keep playing those over and over. Anyway, I'm sure I'll get into the rest of the album sooner or later.

Hey now!

2009-03-28T03:05:00.002-04:00

Alright, so I haven't updated in a while, but there hasn't been much to write about really. I came back from Austin on Monday and that whole trip was just super amazing. I honestly can't describe what a great city Austin is and how superb my first SXSW experience was. I'll write more on that later. Bye now.

Yo, VIP, Let's kick it!

2009-03-10T02:55:00.002-04:00

Let's see, this weekend was semi-lame. I worked Friday, which was great, but Saturday sucked bad. I only had one table all night, this trashy bridal shower that was beyond belief bad. Not only did they arrive two hours before their reservation to hang two streamers and place a cake on a table, but they were annoying the ENTIRE time they were there and they shorted me $40! I knew there was trouble right away because they all wanted separate checks (for 15 when I'm pretty sure that normally the maid of honor picks up the tab normally. Am I right?) but when I came back with all the checks there were only about 5 of them still there. That sucked. So Saturday was a total wash. I made $37 and was there for 9 hours! If I didn't have those skanks and had just taken regular tables I would have made at least double that.

So basically because I made no money on Saturday I had to go directly to Pete's and tell them I couldn't do the special dinner we were supposed to have tonight. More on that later. Anyway, at Pete's I chilled with a girl I work with and told her about my nightmare evening. She told me that she was the one who booked the reservation and that two of the women had been at the restaurant to check it out and she knew they were going to be trouble. Anyway, then I left without getting a sixpack for the first time since they restocked. Since February began I emptied that thing out. Then there were just crappy six packs left and I was like "Whaaaaaaaat?" So it got restocked, but without Sam Winter, which is a bummer.

Sunday I helped my Mom go over her bills and figured out exactly how much money she owes to, well, everything. Really it's nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be, so that was cool. So we felt very relieved. I was so relieved, because this had been on miy mind for a very long time. Nobody hates money problems more than me and I'm pretty good at avoiding them because I'm constantly looking forward. Anyway, then I went to Borders to get the Tim & Eric season 2 DVD. That's really good. I'm not sure if I mentioned borrowing season 1 from Ryan, but I did and that's awesome too. Great job! I've also been watching more Mr. Show lately too. I'm trying to get one of my friends into it and tonight she texted me asking about it. What I want to say is "Hey, want to watch some eps sometime?" But right now that's not cool. Man do I want to burn through some episodes with my friend though............................ Holy smokes.

So tonight I found out the dinner thing ended up getting cancelled because in the last two weeks 4 people dropped out. So anyway, that blows, but the thing was supposed happen twice already and if it had happened two weeks ago as it was first supposed to, I would totally have done it. By the time it rolled around to actually end up being this week, everything was just fucked up. Relationships had broken down, tensions were high, money was low. Some participants weren't or aren't on speaking terms. I can't wait to go to Austin right now. I love being here right now, but in another sense I'd rather be anywhere else. Things could break good or bad and it could take a long time to know. I'm thinking things are going to break bad and I'll be very sad about that. In a way I'm already sad about it and it hasn't even gotten crummy yet. In fact right now things are great. However, clouds loom and I want to run away.

Harsh economic times

2009-03-05T02:08:00.005-05:00

So since I last wrote everything has been cool. Saw the Disco Biscuits on Sunday night and they were awesome! Went to a party on Saturday and that was cool too. In the past two weeks I've started to pay more attention to Facebook, which is just alright. I hate that people send the drinks and Green Patches and all that other BS. It's always the people you'd kind of expect sending this or that. I don't know, I can't really be bothered.

Well, it's official that the party times and chilling at work is over. That sucks because it takes the fun level down ten fold. We had such a good thing going too. It was like Scatland, if you've ever heard the song by Scatman John, which you haven't unless your SINH. You're not.

I work for the next few days and that should be cool. I need to make money right now. The crunch is on for Austin. Honestly, the crunch is so on that if I could get my ticket refunded, I wouldn't even go. Hopefully, I can get my income tax return and use that for the trip. That would be nice, but I can just see SXSW being a spending disaster. Will I ever get it right? Hell yeah I will!
I told my friend about Hell Yeah by Neil Diamond and she actually checked it out and got back to me. Friends like these.......................

Sometimes it just doesn't pay to get up in the morning.

Actually I'll throw in two more videos of crazy but entertaining songs!

Thanks to Scharpling for introducing me to Hell Yeah! Mad props to Evil E and Cool K for the other two!

Weird, wild stuff

2009-02-23T02:36:00.002-05:00

Despite there being all kinds of crazy stuff happening at work this week, we actually had a good night on Friday. Or at least I did. I think I was the only one who made any money. I got a big tip off this girl who I thought was pretty hot and that made my night. Practically every night this week I went to Pete's after work. The one night I didn't stuff broke bad and it totally fucked the coworkers up for days. Some longer.

Right now I listening to Merriweather Post Pavilion, which has really been wearing on to me over the past week. I saw Animal Collective this summer and even though I like the Panda Bear album alright, I just couldn't get into the performance.

Other than BS going down at work, nothing much has really been happening. I went out Friday night and that was cool enough, but I wanted to get home early so I left about 12:30. It was weird to not still be at work at that time. It was weirder to work all night without having our normal routine or even the normal people. It was new and different, but we made the best of it and I think everybody had a good time. I learned that when my friend was 8 and OK Computer came out her dad was all into it and she actually had the rad experience of liking Radiohead since right before she turned 9. That kind of makes RH like no band that I liked at that age because... well, let's see: The Fat Boys, GNR, and Living Colour. They've all had a different career arc than the groundbreaking quintet from Oxford.

Yesterday, I tried to call my friends in Boulder to no avail. Talked to my dad a bit and that was cool. Then last night I went to Pete's and it was the biggest douchefest ever. The cigar room actually had people smoking cigars in it. If you're white and under 45 and you're smoking a cigar, you're either a father or someone who should just blow their brains out and do me and the rest of the world a favor.

Anyway, so I left there and came home at like 11:00 just hoping to catch something cool or catch up on podcasts or whatever. I watched this movie Paranoid Park, which is a Gus Van Sant movie. I gotta say after Elephant and this, I'm really starting to like Van Sant. The use of music just makes everything awesome. I sort of fell asleep near the very end so by rights I should rewatch it, but probably won't.

Quick update

2009-02-16T02:30:00.005-05:00

I haven't really been spending too much time in front of the computer lately which is a good thing. I've been going out more but that has been taxing as far as drinking way too much and spending too much money. SSDD.

So the past few weeks I've pretty much had a set schedule at work. It looks like unless I want to change it I'm mostly working Tues-Fri every week. Last night I covered for a friend and it was Valentines Day, so everybody made decent money. At work in the lobby there was a Bull Mastiff who showed up no collar, no leash in the hotel. Then the owner showed up and everybody was like, "Whoa!!" because this dog was HUGE.

Friday night I was off this week so I headed to the grand opening of this coffee shop/art space/venue that my friend is doing. The show on Friday night was a band from NY, NY called The Whispering Tree. They were really good and I thank them for coming to New Cumberland. Once again just like the preopening a few weeks ago, it was great to see everyone that came to the event. Joe, the owner, gave a great speech before the music got underway and it will be really interesting to see what happens to the place now that it's up and running. I can see myself spending a lot of time there because they have killer food. Friday night I had carnitas and this really amazing spicy baked macaroni they do. It was phenomenal! I think if you take a girl there and she's never been there before, you're definitely crushing it.

I'm a huge dork because I got my two friends candy rings for Valentines day. I never ended up giving the rings to them though, so I guess I'm not that bad.

So anyway, like I said I worked Saturday night, that was dece obvi.

Today I just kind of laid around. I finally listened to this week's Best Show with Jon Glaser and Google as in studio guests. Tonight I watched the Delocated pilot on Adult Swim and that was top notch too.

Hey here's something entertaining you might enjoy. Never Not Funny live at the SF Sketchfest! This episode is great because there are two guests, Pat Francis (maybe the best guest the show has ever had) and Jon Hamm. Great episode. I've actually gotten behind on NNF, but will have tomorrow to catch up.

See ya.

They have never gone wrong

2009-02-09T16:38:00.002-05:00

Man, Radiohead ripped the Grammys last night, though I wish that all five of them had been onstage. I thought that Jay Z rapping with Coldplay sucked and I hated the MIA thing with Lil Wayne and the rest of those guys. Anyway...

