taste it

it's been yeaaars since an update

2006-04-17T16:49:00.000-04:00

that's because I've been playing around with my new blog with Movable Type...it's not too bad but cgi? come on...the interface is less clunky than wordpress any day though the installation was a pain in the ass...so go to my new blog from now on...

'merica fuckin' a yeah!

2006-04-07T17:39:00.000-04:00

chevy style...silly but yet funny...I guess the south park republicans (they do not exist by the way) had to strike back...

more reasons why no one cares about kansas

2006-04-07T08:47:00.000-04:00

these morons who claim that god is killing/maiming our soldiers in iraq and afghanistan because there are gays in the united states...

money quote of stupid:

Another member, Buford Demming, 48, said: "You cannot get any lower than this. Lowest of the low. Even some of the liberal groups, the antiwar crowd, I don't think it would even occur to them to protest at a funeral or someplace like this."

I guess I should feel honored that even I wouldn't think about protesting at a funeral...unless of course it was ronald reagan's (but he was a dick)

Bush and Cheney are under the bus

2006-04-06T13:21:00.000-04:00

because Libby's coming clean...

normally hating traffic!

2006-04-04T16:41:00.000-04:00

Going home alert: 4:23 PM 04/04/06, I-66 Eastbound before Bus. 234/Manassas, Accident: OVERTURNED TRUCK -- DIESEL FUEL SPILLED. TRAFFIC GETS BY ON THE LEFT SHOULDER. WESTBOUND IS SLOW AT RTE 123 AND FROM RTE 28/CENTREVILLE TO THE ACCIDENT.

"bush was right", pop-punk says!

2006-04-04T16:35:00.000-04:00

apparantly Conor Oberst and the New Republic feuded and I have to say that the New Republic as usual looks kind of silly...especially when they link into the lamest political band ever...though admittedly they say it's worse...but really you have to listen to the lyrics of this band, it's so laughable...toby keith for the mall punker who wants to get a ride to school in his balding dad's humvee...

I hate my watch (not really)

2006-04-02T00:46:00.000-05:00

I thought tomorrow (as in monday) was April fool's day...weak...why? because my watch is a day behind because it doesn't inherently know which months have how many days...soooo it was telling me it was like 1964...

new grindcore project, who wants in?

2006-04-01T21:50:00.000-05:00

I want to start a grindcore side project, probably internet-y...it will be called Junkfood John...for obvious reasons...so who wants to help out?

metal wallpaper!

2006-04-01T17:51:00.000-05:00

these is no choice but to change your wallpaper now! to this awesome one by the dude from Rhapsody!

and this time make sure I understand, mmmkay?

2006-04-01T00:06:00.000-05:00

pretty ridiculous...

I'm more metal than you can ever hope to be, maybe?

2006-03-31T20:06:00.000-05:00

from a head-butt. to a cymbal. word. 1995 represent.

If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit.

2006-03-31T15:27:00.000-05:00

"Ronald Reagan? The actor?"

they like me, they really like me!

2006-03-31T09:34:00.000-05:00

The Majestic Twelve is a great little indie band, and they expressed their affections towards my latest review of their new album...yippee!

please don't say Islamofascists anymore

2006-03-30T09:48:00.000-05:00

because you sound like a whiney little pundit that offers nothing more than their own slogans and chestbeating...really a chimp could do better...irony aside.

it's funny when Republicans lie

2006-03-29T13:34:00.000-05:00

and get caught...so a guy who wants to replace a corrupt politican just looks like another wanker...

the robot

2006-03-25T23:31:00.000-05:00

this guy is like liquid

when you can't fight an unconventional war, try to start another one that you think you "won" last time

2006-03-25T08:13:00.000-05:00

America, riddled by horrid mistakes in Iraq, lashes out at Russia...distraction anyone? blame game anyone?

our next president?

2006-03-24T08:46:00.000-05:00

we all hope not

senator I hope you lose

2006-03-23T09:40:00.000-05:00

Lieberman loses his cool and hopefully will lose his race...he's a jerk and a horrible politican...don't you have some videogames to go off and censor?

how evangelicals were for separate of church and state

2006-03-21T18:25:00.000-05:00

this is pretty a interesting look back at what the framers and the evangelicals were thinking back during the formation of our nation...

I need to make this...

2006-03-21T17:50:00.000-05:00

this looks pretty delicious...

bad case of the mondays?

