Updates….

So I found this draft that I apparently created towards the end of the summer last year.  I apparently changed it and went with something different.  I now find it humerous and think that its a smashing idea to do an update for the ohh so all encompassing checklist.

*OLD*

Finally!!!!….a little bit of room to breathe.  Some to to sit back and either enjoy or make fun of the usual array of things that entertain me.  I might have even heard a new song or two…god knows its been long enough.  I decided to make a checklist of changes that have or haven’t taken place over the summer….

• Never-ending cynicism toward pretty much anyone and everything…check!
• Inability to listen to most anything on the radio without getting kind of upset that they don’t play other stuff…check!!
• Unquenchable wealth and women being showered upon me at the turn of every hour…nope.
• New room-ate who seems pretty damn cool so far and basically makes the last one look like Tommy Beecher on a Thursday night in Cola…check??
• I tingling feeling coupled with slight nausea over basically all things college football…check??
• New car…nope!!

UPDATE****

• Never-ending cynicism toward pretty much anyone and everything…Still going strong on this one!
• Inability to listen to most anything on the radio without getting kind of upset that they don’t play other stuff…Yep…not much change here either.
• Unquenchable wealth and women being showered upon me at the turn of every hour….I’m going to throw a permenant update on this….NEVER!!
• New roomate who seems pretty damn cool so far and basically makes the last one look like Tommy Beecher on a Thursday night in Cola…Double Check…other than her dog trying to bite me this morning….Bastard..
• I tingling feeling coupled with slight nausea over basically all things college football…Progressed into full fledged nausea with the aftertaste that only Clemson football can leave.
• New car…CHECK…FINALLY!!

If you were a crackhead?? This would be crack. Its beyond a must.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Chicken Blog #4

Okay this thing is short and sweet.  But AMAZING!!

 

First up….Its pretty damn amazing that there was a feces throwing monkey on the loose in Tampa.  My friend called me while she was on the way to work and said that there was traffic due to the authorities trying to catch a monkey on the loose.  Radio said: “There is a monkey on the loose and feces has been thrown!!!“  No Shit.

 

AND NOW!!!  The coolest thing I’ve seen in a while.  On my way home from work today, I watched a denim clad man drive his lawnmower about a half mile to the grocery store, park in a space, shop, and then drive home groceries and all.  I was about to lose it.  I am now completely certain as to what moment god had in mind when he invented camera phones(also why some pictures are fuzzy).  George Jones ain’t got nothing on him.

Enjoy After the Jump!!!

I wonder??

Is there anything sexier more adorable than a girl with a banjo???……honestly.

Running out of options to show how much you love me????

 So I’m trying to ween myself off of this apathetic habit of not writing anything.  And…..not many things will get you off of your ass like telling people what you would like them to buy for you.  I’m also planning the annual favorite albums of the year post.  Hopefully I’ll get to it before the new years.  I’d love to have some witty rant concerning some social disorder that I’ve been finding particularly annoying lately, but unfortunately, all seems to be well.  Without further ado….

Whats really sad is that there are things on last years list that I’m just now getting for xmas this year…..WTF people.  Snap to it.

 

Dear Santa(aka people with money),

I would like:

Zoey Deschanel!!

Ohh Zoey.

And now for things that are possible in this life.

• Here’s where i say that i want a macbook.  And here is where everyone tells me to F off.  But this year i’m substituting COMPLETED GRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT for macbook.  I swear to god I’ll start a cult that worships the person that brings me this little miracle.
• As always…vinyl…we all know about my fetish…get over it….I would especially like LP’s from the following groups: She and Him, Bon Iver, Jenny Lewis, The Hold Steady…..pretty much anything that you think I would like.
• Poster Art:  Shepard Fairey, Marco Almera, Lindsay Khun….so forth and so on….
• I would cut off a toe for someone to make me a mix cd or something.  Full of *quality* stuff they think I would like.  Someone I know supposedly did this for my bday, and then lost the cd before they gave it to me.  I consider this to be one of the greatest tragedies of 2008.
• New years date…hahahahahaha..how desperate is that.
• Other small things…books, movies, t-shirts(M), gummi products, cute girls with a lip gloss addiction, a drink…..etc.

That’s pretty much it.  I like to keep the list short, because what I really want is for someone to surprise me with something that I didn’t even know that I really wanted.

 

Thanks…love you all….happy xmas.

Don’t call it a comeback….not yet anyhows.

So I swear on my grave to all five of the people that read this site occasionally, I will return to my cynical ways very soon.  I’ve been beset by all things job and school.  If you find the desire to know whats on my mind so unbearable that you are going into with-drawls, then check out the sidebar cause I still mark my favorite blogs and they are occasionally funny.  Aside from that, here are a few tracks to get you through your day. 

Common Market – Nothin At All

M. Ward – Magic Trick

The Avett Brothers – Denouncing November Blue

The Avett Brothers – Murder In the City

Dr. Dog – Hang On

FINALLY!!??

