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.

Thursday, January 15, 2009 jeeebus christ it's like fucking hoth outside.

Well, it’s -12 degrees outside. That’s without the wind too so I’m sure it feels like -50 or something. Stupid northern didn’t cancel school. But oh well. I could care less. Guess who has two thumbs and doesn’t have classes on Thursday? This guy right here!! It doesn’t really work when you type it out though. You have to imagine me pointing at myself with my two thumbs. Yeah. So I don’t have school today and I don’t plan on walking out into Hoth. so thought I would write out part two of the other blog. Except I don’t remember where I left off last time so I guess it’ll just be a new one. Let’s see, where to begin… Well, it’s hard to start off with anything other than the freaking shitstorm that is covering Illinois right now. And by shit, I mean snow, and by storm I mean there is none, it’s just freezing balls. And that was just yesterday when it was like 0 or something. Luckily though I haven’t shaved since like mid December, so I’ve got the hardcore beard going. Haha. I think this is the longest I’ve ever gone in my life without shaving. It’s kinda cool. The other day I when I went to go buy my books, the lady asked for my driver’s license because idk, she had to see it or something, but anyway she looks at the picture, and then she looks at me and does like a triple take. Haha. later when I got home I looked at my i.d. and I was like, “yeah, I don’t look anything like that anymore”. Haha. I think I need a new one. In my i.d. I had short hair, and was clean shaven. Since then, I’ve let my hair grow, I haven’t shaved in like a month or more, I was wearing glasses, and I pierced my lip. I probably need to take more pictures and update my myspace/facebook so you guys can see what I look like right now, but alas, I don’t know where my camera is. Lolololol. Sorry. So yeah. Back to the beard. Since it’s pretty hardcore now, yesterday I got to experience something I’ve never experienced before in my life. I’ve seen it happen to other dudes and I’ve kind of laughed at them. And I’m sure you all have seen it in the movies too. Or in real life if you spend a lot of time outside with bearded men when it’s freezing. THE FROST ON THE BEARD!! Haha. I walked into a building and I took off my gloves, and I went to just wipe my nose and I felt the frost and ice on my ‘stache. Haha I felt like such a hobo. But whatever. It keeps me warm so fuck you whoever’s judging me. Haha. I’m probably going to shave soon so because I think it’s supposed to go back up to 30 next week. Haha, (like that’s warm). Wtf. The mls super draft is on espn right now and the fire doesn’t pick until late in the 2nd round. That blows. Also, espn if you’re reading this, enough with the Tony Dungy retiring coverage. Yes, he’s gonna be a hall of famer, and he’s a great coach, but do you really have to keep showing the colts celebrating their super bowl win? For those of you wondering why this bothers me and don’t live in Illinois, they beat our beloved Bears. This entire week I went into a slight depression. Haha. not really but, wtf. Dammit! Espn2 just cut their coverage of the draft to mike and mike in the morning. I didn’t get to see who the fire was gonna draft. Wtf. Again. I swear in between this blog and the last blog I must have typed “wtf” like 50 times. Why is everybody trying to piss me off. Haha. It’s pretty hard to piss me off though. I can count on one hand the amount of people that have ever seen me pissed off. I’m really really really really REALLY easygoing. People tell me that they think I’m always stoned or something just because I’m so laid back. The people that have seen me pissed off would have to be my mom, dad, my brother, and some guy I used to work with. One of my friends really enjoys listening to the story of the guy from work pissing me off so I guess I will tell you all too. I don’t think it’s funny but he seems to crack up. (josh you’re an asshole) haha. Well anyways, back in the day I used to work on the salesfloor at target. And we used to have a guy who would put up the signs every Saturday night that would say which items are one sale. Well he didn’t want to do it anymore, so the store needed some other people to do it. So somehow I ended up having to have to do it with some other guy. So basically what the job consisted of was getting there at 9 at night and putting up the signs under every single sale item that was in that weeks add. You tear off little perforated signs from a bigger sheet, slip them into a plastic holder, and hook them up under the item in the store. The shift was supposed to be from 9 p.m to 6 a.m. sounds easy right? WRONG!! Boy was I wrong. I don’t know how in the hell the guy before us used to do it, but he would always come in and do the entire store by himself!! Well on the day that I did it, we fell sooooooo far behind. And what pissed me off was that I ended up doing the entire store by myself, and the guy I was working with (who was my boss by the way) only did like 8 aisles over in market. Like the pop aisle and the potato chip aisle. It was 11 a.m. the next morning and we still weren’t done. Boy was I pissed. I don’t think I’d ever been or ever have been that pissed before in my life. I think it was mostly the fact that I didn’t take a nap or adjust my sleep schedule the day before in anticipation of the fact that I was going to do an overnight shift, so I was sooooooo tired. So tired and pissed don’t mix too good. You guys know the scene in office space (classic) where peter just walks by lumberg even though lumberg is talking right at him? Well yeah I pulled that one off a couple of times that day. Towards noon the next day I was pretty sure I was going to get fired because by that point I was just walking around aimlessly putting up random signs anywhere. Until finally my other boss was just like, “go home eddie”. And I just walked out of that place. Reading over the story I realize that it’s probably the way I tell the story not the actual story that makes my friend laugh. But whatever. At least now you all know. Not that you wanted to but… Yeah. They’re showing tony dungy winning the super bowl again. So yeah. After that flashback I don’t feel like writing anymore. Peath out losers.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 sending postcards from a plane crash (wish you were here)

