Bill sent me this: There's some guy that's pissed about the fact that movie trailers suck you in to go see a crappy movie based on a false premise. He made his own trailer for The Shining that's pretty funny. Click on Shining Redux
The Meatballs that live behind me were kind enough to smash a hollowed out, booze-soaked watermelon on my front door last weekend. Although this would be a fine example of neighbor karma, not cool.
AHAHAHAAAAAA- you prick! Your precious little Eli put up a fight but it just wasn't enough. The team that you felt was beneath your family just decimated you with a 45-23 shelling. AHAHAHAAAA!
THIS is the team that made it to the play-offs last year. L.T. ran for 192 yards, 3 TD's, and threw for one?!? Brees completed 86 percent of his passes!?! Nice job boys.
It's over. I tried hard to like you Wilco, but you're getting deleted. I read articles about you, listened to friends ramble on about you and found great reviews about your music. I finally got A Ghost is Born and put it in my regular rotation. Everytime you come up it's just bullshit "trippy" sounds or total silence. Hey- i'm all for being artistic. If i can sit through a Trey Anastasio solo, i can take anything but you just suck. I would like to say it's not you it's me, but... it's you. Goodbye Wilco. I never loved you.
I'm a self-taught guitar player. When i say self-taught, i mean i taught myself through the wonderful world if tablature. When i say the wonderful world of tablature, i mean the incoherent typings of high school kids that post what they believe to be songs on the internet. I learned quickly that the majority of these tabs are shockingly incorrect, even after being warned they were "figured out in math class without a guitar". Even after years of jamming with actual musicians and correcting some of the horrific mistakes i learned from these tabs early on, i still find myself discovering embarrassing inaccuracies in my repertoire.
Still, I continue to log-on and wade through the nonsense, hoping to find the missing note or garbled lyric I can't figure out. Occasionally I run across a total abomination that brings a smile to my face:
Recently, while singing the Rolling Stone’s Sympathy for the Devil, I announced, "the pilot washed his hands and sealed his fate". (actual lyric= Pilate: Roman prefect of Judea who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus.) I thought it was the dude flying the plane. Guess I have myself to blame for that one.
The story itself isn't nearly as funny as Gizmodo's description of a CNN article about Germans using dead cats (roadkill) as an alternative fuel source:
"Germany has brought us numerous things both good and bad. It’s almost like a trade-off. We get to drive our Mercedes-Benz around as long as we’re cool with scat-porn and horrible metal bands."
Man, I am pumped for the NFL season to start. This Sunday, I will be planted in front of a TV somewhere for 8 glorious hours of football.
Speaking of TV coverage of the NFL, I have a question; Back in the 80s and 90s the networks would show player profiles in the beginning of the game much as they do today. The only difference is that in the past few years, instead of a still photo of the player, they now have a video clip of them smiling and blinking. Why do they do this? I can understand this is the natural progression of things and technology must move forward in an ever increasingly over-stimulated society, but this is ridiculous. These poor guys have to stand there, shifting their weight from side to side and smiling like morons. For a long time too. Some of the linemen do the tough guy face, but most of them just look uncomfortable. There's no way I would be able to do that without flaring my nostrils, wiggling my ears or just busting into the Robot (with my own beat-boxed theme music, of course). There's probably some anal director there in the studio that would yell "Cut! You can't do that!". At that point I would get all hollywood and tell him, "You got the shot- i'll be in my trailer.", then storm out. They would have to use the footage of me acting like an idiot and it would be great.
Go ahead. Install it. Enjoy your paid subscription. When that subscription runs out, you have a good time with the pop-ups that inform you that your subscription has expired EVERY 20 SECONDS. Enjoy trying every option under the sun turning this warning off. Try the Norton options. Try the Windows options. Disable your Windows firewall. Disable everything. Reinstall Symantec. Reboot 35 times. Hello pop-up. You're like an annoying little friend saying "I'm Rick James, bitch!" every 20 seconds. (yes, i deleted the exe files and that finally worked- but only after hours of punching my monitor)
