My Yellow Country Teeth

Wow, what a week...

2006-06-25T17:24:00.000-07:00

Obvs, Ozzie doesn't deep throat!

I've been slightly preoccupied all day. I have an oral surgery exam tomorrow, which I could honestly care less about, an ortho final on Thursday (ditto), and an endo exam on Friday (double ditto). You see, I had a conversation this afternoon that rivals any conversation I've ever had. Been reassessing my life all day. Dental school will have to wait. It's been one of those weekends.

Earlier this week I started my first molar root canal. Check that, my first root canal. I enjoyed it (sounds weird, doesn't it...), and look forward to doing a ton more. I think dentists charge somewhere between $600-1000 per root canal, (+) roughly the same for a full coverage restoration (crown), depending on the difficulty, so someday I might be able to pay back a fraction of my loans. I plan on keeping both of my kidneys, take that Zo.

I'm sick of this whole Ozzie vs. Mariotti thing. Face it, people call each other fags...it's part of our culture. I don't think Ozzie hates gay people, I just think it slipped out. Get over it, move on... Mariotti is a douche...that would have been a better term to use.

Caught The Stills at Intonation yesterday and was totally blown away. Great stage presence, good music, and a fair amount of cowbell. High on Fire and the Boredoms were absolutely worthless...terrible bands. You couldn't pay me to see them again. Ghostface did not disappoint. Dude brought 50 scantily clad women on stage with him during his set. Cocaine, crazy drug. I was so whipped by 8 p.m. last night that I didn't even stay for The Streets. I'm not a huge fan, so I'm sure I didn't miss much...

I've been blogging on myspace a little, but I think i enjoy blogger a bit more. If i can manage to get back in the habit of daily updating all of you wankers as to the progress of my life, I think i'll be a happier person.

This is pretty much me, right now. I really recommend the Octoberman jam. If you haven't checked him out, do yourself a favor and figure it out. God damn Canada. Must be something in the water.

The Stills - Killer Bees
The Streets - When you wans't famous
Pilate - Barely Listening
Fembots - Prison Memoirs of an anarchist
Octoberman - X Pat
Kinnie Starr - Anything (.asx)

You....you got those hands.......

2006-06-10T01:08:00.000-07:00

After receiving an overwhelming amount of support, i've decided to continue on with the blogging. Thanks to all the kiddos who sent me encouraging emails. Cheers! Rocked out tonight, hardcore.....ummm...went to a bar...did a $25 all you can drink special and then came home to rock out to birds of wales. Rooooooock!

Fall of the 49 - Birds of Wales

Life - Birds of Wales

My Lady; In July - Birds of Wales

Ryan is back....that's right bloggers!

2006-06-08T06:40:00.000-07:00

Well, well, well. It's been a while kiddos. I'm sure no one really reads this blog anymore, but in a ridiculous attempt to put my life back together, I've decided to start blogging again. Recent life alterting activities lead me to believe that this will be good for me...so without further edu', lets get to it.

I've got a ton of patients at the D-school right now. Mostly nasty people with a few teeth left, but I've got some descent mouths to work on too. Guy comes in last week complaining of tooth pain, and has one of his lower incisors held in place by calculus. Lets call it a calculus bridge.....riiiiight....

The MLB draft finished earlier this week, and boy oh boy did the Cubs blow it. Their first round pick is seen by many as a wasted pick, and they drafted Jeff Samardzija who will almost assuredly play in the NFL someday. I often hear cubs fans complaining about the team, but they fail to remember that it starts from the bottom up. The cardinals had a descent draft, and went RP happy in the middle rounds. Looks like they're preparing for life after Izzy.

Â The word is that the Cubs will give Notre Dame RHP -- and star wide receiver -- Jeff Samardzija whatever it takes to get him signed. Years back, Gary Hughes, now a special assistant with the Cubs, drafted and signed John Lynch for the Marlins. Lynch got to Double-A, only to turn his sole attention to the NFL. This will be a fascinating story.

Speaking of drafts, Tyrus Thomas could be the first pick in the upcoming NBA lottery. God I hope the Bulls don't manage to get this guy....really do...

Is Jason Grimsley's use of human growth hormone a big deal? I think it is. If some mediocre middle reliever is using the shizz, then i'm sure everyone is. Albert Pujols, you are not exoneratedd (sad face).

Snow Patrol (yankers) are playing at the Vic this weekend. I'm not really excited about their new album, after a few listens, but would consider going to see The Duke Spirit (kind of like The Kills). It's all good, welcome me back biotch.

The Duke Spirit - Lion Rip
The Duke Spirit - Salt The Stings
The Duke Spirit - Win Your Love

"Yes and it counts!" -Marv

Rest in Peace Arrested Development...

2006-02-10T22:11:00.000-08:00

If you were in Chicago last night, which I wasn't cause I'm all "central Illinois" trying to ride my bike for three hours a-day, I hope you caught Saturday Looks Good to Me. If you didn't, it's the beach boys circa 2K6. Groovy....

Saturday Looks Good to Me - Lift Me Up (3.1M)
Saturday Looks Good to Me - Underwater Heartbeat (2.2M)

As fer' me....school is really kicking my ass (thus the lack of blogage). I have real patients, now, that want me to like do work on them and what not, so it's sort of time consuming, but you know, public aide people need teeth too.... I had a guy the other day in our little "aids clinic" who had the worst mouth I've ever scene. Nasty, nasty stuff. We're talking two plus masks and his breath still smelled horrible. Unfortunatley, I had to tell the guy that we were going to pull all of his teeth and give him a cheap-o set of dentures. I'm guessing that was the least of his worries, and he was super stoked to get some new chompers...rock....

Caught the Arrested Development finale tonight and cried a little bit at the end...gonna miss that one. Speaking of TV, the OC has gone straight to hell. Fast. Like Terri Hatcher fast... Holly random introduction of marginally interesting characters Batman. Thursday's episode was worthless and I couldn't help but watch the onslaught of shit that Fox threw at me. They totally ignored the Seth/Pot story plot and I was pissed... What happened to our sweet little hip, music friendly show. Not even the super-hero that is Sufjan Stevens could save an episode where no one seemed to care that their best buddy, six episode Johnny, died. Worthless I tell you. If you still watch the OC, I know you are angry like me, and it's going to be ok....Dancing with the Stars is still rockin' strong.

Been riding my bike a ton lately and I'm getting ready for weather that isn't in the 20s....should be great....hopefully I can start blogging more, but I can't make any promises as I'm a very important person... :) More important than you...that's for damn sure...

Roberto Heras, or Rubber-toe as we like to call him here, got hammered by the UCI last week....guess you can't take epo and be a pro cyclist. Someone tell Lance Armstrong that shizz......... McCall out...

