It's Only Tuesday?!

As the title of this post suggests, I'm in hell. I've got so much to do and so little time to do it... which makes for a very angry panda.
I was just laying on my couch, quietly steaming over all of the shit I've got going on, when an ad for Target came on. After seeing it, I sat straight up on the couch and started typing away on my roomate's laptop in fury. "Why", you ask? Because Target's super-cheap CD of the month is none other than Carnavas, the Silversun Pickups' latest release. I have no idea why things like that get me so fired up -- it's just that most people would hear "Lazy Eye" or "Dream at Temp0 119" and be like, "is this The Shins, or Snow Patrol?" Actually, speaking of Snow Patrol, they're coming through town with the SSPs opening for them. For a mere $39.00. Ya know, no big deal.

Oh! The new video for Timbaland's single, "Give It To Me" featuring Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado came out on the internet today. It's fairly unimpressive, being compiled of concert footage and scenes of Timberlake and Timbaland singing into a camera on a tour bus. Alas. The beat is good, and the song is catchy, so I'll let it slide. ;)

Oh! The much anticipated album, Neon Bible, by The Arcade Fire is out sometime next month, and the band has actually released the lyrics (though in a fairly cryptic form) on NeonBible.com. The track "The Wolf and the Fox", named for a poem, is read by a little girl in French. Malheureusement, it doesn't translate exactly, and I suppose they had to change it a bit to make it rhyme in English, but it's pretty cool to hear. You just have to find it first.

My dad and I saw Reno 911! the other day, and it was absoloutely ridiculous. It was pretty short, but the whole thing was put together in a hilarious way. Although, I don't exactly think it was the right movie to see with my dad. Oh! At the very end, one of the characters says he's from Fort Collins -- it's really crazy. The whole crowd was like, "what?"

Oh, if you get a chance, download "Debaser" by Rogue Wave. It's a kick ass Pixies cover. I think (don't kill me) that it's sweeter than the original.

I'm going to go and get food -- not grocery shopping means I get to eat out all the time!!! Woo!

Boring?

"Boring" -- The Pierces

The video above is probably the most ridiculous thing you'll see all day. Not "good-ridiculous", but "sorta-kinda-want-to-punch-your-monitor-but-can't-look-away-ridiculous". It's the worst song ever -- it kind of remids me of Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" -- but the girls in it are good looking enough to let it grow on you.

Sundance Effing Head?!

Ok, I know that all of you who read Good Bloggie (all of you being a hopeful statement, because I still have no idea who reads my blog) probably aren't American Idol's target demographic. Heck, I'm sure you still have all of your teeth, wear pants that fit, and don't have an overwhelming urge to wear scrunchies in your hair. Sadly, I've been DVRing it lately -- and I'm freaking loving it.

It's interesting, because normally I won't watch AI (yes, I went there) unless I'm at my mom's house, but almost every blog I read every day has been madly posting AI updates. I think that means I can safely say being sucked in was so not my fault.

There have been pictures of a certain AI contestant, Antonella Barbarella, circulating around the web; there are pics of her drinking, topless, lying on a bed covered in rose petals, and most recently, giving a guy... ahem... well you know. (I'm writing this at work -- you're going to have to use your imagination.) Antonella is a pretty horrible singer. The first time I heard her sing was on the top 12 girls show, where she sang "Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" by Aerosmith. Not only do I have a long standing hatred of that particular song (I used to sit down, cross my arms, and pout whenever it came on in junior high, until it ended) but the girl just butchered it. Inexplicably, she wasn't tossed off of the show. I was flabbergasted until I came across this: http://www.votefortheworst.com/ . People are actually voting for the worst contestants in order to skew the results. I'm amazed that they actually had a say, but I guess most of America is so apathetic about some of the contestants that they simply didn't receive enough votes. It's still pretty hilarious that more people want to vote for the worst, despite the gung-ho voters who want to vote for the "best".

I keep waking up with scratches on my hands. I know I get a little crazy when I go out, but come on, Whit. This is ridiculous.

I somehow got volunteered for Ram Ride tonight. That should be interesting. At least it will keep me from drinking excessively like I most likely would. I figured that I've used it enough, I should probably give back. Hopefully I'll remember enough to post "Tales From Ram Ride"... bwa ha haaa.