2006-03-20T08:55:00.000-05:00

I definitely woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning...all morning I've been in a shitty mood...it didn't help things when farty mcfartster passed gas a couple of times in his cube...seriously do you really think I don't hear it? don't you notice that I exclaim like each and every time after you do it?...seriously I think I'm at the exploding point!...even a yummy egg and cheese croissant this morning didn't help things...instead now my guts feel ravaged...

the weekend was way too short and filled with lots of work for me...but I got everything I wanted to do done which is great...the nursery is almost complete, the wife will be painting today with some help from her mom and then we just need to get the crib and changing table/dresser and move that all in...FUN! that'll hopefully be all done this weekend...I'm hoping to take at least one day off this week to get all that stuff set up...still lots to do but it's not too bad...

this is going to be a crappy week at work I just can tell already...a bug in my code that I found last week has me frazzled and perplexed and unfortunately the crappy app server that I'm building on doesn't support stepping through your code...ARGH! I know it's just some synchronization problem but I'm not 100% sure where it overwrites badly...oh well, I'm sure it'll get solved eventually.

I'm hoping to be in a better mood by lunchtime...

reese melts in your hand

2006-03-20T07:20:00.000-05:00

I'm not big on sugar but dude!

review storming the castle

2006-03-19T11:32:00.000-05:00

apparantly my review of Darkest Hour's "Undoing Ruin" graces their homepage...rad

Hey WBC, Vince McMahon wants his ideas back

2006-03-19T08:29:00.000-05:00

last night's heavyweight bout was good, especially round two which was probably one of the best rounds I've ever seen in a heavyweight fight...fatso Toney looked like shit in most of the rounds, though he did wail on Rahman a few times real good, but they never hurt Rahman at all...on the flip side, Rahman just dominate throwing I can't remember exactly but something like 300 or 400 more punches...it was clear who won and for it to end up in a draw is some bullshit...typical of when I'd watch wrestling back in the day...Also James Toney you're 37, stop acting like you're 23...and also stop eating so damn much...

CANADA CRUSHES COULTER

2006-03-16T16:28:00.000-05:00

this is pretty funny...ann coulter is a real moron.

I just need a crown

2006-03-14T11:02:00.000-05:00

it's not too late for me to do this with my cds but where would the marksman fit in?...

READY TO DESTROY

2006-03-13T19:09:00.000-05:00

After being home sick today, I feel revitalized. Transgressed. Obnoxious. Anxious even. Hell I don't know. I just want to do. Whatever do is. Do do? I told you I was obnoxious. I just got the latest from Oxbow (read our ridiculously long and thoroughly intriguing interview with them. The album is blowing my hair back. I have yet to watch the DVD that accompanies it but I'm sure it will be equally astounding and astonishing and vibrant and all that jazz.

But back to do. Or doing. Or done. Or something.

This weekend was busy to say the least. We went to Woodbridge and registered at Babies R Us. Then we ate at Fuddruckers (amazing veggie burgers yo!), stopped at Borders where a guy commented on my awesome Transformers shirt (fuck yes yo!), and then bought a videocamera at Best Buy. No I'm not taping any birthing activities. We went to see some friends and eat at the Melting Pot on Saturday which was tasty, exhausting, and crazy and yet ridiculously fun. We stopped by to see my grandmother, dad, my step-mom, my aunt and her boyfriend, and a close family friend after dinner. That was fun too. Then I came home and monitored a move release that was supposed to go out. Nothing crept up but I felt like I should stay up late in case the phone rang. Then 2am came. And I went to bed.

But also the weekend found us clearing out thousands and thousands of jewel cases that enclose the thousands and thousands of CDs I have in my collection. That wasn't very fun. Tedious to say the least. 12 bags of jewel cases now line my street waiting for the garbage man to take them. I'm glad that's done with--sort of. We still have a LOT of work to do.

But back to doing. Done, do, due even. I need to stretch out. And get into something crazy and obscenely different. I guess I'm just in one of those moods--staying home all day and inside on a beautiful day will do that to an individual I suppose. But I do feel better. I want to push myself to crazy limits so that I'm ready for the next chapter in my life that's just around the corner. I want to see how far I can go again, because I've let myself just totally fall apart in the personal category for far too long. It's time to be at 110%. I don't mind if it comes bundled with sleeplessness or anxiety even. I want to be shuddering from lack of true activity. Motionlessly I want to screech out that I've only got fucking 24 hours in a day and that the days and nights and days and nights have to lengthen damn it. I'm sick of my body being sore and old and broken looking. This should be the next dawn of the next era of the next thingamabob!

Or maybe it's all because I'm listening to the new ambient/drone album by Everlovely Lightningheart. And it's exactly the album I wanted to write and record. Only it was done by someone else's hands and hearts and brains. But it's 110% of what I want.

As far as work is concerned that area of my life is going well. Which I'm very grateful for. While I enjoy working hard, I like when it has its rewards and no I'm not talking about monetary. I'm talking about when you do something and feel good about what you're working on. It has its moments of quagmire-dom but for the most part it's delicious and special and what I like to do. So hell yes, and fuck yeah and stuffs.

Now that my stomach is in fifth gear again I think I shall have some dinner and wreck it all to hell and back again. One week from today I need to report back success or failure! Or the hell with me my friends, the hell with me.