Current mood: blank Category: Food and Restaurants Well, it’s a new year. New beginnings, new hopes, blah blah blah. I hope you all had a merry x-mas etc… that being said, ‘tis time for me to start the blog again. Over break I kept coming up with things I was gonna write about, certain things that would just piss me off or make me wonder. But alas, I forget them all. Haha, that was one of the things actually, some kid I work with would constantly write “alas” in our communication binder, where we leave notes for the next person to come in. mostly they just write stuff down when they break the machines, and then I have to come in and fix them, aanyway this kid kept writing “but alas” and I thought It was funny and i was like “man, I’m gonna have to include that in my blog the next time I write”. But alas, it comes out stupid when I do it. Haha Sorry. Ok, seriously now, it seems that I have a lot of bad habits, and they’ve all been coming back and biting me in the ass these past couple of weeks. First, I’m the kid in class that everybody hates, not because I’m an asshole, but because I’m the kid that never shows up for class, never does homework, shows up for tests and gets A’s and B’s. I’ve kind of always been that kid. The last time I remember actually sitting down to do homework was in 6th grade and I’m 25 now. Aaaanway, that’s gonna have to change. Last semester I took an economics class that of course I never went to. I just so happened to miss the day that he handed out a list of data assignments that we were supposed to do over the course of the semester and hand in at various points. So I never did any of them and they were worth a huge chunk of our grade. At the end of the semester I tried to argue that it wasn’t on the syllabus etc… and he would just not have it. Usually I can talk my way out of pretty much anything but this guy was a brick wall. So I got a D in the class. WTF. So now I’m probably going to have to re-take it and actually go. What a waste of time and money. I was and am pissed. Sort of. It was my fault but still, it should have been on the syllabus. Right? Whatever. Second. Those of you that know me, know that I drive a jeep. It has a soft top on it, and I’ve gotten into the habit of whenever it snows, instead of gently brushing the snow off the rear window, I just whack it with my snow brusher (what the hell is it called? Whatever you know what I’m talking about), but I just hit the rear window and all the snow just falls off in one quick motion instead of brushing it all off. Well anyway, over break, on one of those days that it was insanely cold, I went and hit it and I guess the plastic was sooo frozen that part of the rear window just shattered as if it were glass. WTF. So now I have clear mailing tape holding my rear window together. It doesn’t look so bad though because I am a badass and I fixed it pretty good. But anyway WTF. Third. Who’s heard of the Gaslight Anthem? Well back in the day when they weren’t that good, they used to add me all the time on myspace. I accepted them once, but in one of my deletion frenzies when I do maintenance and remove people that just added me to make their friends list ginormous (gynormous) whatever, I deleted them from my friends. Then they kept adding me and since they kept adding me I kept denying the request because they were getting annoying. All this by the way and I don’t think I had heard one of their songs yet. Or the stuff off of their old cd sucked. Aaanyway, this year they broke out and now their huge. I’ve been hearing their songs on the radio and wherever, and they are pretty damn good. They were on everybody’s lists of top records of 2008 etc… they also stopped adding me a while back. So of course I go and try to add them now, and now you need to know their last name to add them. WTF. My, how the tables have turned. Haha. Assholes. Now just because off that I’m going to download their shit off of limewire. Take that. And I encourage you all to do the same. j/k j/k. There were a lot more, but those are the only 3 I can think of right now. Maybe if I remember, tomorrow I’ll write part 2 of this here blog. Whatever. I don’t know if any of you read my bulletin yesterday, it was some lame survey because I was bored, well anyway, I wrote about how one of my profs. Was Japanese and had that stereotypical accent where they say r’s instead of l’s. so instead of saying really they’ll say reary. What made it worse was the fact that she also talked like she had some botched collagen lip injections. I wrote about how it was going to be a long semester. Well god must have read that bulletin because today I met my t.a. for my stats class. Wtf. He’s from like some eastern European country, so he has the hardcore eastern European accent. But as I mentioned yesterday I can deal with accents. This guy however speaks so quietly that I’m not