...you're having the time of your life.
-Mansions "The Worst Part"
I really hope the new Taking Back Sunday album is good. I have a soft spot for this band, more so than any of the bands mentioned in my previous blog. Tell All Your Friends is by my favorite of theirs but they have several other songs that I really do enjoy, so here's hoping they can deliver a solid album from start to finish.
Speaking of new albums, here's a video with some info on Ashley Tisdale's new album Guilty Pleasure...
MySpace Fashion Presents the FIT with Ashley Tisdale
So there's a movie called Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs coming out. It's written and directed by two of the executive producers of How I Met Your Mother. It's an animated film with a sweet cast, Mr. T for starters. I'd include the trailer for you but they didn't make it so I couldn't embed it for you. But it's worth checking out. Apparently it's based on a book. Who knew?
You wanna hear a band that very much has the "Dan sound"? Of course you do.
I think I'll see them in Oswego.
There's a company that sells cheap electronics at my place of employment. And their product descriptions are so bad it's almost like they're being translated by someone without a firm grasp of English. Think something along the lines of "all your base are belong to us." And it provides me with joy while stuck in my 40 by 53 foot cell.
Continuing the retail related comments please don't do these things. When a cashier asks for your phone number, unless you've been flirting for close to ten plus minutes don't jokingly say any of the following...
-"As long as you promise to call"
-"I'm married"
-"You hitting on my wife(or husband)?"
You're not funny. And I'll immediately hate you for forcing me to awkwardly laugh at your "original" "jokes." And yes I quoted each word to emphasize how they are neither original or jokes.
Also not allowed...
-Cheesy pick up lines, such as "are you for sale"
-"There's no price on this, so that means it's free"
Once again, you're not funny. And if you're smaller, and preferably white, I may hit you.
And final work related comment. There's a new game for the Wii called Ready 2 Rumble which isn't anything great except they blatantly included celebrity knockoffs without getting their endorsement. For example, there's Jack Black, Will Ferrel, Simon Cowel. Additionally there's a red haired skateboarder who has a flying tomato on his shirt. Clearly it's Shaun White and clearly they're using his likeness. In addition to that addition there's a rather handsome fellow who's name is something clubber. And he looks like Brad Pitt. Also I think David Beckham is in there but I'm not positive on that.
I've got a lot of downtime at work and I've become fascinated by a few things. First and foremost is farts. I've decided there's a lot going on with farts that not enough people realize. Think about it, depending on the situation farts are a) hilarious, b) inappropriate c)hilariously inappropriate. Farting is even like a way to judge how far in a relationship you are, because there are certain things you don't do immediately in a relationship, like I will wait until the third date to fully reveal how perfect I am. But normal people(mainly girls) will wait before they feel it's acceptable to fart in front of their significant other. And it's not like we're talking about weird fetishes or nerdy tendencies they're hiding. It's a perfectly normal body function. Someone with a strong work ethic needs to study this phenomenon.
Secondly, instead of writing a novel(which is far too hard and time consuming) I'll be writing a Christmas story. Entitled How We Saved Christmas it's going to be awesome. Look for it to be finished by Thanksgiving.
Thirdly, I had a dream last night that made me so genuinely afraid I damn near shot up in my bed and thought I may have peed myself. It was a dream I remember having a long long time ago. Anyways I was in a dark room/house/train car/not sure with a group of people. And this time, a puppy. Anywho, we're all sitting there in relative darkness and people are being brutally murdered every so often. Everyone's like who's the killer? Who's the killer? And I'm all like I've read Ten Little Indians I'll pretend to be dead and then throw the killer off his game and catch him! Brilliant plan, except the killer is hip to my game and comes to get me next. So I'm sitting there, pretending to be dead, with this adorable little puppy and out of nowhere lightning crashes. I hear screaming and look up and there's a ghost of the creepiest fucking kid ever right in front of me and he's looking so hard into my eyes I'm convinced he's stealing my soul. And then instead of screaming I projectile spit woke up sweaty and out breath. And I understand to you this is really lame but I had to put the tv back on and find something to watch so I wouldn't have to go back to sleep and face that creepy kid again.
