back in 'merica

landed safely yesterday back in the US of A...definitely glad to be back...it's weird when you have to get used to how your house smells...at least it was pleasant.

chinese animation

someone from work sent this to me...a nifty chinese animation although I must say, I think RenderAid stole the KitchenAidlogo.

cinemorgue

oooh find out how different actresses and actors buy it in a movie at the CineMorgue

and this is getting me excited about paris...and going with my christian rant, apparantly God cares about our hair and style

dude I haven't even packed yet

and the countdown for my flight is tick tick tocking away...oh well, the wife hasn't packed either...we're perennial slackers to the max...I finished writing all my reviews yesterday and added a new table to my database for classical music/world music/jazz/blues...I got tired of stuffing that content somewhere else...also added functionality to automagically email the band or artist that I did a review of with the full review and a URL to link to it because I always get tired of sending out updates to a trillion different people...some interesting bands to note, Soce, the elemental wizard (a gay Jewish rapper), the new Crisis album featuring Karyn Crisis a chick whose scream rivals most men...killwhitneydead who has the funniest song titles, and is like a metal break-up album...you gotta love titles like "Who Said Alcohol and Handguns Don't Go Great Together?", “I Didn’t Know ‘I Love You’ Came with a Knife in the Back”, “Forgiveness Isn’t As Much Fun As Holding a Grudge”, “Nothing Says ‘Party’ Like Her Head On a Stick”, “You Will Get Exactly What You Deserve (And Not One Bullet Less)”, and "It Ain't Gonna Suck Itself"...I mean that's a blast! another great album was Miriam Makeba's "Reflections"...she's an interesting African singer who once was married to the leader of The Black Panthers

also I checked out the african pundit blog...pretty interesting stuff...

last night I went out to wish my dentist a happy birthday...my parents-in-laws are close friends with him...it was a great time...talked to a vietnam vet about the war in Iraq and some other junk...crazy stuff...

by the way, this Christian rocker who feels bad for Britney Spears should shut the fuck up and mind her own business...why is it that the fundamental aspect of christianity is butting in to everything?!...and does anyone really believe that the transfer of power on June 30th will happen?

excite yo' self

Two days into my vacation and I'm totally psyched to see Europe...this weekend has seen me working on my website and writing some 50 reviews...I drank a lot of beer yesterday and at the late night watched some old school home video footage of my former band Fistagon...dude I had a moustache!...boo, what was I thinking?!

but the footage was hilarious...we were a pretty tight knit group, well at least three of us, our guitarist usually didn't hang out as much although when he did it was a fucking riot...also I was going through some old audio cassettes and stumbled across a tape I made of my answering machine messages...it was pretty fucking funny...old friends and even some girls that I had hooked up with were on that tape...ugh and one of them said "I'll be back tre late"...boo!...I hate that word 'tre'...how retarded...alright now I have to get back to work...is it evil that a part of me wants to check my work e-mail!?

where's the blogger love?

maybe those of you out there reading this could steer me in the right direction to find a nice web stats plug-in for this blog...maybe something similar to webusage...I know I could quite easily write something myself using my web server's weblogs but I'd like decent reporting that I just don't have the time nor energy to put into that kind of project...besides I'm sure there's something out there...and what up with like photo galleries or something?...I might actually write one of those for when I get back in the states after our trip to europe...also why don't you guys go help my charitable cause by buying my site's compilation CD all the money goes towards the ACLU...I'm trying to raise $500 for them this year and having a bitch of a time doing so...plus you get a great CD and good music...help a brother out!

headless apprentice

so I watched full videotape of that nasty beheading...puts things in perspective...and I find it interesting that you really have to search to find info on how much his dad blasted bush and blamed him while the story continues to verve into bizarre concidences and oddities I mean really he met up with terrorist who had connections to Moussaoui??! very strange...some also are even claiming that he could be an Israeli spy I dunno, besides chronwatch is crazy...

dead head

fake propaganda beheading?

I dunno, nothing would surprise me from this administration and the timing was impeccable...

big fish

last night I watched that movie big fish...what a great movie...really showcased good storytelling which in our hyper-tech world has been largely put on hold in favor of speedy bits of non-anecdotal dribble...the stories were great and magical...

came into work today to find that a critical MCI circuit had died and we were unconnected to anything of internet-value...boo! but thankfully now it's fixed and I could check on my fantasy baseball teams lackluster performance...blah..

