This is why I'm so weird...

A conversation between myself and my dad resulted in this:
Concerning making jokes about crack...
Dad: yup...i used one yesterday...the smoke alarm went off, and I checked the basement where Jacob (my step-brother) and Sam were still sleeping...reported back to Connie (my step mom) ..."it's just the boys and their crack pipes"

No wonder people think I'm strange. ;)

Ohhhh Don Piano

Jesus jesus jesus. My friend Carmen sent me this link a few weeks ago, but it's just too fucking cool not to mention. Don't think cats can talk? Well here you go:

http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=24b22dad-6cee-4463-81cd-ff637c28b824&t=s5&f=06/64&p=hotvideo_viralvideos

Whether they know what they're saying is still debatable.

So! I was looking at this flyer I got outside of the Trio show for all of the upcoming Soda Jerk shows and I noticed a band called "KillWhitneyDead". How fucking cool (yet morbid) is that?!?!?! I went to their myspace, and the type of music that they play is classified as "Metal/Hardcore/DeathMetal". Jesus, it's so insane. You HAVE to go to the MySpace site, it's so worth it. It's so bad. This is going to sound judgemental, but people who listen to that kind of music probably has a shit ton of rage. I'm gonna make a leap and say that their fan base is probably 99% dudes. Sweaty dudes. Dudes who don't wear deodorant and still rock jean shorts. As I was typing this, a song of theirs was going in the background and I got so annoyed that I yelled "FUCK!" and had to pause it. Filled me with rage in less than 30 seconds. Still, I have to get a t-shirt or something. How could I not?

http://www.myspace.com/killwhitneydead




I was going to write a big post on music news, but I'm so sleepy... so I'll post the short and short of it.
How pissed is Thom Yorke of Radiohead right now? Apparently his solo album was leaked over a month in advance of it's release date. He apparently had the ideas "kicking around his head" for a few years but it only took a short time for the album to be realized. And, to add insult to injury, Yahoo Music News added an entire song list of the CD, so anyone can pirate it as quickly as their little fingers can take them.
Here's an interview with Mike, aka The Streets. He's really humble, and I love how he's not terribly overproduced.
http://music.yahoo.com/read/interview/12062204

Alright, well my tumbly is growling and I need a nap. Peace out!

Photo Crimes and Misdemeanors

I was alerted this morning that my blog was linked from my friend Hanna's photo blog, so I figured I'd give her a shout out.

http://photocrimesandmisdemeanors.blogspot.com/

Hanna's photos are everything you'd like to be and more. Take that.

Boo studying.

Of course I'm writing in my blog. Of course, in the eight plus hours that I wasn't doing much, I wasn't studying, and now that I actually made it to my bed and spread out all of my accounting stuff I decide to write in this thing.

I can't decide whether finding an entire unopened roll of Thin Mints was a good or a bad thing. I've eaten half a tube in just a few hours. Maybe I was trying to hide them from myself. Maybe I should do that again.

I saw X-Men III the other day, it was crazy. I was so wrapped up in all of the cool stuff happening I kind of forgot to follow the plot. Maybe that wasn't just me. The other two seemed... meatier somehow. It was still a good movie though, and for all you dorks that didn't stay through the end of the credits, there will definitely be an X-Men IV. I'll leave it at that. If you had superpowers, what would they be? Would they be evil, like that guy who had porcupine spikes coming out of his face? Or would they be cool, like Iceman, the guy who can freeze stuff into ice? I'm sure he's a hit at parties...

Party Host: "Ah, fuck, we're out of ice again!"
Iceman: (Standing on a pile of half-melted ice, nudges it under a bush with his toe ) "Don't worry! I'm Iceman! Good thing you have me around, huh guys?!"
Party Guests: (Half-hearted mumbling, rolling eyes)
Iceman: "I sure am cool! GET IT?!" (Uncontrollable high pitched giggling)
Party Guests: "Now 'The Cure' doesn't sound so bad..."

I got so carried away with that whole thing, I forgot what I was going to write about. Oh! AAA! Look at these pictures of Kevin Federline. Yes, I swear this is him. The makeup artist did a really good job of covering up the word "asshole" on his forehead. Kids these days.

I mean, seriously?! He looks like he's going to ask for your vote in this years upcoming 16th district election. If he came to Britney's door, I'd bet she'd sneeze on him, because she's probably become too accustomed to his "PigPen Dirt Cloud" and would have a reaction to the lack of it.

