Mother Fuckin' Wicked

I've actually been kind of buys lately. I know weird, right? I've actually have a job (sort of)and I've been helping out the folks with some home improvements that they decided could wait for the 8 months I was gone at school to do. Oh well.

I never thought I would say this, but I actually am liking this whole work and do shit thing that I've heard so much about but have never really gotten around to until now. It's a good feeling.

Speaking of good feelings, Busted Tees has released something that must have come straight from the gods: The Octabong Look at this bastard!

If that doesn't say fun for all ages, I don't know what does.

While we're on the topic of good feelings, Sigur Ros are about to release a new album in late June and they've released the first track from it entitled Gobbledigook. Check it out at sigurros.com. it's free.

On a final note, I ended up going to the movies three times in three days last week.

I wasn't planning on going to any movies, but I got a call from Jeff saying that Speed Racer had it's last showing on Thursday and I knew what I had to do. Even though it tanked hard with audiences, I had to see it and Jeff was nice enough to give me a ride to the theaters. All I can say is wow. That film was designed for children under 13, people old enough to have enough nastalga for the old tv show, and people who do drugs. It was a constant barage of bright colors and patterns that are more commonly found on the iTunes visualizer, but the film managed to hold my attention for two hours.

On Friday night, I got a call from Megan (or was it Cameron?) saying that the drive in theatre on 371 was opened again and they were showing Transformers and Live free or Die Hard. I've seen Transformers at least 15 times, but I never thought I would ever see a film at a drive in so I thought I would check it out with Megan, Cameron, and Paige. The picture was great and the audio came from the radio (crazy science) and it was an enjoyable experience. Not sure when I'll go again, but it was still a good experience.

My journey to waste all my money of movies was completed on Saturday when I watched Indiana Jones IV with Jeff. I know a lot of people are giving it a lot of shit for being cheesey and for going over the top too many times and all I can say is yeah, they did cheese it up and they did go way over the top (all I can say is the scene with the monkeys= What the fuck were they thinking). It also was an entertaining film that made me remember why Indiana Jones is such a bad ass even though he's probably a member of AAPR. Check it out, what's the worst that could happen? you might have a good time long enough to forget that it costs $4 a gallon and you live 20 minutes out of town.

Walls

I've been sitting on this video for about a week now and just remembered about it because I'm listening to the Walls EP from The Red Paintings. Enjoy above or under the influence.

Semifinals Part 1 of 2

Round 2 (finally)

Black Label Society vs. Rage Against The Machine



The battle of the bands have been suspended for the past few months because of the difficulty in finding where the hell Zakk Wylde went after his previous fight. It was discovered that his band mates were unable to be found because they were doing a gig in a prison in New Jersey similar to what Johnny Cash did, but were mistaken for prisoners because of all their tattoos and beards. They’ve been in the hole for the past 4 months for, “back talk” and, “touching” after repeatedly being told, “No touching”. Instead of having both bands meet at a designated site to fight, it has been determined that it would be much easier to just have Rage meet up wherever Wylde is because it would be impossible the other way around. That said, the location for today’s fight is an abandoned playground near Chernobyl.

Zach de la Rocha and Tom Morello decide that they are going to try to sit this fight out in order to save themselves for the next round because they are quite confident in their “BAMF” abilities and decide to watch from a safe distance. This only takes place because of the insistences of drummer Brad Wilk and bassist Tim Commerford who think they are ready to go to work on a stammering Zakk Wylde attempting to fit into a child swing set. Instead of just hitting him in the back of the head with a brick or one of the dirty needles littering the playground, Wilk and Commerford decide to toy with Wylde and begin pushing him on the swing in an attempt to make him sick and just pass out thereby avoiding a lot of conflict. Well, instead of making him pass out, the pushing just manages to get Wylde to come to his senses (at least to one of them if blind rage counts as a sense) and he begins thrashing around in the swing set causing it to buckle under the stress. One of the poles that support the swing set bursts free and impales Wilk in the thigh in a freak accident that you would only encounter in the Ukraine. With Wilk pinned to the ground and quickly bleeding out Tim Commerford decides that he needs to get to work and grabs Zakk by the collar and begins head butting him repeatedly. This goes on for a solid 45 seconds until Commerford falls over due to auto-blunt force trauma to his forehead and slumps to the ground.

Zach de la Rocha and Tom Morello see what’s happening and realize they need to step in but soon realize they can’t. They were watching from too safe a distance and the picnic table that they were sitting on and watching from was in fact a giant spent fuel rods that were removed from the power plant. Shitty, right? Well anyways, radiation sickness takes hold and both are dead within 4 minutes.

WINNER - Black Label Society


Round 2

Muse vs. Radiohead



This is the fight for the United Kingdom. Both bands have earned quite a reputation and are known for their ability to rock the fuck out. For years though, there has been criticism of Muse for being Radiohead knockoffs and they aim to put that to rest today because they’re hoping that there will no Radiohead to knockoff. On the other side of the fight, Radiohead have proven to be industry pioneers for years now and figure that adding another count of murder by duel would be a hell of a way to blaze some new trails. The location of today’s battle is Stonehenge.

