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Sunday, January 21, 2007
So anyway, my roommates just suggested that I should start blogging again. Specifially this blog and not another one. They were being sarcastic but I think I smelled a hint of the truth and longing not far behind. So here we are almost 2 years to the exact DAY since my last post. Let the revival begin! I also really needed a constructive way to fill my days and nights as I have been watching far too much television. As of right now that will be the main theme of this blog: How should Adam spend his free time? For the most part I will be answering this question but maybe we can do a reader vote if and when this blog has readers. Here's a 'for instance' on why I feel the need to focus the blog on this specific subject: Adam's Sunday - got up at noon - watched Payback starring Mel Gibson yes, THE Mel Gibson - went shoe shopping and yet bought nary a pair of shoes - watched football - watched HBO's Rome thats it. Now some people might say "Whats wrong with that?" Here's whats wrong with that. I LIVE IN MOTHER FUCKING NEW YORK CITY! Why am I doing things that can literally be done in any other town anywhere? Most of things would be OK if they were mixed in with some other activity involving exercise or, oh I don't know HUMAN INTERACTION but lumped into one day like that is pretty lame. So here's to doing things that are more exciting... things like... blogging (1) comments • • • • • Saturday, January 22, 2005
So it only took me 11 years but I finally beat Secret of Mana for the Super NES tonight. Oh how sweet that recaptured childhood is! AK's next accomplishment: Listening to all of the songs with shuffle on my iPod. That's 634 songs or 1.5 days of pure ROCK! No skipping. Straight through. But on shuffle. We must never forget the shuffle. (4) comments • • • • • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
So the votes for 2K5 are in... All three of them. And the winner is Mr. Don'tBuyTheJacket. It was close there for a while but thankfully the last vote reminded me that I need to buy some World Cup 2K6 tickets in a few weeks thus negating the entire post and the other votes! You just never know whats going to happen in this seedy corner of the blogoverse! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . See? (1) comments • • • • • Sunday, January 16, 2005
I Could... be the 20,000th visitor here because I was already the 19,997th visitor. But that would be cheating wouldn't it? So close! (1) comments • • • • • Friday, January 14, 2005
Vote or Die 2K5! Facing a dilemma here and need your help. There's some disposable income coming my way in about 2 weeks and I've been thinking about purchasing this item for a while. The main problem is obvious. Its $110 for a jacket. Pure and simple. And YET, its a fucking wicked jacket. It's light so I could wear it year around here in Austin, the #8 is Carl Yastrzemski's (played in front of the monster) and my Sox hat is getting that 2 year sweat stain. So it would fill a void. But god dammit its a hundred and ten goddamn dollars! And whats with the 2-4 week backorder? Brutal. And before you suggest how stupid it is of me to order a Red Sox jacket off of the Houston Texans website, every online store had the same deal. And how many more times can I start a sentence with a conjunction? So, vote via the comments section. Only YOU can prevent/encourage frivolous spending! (4) comments • • • • • Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Because A Picture Can Say A Thousand Sleazy Words Here are some pictures from the New Year's Eve Party I went to. Which will most likely go down as the most promiscuous party of a lifetime. First of all, it was a formal party so you would think that most people would have some sense of restraint. And they did....until midnight. BAM! The clock strikes and you can't turn around without saying "WTF?" 3-way makeouts, couples falling on the ground from making out, women crying, some dude being treated like a strip pole, chicks dancing on speakers.... NON STOP ACTION! And the weird thing was, I knew most of the people doing these things. Observe Exhibit A: My Roommate's brother making out with a girl whom he had just met. Now this picture was taken about 3 minutes in. Before they would fall down, get back up and continue to make out for another 10 minutes. When it was all said and done they were wearing each other's glasses. Exhibit B: Here we have Fred making out with 2 girls at the same time. They also had never met before. Alas, I do not have a picture of the girls making out. Exhibit C: At midnight I kissed a girl that I met last summer and...lets just say we have a history and I didn't really want to continue down that path. (is that vague yet specific enough?) So, after the initial kiss, she does the 2 o'clock head turn going for the full make out and I pull back. Then we have one of the most uncomfortable conversations ever, which can be summed up by one line from Billy Madison, "No, I will not make out with you!" Well, she leaves and I find out later that she's crying. So distraught was I, that I then proceeded to: DANCE MY ASS OFF! YEAH! And if its wrong to make someone you know cry and then go off and dance with 2 strangers, then I don't want to be right. Then these guys showed up. And you know when the entire cast of Star Wars arrives, things are God damn guaranteed to get caraaazay! All in all not a bad start to 2K5. How's by you? (3) comments • • • • • Wednesday, November 03, 2004