Grammy Shaft-ola for Kanye

2006-02-08T21:55:00.000-08:00

Ahhhh…the Grammys. Time for all the stars in music to get together for some really god awful collaborations, five trophies can get mercifully handed over to U2 and Kanye West can get screwed out of another Album of the Year. Yes, he deserved it more so than the other crap that was up for it.

In case you missed it: John Legend took a couple, Kelly Clarkson represented American Idol by grabbing two for her mantle, one of which will probably go to Simon, and Madonna looked like a worn-out slut, but what’s new.

Speaking of American Idol, there is a guy from my town down here in NC who made it into the top 24. Whoop-t-shit. Guess he’s quite the douchebag around town, go figure.

U2 walked away with album of the year. Kanye will surely start up his “I got screwed at the Grammys” shit, pronto. Fiona Apple showed up and looked like a ghost. Lay off the smack Ms. Apple. And Sly Stone was honored with one of the dumbest tributes ever, funked up.

Mariah has one beat, but giant breasts.

White Stripes 1, The Arcade Fire 0.

Beyonce is beautiful, Gwen Stafani is still hot (with child), Terri Hatcher is on crack and Alicia Keys still looks like a pear, a juicy pear.

Mr. West had the biggest performance of the night (chalked full with a marching band, frat dudes, half-naked bitches and Jamie Foxx).

Not to be out done by the mix-up of Jay-Z, Linkin Park and Sir Paul McCartney was something. Not sure what to make of that. So glad Jay-Z took off making albums to sing “Yesterday.”
See for yourself

Just can’t get over Fiona Apple…. she must be up to 12 pounds by now!

Same old shit at work. They fired the dumb girl and things are getting better. Went to a NC State game last Sunday, bad ass. ACC basketball is for real, as was Duke/Carolina two nights ago. This state loves them some college basketball.

Gramps is coming down here in the next few weeks. I plan to unleash him on bouncers in SC.

Some tunes…
English band The Kooks, pretty rockin.
The Kooks [Web site]
The Kooks - Naive [mp3]
The Kooks - Jackie Big Tits...best song title of the year [mp3]

A band named Ms. John Soda...very Postal Servicey, so if that's your bag! New cuts of upcoming album:
Ms. John Soda - Outlined View [mp3]
Ms. John Soda - A Million Times [mp3]

The O.C. / To: Elliot, From: Portland

2006-01-30T21:17:00.000-08:00

Finally, my world has calmed down post being punched in the face. Kenny, AKA grandpa, and I are going down to Columbia, S.C. and kicking the shit out of that cheesedick bouncer. Then grandpa is going to nail that little bitch that said I grabbed her ass while I tape it for the blog...that is, if grandma is cool with it.

Wow, the O.C., the fuckin O.C. What a joke it has become. Ryan and I have watched it and still do, but Jesus H Bad Storyline, it's gone too far. Get this, Seth (one of the main characters, real life Adam Brody) smoked MARIJUANA and missed his Brown college interview. Doubt that many Califorians want to go to Brown and the whole process of his roast session was borderline retarded. He’s walking down the boardwalk when he runs into the new, bad girl character. She’s smoking what looks like a cigarette, oh wait, it’s not! Seth questions her, blah blah. She offers as her sister (Miesha Barton) shows up. Older sister doesn’t smell anything, nor does she say anything. Cut to Seth in his room with a towel under the door.

Our little sister Kelly said she about cried.

Getting punched in the face was a lot like, well, getting punched in the face. It happened so fast and the blood alcohol level was through the roof, which is probably a good thing, or it might have hurt even more at the time. If anything it made for something to blog about.

Here are a few things learned from taking a shot (as in, someone's fist) to the face:
1. Getting punched in the face ISN'T as cool as you'd think it would be. Yeah it looks cool on TV and shit, but it's not quite the grand time you'd think it is. All you badasses out there know it.
2. South Carolina is for incest, rednecks and general bestiality.
3. Scabs falling off while you eat take-out lo mein is not cool.
4. Teeth are sensitive and worth keeping around. Even tough my white ass would look nice with a diamond grill like the rappers have.
5. People will give you all kinds of shit if your lip is busted up, including, but not limited to: Hey Rocky! What happened to your face? Look out dude, a bouncer. Your face actually looks better.
6. Nothing like the taste of blood while you shower.
7. Yelling at cops is probably always a bad idea and a quick ticket to jail (in most cases).
8. Drunken call logs on the cell phone from the night before tend to get lengthy. Ryan the next day: "Yeah, you called me like three times yelling about how somebody just punched you in the face."
9. Maybe it's time I stop acting like a fool on my birthday.
10. If that bouncer ever comes around, he's going down in a pile of his own puke and blood, maybe even urine, while gramps hits that little liar whore, per grandma’s approval. You can bank on some videos.

Movies that have got some love lately:
Everything is Illuminated — B
Bad News Bears (new) — B-
Jarhead — B+
Waiting — B-
The Aristocrats — B
Walk the Line — A-
Capote — A

If anyone has ever had a DVD burner die on them, hit me up. After 6 months of working great, mine went to hell. Might have had something to do with the subwoofer it was sitting on kicking out nasty bass and messing the "laser" up. A freakin' "laser" beam. Didn't give that little bit of info to the company when their tech support told me it needed to be sent in for repairs.

Here are some tracks off the upcoming Portland tribute to the late, great Elliot Smith. Check out Colin Meloy belting it out. Dig the Dolorean track. This leaked awhile ago and is floating, but I've got something tasty for later in the week, so here's a bit to tide you over. Thanks to stereogum.com for the album artwork, that place rocks the party. Leave a comment if you listen and/or download a track.
Cheers, KM.

The Decemberists — Clementine [mp3]
Dolorean — The Biggest Lie [mp3]
Eric Matthews — Needle in the Hay [mp3]
Sean Croghan — High Times [mp3]

WTF Kanye

2006-01-24T12:31:00.000-08:00

Oh no, he done it again. As if saying the president "hates" black people wasn't enough, he went and took a picture wearing a crown of thorns. Not very subtle there Mr. West! Oh, we get it, you're JESUS! This is probably going to cause a shitstorm with the Christians and the rest of those kooks that live in the south.

Probably all for publicity and to move Rolling Stone off the shelf. Seems that RS's better years are behind them.

Wow, Kanye's got balls or he's stupid, either or.

AP Story

Punched in the face/Pretty Girls Make Graves

2006-01-24T11:03:00.000-08:00

What a birthday. Went to Columbia, S.C. and had a good time watching football (hell yes the Panthers lost!) and enjoying free birthday drinks. Then we went to some swanky, well not really swanky, but lame....very lame yes, place called “Good Company." Let me tell you, it’s not so “Good” and the “Company” can suck it.

