miracles. (?)

Hey hey hey. Sup? Miss me? it’s been a while since I’ve blogged. And I’ve been wanting to blog for a while but haven’t gotten around to it. Sorry to disappoint my millions of loyal followers. Ok maybe not million, more like my handful that I used to have over on myspace. But then myspace died and here we are.

Anywho, so I named my blog after that icp song that is so popular to make fun of these days. It’s in honor of a miracle that happened to me today. Actually I don’t even know if that’s the name of the song. But it has something to do with miracles. I’m to lazy to look it up so deal with it.

Those of you that know me well, know that I’m constantly losing the gas cap to my jeep. For those of you that don’t know, the tail lights on jeeps stick out, and you can set stuff on them If you want. When I go and get gas, I usually take the gas cap off and set it on the tail lights. Then every once in a while I forget to put it back on and I drive off. Losing the gas cap.

Today, I decided to fill up before my drive back to school. (an hour drive). As you may have guessed, I forgot to put the gas cap back on and left it on the tail light. When I got to Dekalb, (school) I went to zip the rear window back up because I had opened it (the rear windows come off of jeeps), and I realized that the gas cap was still sitting on the tail lights!!!!!! How awesome is that? It survived the drive from West Chicago to Dekalb!! Now I don’t have to buy a new one again.

Yeah. The random mundane events that excite me and make me happy. Hey I thought It was cool and sort of a “mini-miracle”.

Also, I’m pretty excited because I got to buy tickets to go se Conan O’Brien in may. It’s gonna be sort of a mini road trip though. Gotta drive all the way out to Michigan State University to see him. Yes I’m that devoted. Both chicago shows sold out in a matter of minutes so I wasn’t able to get tickets for those shows. So yeah. Roadtrip. Gonna bet to go see one of my heroes. : )

Yeah. I don’t like this blog. But whatever. I guess I’m out of blogging “shape” since it’s been a while. Maybe I’m just not as opinionated anymore. Maybe this is just one giant “tweet” since stupid twitter only allows 140 characters.

Whatever.

Idgaf

Enjoy your spring.

better late than never i suppose

Well, I’m back in school again and you know what that means… I get to kill time in between classes and I can start writing my blogs again. Last semester was nuts and I really didn’t get to write any. Anywho, since it’s a new decade and I’ve seen a million people do it, I’m going to do my top ten albums of the last decade. So without further ado, in no particular order, here are my top ten.
(I was going to write a paragraph with each one, but it’s awfully hard to put into words how much these albums mean to me) (and I’m lazy) (let’s just say a lot)

1. The Lawrence Arms- Apathy and Exhaustion

first eviction notice - wow. What a great song. “have I invented you?” come on, genius.
your gravest words - “I’m a satellite never getting signals right” again. wow.
These probably don’t make sense since they’re out of context, but listen to the whole song if you don’t know what I’m talking about. It’ll do ya some good. Probably change your life. Haha.


2 The Lawrence Arms- The Greatest Story Ever Told

you know how album reviews will always have a part that says go download… and then it’ll have like the top two songs? Well for this, “go download” the entire album. For real.



3 The Lawrence Arms- Cocktails and Dreams

Cocktails, was a collection of b-sides, rarities, and stuff like that. But even their stuff that isn’t good enough to make it into their albums is nuts.
100 resolutions – greatest new years song of all time. One of their greatest songs of all time period.


4 Taking Back Sunday- Tell All Your Friends

yeah yeah. I’m sure I’ll catch crap for this one. But come on. AP put it best If “cute without the e” isn’t the best breakup song of all time, it certainly is the most vicious. Or something to that matter. Plus the call and call back vocals, I think it was the first time I’d actually heard that and liked it. (I was in high school when this came out, and growing up I’d listened mostly to rap).


5 Brand New- Your Favorite Weapon

Another band from jersey. What’s in the water up there? I mean besides New York’s sewage. Heyooooo!! Sorry. It was too easy. Anyway, yeah, I started playing guitar because of the whole punk rock power pop thing I fell in love with in high school. That was like well seeing how it’s the decade thing, let’s just say 10 years ago. BUT I STILL CAN’T PLAY “JUDE LAW AND A SEMESTER ABROAD”. And it pisses me off people. I start to figure it out, and then I get pissed off and do something else. One of these days people. I’ll get it. I think they tune their guitars differently. Whatever.


6 The Get Up Kids- Something To Write Home About

yeah. Technically this album was released in 1999 so it shouldn’t count, but they re-released it in 2000 with bonus songs, and again in 2009 with a dvd for a ten year anniversary thing, so I’ll allow it. Plus, it’s my fucking list and I’ll do as I please. Anyway, yeah I hate when people call me emo, but these guys are emo as fuck. And if your going to call me emo for listening to this then fuck it. I’m emo. If you go see them live, or even listen to the live cd, the last line to “I’ll Catch You” when it’s just the singer and the piano, gives me goosebumps every time. Especially when the crowd joins in. either way. It’s nuts.