I saw this video and immediately thought of Nathan.
Good Old War - Weak Man
Quick Butch Walker show review.
Butch Walker is the man. That is all. Well not really. He played what I believe to be a very similar set as last time, most of Sycamore Meadows a few choice cuts from Letters while basically ignoring Left of Self Centered and Rise and Fall..., but it's all good because he's so damn good at life. I doubt anyone has as much fun performing as he does. On top of that he's quick on his feet and can adjust on the fly/make witty comments, and he interacts with the crowd enough to get a good sense of his sincerity. And to top it off for his encore he performed the one song I wish he had played last time. Twas awesome. Also the venue was nice.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
My next blog should be more interesting.
Another trip upstate has come and gone and once again I just wish I had more time. Which is funny, because I have way too much free time but not nearly enough time to spend with the people that I worry I will never see again in just a matter of months. As a reaction to this realization I've made several changes in my life, most recently I've decided I'm going to do somethings even if I'm not all that interested just to have more in common with some of my friends. Additionally I'm working on being more appreciative of what I have and worrying less about what I don't have and what I can't change.
Additional upstate anecdote, I've got pictures from my camera which I will not put up on facebook/tag because I'm lazy. If you want I can email them to you and you can do it. But more importantly, I don't know what's going on with me eyes, maybe their too kick ass to show up but I'm the only one who's got the whole red eye thing in something like 140 pictures on that camera. I don't know how that happened but it alarms me, maybe I'm the terminator. Which would be awesome because then I can wear my leather vest and anyone without the last name Connor wouldn't be able to give me shit for it.
I've developed a fascination with wikipedia. Well not wikipedia exactly, but wikipedia's specifically for certain films, books, tv shows. For example the Lord of the Rings has everything you'll ever need to know without having to read the books or watch the movies. It's awesome. For example, did you know that Pippin's son, Faramir(obviously named after the Steward of Gondor) married Sam's daughter, Goldilocks. Whether they had children or not is not mentioned.
I don't know why George Clinton and one the singers from Crazy Town are on tv together but I'm sure it's awesome. Or at least I hope it is.
Fun fact Nate, the lead singer(at least I assume it's the lead singer) of Lola Ray has an English Bulldog. Be jealous.
You wanna hear a demo from what I hope to be my favorite record of the year? Sure you do. New As Tall As Lions demo/outake It's a quiet acoustic number so you may need/want to listen to it through head phones And I just figured out why I am so excited for their new stuff. With other bands I feel like they've reached their peak, for example I feel like I know what to expect from Brand New, Thursday, Augustana, Jimmy Eat World. But As Tall As Lions is still a bit of a mystery to me, they're capable of going above and beyond almost anything those other bands have put out. When I listen to them I just get the feeling that every member of the band is a great musician. Even if they don't put everything together in all their songs there's always something to like. But I don't know much about how musically talented they actually are mainly because I have no idea myself and partially because I can't seem to get Nate to listen and to tell me what to think about them. So really it's his fault.
I know everyone's all bent out of shape over the new facebook, but I rather like it. If for no other reason that it asked me what's on my mind. I appreciate that facebook, so kudos to you.
Ace Enders new CD is good. It's basicly Early November 2.0, and I'm very much okay with that.
Also just in case you didn't know, it is the season of Ted Leo. With the weather warming up and the summer approaching, I highly recommend you listen to some of his stuff. Your life will be better for it.
50 Cent will be performing on select dates with Fall Out Boy. Pete Wentz might be the most powerful man in the world. BTW, this is awesome.
I changed my computer background, and I know you don't care but I'm sharing in spite of that actually. Anyways, it's Calvin and Hobbes, again, because the comics usually put me in a good mood. Which I think is proof that Calvin and Hobbes is indeed the greatest comic strip of all-time.