Since I last posted I've just been working and chilling mostly. Strange things are afoot at work, I think but I'll have to wait until later in the week to find out. I hung out with a bunch of coworkers Friday night and that was cool. Saturday I went out, yesterday I went out and tonight I am definitely not going out, decidedly. I've been spending way too much money, but it's because I've been drinking all these great beers instead of Miller Lite, which held my hand for years. Whatever, moving up, I guess. One good thing is that I don't drink Whiskey anymore and that's a big improvement.

#1 on the list

2009-02-04T04:23:00.002-05:00

Sleep little darling

2009-02-02T16:41:00.004-05:00

Well, since I last posted I've had some very cool times. Too many to recount here actually. Friday night I worked and then went out with the crew and had a great time. I actually ended up at the home of two of my coworkers and we had a great little party, which was surprisingly good for not starting until after 2am. They were playing all kinds of music that I hadn't really ever heard and it was awesome. I'm not ashamed to admit that at 31 I'd never heard Abbey Road in its entirety until three days ago. What a great album! They also introduced me to a great bay area metal band called All Shall Perish, who rip shit for real.

So I spent all day Saturday downloading and it paid off well. Then I went and bought an external hard drive, which is a purchase that was way overdue. I spent Saturday night drinking Sam Adams' Winter Lager and transferring all my files which took a while, but nowhere near as long as I expected.

Sunday my mom and I went to the restaurant for dinner and watched the Superbowl. They had a big screen set up in one of the rooms. So that was really fun and I'm glad the Steelers won. I'll probably write more later and maybe post some songs.

I can return emails

2009-01-25T03:20:00.004-05:00

Eeegads what has been going on the past few days. Hoo boy! Let's see, I worked and that was pretty cool. I've really been staying there pretty late this week and I might need to cut that out. But it's more fun than just coming home, so I don't know. Everything is going good maybe I shouldn't mess with it.

So I dropped off the mixes for my friend today and I should see her tomorrow, but I don't know if she will have heard any of them by then. No big either way, really.

Today was a pretty good day as I got to chill with Ryan for the first time in ever. We watched a thing OnDemand of the Disco Biscuits doing their song Therapy. I had never heard them before today and I've got to say they rock. And they're from Philly! I'm trying to track down what album the song is on because I'd really like to get it. Ryan wants to go see them at the beginning of March and that would be really cool. It would be cool to start the month off in some kind of cool way and then cap it off with SXSW. I finally emailed my friend Scott today after spending like an hour looking at all the bands. I don't even think I have an updated list either. I also emailed my brother because he sent me a kickass email about getting picked to help Rob Huebel with a bit at Largo I think. Very cool. I work a ton this week starting tomorrow, so that should be cool. We'll talk soon!

The First Thom Yorke Book!

2009-01-22T19:59:00.002-05:00

From At Ease:

“Thom Yorke: Radiohead & Trading Solo” is the title of the forthcoming biography of Thom Yorke. The book will hit the shelves next month.
There are already many Radiohead books out there, but publisher Independent Music Press announced this first ever biography of the Radiohead frontman. The press release claims that the 208 page book, written by Trevor Baker, is “a tale of the extraordinary drive, ambition and perfectionism of just one man. Thom Yorke’s story has never been told and this biography goes further and deeper than ever before with the help of in-depth interviews from former classmates, producers, video makers and other key players in his life.”
Thom Yorke: Radiohead & Trading Solo will be out on February 26th. Pre-order the book at Amazon.

Here We Go

2009-01-22T14:20:00.002-05:00

Alright, so it's day 3 of Obama's administration and things seem to be going well. I worked the past two nights and that was alright. Nothing to write home about moneywise, but I had fun and did get to hang with my coworkers after hours which is always fantastic. Last night it was a particularly good crew (although it lacked my favorite person) and we had all this cleaning to do, which we knocked out in about a half hour.
I came home and tried to listen to this week's Best Show, but wasn't able to finish it. So I'm listening now. I don't know if I'll have time to finish it in this sitting either. It is good to have on though as I have like 50 emails to send out to people. I've got to email my friend Scott in Austin because he sent me a link to a site that keeps track of the ever growing SXSW roster. Looks to be a mindblowing couple days and I can't wait to go down. A friend at work was saying that her friend goes to Texas A&M and was raving about Southby last year. I'll write more later.

Susan Van Tassel once again.

Oh yeah quick sidebar: I'm getting a lot of hits from people searching for Bruce McCulloch's Shame-Based Man album. I had it up for a while and once it hit a certain number of downloads, I figured that was enough and deleted the link. So that's what happened with that. It's kind of a jip that nobody who downloaded it seems to want to reup it anywhere, but that's the way things go. Recently I found things online that I'd been looking for for almost ten years so be patient. Or go here and purchase the album. It's $2.16!!!!

Sunday and Monday

2009-01-20T03:08:00.002-05:00

I don't think I did anything Saturday. Sunday I was late to work, but it was no big deal. All anyone cared about was nem Eagles, who sadly will not play Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl. Anyway, we had a pretty good night, me and the girls and Adam. We had buses bringing people to the hotel who were in town for the inauguration and we thought we were going to get slammed but it never happened. I think I stopped taking tables around 8:30 and hung out til close. Then I went to Coakley's and hung out with my friend Ryan from open mic. That was cool. When I got home he pulled up behind me and was like "I got Genny Cream Ales at the house!" He only lives a block away so that was cool. I got home at like 5:30 this morning, but for some reason was up at like 11 this morning.

My mom has total inauguration fever! She's way too into it for my liking. I'm trying to get into it, I mean I voted for Obama, but I don't know, I just can't get into the spirit. I try not to rain on her parade though.

Oh, so I finished making the mix CDs for my homegirl AG. I ended up making two, one that I took way too seriously and then one that's just for kicks to kind of say "Yo, sorry it took so long." I also gave her Bee Thousand by Guided By Voices and Radiohead's I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings because I could fit both on one disc. Yippeeee! Here are the mix tracklists.

Who Cares Mix:
Bruises - Chairlift (that song from the iPod Nano commercial)
Los Angeles - Frank Black
Linoleum - NOFX
Rock and Roll Dreams'll Come Through - Ted Leo
Crushin' - The Fat Boys
Jesus Etc. - Wilco
No Bad News - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Arpeggi - Radiohead ('06 live version, much better than In Rainbows version IMO)
Needle In The Hay - Elliot Smith
Bottle of Blues - Beck
Strawberry Letter 23 - Shuggie Otis
One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head
Lift Me Up - Bruce McCulloch
The Grand Finale - The D.O.C. (ft. Ice Cube, Eazy-E, and MC Ren)
Lift Me Lord - Bill Hicks (This is about a thirty second track that I didn't list on the insert)
Everyone's A VIP To Someone - The Go! Team (also an unlisted bonus trizzack, sucka!)

We Care A Lot Mix:
Wolf Like Me - TV On The Radio
The Laws Have Changed - New Pornographers
Where Is My Mind - Pixies
What Difference Does It Make? - The Smiths
Roland - Interpol
Cellphone's Dead - Beck
Funky Days Are Back Again - Cornershop
Almost Crimes - Broken Social Scene
Was It You? - Spoon
Caring Is Creepy - The Shins
Another Person - Jay Reatard
The Youth - MGMT
Sleepwalk - The Ventures (bonus trizzle, y'all)

So I finished up burning the discs and I just wanted to get out of the house. I was going to get McNuggets because they're pretty much the only thing I'll get at McDonald's that's not a breakfast thing. Fuck McDonald's though, last time I got breakfast there they totally screwed it up. I will never use the drive-thru again. How do you forget the egg in a Steak, Egg and Cheese Bagel? Twice! UGGGGGH!
Anyway, I ended up stopping by the restaurant to give this girl the CDs but she wasn't there. Whatev, I'll see her eventually, I'm sure. The restaurant was cool, but super dead. Still didn't get crazy busy from the inauguration people yet, so that kind of blows. I ate a burger and it was delicious and filling. I ate a killer steak on Sunday too. Food overload and I love it. Speaking of food overload I took some candy and stuff to the restaurant. One girl there had never had a dried banana before, she's 21. That seems crazy to me, I gotta say. I also got these candies made by Tootsie called Crows, which are like Dots but instead of being fruit flavored they're black licorice, which everyone at work was like "Gag me!" but I love black licorice, it tastes like Jager sort of.
After leaving the restaurant I didn't know what to do. I think it was like 9:30 so I thought that I could get to Border's to spend my bad ass gift card on John Hodgman's 'More Information Than You Require'. No dice though because I thought they closed at 11, but they close at 10. Wah - wah.