Also, this post makes no sense just like the last one didn't either. Stupid stream of conscious nonsense and lack of good editorializing...

fakers piss me off

2006-03-11T23:59:00.000-05:00

especially ones that think sooooo highly of themselves...seriously get over yourself, there's a reason you're in the spot you're in, douche. also, shut up.

I love being 12!

democracy on the web!

2006-03-10T08:27:00.000-05:00

cool video player tivo-esqure thing

I am old

2006-03-08T16:32:00.000-05:00

From: Shelly Collette Mar 8 2006 9:18:25AM
To: ALL
(1) Class of 1996 Reunion

The Class of 1996 Renuion will be on Saturday, June 24, 2006 at the Piccadilly Brewpub in Winchester, Virginia. The cost is $25.00 per person, pay at the door, which includes a DJ, food and an open bar from 8pm-12pm. The room is available if we want to stay longer, however, it then becomes a cash bar. Tell everyone you know about the Reunion and I hope to see you all there. If anyone wants to help or has suggestions or questions, please call me at 703-200-1192.

I have high expectations from corpsegrinder

2006-03-04T21:32:00.000-05:00

in making music to go along with this flash (my use of puns tonight is outstanding!)...

I sure wish...

2006-03-04T18:19:00.000-05:00

that this blog was updated more often (note : not really work safe)

whoa

2006-03-04T07:50:00.000-05:00

might have to get me some of this...but subscription fees!?! BOO!

Dear Kettle

2006-03-03T07:45:00.000-05:00

Dear Kettle,

You're black

Sincerely,

The Pot

but what I really need

2006-03-03T05:13:00.000-05:00

sleep would be great but what I really need is a haircut...man oh man...I practically have bangs and stuff...

oh the work environment

2006-03-02T08:51:00.000-05:00

so as if it's not filthy enough to hear my fellow co-workers hack phlegm into a trash can, whistle, sing (sometimes yes!), use the speaker phone, and burp, occasionally one will let a fart fly on out...wonderful I tell ya...because that's why I chose to work at a corporation so that I could hear some dude pass gas...way to be professional...

The Real Reason Behind the Port Deal

2006-03-01T08:38:00.000-05:00

looks like the the carlyle group has some significant impact with the port deal...of course Bush's father is invested heavily in said group...

this scares me more than any bird flu!

2006-02-28T14:58:00.000-05:00

seriously! because my hands are dry enough already!

"Oh I'm through with women!"

2006-02-26T09:22:00.000-05:00

Don Knotts also died...so these things come in three's who's next?...dead pool anyone?

"I didn't expect them to send a whole damn bowling alley."

2006-02-26T09:21:00.000-05:00

Now this is sad...the dad from A Christmas Story passed away...

A Wild Whirlwind of Wonder!

2006-02-25T13:40:00.000-05:00

The last couple of weeks have been pretty hectic. My brother-in-law came into town to see us from halfway across the globe in South Korea. This past week we went up to New York City and saw the almost 91-year old Les Paul play at the Iridium Jazz Club which was awesome...despite the fact that we had to stand out in the cold for almost half an hour before being allowed in...it was colder than a witch's tit (boobies on witches are wicked cold!) and the amount of cigarette smoke was gross--it also makes me mad since my wife is pregnant and all...but we finally got into the venue and sat down...we were handed menus and told that there was a $15 minimum per person which is bullshit when you consider we spent almost $40 per ticket!...so a couple of glasses of wine later and some cake and Pellegrino for the wife and we were good...the show was fun as Les entertained with some stories of performing in front of FDR and to Ike (President Eisenhower to those of us who never were on a first-name basis) to Richard Nixon whom Mr. Paul said he liked as a friend but never would have voted for him...his backing band has an amazing bassist whose voice and skills were unparalleled...I only wish there was more vocals...Les also invited a tap dancer on stage to perform some percussion along with some of the songs and also some dude that an audience member said "was the best jazz guitar player I've ever heard" so Les called his bluff out and had him jam to two songs...the guy was really good but not a very good singer (that could have been attributed to nerves)...then some jokester from the Howard Stern show got up on stage and told a couple of jokes and did a sort of tribute to Les Paul...quite fun indeed!

we walked around the next day and went to the Sidewalk Cafe which many consider to be the birthplace of the anti-folk movement...the bartender wasn't very friendly at all and was kind of rude actually...she was also either pregnant or liked to carry a spare tire around with her while wearing a sleeveless tank top (YUCK!)...we ate at John's Pizzeria which has been featured on Food Network's special on pizza...but we didn't go to the glitzy Times Square one but the original shop near Bleeker Street in the Village...also we ate some Polish food and went to a Korean restaurant as well...checked out some record stores and of course we had to stop at Strand Used Bookstore with its millions of used books...Tuesday evening we drank some cocktails in the hotel's "bar" I put it in quotes because I don't consider happy hour drinks that cost $8 (but you get your second free!) to make you a bar!...then we met the wife's cousin who is studying copyright law at Columbia and went out to a couple pubs...got some Korean buffet and ate it in the hotel room super late like drunken sailors on leave!...on Wed's we woke up early and made the long trek back home...we drove so it was a bit cramped with five people in one car but no big deal...managed to miss almost all traffic except for when we got closer to virginia with some bad traffic on 95 and the beltway as always...