Ok kiddies. I'm going to "study" Accounting and then go to sleep. It's like when I was a kid, I would go to sleep when it was still light out and could hear my friends still playing basketball outside. Except now it's my friends playing "Who Wants To Get Drunk and Pass Out in Strange Places?". That's an even better game.

Brains?

My life sucks now that I'm not allowing myself to nap. If you see me stiff-leggedly staggering down College Avenue, screaming "BRAAAAIIIINS!!!" and trying to bite people's appendages, kindly direct me to the nearest soft spot, for I shall surely appreciate it when I regain consciousness.

Le Francais? Oui! Bien sur!

So I was randomly looking at stuff online and realized that I can translate my entire blog into French. Tres cool.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=en&u=http://good-bloggie.blogspot.com/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dnever-went-to-church%2B%2522the%2Bguillemots%2522%26start%3D10%26hl%3Dfr%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGGLG,GGLG:2005-38,GGLG:fr%26sa%3DN%26as_qdr%3Dall

Hahah.... that makes me so happy and so sad at the same time; sad because my French is so rusty and happy because it makes me feel a little bit like I know what I'm talking about. Then again, I did write it. Damn.

Yar.

Nothing terribly important to write about today; woke up at 12, made like, 5 new ringtones and 5 new backgrounds for my phone. (And yes, I am that much of a dork that I make my own.) I made one out of "What is Love?" by Haddaway, "Ooh la la" by Goldfrapp, "Crazy" by Gnarls, "Halloween" by Matt Pond and "Poppin my Collar" by 36 Mafia. Fuck yeah.

I think I'm going to a bbq (I can't spell that word out, for some reason... barbeque? Barbequeue? Damnit.) with Sam and watching a movie with Burt in the interim... that's pretty much it.

....kbye!

iMix: Sunday May 28th

1. "Different Names For the Same Thing" - Death Cab for Cutie
2. "M.E.T.H.O.D. Man" - Wu-Tang
3. "Avondale" - Yellowcard
4. "Layla" - Eric Clapton
5. "The Red Dress" - Motion City Soundtrack

Oh. And, if anyone is interested, here is a list of songs I'm digging lately... if you download any of them I'm sure you'll like them.

1. "Taxi Driver" - Gym Class Heroes
2. "Call the Cops" - Liam and Me
3. "I Ain't Saying My Goodbyes" - Tom Vek
4. "Hands" - Ms. John Soda
5. "Ooh La La" - Goldfrapp
6. "Crazy" - Gnarls Barkley
7. "Life's a Bitch" - Rock Kills Kid
8. "Step Into My Office, Baby" - Belle & Sebastian
9. "Parade" - Pretty Girls Make Graves
10. "93 'til Infinity" - Souls of Mischief
11. "Go Go Gadget Gospel" - Gnarls Barkley
12. "Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks" - The Rapture
13. "Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured" - Arctic Monkeys
14. "Don't Say A Word" - Liam and Me
15. "Stare at the Sun" - Mutemath
16. "Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades" - Brand New
17. "Halloween" - Matt Pond PA (hands down my favorite song right now)
18. "Romulus" - Sufjan Stevens

"Never Went To Church"...

Oh god, so tired. Burt just went stumbling by my room, exclaiming, "I hate my life". I couldn't agree more. I woke up at about 8:30 this morning and spent like, two hours en route back to Fort Collins. Long story. Don't ask.
I went to Denver last night for a party at Kelsi's new house near DU. It was so random and fun... until this morning came and I wanted to die. Heather, I love you for coming. I didn't take any pictures last night, sadly, and only have a video of a really drunk voicemail we left to Carmen that hopefully I'll get Kelsi to upload onto my YouTube account sometime soon.

Here's a really interesting cover of a Streets song, "Never Went to Church" by a band called The Guillemots. It's really, really good.
http://www.nme.com/artists/guillemots/media/233
Speaking of The Streets, I think they may be coming to The Fox sometime this summer... lemme check. Yes!

Wed 06/14:
THE COLORADO DAILY Presents RADIO 1190 &
THE STREETS
with LADY SOVEREIGN

TICKETING
Doors/Show: 8:00 PM / 8:30 PM Ages: All AgesTickets: $22.50
Mike Skinner's recordings as the Streets marked the first attempt at adding a degree of social commentary to Britain's party-hearty garage/2-step movement. Skinner, a Birmingham native who only later ventured to the capital, was an outsider in the garage scene; though his initial recordings appeared on Locked On, the premiere source for speed garage and, later, 2-step from 1998 to the end of the millennium. He spent time growing up in north London as well as Birmingham, and listened first to hip-hop, then house and jungle. Now, a household name in Electronica and Dance circles, The Streets push their production and performance eccentricities to a new level.