We walked to the back of the bar and turned around. Walking the other way when next thing I know, some fratty bouncer punched me in the face. A little hoe-bag of a waitress said that I grabbed her ass, which I didn’t, and this jerk-off goes off and sucker punches me. Always hoped that my first shot to the face would come in S.C. where, yes Dorthy, people are very stupid, are missing teeth and probably sleep with their sisters.

Got back up, yelled in his face and was kicked out. 1 point for Kyle! Cops pulled up, yelling, bad. So, fast-forward two days and you have a bruised lip and plenty of jabs from co-workers.

Can’t do anything legally due to blood alcohol issues and probably never will go back to that hillbilly ass town again. If you go there, boycott “Good Company," hell, throw a brick through their window.

Spurrier and the USC Gamecocks are on my shitlist.

Probably SHOULD have grabbed that girl’s ass since I took a punch for it.

Anyway, here are some cuts from the new Pretty Girls Make Graves “Élan Vita” album. Leak-a-da-leak. Street date of April, but it’s so good you should hear a few songs now. I'll be buying it, so you should too.

Pretty Girls Make Graves — The Noctural House [mp3]
Pretty Girls Make Graves — Pyrite Pedestal [mp3]
Pretty Girls Make Graves — Wildcat [mp3]

Matador PGMG site [link]
prettygirlsmakegraves.com [link]

Happy Moonday Kiddos.....

2006-01-21T14:52:00.000-08:00

Hope everyone had a nice weekend. My/Our birthday went well. Mere and I went out to dinner with some friends on Friday night to celebrate and then made the obligatory pilmigrage to Goose Island to slam back some brew-dogs. Good times.

Say Hi To Your Mom (nay, Eric Elbogen) has one of the worst band names, ever. Ohh well. Via their website: "Say Hi To Your Mom simultaneously defies and enforces physics. We're the mumbling in your head while you're crunching the numbers. We're the apparitions, ticks, gut wrenching, suspicion and glee too. We're the reason you rolled a nineteen for charisma, the cat's meow, your least favorite aunt. Touch us and we'll touch you....." (more here). I think that about sums up their style. Fans of Her Space Holiday and such bands should dig these tunes...

Dimensions And Verticals
The Forest Scares The Hell Out Of Me
Yeah, I'm In Love With An Android (Beautiful?!?)

(Stream ) in your cubicle while you work for the man.

More Chicago music! Hoooray! The Narrator play punkish-rock-loud music. That is all you can say. Did I mention that they are loud? Not really arranged, but it works.....if you are an angry dwarf back at work this fine monday, this might be a band for you.

The Narrator - Pregnant Boys MP3
The Narrator - All Are Assassins

Birthday tunes!

2006-01-20T21:51:00.000-08:00

Well, well, well. Another birthday, another liver-blast fest as Kyle heads to Columbia, S.C. with the tard girl from work (she’s not really THAT bad, but it works better to just rip on her) and her boyfriend. She’s dumb, he’s dumb and who cares. Booze, booze, booze and more booze will be had by all in Spurrierland Sunday.

Work’s been a chaotic mess. People coming, people leaving, egos clashing and attitudes upon attitudes. Clocks ticking on my NC stay…

We’ll be watching the Panthers Sunday, which sucks. Panther mania has swept the Carolinas. Every redneck seems to care now and the millions of those rednecks (with a total of 12 teeth) have chosen Steve Smith as the greatest player ever. Puke, puke, double puke because it should be the Bears. Hopefully Seattle takes care of business. Rumors of Shaun Alexander calling Charlotte home next year since he is tight with Ken “Give me my money” Lucas are surfacing.

Salukis dropped two in a row after inching closer to the top 25. If they would have won those two games, we’d be talking about the nationally ranked Salukis on Monday. Break a brother’s heart. Indiana is coming together and striving in the Big Ten despite injury woes. Want injury issues? Check out the Charlotte Bobcats. Or Shitcats as we refer to them in the newsroom.

Enough yackin. Here are some tunes for the birthday weekend. Tip one for our 24th sometime this weekend.

Cat Power - The Greatest

From Wikipedia: The daughter of divorced parents, Chan (pronounced "Shawn") Marshall was born in Atlanta, but moved to New York City after dropping out of high school, where she began playing shows under the name Cat Power. While opening for Liz Phair in 1994, she met Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth and Tim Foljahn of Two Dollar Guitar, who encouraged her to record, and played on her first two albums, 1995's Dear Sir and 1996's Myra Lee. In 1996 she was signed to Matador Records, and released her third album, What Would the Community Think, which spawned a rare single and music video, "Nude as the News".
In 1998 came Moon Pix, which was recorded in Australia and featured backing musicians Mick Turner and Jim White of the Dirty Three. The album was well-received by critics, and songs such as the luminous "Colors and the Kids," along with the video for the song "Cross Bones Style," helped increase Marshall's profile in the indie rock scene. During the subsequent tours, however, she grew tired of her own material, and two years later released The Covers Record, a collection of cover songs recorded at various sessions in 1998 and 1999. In 2003 she resumed releasing original material with You Are Free, a diverse and critically applauded album which featured guest musicians such as Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl, and the Dirty Three's Warren Ellis.
The year 2004 saw the release of the critically polarizing DVD Speaking for Trees, which featured a single, nearly 2-hour static shot of Marshall performing in a woodland, and was accompanied by an audio CD containing the 18-minute song "Willie Deadwilder," featuring M. Ward on guitar. A new record, called The Greatest, is scheduled to be released in January, 2006.
Cat Power — The Greatest [mp3]
Cat Power — Could We [mp3]
Cat Power — Living Proof [mp3]

And who could forget Britian's IT band: Arctic Monkeys
Wikipedia: Arctic Monkeys are a four-piece indie rock band from High Green, Sheffield, England. Their debut single, "I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor", went straight to number one in the UK Singles Chart. Described as a northern Libertines, their post-punk/dance-punk sound and wry lyrics have also been compared to the The Jam, Pulp and The Streets.
Arctic Monkeys — Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor [mp3]
Arctic Monkeys — Still Take You Home [mp3]
Arctic Monkeys — When the Sun Goes Down [mp3]

Bound Stems and I play catch up...

2006-01-19T07:05:00.000-08:00

Lots going on in my world that I haven't been able to write about here. Kyle and I share a birthday. It's Sunday. Dental School is still hella lame, the Bulls/Bears/Blackhawks are worthless, and it's cold in the Midwest. That about sums it up.

Speaking of the Bulls, I'm fairly sure none of you watched the Bulls/Knicks game last night, but some a-hole in the stands threw a beer at former Bull Antonio Davis' wife. So god ole' AD runs out into the stands and defends his woman. Snaps for AD. Woulda done the same thing hommie. Eddy Curry made his fat-return to his hometown and almost died on the court. Called it months ago.
AD Fights for his girl

Pitchfork nailed the Strokes review. The album sucks. Sorry kiddos. Last month I was listening to a Q101 interview with the Strokes and the guys totally blew off the DJ (they were actually pretty rude), so they are on my shitlist for the new year. Dickbacks they are.