After only six months of checking the popcandy blog every day,  I finally made it as reader of the day. WOO HOO!!!!!

http://blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy/2008/09/pop-forum-me-12.html?csp=34

And of course It would be freaking pirate day so the comments get to be a little annoying….after like 5.

Either way…Its a miracle!

I’m not dead I swear

If anyone actually reads this message…..I’m still alive….just having a bit of a free time crisis.

Chiken Blog #3

Due to work and hot weather, I’ve been kinda busy lately.  I still have a research project to get started on, and a ton of new work to do.  But i need a time out.  So here’s what I’ve found interesting lately.

• This is something we can all aspire to.  Top ten drinking achievements over at Tasty Booze.
• Cool site for doing all kinds of sharing and basically existing online.  Drop.io
• This video came out forever ago.  But it never ceases to amaze.
• Boob Punching never gets old!!
• This band name generator is pretty amazing.  It can keep you occupied for a while.  My favorite name so far is “drunk of the miscarriage.”  AMAZING!!
• Two old men fighting.  Need I say more.
• Finally.  A really awesome website devoted to the laborious love of mix-tapes.  Cassette from my exis a site for people to share mix-tapes they received from significant others at one point or another.  Its pretty much the most incredible idea I’ve ever seen.

 

Buried treasure – back from MB grave.

I came across what I consider to be buried treasure while trying to track down a picture on my home comp.  This won’t mean diddly to some of you, but some of you will enjoy it. 

I believe this to be the only recording of this one anywhere.  Quality is SO SO at best….but what can you do when about five minutes before this you thought the camera was broken because it was upside down….too much sauce.

Onelouder – Kiss your friends goodbye.

 

 

Black Cab Sessions

The Black Cab Sessions are a group of guys in London that make a habit of nabbing very talented singer songwriter types and taking them for a little ride that is about one take and one song long.  There are some pretty amazing performances on here.  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.  These are some of my favorites. Check Out all the sessions here.

Well my favorites were Fleet Foxes,  Bon Iver and My Morning Jacket.  But the videos won’t embed properly.  So here are the rest of the faves

 
Lightspeed Champion

MORE FAVES AFTER THE JUMP!!

Chicken Blog – #2

Another short weekly wrap up ….for all ten people who might read it.  My work/time i usually have for this type of stuff has been kinda full up lately, so I’m a little low on content at the moment.

• If you know me, you’ve no doubt heard me rave about the new album from She & Him which is a little side project for M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel.  There is a little Interview/LIve session over at NPR.org.  I would pretty much cut off a finger for Zooey, but I was always curious if they could pull of the magic voice live.  They can.
• I’m kind of indifferent to My Morning Jacket for the most part.  But I do actually like the lead singer Jim James and tend to think that he’s a pretty cool guy.  He played a little YouTube DJ over at Velocity Weekly.  Its freakin amazing.  I mean Michael Jackson, James Brown, and Prince on stage at once.  And..Prince making an entrance on the back of some crazy ass wizard or something.  Marvin Gaye and John Prine to boot.  This is NUTS!!!

Chicken Blog.

So its summer. I got free time.  I might do a little weekly roundup of stuff I enjoyed throughout the past week.  Though you can always find these links on the right side of this page, I enjoy a chance to comment on them as well.

Unbelievable!! Only in Mexico.  How come this never happens during the tour de France on live television.  That would be amazing. Mexican Biking Mayhem via nextround. 

I pretty much laughed for like an hour at this….its been a while since I’ve seen anything very funny out of some these people.  Also Courtesy of nextround.

I already kinda did my tribute to this.  But I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Diddley again.  Such a bad ass.  Also a really good blog if your into the topic.  Monitor Mix

I think its pretty safe to say that the good people over at Stuff White People Like have us down to a science.  I’m not big on worrying about other people’s problems.  But I know some people who are.  SWPL

Updating classics and reworking favorites can always be tricky business.  But the good folks over at Delicious Vinyl get it done in a stand up kinda way.  And if you know anything about my Ryan Seacrest/Tshirt/Delicious Vinyl scandal, you know I’ll brave through a lot for those guys.  MOKB

Short list this week.  More in the future.

I’m pretty sure we all lost something yesterday.

WOW!!!

 

This Day in History

Since this past Sunday was my birthday, I decided to see what other types of interesting stuff happened on June 1st throughout history, and comment on how much this event may or may not have effected my life.  I just picked out the random things that I found interesting.  Soo…….here we go.