Used to be alright

2009-01-16T20:43:00.003-05:00

What an awesome week it's been! I worked Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and made killer money. Especially on Wednesday when I covered someone else's shift and made $200. The great thing about that is that I didn't even feel like I was busy at any point. I just had awesome customers who got it. Fucking rad!

Anyway, so right now I'm just chilling. I can't figure out what to do with my Friday night right now. I should go out, but there's no real reason to at all. I just walked my pep peps and I think it's about two degrees outside right now. I do need to go to the store to get CD-Rs but I'll do that later. I'm so glad that I got my transmission fluid level topped off and my car's running smooth again. What a relief to know that that's all it was. I hate having car troubles of any kind and as much as I might bitch, in my personal life about how bad VWs are, I'm very thankful that mine is still going strong. Knock on wood.

My friend in Colorado wrote and said that she has secured a stint substitute teaching, which could lead to a long term job in the future, so that's exciting.

Great Best Show this week with the hotdog vendor guy and Paul F. Tompkins. Jeers to my dad for calling in after listening to the show for only zero weeks. That was fucking stupid and his cold open was something that Tom could have really messed with, but he left it alone.

Other things control me

2009-01-12T18:02:00.009-05:00

So, I'm trying to get back into posting more but have been spending way too much time screwing around on the net. It's gotten really bad in the past two weeks and I think that I'm going to have to place restrictions on my internet usage, because what I'm currently doing is, I think, making me depressed in some way. I read that being on the net, and specifically, looking at porn can make you really depressed, so that's always in the back of my mind.

So anyway, a lot of cool shit has actually happened in the past three weeks. My dad and brother came to PA for the holidays and that was cool even though I think I was a crab 90% of the time. I basically just didn't feel like doing anything. Even the parties I went to should have been really fun for me but somehow weren't. At all. I liked seeing all my friends, but I would just want to leave after 45 minutes, so then I would deal with that by drinking too much and stuff would just devolve. Horrible. I told my friends who live in other parts of the country that I'd keep in touch more, in fact I owe them emails right now. Anyway, I'll try to be more on that in '09.

I'm still sequencing this damn mixtape , but I now have a more positive outlook on that because I don't care. Making a mix is something I did maybe once in high school, yet for some reason I just think it's the most high school thing you can possibly do. I mean you have to pick songs that you think the person will like, but you don't want to get too personal either and it's just BLAARRG.

So anyway I'm listening to the mix right now and I think it's totally fine. And it rocks to boot. I'll post the playlist when it's totally finished.

So what else has been going on? I do want to give a quick mention of two things that totally rock real quick. First off the amazing Fredericks of New Port Ritchey (it's Florida!) soundboard created by Regular Joe and posted on the message board over at Friendsoftom.com. Fantastic job. Fredericks is certainly the new year's most exciting character and if Tom can get him to quit smoking that would be another in the annals of Best Show triumphs. The other thing is an interview with Seth and Jonathan of Uhh Yeah Dude fame. I watched and read this last night despite the fact that it's probably five or six weeks old. Anyway, good stuff, check it out.

So now that the holidays are long behind us I need to get back to normalcy of some kind. My dad and brother left for their respective homes last week. I was glad they came down and it didn't end up being as crazy stressful as I thought it was going to be. Probably because I mostly just did my own thing, which isn't much. I worked a few of the days that they were here but not many. I'm just starting to work more now and that's been pretty cool. I need to find another job soon and that's going to suck. I just keep thinking how soon I won't have any free time at all, which might not be a bad thing necessarily. I just really need to hit the pavement and look for work. I get such a panicked feeling when I think about looking though. To even think of cracking the newspaper makes me want to totally throw up.

I've got to get back in contact with my doctor soon. I missed an appointment with him back in November and have not yet done anything about that. Isn't that terrible? I still have a decent supply of meds though, mostly because I've been slacking on taking them. I really need to start taking them everyday to avoid shit becoming overwhelming again. But I just don't want to be a flat, monotone person like I was this entire spring. To talk to the people I work with now about when I first started is really crazy because there's been such a marked change in my personality and the way I interact with people. I'm so glad to be back to my old self, but I also know what is at stake as far as not taking my medication and thinking that everything will be cool. I have to look at the night on a curve.

This past Saturday night I went to an awesome opening reception for a new restaurant/ artspace that a friend just opened up. It's in New Cumberland and it looks like it's going to be totally sweet. There were bands playing and more cute art girls than I could shake a drawing of a stick at. It was a lot of fun and it was nice to just go out solo and see everyone there. I ran onto friends right away and we talked and had wine, which I haven't had in a while. Then I went to Pete's and watched Boston Legal with the bouncer, who's a huge fan of Monk. Then some of my friends from work showed up and that was cool. I ended up sleeping at my friend's house and watching Pineapple Express with her. The next day I realized that I maybe could have hooked up, but the previous night the thought never entered my mind.

I came home yesterday from her house and immediately started reading Klosterman IV after putting it off for the holidays. What a great book! Even the stuff that I don't really care about reading (Val Kilmer and Steve Nash come to mind) are really great and I just love Klosterman's style and the questions he poses both to his subjects and to the reader. Great stuff. I wish I could write, but I have long since chucked that idea out the window. Even here on this blog I'll see things that aren't even really sentences, just two half thoughts crazy glued together somehow. Maybe I just need to write more. Maybe I'll post again later.

holiday recap

2009-01-10T17:06:00.003-05:00

Thank God the holidays are over. I had a good Christmas and an OK New Year's Eve, but there's really not too much more to say. At work we had our gift exchange and my friend Rachel hooked me up awesomely with Chuck Klosterman IV and Pablo Honey on vinyl! I have no idea how she knew that I liked Klosterman, but was really happy that I liked my gifts.

Anyway, then we went to Coakley's and we had a good time.
I know that I should write a more detailed summary of the events of the last two weeks but I just don't care to right now. I'm basically just posting to get back into the habit of posting. OK, bye.

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-22T07:54:00.002-05:00

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?

2008-12-16T19:36:00.004-05:00

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

2008-12-12T04:21:00.002-05:00

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

2008-12-07T04:40:00.002-05:00

What's the deal with this album?

2008-12-05T00:53:00.004-05:00

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

2008-12-03T05:54:00.001-05:00

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....!

2008-11-28T23:25:00.002-05:00

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.

2008-11-24T01:21:00.002-05:00

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.

2008-11-23T19:02:00.000-05:00

I am the chimpy child on who fortune has smiled

2008-11-23T00:59:00.009-05:00

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!

2008-11-19T02:35:00.003-05:00

"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

2008-11-19T01:56:00.002-05:00

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

2008-11-17T06:16:00.004-05:00

"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!

2008-11-15T17:41:00.002-05:00

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

2008-11-13T07:02:00.005-05:00

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!

2008-11-06T01:59:00.007-05:00

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!

2008-11-05T01:25:00.013-05:00

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

2008-11-03T15:21:00.005-05:00

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!

2008-10-31T02:14:00.005-04:00

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?

2008-10-27T16:14:00.004-04:00

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

2008-10-26T01:31:00.008-04:00

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

2008-10-26T00:41:00.004-04:00

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

2008-10-24T14:18:00.003-04:00

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

2008-10-23T01:42:00.000-04:00

See more Natalie Portman videos at Funny or Die

Hee hee heew!

2008-10-18T00:39:00.006-04:00

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

2008-10-10T03:05:00.002-04:00

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

2008-10-08T17:01:00.002-04:00

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

2008-10-04T17:59:00.008-04:00

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

2008-09-29T02:16:00.004-04:00

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

2008-09-27T00:46:00.002-04:00

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!

2008-09-23T23:51:00.004-04:00

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

2008-09-21T02:06:00.004-04:00

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.

2008-09-19T23:36:00.006-04:00

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

2008-09-15T02:02:00.002-04:00

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

2008-09-12T15:23:00.003-04:00

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

2008-09-03T23:19:00.003-04:00

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

2008-09-01T18:22:00.005-04:00

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

2008-09-01T02:52:00.003-04:00

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

2008-08-31T02:29:00.002-04:00

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

2008-08-28T17:40:00.007-04:00

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.