7 Against Me!- Reinventing Axl Rose

for those of you that know me well, you guys know that I don’t really drink that much. But if there’s one song in the world that makes me want to sit alone in my room and drink it’s “Pints of Guiness Make You Strong”. Also, if there’s a song that makes me want to sit in a pub and drunkenly sing along to a song with a bunch of my buddies, it’s this song. The gang vocals in this song are great.


8 Alkaline Trio- Good Mourning

some might say that their earlier stuff was better blah blah blah. But playing guitar along with this album is so much fun. That is all.


9 Fall Out Boy- Take This To Your Grave

this is the band I’m positive to get crap for. But the fact of the matter is that before pete wentz was a girl jean wearing, mascara using, too good for chicago so I’ll move l.a., hipster; fall out boy was a the pretty good band from Wilmette that would play c.o.d. and random spots in wheaton, and all over the burbs. And like good mourning, incredibly fun to play along to. And while I may not be able to hit Patrick stump’s vocal range, incredibly fun to sing along to as well. This of course being the time that they exclusively used guitars, bass, and drums. Now who knows what they’re into, but it doesn’t sound like guitars. (sorry pete, had to take my shot)


10 New Found Glory- New Found Glory

I think I was listening to this album the summer when I graduated high school. Back in the day when I was young, and so full of hope. Ahhhhh. The good old days. Now I’m just some old jaded son of a… well you get the point. There are only two songs in the world that as soon as I hear the first chord can instantly make me smile. The other was written before 2000 so I can’t mention on this list. But the other is “Hit or Miss”. I’m listening to it right now, and I’m smiling from ear to ear.


So yeah. There you have it folks. My top ten. I guess I did end up writing some stuff, but not as much as I had initially hoped. Whatevs. And some of these albums were albums that were just fun to listen to. I’m not one of those pretentious douchebags that thinks, that an album needs to touch my soul in order for it to make some sort of list. Although… larry arms….you guys do it all. I probably would have put their other albums on here too, but 3 was enough. So yeah. That is all for now. Hopefully I’ll be able to blog a bit more this semester than I was able to last semester.

Toodles.

Honorable mention:

The Gaslight Anthem- The ’59 Sound
Strike Anywhere- Exit English
Sundowner- Four One Five Two

finally...

ok, so i copied all my old blogs from myspace and posted them up on here. there's two dates, because there's today's date, and the original myspace posting date. and since summer's over, i'll probably be blogging a lot more now. yeah. whatever. enjoy.