Zombies?

I know that most of you know about my irrational fear of zombies. (Sad as it is to admit this, I sometimes get really freaked out in my house and stage elaborate zombie-attack-exit-plans in my head.) I also, for some odd reason, love zombie movies. They're the only part of the horror (if you can call them part of it) genre that I like. My favorite film by far is Shaun of the Dead. It's a damn british zombie masterpiece -- if you haven't seen it, then shame on you. I was reading the trivia section of imdb.com on the film, and ran across some funny little snippets:

-- Chris Martin of Coldplay, who appears as himself on a news report near the end of the film promoting ZombAid, also plays a zombie. After Shaun and Liz escape from the basement of the Winchester, he can be seen playing the zombie walking past the phone booth from right to left.

-- The word "fuck" is used 77 times in this movie.

--According to writer-director Edgar Wright in the DVD commentary, when Ed attempts to cheer Shaun up at the Winchester with plans of binge drinking, he is actually summarizing the events of the next day (Z-day) entirely in drinking references.

--The non-featured zombie extras were paid the princely sum of £1 a day for their troubles.

So there you go.

I've busted two pairs of iPod headphones now. Damnit.

Remains

The Alkaline Trio used to be my favorite band. I say "used to" because my music tastes have matured a bit, and I'm no longer the spiked-belt wearing angsty teen I once was. (Although, as I type this, my fingers are hitting the keys with black nail polish on them.) On January 30th, they released Remains, a CD-DVD combo of their lesser known B-sides and older tracks. It's funny... three years ago I would have killed for this collection. I think I've seen the Trio like, 4 or 5 times. They're literally great every time, even when Matt Skiba's vocal chords gave out on him and I almost gave up the ghost.

I was walking by The Finest today in my quest for a sandwich and I saw Remains advertised in their window... do I get it or not?

My Mom's Going To Be Pissed

Ran across this on a different blog today -- it's from the iTunes main page. Get it? Bwahaha.

Admittedly, I've been DVRing American Idol a lot lately. I'm not sure why, I just get sucked in. At least this way, I only spend an hour and thirty minutes watching this crap instead of two whole hours. Right? Right?

Happy 2000?!

I'm sure most of you don't have a Blogger account, but if you did, you would know that there were some major changes. All mostly good because it's easier to use the Blogger system now. However, I seem to be having an epic battle with my hit counter. I don't want to get a new one, however, this one won't even fit into the html and count the hits I receive, so I'm a wee bit pissed. However, at last count -- a little over a week ago -- I had 1,951 hits. Add that to the 43 hits from when I mistakenly put a different counter on my site, and you've got...

Over 2000 views!!!!!!!


Cue the trumpets and confetti. That's gotta mean that...
You like me. You really like me.




Oh! This is something I intended to post forever ago when we were getting a lot of snow, but it got lost in my email inbox because of the ridiculous bombardment of Facebook updates. These are pictures of the last time that Colorado got as much snow as we did -- in 1913. It's awesome to look at these pictures and see how things have changed.

I bitch about not having internet sometimes, but I couldn't imagine having that much snow and having to heat up your creaky old mansion.

I've been messing with RSS feeds lately -- it takes a lot of the searchwork out of going to your favorite sites. Plus, you don't get the ads on the top, bottom, and sides, which is nice.

I was reading an article this morning that piqued my interest. I used to post a lot about celebrities on my blog, which was entertaining and all, but one can only write so much about the same people doing the same things. Sure -- if it's noteworthy I'll blog about it, but I've seemed to gravitate away from doins so lately. Anyways, in this article, the author talked about the power and allure of celebrity; how people spend their lives and their money trying to make it big. "In [the article] Halpern cites studies that suggest fame is a factor in other animal groups as well. In one study rhesus monkeys were willing to give up their food simply to stare at a dominant monkey." Weird, eh? It's just funny how obsessed people (even me) get with celebrity. I've found it interesting how "serious news networks" like CNN have been covering Anne Nicole Smith's death so intensely. She's dead, and there are like, 5 potential fathers of her child, I get it. Iguess people want to escape from the more serious news and decide to latch onto people like Anna Nicole.