even sure he can hear himself. He told us his name, but nobody heard him. Then he went to write it down because I’m sure he picked up the vibe that nobody understood him, and of course, he has the shittiest hand writing of all time. I think his name was Konstantine or Korstartir. Idk. His last name I’m not even going to attempt. He was also wearing a light blue velvet suit jacket. Hahahahahaha. His fashion sense we’ll leave for a different blog. Haha. Maybe those are all the rage in Ukraine or wherever he’s from. Idk. Yup. Speaking of weird voices, has anybody ever heard miley cyrus talk? Why are little girls obsessed with this chick? She’s the Hannah Montana girl right? Well anyway I heard her being interviewed for some new years eve thing or something, and holy shit was I taken aback. She’s got a deeper voice than most dudes I know. Haha. I’ve never watched Hannah Montana but now I’m curious to find out if she sings like Louis Armstrong or something hahaha. She sings on her show right? I think so. If given the choice I’d still vote for Blagojevich over George W. Bush anyday. The guitar solo in “The Trooper” by Iron Maiden is the greatest guitar solo of all time. Or maybe I should say solos since they are dueling. Da Bears need a wide receiver. Could you imagine if opposing defensive coordinators had to game plan against a wide out, Greg Olsen, Devin Hester, AND Matt Forte? Oh man. Saaaaaawwweeeeeeeet. Rod Marinelli’s coming to help our D-line. Maybe we can get some sacks next year. I’m not too thrilled about the new defensive backs coach though. I wouldn’t say the ineffectiveness of our backs last year was due to the coach, it was that somebody was always injured so they never got into any sort of rhythm and they never established any chemistry because they were always rotating. Whatever though. We’ll see next year. Also the cubs got Milton Bradley. Hahahahaha. I can’t wait to watch the cubs self-destruct from the inside this year. Hahahahahahahaha. I’m calling it now, Milton Bradley is going to destroy that team. Sorry cub fans. GO SOX!! Also, books in college should be free. We already pay so much for tuition then we gotta go and pay for books. I just spent 500 bucks on books I’m never going to read. Wtf. Manchester United crushed Chelsea over the weekend. Which was awesome. 3 nil. Hahahahahaha. For those of you that don’t really follow the EPL, that’s like the Bears beating the Packers 30 to 0. No, no I got a better example, that’s like the Sox beating the Cubs if George Steinbrenner owned the Cubs and spent a trillion dollars a year bringing in the best “talent” year in and year out. Except instead of only having the minor league and part of south America to draw your talent from, you have the entire world because not everybody plays baseball, but everybody plays soccer. Hahahahaha, suck it Chelsea. Ohhhhh, that’s what another one of my bad habits was that I forgot to mention. I always take my ipod to work and listen to music. Then when I go on break I just put it in my back pocket and go sit down and eat. Well, finally after all these years, and all the abuse I put it though, I sat down on it and the screen cracked. So now all I see is a giant black splotch and a crack down the middle. I can still listen to music I just can’t navigate anywhere because I can’t see anything. So for the past month or so I’ve been listening to a 90’s playlist I made a while ago because that’s the only thing I can find and I don’t want to back out of it and then never find my way back into a playlist. Haha. So rest in pieces ipod. A positive that has come out of it though is that I listen to the radio again now. After I got my ipod I bought the road trip thing so that I could listen to it in my car and for the past couple of years I haven’t listened to the radio. So now I’m back to WONC 89.1. haha. It’s funny how after a couple of years I could still remember their little ads. My favorite would have to be the Bill Cosby impersonation, “you see the kids they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage, so they don’t remember what “commercial free rock” is all about. You see?” haha. Cracks me up every time. So anyway, I’ve been discovering new music this past month. Which is awesome. Remember a couple of blogs ago when I wrote that I went to hot topic and saw a band that had the coolest name but I couldn’t remember it? Well I heard them on the radio and I heard their name again. Forever the Sickest Kids. That’s pretty cool. Their music is alright, but the name is cool as hell. Speaking of cool names for bands, the other day I was watching Ferris Bueller’s day off. (classic) but I only watched like 30 minutes of it, but in those 30 minutes I came across so many names for bands during the movie. For example, the sign on the water tower that says Save Ferris. I think that is a band actually. But it it isn’t it should be. Here are some more Baseball, Shame, and Cocaine My Father’s Gun and a Scorching Case of Herpes Hmm, now that I actually type them out they seem like better names for songs than actual bands. I’m sure Fall Out Boy saw this and that’s where they get their wordiness for song titles. Haha. but I’m sure if you watched the whole movie you’d find a lot more. I’m sure you could make a drinking game out of it. Lol. Wow, if you’ve read this far you must have been pretty bored. There was more I wanted to write about but I’m tired of writing now. Also, people that end their messages, blogs, e-mails, comments, messages, etc… with “cheers” should be shot. Salud haha

Tuesday, January 06, 2009 dammit, thanks to the backlash this is the 4th version of this blog in 20 minutes.