Thursday, February 12, 2009 well i guess this is growing up

Current mood: hopeful Greetings and salutations fools. Ahhhh yes, what could I possibly start this blog off with other than the greatest news in the past 4 years. BLINK-182 IS BACK!! Yeah, that’s right. I doubt anybody hasn’t heard yet, but in case you haven’t they’re back. I’m kind of excited. But kind of not. Idk. Supposedly they’re working on a new record, and I’m happy that they’re back and all, but I think I wrote about this before, where I said that their last album wasn’t really that good. They had like 2 good songs. Here’s You’re Letter and Easy Target. And Robert Smith’s song. That’s about it. So hopefully their new cd will kick ass. everybody always talks about how they don't want artists to "make the same record" and how they have to grow as artists or whatever, but i wouldn't mind a Dude Ranch part 2. haha. Also, it’s kind of hard for me to defend them from being sellouts when right away after their announcement, the next day they’re advertising their new t-shirts and hoodies German Blitzkrieg style. I mean they are advertising the shit outta these things. Whatever. After 10 years or more (fuck I don’t know how long it’s been) they’ve deserved the benefit of the doubt. I also attempted to paste their interactive logo thing on my page but I don’t think it’s working. Meh. I’m kind of more looking forward to the fact that they might tour over the summer. I’m so going. Although there’s speculation that they might be going on warped tour. I’m not really a big fan of the warped tour anymore. And I’m sure that everybody will go to warped tour just to see them, and I don’t feel like paying 70 bucks to sit in the sun and watch them for 15 minutes from a mile away. Plus the bands that play warped tour now aren’t really my thing. It’s all the metro-sexual, screamy, poppy, emoey, young, bands. The last warped tour I went to was amazing. If all those bands went again then maybe I’d consider going. The last time I went it was, bad religion, dropkick murphy’s, afi, rancid, pennywise, all the good old school bands. It went from real punks in “levi’s jeans and leather jackets” with cigarettes to middle schooler’s in skin tight pants, neon colored t-shirts and sidekicks, blackberry’s and iphones. Then there’s the whole thing with the Lawrence Arms. If Brendan Kelly is against it, than so am I lol. For those of you that don’t know here’s the story. The Lawrence Arms got kicked off of warped tour and banned for life because to put it simply, “they were too punk rock” for the warped tour. Wtf is that about? For those of you that have never been to a larry arms concert, Brendan is the lead singer. Brendan is often drunk. And Brendan likes to talk shit. A lot of shit. Haha. so whenever he was on stage at the warped tour he would start to talk shit about other bands and even the warped tour itself, stating that it’s a giant commercialization of the scene and it was killing punk rock etc… And when I say if Brendan Kelly is against it than so am I, I don’t say it just because I’m some sort of sheep. He makes valid points. Before warped tour bands would go out on tour to small clubs and take other bands with them. So every weekend it’d be a new show with new bands and these are opportunities for bands to make new fans, and they keep the small clubs in business. After warped tour, everything in the summer is just thrown together into one day out of the year. Making small clubs go out of business and killing the summer for fans, and reducing the chances of smaller bands of getting exposure. So I hope they do their own tour. I don’t want to have to go to warped. But if I have to… Also, rancid is coming out with a new album. I’m also pretty excited about that. Their last album indestructible was great. And it’s been just as long since blink put out anything, haha. and they didn’t break up. There’s a new Fast and the Furious coming out in April. Pretty excited about that too. Except my brother gets pissed, and says that they can’t ever go past what they did with Tokyo Drift. Like that’s the holy grail of racing movies or something. I disagree and thought that movie sucked hard. It’s probably my least favorite of all the fast and furious movies. I’m probably most excited about Angels & Demons. Oh man just thinking about it gets me… well yeah. I’m looking forward to it. I don’t know if I wrote about it before, but hell this is my blog and I’ll write it again if I want to. Oh, for those of you who don’t know it’s like The Davinci Code part 2 or it’s a prequel idk. But after I read davinci code, I read angels & demons and I thought it was better. I literally couldn’t put the book down. I remember I started reading it one morning in the summer out on a swing in my back yard, and I literally didn’t put it down until I was done the next morning when my dad was getting up for work. Haha. it was THAT good. And I saw bits and pieces of the trailer for it and I saw that ewan mcgregor (fuck spelling), but he’s in it and I can kind of tell which character he’s playing, and It’s going to be great. I’m kind of a nerd. I know. Ugh, and I’m also going to be depressed for a while. Stupid mexico lost yesterday to the U.S. in a world cup qualifier. (if you’re not into soccer don’t read this part or you’ll be bored out of your mind). But yeah. They lost. 2-0. Wtf. Yes yes yes I know I’m an American, and I’ll always root for the usa. EXCEPT for when they play Mexico. Then soy 100% MEXICANO!!! (insert ‘chente grito here) haha. Yeah. Wtf. I’m pissed. I’m not really into Sven Goran Ericksson. I mean c’mon, he was coach of England and somehow he failed to get them to qualify for Euro 2008. How is that even possible? He must not be that good of a coach. Also, mexico was plagued with injuries and suspensions. Personally I would have put in Memo Ochoa instead of Oswaldo Sanchez. No ladies, not because he’s hot, but