life.

One time I nearly made my brother choke to death on some crackers...So he inadvertently shut my head in a door.

true story.

i dont' know what this is, i just clicked on it.

Death From Above 1979

More Death From Above 1979 goodness:

--> DFA1979 - Turn it out

--> DFA1979 - Go Home Get Down

EDIT: alas, the links are dead...er, from above...

STEVE HOLT!

Over the past week, I have discovered the genius that is "Arrested Development".

No, not the 90's hip-hop group, but the brilliant fox television series.

You should watch it too.

A more eloquent description and review can be found here: http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/sitereviews.cfm?ReleaseID=3920

"...slanty, messy haircuts..."

Car trouble today, and lots of fog.

which reminds me of this classic post.

i like things

I can't really think of anything to say. I could, of course, make things up. Like the time I invented the Locomotive that ran on old Dishwalla CD's..."counting blue cars", my ass.

But that never happened.

I could make another list, perhaps detailing my top ten CD's with a "Q" in the title, but I won't. I have too much respect for you. Whoever you are. Stop staring at me.

I could profile another of my random purchases, but I can only make so many posts about Star Wars figures...

In short, I have nothing of note to say today.

In tall, I can reach the light bulb.

Lists, a blog necessity

Albums that I love throughout:

These albums are perfect from start to finish.


1. Weezer - The Blue Album (even the B-Sides are perfect)

2. Foo Fighters - Self Titled

3. The White Stripes - De Stijl

4. Nirvana - Unplugged

5. Weezer - Pinkerton (again, the B-Sides are perfect)

6. The Strokes - Room on Fire

7. The Beatles - Revolver

8. Marcy Playground - Self Titled

9. Ac/DC - Back In Black

10. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy

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Albums that I like 80-90% of:

These albums are *so close*. They're nearly perfect, but one or two tracks have you reaching for the "skip" button.

1. Nirvana - In Utero ("Radio Friendly Unit Shifter", I'm looking at you)

2. Foo Fighters - The Colour and The Shape (one of my favorite all time records, but it kinda goes soft in the middle tracks)

3. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For the Deaf ("Six Shooter" Kills it)

4. Tool - Aenima (90% brilliant)

5. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head

6. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step

7. The Darkness - Permission To Land

8. Rooney - Self Titled (Starts really strong, but the songs all start to sound the same the longer it plays)

9. Cave In - Antenna

10. Weezer - Maladroit

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Albums that I like 50-70% of:

These albums fool you, they show so much promise, but it turns out about half of the album is crap.


1. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (this album is the inspiration for this list)

2. Rage Against the Machine - The Battle for Los Angeles (tracks 1-6 kick your ass, everything else fails to impress)

3. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (Pare down this 2-disc album to 1 disc, and you'd have one of the greatest CD's of all time)

4. Beastie Boys - To The 5 Burroughs (all downhill after "Ch-Check it Out")

5. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (about half of this record is good, the other half is

un-listen-to-able)

6. Chevelle - Wonder What's Next? (50% good / %50 lame)

7. Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (there's 1 good record in there somewhere)

8. Jay-Z - The Black Album (great tracks mixed in with so-so ones)

9. The Offspring - Smash (only the singles are good, which actually applies to every Offspring album)

10. N.E.R.D - In Search Of (50% great / %50 blah)

Mr. Sparkle would be proud

The latest song by yours truly can be found here:
http://www.evolvingdoor.com/creative/Sideburns-The_Land_of_Wind_and_Ghosts.mp3

As you can see, it's called "The Land of Wind and Ghosts".

As always, it's an instrumental, composed of samples I
downloaded/edited/stole. It's a fast-paced, drum heavy, zither 'n'
bass thing.

If you have trouble with the link, go to http://www.evolvingdoor.com >
click on "Creative Outlet" > then scroll down to the "Music" section
and you'll find it.

Clump of Souls

I've spent the last two evenings playing the strangest video game I've ever seen.

"Katamari Damacy" (pronounced "Kat-A-Ma-Ree Da-Ma-She").

Surprise, surprise, it's Japanese.

The premise:
"When the King of All Cosmos accidentally destroys all the stars in the sky, he orders you, his pint-sized princely son, to put the twinkle back in the heavens above. How, you ask? By rolling everything and anything on earth into clumps, so he can replace what's missing in space."

It's far more bizarre than it sounds.

This is an H4 tag

Another weekend has passed. The most interesting thing I did was go to Target...again.

I've thought about it, and there are many reasons why I visit Target so often:

1. I am a toy collector. Gotta keep checkin' those aisles. There's nothing like the thrill of seeing a brand-new Boba Fett action figure

2. Tranquility. Compared to any other store on the planet, Target is the cleanest, most quiet, and least crowded. It's the Anti-Walmart.

3. Location. I am but minutes away.

4. Less weirdos. In any given store, there is usually at least 1 weird/scary/escaped person. These often unwashed people like to give you strange looks, cough or clear their throat in an unsettling fashion, or talk to you for no reason. In the many years in which I have gone to Target, I can think of only one "weird guy", and in retrospect, he wasn't that bad. He never spoke, he just looked at the Hot Wheels, and played the video games. He had a lion's mane type of haircut, frizzy and blond, and an ever-present Oakland Raiders jacket. He often smelled of vomit and ass. Anyway, I'm straying from my point.

5. Non-Redneck clothing options. Being male, fashion is low on my priority list. That being said, I can often find things I'd wear in the Target clothing section that don't make me look like I live in a rusted trailer home with "Jeff Gordon 4-ever" spray-painted on it.
This is the biggest difference between Target and Walmart.
If you want a sleeve-less cowboy shirt with Taz in a race car on it, you go to Walmart. If you prefer sleeves, and like your shirts to be 'tasteful', you go to Target.

So there, much like a peanut, that's my theory in a nutshell.

BONUS: This blog's spell check tells me that I should replace "weirdos" with "hairdos". Thank you spell check.

Choices

Here's what a weirdo I am: It's Friday, and I can't decide which I'm more exited to see tonight, The latest Presidential Debate, or the Season Premiere of Star Trek: Enterprise.

I think Enterprise holds a slight edge, due to the fact that it will feature Evil Alien Space Nazis...There's not much you can do to compete with that.

Refugee

A little before 10pm last night, I found myself sitting in the living room, eating Fritos and listening to Tom Petty. It was then that I realized that life doesn't get much better.

"Duty"

So I'm watching the presidential debate last night, and I'm feeling all informed and mature, but every time President Bush said the word "duty", I would bust out laughing like a 6-year-old. And I'm thinking to myself, "Wow, I should never be allowed to vote."
But it was the way he said it. He didn't say "Du-Tee", he said "Doodie"...and dammit, that's funny.

And special thanks to Jon Stewart and the Daily Show for highlighting all of Bush's akward pauses and triple-blinks...comedy gold.

EDIT:

Apparently the Daily Show is reading my blog. Last night (10/5/04) they stole my "Duty/Doodie" joke.