thursday was a pretty chill day as the wife had to work and I got up early to write some reviews for Smother...wrote some 100 or so reviews and then started to post them finishing all that up on Friday...our friends from out of town came in on Friday morning and we all hung out last night after a great dinner was made (Baked Ziti! Garlic Bread!) and eaten by all...got to meet my friend's fiance who was quite nice and very tall...he's a videogame animator who is currently working on the new Jet Li game so we obviously had some things in common...now what you ask?

I'm hoping there's some boxing on television tonight...packaged up to throw out about 400 CDs and more are coming on that tip...it'll be interesting to see how many CDs out of nearly 6,000 I have left and remaining after I clean out my collection of crap I'll never listen to...predictions?

also if check out what I've been listening to lately...fun!

the last of the famous international playboys?

2006-02-24T13:23:00.000-05:00

Morrissey was recently questioned by British intelligence and the FBI after speaking out against the war in Iraq...personally I think The Smiths are/were a little bit better than his solo stuff...I need to get more of their stuff...someone hook a brutha up...

DOWNLOAD SOME MUSIC NOW

2006-02-24T12:40:00.000-05:00

the fantastic new album by Jenny Lewis (girl from Rilo Kiley!) and the Watson Twins is available for free...here's what I had to say about the album...

none of your!

2006-02-24T12:38:00.000-05:00

this should be a real website...

clearly I was inebriated

2006-02-24T12:10:00.000-05:00

because that post doesn't make a whole lot of sense! though I do have this notion that I should cleanse my self and sort of get back to being a vegetarian full-time and knock out eating fish too...not that I've really eaten a lot of meat lately but I have fallen off the edge a bit...doh!

our friends got into town around 6:30am so we had to wake up around 7am so me staying up till 2am was a bad idea...hopefully soon I'll be hitting up guitar center and trying my damnest not to spend more than $20...

later than hell's angels to a motorcycle rally...

2006-02-24T01:57:00.000-05:00

like really really FUCKING late...seriously it hasn't been this long in a w long time and stuff...I'm almost there (well a few months I guess), almost away in that Friday evening airhorn for quitting time. Those guys know how to live, it's all fucking whiskey, beers, beef stew, and rotted guts for whom mere depths of ingenuity are rarely required and often cast aside. also I have a flickr account now and a last.fm one...make sure you join up and let this whole web 2.0 just rattle with impending excitement and stuffs...

hell on the original note:

I've gotta get this crazy fun in now...I think next week I'll be cleasning my entire body of improperness and I might even fast!...seriously my internal guts are a miss and my innermost lifestyle is following suit, albeit a quick soaring harmonious one and stuffs...

ps. this post is intentionally dumb.

dedicated to the wife?

2006-02-23T18:36:00.000-05:00

You're Pregnant, So I Kicked You In The Stomach

I THOUGHT YOU WERE A FAT CHICK
THEN I REALIZED YOU WERE PREGNANT
I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUNNY IF YOUR BABY DIED
SO I KICKED YOU IN THE STOMACH

I KICKED YOU, YOUR BABY'S DEAD
I KICKED YOU, YOUR BABY'S DEAD
I KICKED YOU, YOUR BABY'S DEAD
HA HA HA YOUR BABY'S DEAD

THERE WHERE NO STAIRS TO THROW YOU DOWN
THERE WAS NO ROOF TO THROUGH YOU OFF
THERE WAS NO COAT HANGERS AROUND
SO I KICKED YOU IN THE STOMACH

I KICKED YOU, YOUR BABY'S DEAD
I KICKED YOU, YOUR BABY'S DEAD
I KICKED YOU, YOUR BABY'S DEAD
HA HA HA YOUR BABY'S DEAD

there's reasons that hell has an open door...but dude, Anal Cunt RULES...

whoa!

2006-02-23T15:12:00.000-05:00

Sixth-grader Collin Wyler shows his winning form as he sings the 1975 Styx ballad “Lady” during the first “Bulldog Idol” competition at James Wood Middle School in Winchester on Wednesday. The production, patterned after the “American Idol” television show, featured nine students chosen by their classmates to reach the final round.

It's a damn good thing I don't live in the Winchester area anymore...

let's hear it for open redirects on google

2006-02-19T15:04:00.000-05:00

Google has an open redirect on their server that phishers are now exploiting to misdirect users to their sites where they steal your information. How does the phisher do it?

