Archive for November 2006

Season 2, Episode 1 features some local bands, some indie bands, as per usual. It features my roommate Wade from Shageen Shorts. Enjoy!

1. Infighter - Regret
2. Shack - Natalie’s Party
3. Henri Faberge And The Adorables - The Embassy
4. Sunshine Underground - Commerical Breakdown
5. Jarvis Cocker - Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time
6. Tim Burgess - Oh My Corazon
7. The Marshalls - Make Her Cry
8. Richard Hawley - Baby, You’re My Light

 
icon for podpress  S2E1: Play Now

I have no idea why I am up this early on a Saturday. I usually dont wake up til the PM. Anyways, weird thing happened. You know how every once in a while, when u are sleepin, you’ll wake up in the middle of the nite for like a minute, and then go back to sleep?

Well last nite I woke up for like a minute, decided to stretch out and my freakin left calf decides to cramp up. So there I am, in the middle of a wonderful sleep and my left calf goes crazy. I am bitting the blanket in pain and thinking ‘wtf! who gets injured while sleeping!’. Anyways, i didn’t really sleep well since. I really should work out that calf, since I have done this before, only it was during basketball..and not sleep.

maybe i’ll do the good ole breakfast and sleep, who knows.

People are PAYING homeless people to stand in line for them at Best Buy.

http://www.wral.com/technology/10331292/detail.html

Thats genius. I say.

For the past few days, I have been listening to albums again. My project this week at work is highly repetitive and requires absolutely no thinking so I have been able to focus more on music listenin. Its been such a long time since I have listen to albums in entirety. You know what? its not all that bad. Perhaps we can all learn a lesson from this and listen to albums more.

Here is some albums i listened to in the past few days

  • Black Box Recorder - England Made Me
  • Black Box Recorder - The Facts of Life
  • Black Box Recorder - Passionia
  • Sufjan Stevens - Michigan album
  • Belle and Sebastian - Boy With the Arab Strap
  • Belle and Sebastian - If You Are Feeling Sinister
  • Lily Allen - Alright Still
  • Hope of the States - Left
  • Hot Hot Heat - Makeup the Breakdown
  • Milburn - Well Well Well
  • Say Hi to Your Mom - Impeccable Blahs
  • Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City

I recently acquired Seasons 1 and 2 of a show called The Thin Blue Line , and a show called Nathan Barley

I have never seen any of these shows, any opinions?

Meet Bruce Bowen

He is considered the dirtiest player in the NBA. Why? when he is defending you, and you take a jump shot, he frequently puts his foot where u are going to land so that theres a chance you can sprain your ankle. He has done it multiple times to and hurt Kobe, Vince Carter and Ray Allen..

So when a reporter asked Isiah Thomas, coach/gm of the New York Knicks, and one of the most competitive people ever, what he would do if Bowen did something to him..he said “I’d beat the — out of somebody. Really, I would — murder them. … There’s certain things you don’t do.”

bottom line, don’t mess with Isiah.

First of all, the new Bloc Party album leaked today, expected release date? February 6. How does this even happen? I always wonder who the disgruntled employee at the record company is. Anyways, good job, keep it up. I am about four songs in, listening and thus far it is pretty solid. Nothing nearly as good as ‘This Modern Love’ yet, but theres still a while to go.

Detroit Trip.

Ford Field is the nicest arena/stadium thingy I have been in, by FAR. The place is spectacular. The sightlines are amazing, we were in the 200 sections and I was still amazed. The seats are comfortable, which is a given, since Detroit’s probably a fat city, so the extra sized seats is always nice. Also walked by Comerica field, and man, that is one nice baseball field. Seriously, blow up the skydome or something, its so cavernous such a waste of space. These retro parks are wear its at. I mean, the Skydome is just depressing when the roof is closed.

Detroit Lions fans are the most self deprecating fans I have ever met. In order to understand how much the Lions fans have suffered, here is some tidbits on their team:

  • Despite being one of the original teams, has never won a superbowl, let alone appear in one
  • No playoffs since 1999
  • Their best player, Barry Sanders, quit in his prime, because he didn’t want to play for the Lions anymore and the Lions would not trade him.
  • Did not win a road game for 3 straight years in the early 2000s
  • Last 5 QB’s: Jon Kitna, Joey Harrington, Mike Mcmahon, Charlie Batch, Scott Mitchell

Bottom line, this team has sucked for a long time. The fans know it, and if you ever attend a game, you will too. The Detroit Lions celebrate field goals and first downs. FIRST DOWNS. This would be the equivalent of celebrating say..a pass in a soccer game. The game itself was not the best game, as you would expect from two of the worse teams in the league. There were many, many missed opportunities and bad playcalling, and I almost dozed off in the fourth quarter, perhaps because I had consumed a lot of alcohol in a desperate attempt to be entertained at the game.

Having said that, I still had a fun time, and will probably go back to Detroit to watch a Tigers game.

It really makes you wonder, why does Detroit have Tigers and Lions as team names? Most teams have something related to their city..somewhat (*raptors*). The Red Wings are pretty symbolic of the motor city, for example. I just find it weird, I don’t know.

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