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January 14th, 2009
August 9th, 2008
01:15 am
Sabrina told me this evening that I haven't posted in a while. I guess I have some things I could post, but I've been really caught up in work and no one really wants to here about that. Also, you don't need me to tell you that I enjoyed the Batman movie didn't really enjoy the X-Files movie.
In lieu of real thoughts about anything, here are my top 13 songs of the last 3 months, according to last.fm.
Los Campesinos! – The International Tweexcore Underground
The Decemberists – O Valencia!
Wolf Parade – I'll Believe in Anything
The Kinks – This Time Tomorrow
Weezer – Everybody Get Dangerous
LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends (Franz Ferdinand version)
Weezer – The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)
Weezer – Troublemaker
The Hold Steady – Constructive Summer
N*E*R*D – Kill Joy
The Mountain Goats – The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out (Daft Punk remix)
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July 15th, 2008
June 2nd, 2008
11:28 pm - Behold...new kitty
Say hello to Bianca.
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May 11th, 2008
01:27 am - Some Updates
- That Los Camesinos! records is truly great. I just don't get excited by music as much anymore and this is a whole lot of fun, big sounding and very melodic.
- I haven't seen Iron Man yet. I have actually been sort of busy. Now I feel I need to watch Speed Racer first as it looks not long for the theaters. I haven't seen forgetting Sarah Marshall either, so I hopelessly behind. I just saw Juno last week. That movie was good.
- I've been trying to play ultimate regularly. I am bad at every area of the game (catching, throwing, speed, stamina, defense) but I'm starting to see the game a little better.
- Last.fm got an update where the ipod thing is supposed to work better, but it doesn't always work.
- We got a new cat. Her name is Bianca and she is a very sassy snowshoe siamese aged 6.5 months. It is much harder to name a girl cat than a boy cat. Giving a girl cat a funny name feels like you're making fun of it. Pictures to come, I'm sure.
- I hate my job.The most attractive alternative is winning the lottery, so I may be stuck for a bit.
- I'm not feeling SNL tonight.
- Both The Office and Lost have totally brought back their a game.
- I liked Baby Mama, but it was vastly overshadowed by the fact that 30 rock is the best thing on tv.
- Don't Mess With The Zohan looks kind of good. I am crazy?
- For Mother's Day, we're doing a cookout at my parents' house. After playing ultimate, shopping, showering and watching the second Mets game with Forman, I spent the evening hand packing burgers and marinating chicken. I miss doing cookouts at our house, but 1. I don't have time and 2. the contractors that were supposed to fix up our house left things worse in may ways (including tearing up the backyard by driving on after the ground had frozen and not picking up after themselves at all).
- At this point, I honestly don't care who is elected president. I will try to make a vote that I think is the right choice, but I don't see any candidate actually doing what I think they should.
- For me, the issues candidates should be working to fix include: Value of the dollar, letting the RIAA and MPAA basically write bad case law, the awfulness of flying and the TSA, farm subsidies and how they effect food and gas pricing during shortages, lobbying reform, education spending, doing something real about the price of gas and energy independence and repairing government oversight and balance of powers in the wake of the Bush Administration.
- For some reason, I got the full tax rebate on top of my refund. For some reason, I got a I made a mistake and decided to spend it. I now own an XBox 360, but I 'm going to try to hold off on buying GTA IV until the fall so I actually get some work done between now and then.
- I don't have a rudimentary of strategy in Basketball like I do in most other sports, but I can tell you with certainty that it was a mistake for both Mike D'Antoni and The Knicks for the Knicks to pay Mike D'Antoni $24m over 4 years to coach the Knicks. I understand that D'Antoni should have left Phoenix after their front office have mismanaged drafts, trades and free agents and because of that stuff it wasn't his fault that crapped out this year, but going to a organization that is worse in almost every way is mistake. Maybe he wants to do what Larry Brown did in NY: sign a huge contract, get fired and get paid for doing nothing.
- Speaking of sports: I'm a Mets fan because I like it when they win and I don't like when they lose (and I hate the Atlanta Braves). Watching games on tv and seeing the home crowd boo players, I feel like I'm doing something wrong.
- Generally, I'm not happy. I feel like I'm not doing the things I need to do to make myself happy. That's my true failing. Also, I'm fat and I did I mention I hate my job? Things are weird.
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April 18th, 2008
February 28th, 2008
12:42 pm - Casper's Back!
Is it me, or does he look kind of drunk?
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February 19th, 2008
12:24 am
Proposal Buildlog
She said yes
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February 13th, 2008
10:08 pm - Warren Ellis gives us free comics because he loves us
Current Music: You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told) - The White Stripes
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February 12th, 2008
12:23 am - Some updates
I didn't really have too much to post about, but then I noticed that I've posted about twice in the past two weeks and both times about sports, which I felt needs to be broken up.
Sports
Before breaking from sports completely, there is one more thing about the Santana deal I need to mention if you haven't heard it from me before. Before he won two Cy Young Awards and led the AL in ERA, wins and strikeouts, Johan Santana played minor league ball for the Auburn Doubledays. This is of note because a couple of Sabrina's friends worked in the ballpark and tried to set him up with Sabrina. She wasn't interested, but now he's signed to the Mets as the highest paid pitcher in major league history, making the Mets prohibitive favorites to claim the NL pennant and go to the World Series, Meanwhile, Sabrina's dating me, who will never be the highest paid anything and will use anything good or bad that happens to The Mets in the fall as a reason to be unable to help out around the house. Sorry, Honey!
Social Networking
Last FM will stay for now. I think I've found the secret to getting the ipod scrobbling to work: unplug it and replug it a few times and it may work or not. That combined with the facebook plugin, and people are going to damn well know I'm listening to the new Northern State record (Thanks, Jesse!)!
However, I did manage to clean my office some and put in the new turntable and that's getting a lot of usage. My top 5 weekly chart for that (unaided by computers):
5. Station to Station - David Bowie
4. Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk
3. My Aim is True - Elvis Costello
2. Computer World - Kraftwerk
1. Graceland - Paul Simon
As other blogs will attest, I've been listening to Graceland the most by far. Not only did I like this when my parents bought it on cassette when I was eight, but I still like it and for a lot of the same reasons. As opposed to just shortchanging anyone whose read this far by not trying to explain this feeling, I will say that I've tried to explain this to several people over the past few weeks and I don't seem to be able to.
After all my pontificating the other day, I had completely failed to notice that Jeff had already deleted his myspace page. Way to go, Jeff! I can't quite bring myself to do the same yet. The Family Jeff is still keeping busy with other blogging endeavors. I seriously recommend the red sox interview
Movies based on Michael Chabon Novels
Mysteries of Pittsburgh is at Sundance, it was just announced that The Cohen Brothers are adapting The Yiddish Policeman's Union and Kavalier & Clay? Still "in development." Guh.
Current Music: Boston Symphony Orchestra/Erich Leinsdorf - Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony
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