Both bands meet up on time at the ancient site and agree to shake hands on the understanding that whoever wins has to hold a bad ass concert that night at Stonehenge just for the sake of playing a concert at Stonehenge. This ends up being such a great idea in the members of Muse’s eyes that they decide they really want to play there that night and release it as a sequel to their last live album H.A.A.R.P. Once both bands walk to their side of the circle inside Stonehenge, Matthew Bellamy and bassist Christopher Wolstenholme pull out their Tec 9’s and shoot Radiohead right there.

WINNER - Muse

Two-Headed Boy?

I've been struggling with the problem of where I want to go next year.

I've been accepted to UW Madison and I can't figure out if I want to transfer there from Concordia or not. I've got strong reasons for both places and I am sort of interested in what other people think.

Thoughts, ideas, comments?

anything?

Such a Pretty House

I enjoy Burger King, but I guess Burger King doesn't enjoy me.

I went to eat there for the first time in about 3 or 4 months yesterday with Nick and got two of my favorite burgers; the Rodeo and the Whopper Jr. I guess that's where I fucked up.

The rest of the day I had some of the most intense gut-rot/heartburn I've had in over a year and the odd thing is I'm not a 65 year old high powered fortune 500 executive so I have no business having heartburn or a possible ulcer. I ended up falling asleep around 3:30 and waking up at 5:40 this morning because I think my body eventually gave up and just shut down.

We didn't have any Pepto Bismal at the house so I ended up pounding a shit ton of tums all night. I counted it all up and I took 44 tums last night. Awesome.

Karma?

Awake

Phrase: Girl Talk

Definitions:
1. A heart to heart talk between two individuals
2. Crazy ass DJ and pseudonym of Gregg Gillis.

It has become something of a normal occurrence for a DJ or some dude in his basement with GarageBand and some free time to combine two (or possibly three) songs into one creating a mashup. I'm not saying that they aren't sweet or ingenious, it's just that most of the time they consist of only two tracks with similar bpm and get put together.

Girl Talk doesn't stop at two songs (or three or four) when he's mashing it all up. What Gillis does is he combines upwards of 10 to 20 different songs, chops them to pieces, and throws them all together into one cohesive song. What's odd about this is how well it all blends together and doesn't seem forced. He doesn't add a single note to any of the songs he puts together; it's all samples.

Check out his stuff on his myspace and just try to pick out all the samples in each song, because after a while it becomes a little addicting after a while and the complexity of each song goes up just a little bit.

If each song is just a bunch of samples, can he call an album he releases as something entirely his own, or is it all other peoples music? oh well.

Fun fact - his 2006 album "Night Ripper" consisted of over 150 samples and clocked in at only 42:05. wow.

I like my coffee black like I like my metal

I wasn't too sure as to what I would be doing my first week off of school, but I had a pretty good idea. I guessed that I would sleep far more than any normal person should (check) and play a GTA IV until it became a little bit sad (check (tear)). By the way, GTA IV is the shit.

While I've been doing said activities, I also found this. All I can say is that this is one of those websites where if you end up on it you should just give up. I guess it's kind of like ending up on the sexual predator website only you don't end up on Dateline NBC.

Oh god, this is just as bad if not worse. I have to wonder just how high these guys were when they decided to actually be ripped out of their fucking head's to the point of wanting to use someone else's. yeah

My Voice Just Echoes on these Walls

It has been a hell of a week.

Finished finals on Thursday. From Saturday up until Thursday, I had managed to rack up something like 10 hours of sleep. I don't want to sound like a pansy, but that fuckin sucked. It was all good though. I did alright (I think) on my Biology final which is alright, but as far as Spanish goes, I might as well have been a part of a pillow party. It was bad, but I'm done with Spanish forever.
and ever
and ever.
Oh, I managed to score in the 97th percentile in my Chemistry final bringing my grade from an 89.8 to 94.1. Sweet.

I bought GTA IV on thursday and it's everything that people have said it is and somehow more. I've only begun to scratch the surface of the game, but all I really can say is wow. I find myself looking at the skyline while on missions sometimes because it's so beautiful. check it out if you get a chance.

I went to the U of M to visit an old friend, Megan over the weekend. It ended up being a really good time which I was prepared for. I'm pretty sure I'll post more about this later.
Highlight - going to "Hell's Kitchen" and buying a ham and cheese sandwich with little cut up pieces of pear in it.

Really quick, Trent mother fucking Reznor, being the mother fuckin person he is, just released ANOTHER album tonight (that's why I'm up) for free on his website. I know that there becomes a point when people just realize, "shit dude, i'm loaded", but this is getting to be rediculus. There isn't even an option to pay for it. There isn't even a donation link. He's pushing releasing a half dozen albums in a two year span. I'll give my thoughts on the album when I'm able to listen to it with some nice headphones.

God damn Iron Man is tits. That's about all I've got to say on the topic along with my opinion that it's the best superhero film since Batman Begins and is in my top 3 for superhero films although I'm not sure where. check it out.