seriously, world. Let's cancel the whole new years holiday.

I don't really understand why we need to close hospitals, grocery stores, Burger King, and the GI depot early just for the birth of our miraculous planet. Its just an excuse for all the singles out there to get wasted and try to have a regretful evening, or for high schoolers to not need an excuse to have a "party". (namely, the high schoolers whose main interest is getting sloppy drunk.)

If you watch Arrested Development...

You KNOW you want this t-shirt.

Christmas: a time of jolly cheer.

I've spent loads of time with all of my friends back in Columbus, OH. Brian Estabrook now feels at "home" at my house. In fact, we pretty much refer to my house as "home". We stay up incredibly late watching tv, sitting in the hottub, battling it out Wii-sports style, playing ping-pong, and swearing at each other. Owen Heisey has also been by quite a bit... mostly for the ridiculous evenings with Estabrook. Keep in mind, Owen is deceptively good at Wii tennis.. but nowhere near my level of expertise. My dominance at Wii sports is slightly played down by the fact that I sit down for every sport, and at first glance it would appear that I am completely uninterested in the task at hand. Estabrook really gets into it though... especially tennis. He's probably the worst Wii tennis player I've ever seen.

Steroids would make sports amazing.

Think about it. If we made it legal for all the pro athlete's to use steroids, it would be crazy. I'd like to think it would become a necessary component to competing in every sport professionally. We'd have Wrestlers almost killing the other instantly by getting the first "grab". It would be like a professional sports association of the Incredible Hulks. Maybe we could make them like a different league, if people are still interested in watered-down, clean athleticism. Thank you for your time.

Oikncroamip Nubtoewrs

So.. there is a theory about the truth behind the relation between Radiohead's In Rainbows and Ok Computer. I take a deeper look into the theory presented in this article.

And yes... copy and paste this into your address bar as previously instructed. See:"Ok..."

http://puddlegum.net/radiohead-01-and-10/

Ok...

so at one point I had to leave the room this video was playing in just so I could catch my breath from how hard I was laughing. Whoever made these videos did a really great job, and I can't get enough. There are a bunch of them on YouTube, but this one just sent me over the edge. No, not the U2 guitarist. So I guess it really just Slash-ed me with a sharp blade of laughter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEwIRZ9pLCM

EDIT: For you idiots who don't know how to copy and paste. Copy that line right there. Yeah, that one above this paragraph. Yup, that's it. Now paste it in your address bar. There you go!

ATTENTION, Users of Gas Stations!

Gas is expensive.
Farts contain methane.
Don't fart at the pump.

Gettin a new iMac with Leopard. vroom.

Not disappointed by Disappointed by Candy

Yesterday I went to the CD release party of a local band called Disappointed by Candy. They're a trio that has powerful, fluid dance beats with great staccato, a melodic, thumping bass, and an extremely talented frontman. His name is Gabe. I know him a little bit.. seen him around the village.. used to be in a boardgame club together. Jeremy, the drummer, is a regular in the UPS Store so I also kind of know him. I've never met the bass player. Anyway, Gabe and Jeremy are also a part of a band called Jars of Clay. Gabe fills in on bass, and Jeremy on drums (not permanently). Anyway, Disappointed by Candy's music is most definitely preferred to their sister group. However, Jars of Clay surprisingly produced the group's debut album which I got a copy of after paying my cover at the door. Having heard the whole album I've noticed that every song is solid. Each has a great melody that keeps you interested enough to leave it on all day at work or never skip a track when you leave it in your car. For a first listen, it's definitely the best first-listen I've experienced from a dance-rock-pop group. The best part about their music is that the lyrics aren't retarded. In fact, they are quite the contrary.

So the new episode of The Office was amazing...

quite possibly one of my favorites to date. I loved Michael's decision to pretend he is Survivorman for a few days, take off work, leaving Jim in charge. Another memorable bit was when Jim was talking about how Michael celebrates birthdays by surprise every time. Of course, Michael makes a fool of himself in front of the camera the entire time in the wilderness while Dwight stalks his every move unbeknown to him. I also like how they brought a totally different aspect to the actors' styles by making Jim's decisions unpopular to the majority of the office. Then, at the end, Jim and Michael have almost a mentor-apprentice style conversation that alludes to Michael not being as big of an idiot as we all think.

Disappointing News

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/r_l_stine_reveals_slappy

SPRINGSTEEN

Bruce Springsteen's "Magic" is definitely one of my favorite albums of 2007. Another is the new Radiohead album, but there is way too much that I could say about that album and none of it would make any sense.

Springsteen dominates with his voice and his songwriting. Simple melodies that just work for a badass tune. I like all of the songs, but my favorites are "Your Own Worst Enemy", "Girls in Their Summer Clothes", and "I'll Work For Your Love". He has a very distinct rhythm for the way he writes his lyrics that is strictly debonair. Check it out.

Shibitty Dibitty Do

That's "scat" for "Good day to you". Anyway, Today was uneventful mostly except for this one event. I had band practice with 2 dudes from Belmont who were interested in my shits (my music), and so we got together and jammed out some tunes. Turns out these boys know how to butter their bread. Anyway, so I think we probably jammed Kinda Feels Like You out 6 or 7 times and called it a day. I really look forward to bringing some naked material in and trying it with the band before I record it.

RIDDANCE

Hail to the Cheese

Stephen Colbert is definitely one of my favorite actors of all time. He does some of the most ridiculous things that actually affect politics and the "politics of politics". His show, the Colbert Report, is on Comedy Central. You can watch alot of the show online at www.comedycentral.com. He recently announced that he is running for President of the United States as a Republican AND a Democrat in South Carolina. He's also using his television show to report the news about his own presidential campaign using an endorsement from Doritos. However, it's completely legal since he's using the Doritos endorsement money to fund his show, which covers his campaign and also acts as his entire campaign strategy. Check him out.

DRA does it again.

The subject is the Ryan Adams concert held at the War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee on Shocktober 23rd, 2007 A.D. (yes, on this very faithful night).

If there is any way to describe the ass-whooping courtesy Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, I would say that the ass is very "bruised" and "bloodied". The Cardinals ripped and jammed through some great DRA tunes. My favorite was when Ryan played the piano for the only time that night for "Rescue Blues", during which Jon Graboff whipped out an electric guitar from behind his pedal steel stand and proceeded to electrify the air in the room with his graceful tones. He looked like a white B.B. King... with blonde hair... and glasses. So not really anything like B.B. King, but he was playing a hollowbody.

Return of the Blog

Uh... hi.

I've decided to start posting blogs on here again. I don't know if anyone will ever read this.
Moving on, politics are going all over the place these days. I wonder what would happen to our country if we got rid of the parties. Just a thought.

I've been playing Paper Mario on my Nintendo Wii. I had to buy a classic controller to play the game because it was originally designed to be played on the Nintendo 64. Anyway, the game is really fun and the dialogue is hilarious. In one cut scene, Princess Peach reads Bowser's diary after sneaking into his room and one of the entries was: "Dear Diary, today I stole the Star Rod from Star Haven and used it to beat Mario and now I'm invincible! Cool!" There are alot of humorous characters other than Bowser, though. The Koopa Brothers are turtles that wear headbands and have a strange resemblance to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. However, these guys seem to be dunces. When you start fighting them, you hear them scrambling around and "shushing" each other until they appear as a wooden version of Bowser which could also be known as "Trojan Bowser". They also worry about "how cool they look" constantly. It's a ticklish sort of humour.

Consider this blog: returned.