2008-08-26T20:10:00.004-04:00

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.

Whatev... Erin.......

2008-08-25T23:37:00.009-04:00

Hell Yeah! The Onion AV Club has selected Scharpling and Wurster (see links) for Portraits Of Awesomeness Number 3!

Not much going on tonight. Today I went over to my friend's house and he was showing me all kinds of awesome stuff. He has this guitar that is from 1951 and there were only about 300 made back then. Typical story, he got it from a coworker whose deceased husband once played it.

We had some beers and smoked a bit and all in all it was a nice little Monday afternoon. Then I came back home. Began to watch some coverage of the DNC. It wasn't that interesting though, so I was just listening from the other room for most of it.

I noticed that two people, I'm not sure who, downloaded one of the Best Show clips and the episode that I posted a while back. I will be posting more, but if you're reading this and you downloaded either one please leave a message, so I know what you would like to hear more of. No big deal, but it would help me post clips and things that are sort of in the same vein. I'm cleaning out my hard drive soon, which means I'll be putting a lot of my audio onto CDs. If I come across something that really strikes me while I'm clearing out, I'll post it. Right now 90% of my Best Show clips aren't on my computer but on MP3 CDs. I need to go through those because that's about 60 great clips that I should upload. This is, after all, a world takeover. So I will fight the good fight and hype up the show as much as I can because I love it so much. It definitely beats any TV or current movies for being the most consistently funny thing in the world.

Also, as you've probably noticed, I put a CBox up so feel free to write anything you want in there. It seems less formal than commenting and doesn't require approval or letter verification or any of that stuff. So use it to call me a douche today!

Here's a CLASSIC Best Show clip! Craig Barron is a district manager for Smirnoff Ice. After Tom expresses displeasure with the malt beverage, he receives this call which contains several delightful ways to enjoy Smirnoff Ice. Not to be missed!! I have probably turned more people onto the show with this clip than any other. "If you don't know anything about Smirnoff Ice, you're going to find out when you drink it."

Go to friendsoftom.com to get in on the fun. The Best Show on WFMU is broadcast Tuesday nights from 8-11 est.

Wonderful day

2008-08-25T01:24:00.006-04:00

What has happened since I last wrote? One of my best friend's fathers died, so that sucks. I haven't talked to my friend since he texted me about it on Friday. I don't even know if he's in the area right now. Maybe I'll try to talk to him tomorrow.

Saturday night I worked and made decent money. After work I went to Coakley's and saw some of my work dudes there. It was pretty uneventful. I thought maybe I'd run into Mike, but did not.

Today, I went to an awesome baby shower for one of my friends who I've known all my life. He'll be having a little boy in September and that's cool as hell. Saw a ton of old friends there and that rocked. They were telling me that Hummel is coming back, and that's when we started talking and I realized how many people from my group of friends now live right on my street. That's very cool. I really got a charge from seeing and talking to all my old friends. They're so great. My friend, Gino, who is the father to be is really cool and we talked for a long time when most people had left. His step dad gave me a great CD that he made of '80s type hair guitar rock and I'm about to fire that up. I heard some of the songs when we took a little cruise. The beginning of the album sounds like a riot is going to start and then it breaks into these songs which are full of solos and crazy technical playing.

These two guys, Gino and his step dad, are both really good musicians. If there are any people I know who have real success in music it's those two. Gino fronts one of the most popular bands in Harrisburg. In Harrisburg, 90% of the bands that get gigs in clubs and bars are cover bands. I'm really not a fan of too many of them just because, you know, there a cover band. Gino's band is different though because of the variety of stuff they cover. I wish I had a setlist to quote, but whatever, they're tight! I'm probably going to see them next Saturday. They play a ton of shows, but I never know when they are because I never log into Myspace anymore. I hate Myspace.

Anyway, after the shower I just came home and chilled. I slept for a little while and then got up to watch Adult Swim. I actually caught Tim & Eric Awesome Show so I was happy. Right now I'm listening to ep 129 of Uhh Yeah Dude and Chilling. The show now has an awesome new logo that I love. I hope that the UYD forums will return soon.

Mr. Yorke regulating suckers in Vancouver

2008-08-22T16:11:00.003-04:00

That guy probably feels like quite a tool. I like this better than when Thom said "Shut up, cu*t." In 2006. Thom rules.

Campaign Swag!

2008-08-22T01:43:00.005-04:00

Since I'm leaning towards PFT or Mike for the Mayor of Newbridge (Philly Boy Roy is not a realistic option for me any longer because I don't support a hoagie tax), I love these promotional campaign goodies from Senorcorazon from the FOT board! Edit: I'm not a Hammerhead supporter, but I like the Hardcore one from Erika as well.

2008-08-21T13:15:00.003-04:00

So last night Ryan and I went to Hollywood Casino to check out this band, Grumpy Old Men. Great name. They were pretty good and did a lot of great covers. Their Comfortably Numb was a highlight. The dude that Ryan knows is a shredding guitarist and was soloing to the gods for most of the night. I then came home, walked my pups and watched South Park. Pretty chill night. Today I've got to finish Harry Potter and then meet the girl at B&N at 6:30 for coffee. Here are two Best Show clips that I love

A Talk With The Publisher of Pizza Aficionado Magazine One of my favorite Best Show clips of all time. A good intro to the alternate reality that the show sometimes veers into.

Philly Boy Roy Takes Over The Show I haven't listened to this in a while, but I remember it being pretty good. Roy is one of the show's most beloved screw ups. Maybe once the Best Show takeover begins I can post some clips of the caller known as Spike. He's true class and a real person which makes it more great.

Killer Show

2008-08-20T14:23:00.002-04:00

After not doing much yesterday but driving around and getting some Sbarro, I was ready to laugh. For some reason I didn't listen to The Best Show live, knowing that I'd check out the archived episode around midnight. Last night's episode was the first one I ever listened to twice back to back. It was that good. From the Newbridge national anthem set to the tune of The Cars' Just What I Needed, to Marky Ramone's awesome accent and climactic stories, this show had everything! I'm listening to it again right now.
It was also proposed by Tom last night that the Best Show World Domination Project get underway in earnest. I can already feel it beginning. Soon The Best Show will rule the iTunes comedy chart and I can't wait. This summer has been greatly improved by awesome Best Show moments and it looks like September could be the biggest month ever, entertainment wise.

Tonight, I'm going to a casino with Ryan to see some band that his former guitar teacher plays in. I'm not really into gambling, but it should be pretty fun. I think that the show runs until about ten and then I'll come home and walk my dogs. I'll probably put up some Best Show clips or some kind of music tonight, maybe just sort of a grab bag. I've got to email Harry Potter girl tonight and tell her we can meet up tomorrow. I'm not really looking forward to that at all.

Anybody have any music requests? Of the few people who read this the only ones whose musical tastes I have any knowledge of are Denise and Steve. Steve get over and check out that Neckface show. It's like a mile from you. Snag this fool a T-shirt, please!

The Newbridge Mayubernatorial Debate

2008-08-20T01:01:00.004-04:00

So, tonight's episode of The Best Show on WFMU is all about the Newbridge Mayubernatorial debates. Over the last few months, tons of candidates have come and gone and the race is really heating up. I'm listening to the show right now, so I don't know how it's going to turn out. I got a text from Steve in North Hollywood earlier tonight and he said it was hilarious. I'm not listening live. I know many of the other candidates are afraid of Tor Halbersom from the Chocolate, Machine Gun and Switchblade Party, but I'd like to see what direction he would take Newbridge in if he were to become mayor. Otherwise my vote goes to either AP Mike, Paul F. Tompkins or Philly Boy Roy, naturally. Even though I live 90 miles to the west in Harrisburg, I gotta keep it Roxborough!

If you like comedy, comedians, people, rock music, jokes, fake names, real names, heroes, ghouls, phone calls, catchphrases, nerds, movies, ABBA, and most importantly the good guys, do yourself a favor and check out the show. You can find full archives at Friendsoftom.com or stream it live every tuesday night from 8-11pm (est) from WFMU.org.

EDIT: Come to think of it, I'll put up some good clips this week!!