1 Month Later... Where do I begin? The last month has been extremely eventful, and yet I haven't made one post. I tried once. After the Sox beat the Yankees. It was one of the best posts in the history of this blog, but according to Blogger, my session was "timed out" before I could post it. Basically, I wrote about those 4 glorious days of baseball and all the emotions I was going through game by game being a long-time Red Sox fan. It was fucking great I tell you. Alas, twas not meant to be seen by thine eyes. *time passes* I'll have to get back to you. I started this blog 2 hours ago. So, yeah still not back in the swing of things. Blah. In order to prevent this post from being a total loss, here's a picture from the Halloween party we had at my apartment last Saturday, which will hopefully be covered in the near future. (0) comments • • • • • Sunday, October 03, 2004
I Can Never Sleep The Night Before A Trip Not a big deal usually, but I have to get up at 5:30 so....it might come back to bite me this time. BITE ME HARD! Uh anyway. The weekend was great which is not unusual, but it was also a cheap weekend. Always appreciated. Friday, I went to a party out at a lakehouse and consumed copious amounts of vodka watermelon. Tasty. Saturday, I went to see a movie which cannot be named but I laughed at various individuals imitating a large furry creature. Today, I caught up on my Netflix. Chapelle's Show and City of God to be specific. City of God was amazing and probably the most challenging film I have seen in quite some time. It's always difficult to watch a foreign film the first time anyway since you're staring at the bottom of the screen half the time. But this movie also has a story structure that I can't honestly say I have seen before. It goes back and forth between chronological and character based storytelling. Ultimately forming this weird hybrid that will answer any questions you might have, but not until the movie is damn well good and ready. Pretty sweet really. Now, I will sleep, work, and fly. In that order. (0) comments • • • • • Saturday, October 02, 2004
Quizno's...... Achieving New Levels of Lameness Everyday One of the things that has always bothered me about Quizno's is their side bar at the end of the counter. (Y'know the stand that contains pickles, peppers and the what not) At every other sub, grinder, hoagie, torpedo, hero, foot-long place the "sandwich artist" puts these things on. There is a reason for this I think. Because nobody wants to unwrap their sandwich to put a few jalapenos on and then re-wrap it as well as the employee did. It just doesn't happen. I'm always standing there thinking, "Why am I spending so much time vainly attempting to wrap this sandwich when only mere seconds ago it was already wrapped and bagged ready to go?" Maybe its just me. Maybe I can't wrap. I've never been able to wrap presents for shit either. But, what if everyone is thinking the same thing?! Thousand of people everywhere could be wasting thousands of minutes needlessly wraping sandwiches! A chilling thought indeed. Anyway, before I even reached that little problem today I tried to pay for my 'sich' with a twenty. And the kid at the register asks me, "Is this fake?" "Uh, no." He holds it up to the light, squints and then holds it out to me. "It's fake." So I take it, squint, and then hand it back. "It's just an old twenty." "No, sorry you're going to have to pay with something else." "Why? Its not fake its just and an old twenty before they updated them." Walks back asks the other kid, returns. "Sorry, can't accept it." *Pause* "Who ARE you?" "What?" "Nevermind, here." I paid with my check card. Obviously, no one could possibly be that dumb so I can only imagine that's how the kids get their kicks these days........ By telling people that old twenty dollar bills are fake. Ha ha kid. I get it. Prick. (0) comments • • • • • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
What's This Green Flash Shit? I'm going to geek out on you for a moment. My roommate and I watched Star Wars: A New Hope on DVD for the first time yesterday. While in most aspects it was fantastic, surround sound and all, there was one thing that really bothered me. During the Vader vs. Obi Wan fight, every time the lightsabers clash, there is a green flash as a result which I found to be extremely distracting. Now I am pretty sure that this did not happen on the original movie or even the special edition. So the only reason its there is that someone (Lucas) decided it should be there. But why? Its never happened in any of the other movies. You can't even argue that there should be green flash from a color wheel standpoint. Red and blue make purple last time I checked. Is nothing sacred Lucas? Must you even change the laws of the fucking color wheel for personal gain? AAAARRRGGHHH! (0) comments • • • • • Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Yeah! You Bob That Head! My iPod is now the official home for the new Green Day album. Loving it so far. Maybe I'll even go joggin just as an excuse to listen. More later. (0) comments • • • • • Monday, September 20, 2004
