Hi Doggie

I keep thinking that each post will be my last, but I can't help but keep putting on stupid ass videos. Maybe that's what this blog will be from now on.

When I say I watched this clip over 20 times I am saying that with zero hyperbole. Daft Punk have been one of my favorite bands for as long as I've listened to music and the little bits of their new album that they have been sharing is making me happier than I can explain.

Just watch it.

A Feast For Crows

The new Bowie song/video is amazing. I'm way more excited for this album than I was a few days ago.

I have a question.

Alright, I have a question for anybody to respond to. I'm clearly not the person to talk to about pop music outside of some Arcade Fire, The Killers circa 2000, and The National, (but could one argue that none of them are really pop with the exception of The Killers?) I feel bad sometimes for making my love of metal and shitty indie/alternative/electronic music overwhelm this blog sometimes. As a result I really don't listen to the radio outside of NPR and the local college radio station and former beacon for our very own Mr. Day.

Let me get off my pretentious asshole horse for a second because I really do have a question. Because I don't listen to the radio, I really have no grasp on the overall musical landscape outside my small bubbles of influence I expose myself to which leads me to my question. I've really taken a liking to Florence + The Machine lately and I really have no idea how to react. Regardless of how they fit in the big picture, the band moves me so it doesn't really matter that this is easily the most feminine music I've probably listened to... ever maybe? And I'm totally fine with that.

My question is, what was the consensus of how their music is looked at when they were more of a big deal? Are they a slightly weirder Adele or did you guys not really check them out when they apparently broke big? Anyways, long story short check them out. They have some fantastic songs that are sublimely enjoyable.



p.s. this was written on my phone so please excuse any odd formatting.

I did not.

I went down that rabbit hole that is House of Cards. It's the new series on Netflix starring Kevin Spacey and it's fucking brilliant. It's made up of 13 episodes and in true Netflix binge mode, all 13 were put up at the same time which means I watched every episode in 3 sittings... I have no regrets. It's hard to explain anything about it without giving too much away, but it's about Spacey's character who's a representative for the Democrats, but he's totally fucking conniving and evil in the best way possible to get what he wants. Please, if you have Netflix, watch it.

Here's my new background because why not? http://wallbase.cc/wallpaper/600128

There has been more going on in my life and there is a good chance I'll probably do another post at some point tonight... Maybe. I've gotta wrap this up because even though I'm 23, I'm super excited about the Sony press conference that's about to happen that'll (probably?) announce the next Playstation. Super pumped.

Between Two Ferns: Oscar Buzz Edition Part 1 from Zach Galifianakis      

I will at some point do a legitimate update soon. There's quite a bit going on in my life, but I just haven't gotten around to putting it up on the web. Maybe this weekend? I don't know.

Anyways, this is a pretty awesome video.

Thank You Zombie Jesus

The holiday Steam sale is scheduled to start tomorrow. Time to blow not much money for quite a few games.

Cards Against Humanity

I'll level with everybody. I get quite a bit of my entertainment from Giant Bomb, a video game website. Their weekly podcast is usually 3 hours long and I make it a point to listen to it the day it comes out because it's just stupid funny and I have come to really respect their opinions. But my favorite part about the website is their quick looks in which they record themselves playing games and they provide commentary over the top. It's sort of like a video review, but not really. Sometimes I find that while watching a video I see that they're enjoying themselves so I consider picking up said game whenever it goes on sale (because fuck paying full price.) Anyways, I also enjoy these quick looks because sometimes they just brighten my day. Check this one out.

Catan Champion

Yet again. I fucking love that game.

Tower of Skulls

Hey gang, it's been a while since I posted so here's what's up.

Check this shit out, http://www.wunderground.com/metarFAQ.asp .
I was on Wunderground last night checking the weather and I stumbled upon this awesome FAQ about how to correctly read a METAR, which is just a super awesome way to get all the possible information about the weather in one massivelycryptic line of text and numbers. I don't want to say that having the ability to read METAR is a totally useless skill to have, but it's sort of close. Super cool though. I would highly recommend it.

My president is just so fucking cool.

Spiritual Rights

Quick recap since last post. I played the shit out of Hotline Miami (see previous post) and it was amazing. It only lasts 4-8 hours depending on how dedicated one is to getting all the secrets and wrecking all the high scores, (I totally was), and it really is the best indie game I've played in quite a while. It is super violent and at the same time really trippy, but under that facade it's basically just a puzzle game soaked in Quentin Tarantino films and acid. Would I recommend this game for the ten dollar asking price? F yeah. It's well worth every penny and it has the best soundtrack of the year as far as I'm concerned. Check it out here at their bandcamp site. http://soundcloud.com/devolverdigital/sets/hotline-miami-official

I totally went to 3 concerts in 6 days and that was pretty sweet. I checked out Dropkick Murpheys on Saturday and they put on a pretty decent show. There was a time in my life when I was 12-14 when these guys were the bees knees as far as I was concerned and they served as the first bridge in my music tastes from Pop-Punk to Punk-Rock (yes there is a distinction) which would eventually lead me to where I am today and for that I am forever grateful to this band. They put on a hell of a show and I went totally loaded so that helps. I realized after the show that at 23, I may be a bit old to rock circle pits because I totally felt like I had been in a couple of car accidents the next day. Totally worth it and they put on a pretty good show.