Jeffrey Foucault is starting to gain a little "hype" here in the blog world, and I couldn't be happier. Great tunes, that guy. Bladdhow...

My old Shure E2s spunked out again, so the good people at Shure hooked me up with the E3s. Great company, can't reccomend them enough.

For all of you Sopranos fans, check out the local Chicago papers over the next few weeks. The Feds recently nabbed Joey the Clown, reputed mob boss. Dude had serious clout back in the day and was apparently a stone-cold killer. They make movies about guys like this. Crazy.
Feds nab Joey the Clown
Joey Clowns around in court

Tons of Chicago music has been floating around the internet as of late and I'd like to throw another worthy band's hat into the ring of Chi-town supremecy. The Bound stems are made up of four high school friends and one guy who played in Harvey Danger. It's weird pop, think goofy Arcade Fire minus the 42 people on stage. Some people liken them to the Fiery Furnaces, but I just don't see it. Whatever. Pitchfork recenly gave them a desce' review (EP), and they are Spin's band of the month for Febuaray. Groovy. From their EP The Logic of Building the Body Plan, which I think is a great title, enjoy:

Bound Stems - Crimes and Follies
Bound Stems - My Kingdom for a Trundle Bed

More music here (Boundstems.com)
They'll be at the empty bottle on Friday. You should go.

Welcome back...Ryno...

2006-01-17T14:27:00.000-08:00

Happy new year ladies. Ryan is back to rock your socks. In an attempt to more constructively spend the small amount of time between patients and cancellations that I now have, I've vowed to return to the blog word with a smash. Sorry for the absence. Over the past few weeks, I've been working on this whole doctorate thing. It's complicated. You don't care, so I'll spare you.

The A-Sides' Only Michele has been reaming my iPod lately and they are a band I see myself getting into more this year.

Sidewalk Chalk
Park Avenue
Here or There
Expressway to Your Heart (Soul Survivors cover)

More tommorow.

Screw Carolina!

2006-01-15T21:34:00.000-08:00

Freakin Bears. Overachievers? Probably.

Tough game to watch in NC, and it's going to be a long-ass week of hearing shit from some stupid bitch at work who thinks she knows a little something about football. She’s also a Panthers fan.

I blasted a Charlotte columnist this week on his blog feedback tell him all about the Monsters of the Fall-Down-on-Defense. Who’s eating it now Tom Sorrenson? Yes, sir, I am.

Talked up the Bears quite a bit here in the Tar Heel state and their defense called it in. Big props to the Panthers, they had a great game plan and destroyed Lovie's cover 2. Secondary was hurtin for a squirtin, but how in the name of all that is holy Bo Jangles does Steve Smith get THAT wide open. Put Smith on a spy team, he’ll find Osama. Dude can get behind coverage. Fantasy stud for me this year that he was, he’s an Assclown when it gets down to it.

Been listening to Damien Marley/Silver Jews/Madlib lately. Doesn’t take away the pain of the NFC 2 seed getting bounced.

Top 10 this week, with mp3s of shit you probably already have.

We'll be back...in 2006!

2005-12-30T16:32:00.000-08:00

Yeah, we're lazy and nobody probably even reads this piece, but that's the beauty of the blogsphere (gay word.) Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and their credit cards aren't destroyed from seasonal buying.

Kyle will be back in 2006 with a top 10 albums of the year mega-post. Sure to look exactly like many other end of the year album bonanzas!

Regular posts will follow and even a blog makeover. Put that graphic design degree to work.

Happy New Year!

Oh, and anything by Anthony and the Johnsons will not be involved.

New Mogwai

2005-12-13T11:34:00.000-08:00

Guess this leaked 12/9 and is all over the 'blogsphere,' but here are a few cuts nonetheless....

From Wikipedia:
Mogwai is a Scottish post-rock band formed in 1995 that has become one of the most influential and best known post-rock bands. They compose lengthy instrumental guitar-based pieces in the post-rock tradition, usually focused around the elaboration of a single theme. The band were originally signed to renowned Glasgow Indie label Chemikal Underground. Their style has been influenced by such bands as The Cure, Joy Division, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, and post-rock granddaddies Slint. While Mogwai's sound bears little resemblance to punk rock, the band seem to identify closely with the punk ethic. Their self-run UK label Rock Action Records is named after Stooges drummer Scott Ashton, who had his name changed to Rock Action. Furthermore, "Punk Rock", the opening track on Mogwai's 1999 Come On Die Young, prominently features an extended sample from a 1977 interview with punk rocker Iggy Pop.
During 2004 the band were handed support slots on the tours of two of their heroes, the Pixies and The Cure. Mogwai's influence on the indie rock scene can be heard in the work of Explosions in the Sky and Italians Giardini di Miro. They are signed to Matador Records in the US but run their own label, Rock Action Records for their UK releases.
Mogwai are named after the creatures from the film Gremlins, although Braithwaite comments that "it has no significant meaning and we always intended on getting a better one, but like a lot of other things we never got round to it." [1].
The next Mogwai album is due in March 2006, it is titled Mr. Beast and apparently is a return to the heavier sounds of 1997's [Mogwai Young Team].

Album comes out in March, get a taste now. This album f'n rocks.
[MP3]Mogwai - Acid Food
[MP3] Mogwai - Friend of the Night
[MP3]Mogwai - Folk Death 95

[Full Album RAR via RedLightGlow.com]Mogwai - Mr. Beast

Tune in tomorrow for some tracks off the upcoming Islands album!

R.I.P TOOKIE

2005-12-13T00:42:00.000-08:00

3:35a.m. EC....Tookie is dead man. What a media event. Shit got political w/ the Terminator getting ready for another run at office....He did start the Crips gang and gang violence is out of control...Supreme Court wouldn't save his ass...The only thing that could slow it down was an IV... Killed 4 people, never said he was sorry...Merry Christmas!

Murder was the case...

Tookie's site, serious traffic
Savetookie.com, getting slammed
Crips history...for kids
CNN's take
Movie (Jamie Foxx)

Chicago is the new Toronto

2005-12-10T09:01:00.000-08:00

Lots of Chicago music going around via the net as of late and since I live here, I'm pretty much the expert. The Saps rock harder than any other Chicago band right now. Bar none. Lets see what the "experts" have to say:

"On three EPs and one self-released full-length “finally a band you can trust”, these punkers suggest what the Old97's might sound like if they took the last stick out of their asses.."
The Chicago Reader

"The disk's real gem is "wait", whose first line is, "I got so drunk I wanted to piss on you". The saps have nailed their formula: their rock is drunk, dirty and infectious. It's a beautiful thing."
Splendid Magazine

I don't condone pissing on other people, unless its a homeless person, but shit that's rock, right? 97s, so if you like their stuff give it a run. Speaking of homeless poeple, how do they stay alive in weather like this, it's been below zero with the windchill. Whatever.

