Archives for September 2008
sunday social #22 – slackin'
28 September 2008 | house, sunday social | No Responses
I slack, there for I dont write. I am too busy inhaling bamboo particles and sort of wishing my life was this simple:
the radio still sucks
18 September 2008 | music | No Responses
I caught this article the other day and just had to put my two cents in. Apparently xm radio is canceling fungus 53 and replacing it with a 24 hour AC/DC channel. Don’t get me wrong, AC/DC rocks it hard, but don’t they get enough play on every other piece of media these days that they need their own channel? Even after they haven’t had a decent jam in years.
The thing is I used to have a subscription and listened to fungus 53 probably the majority of the time. My problem was it was still the radio. If some shitting song came on, I couldn’t change it to the next. Maybe my mentality for music on demand has completely taken over. Or maybe I have been tainted by radio stations like WGRD that still rock Alice in Chains and claim to be “always ahead of the curve“.
To me this is just another example the corporate music muscle trying to make another dollar while they still can. My question is why wouldn’t they just make another channel on xm or sirius and market the shit out of it? Is this just a marketing ploy to get the underground music listeners to make a fuss and pay some attention the comeback of AC/DC?
I probably won’t be picking up the AC/DC record or probably even listen to it for that matter, but this whole thing rubs me the crooked way. My money and faith is on the underground music scene. But the reality is money isn’t made there (this is probably why I don’t have a lot of it). Satellite radio is turning into fuse because as companies grow they need to make more money until they explode. Let ‘em explode. As far as I’m concerned the radio still sucks. Satellite or not.
sunday social #21 – the pros from dover
16 September 2008 | sunday social | No Responses
So tonight the playoffs for my work golf league started and I totally biffed it. I guess I scored some points for my team, but I could have played a lot better. Golf is one of those games that you just never know how you are going to do. I can play great one weak and the next it will be horrendous. Oh well, its usually fun either way and unless its cold and rainy, its nothing a couple beers can’t control.
With only a month to go, I’m already looking in to some new equipment for next year. I’ve been playing golf since I was about eleven and have had the same clubs since. I have a rusty wedge and a bent six iron. The legs on my bag stand have broken off. Maybe I’ll take the plunge with my tax return next year.
In other news, after saturday, I’ve officially been married a year. A lot has gone on in the past year with rachel and I, all of which I would love to do over again. I guess of course you don’t include letting her drive the monte carlo. It seemed every time she touched it, something went wrong with it. Entourage has started again and the fall is about to begin. Its time to bust out the jeans and hoodies cause its ’bout to get cold.
sunday social #20 – the brown out
8 September 2008 | bar, sunday social, the brown out | No Responses
So after this weekend, the basement bar has finally come full circle. Kate’s birthday party was more or less a pilot after what was to happen this past Saturday. Not in the sense that more people showed up or it got that crazy its just that we finally coined the name for it. That’s right, its called The Brown Out. Being that every wall in the bar is decked out with the classic wood paneling (the look I was absolutely going for in the ultimate rumpus room), its only fitting.
In Lieu of naming the bar, a few cronies and I had a couple drunken brainstorming sessions and came up with a lot big plans. Not only a beginning of a possible media empire, but with the use of cheap current technology, we can actually make this the ultimate hot bed for mid to late twenty somethings. I really don’t know what the hell I am talking about when it comes to this sort of thing but all I can say is that there are talks of live music, karaoke, video games on the projector and live video. We’ll see how much of this actually pans out. But for now we can dream.
In other news, band practice officially starts tomorrow. The bar officially doubles as the practice space. There is no band name yet, but when the time comes, a myspace page will be made. So many social networking presences, so little time!
Johnny got his gun
5 September 2008 | politics | No Responses
OK, so we finally witness the last of the presidential acceptance speeches and needless to say, it totally didn’t go out with a bang. Besides that damn whistling some that comes out of his mouth, John McCain said some shit that’s just a bit out of this country. I honestly can’t think of any classification of people that are more out of touch with the rest of this country that old white dudes that are so rich they don’t even know how many homes they own.
As for me, this is my official resignation from blogging about politics. I will leave that to those how know more about this stuff and can actaully write. I got a feeling I am going to be busy enrolling in my local community college to finally get that drafting degree I’ve been waiting so long for.
worn out words
4 September 2008 | politics | No Responses
So I watched Mrs. Palin do her thing on TV last night and felt it was pretty good. She’s quite the jokester. I felt like herself and Rudy Giuliani talked more about how much experience Barak Obama did not have and how much better John McCain would be as a leader because he was a prisoner of war than the actual issues at hand. And what was the introduction of her family that lasted ten minutes? I think she could have spent more time talking about her plan to change the country’s political system that introduce her children named after trees. Do they all do this? I gotta say though, it was way better than listening to Rudy Giuliani gargle golfs balls for thirty minutes.
I admit this is my first time getting into politics since being able to vote, so its all kind of new to me. I would like to be more informed, I just don’t have the time. I find I am too busy drinking beer and trying to figure how to build home made arcade machines. I know where I stand on major political issues, but its extremely hard to say that one single person can be the best leader and actually change that much in four years. I’d like to vote for the lesser of two evils. How about none of the above?
Any palininoe is a paliminoe
4 September 2008 | politics | No Responses
I don’t know if any of you read digg on a regular basis, but I do. And if there is one thing all of us have seen is that this Sarah Palin chick is getting story after story dugg the shit out of. Shes only been on the chopping block for five days. Maybe they digg community has gotten tired of Obama and McCain, or maybe the juicy gossip has just ran out but holy shit, this stuff is really coming out of the woodwork. Part of me feels bad for her, but I think if you put yourself out there like that, you’re pretty much fair game.
I only have a couple things to say about this both of which are completely obnoxious and goes to show that a college education does not prove one to be intelligent. First of all, John McCain really did a number on this one. Come John, she a woman for christ sake. I’d like to quote my buddy Frank on this one: “A woman in politics is like a donkey doing calculus“. On top of that, she was the governor of Alaska which may as well be a foreign country to the US.
I do have some advice for the Obama campaign. You should totally go right for the jugular. Make a commercial questioning why John McCain would choose a running mate that’s not only a woman, but has an ugly baby and a daughter that’s a whore.
She speaks tonight and I’ll be watching. So come hockey mom, show us what you got.