Whoooooo's coming with me?! I'm serious. Omg so excited.

Burt (who is really my roomate Kim) just alerted me that Nelly Furtado is the voice in that new song, "Promiscuous Girl". Uh? Really? Bad move for a such a former free spirit. She should stick to doing songs like the ones she did with Jurassic 5 or Swollen Members... not so much with Timbaland. It's an alright song, I just wish it wasn't with her. Oh well. She is probably trying to revamp her act and apply to 14 year olds. Cause, sadly, thats the way to do it. Sexy-like.

Sometimes I wish I could just go away and be a hermit for a few days at a time. Go to a cabin in the mountains and just chill there. As long as it has, uh, cable and internet and air conditioning, I think I'll be good. But seriously, stuff gets really overwhelming sometimes and I just wish I had a little hole to crawl into.

Anyhoo, I'm going to go watch a movie or something. Bye bye bye.

It's An ILLUSION, Michael!

Does anyone have like, a thousand dollars? Because I really, really, really need this.
It will practically pay for itself, COME ON!
















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Friday, May 26th

So I'm not sure how long this post is going to be; it's currently 2:00pm and I just woke up 30 minutes ago. Last night was awesome. Went to Wash Bar, with no problem, the guy looked at my ID for like, two seconds before giving it back to me. There was NOBODY there, we got there at like 9:30 to capitalize on the free beer before 10 o'clock thing, which turned out to be a myth. Actually, there was a sign in the bathroom that said ladies drink free until 10... stupid mean bartenders. We drank giant beers for $3.00 all night. Not as many people ended up showing up as usual, but I saw quite a few people there anyways. Some hahs from my high school were there. It was weird, even though I'm like 12, it seemed like it was more my domain than theirs.

So much fun. My brilliant insight into the world today after I woke up: "What does the inside of your nose smell like?!"

Didn't go to class today. Oops.

I can't say everything I want to say in this blog, but I guess just having high hopes for something isn't enough.

iMix:

1. "The New Workout Plan" - Kanye West

2. "The Nearness of You" - Norah Jones

3. "Summertime" - Mae

4. "Mine's not a High Horse" - The Shins

5. "Say Yes! To M!ch!gan!" - Sufjan Stevens

Thursday, May 25

AAAA! My nap today lasted less than 2 hours. Disaster. I realized just now that I sound like a grandma; telling anyone who will listen about my naps and how my toe hurts. My toe really does hurt though. I think I broke it, it's been like 3-4 weeks and I still can't bend it all the way. Bloody hell.

AAAAA! I did an image search in order to find a picture of a grandma to supplement what I wrote and in the results were quite a few pictures of old women in compromising positions and.... oh god, it's too horrible to go on. That effectively ruined the grandma reference for me. Shudder.
I randomly found an awesome blog...blogspot is such a great source for awesome.
http://jerslater.blogspot.com/
It's something about how to write screenplays, which isn't a topic that may necessarily interest you, but the dream sequences are hilarious... definitely worth a read.

Damnit, Carmen left me a hilarious IM about Bridget Jones having a laundry crisis, which is something that I have about 3 times daily... sorry Carmen, I copied it and closed the window, and then copied that other link and erased it. Shit.

Check this out:

Last night at Cannes, 20th Century FOX presented a stealth screening of the funniest, lewdest, coarsest and potentially most gigantic hit of the year.The title is “Borat,” and if this 88-minute comedy manages to get an R-rating, the world as we know it may never be the same.The e-mailed invite read:
Kazakhstan Ministry of Information
Present You Invite to special screening of:
BORATCULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA
FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATIONOF KAZAKHSTAN
Borat, of course, is the invention of comedian Sascha Baron Cohen, aka hip-hop interviewer "Ali G."

Oh jesus jesus jesus. I'm so excited. Hopefully it won't become a "Napoleon Dynamite" kind of thing with Fox licensing shit like t-shirts and pencil erasers with "Shinqueed" and "Yechshimesh" on them. But still, hell yeah. The article says that when making the Ali- G show, they went to areas of the States where HBO viewership was the lowest in order to mess with people. I guess the South is not so big on the Home Box Office.
"Welcome to zee gayest state in America: Alabama!!!"
If you've never seen Da Ali-G show, and more importantly, Borat, then watch this. You won't regret it.