There are a few bands that for whatever reason I have a soft spot for. I can go months without listening to them but will not skip a track of theirs whenever it comes on randomly, the main ones are as follows...
-Paramore
-Mayday Parade
-The Rocket Summer
-Something Corporate
-Over It/ RunerRunner
Additional upstate anecdote, I've got pictures from my camera which I will not put up on facebook/tag because I'm lazy. If you want I can email them to you and you can do it. But more importantly, I don't know what's going on with me eyes, maybe their too kick ass to show up but I'm the only one who's got the whole red eye thing in something like 140 pictures on that camera. I don't know how that happened but it alarms me, maybe I'm the terminator. Which would be awesome because then I can wear my leather vest and anyone without the last name Connor wouldn't be able to give me shit for it.
I've developed a fascination with wikipedia. Well not wikipedia exactly, but wikipedia's specifically for certain films, books, tv shows. For example the Lord of the Rings has everything you'll ever need to know without having to read the books or watch the movies. It's awesome. For example, did you know that Pippin's son, Faramir(obviously named after the Steward of Gondor) married Sam's daughter, Goldilocks. Whether they had children or not is not mentioned.
I don't know why George Clinton and one the singers from Crazy Town are on tv together but I'm sure it's awesome. Or at least I hope it is.
Fun fact Nate, the lead singer(at least I assume it's the lead singer) of Lola Ray has an English Bulldog. Be jealous.
You wanna hear a demo from what I hope to be my favorite record of the year? Sure you do. New As Tall As Lions demo/outake It's a quiet acoustic number so you may need/want to listen to it through head phones And I just figured out why I am so excited for their new stuff. With other bands I feel like they've reached their peak, for example I feel like I know what to expect from Brand New, Thursday, Augustana, Jimmy Eat World. But As Tall As Lions is still a bit of a mystery to me, they're capable of going above and beyond almost anything those other bands have put out. When I listen to them I just get the feeling that every member of the band is a great musician. Even if they don't put everything together in all their songs there's always something to like. But I don't know much about how musically talented they actually are mainly because I have no idea myself and partially because I can't seem to get Nate to listen and to tell me what to think about them. So really it's his fault.
I know everyone's all bent out of shape over the new facebook, but I rather like it. If for no other reason that it asked me what's on my mind. I appreciate that facebook, so kudos to you.
Ace Enders new CD is good. It's basicly Early November 2.0, and I'm very much okay with that.
Also just in case you didn't know, it is the season of Ted Leo. With the weather warming up and the summer approaching, I highly recommend you listen to some of his stuff. Your life will be better for it.
50 Cent will be performing on select dates with Fall Out Boy. Pete Wentz might be the most powerful man in the world. BTW, this is awesome.
I changed my computer background, and I know you don't care but I'm sharing in spite of that actually. Anyways, it's Calvin and Hobbes, again, because the comics usually put me in a good mood. Which I think is proof that Calvin and Hobbes is indeed the greatest comic strip of all-time.
There are a few bands that for whatever reason I have a soft spot for. I can go months without listening to them but will not skip a track of theirs whenever it comes on randomly, the main ones are as follows...
-Paramore
-Mayday Parade
-The Rocket Summer
-Something Corporate
-Over It/ RunerRunner
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Yesterday Went Too Soon...
I need another word for vagina is the best website ever. And it is exactly what you think it is.
Fail at Price Is Right sound. On demand. Awesome.
So here's a link for 99 of the best youtube videos or something. Enjoy, you're soon to be unemployed ass will thank me later for all the time you've wasted. I'll be honest most of the links I clicked on(which wasn't many) didn't entertain me.
"Have you ever wondered what would happen if a nuclear bomb goes off in your city? With Google's Maps framework and a bit of Javascript, you can see the outcome.
And it does not look good."