Another Pitchfork documentary

2008-08-19T11:53:00.003-04:00

I'm pretty sure I used this pic on my old blog too.

This time about Public Enemy's grounbreaking album It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. Old school still rules.

http://www.pitchfork.tv/

Blogging gets boring

2008-08-18T13:49:00.003-04:00

Lately, I've been spending way too much time in the coffeeshop section of Google groups which I stumbled on a month ago. It's kind of a wasteland, but I get sucked in by people who want tips or readers for their blogs. The thing that's so annoying and weird is that half the time people don't post a link to their blog so you kind of get why they need help. Some blogs I read there are pretty cool but suffer from being over promoted and some just suck. By over promotion I mean when people post their link every few hours despite there being no new blog content. I don't get that. I guess people are just hard up for readers and need comments to feel good about what they write. Not me, I never get comments and yet I blog away like a busy beaver because I enjoy it. I truly have no idea why, either.

Uggghhh!! I now have to meet up with Harry Potter girl at some point this week to give her back her book before she moves. This got me thinking about how I was seeing this real idiot last summer who never gave me back my special edition Kid A CD. That still pisses me off, but I know that the girl is an emotional nutjob and Kid A was probably the best thing anyone had ever given her. I don't usually like to throw people under the bus, but with her I see no problem with it. I got that CD from someone very special and it pisses me off that this girl now has it. Oh well.

Today I need to get out of the house and soak up summer's last remaining goodness. I can't believe it'll be over soon. Then the blackness of fall will be here as violent as a spooked horse. I really don't want fall to happen this year. Unless I win the lottery or something, it's going to just be the same long, cold trial that last autumn was. Winter is OK for some reason, but fall, a season I used to absolutely love, has really lost it's luster. Maybe this year, with my new job, it'll be cooler than last year, but right now I can't see that being the case. Anyway, models are coming back full force.

Radiohead - Mansfield, MA 08/13/08

2008-08-17T04:06:00.005-04:00

Recorded, edited and everything else by Sensitiveeyes from At Ease. Big ups!

EDIT: There should be more sources for this available tonight. I know people in the UK can't use Sendspace. I'll post them when I find them.

Setlist:

01. Reckoner

02. Optimistic

03. There There

04. 15 Step

05. Kid A

06. Nude

07. All I Need

08. The Gloaming

09. The National Anthem

10. Videotape

11. Jigsaw Falling Into Place

12. The Bends

13. Faust Arp

14. Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi

15. Everything In Its Right Place

16. Exit Music

17. Bodysnatchers
Encore 1:

18. House of Cards

19. I Might Be Wrong

20. Paranoid Android

21. A Wolf At The Door

22. How To Disappear Completely
Encore 2:

23. Cymbal Rush

24. Karma Police

25. Idioteque

Link

Photo by Chris Devers.

A mild day at work

2008-08-16T23:55:00.007-04:00

I worked today, which was pretty fun. I didn't really have too much work to do, so it flew by. I wish that I had made more money, but what can you do? I always seem to make the same amount of money, which is really sort of getting to be a drag. I need to look for a new job this week. As much as I dread the prospect of interviewing and meeting with people, I have a lifestyle to sustain and if it weren't for unemployment right now I'd be dead. Deader than dead actually. I need something with good vacation time. I'm almost more concerned with vacation time than I am with the wage. Ahh, what a total nightmare.

In other unrelated, stupid shit, Harry Potter girl is moving. It's actually kind of cool, because now I don't have to worry about reading every JK Rowling book. I enjoy her work and the book I'm reading, but I can see that this would have been the beginning of many little random tasks that I wouldn't have really enjoyed. It wasn't like I was insisting that this girl be able to discuss the highlights of OK Computer or Kid A, you know? It was kind of annoying to get to know someone who wants to give you homework right away. I'm used to things with my friends sort of happening more organically because we're all into the same stuff. You kind of automatically become interested in things that interest the people you care about.

I got cool emails from my friends in Colorado. They are both teachers and a couple. A couple of really great people who I'm very lucky to have as friends. Cool folks! The young woman is about to begin her student teaching, so I'm sure she's a little apprehensive. I know that she'll do great though. Her hardest thing to overcome will probably be sticking with it as a career. She's very talented so it's easy for her to become interested in anything but what she's currently doing. I'm kind of the same way, but in my case it sort of prevents me from really committing and doing anything at all.

Bah!! I should have gone out tonight, but I am really trying to watch my drinking. Last night I drank and it was kind of boring. I'm spending way too much money on it. If I had gone out tonight it would have cost me at least $50 and that's not including buying drinks for other people.

New Uhh Yeah Dude Craigslist segment. From episode 126

888-842-2357. UYD.

Also, a new Neckface show!! Cannibal Carnival! Neckface is an amazing artist who has gained international acclaim for his demonic and radical characters. The creepy dude at the top of my page is a Neckface painting from his last show ( I believe), Closed Casket. Looks like he's using a lot more color than in his earlier work. I'll post any pics I can find of this new show. Excitement!!

My God! After three whole seconds searching the net I came across this! So great! I hope my brother will go see this and maybe take some pics. Check some more here!

YES!!!

2008-08-15T18:49:00.001-04:00

I have cranked this so many times in the Jetta that it defies modern logic. Oh yteah!

Lazy Friday

2008-08-15T13:59:00.003-04:00

Not much going on today. I should make the most of it too, since I have to work tomorrow. I've just been chilling and cranking tunes this morning. All my friends are at work, so I have to wait until later to see if anyone wants to do anything. I need to email Harry Potter girl and say hello, but I haven't finished the book, so that prospect seems grim. Actually, that whole situation leaves me with little hope.
So, I posted a response to one of the mysterious CL postings and nothing has happened yet. It's probably nothing, but I must have little distractions and BS things to make my days more interesting.
I went to Borders and B&N yesterday, but it was the most pointless thing ever. I saw this guy at B&N with these two awesome puppies. I think they were St. Bernards. I've seen them there before and they're awesome. Never talked to the guy though. Ultimate chick magnet the dogs must be, though.

Spent the rest of the night just shitting around the internet. I want the new TV On The Radio album to leak. I was checking for that last night, but didn't see any links. If you're so inclined you've got to check out their last album, Return To Cookie Mountain. Seriously, a marvel of an album. I want to go see them again. Their live show is incredible.
I keep checking for a good recent Radiohead boot to post here, but so far the one I've found, which I mentioned the other day, was utterly terrible. Supposedly, there will be a recording of the Mansfield show up later today, so I may post that if it's quality.
Right now I'm listening to Meat Is Murder and trying to get motivated to do something. Anything. Maybe I'll take a drive.
I'm wating on an email from my friends in CO. It's not like them to not email me right back, so maybe there's something going on with them that I'm not aware of. Whatever, I'll probably write more tonight.

Two '80s bangers

2008-08-15T00:54:00.003-04:00

Michael McDonald's 'Sweet Freedom'

Jane Wiedlin's 'Rush Hour'

There is no telling how many times I listened to these songs when I first got my iPod back in the day. Such good times. I remember being into both of these songs when they came out. I know that Sweet Freedom is from '86, but I'm really not sure about Rush Hour. I think that that was '88. Anyway, I was so glad when I found these on Limewire when I used to use Limewire. Now I download all my music from forums and they would never have this type of stuff. No Information Society either.

5:00 pm time to wake up

2008-08-14T17:00:00.002-04:00

Oh my God, I am such a slug today. Last night I didn't do anything. I didn't meet up with Ryan I just ate a Tony's pepperoni pizza and drank a little while keeping up with the setlist from Radiohead's show in Mansfield, MA. I can't believe they got A Wolf At The Door and I Might Be Wrong, but Radiohead does love Boston, so I guess that should have been expected.

Today I haven't done anything. I need to shower and get out of the house. I'll probably go to Borders or B&N. I always go to the same places when I'm bored, when I need to get out of the house.
I had another weird thing on Craigslist yesterday and I'm really thinking that I should post a response to one of the ads. It's a little creepy, but I really think someone's trying to find me and if it's the someone I think, I would love to be found. I've got to step back and really think about this though. I mean, there's a reason that some people are no longer a part of my life and opening up the door to them again could spell disaster in the long term. I don't know what to do, but right now I need to get off the computer and go out into the world for a bit. It looks like it's going to storm here. Perfect.

This is awesome!!

