And If I never was a loser growing up
don't think I would've tried to study hard
But maybe if I didn't spend so much time on Warcraft
I'd learn to play a song you deserve
They laugh off the danger
break all the rules & I
want to join them
Are we called to something more? I hope so
Otherwise we're the hopeless among men
Life is an ocean
but we're calmly wading, hoping, praying for a shark attack
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
T.S.R.
Current Weight: 206 lbs.
I'm changing my writing style as an experiment. We're only going to focus on one topic each post. When I started writing the older posts I would loose interest half way, get bored & cap it off some how uninteresting. So we're just going to talk about a favorite band of mine, "Against Me!".
I first heard of Against Me! in the Winter of 2003, on Mitch Clem's website Nothing Nice 2 Say. I had no idea who the band was but Mitch is great about setting up punch lines so I just let it go & waited for the next update. Throughout NN2S's run AM! jokes continued & I kept thinking "I really need to check out this band, hell- in his first news post about then Mitch said they were God's of Punk Rock." but I was too lazy.
When I got to college my neighbor/roommate/friend/philosophy advocate Daryl & I started swapping mix tapes & he asked what I liked because he knew of this great acoustic punk band from Florida that he thought I would like a whole lot. I asked what their name was & then fell out of the chair when he said "Against Me! The apostrophe is theirs, it makes it sound charged up when you say it out loud." So he gave me a copy of Crime as Forgive by Against Me! their second acoustic EP. Holy Kablamos is this an awesome record. Every question running through Tom Gabel's chorus' were things I was wondering about, it was like AM! was offering a handshake. "Welcome to young adulthood spiked with conscious decisions. It never gets easier. Try to stay comfortable." I still scream along to Y'all Don't Wanna Step to Dis, What We Worked For, and the rest of the album.
If anyone is looking for some simple, stripped-out songs speaking on the comfort pains of living in too familiar of a place, relationships that could never last but have been started, and seeing the inner workings of a touring band Against Me! is the place to go..
Maybe somehow
This scam will still save us all...
I'm changing my writing style as an experiment. We're only going to focus on one topic each post. When I started writing the older posts I would loose interest half way, get bored & cap it off some how uninteresting. So we're just going to talk about a favorite band of mine, "Against Me!".
I first heard of Against Me! in the Winter of 2003, on Mitch Clem's website Nothing Nice 2 Say. I had no idea who the band was but Mitch is great about setting up punch lines so I just let it go & waited for the next update. Throughout NN2S's run AM! jokes continued & I kept thinking "I really need to check out this band, hell- in his first news post about then Mitch said they were God's of Punk Rock." but I was too lazy.
When I got to college my neighbor/roommate/friend/philosophy advocate Daryl & I started swapping mix tapes & he asked what I liked because he knew of this great acoustic punk band from Florida that he thought I would like a whole lot. I asked what their name was & then fell out of the chair when he said "Against Me! The apostrophe is theirs, it makes it sound charged up when you say it out loud." So he gave me a copy of Crime as Forgive by Against Me! their second acoustic EP. Holy Kablamos is this an awesome record. Every question running through Tom Gabel's chorus' were things I was wondering about, it was like AM! was offering a handshake. "Welcome to young adulthood spiked with conscious decisions. It never gets easier. Try to stay comfortable." I still scream along to Y'all Don't Wanna Step to Dis, What We Worked For, and the rest of the album.
If anyone is looking for some simple, stripped-out songs speaking on the comfort pains of living in too familiar of a place, relationships that could never last but have been started, and seeing the inner workings of a touring band Against Me! is the place to go..
Maybe somehow
This scam will still save us all...
Monday, December 7, 2009
When I'm through, scuzzbucket, they're gonna scrape you off the walls with a squeegee!
Current weight: 204 lbs.
So I'm playing thought Fallout [the original- it's a combo pack with that, Fallout 2, and Brotherhood of Steel.] I was using a walk-through to beat the game quickly but I'm having so much fun with it I'm debating going back & starting over, I know where the key objectives are now but I just want to do all the side stuff.
I think this is why I loved but never completed Morrowind; I enjoy the world & people more than the overall quest. Or maybe it's that I wanted to immerse myself as much as possible to strive for a sense of resonance with the NPC's. Sure they wanted me to kill Dagoth Ur, but maybe he's a nice guy? Huh. Turns out he's not so nice. He sent vampires & brainwashed slaves to kill me. I understand the plight of these people a little clearer now.
Have I mentioned I own one of those Bender Balls? They're just miniature balance balls you see at the gym. The ones with people just trying to lay backwards on them but they end up pile driving themselves into the ground? I've been using it to get in better shape for my wedding. The first week and a half I had a problem with it though & it's the same problem I have with most exercise tools like that that aren't free weights or running. It felt good but it didn't make me look good. I look at myself now & sure I can see the improvements, my stomach is closer to me & not rolling out from my pants but that notion I had originally bothers me. Why do I feel so entitled to see immediate results? I think I watched too much G.I. Joe as a kid, internet. So aside from decidedly *not* looking like Sgt. Slaughter I am enjoying the little ball. [Secret note to Sgt. Slaughter: I always picked you over Duke, that guy was a chump!]
And there will be a poetry
spoken silently between me and the stereo
-Against Me!
So I'm playing thought Fallout [the original- it's a combo pack with that, Fallout 2, and Brotherhood of Steel.] I was using a walk-through to beat the game quickly but I'm having so much fun with it I'm debating going back & starting over, I know where the key objectives are now but I just want to do all the side stuff.
I think this is why I loved but never completed Morrowind; I enjoy the world & people more than the overall quest. Or maybe it's that I wanted to immerse myself as much as possible to strive for a sense of resonance with the NPC's. Sure they wanted me to kill Dagoth Ur, but maybe he's a nice guy? Huh. Turns out he's not so nice. He sent vampires & brainwashed slaves to kill me. I understand the plight of these people a little clearer now.
Have I mentioned I own one of those Bender Balls? They're just miniature balance balls you see at the gym. The ones with people just trying to lay backwards on them but they end up pile driving themselves into the ground? I've been using it to get in better shape for my wedding. The first week and a half I had a problem with it though & it's the same problem I have with most exercise tools like that that aren't free weights or running. It felt good but it didn't make me look good. I look at myself now & sure I can see the improvements, my stomach is closer to me & not rolling out from my pants but that notion I had originally bothers me. Why do I feel so entitled to see immediate results? I think I watched too much G.I. Joe as a kid, internet. So aside from decidedly *not* looking like Sgt. Slaughter I am enjoying the little ball. [Secret note to Sgt. Slaughter: I always picked you over Duke, that guy was a chump!]
And there will be a poetry
spoken silently between me and the stereo
-Against Me!
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