Using a url formed like this:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=dict&q=http://www.somebadwebsite.com

Open redirects were made popular in this practice even more so quite recently when it was discovered they were doing this on via the IRS site. Pretty lame if you ask me...but it's hilarious that it happened to google who no doubt will fix this as quickly as they did with the 302 redirects that harvested and stole content from other sites...

the wife would not sign

2006-02-17T12:03:00.000-05:00

I'm horribly resigned to admit that my wife wouldn't sign this...even if I doubled the Good Behavior Days!

dick cheney can't hold his beer

2006-02-16T18:15:00.000-05:00

yeah he was drinking at the time...what a jerk!

I'm switching

2006-02-12T11:56:00.000-05:00

to just water, v8, and beer

fucka snow

2006-02-11T11:45:00.000-05:00

why is it always near my anniversary that it seems to want to dump a lot of snow...I got married three years ago in one of the worst storms this year has had...last few weeks it managed to get into the 50's and even the '60's...I was hoping that would continue...which was one of the only benefits of global warming...but NOOOO...boo.

I dunno about that whole Earth and Sun thing man!

2006-02-10T11:19:00.000-05:00

$1000 to the first who can prove that the Earth revolves around the Sun! I wonder what proof they offer in regards to their religion!? Do they think their proof meets their rigorous challenges of:

“By "proof" we mean that your explanations must be direct, observable, physical, natural, repeatable, unambiguous and comprehensive. We don't want hearsay, popular opinion, "expert" testimony, majority vote, personal conviction, organizational rulings, superficial analogies, appeals to "simplicity," "apologies" to Galileo, or any other indirect means of persuasion which do not qualify as scientific proof.”

it's a slippery slope folks, a slippery slope...because if your faith is your religion that's fine, but it works both ways, if a bible or koran even is an acceptable amount of proof of jesus and god and muhammad and all of that, then it goes that scientific evidence should suffice those who believe that the earth revolves around the sun...I mean, I know I'm being all loony and all but damn if these folks don't give religion a bad name!

Porter Goss's op-ed in the New York Times failed to mention...

2006-02-10T11:09:00.000-05:00

anything about the Plame case while he derails those who reveal classified secrets, lamblasting the use of "whistleblowers"...sorry all the press assaults that this administration will unleash upon us doesn't change the fact that what this administration was doing with secret wiretaps is illegal and an egregious slap in the face of our civil liberties...to curtail the importance of the Foreign Intelligence Survellance Court is just disgusting and a clear abuse of power...I hate the direction our country has taken amid people's fear of another 9/11...and the fact that Bush came out and said that he stopped another attack is hubris that seems all to conveniently timed...

books, music, kin, and work

2006-02-10T09:27:00.000-05:00

I just finished reading "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk, yes the guy who wrote the novel that became the movie "Fight Club"...it was a strange book but a good one nonetheless...I really didn't know how on earth it was going to end until the very end...his books are usually quite gritty and very graphic both of which are key ingredients to make me go "YES!"...I'm a slow reader and an absentminded one...in fact I've been reading this one book for the past five years...it's a bit heavier though...I'd like to read another one of Chuck's books but I'm not sure which one to go after next...or maybe I should read something entirely different or finish some of the other books I've started!

musically, I'm still rockin' out with my awesome bandmates...I want to work on some solo material under dRed again...this time up, it's going to be an ambient drone album...also I still want to make a crazy grindcore album that doesn't use guitars but instead just keyboards, with ridiculous amounts of distortion...what all this amounts to be is that I really need to get a good digital recorder...something that can hold more than five minutes worth of freakin' music...

this afternoon my brother in law comes into town from south korea...it'll be great to see him and see his reaction when he sees how pregnant his sister is...it's really incredible to see how much her belly has grown, I'm just dying to meet the little guy inside!...I'll be leaving work a bit early (!!!) and going to pick him up from the airport this afternoon...maybe we'll eat some mexican food and have some laughs and talk about fuck-all...this weekend I'll be having band practice and on sunday going to some wack play since it's my mother-in-law's birthday...

work wise, I've been strugging to get our new app server to work with all of my build scripts, and to work in general...SunOne is amazing stupid to work with...it's clunky and often doesn't make much rudimentary sense, like why you should have to bounce the DAS before you can stop the cluster after you've done a deploy...it's just total lunacy to the max! I'm really looking forward to working on the main project I should be working on right now...hopefully I won't be tied into getting this ridiculous piece of crap to work for forever, otherwise I will cry...and these will be rivers of pained tears...I mean, rivers...

just recently I got back in touch with a long lost buddy and former awesome guitar playing god for fistagon...it's cool to hear from him and that he's doing well...it's crazy to think of how different I was back then...now I'm, um, much more laid back (?!?)...dunno about that...but I certainly drink a helluva lot less and am naked a LOT less...no more crazy barrelling through a room totally buck naked anymore for me...whew!

