Sunday, December 6, 2009

ROLL TIDE!

Rolando McClain for Heisman!

Sunday, September 20, 2009

finished.

This is my last post on this blog for a while. Anyone who checks it periodically can quit wasting their time for the time being.

--the management

Monday, September 14, 2009

Psalm 129:2-3

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Mystery Marxist at the helm.

http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000056141/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Special_Bulletins/2009/SPECIAL_BULLETIN_24.aspx

34-24

Ok, so a rebuilt offensive line factored into the equation a bit more than anticipated. And i forgot about Va Tech's special teams. Still, it was a two score game. I win a bet with my boss. Free lunch at Ted's. And they all lived happily ever after.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

That time of year again...

Here is the prediction for the game tonight:

Alabama 24 -- Virginia Tech 10

Moral of the story: an ACC defense is not the same thing as an SEC defense.

--the management

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

This is the best music video ever.

When I voted the Mute Math video the best, I had forgotten about this one. I don't know how. Beautiful.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

New career...

After watching this video, with all the scientists and everything, I have decided.......................



.................
.........that I want to be a monkey when I grow up.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

How does Amy have more posts than me? I have at least a year's head start!

...but that's beside the point. There seems to be an inordinate amount of spiritual warfare going on in the lives around me at this moment. This is the time for vigilance.

Friday, June 19, 2009

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/The_Scream.jpg

Monday, May 4, 2009

hidden.

This is pretty cool:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_kryptos?npu=1&mbid=yhp

I like a good mystery.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Ruins.

A sense of purpose is essential. Sometimes I feel like I am an afterthought in the economy of God's creation. It's kind of hard to stay happy about being alive when there seems to be little meaning in it.

I quit putting up posters in my room when I was fifteen. I knew my family was just going to move after a few months anyway, so why bother trying to maintain any sort of facade that would suggest a sense of permanence? If we're going to effectively function as nomads, why not look the part? I fought the transient nature of my existence for about a year when I was 23. The ironic act of putting posters on the wall after I had packed up and moved to Colorado has never struck me as significant until this moment. Why then? What made me think things were going to solidify in the wake an act that so visibly demonstrated my identity as a vagabond?

Most people who prize the freedom to move do so from a position of safety. Try having that sort of detachment forced upon you in the most traumatic moments of your life. Try having that happen in the midst of getting used to the idea of terra firma.

I don't have a space to call my own at the moment. I feel very displaced--not because I don't have designated living quarters, but because I just keep drifting around aimlessly. I think all of this somehow connects to my fascination with the sci-fi conceit of the zombie apocalypse. I can relate to the idea of waning humanity in the midst of disintegrating ruins. But I also relate to the zombies. I know what it feels like to wander aimlessly, dead to purpose. Zombies have no living quarters; zombies do not put posters on the wall.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Sometimes all you need is a fully automatic, gas-powered, low-recoil 12-gauge shotgun. And a nifty theme song.

For further details, watch the video in my Sunday, April 5th post, then follow the link in the comments section to Dan's new song. It will all make sense.


Sunday, April 19, 2009

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

One more.

Here's one more song by Zero 7. I all but demand that Icarus Aquanaut cover one of their songs. I think this would probably be the best one to do.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Chicks with Scottish accents.

I'm usually a guy who falls for the girl-next-door type. Shirley Manson is my one notable exception to this rule. Viva 1995.

Monday, March 30, 2009

post depression rest disorder.

Here are two songs that help me deal with being me:

Exhibit A)



Exhibit B)
And this song, which makes me happier than any other song.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Friday, March 20, 2009

One kid had it worse than that.

A while back, I made a list of my favorite songs. I knew that it was an impossible task. I have since realized that I left out at least a dozen songs that, without a doubt, should have been in the top 40. This is one of them:

Click here to hear it.

Back when it was a popular song, I heard several people make remarks about its lack of unified meaning. Some people have such a limited perspective.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

A familiar stretch of road.

Tears burn the cuts on my fingertips--
washing minor wounds, ignoring the real ones.
From here on the second floor, it's so easy to see
the city sleeping; I want to sleep.
Instead, we'll drive through the dark, won't we?
Exit life at 59 North, exit 133.

I find despair in the difference
between wanting to die and not wanting to live--
it's that sinking feeling burning through my heart
that I try to tear out as it tears me apart.
Set me free from this vacuum in time.
Help me--I've found no solutions as of exit 133.

Even if all the small things couldn't get to me,
life ends at 59 North, exit 133.

Saturday, February 28, 2009

I'm pretty sure cocaine was involved.

I'm pretty sure this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. This is 80's glam metal distilled into it's most ridiculous form. Hey Dan, be sure to check out the coke frenzy that they put in place of a guitar solo from 2:20 till about 3:00.

Update: I just watched this video to the end. The funniest minute ever caught on film.

Monday, February 23, 2009

displaced.

Sorry, Norah Jones--you've been displaced. I'm pretty sure I'm in love with Sia Furler. I'm really liking this Zero 7 band. What's funny is that I've always heard their song from the Garden State and wanted to find out more about their music. I'm really lazy. Here's my other favorite from the album, The Garden. Enjoy.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Pageant of the ignore the video...

Ignore the video. I just wanted to share the song with the few folks that read this blog. This is such a flipping amazing song. Actually, the whole album is really good. It's a band called Zero 7. The song is called "Pageant of the Bizarre," and it's off of an album titled The Garden. And the video is ...whatever. There isn't a video for this song. So somebody saw fit to put it to video game footage. And it's the least distracting video of the three homemade ones on youtube.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Two birds, one stone

Hey Amy, this is the song i was talking about. It's by far my favorite song by The Monkees. And this will give you an idea of how retarded the show was.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Hi-fi revisionism.

Nevermind the last post. I didn't know this performance edit of this video existed; I had never seen it before. The quality of the audio and video is better than the one in the last post, so I've watched this about twelve times, repeatedly marvelling at the greatness of Siamese Dream. It's one of a handful of perfect albums.

(Hey Chris, where does Jimmy Chamberlin rank in your heirarchy of best drummers?)

Thursday, February 5, 2009

The theme song for my nineteenth year.

...and one of my favorite music videos ever. Brainwash rotation. Summer of '94.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

31

Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
my eye is wasted from grief;
my soul and my body also.
For my life is spent with sorrow,
and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
and my bones waste away.

.......

But I trust in you, O LORD;
I say, "You are my God."
My times are in your hand...

Sunday, January 4, 2009