I'm getting quite psyched for our long-over-due honeymoon that will commence on monday and last for two weeks in lovely (I hope!) europe...so should I like take a picture of myself pissing on Jim Morrison's grave?! it'll be a relief just to be on vacation...lately work has poked me in the pooper royally...tons of work and only two days to complete...and currently we're experiencing back-end issues...yeehaw!

military intelligence blog?

the ultimate irony of military intelligence may have entered the blog world (and are certainly tracking some!) in an effort to make us forget what they've done while making sure that more truth doesn't come out and also didn't the republican's blast clinton for doing the same thing with osama (although it's not true) as bush did with Zarqawi?!?

then again I did hear/see somewhere that http://dearraed.blogspot.com/ was fake too...and isn't that dear forwards and backwards? :)

maybe I should become a hockey fan

I mean they offer cool promotions like unlimited beer!

doesn't the the onion just make you cry? (yes that was a bad jason joke)

san andreas fault

alright screenshots are available for the next grand theft auto game! there's also mad talk on the ign board whooohoo! two exciting things in the space of like an hour!

skinny puppy on tour!

holy shit!!

skinny puppy is on tour in support of their new album...and they have a date at the 9:30 Club!! whoohooo...I'll be attending that for sure!...check out the dates here

where's your anger, where's your fucking rage?

post title inspired by the lovely emo-core Boysetsfire song...but as I was commuting to work through all the hated traffic I just was thinking, where's our rage?! we're so busy trying to calm ourselves and relax ourselves, not wanting to get worked up...we have anger management classes...road rage is sure still a problem as is anger issues via any venue but why is it so unacceptable to get pissed off?!? our country has been stolen by neo-conservative war mongers who wrap themselves in the bible as if that will somehow justify their destruction of one of the best civilizations in modern times...meanwhile they pillage and loot OUR money off of our hard work, sweat, blood, and tears and we see some bastard get his head chopped off because our leaders are fucking morons...and they can't even stand up to OPEC and their oil gouging but maybe it's because they have more targets for us to bomb and steal oil from...but it's not like we can do too much about it since our election will be stolen neatly for us again meanwhile americans are too fucking stupid to realize that these same assholes are slowly killing us...and the sad thing is, the fucking conservatives still don't fucking get it...then again, they're maybe the majority of us really don't get it...or maybe I'm just tweaked because my work ran out of diet coke (and pens, and printer ink, and any sort of supplies!)...

forget 'bout it

just to note some people have been saying that this is the final year of the sopranos, that's not true



also, just to note I must say that the best industrial and IDM remixers of all time have to be Charlie Clouser (remixed everyone from Killing Joke to Nine Inch Nails to Prong to Rob Zombie to even hair band LA Guns!) and Aphex Twin (touched up Nine Inch Nails, Saint Etienne, Wagon Christ, and Philip Glass)...I'm sure I'll think of others but damn...just check out Aphex Twin's "26 Mixes for Cash" -- not only do they have a sense of humor but they've probably put together the best acid lines ever on two consecutive songs on that album (the Flow Coma and Windowlicker remixes)...and if you don't know what an acid line is you might want to go and read up on ishkur's guide...speaking of which, I can't wait till the new Skinny Puppy album comes out May 25th....the greater wrong of the right...buy it....and get "Back and Forth 6" if you haven't already...great album..."scared" is probably one of the more creepier songs they've ever put together...man I miss dwayne goettel! what a genius.

holy poop

documentation was updated at work.

100 shots heard round the world

my buddy's boyfriend works for acclaim and is currently working on a pretty neat looking game called 100 bullets rad huh? he apparantly animated the main characters and some other ones in that game...I wish I had those kinds of skills.

just so you know taco terrorists

you gotta love our "presidents" record dontcha? then again who said Bush doesn't create jobs?? haha just the wrong bad ones

and apparantly our friend's that help out with taco creation support the terrorists but really why eat mexican when you can eat adult happy meals but in all honesty aren't these companies just a bunch of rat bastards?!?! of course we're making sure we train africans to kill terrorists and not let them have a new homebase.



but in reality rummy and bush have built their careers around war and terrorism and have helped push our country into a more fascist regime but I guess we should just just trust 'em and not look at the person behind the curtain or whose making our voting machines tick like a bomb

turmeric

just noticed that apparantly if you eat turmeric it'll help you get wicked smart...so what happens if you eat lamb kababs??

so I'm stumped. why can't I think of this word?! someone offered to write an article for Smother.Net and I was trying to think of what you call that? like a contributor of one story. boo. it's right on the tip of my tongue. don't ya hate that? by the way, I just thought of this, classmates.com is the biggest rip-off ever! I couldn't find or talk to anyone that I actually wanted to get in contact with...fucking bastards. plus they spam the hell out of you. I guess this blog will replace my old one seeing as how it's much nicer and I don't feel like writing my own xml feed...

last night I got to yell at MBNA after those dumb bastards sent me a finance charge bill after I closed my account with them...I closed my account after finding out that they're one of the highest contributors to the republican party. my account was closed out and was supposed to be at zero and I even confirmed that it was nothing but yet they tried to get more of my damn money....oh well