Fast forward to Tuesday and I saw one of my favorite bands, Andrew Jackson Jihad at the Triple Rock in Mpls. Holy balls that was an amazing show. For those of you not introduced to AJJ they are a Folk-Punk band (yep, that's totally a genre) and they just make awesome awesome music. On their first release they were just two dudes who played an upright bass and an acoustic guitar playing some really insightful/hilarious/slightly offensive music and they have evolved into a full band playing more prototypical punk rock with a slight country flair (hard to explain, still awesome though). Anyways it was an awesome show. They played some Misfits covers as well as a Dead Kennedys cover so that was awesome. And about 3 songs in somebody threw/dropped a knife on stage and they totally played it off and just held onto it for most of the show while at one time waving it in the air during the encore. Just check em out. They're cool.




The last show I saw was Trampled by Turtles who were back in Fargo. They are an alt-country/ folkish band from Duluth and they put on an alright show. I had seen them two years previous in the same place and it seems like a year of constant touring might be taking a toll on them as they just didn't have much in the gas tank. They still put on a hell of a show and they looked like they were having a good time, but they just seemed tired. I don't know. Still worth the 15 dollar admission fee.

Hotline Miami

I need to buy this game. Best part? 10 bucks.

Well That's Settled

The new Pig Destroy album, Book Burner, absolutely slays. Easily the best metal release of 2012 and possible album of the year. Holy shit. They haven't come out with a new album in five years, but they must have spent every minute of that time getting pissed off and writing music.

Best part? It's streaming on NPR. I love America.

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/14/162728112/first-listen-pig-destroyer-book-burner

Tandem

I'm pretty sure I subconsciously hate the idea of any free time based off of my recent actions. 

I have in the past month done this:

-Start watching Season 2 of The Walking Dead.

-Start watching Freaks and Geeks.

-Try to keep up with the new series of Doctor Who.

-Burned through the first two books of A Song of Ice and Fire (the books from Game of Thrones).

-Started reading book three of the aforementioned series.

-Attempted to get caught up on all the games I bought from the past Steam sale which is in and of itself a lost fucking cause (Alan Wake, The Walking Dead (videogame this time, also very good), The Binding of Issac, Civilization V, Borderlands 2, and Super Meat Boy.

-Thought about getting caught up on Mad Men as well as Dexter, but quickly realized that would be a poor choice if I ever wanted to sleep again.

Thank god winter is coming so I'll have more time to piss away on this stuff so that by spring when the flood waters start rising again I'll be caught up with all this stuff, but then again there will have been another Steam sale so... yeah. 

First world problems suck.

Sup

I suppose it's time to do my monthly update. Guess what? I'm going to New York City for a few days and I'm leaving tomorrow. I don't have any sort of grand plan as to what I'll be doing there, but I'm sure I'll find a way to have a good time and do all the slightly touristy stuff without going full Japanese tourist.

I'll probably give a full report once I get back Mondayish.

The new Flying Lotus album is pretty fucking sweet. Until The Quiet Comes reaffirmed my faith in humanity and I've been fascinated with it since it began streaming on NPR a few weeks ago.

How about that election going on, huh folks? Jesus, I still can't wrap my head around how one debate resulted in such a huge swing in the polls. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Obama didn't whip his dick out during the debate and play piano with it. The polls seem to indicate otherwise.

Here's my new background. It combines two of my favorite television programs at this time, Breaking Bad and Adventure Time. http://wallbase.cc/wallpaper/2320668

That's all for now. I might start to post more regularly, but who knows. Probably not.

Knuckles.

With the Whitest Kids U' Know's 5th and final season they decided to end every episode with clips from a full length feature film they created titled, "The Civil War On Drugs." In it, Trevor and Sam essentially start and end the Civil War because of marijuana. Some guy decided to splice all the clips together and make the film whole. God damn it's funny

A Brand New Obsession

Well gang, I have proven to myself once again that I just don't get the concept of moderation. I've been told for months by all my friends to watch Game of Thrones on HBO and I had been planning on doing that for months. The problem was I had to catch up on...
1.) Doctor Who ('effing awesome)
2.) Breaking Bad (best thing on television since The Wire)
3.) Adventure Time (holy god, just watch that show. Don't let the fact it's on Cartoon Network throw you off. It's amazing)


So, once I had caught up on all that as well as play shitloads of Minecraft, beat Alan Wake, and dabble in Civilization V (fucking steam sale...), I was finally able to watch Game of Thrones. It's so damn good. It scratched an itch that I didn't know I had. The series is incredibly deep and so full of interesting characters with umpteen story lines that I had a tough time not burning through the entire first season in more than 3 sittings.

In my head I was thinking, "Oh, this series is great, I'm enjoying myself. Let's go to the source material. I'll saunter over to Amazon and see how much the first book costs. Wait, what? I can get the first four books of the series for 12 bucks (16 with shipping?!?!?). Purchase".

From there I realized I didn't do enough research, because there are currently 5 books out at this time of a planned 7 book series and of the first four I bought, the shortest is 850+ pages... I was sort of hoping to just burn through them over a long weekend, but I'm perfectly okay with biting off more than I can chew... This is looking like a fall project.

And that is why I really am lacking on the whole moderation thing. TV series, to massive book series, leading to just not sleeping at all anymore.