The Saps - Break My Spine
The Saps - Dead Friends
The Saps - Wait (ohh yah)

Went to my first "office party," with Mere last night. Crazy. Not like "the office" party crazy, which was awesome btw, but still a smah fest, literally. I'm in the middle of a three week finals run, yah three weeks of assram, but I have two weeks coming up with nothing to do. I plan on getting back on the bike and rocking out.

I've been listening to a ton of The Rocket lately. Sweden in the mother f-in hizzy.

How about Duke? Reddick is a legit top ten pick. Guy can shoot.

The Hoosiers are going to be awesome. I told your ass like three months ago, Kyle. Solid.

Then do the twist....

2005-12-08T16:22:00.000-08:00

Hello, hello, hello to the three faithful readers, Season’s greetings from N.C. It’s not really that cold here, so if you are freezing your ass off from the nasty winter weather, sucks to be you. It got down to 40 today, people freaked out. Great weather, dumb people.

Above is a picture of the 2005 model of the bike ordered by your's truly (pick it up the 26th). The paint job is different on the 06, but it is one sweet ride nonetheless. The damn thing is worth more than the Buick.

Not much new on my front that I can blog about regarding work. If I see you over Christmas, you can hear all about it. Just make sure you have plenty of time and plenty of booze. Speaking of Christmas, flying out of Raleigh on the 23rd into the Chi city where Ryno and I will then proceed to drink Chicago’s supply of Goose Island beer and freeze our dangles off. God it’s going to be/already is cold up there. Be in Effingham/Newton the 24/25, but sadly have to fly out Monday night.

Saluki football’s season ended at Appalachian State last weekend. Joel Sambursky (the QB) lost the game by gift-wrapping two picks, which lead to 10 Mountaineer points. The Dawgs are struggling on the hardwood, too. Could be a long year in the Valley. Oh what’s that? Yeah UNI did beat Iowa and Indiana fell at Indiana State, all on the same mother flippin day. Big Ten? Big Weak Sister!

Drove down to Charlotte to see the Panthers kill the demon that is Michael Vick. Vick had beaten the Panthers 5 times since joining the league and Sunday the Cats played like someone shit in their cheerios. Great game, Carolina might have a shot at the Super Bowl if they can get past DA BEARS!

Orton is a giant toolbox (albeit he’s won 8 straight) and if he fails to win in Pittsburgh this weekend, bench his candy ass and put in RexMan, hell put in Urlacher. *Cheese TV voice: Hello, I’m the president of the “Bench Orton Fan club” our motto is “Winning 8 in a row really isn’t a big deal.”*

Listening to a ton of music lately. Pretty much when I wake up on the alarm all the way to when I fall asleep. Here's a taste of what's on the battery-dead-iPod. Santa, bring me a video iPod loaded with movies of, uh, don't say porn...OK, think of something other than porn...OK, got nothing.

Stay warm!
Tunes for now....got some Rogue Wave for Ryan to put up and will get to some new Ryan Adams tracks from "29." The man puts out an album every week.

Some live White Stripes, rawk. Anybody catch them on the Daily Show? These songs kick ass live:
White Stripes - As Ugly As I Seem (Live)
White Stripes - The Denial Twist (Live)

Remixes of Beck songs. Didn't really care for the whole lot of them, but judge for yourself.
Beck - Hell Yes (Remix)
Beck - Vultures (Remix)
Beck - E-Pro (Remix)

Interpol remixes....where have you been moody rockers?
Interpol - Public Perver (Carlos D Remix)
Interpol - NARC (Paul Banks Remix)

Couple cuts off Dave Matthew's "Weekend on the Rocks." Robert Randolph (somewhere in the jam) on Bayou.
Dave Matthews Band - Smooth Rider (Live)
Dave Matthews Band - Louisiana Bayou (Live with Robert Randolph)

And who could forget the new John Mayer Trio. It's actually pretty good — minus the whiney girl shit — so give him a break.
John Mayer Trio - I Got a Woman Who doesn't use the Ray Charles hook these days?
John Mayer Trio - Vultures (New song)

Dallas Green

2005-12-03T16:27:00.000-08:00

Is a cool guy. Much cooler than I am. I'm guessing that his life isn't based on teeth and the study of said teeth, so that makes him cool in my book. His music is nice, too. Little emo'ish but he's got a great voice and writes solid songs. Props for doing the solo thing. Save your scissors is right up there with Rogue Wave's California for most played song on my iPod this year. Neato. Check him out, if you haven't allready. Bounce, myspace in the house:

My fantasy football teams are trashed, and the best I can hope for in ye'old fantasy blog fooseball is 5th. Sad. Peyton, nice....my running backs, not so nice. There is always next year.

School is hellacious. Lots and lots of studying/working on projects. I love the shit. No, that's a lie, no one does.

Death from Above was chartattack's artist of the year. Canadians are weird.

There was a Tyson Chandler sighting in Chicago last night. Way to go Tys'. Keep your ass out of foul trouble and you could dominate the league. Play big homie, play big.

Looks like the Rose Bowl is going to be a gun fight. Longhorns obliterated the Buffs, and USC is taking care of business against UCLA. Rock. I'd rather see a Big Ten team and a Pac 10 foe in the rose bowl, but what yah gonna do, it's the BCS folks, money talks.

Dude, A.C. Newman likes John Mayer. I can now listen to him with pride. Kyle likes the new Trio, maybe he should post some of it, so I can listen to it.

I'll get on the postin' when finals are over. School, blah.

Couple vids, quickie update

2005-11-25T13:10:00.000-08:00

Greetings. Hope everyone had a great Turkey fest and spent the better part of the day eating and watching football like I did. Lets all give a little thanks to my favorite amino acid, tryptophan. Now we're talkin.. Here are couple of videos I've been rocking out to today. They are new to me, so don't get all "ohh your soo behind..." cause that's lamo. If you went shopping today, you're stupid. Wrong move. Windows media format....Cheereio'

New Pornographers - Use It (Not sure I get this one)
Spoon - Sister Jack
Stephen Malkmus - Mama

Nice little shot at TO here. Big Turkey he is indeed....
Arnie's Neighborhood is rad.
Ice Kappa Melta, now there is a frat Bush would be in. Funny stuff...

Thome is a White Sock, didn't see that coming.
Thome trade could be good for both teams

God the early game yesterday was worthless. Atlanta vs. Detroit. Yawn. I slept through most of it, and it wasn't the turkey.
Mariucci on the chopping block?

Pacers may just win it all. Lebron isn't 21 yet, so he might have to wait a few years.
Pacers end Cavaliers' run

The Darkness, bitches.