Current mood: annoyed well, somebody posted a blog and I felt that it warranted a response, and someone needed to stick up for us men. Haha. So the first part, is stuff that "men need to know", and the second parts are my responses. Haha. Enjoy. MEN NEED TO KNOW... 1.I love it when you hug me from behind and whisper in my ear. Who doesn't? 2."Fine" is never an appropriate response when I ask you how I look. If a boy really likes you, you look amazing the in your first outfit. By the 5th time you've asked us we're annoyed and we say "fine". 3.Most of the time when I fantasize, it's about you. If this were true, women would never cheat. 4.I expect you to call me. Insecure are we? Every great relationship is built on trust. 5.I'm more forgiving of you than I really should be. No witty comeback. Thank you ladies. 6.Oral sex is your get-out-of-the-doghouse-free card. A really sweet gesture can also do the trick depending. Duh. 7.No matter how cool we seem about it, if you did something bad, we're pissed off. Why would you lie to us? 8.If I'm not having sex with you, I'm... a). ...having a fat day. b). ...not feeling "connected" to you. c). ...blackmailing you to get something I want. Letter C, more specifically, "bitches" haha. 9.My breasts love much licking and sucking. ok. 10.If you ask me out directly, I will say yes If this were true, classic pickup lines like, "did it hurt? What? The fall from heaven because you must be an angel" would have never been invented!! And everybody knows that this just isn't true. 11.I'm very impressed when you ask for my advice. Hopefully not all women are this easily impressed. 12.We're unimpressed by men who don't take the lead. Be a man, dammit! On the other hand if we were to say "we're very unimpressed by women who don't have dinner on the table when we get home. Be a woman, dammit!" how sexist would this be? And, men are also impressed when women take the lead. 13.watch and wash your fingers Duh. 14.I love it when you hold my hand. Really? I didn't know that (sarcasm) 15.We need to hear how you feel about us. Tell us right now. And again in ten minutes. If we wanted to be with uptight, insecure, make-out machines, we'd go back to high school. Confidence is also a turn on for men. 16.I want to be the best thing that ever happened to you--and for you to recognize this. When we find the best thing that has ever happened to us why would we not recognize this? Ladies, if you think your man doesn't recognize this, maybe you're not the best thing that has ever happened to him. 17.Make sure I'm feeling love, if you don't want to lose me. Don't feel sorry for yourselves ladies, leave the guy. Duh. 18.None of your ex-girlfriends were ever nicer, prettier, or better in bed. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaa, Really? Only 3 girls could actually claim this, the nicest girl in the world, the prettiest girl in the world, and the best girl in bed in the world. I doubt this list was typed by one of those 3 girls out of the millions of girls out there. But then again everything is relative so idk. This is just retarded and should be deleted from this so called "list" 19.I like it when you tell me what you're thinking, even if you don't know yourself. Wtf does this mean? Lol. 20.I should always be greeted with kisses. Except when you're mad. Or when it's that time of the month. Or right out of bed. Or… 21.Even nice girls like hushed dirty talk in public skanks lol. 22.It's cheating as soon as you're doing something with her that you wouldn't want me to see, hear, read... It's cheating as soon as you're doing something with Him that you wouldn't want us to see, hear, read. 23.For the record: I'd rather you break up with me than cheat. So do we. 24.I remember EVERY SINGLE THING about our relationship. This is one where men are always stereotyped. And it kind of annoys me. You asking us what song was playing in the background when we first met, is like us asking you who was the starting left guard for the bears when we met you at the bears game. And maybe it's just a Mexican thing, but get a Mexican man drunk, and he remembers EVERYTHING lol. 25.If guys' night out is going to involve strippers, remember the zoo rules: No Petting. Every guy has heard the stories about the girls at the bachelorette party feeling up, grinding on, and giving the male stripper a blowjob. What? It's not true? Only the slutty girls do that? The slutty girls are giving the nice girls a bad wrap and now I'm stereotyping all women? Hmm…it's the same with us. (by the way, I typed blowjob as two separate words and my computer automatically fixed it for me. Wtf. Lol.) 26.Answering "Who was that on the phone?" with "Nobody" is never going to end that conversation. We've figured that out. And again, it's the same with us. 27.Believe it or not, you're probably not more attractive when you're drunk or high. I beg to differ. Haha. 28.Never let her walk anywhere alone after 11pm. Who the fuck does this? 29.Don't let your friends pick on her The girl who typed this list must have dated some real dicks in her lifetime. Stop stereotyping us. 30.Don't lie. We're going to find out sooner or later. Let's face it, no you won't. But at the same time you will also tell us lies that we will never figure out, don't kid yourselves ladies, you lie too. 31.MORE foreplaying dammit, is this a list for men or jr. high kids? 32.If you did something wrong or even if you didn't, apologize even if you didn't? yes master. Haha. 33.Don't ask us to give head; if you are nice you just might get it. Yeah ok. (as I roll my eyes) 34.Hugs and kisses must be given at all times. I think I responded to this already. 35.Don't make bets about us, we always find out. Omg, again? What are you all detectives? If that's the case why not put all your skills to good use and figure out a solution to the situation between Israel and Hamas? And no ladies, Hamas is not the new kind of handbag that juicy couture just put out. 36.The female always makes The Rules Make up your mind, do you find it impressive when we take the lead or not? 37.No male can possibly know all The Rules. Neither do you. 38.If the female suspects the male knows all The Rules, she must immediately change some or all of The Rules. Looks to me like the girl is the one trying to sabotage relationships here. 39.We are never wrong This doesn't even deserve a response. 40.The male is expected to mind read at all times. As are women. 41.You don't need to tell the whole world what we did in private, that's a turn off. Hahaha, and yet women take pride in the fact that they tell all their girlfriends EVERYTHING. 42.Freaky is not bad, just make us feel comfortable and let's keep it between us. Lol. Bring on the rusty trombones hahahahahahaha. 