It's official, the Return of the King is the best movie of all times. That means forever...ever.
I hope the following quote is enough reasons to get you to read a list of seven of the most insane military attempts to weaponize animals...
"It seems the cats tended to lose consciousness when plunging towards the earth at terminal velocity while strapped to a bomb. And that, as much as anything, is why cats will never be man's best friend."
This is a nice companion piece to the above link.
Big day for Dan today. Bought a new belt, although sadly I once again fell victim to the "it's two belts in one how can I lose?" I know exactly how I can lose, I've lost twice now, including last night. But I'm giving it one more shot. Hopefully it'll go something like this, "fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Work out perfectly the third time. Huzzah."
Additionally I bought a new wallet. It's my third wallet since 6th grade or something. And it's ok, I still much prefer my older beaten up wallet but the new one was half priced when bought with the previously mentioned belt.
Still need new shoes though.
Watched the movie Ten Inch Hero and although it quickly turned into a chick flick I was ok with it for a few reasons. First it had two women that I'm madly in love with starring it in. I got to see boobs and ass of one the previously mentioned chicks. The soundtrack was solid. And finally I'm clearly a chick. Also it's got the dude from Supernatural and My Bloody Valentine.
I'm getting a little excited for baseball season to start. Granted it's still like a month away or something, and then it'll be another six or so months on top of that before I can really decide whether I've had enough of the Mets breaking my heart to call it a day. Also this is how bad the sport has gotten, on the Yankees you have the super star how used steroids, got caught, came clean and then got caught lying while telling the truth. Meanwhile over at Mets' camp you've got the ace, and easily the most important player on the team out because of an elbow injury. Except he's fine...But really, he'll miss opening day...but he won't. Science damn you baseball. Why can't it be easy and all puff pieces on how with the revamped bullpen the Mets are the team to beat this year? Or perhaps why can't Derek Jeter unexpectedly announce his retirement. I'm done with him, everything about him is way too calculated. He bores me. That's why I like Arod, he's stupid, well he says and does stupid things.
I'm begining to think AROD is just trying to mess with people and get them all bent out of shape.
Big night for the Rangers tonight, first game with their new coach, hopefully they play well. A win would be nice but just playing a full 60 minutes would be a good start.
Fun fact, Mr. Fantastic is in Titanic. And he's the one that makes the lifeboats go back to look for survivors.
I love the band Northstar, but I don't think I'll ever fully understand their lyrics.
The new Ace Enders' track is what I've been waiting for since the Early November broke up.
So I finished Twilight and while it's not a bad story, it's not very well written. And the author might not be a bad writer, as a matter of fact she may be a great writer, but the book was either written by someone with an eighth grade reading level, or purposely written at that level. Which I was willing to tolerate, because The Hobbit is a children's book, but when the author(hence forth known as she) had a chance to redeem herself and prove me wrong she took the easy way out. Maybe it was her intent, to have four hundred pages of build up and then essentially skip past the drama. There's a chance she left it out to reveal it in later books. Maybe in her mind it wasn't an important aspect of the story. Which while being a very basic love story involving vampires isn't bad but I feel robbed. So Stephanie Meyer, I would like an explanation or some of my life back. Also, maybe you could have cut out like a hundred pages, unless of course you were getting paid by the page. If so, kudos.
Quick update: It took me a few hours but I realized why she cut out the fight scene. The whole book is told from one characters POV and she gets knocked out. So touche, Twilight, I now feel like an asshole.
I'll be honest, I won't seek out the next book, shocking I know, but I would read it if it presented itself. It'll be a quick and easy read and make me feel accomplished.
Find out if you would survive in a horror movie at LiquidGeneration.com!
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Fail at Price Is Right sound. On demand. Awesome.
So here's a link for 99 of the best youtube videos or something. Enjoy, you're soon to be unemployed ass will thank me later for all the time you've wasted. I'll be honest most of the links I clicked on(which wasn't many) didn't entertain me.