2008-08-13T16:17:00.002-04:00

http://www.pitchfork.tv/

Excellent documentary about The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead. Only available until tomorrow night. Just scroll down on the right. It's fantastic.

Ooh scary

2008-08-13T15:08:00.003-04:00

When I was putting up those pictures I thought I had screwed up my blog for real. All of the fonts in the sidebar became tiny. Then they became huge! Well, it seems that everything is OK now.

Last night on The Best Show was the WFMU debut of the H Man and it was a pretty good show. I had said that I was listening to episode 126 of Never Not Funny the other day but it was actually episode 321 that had Patton Oswalt as a guest. You should be able to click on the NNF link to see video of the show. In other podcast news, is HBO developing Uhh Yeah Dude into a show? They're saying that they're being sponsored by Entourage season 5. I wish I thought that the whole thing were some kind of joke, but it's not like Jonathan and Seth to yank the listener's chain too much without revealing the joke. I'm excited to see what happens and I'm loving that they're putting up clips on Youtube. Seriously, the show is funnier than 90% of TV talk shows.

I don't know what I'm going to do tonight. I need to save money since I drank many an $8 beer at the show last night. Ryan is getting a new tat, but I may chill with him when he's done. I want to go see Pineapple Express, but I may wait until Friday when I can catch a matinee. I think I'll either go with my friend or my mom, not sure.

I need to finish reading Harry Potter. I'm half way done with it and I can tell it's just about to get good. My friend, who insisted I check it, out plans on quizzing me on it when next I see her. I have no idea when that will be though because I don't have a lot of free time lately. Maybe I can meet her in the next few days. I doubt she'll want to see Pineapple though. I love comedy, but I don't know how much she likes it. She really like '90s sitcoms and stuff like that, whereas I'm more into sketch, standup and improv.

Other people's Radiohead photos

2008-08-13T14:13:00.011-04:00

The tour is over for me having seen four shows. My brother and at least one person from my hostel crew are probably going to see them in Hollywood towards the end of the month. Anyway, here are some pics from APW. I found a lot of these on Flickr, but some are Sweetcell's, I'm pretty sure.

Call ideas

2008-08-13T03:40:00.002-04:00

I just got back from seeing Radiohead again tonight, for the final time, in Camden, NJ. Bah! Summer is now officially beginning to end. I normally welcome fall with open arms, but not after last year. Last fall sucked.

Radiohead was good tonight but I don't think they could really top APW night 2. Even though they played a few of the same songs (not counting In Rainbows material). The only differences being that at APW they played Exit Music and Airbag. Tonight we got Go Slowly (snooze) Street Spirit and Just. So that's that, pretty much. I'll wait around and catch them again in 2010 or eleven.

Since I've been taking so many roadtrips lately and I don't have an iPod jack in my car, I've been listening to tons of radio. I'm obsessed with Miley Cyrus' See You Again. The other day on the way back from New York I was rocking to it in the car. Tonight I was scanning the channels like a mad man trying to hear it, But I didn't. I also want to hear Rihanna's Disturbia, because I've caught the tail end and thought it sounded lame. I youtubed it just now but could only watch about 20 seconds of it. The video kind of has a Marilyn Manson/NIN's Closer vibe to it. Anyway, check out the hook in this tune!

Right now I'm downloading Radiohead's 8/8 show (APW 1) from http://shortwaverockin.blogspot.com/. If it sounds good, I'll definitely put it up. The taper says that it is poor quality, but we'll find out. My 6/1/06 recording is only 64kbps and sounds awesome, so you never know.

New Thoughts

2008-08-12T01:17:00.002-04:00

Well, I haven't really found too many good All Points West videos to post. I didn't really take many photos because my camera wasn't taking night shots like usual. They were coming out way too dark so I kind of just stopped. I don't think I shot a single photo on the second night.

I can't seem to bounce back. I'm still kind of just tired and laying around today. I have to go to Camden tomorrow and, hopefully, I'll hook up with a few Ateasers there. I'm trying to get a ticket for my brother to the Hollywood Bowl. If he can get it for face value he'd be pretty psyched. Anyway, maybe I'll get some pics in Camden. I need a new digital camera anyway, because mine is only 5 megapixels and not that advanced. A simple $180 Sony Cybershot would be much better. Normal blogging to resume soon.

All Points West recap

2008-08-11T14:08:00.011-04:00

So, I just got back yesterday from All Points West in Jersey City. Great shows by Radiohead both nights but the second night was, as I had predicted, absolutely phenomenal. I was lucky enough to stay in NYC with some awesome people from At Ease and we partied and had a great time for three days straight. Many thanks to them for making the experience so awesome. It was great having other hardcore fans to share the experience with before and after both shows. Here's a little recap of my trip.

Thursday
Get up and get stuff together. I had to drive to Allentown to catch the Bieber Bus to NY. I always take the Beiber because it's a super short ride, you can return whenever you want and it's never crowded. For $42 it's the best thing going for getting from Harrisburg to New York. Listened to Never Not Funny episode 321 with guest Patton Oswalt. It definitely made the ride enjoyable.
I get into New York and the girl who's putting together the meetup and whose name the room at the hostel is in is delayed in Chicago. I wander around 7th avenue, hit Starbucks and then go to the Molly Wee pub at 8th and 30th for some rum and cokes. I then leave to go and meet Romesh who is coming into Penn Station at 4:30. He was really cool and we got to know each other a bit as we again headed to Starbucks. We then get a call from another kid named Orlando who had travelled with his friend Charlie from Puerto Rico. These guys were cool as hell, and I could write a whole blog about how funny they were. Awesome dudes.
So then we go down into the depths of Penn Station to meet everyone else. We met up with four other people in there, Andrea, Larry, Oleg and Gina, who organized our trip. We got on the 1 train and headed uptown to our hostel. Check in went smoothly and once we had our stuff all situated, we headed out into the streets seeking food and spirits. We went to this diner and got dinner then made the first of our two trips to the liquor store for Malibu rum, a bottle of which I'm still enjoying. We probably go to sleep around 1:30 having all gotten to know each other and telling stories from our Radiohead related travels. The level of all of these people's dedication to catching the band live was amazing. It was nice to be with people who share my high opinion of Radiohead being the greatest band on Earth. It was also cool to put names to faces of people from At Ease as we've all shared in very spirited exchanges in the past.

Friday
We all get up around 10 or 11 and get ready to go. We wait for Jordan, who had just gotten off the plane from Los Angeles to arrive at the hostel then we take off. He had sold a pair of tickets to the Hollywood Bowl show on ebay for a bit of profit (it's a necessary evil) and is now able to go to many more shows. I'll see him in Camden tomorrow. Anyway, we take the subway to PATH and then get on the light rail in Hoboken to head to Liberty State Park. We get there and it's not crowded at all. We all get spots on the rail and we wait for the fun to begin. I was excited to be able to have a spot at the absolute front row, but I would have to wait there in huge stints for about the next eight hours before Radiohead would take the stage. I leave to get some beer and give my dad a call to see what he's up to. We talk for a few minutes and I'm enjoying a beautiful sunny day with mild temps and a nice breeze off the Hudson.
The show starts around 1:30 with the Go! Team. They had a great energetic set and I really liked their high energy performance. They played a lot of songs that I was happy to hear. Next up was Michael Franti and Spearhead. All of a sudden all these 40 year old hippies come rushing to the front and they were getting wild as hell. There was this beautiful girl right beside me for his set who I recognized from either TV or print advertisements, but I don't know who she was. She was rocking out to Franti. Everyone in my group thought he was laughable but I like his upbeat vibe and inspiring lyrics about peace and unity. After his set all the hippies left like they had never even been there at all.
Then came New Pornographers who had the beautiful Kathryn Calder on keyboards and accordion. She also sung great and is on my list of women I'd marry. She was so awesome as was A.C.. I took many pics of their set. They ended with a rocking cover of ELO's Don't Bring Me Down after playing great songs from Challengers and Twin Cinema.
Next, right before Radiohead, Underworld came on and I thought they were just OK. I'm not really into club music, so I thought it was just alright. The entire set to my untrained, nonfan ears sounded like the same song pretty much.