If you like really obscure bands with female lead singers, download some Fiery Furnaces. They're good, in an odd way. Very listenable, if you're getting sick of the whole male vocalist indie thing.

And now for my new favorite thing to do:

iMix!

1. "Walking with a Ghost" - Tegan and Sara
2. "State of the Union" - Rise Against
3. "Luchini (This is It)" - Camp Lo
4. "The Radio Airwaves Gave Me a Lobotomy" - One Man Army
5. "Hip Hop" - Royce Da 59

Well, I'm going out tonight, send me good luck thought waves.
Peace out!

Wednesday, May 24th

I hate it when you have really high hopes for something and it doesn't come out exactly as you wanted. It would be so easy to just give up on some things but letting go is so hard, especially when it's someone/something you cared about.
"We Never Change" by Coldplay is on my iTunes and it's just feels so appropriate.
On a completely different note, isn't there something wrong when a friend who you've known for a long time hasn't spoken to you in like, 2 and 1/2 weeks over something stupid? So ridiculous.

What would happen if you lived your life by your music? I mean, really lived it, not just by saying you like this band, or you like that band. What if you let songs dictate your life? You couldn't really "live" your life because musicians would be telling you what to do.... It's just a thought.

I don't have anything really exciting to talk about today, oh, the "new" Rock Kills Kid cd came out on last Tuesday and I've had it for over a month now. I got it from some kid, I don't know how he had it. Hardcore. It's really good though, especially the song "Paralyzed", which I think I may have mentioned in a previous post.

I got really excited over "Of Angels and Angles" when it came on and so I stuck it in my slow-downer and am learning it on my guitar. Love it.

I had a dream about Nick Lachey last night and now I can't get that song of his out of my head.

Well, I'm gonna go play and then study for my Business Law class. Peace out.
Today's shuffle:
1. "Of Angels and Angles" - The Decemberists
2. "Heartbreaker" - The D4
3. "???" - Atmosphere
4. "The Corner" - Common
5. "Everything is Alright" - Motion City Soundtrack

Today's shuffle

The whole "song shuffle" thing was actually pretty fun; I think I'll do it again. This time I'm using my iTunes.

1. Straight Street - The Fiery Furnaces
2. Wreck of the Day - Anna Nalick
3. The Dream of Evan and Chan - DNTEL
4. The Pistol - Dead Prez
5. Paranoiattack - The Faint

Ah man...

Last night we watched ShopGirl, a movie based off of a book written by Steve Martin, starring himself and Claire Danes. I know what you're thinking... and no, it wasn't anything like "Cheaper by the Dozen II". It was actually an interesting look at lonliness and people's willingness to make connections out of nothing. Jason Schwartzman was hilarious, every time he was in a scene I cracked up. I was reading imdb and it said that Jimmy Fallon was originally up for the part. I couldn't see him in it... he's just too good looking to play a slob like Schwartzman's character.
"Congratulations. You've just been on a date with Jeremy."

So sleepy. Went to class today and wanted to die! Lately, I've been waking up each morning to my alarm, rolling over, and saying to myself, "this is not fair." It sucks. I get so tired during the day that I nap, and then I'm not tired when I go to bed, and I end up falling asleep at like, 1 and repeating it all over again. Today I forced myself not to nap... it was hard.
Hah, as I was just writing this, I spaced out and started tapping out the rhythm of the song that I was listening to on the keyboard... it was filled with d-d=d-=-0dodkdlk before I realized what I was doing. Damnit.

We're going to Hoots tonight to watch Nicole in the swimsuit competition. So ridiculous.

I fixed the comments section. Please leave something, you don't need a blogspot account to do it, just made sure you sign your name so I can see who has been here. :)

I'll leave a better post tomorrow when I'm not delirious!

Bye darlings.

Moon and Sun

Flashes bringing on
my open eyes to lightning storm
the touch of mist felt soft, felt warm
on my face

Sun Kil Moon - "Carry Me Ohio"

Such a great song. Download it.

Comments!

It has come to my attention that people who don't have a blogspot account can still leave comments on my posts. I would love it if anyone who reads this blog would leave a comment if they feel like it... I never know who is reading this thing. Seriously, feel free to comment. And by feel free I mean do it. Do it or else.