also I'll be getting rid of a crapload of my CDs soon...I'd like to cut my collection in half which should be somewhat easy to do since there's a bunch of stuff I'll probably never listen to again...I also will have to be changing the whole review policy on smother...I'm tired of writing 120 reviews every couple of weeks...and soon with the baby coming, I won't have the time...I'd rather spend half the time on just the CDs that I think are good...also I need to finally set up that band section on my site before I get too busy to do it...damn this became a long post...whatever!

digg the flavr of groupr

2006-02-10T09:20:00.000-05:00

The members of my band Mir are some talented folks that have brought flickr a new app called Groupr which I totally dugg...

those guys are making me feel like a tremendous underachiever...but it's still refreshing to note that I have higher page rank than say corpsegrinder could hope for!!! hahaha just kidding corpsey!

in the era of text messaging

2006-02-08T10:29:00.000-05:00

do kids still even do this anymore?!?!

yeah I won't be going back to being a meat-atarian

2006-02-04T15:57:00.000-05:00

I'll just think about how I couldn't finish this documentary...

my glasses just broke

2006-02-04T12:21:00.000-05:00

they were bent and fucked up...they just broke...fucking have tape on them. it would be cool if it was on the front, but no it's on the fucking side...damn it. I hate glasses...stupid blindness.

I wish I had said...

2006-02-04T10:24:00.000-05:00

A guy called just a moment ago from some polling agency, wanting to take down my thoughts about some news nonsense. I didn't really feel like talking so I blew him off by saying I didn't have the time right now. He replied:

When would be a better time?

and I should have said:

March 13th, 2015

But I didn't, I just hung up on the poor bastard. Now my day is fucking ruined. Lesson learned.

insanely busy to the max

2006-02-02T17:39:00.000-05:00

my job has been consuming my entire life for the past couple of weeks (and weekends)...it's a bit stressful but this week wasn't as bad as the last two...there's just so many projects and craziness going on all at the same time that we all look like scared lambs going into the slaughter...but it's all good...on Monday we had a big broo-haha meeting and they gave away a bunch of awards and amazingly (and surprisingly!) enough I won the coveted CEO Award...it was very nice and incredibly (blush blush) humbling to be nominated by folks even outside of my department...besides the sweet picture with me and the Champ (our CEO), there's a six day spa resort stay that I won AND as if that's not enough a big fat $5000 bonus...whoa!...but sadly that money will be repurposed to use to pay my taxes since we fell into the lump of having to actually pay...damn you uncle scam!...seriously that totally blows...dual incomes rock but not when you find out that tax cuts for the wealthy don't include you and indeed you'll be paying more than say Paris Hilton...sonofabitch...I'm looking forward to band practice for the first time in forever this weekend...that should be amazing...unfortunately the last couple of weekends I've had to work which sucks to the maximum...in another couple of weeks my brother in law comes home from south korea which should be awesome...we have some stuff planned including going up to new york city...

but besides that can you believe my 3 YEAR anniversary is like 2/14 which is only a couple of weeks away?! that coupled with the fact that I will be having a baby and I'm going to be 28, I'm like feeling old...my bet is that by this time next year I will have gray hairs...and also a propensity for crying...

How Rude!

2006-02-02T17:37:00.000-05:00

doing meth is NOT rude!

No, You're the Best Mr. Joe Esposito

2006-01-29T09:04:00.000-05:00

You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you dow-ow-ow-ow-own

normally getting psyched!

2006-01-28T16:58:00.000-05:00

Barney's Get Psyched Mix should continue the excitement!

1) YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME - Jonathan B. Jovi
2) THE HUMPTY DANCE - Digital Underground
3) COME SAIL AWAY - Stix
4) DON'T STOP BELIEVIN' - Journey
5) THE TRANSFORMERS THEME SONG - O. Prime
6) YOU'RE THE BEST AROUND - Joe Esposito
7) HIGH ENOUGH - Damn Yankees
8) JESSIE'S GIRL - Rick Springfield
9) ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE - The Scorpions
10) HIP HOP HOORAY - Naughty by Nature
11) CHANGE OF HEART - Tom Petty
12) RUN AWAY - Slade

the worst story in the history of the universe

2006-01-27T08:46:00.000-05:00

"The accident Wednesday, which also killed two young relatives, cast a pall over this small town of about 2,000 people in northern Florida. After hearing of the accident, Barbara Mann's grief-stricken father suffered a heart attack and died."

read more

I'm sure that our wonderfully sensitive media will not exploit this. I mean it's not like a "runaway bride", terry schiavo, etc.