• 1792    Kentucky became the 15th state of the union.  Thus ushering in numerous jokes about people from Kentucky
• 1796    Tennessee became the 16th state.  Allowing for the eventual creation of the hated and lame University of Tennessee, I don’t even need to explain this.
• 1925    Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig’s streak of playing in 2,130 consecutive games began when he pinch hit for shortstop Pee Wee Wanniger.  Thus begining the trend that amazing things happen on this date.
• 1926    Actress Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortensen in Los Angeles.  Solidifying the aforementioned trend and creating a new one that beautifull and awesome people are also born on this day
• 1944    The British Broadcasting Corp. aired a coded message intended to inform the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.  Nazis were not very cool.  And…this also affects me in that my grandmother is from england and met my grandfather during WW2….so the obvious end of this war and the triumphant return is a somewhat noteworthy event in my past.
• 1980    CNN made its debut.  I am amazingly apolitical and don’t really care about current events.  How is it that the television channel of which I have no doubt watched the least of out of every channel under the sun, began the same day as me.  BS.
• 2007    The FDA warned consumers to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it might contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.  Just like Sharon Stone said, damn Chinese!!
• 2007    Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian walked out of a Michigan prison, where he’d spent eight years for ending the life of a man suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease.  If your gonna kill yourself, go out with a little flare.  Jump off a building.  Shotgun in the greenhouse…etc….etc.

LOTS MORE

For all you generous types

I posted a christmas list.   So of course…i’m going to post a birthday wish list…..Okay so I’m pretty lazy, and I’m just going to amend the christmas list.

Macbook – Still waiting on this one.

Vinyl – anything you think I would like.  As always favorites are Sam Cooke, any soul or Motown, basically anything good New stuff as well.  Special emphasis on She & Him Album, Detroit Cobras – Baby, and anything from “Saturday Looks Good to Me.”  UPDATE!! for the love of god..someone please track down…and then purchase this albumfor me….damn i’ll love you for it.

Any poster art – please clear choice with me first though, I’m kinda picky…if you wanna really be cool frame it first.  1 inch black wooden frame preferred.

Gift Certificates to pretty much anywhere.  I can use something from probably any store on earth.

Mix Cd’s would be nice too….themed with thought – This would be really cool actually

Any gummi products.

Night out with drinks included.(this is the gift that gives back – AKA my company.)

Movies that I have talked about and may not own – Clerks X, Real Genius(haha..so good), etc….

Book – Gonzo. The life of Hunter S. Thompson – compilation of third party biographical interviews done by jan wenner.  Still waiting on this one as well.

Any t-shirt I might like. Size M

Just plain money will work to.

Chan Marshall(AKA Cat Power) or Laura Burhenn

AND ANY FRIENDS WHO WOULD LIKE TO COME OUT AND BUY HAVE DRINKS WITH ME ON SAT!!

Its Business Time.

I guess it must be nice for your father to be Louden Wainwright and your brother is Rufus.  It must also be nice to have Linda Thompson and Emmylou Harris play at your wedding.  Maybe its also nice to have a quirky and amazing sound.  It never hurts to be pretty darn hot too.  So I guess it must be nice to be Martha Wainwright.  Quirky and kinda fun….AND!!!…..there is a song on the new album called “The George Song”.  Finally!!….

Martha Wainwright – You cheated me

Marthe Wainwright – Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole

There is a god….!!!

Last Wednesday, Lou Pearlman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiracy and money laundering.  If you don’t know who Pearlman is, he’s the unholy bastard that created such abominations as NSYNC and The Backstreet Boys.  He got his start in blimp advertising until the crash of his Jordache Blimp in 1980. HAHAHAHA!! That was a little prophetic, don’t you think.  I like to think of this as God evening things out.  Though, 25 years was pretty weak for such heinous crimes.  Lou, I hope you drop the soap in the proximity of some fans of your life’s work.  Also, I’m pretty sure if I looked up weird pedophile looking guy in the dictionary, this is the picture that would accompany the entry.

 

**on a side note** 
Am I the only one amazed by the fact that I keep seeing commercials for his and hers KY that apparently does something amazing when they are combined.  Interesting?…or just plain odd?

Keeping bikers out of jail….one ticket at a time.

I would like to take a little time here to talk about my recent run-ins with Johnny Law.  We’ll go in chronological order using a bike week scale.

 

 

Harley Week – 1 week:  Rear-ended by state trooper on my way to work.  This then causes me to hit another car.  No real damage to my car aside from a little paint.  At one point in time there were seven state troopers, one sheriff, and some SCDOT trucks on the scene.  All things aside, had a kind of good time hanging out with the troopers and making fun of the one that hit me, while furiously texting all my friends that the coast was clear to speed across Horry county as I had the troopers tied up for the moment.  MORE AFTER THE JUMP

MONOLITH!!!

Trip in the making!!  Monolith Festival In Red Rocks, Colorado. Say WHAT!!!  Need I even mention some of the line-up.

• Band Of Horses
• Avett Brothers
• Blitzen Trapper
• Atmosphere…..!!!!WHAT!!!!
• JUSTICE
• Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
• Vampire Weekend
• Silversun Pickups
• TV on the Radio
• Cut Copy
• …..ETC….

Now I’m actually a super non-festival person.  BuT!!! Ohh my god this is going to be awesome.