2005-11-23T12:39:00.000-08:00

Ah The Darknes...Sure they really don't have much talent (except for the rip-snortin solos the guitarist belts out), but they sure are fun, well kind of fun at least. Here are a few tracks off the new album "One Way Ticket to Hell and Back" so crank it up to 11 and pretend that big hair and coke were still fashionable. The first track "One Way Ticket" starts out with flutes and awes, majestic really, rolls into some cutting sounds, sniffing sound and then bursts into a rift that could only come from THE DARKNESS!

Listening to the falsetto voice of lead singer Justin Hawkins is a guilty pleasure. Is that cowbell I hear? Everything needs more cowbelll. The Darkenss are similar to watching a train wreck, car accident or cows having sex in an open field: You just can't look away. Other songs include the ever enjoyable "Knockers", who don't love some knockers, to the track "Dinner Lady Arms," what the hell does that mean? Just tell me that "One Way Ticket' isn't catchy.

Nice story about Mr. Hawkins:
The Darkness' vocalist Justin Hawkins became an amphibian midwife during an educational visit to the Norfolk Broads. Whilst urinating behind some bushes, a spherical object fell from a leaf and rested on the shaft of his man-member. To his horror, the object wobbled before what appeared to be a frog-like creature with a long tail hatched from within it. The reptile accepted Justin as her mother, and denied the Hawkins' family's attempts to introduce her to the wild. The scaly infant would look at Justin and exclaim "You are the one that I want." Probably because he had 'DELIVERED THE NEWT ON JOHN'.

Enjoy.
The Darkness - One Way Ticket
The Darkness - Knockers
The Darkness - Is It Just Me
The Darkness - Dinner Lady Arms
The Darkness - Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time

Keep your chin up TO

2005-11-23T10:55:00.000-08:00

Not soo fast....

Those who know me well know that I'm completely and utterly obsessed with fantasy sports. Now that the football season is wearing down, I'm immersed with my basketball teams (three if you're counting at home). Fear not, though, there are still the NFL playoffs and I plan on making a serious run at mediocrecy. I made a bold move last week and acquired the infamous Terell Owens via a ridiculous trade. Earlier today I was excited to see initial reports stating that Owens would be released by the Philadelphia Eagles, could it get any better?. Much to my schagrin, the arbitrator ruled in favor of the Eagles (heh?) and Owens will miss the rest of the season. On a personal level, I completely agree with the arbritrator's ruling and think that Owens is the worst thing since cancer, but on a fantasy level, I was floored. My season is effectively over. Damn. I even had my Terell Owens Houston Texans jersey on pre-order. So much for that.

I think I'll start working in more of a fantasy basketball edge to the blog and try to tone down the music for a while. Music takes a lot of time to put together, and time is not one of my excesses. Dental school has gotten completely out of control and I'm currently working on six different projects. You don't really care about that, so lets just say that I'm swamped.

Lets look at some headlines:

ESPN Insider is reporting that the Bulls are interested in Kevin Garnett. Thank God. This years team is boring as hell to watch and has little veteran talent. Now if they could just move Ben Gordon in a package deal and bring in Peja next year, they might make a title run. Schwing. Deng isn't getting moved, and I don't see anyone wanting Gordon (what a wasted #3 pick)...sad face...
Deng deal? Not likely

To me, though, it comes down to New York, who will take on any contract. They'll get rid of some old dudes (Penny, AD) and get a stud to run with Starbury and the rest of the bloated NY lineup. We'll see bout that: Trade KG? Forget about it, Taylor says

The Cubs are having the most random offseason ever. Maybe their new approach will work. For some reason, I thought Juan Pierre was a lock for center field next year, maybe I'm wrong. I also thought Furcal was going to be the shortstop that they've needed for a long time, maybe i'm wrong again.
Cubs eyeing Howry (who the f' is that?)

God, what is the deal with the Mets? They think they can just grab everyone... Hopefully the cards will ball up and re-sign Grudz
Mets looking to hold a Grudz

Speaking of the Cardinals, they aren't going to resign Matt Morris, and I don't blame them. Here's a prediction for you. Burnett becomes a Cardinal. Duncan turns him around. The Cards win a World Series behind three young studs.
Cards wooing Burnett

Just because I'm not all sports...here's a little music:

Pitchfork is wrong. Like really, really wrong. Last week I said that DFA 1979's new album was the balls. Pitchfork gave it a 0.5 out of pure spite this week. Wrong dildos, best workout music all year. It's obvs that none of the dudes over at pitchfork workout....cause this stuff gets you going...
Pitchfork - Romance Bloody Romance Review

Get you some of Wilco's Kicking Television. It rocks. Best Misunderstood ever.
Wilco - Kicking Television (torrent)

Chris (aka Gorilla vs. Bear) has an awesome top 25 albums of 2005 countdown. I spent the good majority of the morning working on a paper and listening to his tuneage....

Chin Up Chin Up is a nice little band via the Chi':

Chris Saathoff, the bassist from Chin Up Chin Up, died tragically last year in a DUI hit-and-run accident in the band's hometown of Chicago. It really sucks that you have to start a review this way, but the tragedy puts their latest album, We Should Have Never Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers into important perspective and context. This is a band that has breathtaking melodies laced with a definite sadness, with every sound emitted ringing of perseverance.

Arcade Fire/Thanksgiving/Meadow Soprano

2005-11-22T22:07:00.000-08:00

One rocks, one is tomorrow and the last one is oh so fine.

The Arcade Fire is a great group, one of the best of last year. How about the single Cold Rain — which was on the Six Feet Under disc number who cares — for your iPod. Happy Thanksgiving! Gobble, gobble!!!!

Six Feet Under got old, stale, pick your own word that is close to lame. Six Feet Under soundtracks are 92% gay with a chance of fag. Not as bad as the O.C. soundtracks, but that's another story. A grown man can watch that show and enjoy it, no matter what HIPSTERS say about it. They can take their shitty little attitudes and shove them up the 2 hole.

In HBO news, Deadwood won't be back on the air till June. Sopranos through March should be a solid send off to a revolutionary…ehh strong word…. television show. My mouth is watering in anticipation of the return of Tony, but mostly I’m drooling about Meadow. Rome ended Sunday. Caesar died, Mark Anthony is a bad ass, Brutus is a bitch etc. Why do people in Rome have British accents? Quite the violent show, which is a nice change from the rest of the violence on television. Nothing like seeing a man get his head bashed into concrete or having his fingers cut off.

Dig the Cold Rain, Brazil is kind of annoying. Sounds exactly what you'd expect from the AF.

New girl at work was going to get fired, then she didn't, cried yadda yadda, headphones were put on. I don't need this shit. Just want to get on a plane and fly to Illinois for a day or so over Christmas. It's cold there but who cares.