I mean it's not as if there's any real news stories to cover like, you know a war based on lies, corrupt politicians, outing of a CIA agent, the failure of the government on almost all levels to help its citizens from mother nature, the Bush administration spying on its citizens illegally, or the nomination of a man bent on breaking precedent and hellishly wanting to wreck havoc on the legislative branch to the supreme court...I mean, dude, there's HUMAN EMOTIONS TO EXPLOIT!

lamarocket's belt buckle got pwn3d!

2006-01-26T16:58:00.000-05:00

by an LED...

don't be disappointed in me that I actually love this video

2006-01-26T16:29:00.000-05:00

I mean I have a feeling too and that feeling is that I absolutely love gay house with or without KIT...

he was great...

2006-01-26T15:55:00.000-05:00

Chris Penn dying totally sucks...I loved him in "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas", "True Romance", of course "Reservoir Dogs", and "One Tough Cop" among others...totally sucks man...

dude's even Napalm Death belongs to PETA

2006-01-25T09:29:00.000-05:00

when napalm death is in PETA you feel worse about breaking edge a couple of times even if it's in the span of well over a year and a half...I mean RIVERS OF BLOOD!

it's about time

2006-01-24T11:45:00.000-05:00

wow, gmail, I know you guys thought you were cute by not having delete buttons for so long ya know because you just offer SOOOO much space, but dude, it was about freakin' time already...

not farmer ted, but dead grandma fred

2006-01-21T19:09:00.000-05:00

it's sad that he died...

nicole richie gets ironic

2006-01-21T18:24:00.000-05:00

talking about not flashing when flashing is awesome...seriously this is fucking genius at work...now only if she HAD something to flash...in other words, Nicole, we're telling you that we called the GNC and had them FedEx you some fucking vitamins...preferrably Vitamin F and E for "FUCKING EAT"

Joe Theisman is the governor of West Virginia

2006-01-21T17:16:00.000-05:00

also I had no idea that Joe Theisman was the governor of West Virginia...

Hi, I'm 2006

2006-01-21T17:04:00.000-05:00

and I'm questioning why we still have people in mines?...oh that's right, we like cheap products and energy...so for everyone who is mournful for the latest media obsession, keep that in mind. it's partly your fault.

the "liberal" media strikes again

2006-01-21T15:49:00.000-05:00

you know because the Washington Post is certainly a leftwing organization bent on the destruction of Reaganites and Hawks everywhere...I mean, there's just so much proof

how the republicans will win in 2006

2006-01-21T15:08:00.000-05:00

they're gonna pull some bullshit move and capture Osama Bin Laden...what do you want to bet? I think he's still a CIA asset!

The EndFest

2006-01-20T19:08:00.000-05:00

back in the day, there was everything blah blah "fest"...I hated it...I'm pretty sure all my band buddies hated it...it was dumb...generic, over used, and blatantly lame...I mean, come on...be creative...oh that's right there were creative folks...they called things blahblah-palooza...because if you're too cool to use "fest" as the suffix, obviously "palooza" is the next best thing...that's why when I put on a concert it was merely called "Freedom for Burma"...no fest, no palooza...nothing more than what it fucking was...stop marketing your shows...people can say other words, I promise...unless of course the below post is more true than I realized and then I just am scared for humanity...

I'm getting this t-shirt

2006-01-20T18:40:00.000-05:00

Why did Bush have a 90% approval rating after 9/11?

2006-01-20T18:27:00.000-05:00

After one of the biggest intelligence and competency failures of our modern age, why did Bush have such a high approval rating? Was it because the "nation was united" and "behind our President"? Was it because Bush delivered stirring speeches? Was it that we were shocked that our great nation could be held emotionally hostage and violently assaulted by a rag-tag group with box cutters? No. It's because even college students are fucking stupid...I mean, maybe I shouldn't be surprised that a nation with huge federal deficits doesn't understand basic checkbook math...but not knowing how much to tip the guy at Olive Garden?...give me a fucking break. But I bet they know all the lyrics to that fucking milkshake song and they know all about the runaway bride and what's going on in the various myriad of "reality" shows...fuck americans. and fuck reaganites (sorry that's due to an annoying cspan radio show that told me how "right reagan was" and that the last quarter of a century was all about how reagan was "right")...cough, gag, sputter.

anyone still wondering where the supreme court's slant is?

2006-01-18T09:26:00.000-05:00

anybody?

OK, so this is pretty cool

2006-01-18T09:05:00.000-05:00

try it out

We respect life, because we'll kill you later when society says it's ok!

2006-01-18T07:52:00.000-05:00

"At no point are we not going to value the sanctity of life," said prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon. "We would resuscitate him," then execute him.

makes tons of sense to me.

normally seeing this?

2006-01-16T12:10:00.000-05:00

ultraviolet?

oh wacka wacka COUGH COUGH

2006-01-16T12:07:00.000-05:00

disturbed's singer suffers from vocal problems, doesn't realize that it's just his voice.