because he’s the better keeper. I also would have put in Johnny Magallon instead of whoever else was playing center back. I forget his name. I also would have put in Andres Guardado instead of that blonde guy. I forget his name as well. And the forward they had in there sucked. I think his name was Carlos Ochoa. He didn’t do shit all game. I would have put in Vela. But that’s just me. Javier Aguirre just got fired from Atletico Madrid, he should be coaching Mexico. That’s what I would do. Man, if only I ran the world. That would be great. Oh, and Chris Brown hahahahahahahahaaha. That’s just hilarious. Turns out he’s a wife beater. Haha. I’d like to thank him though. That means I can move in on Rihanna now. Lol. When she first sees me her jaw will drop, and I’ll just be like (barry white voice) “yeah”. And we’ll get married that night. Haha. well that’s the way It plays out in MY mind. Lol. Man what the hell was that guy thinking?! Here’s a guy who all the girls go crazy for, he has one of the hottest girlfriends out there, and he goes and does that?!?! Oh man. Talk about career suicide. But then again some guys have game like that. I mean Drew Peterson, the guy who’s 2 past wives have mysteriously died, and who’s 3rd is still “missing”, somehow he has a new girlfriend that just moved in with him!! It was on the news the other day. This girl must be out of her freaking mind. Drew Peterson must have a magical wang because what the hell… or maybe the girl just has a death wish or something. Or she’s one of those girls that send fan mail to serial killers in prison. Idk. This world is messed up. Well whatever. I’m tired of typing now. A couple of days ago I was cleaning my hard drive of old documents that I didn’t need anymore, and I came across a bunch of George W. Bush jokes that I had saved for one of my friends. For some reason he was a staunch Bush supporter, and me well…you know me. aaaanyway, I’ll leave you with the jokes. My favorite one is the lightbulb joke. Haha. Bush and the Bible: A Letter to George Bush Dear President Bush, Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from you and understand why you would propose and support a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage. As you said "in the eyes of God marriage is based between a man a woman." I try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination... End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other elements of God's Laws and how to follow them. 1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians? 2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her? 3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanness - Lev.15: 19-24. The problem is how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense. 4. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is, my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them? 5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2. clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it? 6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there 'degrees' of abomination? 7. Lev.21:20 states that I may ! not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle- room here? 8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die? 9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves? 10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev.19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14) I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging. Three Brazilian Soldiers Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.""OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?" George W. Bush's Intelligence Quiz While visiting England, George W. Bush is invited to tea with the Queen. He asks her what her leadership philosophy is. She says that it is to surround herself with intelligent people. He asks how she knows if they're intelligent. "I do so by asking them the right questions," says the Queen. "Allow me to demonstrate." She phones Tony Blair and says, "Mr. Prime Minister. Please answer this question: Your mother has a child, and your father has a child, and this child is not your brother or sister. Who is it?" Tony Blair responds, "It's me, ma'am." "Correct. Thank you and good-bye, sir," says the Queen. She hangs up and says, "Did you get that, Mr. Bush?" "Yes ma'am. Thanks a lot. I'll definitely be using that!" Upon returning to Washington, he decides he'd better put the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to the test. He summons Jesse Helms to the White House and says, "Senator Helms, I wonder if you can answer a question for me." "Why, of course, sir. What's on your mind?" "Uh, your mother has a child, and your father has a child, and this child is not your brother or your sister. Who is it?" Helms hems and haws and finally asks, "Can I think about it and get back to you?" Bush agrees, and Helms leaves. He immediately calls a meeting of other senior senators, and they puzzle over the question for several hours, but nobody can come up with an answer. Finally, in desperation, Helms calls Colin Powell at the State Department and explains his problem. "Now look here Colin Powell, your mother has a child, and your father has a child, and this child is not your brother, or your sister. Who is it?" Powell answers immediately, "It's me, of course, you dumb ass." Much relieved, Helms rushes back to the White House and exclaims, "I know the answer, sir! I know who it is! It's Colin Powell!" And Bush replies in disgust, "Wrong, you dumb ass, It's Tony Blair!" Bush Light Bulb Joke Q: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb; it's conditions are improving every day. Any reports of its lack of incandescence are delusional spin from the liberal media. That light bulb has served honorably, and anything you say undermines the lighting effect. Why do you hate freedom? Haha, it’s great isn’t it? Whatever. Till next time fuckers.