Link dumping time:
Arcade Fire - Cold Wind
Arcade Fire - Brazil
Sopranos info, gotta register
Rome - Sucks getting stabbed (see picture)

Funny Friday

2005-11-18T20:05:00.000-08:00

Something new around here I'll be doing. Funny stuff on Fridays, hence the Funny Friday. Salukis won first bball game, score. Richmond Raiders won again, 3 games away from state championshipland. Same old shit for me.

From this Maddox dude's site
He's kind of a tool, but funny nonetheless.

Maddox on blogs:
If the thousands of mid-sentence links don't annoy you, the long slender columns of text will. Most of the screen on a blog is blank for an imaginary populace of readers still using 640x480 resolution. I didn't buy a 19" monitor to have 50% of its screen realestate pissed away on firing white pixels, you assholes. They don't print books on receipt paper for a reason. Every time I see this layout, I want to choke the creator with my dry, crackled, and bleeding hands for making my fingers so calloused from having to keep scrolling the mouse wheel to read your dumb "blog."

Blogger: Term used to describe anyone with enough time or narcissism to document every tedious bit of minutia filling their uneventful lives. Possibly the most annoying thing about bloggers is the sense of self-importance they get after even the most modest of publicity. Sometimes it takes as little as a referral on a more popular blogger's website to set the lesser blogger's ego into orbit.

Then God forbid a blogger gets mentioned on CNN. If you thought it was impossible for a certain blogger to get more pious than he was, wait until you see the shit storm of self-righteous save-the-world bullshit after a network plug. Suddenly the boring, mild-mannered blogger you once knew will turn into Mother Theresa, and will single handedly take it upon himself to end world hunger with his stupid links to band websites and other smug blogger dipshits.

Blogging: If minds had anuses, blogging would be what your mind would do when it had to take a dump.

Blogged: What you call a trivial or largely inconsequential topic once bloggers have processed through every tired detail. For more on this, look into: every minor news story.

Blogosphere: The "blogosphere" is the new buzz word that has replaced "information super highway." It's what idiots like to call a collection of "blogs," otherwise known as a tragedy.

Blogomania: Like all other manias, except relating to the infatuation of blogs. It's one step above the more caustic phrase "blog-o-rama." Thankfully the latter hasn't caught on to the extent of its brethren, but that doesn't stop me from punching anyone who says it in the dick.

Blogroll: A long list of links that nobody will ever click on. Bloggers not only link to their friends and fellow bloggers, but their eventual goal is to link to every linkable document on the Internet. Most "blog rolls" are so full of links that it can bring even the mightiest of search engines to a crawl as they sort through all the frivolous bullshit bloggers link to.

Thankfully, since most blogs are shallow in content, it won't take you long to load, and in turn, to close the browser quickly if you're duped into clicking one of these links. If you shut down quickly enough, you may be able to avoid downloading the mandatory 2 gigs of political banners on every blogger's website.

Blogshare: An imaginary share of a blog's worth, which is ironic, since most blogs have an imaginary share of readers.

Blogstorm: A zany phrase news anchors like to use any time they think there's an abnormal amount of posts on blogs regarding any particular topic. Of course, they fail to consider any amount of posting to a blog is abnormal since people who are well adjusted usually have better things to do, i.e., work, or failing that, anything else.

Blog Swarm: Stupid.

Blogging community: Losers, goths, bedwetters, and journalism dropouts.

Blawg: Some prick thought it would be clever to spell "blog" phonetically using the word "law" in the title. It's a phrase used to describe blogs primarily dealing with the law and legal issues. Wow, real clever, dipshit. How did you come up with that one?

Blogumentary: There was recently a bit of a feud regarding this word among two bloggers. Apparently some guy decided that they had exclusive right to use the word, not realizing that similar words (docudrama, dramedy, rockumentary, etc) have been free to use for all people since you can't just copyright an entire genre, and more importantly, that it's stupid. Who cares? Blogumentary? Really? Eat shit you morons.

Blogebrity: Wow, guess what this one stands for? Too easy. Hey, anyone can do it: take a blogger who's a chef, and you get: BLEF. A blogger who's a dentist? BENTIST. A female blogger with an itch? You guessed it: a BITCH.

Photoblog: Photoblogs make me yearn for the day when cameras weren't digital, film cost money, and it took time to develop pictures. I remember back when it wasn't easy for any random asshole with a camera to go out take countless pictures of nothing. Nothing is exactly what these pictures are of. No focus, no theme, no message, no posturing. Just countless pictures of Denny's at 2 AM. We don't care that you went to Denny's. You're not an artist. You're not deep. Get a new hobby.

Podcast: Someone had the revolutionary idea of taking a compressed audio file and putting it online. Yeah, doesn't sound so sexy when I describe it for what it is, does it you morons? It would have been a great idea if streaming audio wasn't already around for over a decade before the word "podcast" entered the lexicon. Man, I can't stand the word "lexicon." Talking about all these shitty words has made me start using shitty words. I'm so pissed, I just slammed the door shut on some kid's nuts.

Podcasting: It's snob for "streaming audio."

Podcatcher: Any idiot with an iPod, web browser, or ears.

Warblog: A blog that primarily deals with war. Filled with whiny blow hards who are fixated on their stubborn ideas and conspiracy theories. For example, there are countless hours pissed away by conspiracy theorists who think the WTC towers were demolished by bombs planted by the government. These armchair engineers write endlessly about how the physics of the collapse was impossible, how the temperature wasn't hot enough to melt steel, and how the planes were carrying missiles. Of course, the one thing they don't postulate is a REASON.

My personal favorite warblog was one that had a flash animation with people who were quoted as saying "it didn't sound like a plane to me... it sounded like a missile." Thank you Joe Nobody for giving me your expert opinion on what missile sounds like, because gas station superintendents are usually the best people to ask about the sonic signature of ballistic missile thrust.

Warblogger: Like all other bloggers, an idiot. Usually a self-righteous prick with a political axe to grind. Tragically, these dullards fail to realize that nobody cares what they think. And no, the 2 comments per post you get on average doesn't count. Get some real opinions, then maybe you'll get some real feedback.

Warblogging: The act of writing amateur, unfounded, and borderline illiterate opinions about war and war strategy.

iPod: This is one of those inventions that makes people say: "why didn't I think of that?" On news shows anyway. One of the anchors on FOX News said "now the music industry is waiting for someone to come along and invent the next iPod." Wow, if only I had thought of the bright idea of putting an mp3 player on a portable hard drive. Damn that's brilliant. I had that idea years ago. I also have another idea: a car that can fly. I will sue anyone who makes it.

iPodder: A pompous ass who thinks he's eclectic. Wake up asshole: you're not living in an iPod commercial. You can't dance. Everything you listen to sucks. Get a job.

e-nable: E-nable? How about I e-nable my foot to your mouth?