If you sneeze in your cubicle, and no one's around to hear it, did it really happen?

This is hilarious. If you've ever seen Shutterbugs with Rob Huebel (the guy from Best Week Ever), you'll love this MindFreak parody. The end is the best...




Ahahahahahahahahh! This one is even better. If you skipped that one, (screw you) then watch this one. It's hilarious -- it talks about music bloggers, Pitchfork Media, and it even has Ted Leo in it -- big time.
"Clell Tickle -- Indie Marketing Guru"

"I don't wanna talk about Hambone."

I think that's all I've got -- have a good Monday everyone.

Happy Single's Awareness Day

Well, the day is upon us...

Hopefully this video of a cute little boy singing Akon's "I'm So Lonely" will make you smile...

Normally, I would spend my time bitching about how stupid the holiday is, but not today... ;) Anyhoo, get a giant bottle of wine and drink it, even if you're with somebody. It's the right thing to do.

I was reading this earlier on the internet, about brain chemistry and love...

"In a group of experiments, Dr. Lucy Brown, a professor in the department of neurology and neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and her colleagues did MRI brain scans on college students who were in the throes of new love.
While being scanned, the students looked at a photo of their beloved. The scientists found that the caudate area of the brain -- which is involved in cravings -- became very active. Another area that lit up: the ventral tegmental, which produces dopamine, a powerful neurotransmitter that affects pleasure and motivation.
Dr. Brown said scientists believe that when you fall in love, the ventral tegmental floods the caudate with dopamine. The caudate then sends signals for more dopamine.
"The more dopamine you get, the more of a high you feel," Dr. Brown says.
Or as her colleague, Dr. Helen Fisher put it: When you fall in love, "exactly the same system becomes active as when you take cocaine. You can feel intense elation when you're in love. You can feel intense elation when you're high on cocaine."
Now their research is centered on the flip side of love. They've recruited college students who'd just been rejected by their sweethearts. Again, the scientists performed MRI's while these students looked at photos of the objects of their affection.
This time, the results were different, Dr. Brown says. The insular cortex, the part of the brain that experiences physical pain, became very active.
"People came out of the machine crying," she said. "We won't be doing that experiment again for a long time."

Down with love? I'm not so sure...

Zzzz...

Yay! Another Good Bloggie overhaul. I had heard more complaints than rave reviews for the new template, so at the expense of style, I went back to my old template, with new colors. I like. Very nice.

I haven't written in a while, I've been pretty busy. I spent Wednesday and Thursday at the Career Fair, and dropped off like 10 resumes. I have an interview on Monday for a sales internship, so we'll see how that goes.

Ok, this is when I a) brag about how awesome I am, and b) admit that I'm a huge pop-culture follower and should be put in a cage. I was surfing YouTube today and found these hilarious videos made by Travis of Gym Class Heroes about valentine's day... They're really funny, and only like, 30 seconds each.
Has anyone noticed that Kiis FM has been playing "Cupid's Chokehold" by Gym Class Heroes lately? Isn't that song like, 6 months old?! I love how all of a sudden people are playing it like it's new. I'm pretty sure I wrote about that in the summer. Meh. Regardless, he's hilarious.







Oh, as I predicted last week, The Shins charted really high on Soundscan. Not number one like I predicted, but number two. Somewhere, Zach Braff is putting gel in his hair and humming along to "Phantom Limb" with the rest of the fucking world.

I was in the iTunes store and noticed that A Weekend in the City is the first album displayed in new releases. Tear. Mark gave it to me last week, before it came out... At first I was skeptical, thinking that it didn't even compare to Silent Alarm (which holds a dear place in my heart) but after listening to it like, every day, 2 or 3 times a day, I can say that it's a damn good album. Each song comes on and I'm like, "oh, this is my favorite!" and the next one will come on, and I'll be like, "oh.... this one too."


I'm going to spare you the news on Anna Nicole Smith. I'm sure you've already heard about it. If not, shame on you.


I have to take an online test now that I waited like, the entire week to take. I'm really good at this procrastinating thing.
Laaaater!