After about 45 minutes of getting the stage set up, Radiohead finally came out the thunderous applause of slightly less than 40,000 people. I gave up my rail spot to a girl behind me who was about 4 ft. tall and met another kid from Vermont. He and I made sport of guessing which song was next based on the instrument changes. We were correct most of the time. They opened with 15 Step and played much of In Rainbows, Faust Arp being the only song not played. Highlights were Morning Bell, You and Whose Army, Just, Dollars and Cents, and Cymbal Rush from Thom Yorke's stellar solo album, The Eraser.
Here's a video of Cymbal Rush, shot by someone else.

I was never the biggest fan of the song, but it really struck a chord with me this night. I would have loved to hear Super Collider, but this was a nice surprise and I think the first time Thom has played the song in America. I might be wrong.

I must mention that I only kept my spot at the front for a little while, maybe ten songs, because I was unhappy with the sound. About ten songs in I, along with the small girl in front of me moved back about twenty five feet to escape the insane bass coming from the speakers directly over our heads. That made a world of difference and the whole experience was greatly improved, as if it were possible. After the show many of my hostel buddies got setlists and Gina got a pick. We then headed, thanks to Chris from At Ease who was not staying with us, to Rosie's Pizza in Penn Station for pizza, beers and good times. We were all buzzing with excitement and stayed up until about 3, even though we knew we had to get up early the next day as well.

Saturday

Everyone I was with was going to be on the rail again all day, but I was meeting Ryan and Jess so I just chilled and waited for them, knowing that I'd get good and close before Radiohead took the stage. Had some beers, met up with those two at about five and we just hung out. Saw Chromeo, who I thought sucked. Metric, Animal Collective and Kings Of Leon were all pretty decent but I was mostly just talking with Ryan and Jess and not really paying attention. I went to the bathroom and lost Ryan and Jess but was able to run into the crowd and get a really good spot by the time Radiohead came on.

They opened with Reckoner and from there it was just an all out assault as their second night in New York always is. Highlights were Kid A, Jigsaw Falling Into Place, Bangers 'n' Mash, Pyramid Song, Airbag, The Bends and Planet Telex. An amazing set all around. Ryan was very happy that it more focused on their more rocking stuff rather than the more technoish sounds of Kid A or Amnesiac. I was just super happy to hear Airbag and The Bends sounded better than I've ever heard it. Also, it seemed like the mix had been greatly improved from the first night. Everything sounded really clean and not as muddy and bass heavy.

After the show we went around behind the stage to see if we could meet the band. However, there was a party going on in the backstage area, so they never came out. Saw Liv Tyler and Patricia Arquette at side stage throughout the set, so there's no telling who else was in attendance.

Photos and some more videos to follow soon as well as bootlegs, when I get a hold of them.

Sunday
I said goodbye to my homies from the hostel and headed downtown with Andrea and Romesh, who had to catch a train. I walked around midtown for a little while considering whether or not I should go down to the LES, but just ended up getting on the bus back to PA around 1 o'clock. All in all a great trip. I hope we have another meetup like that in NYC again next tour. It was truly magical.

More Uhh Yeah Dude!!

2008-08-06T01:18:00.003-04:00

This video is about some delusions and things, a topic that is often covered. I heard this last week and two days later Colbert was talking about Truman Show Delusion.

Craigslist Pt.1

Craigslist Pt. 2

Craigslist Pt. 3

A good start to the working week

2008-08-05T01:45:00.002-04:00

Tonight at work was pretty decent. I didn't make amazing money, but that's OK. I can make more tomorrow, so I'm not really sweating it. Work went fast and all of my customers were really cool and nice.
I saw something weird on Craigslist last night that I thought may have been addressed to me, but I'm not sure. I don't really have too much interest in finding out, other than just usual curiosity. So strange, but I don't want to go into too much detail. Basically it may be someone from a while back who just figured out that my phone number changed. They know I read CL and there are some strange specifics to it. I want to investigate but I don't at the same time.

2008-08-04T01:55:00.004-04:00

I've gotta take back what I said about the new Beck album. I heard it when it was on shuffle or whatever at Borders and it's actually alright. I think I went into it with too much expectation. So the album isn't great but it's far from terrible. I guess I just want Beck to bring some new moves to the game. That's why initially I was let down by Modern Guilt because it just seems so paint-by-the-numbers. I'll give it 2.75 of out 5.

This weekend flew by, probably because I had to work yesterday. The night was kind of weird, started off really slow and then got busy way later, like 9:45. I made pretty good money considering the actual amount of work I did, which wasn't much.

What's the deal with this Axe shower tool? I just did a search for it and Amazon even has people giving customer reviews of it. People seem to like it and to that I say grow up. One guy is on Amazon like 'Every time I mow the lawn I get green stains on my toes and heels that usually last a week. This is the first product that has ever worked.' Try wearing shoes, jackass. I don't even want to get started on men who don't wear actual shoes. But this guy putting up with disgusting stains for so long before the Axe detailer came along. EEEGads!

This is cool!

2008-08-01T23:09:00.003-04:00

One of my favorite podcasts and one of the best kept secrets in entertainment right now, Uhh Yeah Dude, has begun to make video clips of them recording. This is from last week's episode. If you want to listen to the show you can subscribe in itunes under comedy podcasts or you can go to Podcast Alley to download or stream it. I hope these video clips will make the show more successful and widespread. The first video deals with science while the second video is their weekly Craigslist segment. Each week they report on the best of Craigslist M4M in the LA area. Both clips are rated M for mature. UYD for life!

Pretty chill day

2008-08-01T21:21:00.004-04:00

I don't really have much to post about, I'll say that off the bat. Today I didn't do much but read some Harry Potter, talk to my dad on the phone and get some Taco Bell. I've been obsessed with the Slap magazine message boards the past two days. I haven't registered or posted or anything, but they are pretty entertaining. The reason that I went to that forum was to complain about the X Games completely ignoring street skating in their TV presentations. Why does the average American just want to watch BMX and big air? I can only watch dudes do the megaramp so many times, I don't care who is riding. I see more kids riding skateboards than bikes where I live and I'm sure none of them gives a shit about how high some Brazilian dude got after rolling down a ramp that's like 40 ft. tall. Hosoi did everything you can do in the air twenty years ago. On Slap I was able to read up on the street results and I think that the finals will be lame anyway. I would have really liked to see Leo Romero and Koston, but whatever.

Anyway, I finally paid for my NY room today and I can't wait to meet all of the other fans and go to the shows. I'm not looking forward to Camden as much for some reason, but it'll still be a Radiohead show so it'll be epic either way.

I have to work tomorrow and I hope I make decent money but I don't want to be totally, crazy busy because I haven't worked in so long that I feel like I've forgotten half the stuff I knew. For some reason I think tomorrow could be hell or great. I guess we'll see.

Walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin' walkin'

2008-07-31T16:28:00.006-04:00

I just got back from a killer walk! I am trying to walk very briskly when I have to walk long distances now so that I can get my heart rate up and make it a workout. For some reason I have to go to a local grocery store to pay the bill for my Old Navy card, which I think makes no sense, but whatever. I listened to In Rainbows and by my estimation I walked about two miles before the record was over. I know that I'll be doing a ton of walking in New York next week, so I want to get conditioned for that. The other day at the beach I think I walked about 2 1/2 to 3 miles on the boardwalk which I walked the entire length of. So I'm happy today that I got my exercise and maybe when the sun goes down I'll walk some more.

Yesterday was a pretty chill day. I had nothing to do so I went to Coakleys, the best restaurant/bar in the 'burg and had some wings and some rum and cokes. Pretty standard. A friend of mine lives down the street from me and he walks there regularly, so I think I may start doing that with him even though when I walk I like to listen to tunes. It's almost exactly two miles from here, so that would be great exercise if I also had to walk back. I took my Mom out to dinner there two nights ago and we had a great time. The occasion was her birthday, which I was too dumb last week to celebrate on time. I got a killer coupon from our waitress for 20% off next time I go there, but it excludes alcohol. Oh well.........

Get to know The Smiths

2008-07-30T14:29:00.007-04:00

What can I say about The Smiths that hasn't already been said? They are the quintessential '80s pop band and many believe that they basically invented the genre of alternative music. Such a great band, and I'm very fortunate to have been introduced to them by an old girlfriend who was a child of the '80s. Morrissey's witty, biting lyrics will leave you wanting more every time and Jonny Marr's guitar is so precise it sounds like it must be a computer program. Great stuff! So here I offer up both of their greatest hits collections for you to enjoy. If your unsure how to use Rar archives to extract the songs just leave a comment. Enjoy!