URL (as pronounced "ERL"): Few things invoke more contempt for humanity than someone who pronounces URL as "erl." It's an acronym, not a word you douche! Between people who say "erl" and programmers who pronounce char (an abbreviation for character) as "chär" (with the "ch" pronounced like in "chart"), I get so pissed that I just want to saw my arms off.

The suffix "pundit:" Stupid.

The prefix "pundit:" Stupid.

Liberal media: Whiny, bitching, cry-baby conservatives love to prattle on and on about the "liberal media." To be fair, except for FOX News (Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, John Gibson, Neil Cavuto, Steve Doocy, E.D. Hill, Brian Kilmeade, Brit Hume), Clear Channel, Laura Ingraham, Dr. Laura, Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, Ann Coulter, Newsmax, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan, Michael Savage, The New York Post, Sinclair Broadcast Group (WLOS13, Fox 45, WTTO21, WB49, KGAN, WICD, WICS, WCHS, WVAH, WTAT, WSTR, WSYX, WTTE, WKEF, WRGT, KDSM, WSMH, WXLV, WURN, KVWB, KFBT, WDKY, WMSN, WVTV, WEAR, WZTV, KOTH, WYZZ, WPGH, WGME, WLFL, WRLH, WUHF, KABB, WGGB, WSYT, WTTA), David Horowitz, Rupert Murdoch, PAX, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, they're right.

The suffix "gate": Watergate, Filegate, Rathergate, eat shit already.

Xanga: The bottom of the barrel of blogs. It's incredible that the user base is able to write so much, yet say so little. I have to give a bit of kudos though, considering the fact that many of the users have the reading comprehension of a bowl full of pubes.

LiveJournal: Here's a little trick you can use to find out whether a link someone sends you is worth checking. If it contains the words "live, journal," or any combination thereof, you can safely ignore the link without missing out on anything.

Content Management System: A pretentious way of saying "text editor."

The acronym CMS: Man, it's like you guys create these words, then you turn them into acronyms to make this shit even cornier.

Killer App: I can't stand this phrase, mostly because it's applied so loosely. App is short for "application," but that doesn't stop people from using it every chance they get: "the fast food industry needs a killer app." What? What does that even mean? An application?

Webmistress: You're not a webmistress, shut up. It's a word used by uppity women who, in spite of a woman's inherent flaws, has been able to land a job as a webmaster. Then they have to go and piss all over years of civil rights they've wrestled away by calling themselves "webmistresses."

trackback: It's snob for "referrer."

travelblog: Guess.

Emo: An abbreviation for loser. Emo is the new goth, except goths are still around, so it's becoming almost unbearable.

Metrosexual: A gay guy still in the closet. This word is so contemptible that even the man who coined it has since apologized for being such a douche. I cringe every time I hear this word.

Retrosexual: This word wouldn't exist if "metro" didn't happen to rhyme with "retro." It's supposed to mean the opposite of a "metrosexual," which makes it another superfluous word since we already have a word for the opposite of a metrosexual called "straight."

Friendblog: None are known to exist since bloggers don't have friends.

Watchblog: Let's not.

Videoblog: Another idiot who had the bright idea of coining a term for posting a file online, except instead of music, it's crappy home videos.

Vlog: I don't even know if this is being used yet, but I suspect it will be used soon if it hasn't, so preemptive strike, bitches.

Vog: I

Vloggers: CAN'T

Vlogging: GO

Vlogged: ON

Moblog: ANYMORE.

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Tune torrent links:
Wilco - Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
System of a Down - Hypnotize
Big and Rich - Coming to Your City
Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir

Death From Above Brings It...electro style...

2005-11-17T10:47:00.000-08:00

I really thought I would dislike Death From Above 1979's remix album: Romance Bloody Romance. I liked, not loved, their first album, so I had mixed feelings about their new(er) stuff. I mean, there are four covers of Romantic Rights?!?, great song, don't get me wrong, but are four covers really necessary? That's a whole lotta one song, especially on a 13 song disc. The only song I could listen to 13 times in a row is Kenny Rogers' The Gambler. His shit rocks. All of the artists that DFAB electro-bring in make them more listenable for the mass non-rockers (like myself) out there and their flare for the original is nice. This is a young band that needs to dive further into different genres. Electronic being the first, instrumental coming later. This album is the balls, despite the rr covers, and is on my top 10 for 2005 list, which I need to get to. Rock on. Here are my favs

Little Girl (MSTRKRFT Edition)
Romantic Rights (Marczech Makuziak Remix)
Black History Month (Girl On Girl Featuring Final Fantasy Revision)

Congrats the to the two winners of my Slightly unnoriginal buty totally awesome Supergrass Contest. That's a mouthful, and your emails rocked. Jenn from Chicago and Goose from ummm Pennsylvania are the winners. I'll post Jenns response later this week (she got first place). I've got a shit ton of stuff going on at school right now, thus the lack of posts. Good stuff.

We had an awesome time in Mich' last weekend and my Hoosiers got hammered. IU scored of the first drive of the game and then fell apart. Mere and I left at halftime to get away from angry, socially ackward Michiganers. Ann Arbor is an awesome town, but Michigan has some different people, thats for sure. Backwoods, angry, fans were all over the stadium and very rude to the fifteen people there wearing red. Whatever, we'll see them during basketball season.

Speaking of which, IU is a top 20 team this year, and God willing, a top 10 team when DJ White makes his way back from a broken foot. Australian Freshman Ben Allen is going to step in nicely and clog the lane until DJ can get healthy. With White, IU has a huge, and I mean huge front court with marginal, young gaurds. Sounds like Duke. Get ready for another final four run kiddos, the hoosier's are loaded. From page2: • And now, for the answer, we go to Indiana hoops coach Mike Davis: If your job is continually on the line and your team has developed a recent reputation for underachieving, is it a good idea to come out in the preseason and say you have the talent to contend for the national championship?

Damn skippy it's a good idea. If Davis can't coach this team, he's gone. The man can recruit, I'll give him that. Being a young black coach in the midwest helps things, but he can't win consistently.

It's go time Mike.

Looks like Manny is going to be a Met.
Mets ship out Cameron

Rut roo, New York sucks Nickas and I love Jamal Crawford, he's a real team player that Jamal Crawford. Isiah: Larry Is Still My Go-To Guy

TO to Hot-Lanta?, he's not going to Oakland. Moss interview owned, btw.
Falcons might go after T.O.

Need a big Defense and special teams this week for fantasy fooseball, how about the Giants?
McMahon to get first QB start in nearly 3 years

The Bulls lost (again!) last night. It might be a long year. Zach Randolph or Z-Bo as he's called is a thug. Big thug that Z-Bo.
Bulls fall short in their Rose goal