Thursday, February 05, 2009 we were rabbit chasers

Sup turds. So uh yeah. I slept retarded last night and this morning I woke up with a messed up neck. It hurts to turn to the left. Not that you guys care, I’m just sayin. Well, only 2 people messaged me last week with requests, and to settle it I flipped a coin. Looks like you will be hearing more about my track days, because I guess that’s an area of my life not many people know about? Idk. They wanted to hear more about it. So prepare to be fucking bored. Haha. not really. I loved it. Well, let’s see where to start. Yeah. I ran track all 4 years of high school. That is all. Haha, j/k. but yeah, I ran track all 4 years of high school. Originally I joined track as a way to keep in shape and to do shit in the off-season for soccer. I ran the 800. Actually it’s the hardest race in track. Ask anybody who’s ever ran. I’m not saying it just to make it sound like I’m a badass, but yeah, I don’t remember how I ended up picking that as my race. Actually no, I take it back, I WAS A BADASS. Haha. I don’t know how other schools did it,(I’m sure they all did this), but the track team was divided into 3 groups. The sprinters, the field guys, and the long distance guys (me). our track team was about 80 kids or so. You’d think that It’d be evenly split like half sprinters half distance guys but no. it was about 50 sprinters, 15 field events guys and 15 distance guys. The long joke was that the sprinters and events guys were the “pussies” and the distance guys were the “crazy/hardcore” guys. Haha. the reason was the practices. To put it this way, we (the distance guys) actually practiced. Haha. also, the biggest thing as to why considered them pussies, and they would even agree to this sometimes, but the indoor track season would start in January. How is a distance guy supposed to practice inside during the winter? The answer is that we don’t. haha. no matter how cold it was outside, or how much snow there was, we would always go outside and run around West Chicago. IN SHORTS!! Haha. whereas the sprinters would stay in the field house and do whatever it was they did. Run back and forth or something. Pussies. So yeah, we’d always be out there taking the weather like the MEN WE ARE. Haha. also, what we actually did for practice couldn’t compare either, an easy day for them would be like doing a couple reps of whatever their event was, but not really going full speed or anything. An easy day for us was outside running 6 miles. Our hard days, were things that the sprinters couldn’t even believe. I remember once a kid who was a sprinter came out with us on a day we were doing reps of 500’s. (oh man I hated those). Once it was nice outside, the sprinters would walk out to the track (which was across the street), and do their workout. The distance guys had to run out to Ingalton ave. and do out workouts there. Ingalton was about 2 miles from the school, so once we got there, the sprinter kid was already tired and thought we were done for the day haha. once we got there and started to do our actual workout, the kid freaked out and walked WALKED back to school. We had to do out workout which was like 6 to 10 or however many reps you wanted to do of 500’s. by the way these are all meters I’m talking about. The track world, just like the rest of the world, uses the metric system haha. aaaanyway, we did our workout and then we would have to run back to school. By the time we got back, most of the sprinters were gone or just hangin out around the school. We’d always come back to, “man you guys are crazy” and shit like that. And then we would hit the weights. And then go home. Yeah. So when I read that somebody wanted to hear about my track days, I started to think about it in my political science class, because I can’t understand the teacher, so I just daydream the entire time. Aanyway, I was thinking about it and I started to remember all of the great memories I had, and how much I miss it. I’ve always considered myself a soccer player, and I’m sure everybody that knows me considers me a soccer player, but I think I miss track more than I miss soccer. Mostly because of the memories, and the friendships. Not to get all sappy and emo and shit, but as I mentioned before it was only like 15 or 10 of us. So we were all pretty close. A lot closer than the soccer team ever was. It’s hard to explain but soccer is the team sport whereas track it’s just you by yourself doing your event, but the comradery (sp.) amongst the distance guys has never been matched by anything I’ve ever done with other people. I mean, on a foggy day, when you couldn’t see who was in front of you, you could tell who it was by listening to the slap of his sneakers on the pavement. I’m thinking the only thing closer without actually being related would have to be the brotherhood that you hear about in soldiers. That sense of togetherness that only come about from spending so much time together, the torture we went through haha, and all of the great memories we had. I think nothing like that ever developed with the soccer team because for one the team was huge, and when we practiced it’s all soccer related, and the dialogue is all soccer related, “pass me the ball” “man on” “move into space” etc… Whereas with the distance guys it was only a few of us and when we would go out running we would all run together and just talk about the most random things anybody could think of. I mean we would talk about some weird shit. From the light crap like do you think so and so is hot, to some pretty heavy shit. The only comparison I can think of would be to take a car ride every day Monday through Saturday for 3 hours with no radio from January through May with your best friends. It was great. Well enough of the sentimental crap. now for some of my favorite stories. Pissing off coach carper. Hahahaha, coach carper was the girls coach. And for some reason he would always think he could tell us what to do (which he probably could have), but nobody ever listened to him and just ignored him. One example was when the girls were having a meet. Before meets, the team is supposed to set up for it by pulling out the hurdles and setting them up, setting up the mats