To Blog Or Not to Blog Hello dear readers. Once again too much time has passed since last blogging. Lots of events happening here in Texas, some far too complicated to be adequately described here. Including, but not limited to, "The Near Ass-Whooping of Adam and The Events Surrounding". So far, I have told the story to a select few. Based on their reactions I have decided that it would be better to hold this sordid tale in reserve for future face-to-face or phone-to-face conversations, like say, in October. Hoo Ha. Looking forward to it. Lets Move on. Austin City Limits Music Festival As previously posted here I purchased a ticket my ticket to this bluntastic event some time ago. Can't say I've seen anything like it. 90,000 people gathered together for 3 days of sweet, sweet music. While I didn't stick to my original list as much as I would have liked, the "must see" bands were all covered: The Killers Sheryl Crow Modest Mouse Monte Montgomery The Pixies The North Mississippi All-Stars Elvis Costello Spoon Wilco Cake All in all a great line up. The only true disappointment being Modest Mouse. They sounded like shit YO! I don't know if it was my position in relation to the stage or if they were having sound difficulties or what but......just.....shit. The surprise of the festival goes to Monte Montgomery, a local Austin artist who I had never heard of until Friday when we had him in studio on our radio show. He sounded good enough then to pique my interest but his album is far too mellow for me. Luckily, I still went to see him and he blew my mind in concert. He can play a guitar for all its worth and then some. If you have the means, I suggest getting the song When Will I off itunes and go from there. The other bands that I really enjoyed are The Killers (also sounded amazing live) The Pixies, and Wilco (duh). But the band that rose above all others was none other than: CAKE! Here's what put them above all the rest 1. Song Selection - They played a couple songs from all of their albums and hit all their marks. They played a bunch of Fashion Nugget but they didn't bow to audience expectations (i.e. they didn't play The Distance) which I liked. I would rather hear Daria anyway. 2. Random Dancing Guy - Some dude dressed in a 3 piece polyester suit had been backstage for most of the set but when Cake started Italian Leather Sofa he came out on stage and danced for the entire song. His "go to" move seemed to be The Twirl which made for some truly hilarious moments. 3. Audience Participation - You gotta love a band that can engage the audience. They opened with Sheep Go to Heaven which has a recorded bit where the backup voices sing anyway, so it makes for a logical choice to get the crowd into it. The patented crowd clap was present during Comfort Eagle as well. But most importantly, it's great to find yourself in a social situation where it is acceptable to yell "Shut the fuck!" a bunch of times (during Nugget). Very liberating. 4. Bam! Second Encore! - Encores at the festival were very rare. As in they never happened. Usually the band played the time allotted and got the hell out. But the crowd (myself included) needed more dammit. So, Cake came back once and played Never There (which was probably the highlight of the set). Then they left only to return again with I Will Survive. Good times. I saw these guys in '99 and they have grown by leaps and bounds as a live band since then. It was so surprising that I was babbling about it long afterwards. And I still am, only in blog form. So that about sums it up. Here's hoping there are more ACL Festivals in my future and that next time it won't be ninety-fucking-five degrees every damn day. I will leave you with a list of things I'm looking forward to over the next week: The new Green Day album Star Wars on DVD Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on DVD Shuffleboard and lots of it. (0) comments • • • • • Wednesday, September 01, 2004
And lest we forget The Yankees lost twenty two to nothing yesterday! And Boston won! Hot damn! I had to check the scores today just to see if it wasnt some sweet dream. Christ on a stick that feels good. (0) comments • • • • • Check out my good buddie Louis at myspace.com Guaranteed to crack you the fuck up..... The pics alone..... yowza (0) comments • • • • • Yesterday I bought an iPOD (awesome) won a shuffle board tourney (freaking really awesome) received a free carpet cleaning (so forget about that picture that I posted last month) And I talked about it all on the radio today!!! Hot damn! (0) comments • • • • • Monday, August 30, 2004
Freddy, in response to you and the other responses when it comes to Vanilla Sky: First of all, congrats. You have seen another of AK's Top 10 movies of all time. And for that you should be commended. BUT, you asked if there is more to the movie and there is. The film states one of its themes plainly, "Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around." Life gives you two choices, 1. You remain the same, or 2. You adapt and evolve. So, you either sit there and wallow in self pity, or you do something about it. David Aames first chooses Option #1 and that didn't really work out. He then chooses secret option #3, Cryogenically freeze your body in order to remain in a constant dream state where life is always grand. Of course that didn't really work either. So the answer is #2: adapt and evolve. Because things can go right just as fast as they go wrong. After seeing this movie, I took that lesson to heart. Its a good rule to live by, you face your fears (i.e. jumping off a building) and venture into the unknown. And in the end we are all the better for it, no? There are also a few other interpretations of the plot that make for some great repeat viewing: (these are all from the Cameron Crowe commentary which is by the way the best movie commentary ever) 1. He actually did cryogenically freeze his body and everything the guy in the elevator says is true. 2. The entire film was a dream up to the point where he opens his eyes at the end. Clues for this include: -Sofia's (Penelope Cruz) voice is recorded on Aames' machine at the beginning of the movie, before he meets her. -His car sticker reads 2/30/01, a date which does not exist. -Then there's the whole Jules et Jim poster and all that implies but I've already spoiled one movie so why spoil another? 