43.Shorts and socks with sandals is NOT sexy. Personally I've only seen old men pulling this one off. I'm sure anyone with a myspace is hip enough to know this. 44.Pictures and videotapes are part of PRIVACY!! Don't show or tell the world. How else will we make a quick buck then? Haha. 45.If you don't want us let us know No. the possibility of being miserable with you instead of trying to find "the best thing that ever happened to us" makes us happy. 46.Don't say you feel something for us, when you don't just because you want to fuck.we're not toilets!! And we're not ATM's. 47.Don't look at our friends. Don't look at ours. 48.Yes, we get jealous, but it's because we care and we don't want to lose you. Right back atcha homie. 49.Sometimes we want to know you get jealous too, we want to know you care. I should have read a head. But again, right back atcha. 50.You should know all this and more without me telling you. The rules are never fair. Accept this without question. Yes master. Well, it seems to me that this "list" is totally stupid and pointless. It's full of double standards, generalizations, and stereotypes, and seems to have been written by a girl who has dated a bunch of d-bags and seems to paint herself as an all-knowing being, and men as a bunch of dim-witted morons. What bothers me is the amount of times I've seen lists like this posted and re-posted when in reality women, and men for that matter don't know what the hell they want. And often they are posted by people that are really young. I'm not claiming that at 25 I'm an expert at the complex idea of love, but I know that it's something you have to work for. And only a young disillusioned "bitch" for lack of a better word, would be typing about "changing rules". I think there's a quote that goes, "the smarter we become, the more we realize we don't know shit" at least I think that's how it goes. I'm sure I butchered it somewhere, but the point is that nobody should claim that they're experts on their own sex or the opposite sex because well, you don't know shit. And the girl that wrote this needs to grow the fuck up. Hopefully I didn't come off as some mean old man, because I'm not. Originally I had started it off as some humorous retort to all of these stupid statements and then went off on a rant as I usually do. I'd like to finish by pointing out the fact that if it wasn't for girls like this, The Bouncing Souls would have never written Hopeless Romantic. So I'll leave you with the lyrics if you've never heard the song before. Go buy the cd. Haha Bouncing Souls, Hopeless Romantic I don't know what other people see, or what they think is love, but I know know what it means to me, I fall in love so easily. And it's hard to let your guard down, something you never wanted to do, but I gave you my love and if you turned away, I guess I'd be screwed, but... I'm a hopeless romantic, you're just hopeless. Beer and wine does me fine, but it doesn't always do. When I get back up and dust off, I always come back to you. I'm my own man with my own plan, I can't do the things you want me to. I'm kinda' lazy and I kinda' stink, but I'll clean myself up for you. I'm a hopeless romantic, you're just hopeless, I'm a hopeless romantic, you're just hopless, you're just hopeless, you're just hopeless. Oh, and if guys copy this and repost it as I'm sure some will, do me the favor and leave out my rant/blog part at the end. I'm sure people will add to it and then something the was not my intention will be out there floating around on the internets. Haha. School starts next week, so you can look forward to more blogs those of you that actually read this thing. And I hope you all had a good past couple of weeks and all that stuff. Whatever. Peath out losers.

Monday, December 08, 2008 i'm not crazy because i take the right pills

Current mood: anxious well, to my legions of fans out there lol. i'd like to apologize for not posting a blog last week. it was thanksgiving and i was busy. or was that the week before? fuck it i don't remember anymore. but i've been busy. and i'd like to apologize in advance because i don't think i'll be posting any blogs over christmas break. i tend to write in this thing only when i'm supposed to be studying or writing a paper. and since i'll be on break i'll be doing other more fun things than worry about homework and procrastinate 'till 5 minutes before it's due. so, this will probably be the last blog until mid januaryish. aaanyway, so how was everybody's thanksgiving? mine was alright. i had another one of those moments when you realize that you're getting old. i was at my uncle's house and i found my little cousin's guitar, and started playing some songs. badly i might add because it's a little kids guitar and my fingers where too big to hit just one string at a time, so i'd try and hit a string and i'd accidentally hit the one beneath it at the same time. wasn't too bad though. aaaaanyway, i played some sublime tunes, and then i figured out the intro riff to a bob marley song that's on my cousins myspace profile. then, it happened. i asked if anybody had any requests and my little cousin asked me if i knew any jonas brothers songs. normally with my punk rock attitude i'd be like "fuck no" or whatever but what do you say to a little girl who's crazy about these little d-bags? i did the only logical thing and played her some bouncing souls instead. lol. stupid jonas brothers. maybe i should listen to a jonas bros. song because i've never even heard them before. they might be cool. all i know is that they're the new "it" thing so i'm against it. lol. whatever. i'm not listening to that crap. i also recently played rock band at a friend's house. i suck at that too. i've always kind of tended to avoid playing that or guitar hero because i've always thought why play a video game when you can play the real thing? and of course just as i thought, it didn't come naturally and it's really kind of frustrating. first because depending on what skill level you choose, it messes with the natural tempos of the song. say you put it on easy, it only makes you play like every 3rd or 4th "note" of the song. so you might naturally want to hit the button but the screen tells you not too. my friend started laughing at me because we played lit's "my own worst enemy" and with the starting riff i started playing it like you play it in real life, i started strumming like you would in real time, but i totally botched the beginning of the song because it only wants you to play like every 2nd note as i mentioned before. same thing happened with rise against's "give it all". so you have to set it to expert in order for the tempos to match real time. but if you set it to expert it's like impossible to play. also, i've always kind of taught myself the songs, so when you hear a note that's higher than the one before it, my hand naturally goes up the fretboard. and in the game sometimes it goes down the fredboard even though the notes get higher. so that screwed me up too. and finally i'm color blind anyway, so i'm screwed no