for the high jump, etc… and just like in a movie, coach carper told the guys to help out and help set up, and everybody just stood there and ignored him like he wasn’t even there, then coach Mac came out (our coach), and told the guys to help out and immediately everybody ran off to go see what needed to be done. He would get PISSED!! Haha. To get to Ingalton, we had to run down main street and eventually down some other streets. Aaanyway, once me and a kid, broke away from the pack on main street and ran into Turner Junction, and ate tacos and French fries, then once we saw the kids coming back down main street on the return run, we paid our bill and caught up to the pack and ran back to school. Haha. the tacos were good though. The many dog chases. Not really though. Oh, once we were doing a fundraiser where we were supposed to go out and sell some card that had a bunch of coupons on it, like for a large pizza with the purchase of a large or some crap like that. We were supposedly raising money for new warm up suits or something like that. Instead, me my brother and one of our friends, pitched in bought one of the cards ourselves and went to Rosati’s and helped ourselves to the free pizza. When we got back coach was like how many did you guys sell and we were just like 1. Haha. We also lost a kid once. We found him though, but we couldn’t find him for an hour. On one of our longer routes, our 10 mile one, we run the prairie path to the Dupage County Airport and back. But we have to make some turns down some residential neighborhoods and parts of an industrial park and then eventually back onto the path. This part of west chicago is hardly seen by some people, especially the people who live in that little part of Carol Stream that somehow are in West Chicago’s school boundary. Anyway, a new kid came out with us once, and somewhere along the way we lost the kid. We got back and we were all like, “where’s so and so?”. We all figured out that we lost him, and well all took off back to the trail to try and find him. We found him in Reed Keppler park. Haha. so in reality we ended up running like 15 miles that day. But no man get’s left behind!! Haha. Making fun of whoever dropped a baton. That’s the stick that people hand off during the relays. If you drop one during an exchange, you get ridden all day for that. The random people you’d meet on the street. One time we were all running, and this old lady come out of her house and yells at us, “MY HUSBAND WAS A RABBIT CHASER BACK IN THE 60’s!!!” that was kind of funny. We all started laughing at her. Everybody would yell at us “RUN FORREST RUN” that got old real fast. Since we ran on the street the distance guys would collect hubcaps. Cars would lose hubcaps on the street and we would pick them up and bring them back and hang them up in our locker room. We had quite the collection. There was a collection before I got there, so hopefully the tradition lives on. The dump contests. Haha, they would have contests to see who could take the biggest dump. One of my friends has the all time record, I seriously doubt anybody could ever beat him. I remember that day everybody, even the coaches went into the stall and would be like “oh my god” or “what the fuck is that”. Haha. I mean, imagine a giant cinnamon roll. Nobody knows how he got it to twirl the way he did, but man, it was amazing. Oh, probably one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen was when one of my friends from soccer joined the track team. He joined and ran for one practice, and then then next day we had a meet. (he joined late). But coach mac told him he could sit out of the meet if he wanted to but he didn’t want to. He ran the 800 just like I did, but I think, they had to do 2 legs because there were a lot of people or something, I don’t remember, but I remember standing there on the side of the track and when the gun went off, he just took off. Full speed, sprinting. Everybody looked around in disbelief and was like “what the hell is he doing?”. Since he had never run in a race before, and basically had zero coaching, nobody told him how to run the race. And for those of you that don’t know, an 800 is on average (depending on the size of the track) but usually 2 laps around a track. You don’t start off sprinting when your going to run a lot because during the second lap, you’re going to be tired as hell. He hadn’t even done one lap when we could all see that he started to slow down. By the time he had 3/4ths of a lap left he was walking. Everybody had caught up and passed him, but everybody on the team was laughing at him. Eventually he started running again and finished, and everybody came up to him and was like “what were you thinking” etc… it was funny. That’s all I can think of right now, I’m getting hungry and I’m gonna go eat. If I think of more, which I assure you there are I’ll write them later in a different blog or something. Reading them over again they’re kinda lame, but whatever. These are MY memories anyway so who gives a fuck what you think. Haha. this shit’s for free anyway, By the way, I went to the mall this weekend and bought a cd for the first time since I don’t’ know how long. The gaslight anthem. For my avid blog readers, this as you may recall is the band that I deleted and then I couldn’t add again once they got huge. Well yeah. I bought the cd and I haven’t stopped playing it since. It’s one of those rare cd’s that you can listen to all the way through. Go buy it. I just saw on espn that anquan boldin says that his chances of him returning to the cardinals are “slim”. The bears better move in on that. That’d be great. Also, I’m getting sick of hearing about Michael phelps smoking pot. Who gives a shit what he does in his free time. And Jessica simpson getting fat. Who gives a shit, maybe that’s how tony romo likes his girls. I don’t see why everybody has to make such a big deal about it. Seriously I bet some 1 % of the American population has actually met these 2, but it’s all over the net. Wtf people. Alright. Peath out. Oh, and send me messages otherwise I’m just going to start writing about whatever again. (which is maybe what you guys want idk) whatever. Or don’t. Whatever. Go bears