"Have you ever wondered what would happen if a nuclear bomb goes off in your city? With Google's Maps framework and a bit of Javascript, you can see the outcome.
And it does not look good."
It's official, the Return of the King is the best movie of all times. That means forever...ever.
I hope the following quote is enough reasons to get you to read a list of seven of the most insane military attempts to weaponize animals...
"It seems the cats tended to lose consciousness when plunging towards the earth at terminal velocity while strapped to a bomb. And that, as much as anything, is why cats will never be man's best friend."
This is a nice companion piece to the above link.
Big day for Dan today. Bought a new belt, although sadly I once again fell victim to the "it's two belts in one how can I lose?" I know exactly how I can lose, I've lost twice now, including last night. But I'm giving it one more shot. Hopefully it'll go something like this, "fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Work out perfectly the third time. Huzzah."
Additionally I bought a new wallet. It's my third wallet since 6th grade or something. And it's ok, I still much prefer my older beaten up wallet but the new one was half priced when bought with the previously mentioned belt.
Still need new shoes though.
Watched the movie Ten Inch Hero and although it quickly turned into a chick flick I was ok with it for a few reasons. First it had two women that I'm madly in love with starring it in. I got to see boobs and ass of one the previously mentioned chicks. The soundtrack was solid. And finally I'm clearly a chick. Also it's got the dude from Supernatural and My Bloody Valentine.
I'm getting a little excited for baseball season to start. Granted it's still like a month away or something, and then it'll be another six or so months on top of that before I can really decide whether I've had enough of the Mets breaking my heart to call it a day. Also this is how bad the sport has gotten, on the Yankees you have the super star how used steroids, got caught, came clean and then got caught lying while telling the truth. Meanwhile over at Mets' camp you've got the ace, and easily the most important player on the team out because of an elbow injury. Except he's fine...But really, he'll miss opening day...but he won't. Science damn you baseball. Why can't it be easy and all puff pieces on how with the revamped bullpen the Mets are the team to beat this year? Or perhaps why can't Derek Jeter unexpectedly announce his retirement. I'm done with him, everything about him is way too calculated. He bores me. That's why I like Arod, he's stupid, well he says and does stupid things.
I'm begining to think AROD is just trying to mess with people and get them all bent out of shape.
Big night for the Rangers tonight, first game with their new coach, hopefully they play well. A win would be nice but just playing a full 60 minutes would be a good start.
Fun fact, Mr. Fantastic is in Titanic. And he's the one that makes the lifeboats go back to look for survivors.
I love the band Northstar, but I don't think I'll ever fully understand their lyrics.
The new Ace Enders' track is what I've been waiting for since the Early November broke up.
So I finished Twilight and while it's not a bad story, it's not very well written. And the author might not be a bad writer, as a matter of fact she may be a great writer, but the book was either written by someone with an eighth grade reading level, or purposely written at that level. Which I was willing to tolerate, because The Hobbit is a children's book, but when the author(hence forth known as she) had a chance to redeem herself and prove me wrong she took the easy way out. Maybe it was her intent, to have four hundred pages of build up and then essentially skip past the drama. There's a chance she left it out to reveal it in later books. Maybe in her mind it wasn't an important aspect of the story. Which while being a very basic love story involving vampires isn't bad but I feel robbed. So Stephanie Meyer, I would like an explanation or some of my life back. Also, maybe you could have cut out like a hundred pages, unless of course you were getting paid by the page. If so, kudos.
Quick update: It took me a few hours but I realized why she cut out the fight scene. The whole book is told from one characters POV and she gets knocked out. So touche, Twilight, I now feel like an asshole.
I'll be honest, I won't seek out the next book, shocking I know, but I would read it if it presented itself. It'll be a quick and easy read and make me feel accomplished.
Find out if you would survive in a horror movie at LiquidGeneration.com!
88%DRUNKARD
56
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