matter what i do. i couldn't tell apart the orange and red keys. they looked brown to me. so i'd be hitting the wrong keys even if i did have the tempo down. i'm sticking to real guitar. enough with guitars though. who saw oj simpson get sent to prison? what a moron. if i got away with murder i'd be a saint for the rest of my life. but not this guy. he said, "fuck it, i must be on a hot streak or something or i might be unconvictable" because why the hell would you try and rob some dudes at gunpoint and kidnap some guy? MORON. i saw the thing on espn. because it was on and i had nothing better to do. besides study i mean. but anyway it kind of pissed me off that the familly of that guy that he killed (sorry supposedly killed) back in the day was in the courtroom. it's not that i'm not sympathetic or not compassionate, but this was a different court for a different set of crimes and thought that it was stupid that they were there. also, i've decided that i no longer like the show "house". i used to love that show but now the formula for that show has gotten really old really fast. i'm gonna show you what every house episode goes like. somebody gets sick and passes out. they show up at the hospital house makes some witty remarks and makes somebody feel dumb. they go over the symptoms and house makes some more witty remarks. they decide it's not lupus. house has some stupid interaction with wilson. they go over something that may seem entirely irrelevant. they run tests on the patient and house tells the staff how worthless they are. house finally meets the patient and the patient is usually astonished at how rude he is. the patient gets worse. they rule out other diseases. they run more tests. then 10 minutes before the show is over, house has an epiphany regarding that dumb irrelevant issue that he and wilson were going over earlier in the show. he runs in just in the nick of time and saves the patient from dying. house is a dick again. the end. and that's what every episode is like. they should just make the show half an hour long and just air the parts where house is making his sharp witty comments. that's the only reason i watch the show anyway, and they would save me half an hour and maybe run an episode of family guy with that extra half hour. yup. also, it's december now so you should all add "100 resolutions" by the lawrence arms to your profile. or by sundowner, somebody should have it up. it will be up on my profile soon. who's going to the show on new years eve? i totally wanna go just to see them play this song. but it's on new years eve and i'll probably end up doing something else. if you go sing along for me. i'm sure they won't dissapoint. alright well that is all for now. i'm sure i won't be writing on here for a while so merry christmas, happy new year, happy hannukah, kwanzaa, ramadan or whatever it is you celebrate. if you're not religious, well, idk. happy next couple of weeks i guess. 'till next year.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 and it begins.

Category: News and Politics well, the holidays are pretty much here. who's excited? i kind of am. i'm one of those people who genuinely likes the holidays. not like completely deck out my shit in christmasy crap or wear those gay sweaters, or completely harass people about getting in the christmas spirit. but i do enjoy walking through the mall and listening to christmas music. i guess it's more enjoyable to me than a majority of the year. i don't really understand how some people get all manic depressive around this time of year or get all pissed off at people who do enjoy it. whatever. on the other hand i kind of hate it because i do work in retail. targhetto. woooooo. i guess i can't really complain much though because i work at the photo lab. stand around, listen to music, go on facebook (because for some reason myspace doesn't work on our crap ass pc at the lab), stand around some more, occasionally develop someones' film, and pretty much just people watch. sometimes i feel i'm more of a security guard than anything else because i just stand there and watch people. i used to work out on the floor and actually do stuff and let me tell you, during the holidays that is complete hell. maybe that's why people hate the holidays. it's people that work in retail haha. it's basically just walking back and forth getting stuff for people and while you're on your way to get something for a guest (that's what we call customers at target) another guest stop you to get something for them, so then you've got 2 things to get, and while your on your way to get 1 of those things, somebody else stops you, and so on and so forth until you have to get like 15 things and you forget somebody's thing and then they get all pissed off, and complain and give you the "you're a complete moron" stare, and then you remember to get their thing, and then you get stopped by somebody else and ..... it never ends. after doing this for a couple years you begin to lose hope in humanity and realize just why a country would invade another country or enslave other people. people are mean, selfish, douchebags. especially when there's a sale going on. well i seem to have gone off on a tangent there. i was having some vietnam style flashbacks there. i've been at the photo lab for like 3 years now and had completely forgotten about the crap i used to go through. and that's just with the customers. then there's management. for some reason target hires kids right outta business college to run the stores, and while this is cool because some of them i can completely relate to and they're fun and it's like a big party at target, but other times you get the dumb retarded morons that only god knows how the hell they got outta college. or you happen to get the dumb sorority girl who thinks you aren't taking her seriously because she's a girl. NO YOU DUMB BITCH, WE AREN'T TAKING YOU SERIOUSLY BECAUSE YOUR FUCKING STUPID!! sorry. flashbacks again. see!!! that's how much it sucked because i haven't worked at target since august because then i started school, and now i'm going back today to work a couple days during thanksgiving break and it already pisses me off to just have to think about it. luckily i'll be able to slack off all day, and once 8:45 hits, close down, and bolt. back in the day we'd have to stay till all the aisles were zoned (that means everything is pulled up to the front and neat) and all the reshop was put away (that means that all the merch. that people decided not get, or crap that people returned, is put back where it belongs). but sometimes we'd have to stay there till like 3 in the morning. but now, once 9:00 hits i'm usually in my car saying so long suckers. i can't believe i get paid to do this. when i finally graduate from college and get a real job, remind me to tell you about some of the other things i've gotten paid to do. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL oh man. i'm gonna have to set my profile to private after i'm done with this. there's a group on facebook about our store, and i crack up whenever the kids write their stories about them "being bad" or whatever. man have i got some stories to tell. one day people, one day. well yeah. i have to close the photo lab today. and i get to work on black friday. yippeee. at least i start at 10 instead of having to have to be one of the unlucky turds that volunteered to be there at 5 in the morning. i am curious to see how busy this black friday will be seeing as how the economy is in the shitter. since it's like the busiest shopping day of the year, usually target pulls out the stops and has like a million people working, and all the lanes actually have cashiers at them. i hope the store is packed with employees and nobody shows up. hahahahaha. that'd be great. well yeah. that's enough about target. back to the holidays. thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday of the year. yay for gluttony!! haha. play some football, eat, eat, eat, and watch the lions lose, and eat some more. it's great. then go back to school for like a week, take some finals, and then it's christmas break!! then christmas, then new years, then the football playoffs, then the superbowl around the first week of february. yeah. usually i put all my school stuff aside from here until february. i don't actually pay attention or anything until after the superbowl. i don't know why. so basically i'm done learning until feb. i'm officially on chill mode starting now. well, yeah. it's a crappy blog. sorry. i wasn't even gonna write anything, i was just gonna write happy thanksgiving, but then i went off on my stupid target rant. peace out turds. if you guys need me i'll be doing jack shit at the photo lab today and friday. that's kind of a weird saying. who started saying "jack shit". who or what is jack? whatever. happy thanksgiving.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 rivers of babylon

Current mood: busy holy crap it's been a busy day. you know it's been a busy day when it gets to be 4:30 p.m., you get hungry and you realize, "holy crap i haven't eaten all day". yeah. i just realized i haven't eaten all day. and this chocolate chip granola bar isn't doing the trick. i'm gonna have to go get something to eat after i'm done writing this. ohhhhh man, what i would give to be able to fly to ixtapa or any other seaside town in mexico and get some "camarones al mojo de ajo". to those of you that don't speak spanish, that's shrimp sauteed in a garlic sauce. mexicans do it best. haha. i guess you could go to any mexican restaurant around here and get it, but seriously, those shrimp have been frozen and flown in here from god knows where. there's no substitution for fresh huge shrimp that have been caught THAT day. god now i'm hungry. that is all i'm gonna say about that because soon i'm going to start drooling on my laptop. haha soooo dudes, has anybody used that axe shower gel soap stuff (whatever it is) that is called something like glacier water mint or something? well i got a little sample thing that came free when you buy one of the big ones. anyway, i used it today and it is the weirdest thing ever. since it has that mint smell, it gives you the weird sensation that you're washing your body with toothpaste. it's sooooo weird. i'm not using that anymore. and i recommend you guys don't buy it either. unless you want to smell like toothpaste. so who watched the bears get RAPED by the packers? oh man that was awful. i've felt many feelings while watching football games. pissed, ecstatic, amazed, and so on and so forth, but before that game i don't think i've ever felt embarrassed. i think it was mostly because it was against the packers of all teams. AND we didn't even score a touchdown, just a measly field goal. 37 to 3. GEEEEEEZ!!! we couldn't get anything done on offense. the defense didn't seem like playing it seemed. and not only that, but devin hester can't even return kicks for 10 yards anymore. dominated in all 3 phases of the game. i don't really ever use the smiley face things when i type because they're semi gay but, : ( and what the heck is the deal with keanu reeves. he's like the worst actor ever but he always ends up being in these really good movies. the matrix trilogy, point break, and speed. these are classics. haha. but anyway, now he's coming out in that movie, "the day the earth stood still". and that looks like it's going to be good. damn you keanu reeves. what's your secret? who is this guy doing to get these roles? or who is doing hi...aw gross. well you gotta do what you gotta do. i'm gonna find out who his agent is and then i'm moving out to hollywood. get cast in a few movies, make a couple million dollars, buy a house on the beach in some little sleepy mexican town, and you will never hear from me again. well maybe you will when i write blogs about my latest fishing adventure, and the 10 foot marlin i caught that day. whatever. today i also realized that i missed out on one of my favorite things to do in the summer. and it was because of the ridonkulous gas prices over the summer. but anyway, for those of you that don't know i drive a jeep, and in the summer one of my favorite things to do is to take the top off, put on some shades, go to the gas station, fill 'er up, start blasting sublime's greatest hits, and just cruise for hours. i'm totally selling this idea to jeep so they can run it in ads. i mean come on. it doesn't get better than cruising with the top down listening to "what i got". one of the greatest feelings in the world. i'm not even kidding. and no, i'm not giving anybody rides in the summer if that's what you're going to ask. it's one of those things you have to do by yourself. really get all existential, metaphysical, and all that good stuff. you really can't complain about anything after doing this. by the way straylight run has one of the greatest names for a song ever. "existentialism on prom night". awesome. but yeah, anyway, buy jeeps and sublime's greatest hits. you will not regret it. yeah. the reason i thought about that is because i've been listening to sublime since yesterday. rediscovering old songs. sublime did an acoustic cover of "rivers of babylon". and now i'm totally going to have to go home over the weekend and figure out how to play it. but in the song it's like at a party or something so there's like 15 people in the background clapping along. sooooo, i'm going to need 15 people to come over and clap for me while i figure out how to play it. any takers? haha j/k. there's also a xylophone solo in the song. who's got a xylophone i can borrow? omg. so on my itunes, the sugar hill gang is after sublime, so the last sublime song just finished and it went into sugar hill gang's "apache". awesome. haha alright. that's enough for today. say nay to drugs.