Europe rules!

2006-01-16T10:19:00.000-05:00

Europe is an amazing band, I mean dude, there's FIRE ON STAGE. be sure to sing along...

The Final Countdown:

We're leaving together
But still it's farewell
And maybe we'll come back
To earth, who can tell
I guess there is no one to blame
We're leaving ground (leaving ground)
Will things ever be the same again
It's the final countdown...
The final countdown
Ooh oh

We're heading for Venus (Venus)
And still we stand tall
Cause maybe they've seen us
And welcome us all (yeah)
With so many light years to go
And things to be found (to be found)
I'm sure that we'll all miss her so
It's the final countdown...
The final countdown
The final countdown (the final countdown)
Ooh ooh oh

blah

2006-01-16T08:53:00.000-05:00

I'm having a blah morning...my poor wife is home sick because my son is kicking up a ruckus in her guts...the weekend soared by and I don't feel like I really accomplished much of anything...mostly the wife was sick all weekend off and on and that's not good...we did get our direct tv set up and so far so good, though I have to complain that the HD Tivo dvr/receiver from direct tv was made by a dumby, why would you have USB ports and not allow folks to use them in conjunction with their wireless network? so why do I have to wait around on Weds morning so that Verizon can come and install a phone outlet in basement? because Direct TV is retarded with their receivers...also my old tivo won't recognize the direct tv box...why you ask? because they want you to use THEIR boxes...jerks...hmm, maybe I'll do some work online today...

oh and I hate that the redskins lost but at least tom "brat" brady and his dumb patriots got whupped up...all in all, a horrible weekend of nfl officiating...boo!

would you publish the al-jazeera memo?

2006-01-15T13:03:00.000-05:00

I know I would...

boy that's a lot of stars

2006-01-14T15:36:00.000-05:00

I'll be actively watching this...

places I would never move

2006-01-13T16:32:00.000-05:00

here even now.

acid and rocket launchers don't mix

2006-01-12T05:36:00.000-05:00

even if you're British

move on you hypocrites

2006-01-11T10:16:00.000-05:00

I have to admit, that this article about MoveOn.org's lame posture on the war is totally right...that's precisely why I don't say that I'm a democrat...sure when it comes down to voting, I probably will vote democratic but it's only because I'm faced with little choice...I voted for the very liberal Leslie Byrne in Virginia in both the primary and the general election and was amazed that someone as liberal as she was, was able to garner such a high vote...listen if you want to call yourself liberal, you have to actually walk the walk...jerks!

That's it

2006-01-09T11:42:00.000-05:00

All I'm going to listen to for the next week will be prog-rock...deal with it.

corpsegrinder, I'll assume that

2006-01-09T11:19:00.000-05:00

you've already read this...

Mormons, one letter away from Morons

2006-01-08T15:27:00.000-05:00

a Utah movie theatre decided not to show Brokeback Mountain... why? because they're fucking homophobic assholes that accept freaks that marry multiple people and believe in seer stones...plus they believe that blacks can't be priests cuz you know they're wicked and shit...Southpark had it right...and don't get me started on the fucking catholics...organized religion can lick my balls, fucking powercrazy dildos...now it's time to go watch some fucking football, I hope tiki barbers leg gets broken, TWICE...IN A ROW

Dear "Pink",

2006-01-08T10:59:00.000-05:00

no one fucking cares...the merger of worthless (he was on the fucking surreal life, give me a break) and more worthless results in the biggest yawn of indifference...

shut up you don't have fucking OCD

2006-01-08T10:51:00.000-05:00

I really hate the inclination that everyone has to drop the word "OCD" about pretty much anything...just because you like things clean and proper doesn't mean you have fucking OCD...just because you THINK you obsessive over something minute doesn't mean you have fucking OCD...you want to know what real OCD is? go to a mental health clinic and find the person whose hands are so worn down from compulsive hand washing that you can see the bone...seriously people, shut up...it's soooo American to claim some disorder or problem that doesn't exist...like depression, people wailing "oh I'm soooo depressed"...really? then jump off a fucking bridge or put your head in a fucking oven and act like you're REALLY depressed and stop talking because you're wasting our time

I'm just saying...

drunk text messages rule

2006-01-06T19:23:00.000-05:00

well, normally they do...I better hear about +4 drinks consumed or I'll be sore!!!

Having a dude.

2006-01-06T14:45:00.000-05:00

Yesterday the wife and I went and got an ultrasound...we found out we're having a little boy...I'm stoked...he clapped (I'm serious) during the ultrasound and I'm like totally positive he waved the metal sign...he was putting on a total show...just like his old man...anyways, it really sank in even deeper that I'm going to be a dad...and there's no truth that we'll name him Luke just so I can say "LUKE I AM YOUR FATHER"...so lock up your daughters, because my son will be a booty magnet!