April 2011
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Make a mixtape: Vol 3
Hows it going eh? So, uh, these are all songs from bands who hail from the Great White North. You’re pretty much a hoser if you don’t look up any of these songs. Okay eh? So look past these stereotypes and enjoy the music.
1. Take Off - Bob and Doug McKenzie
2. Working Man - Rush
3. You Ain’t Seen Nothin Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive
4. Sign of the Gypsy Queen - April Wine
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I do.
Do you ever feel utterly worthless? Cut down to nothing of any significance because of something that should be small but isn’t? Do you ever wish that you could stop taking small shit so damn seriously all the time, and just stop stressing out about meaningless things? I do.
Do you ever find it hard to look people in the eye because of the judgment you might feel from them? Do you ever feel...
sometimes
Sometimes I find myself wishing I was a football player. And by that I mean a good football player who plays for a big ten school and has a great scholarship and all of that. I have a myriad number of reasons for this.
For one, I could have all the women I wanted throwing themselves at me. I know that they wouldn’t like me personally, but to be that popular, even for a year would be that...
People
There are some people I simply cannot stand. These are people that I know and live with, and they are the worst. I deplore everything about them: their mannerisms, their style of dress, their politics, their music and movie taste, their thoughtless interjections into otherwise intellectual conversations, their inability to see that they aren’t the funniest people on the planet and that they...
Make a Mixtape: Vol 2
Todays theme is: POWER POP. Jangly guitars, rock and roll with pop sensibility and all the melodies you can stand.
1. Say It Isn’t So - The Outfield
2. September Gurls - Big Star
3. Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
4. Behind the Wall of Sleep - The Smithereens
5. Amsterdam - Guster
6. Magic - The Cars
7. All For Swinging You Around - The New Pornographers
8. Jet Fighter - The Three...
“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink....”
– Charles Bukowski
“Well, if God doesn’t exist, who’s laughing at us?”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Submitted by saber-y-conocer)
Blame.
I don’t even have a terribly specific explanation as to why today was so terrible. It just was. Part of me blames Chuck Klosterman, but I know that it isn’t entirely his fault. Part of it is that I’m a nostalgic bastard who can’t let sleeping dogs lie and I’m someone who continually drudges up old memories and replays all my failures frame by frame in my head if given...
Here Come the Irish...or not
I know that this is a little late, but Notre Dame has once again failed me. I currently attend Michigan State University, and as such, the Spartans are my team, and will always be my team henceforth.
That said, it is hard to simply stop being a Notre Dame fan after 18 years of absolutely loving the Irish. They will always be my second team. I will adopt my Grandfather’s take on things...
An Apology
I would like to sincerely apologize to any and all of you who read last nights final post by me. So about 3 of you. It was an incoherent wreck. I hope that you can live with that, because I know I can.
Shuffling Thoughts
For whatever reason, I am listening to Alanis Morissette right now. Her album Jagged Little Pill took the world by storm in the mid nineties, and for whatever reason, I really like it. Go ahead and make all of your rude comments and jokes now, just to get it out of the way.
There’s one song on there that I particularly like from a pop music perspective. It’s the song...
Make a Mixtape: Vol 1
This is a group of songs that are pretty damn good. That is generally the idea of a mixtape though isn’t it, to put together songs that are good but not by the same artist. So tonight begins the first one of what I am sure I plan to be a long series of posts but will actually be like 4 long or something. At any rate, tonights theme is 80s Underground Music. If you don’t understand what...
“Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.”
– Steven Wright
Why The Replacements Matter
Recently, those of you who have been in close contact with me have been driven to the edge of your sanity by my incessant playing and talking about of the only band that really matters, The Replacements. So I feel that, for the sake of clarity, I should explain why the Replacements matter at a personal level and why they probably matter at a more general level as well.
The Replacements matter...
Unsatisfied
I’m sitting in my room right now, and Paul Westerberg is screaming through my speakers. He’s dissatisfied and he wants the whole world to know it. But when the whole world is a room, and you’re the only person in it, that message certainly hits home.
“Look me in the eye and tell me that I’m satisfied” he demands.
And I feel like I get it. I get where...
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:...”
– Sir Winston Churchill
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because...”
– C.S. Lewis
“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his...”
– C.S. Lewis
GOTTA GET DOWN ON FRIDAY!!!!
fuckyeahlolerz:
MY DASH IS GONA BLOW UP
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may...”
– C.S. Lewis
sarlz asked: ARE YOU KIDDING ME DUBSTEP IS A SUB GENRE OF SOMETHING EVERYONE KNOWS THAT
10 Great Songs About California
California, unlike any state in the union, has the singular power to make people dream of a better life, if only they can just get there. I know it is something I think about every now and again. It is really the last remaining frontier in America, despite the fact that it is densely populated and economically prosperous.
Unsurprisingly, I am not the only one who has strong feelings about that...
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better....”
– Dr. Suess (via wanderlust101)
“Its going to be really embarrassing for you when i visit after florida!...”
– Mike Cygan
Passenger Side
Ever since I got my drivers license, I have unequivocally hated riding in the passenger seat of cars. It is simply an experience that for me is frustrating as much as it is frightening. Part of this has to do with the fact that I am arrogant about my driving skills, and I honestly believe myself to be a better driver than most people. This causes me to become irritated when people do not do things...
Book of Ian, Part 2
This is gonna be a long post, because I haven’t been keeping up with the book as well as I would have liked to
They were like popsicle cakes!
Have mercy russian black ops!
I farted, it smelled kinda good
We will take a picture of you with the frame, then we will put that picture in the frame and then the universe will divde by zero and we will all explode
Yea, its true. My nipples are...
Exciting Opportunity!
Are the Middle East, Europe, and South America parts of the world unknown to you other than for having weird names and strange food? Do you not have the pocket change to travel to these places and experience them for yourself? Luckily, there is a way you can experience these cultures, and it counts for school too! It’s called MC 202 and it is taught by the always exciting Rita Edozie! She...
sarlz asked: shit, you have anonymous turned off, i was really looking forward to cyberbullying you.