Volume I

Volume II

I'm impressed slash mortified

2008-07-30T02:10:00.003-04:00

So this girl Kristen is mad young. She lives in the south where she writes a blog and stories, poems and whatever else. Of course all of the fun had to come to an end rather abruptly because people had to be fools and harass her and spam her. Not fucking cool. However, she has started a new blog that she is trying to keep as a JFZ. A Jerk Free Zone. Anyway, she has been nice enough to read and comment here so I will return the favor and hopefully send some readers her way. I hope it works. You can find her blog here: http://canabalisticmonkey1.blogspot.com/.

She has also begun to write a story about a vampire who kills vampires. It's coming along nicely too. Watch out for the naked dude in the background. He might get you! Find the story, Valdor, here:
http://canabalisticmonkey4.blogspot.com/.

What did I do today? First I wrote on here about my weird dreams that I hope to forget about. Then I went to Borders books and chilled. I saw that there's a book about Rodney Mullen called Mutt, which I really would like to get. It came out in 2004, but I've never seen it before which I blame Borders and B&N for. He he. Also while there I check out books by Carl Hiassen. I might get into his stuff soon if I ever finish the three books I'm reading right now. Anyway, I left one bookstore and headed to the other. At B&N I saw George and just kind of walked around. Saw my friend Jeff and he was telling me about upcoming shows at a tiny venue that has just started up. It's actually been started by another friend of mine. They're going to have shows there and art photography showings as well. Like everybody I know is working for the place in one respect or another. Pretty cool.

Nothing notable happened at either bookstore today, but they were the only places I could go to get out of the house on a nice day.

I know it's over

2008-07-29T15:43:00.005-04:00

I normally wouldn't post about dreams because it's a widely held belief, especially among the comedy community (which I really respect) that people's dreams are kind of clunkers to listen to. i mean usually they have no meaning to the listener and you're like "And then..." and they're like "Yeah, whatever." But I've been having weird dreams lately.

To encapsulate as briefly as possible:

I had a dream that I was sharing a beach house for like a whole week with SVT who I was in a relationship with. The dream never turned sexual, though, it was more just like chilling and enjoying each others company. Ponderous!

I had a dream while I was at the beach that a woman I used to know and I saw Morrissey play a show at a tiny 650 seat venue in the burg. Thoughts: Morrissey frickin' rules! Also, whatever became of this woman? Is she still alluring and vivacious or did she as I like to say, turn a corner hard after hitting 40? Yeah, I remember Sylvia!!

I had a dream that I was taking a bus to this place although I can't remember where I was going. I tried to get back but was super late for work and my people there were like "What??!!"

I don't know what either of these dreams mean. I guess the first one is par for the course so I can wake up and dread my lack of female companionship more. I have dreams like that all the time and am reminded of The Smiths' song Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me. Oh, whatever, I don't want this post to become a pity party. That's lame.

Last night I chilled at Ryan's and we watched A Clockwork Orange. I guess Jess being somewhat young, Ryan has taken it upon himself to show her all the cult classic movies he can. Sort of like when introducing your lady to Mr. Show or Kid A. Jess and I were talking about Lil Wayne, since she's in his prime demographic. She was playing me some of her other beloved tunes from her laptop. Ryan and I talked briefly about the Scarface soundtrack. He thought it was good for it's time. It wasn't though. He lamented the fact that he couldn't watch Scarface and I went on a minirant about Scarface being soooo overrated. All in all a pretty fun night. Mike even dropped by for a little while, which was awesome.

Ha! Awesome!

2008-07-28T15:28:00.001-04:00

"Always two there are, a master and an apprentice." - Yoda

Beach and other stuff

2008-07-28T11:07:00.007-04:00

I'm seeing Radiohead again in two weeks and I 'm so excited! I get to see them three times over the course of five days, so that's going to rock hard. I'll be taking many more photos and you can check my photos from the last time I saw them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsgone/.

So I went to the beach, but didn't really stay down there too long. There were only a couple things I wanted to do, so once I did them I decided to just head home. I went to the Vans outlet store and got a great deal. I got two pairs of Dustin Dollins for less than $60, so that was awesome. I'm not sure about the colors of one of the pairs, but I'm sure I'll end up wearing them eventually.

The beach itself was alright. I spent most of my time there just walking the boardwalk and checking out the shops. I only found two skate shops and my favorite one from back in the day isn't there anymore. I walked the entire length of the boardwalk so at least I got good exercise. Also, while staying at my friends' house I got to watch Natalie Portman's episode of SNL on their 52 inch TV which was cool.

Right now I'm back in PA listening to the new episode of Uhh Yeah Dude. Like The Best Show, it's getting better every week. It's really one podcast that I constantly check for to see if there is a new episode. They took two weeks off at the end of June and I was dying. Speaking of The Best Show, as I said in an earlier post, last week's episode was fantastic and I'm putting it up as an introduction for anyone who wants to check it out. Give a listen, you won't regret it! More episodes and other goodies available at Friendsoftom. com (see links).

WFMU's The Best Show on WFMU 7/22/08

Damn, I wanted to see Pineapple Express this week, but it doesn't come out until August 6th. By then I will have seen the trailer 10,000 times. Maybe I'll see it while I'm in New York. I can't wait for that trip, it's going to be a blast. In checking out the Pineapple Express website I see that Huey Lewis and The News have a new song on it! The title track no less. They're one of my guilty pleasures as far as '80s music goes. I love on Back In Time when Huey says "Get back, Marty." So cheesy. Good to see they're making music again.

What a nice day

2008-07-26T01:25:00.003-04:00

I woke up a little late and then wanted to just chill. I didn't want to head to the beach in rush hour necessarily, so I decided to give my friend a call. He said that his wife wasn't feeling well, which is a shame. So I just told him I'd come tomorrow and maybe come back Monday. On Monday or maybe Sunday my friend, John gets to housesit at a place with four (4!) Corgis!! I went there last time I was in town and not only are the dogs super smart and awesome but they also swim in the pool!!! Corgis gettin' loose!! They have a male who is huge and it made me feel better about my old dog because I was like "He was normal!"

Later in the day, I headed over to B&N and ran into George. He's doing really well and is, I believe, in love, which is awesome. I forgot to ask him where he's living right now. I must remember to call him so he has my new number. While at B&N I checked out this new, big book all about the Friday the 13th movies. I just kind of skimmed it but it was nice to see Ari Lehman finally get his due for playing the kid version of Jason who pops out of the water.

Steve, killer call this week! I was just reading the board and I had forgotten about Ramsey's awesome call too. I'm listening to the show now. Great show this week all around I thought. Email me.

I'm still reading A Confederacy of Dunces but have slowed down because I have gotten way too into Blogger lately. Holy jeez. I guess it's just because I like discovered all these different things lately which I'm just checking out. Still reading Harry Potter too, which is cool.

My new hero

2008-07-25T17:15:00.004-04:00

Damn, this record is good!! I heard on UYD that Lil Wayne has a personal dude that applies lip gloss to his lips during his shows. I think he might be kind of psycho, but the record is not only really tight as far as the rhymes, but personally, I think it's one of the funniest rap albums I've ever heard and I mean that in a good way.

People might wonder why everything I blog about is like two weeks to a month old. Let me explain. I surf the net and see stuff and sometimes I get jazzed on it. Usually however, I don't think it really warrants a post. Then a few weeks later, I'll remember how cool I thought the thing was and I'll finally post about it. Certain blogs I read, I love because they help me stay ahead of the curve as far as cool stuff coming out and what to look forward to. For some reason though I never think anything is cool until I've had time to really think about it and that takes a little while. I don't know why. If you want to stay current and be a nerd about stuff I'd suggest checking my links section for the latest info. Or you could just wait until something is everywhere and everyone's already up on it and then I'll post about it.
Anyway, Tha Carter III is making me want to check out all of Weezy's other releases. I like him a lot better than Kanye but he's still not up there with Ghostface or legends like KRS to me. God, I loved KRS-ONE when I was young. I still listen to Live Hardcore Worldwide all the time and I could probably recite the whole thing.

On to other stuff, I delayed my beach trip until tomorrow after calling work and finding out that I don't have to work again until next Saturday! Woo hoo! I like working, but I'm loving all this time off too. I wish I was doing more with my time, but what more could I be doing than updating my blog that two people read?

Anyway, get Tha Carter III here.