3. The movie is the book that Jason Lee's character was writing. There's also a lot of good stuff about friendships in there, sexual or otherwise. But lets move on shall we? Rickster, Admit it, the real reason you didn't like Undercover Brother as much as me is because you are a racist. A low-down dirty racist. And thats just sad. (0) comments • • • • • Saturday, August 14, 2004
2:00 AM Wake Up Call Many of you received one last night. For this I apologize. BUT when you are incredibly intoxicated and sitting in the middle of a major metropolitan street that was only hours earlier the host of a Lance Armstrong parade, you want to tell as many people as possible. So there. (0) comments • • • • • Thursday, August 12, 2004
The Last Few... I've been keeping myself busy with the always exciting work then sleep, then work, then sleep again routine. Occasionally I will watch a South Park ep. Fun huh? Today was my (kind of) day off since I only had to work at ESPN, but did I use my time wisely?......well I slept some more, made a mix and now Im talking to you fools. So, Im undecided. OH and my roommate lost the remote to the digital cable box. Now this really sucks. To demonstrate, the stations I watch the most are ESPN News and HBO. One of them is channel 405, the other is 701. Now imagine only being able to go up and down one channel at a time and you will hopefully feel a small part of my pain. I looked all over and couldn't find the damn thing. Sucks I tell you! Anyway, back to this CD mix thing. I told my friend Allison that I would make her a mix of the music that I like. This was surprisingly difficult. Let us once again imagine together. Imagine condensing your entire CD collection down to one CD, while at the same time giving it that "flow" that all great mixes need. Not easy. I also tried to skew more towards what I think she would like (obviously). This meant leaving out what I consider to be the harder rockin songs. Nevertheless, Im groovin to the mix right now and I feel this is an accurate representation of my current tastes. Here's the final track list: The "Death of An Apprentice" Mix 1. Allison - The Pixies 2. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Straight Outta Junior High 3. A Praise Chorus - Jimmy Eat World 4. Happy Kid - Nada Surf 5. Let Me Go - Cake 6. Waiting - Green Day 7. Restart - Ozma 8. Disarm - The Smashing Pumpkins 9. Album of the Year - Good Life 10. Nothin'severgonnastandinmyway(again) - Wilco 11. Across the Sea - Weezer 12. Rollerskate Skinny - Old 97's 13. Baby You're A Rich Man - The Beatles 14. The Man In Me (aka the Big Lebowski song) - Bob Dylan 15. High and Dry - Radiohead 16. Mexican Wine - Fountains of Wayne 17. Army - Ben Folds Five 18. Amsterdam - Coldplay Special thanks to PLU for giving me the Beatles song in his last mix, thanks to RJP for turning me on to the Good Life and thanks to me for having such an awesome taste in music. Yeah! Even more thanks should also go out to Flex and Lou for those good ol fashioned phone conversations. (0) comments • • • • • Thursday, August 05, 2004
A Peeping Tom's View Into My New Apartment Although you would probably have to be the best damn peeper ever to see these but I digress... Here are the pictures as promised: #1: Great Movie, Pretty Good Poster As a nice little reward for working at the Austin premiere of Before Sunset, AFS gave me the poster of the movie. The only problem, my roommate hates the tagline "What if you had a second chance with the one that got away." Don't ask me why he hates it, I think its serviceable but whatever. As a solution, I decided that we would post our own taglines to the poster every now and then to entertain ourselves. I provided the first. Talk about capturing the essence of the film eh? Seriously, Ethan Hawke has that "Shut up, you French hussie" look on his face. He loathes her. I can tell. #2 A Carpet Comparison Our living room has suffered from one too many party fouls. For example, here is the carpet in the living room And here's the carpet in my room SHOCKING! #3 Now that is one needlessly long plastic table Before I moved in, my roommate, being a fan of the drinking game "Flip Cup", purchased an 8 foot long table so more people could play at once. Learn how to play here He already had a table long enough for teams of 4, so he probably rationalized his purchase by thinking, "4vs4 isn't good enough. If we could do 8vs8, twice as many people would get thrice as drunk, 5 times as fast! Yeah!" #4 Ain't nothin better than wearing a dusty ol Darth Vader helmet! As you can see this picture needs no explanation. (0) comments • • • • • Ho hum I really dont have anything to post about. But at least Im posting right? Right. I joined Netflix for the second time yesterday. Its a vast improvement over the 2002 version. First up: South Park Season 4. Also, Those pictures I mentioned earlier should be posted shortly. (0) comments • • • • • |
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