Friday, November 14, 2008 there i was on 42nd street. a grown man... getting a wedgie.

Current mood: busy oooh. 2 blogs in one week. lucky you. i'm feeling kind of inspired right now so i thought i'd write another blog. or actually i have to study for a math test tomorrow, but what's the difference right? aanyway, i was watching anthony bourdain today and he was in vegas. he started talking to people about what vegas used to be like, and he was talking to some sammy davis jr. impersonator and that got me thinking. you know how people sometimes ask, "if you could meet any 3 people dead or alive and have a conversation with them, who would it be?" well usually i'd say abe lincoln, MLK jr., JFK or something like that, but not anymore. how fucking rad would it be to chill with the Rat Pack? that'd be a hell of a time, especially if somehow you could go back in time and chill with them in the old vegas! oh man. that'd be AMAZING!! martinis, music, girls, more martinis, imagine the stories these guys would tell. well, that's my new answer from now on. by the way, is it nerdy that if i ever went to vegas, i'd want to see the hoover dam and the grand canyon? also, i'm not sure how i feel about barack obama being on shows like access hollywood and stuff like that. he's just getting all of this over exposure now and it's cool in the way that they're showing all of his favorite "hot spots" in chicago (which maybe i'll visit) uh, let me clarify, it's like his favorite restaurants and stuff, but anyway, it kind sucks because now everybody is watching him and stuff. i'm not really sure what i'm trying to say here or how to get it across. you know how when fall out boy just had "take this to your grave" and they would play like c.o.d. or the wheaton community center, and they were just the local band that was pretty good, and then they released "from under the cork tree" and they were all over mtv and the little teeny bopper girls were all in love with them and then you had to stop liking them? that's what it's kinda starting to feel like with obama. bad example. meh. oh, so this weekend i went to the mall for like the first time in a year or so because i had like a 30% off coupon for banana republic (which doesn't amount to much seeing as how expensive shit is in there) but anyway, i wandered into hot topic, and oh man, wtf is going on there? i remember back in the high school days when i used to go in there, all the band t-shirts were black and i could like name every band on the wall. when i went in there it was like someone painted a fucking rainbow on the wall. all the shirts now are like neon pink, and yellow, and baby blue. and i couldn't name any of the bands anymore. the only ones i knew were social d and rancid. and there was a band that i'd never heard of before but they had the coolest name ever. the name however escapes me right now. sorry. haha. but anyway, i guess it's kinda like a semi-mid-life-crisis or something. the sudden realization that what you used to think is cool suddenly isn't anymore. wtf. maybe i should start listening to these new bands. who wouldn't like to see in a hot neon pink shirt? haha. but today i saw in a bulletin that blink 182 is reissuing the rabbit t-shirt exclusively for hot topic. so i guess i'm gonna have to make the trek to hot topic one more time at least. gotta get my blink shirt people! i used to have one from back in the day when they toured with Fenix TX when they still weren't all over mtv too. by the way who remembers Fenix TX? i think i'm the only person i know with a Fenix TX cd. aaanyway, i bought a shirt but god knows what's happened to it. so i gotta get a new one for old times' sake. and what the hell happened to the lance armstrong yellow cancer bracelets? remember a couple a years ago when they were all the rage? what the hell happened? do people not care about cancer anymore? or was it all just a fashion statement that went outta style? i think we know the answer to that now. oh, and over the weekend i saw role models. hilarious. and at the beginning they showed a trailer for the new fast and the furious. original cast people! it's gonna be great. who thinks jordana brewster is friggin hot? i do. and she's gonna be back people. why the hell isn't she in more movies? if i were a movie producer she'd be in like all of my movies. her and tina fey. and the mexican stripper girl from hi my name is earl. and why is like every guy obsessed with the girl from transformers? yeah she's hot but she seems so dirty to me for some reason. and not dirty as in bad girl kinda dirty, i'm talkin bout i'm banging the guy from beverly hills 90210 dirty. why is it that every time i see like the top 100 hottest girls, i'm always disagreeing with their choices. especially when they get to like the top 10. in one i saw, beyonce was number 1. wtf is that about? really people? of all the girls on the planet, you think beyonce is the hottest girl? idk. i have good taste in girls right? well whatever. i'm gonna have to start my own movie studio or magazine or whatever. the fire is playing the crew tonight in the eastern conference finals. GO FIRE!!!! i'm listening to blink 182's dude ranch right now. it's great. probably my favorite album of all time. i find that whenever i get in a music rut, or i'm tired of listening to a certain genre or band or whatever, i can usually fall back on this album and it'll put a smile to my face. actually any blink album before their last one will do the trick. but dude ranch and enema of the state are the best. cheshire cat is great too but they totally need to reissue it remastered and everything. you can tell they're a bunch of teenagers in cheshire cat but it's still good. ahhh blink. too bad tom turned into a major douche and tried to create the next u2 or whatever. i haven't listened to his new band. i heard that one song that's like on commercials or whatever, but that's about it. has anybody heard it? is it any good? whatever. i'm loyal to tom and travis. +44 for life!! haha. man it sucks what happened to travis. r.i.p. little chris. and the bodyguard (don't know his name sorry). holy crap this is getting long. aight. peath out homies.