"To Me You Are a Work Of Art"

Ahhhhh... so sleepy. I got done taking an accounting test that I should have studied harder for; the test ended up being exactly like our practice tests and quizzes. Damnit. Oh well. This post might be kind of short because I only have like, 20, 25 minutes before I have to go to my business law class.

Can I just say that the movie review website "Pajiba" is just too awesome to be true? With reviews written by people who truly enjoy and know about movies, each movie is put under a microscope, to be poked and prodded until only the bare bones of it come out. (The tagline for the website is actually "Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People"). The reviews are usually pretty acrimonious unless the film being looked at is somewhat "indie fare", and is thereupon deemed to be "better" than your usual mainstream movie. Thruthfully, there are tons of websites devoted to the reviews of ordinary movies. I suppose that gives them license to be bitchy. Have you ever noticed that when you read a bad review, and you have really low expectations for a movie, it's usually better? I kind of like that. So I guess it's about time that people put together something that was a little more unusual. Seriously though, I aspire to be as good of a writer as even half of the reviewers... sigh...
http://www.Pajiba.com

So I was looking at BestWeekEver's website and there was this piece where they took their ipods and put them on shuffle... they took the first five and compared them to each other. I did that and I got:
1. "Signals Over the Air" - Thursday
2. "Stars and Boulevards" - Augustana
3. "God Loves Ugly" - Atmosphere
4. "My Friend Peter" - Alkaline Trio
5. "A Perfect Sonnet" - Bright Eyes

Eh. Not terrible. The best part is that #6 turned out to be "Sometimes" by Britney Spears. Hah, damnit.
The lists that they had were:

Bob:
“Poetic Retelling of the blah blah” - Bright Eyes
“Who He Is” - Bill Withers
“Like a Honeycomb” - British Sea Power
“Road Kill” - Pulp
“A Time To Be So Small” - Interpol

Paul:
“Jetsetter” - Morningwood
“Modern Love” - David Bowie
“Fade Together” - Franz Ferdinand
“Ask” - The Smiths
“Bathwater” - No Doubt

"Paul" is Paul Scheer, VH1's favorite gap-toothed comedian. You've seen him before. Trust me. The first list makes me feel like I don't know what I'm doing with music. I don't know like, three of those bands. Eh, oh well. I suppose I should go wander to my class. I'm out.

Why?!

"Paris Hilton's debut album has been put on hold again.The hotel heiress has decided that she wants to include a cover of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy on the CD, which means that the release date will be pushed back while the idea is discussed."It's just Paris's latest idea and because she shares a label with Gnarls, she thinks that it will all be a piece of cake," a source told the Daily Star."The chances of it happening are minute, but everything has to go on pause again while it's all discussed. That means the album won't now be out until about September. At first it was July, then August. It keeps nearly getting finished and then something else happens." "
God damnit. Seriously? Only Paris Hilton could ruin something as ridiculously awesome as the song "Crazy". There's no way that Dangermouse would let her use his beat. That is, unless, she shoved millions of dollars in his face or threatened to give him herpes. Well... actually, that's probably pretty likely.

Monkeys?

'Ello darlings,

Here's a three and a half minute video of British talking monkeys talking about retrieving lobsters out of a woman's asshole. I mean... where do people come up with this shit?!



Last night was, again, a shit show. We went over to Sam's friend's house and drank jungle juice and played flip cup. It is amazing how nice the weather is. Even without Ram Ride running, walking home isn't such a chore.


And now for some links, liberated from other sites. Eeeeeheheh.

So if I ever get a tattoo, I'm getting it of Clay Aiken. I swear to god, that guy is a major badass.
http://www.capohedz.com/typebrighter/2005/10/really-bad-tattoos.html
I'm totally kidding. I would only get that if someone paid me five million dollars. And by "Clay Aiken tattoo" they really meant "get nothing". That would be cool. Actually, he has like, legions of fans, which really baffles me. However, nothing compares to "Sorry 2004" by Ruben Studdard. Nothing.

It's amazing what dogs do just because they're dogs, and they... um, don't have anything better to do. Here's a video of a dalmation riding a bike. Bonus! It's all in Japanese!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6742988194956129075&q=dalmation

Oh my god, the picture in this link is so cute it's unbelievable. Baby chinchilla = cutest thing I've seen in the past 48-72 hours. Make sure you scroll down and look at the picture someone made. "ARGH! Son of God rodent! Son of God rodent! " Best part of the whole link.
http://www.empireonline.com/forum/tm.asp?m=527759

Alright, I'm off to do some nothing. Peace out.