Thursday, January 29, 2009 like the pills in your hand, i'll never let you down

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities That’s right bitches. You asked, I delivered. Last week I asked for suggestions, and I got some requests for funny and embarrassing stories. What am I a clown? Nothing I do is embarrassing. Haha j/k. well, luckily I don’t have class on Thursdays and all I do is fart around and slack on the internets. Soo.. Recently my brother showed me a video on youtube about a funny throw in. I’m sure you’ve all seen it but in case you haven’t : (sorry, i tried copying the video from myspace, but it wouldn't work) so yeah. After seeing this I realized that I’ve had a crap load of kind of embarrassing stories on the soccer field. For those of you that don’t know, I’ve pretty much played since I was like 4 or something. A long time. So yeah. Anyways, like in the video, I’ve done the exact same thing. Except without the cool flip thing. In high school, we were playing crystal lake or somebody, idk one of the northwest suburb schools that are some kind of lake. Haha. aaanyway, it was a throw in and I went to take it, I saw a kid open downfield so ran a couple of steps and threw. Unfortunately some kid from the other team anticipated my throw and decided to run with me and then in front of me, looking at my target the entire time who was in front of me. so… he had his back towards me. I saw him running in out of the corner of my eye but by that time it was too late. Ball was out and headed right at him. It hit him in the back of the head and he got knocked off balance but didn’t fall over. The ball got knocked out of bounds again. And here’s the unfortunate, funny and embarrassing part. It went out of bounds right in front of the other team’s bench. Wtf. For a couple of seconds there I was like “oh man, I better get pumped up because we’re gonna throw down right here right now”. I thought they were going to be pissed because it kinda looked like I purposefully hit the kid, but I didn’t I swear lol. Luckily though the entire team started to crack up and laugh at the kid I hit. They were all like, “nice shot” etc… everybody in the stands started laughing as well. It was kind of embarrassing. I’m sure it was more embarrassing for the other kid. Oh well. Let’s see, another time in ayso (aahhhh the ayso days). Haha. aanyway, it was the middle of the summer (keep in mind that these were the 90’s so the bulls had just won one of their championships) so I had been playing basketball all day outside with friends. Back in the day people used to call me “Rodman” because I was pretty good at getting rebounds”. So after an entire day of playing basketball outside and “hittin the boards” haha, I had to go to my soccer game. So I went and we were playing blah blah blah, and then somebody kicked a ball up, or it bounced up really high I don’t remember, but I remember getting under it and since I had been rebounding all day, I boxed my opponent out, jumped up and grabbed the ball with my hands and came down shielding the ball. Oooohhhhhhhh man. (for those of you not familiar with soccer, YOU CAN’T USE YOUR HANDS) hahahaha. Man, everybody started laughing at me again. The ref just stared at me in disbelief. For an intentional hand ball like that, refs are supposed to give the player a card. The ref was so dumbfounded he didn’t even card me. or maybe he felt sorry for me. haha. Another one, although there are varying stories for this, this the way I remember it. And since this is MY blog I’m telling it MY way. Haha. when I was really little, I remember me and a teammate were so bored because we were playing defense and I guess we had a good offense because the ball never came into our half of the field. Aanyway, we were so bored that we laid down on the ground and supposedly we were hiding, and playing army with grass as camouflage and we were shooting kids with imaginary guns. Some people say that when people eventually got to our side of the field, we got pissed because we would shoot them and they wouldn’t go down and we started to cry. Some people say that it was in an actual game. I maintain however, that it was in practice and once people got onto our half of the field, we got up and played. I don’t remember covering ourselves up with grass as our camouflage. I just remember playing army at practice one day. People try to exaggerate it to try and embarrass me but no. that’s how it went down I swear. Haha. Another time, and this is probably my most memorable one, and embarrassing for me. I was a freshman in high school and we were at practice. I don’t remember if both our goalies were injured or if one of them wanted to play the field, whatever, but point is that I was playing goalie in practice. Again like the time when I was little, I was bored as hell because the ball just seemed to be on the other end of the field and never came over to my side so I hardly saw any action. I was talking to somebody who was hangin out with me by the goal, when all of a sudden I hear “EDDIE!!” . I looked up and it was a breakaway headed right at me. I remember I ran up and covered any angles an I ran the kid out to the side of the field so I could wait for my defenders to catch up and help defend. (like any good keeper should). Haha. anyway for some reason my defenders were slacking or they stopped thinking he was offsides or something I don’t remember, but I remember that instead of my defenders coming up, it was the other teams forwards. So then it was like a 3 on 1 and I had no help. I had to keep my eyes on the ball so I wasn’t paying attention to anything behind me. I remember backpedaling and trying to cut off any angles. But it was a 3 on 1 and that’s impossible to defend against. So they scored. But once I saw them take the shot and the ball go in that’s when I realized where I was on the field. I was out of bounds on the side of the goal. THE GOAL WAS WIDE OPEN AND I WAS STANDING ON THE SIDE!! Oh man, everybody started laughing at me. I remember the coach yelling, “EDDIE WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!”. Yeah. I never played goalie again. Haha. Yeah. There are more but that’s all I can remember right now. Has anybody seen those commercials where somebody does something embarrassing and then the voice comes on “wish you could get away?” I’m sure it’s like a travel site or something idk. But I’ve got one for them. This one takes us back to my days when I ran track in high school. In track, there’s no “bench” or anything for the team to chill on when they’re not running their events. So instead we all chill in the stands with the parents and fans or whoever else is chilling there. I remember we were in a meet and a bunch of us were chilling in the stands. Somebody came up and sat with us, and was like “did you hear? So and so isn’t going to be able to run the (whatever event was next) so, so and so is going to be taking their place. I don’t remember the kids name but I remember that he wasn’t that good, so we were all like “oh no, not him, that kid sucks” and so on. Whatever. The event goes, he runs, and then the kid we were saying sucks, comes up into the stands and sits behind us. Then he asks the people behind us, “so mom, how did I do?” “want to get away?” hahahaha. Geeze, I felt like such an asshole. Oh well. Enough with the stories. It’s time for my rant of the day. It seems that these past couple of weeks I’ve been running into more and more misinformed youth. Haha. “Faith” is a George Michael song. Not a Limp Bizkit song. “love song” is a Cure song. Not a 311 song. “I can see clearly now” is a Johnny Nash song. Not a Bob Marley song. Don’t go claiming shit if you don’t know. Yeah. I’m rooting for the Steelers. Even though the cardinals used to be from Chicago, and usually I root for the underdog, this time it’s not enough. I still like the steelers. By the way who saw mayor daley say that Chicago needed 2 football teams. Just because Chicago can support 2 baseball teams, he thought we could support 2 football teams. Yeah right. Jim Rome set him straight on his show saying that this town will always be a bears town no matter what. I agree. Go Bears!!! Dammit, the super bowl hasn’t even passed and already I’m excited for next year. With the addition of Rod Marinelli, I think next years defense is going to be amazing. I’m pumped. And looking forward to the draft. Dammit, it’s still January. Wtf. Whatever. Keep sending suggestions or whatever. Peace out turds.

