Don't watch the Oscars

I learned my lesson a few years ago, done with all awards shows, just dumb. Better to read the results in the paper the next day. Saw few movies in the theatre, but that's cuz I know what's worthwhile. Much bigger is the SHOWDOWN between Jen & Ang, but it's not even on tv. I'm just wringing my hands thinking about it soooo much. Anyway, I have some invisible parasite draining my energy and joy all week, I sleep 8+ hours and can not keep my eyes open during day. Sentences don't work or make sense. Juno good but not that good. No such thing as best actress, only 2 great movies, No Country for Old Men & There Will Be Blood, only great actors are the stars of those films. Go Irish!

As You Were

2008 is just too long already. Worst year evah.

Stale as a 2 day half full beer.
cigarette boats float around in here.
a field in my gut lacking sunshine.
put down like a teenagers first drink.
i cough up compliments.
i think you're better off walking away while you still can.
she was passing through to climb a hill.
as you slipped and slid on my gut spill.
my better half was praying for you to fall.
rotten like a 3 week half full glass of breast milk.
drunken off my ass.
i would give anything to erase the past nine years of my life.
put down like a prostitute in court.
all liberty soon to abort like my sanity,
like thoughts of you.
she was passing through to climb a hill.
as you slipped and slid on my gut spill.
my better half was praying for you to fall.
praying for you to fall.
so pitiful.
praying for you to fall.
i'm fuckin' pitiful.
praying for you to fall. so pitiful.
Praying for you to fall.
So fuckin' pitiful.

Mid Winter recommendations

Okay, everyday sucks, but everyday I listen to the Matt Dahl show on the internet. It airs every day from 12-1pm but I do it iTunes style. I'm always fighting the giggles for the whole, commercial-free, hour. Tune in for your own sake.
Replaying Dillinger Four's albums in this Minnesota-style frigid, bleak, dark winter days, and looking forward to their upcoming new disc.
Hey, you, why don't you get LOST

okay...

I don't care, so whatever. I'm trying to embrace winter and working and etc., but it ain't doing it for me. I want summer and good summer tunes, or at least mid-March round here. Nothing to report: work and drink and sleep, repeat.
Band that re energizes me at the moment: The Loved Ones
it's what punk rock should sound like in 2008

My Favorite quote for Christmas that's not really about Christmas

and, actually, I think it's the best quote for life.
"It seems every week the Simpsons go through a situation like this. My suggestion is to just ride it out, make the occasional smart-aleck quip, and next week we'll return right to where we were, ready for another wacky adventure." -Lisa Simpson

FYI, Marty Rowles is the boss of life

Jury Duty, New Tunes, THIS is hardcore

Oh man, yesterday was jury duty, freaked out to no end. I didn't see it as a "privilege" or a "chance to have my voice heard" but rather deciding the fate of another human being. And that is totally above my pay grade. I couldn't handle it. HOWEVER, yesterday was an awesome day. I sat in a blend of a library reading room and an airport lounge, reading books, watching snow fall onto a pond and hills thru giant windows, whilst TVLand played I Love Lucy, Bonanza, etc. all day. It was awesome! Didn't get called, we've got this "one trial or one day" policy, so i'm done. Anything that happens today, I can say, "at least i'm not in court".
Fav New Music:
Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall
This is the music he was born to sing. I still think his debut was one of the finest albums of the 90s, but, my god, this album knocks my socks off.
The 1900s: Cool and Kind
Best new music TO ME. Not brand new, but I finally hopped on the orch-pop train, and I'm loving it. So good, so fresh and so clean.
Bishop Allen: The Broken String
Another one that's been on my eMusic wishlist for some time, finally did it, totally worth it. Best pop rock album of the year.

Best grindcore album of the year: The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza- Danza II The Electric Boogaloo

Oi! Oi! Oi!

Best New Music

I'm in love with Ida Maria
The best new band (Bonus: from Sweden!)
so good, the dream of what I want to listen to.
Listen, love, live

Team Obama

"At a news conference, the Illinois senator was asked about Hillary Clinton’s attack on his qualifications. Making an economic speech in Knoxville, Iowa, earlier that day, the New York senator had touted her own know-how, saying that “there is one job we can’t afford on-the-job training for — that’s the job of our next president.” Her aides confirmed that she was referring to Obama.

Pressed to respond, Obama offered a zinger feathered with amused disdain: “My understanding was that she wasn’t Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, so I don’t know exactly what experiences she’s claiming.”

Everybody laughed, including Obama.

It took him nine months, but he finally found the perfect pitch to make a trenchant point.

Her Democratic rivals had meekly gone along, accepting her self-portrait as a former co-president who gets to take credit for everything important Bill Clinton did in the ’90s. But she was not elected or appointed to a position that needed Senate confirmation. And the part of the Clinton administration that worked best — the economy, stupid — was run by Robert Rubin. Hillary did not show good judgment in her areas of influence — the legal fiefdom, health care and running oppo-campaigns against Bill’s galpals.

She went on some first lady jaunts and made a good speech at a U.N. women’s conference in Beijing. But she was certainly not, as her top Iowa supporter, former governor Tom Vilsack claimed yesterday on MSNBC, “the face of the administration in foreign affairs.”

She was a top adviser who had a Nixonian bent for secrecy and a knack for hard-core politicking. But if running a great war room qualified you for president, Carville and Stephanopoulos would be leading the pack."

Oh, how I love Sparky

So, there's this really cool guy I've known for like 3 or so years. He's gone on mission trips, etc., and cracks me up to no end. His sense of humor is top 5 material. Seriously. Well, he's studying to be an architect and attends Arizona State, a fact that makes me entirely too jealous. Beyond all that, he has one of the sweetest gigs in the world: Sparky the Sun Devil. He is the ASU mascot. And he just dropped by and tossed me an awesome tshirt. Sparky, I love you.

Who are you?

For the past week & a half, I see about 2-4 MN license plates a day. We are 6+ hours from the border, and 40 minutes from any reputable university, so who are you? Why are you hovering?

On a lighter note- 3-9 sucks, but it's over & done with, as the Proclaimers say, and we can get on the recruiting trail right away.

Devin "G.A.I.F.D.Y." Hester makes me giddy.