Thursday, January 22, 2009 louis vuitton's horses and louis vuitton's men finally put us all in our place

Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping louis vuitton's horses and louis vuitton's men finally put us all in our place Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping What up fools. So yeah. Historic week and all that. President Obama. Sounds nice. But not as nice as President Escobedo. That’s right, I would like to announce here on my blog that in 20…whatever, I’m going to run for the office of President of the United States of America!! So vote for me. And people I know will get cool cabinet positions. The Lawrence arms and Against Me! will play at my inaugural ball. It’s gonna be great people. First thing I will do…mandatory driving tests for all people, except they will be real tests. Not the crap you get now where it’s like, “can you make a right turn?” “how about a left?” Better yet, a common sense test. Everybody that fails will be kicked to Canada. Or Alaska with Sarah Palin. Lately I’ve been noticing how dumb people can be. Not dumb, but just idk. Stupid. Lacking common sense. For example, when entering or leaving through a set of doors, there’s usually a right door, and a left door. Obviously so people can come in and exit in a timely fashion, people should stick to the right. So people can come in and exit at the same time. Why is it that some fucking retards decide to use both doors, so people trying to come in can’t, because both doors are being used for people to exit. Or enter. Causing a massive backup of people either trying to get in or out. WTF MORONS!! AAAAnd I’ll bet you twenty million dollars that these are the same jackasses that cause backups on freeways, and don’t know how to drive. Gapers’ delay has got to be one of the biggest things that piss me off. QUIT BEING NOSEY FUCKS AND DIRVE ASSHOLES!! Also I’m going to make it a felony to drive and be on the phone at the same time. I hate being at a red light and the douchebag in front of you isn’t paying attention because he’s on the phone, and the light turns green and they don’t go. Then after a couple of seconds you honk, they get pissed off and flick you off like we’re the assholes. If you life in Illinois, and it snows at least 2 inches, I’m going to make it mandatory that you buy a car with 4 wheel drive. Aaaaand, you have to pass a test to be able to be allowed to drive in the snow. I hate being stuck behind morons that can’t drive in the snow. But enough about retards. I’m also going to have the top scientists in the world come up with a comment button for myspace profile version 1.0. 2.0 has a comment button on the top which is awesome. I hate when people have a million different photobucket pictures on their profiles and it takes a couple months for their profile to load on the computer. Or there should be like a maximum amount of photobucket or other image hosting sites, urls that can be put on a profile. Wtf. I just wanted to say “hi”. Aaaaand, a majority of the time, they are all the same pictures anyway. Not that they have the same picture over and over, but different people have the same pictures as other people. You guys know who I’m talking about. They AAALLLLLLL listen to the same music, they AAAAALLLLLLL have the same pictures, and they AAAALLLLLLL claim to be one of a kind. Whatever. These are the people I’m talking about WHY…DOES…EVERYBODY…NEED…TO…POST…THESE? And they all have the same profile. Some neon color, black, some kind of animal skin somewhere, zebra or leopard print, gold, louis vuitton this juicy couture that. And like I said, they all claim to be “one of a kind”. Sheep. Well, I certainly went on quite the rant there didn’t I? My apologies. Except to the hundreds of you that have said profile. You should apologize to us for your lack of individuality. Haha. j/k. Let’s see. What else…. Last blog I wrote about my beard. I shaved over the weekend. I miss it now. I feel naked without it. Oh I got something to write about. I’m listening to a podcast, and one of the questions just asked was, “tell me about one of the times you almost died on tour?” I’ve never been on tour, but I’ll tell you about a time I almost died. It’s probably the closest I’ve ever come to dying. I lead a pretty dull life. Haha. aanyway, I was driving home from somewhere, and those of you that know where I live, know that there’s like 2 ways into my subdivision where I live. One of them is across some train tracks. There’s a road that runs parallel to the tracks, and I was on this road when a train was going to beat me to the road that crosses the tracks. There’s also a road on the opposite side of the tracks that also runs parallel to the tracks. So I thought that I could beat the train, so I took off. Luckily I did beat the train. However, on the opposite side of the train, there was also a guy that thought the same thing. So we were both headed for each other, he trying to get out of the subdivision and me trying to get in. I guess we were both keeping eyes on the train instead of oncoming traffic, when we both turned onto the road to cross the tracks. Right hand turn for me and right hand turn for him, we met in the middle of the intersection where the train crosses. We both swerved and missed each other narrowly avoiding a head on collision. If we both would have had a head on collision right there, we both would have been hit by the train moments later had we stopped right there. Luckily we missed and got across the tracks just as the gates were coming down. It was like something out of a movie. Yup. I don’t race trains anymore. Oh, I got another near death experience. Once I did a backflip into the shallow end of a pool and hit my head on the bottom of the pool. I probably gave myself a concussion. Idk. I was little. And looking back I’m pretty sure I had the symptoms of a concussion, but being a little kid I didn’t know that a concussion was a serious thing. I was like meh, It’s probably just a headache. Yeah. That one’s not that exciting. So let’s try something new. Today I couldn’t think of anything to write, luckily though I went off on a rant, but I couldn’t think of anything to write, so for next time, if anybody has a question or want me to write about something, message me your inquiries haha. idk. Just so I have something new to write about. It could be a cool change of pace. Whatever. If nobody asks well then fuck you all. Haha. j/k. Well, tis all for now losers. Ask away.