Today felt a little like Monday's Bears game

So today started pretty early and with the pouring rain traffic was a slam-jam from the get-go.(Early lead in the first quarter) I barely made it to a talk I wanted to see at 8am. But one steaming joffee mug later and a cinnamon muffin, bannana nut muffin, and poppy sead bread piece later I was sitting pretty. (Gould's kick is good) Later that day I got the results of the test back for my emissions and I needed to replace 3 seperate pieces which the last owner ripped out before selling the car(flagrant enticing penalty). I guess I should have taken the guy to small claims court(4th and going for it as apposed to kicking the easy field goal) but I am going to Delgados on Western. I'm probably going to have to fork up a bit of cash roughly equivalent to a kick in the buds. Part two of todays angst and irony had to do with my thought to be broken power supply for my computer. It kept turning off once I started it(poor offense time to kick again). The tech said I would have to get either a new motherboard or new harddrive.( 4th interception of the day, yowser, looks like that matches the rest of the season we've played so far). When I got home I was hell bent on figuring out what was wrong with the computer so I asked myself why the computer was turning off. Obviously it wasn't cause of the power since the lights were on in front. I reasoned it must have been the on button which for some reason could have been pushed in too far. Possibly the spring was out of place. So I used a mini-swiss army knife and a couple of pins and the computer was humming again(kick is no good, go back to champaign you chump).

Getting back to the day, I watched To Kill a Mockingbiird again and enjoyed myself after being enticed by the AFI's top 100(running in at #7 of all time). After that I went over to churchills and we bottled the pale ale we made 3 weeks ago. It should be good in a week and our next endeavor will be a good stout. While bottling we interchanged bottling and viewing some Wayne's World 2 which is remarkably funny. I think I may have trenched out a little too long in WWI after seeing it 15 times and should have spent some more time with WWII which I probably only saw twice. I laughed outloud when Kim Bassenger took Garths manhood and a couple scenes later he has cologne on and straight hair down the front...
Kim: Garth you seem like a man who likes to be in control
Garth: Yeah, one time in seventh grade my sister asked me if she could borrow my def leppard record and I was like sorry no way

The bears game was quite a spectacular and if you couldn't tell from the aforementioned first paragraph, Da bears were shuffling through my head all day long. I mean there was about 7 alternate endings to last nights game all which could rival the 4 endings made for XMEN3. To name a few, when the bears didn't kick the field goal in the 4th quarter on fourth down. If they had kicked it then they would have still been down 4 points, and definitely wouldn't have been able to run the turnover in for a TD. Then you have the play where that Card landed on one of our players and barely scraped his knee(and spelling bee) on the ground ruling a downed played and not a stupid dancing parade in the endzone. Then there's the last field goal which probably shouldn't have warranted the card's offensive line to have gotten fired today. They have had a string of bad luck and if anything the offense did a hell of a job(minus that total douchebag lionheart who used to stay at the Hilton in Paris).

Alright too much excitement for the first couple days of this and need the much needed break given by guys night serving as a mini weekend in the middle of the week. This week its the taste of Joe McCahill's hood(last time it was Wabash Tap for Boomsma and the week before was at The Bob Inn in my neck of the woods).

Nathan Detroit

I've got your horse right here his name is paul revere. So the trip up to Detroit was can do fun and it was great seeing Roy again. He's got a new job dismantling ciggerettes.


Even better Roy's making millions for all of us with his new hover bike he's designing



We tried to go apple picking but they said we couldn't do that anymore cause people were taking apart the trees getting apples. Sad state of affairs but we did the next best thing, we got some cider(clear and yellow you got juice there fellow, cloudy and brown your in cider town) and some apple donuts(Go Nuts!) and hung out by the creek.

It was tought not getting excited for le tigre but if it can't be the sox then why not the team we couldn't catch this year

However there's only one thing that could make Detroit scarier than it already it is. Why not just fill the city with a bajillion drunk baseball fans. One thing of note as surrounded by all those raging fans was that I started to feel nestalgic began to reel on the glory days of 05'. What a different time that was. I was right stab in the middle of midterms and I was glued to the television. But with Elmer came a reason for everyone to come together, drink a few hundred golden girls, and hang out around a roaring radio set to Ed Farmer with a side of television. If we were lucky we'd be in front of Robbie's big screen tele with high def and sound coming from everywhere.

And here's with my take in media these days:


Movies to go see


The Science of Sleep- see past post

Thank you for smoking-I thought it was very well put together and had that very pleasant mix of funny and serious which every great movie should strive for. It also gave an eyehole to how the government works and the whole "but I have to pay my morgage" mentality. What the american public doesn't know is what makes them the american public. Maybe a deep cut from UHF but it did the job as we are rarely conscious of what is going on around our bubbles we live in. For example Bush already said he wouldn't invade N. Korea(gee I wonder why, we're spread thin like butter on pretzil) and an alarmingly large number of kids are bringing in guns to school these days(I'm sure it has nothing to do video games though, they make kids smart and eager to do volunteer work). The fact of the matter is that we don't know much but its nice to get glimours of the inerworkings as this movie so wonderfully did. I mean if evertything was fine and dandy we'd be sitting in one of those matrix worlds while Morhpeus is bloated and sweaty tied to a chair. Maybe he is. Woaah.


Music



Page France-They have a nice combination male/female lyrics with coupled with an ornamental of keys, glock, and other delightful instruments. They mention jesus a couple of times but the music is better and I chalk it up to one bad apple.

Norfolk and Western-Its always nice when a pedal steel creeps its way into a band and sounds perfect in the that not to distant but obviously coming from the screened in porch sun room. Combine that with harmonies galore, a banjo, and mid-song changes that keep you wanting more. I give it a double stamp. Not just cause we're playing with them on Nov 15 at the sub-t but cause there cd has survived the "I really like this cd" phase and I continue to listen to it past the honeymoon


And here you go for waiting til the end of this mamouth post

Third time's not the charm

Exactly 2 years ago I went to vic and saw yo la tengo and was blown away. Exactly 1 year ago I went to the vic and saw yo la tengo and was blown away. So tonight I went to the vic and saw yo la tengo and it was so so(I woke up went downtown and looked for a job). I didn't really like the new ones and I was convinced the last time I saw them was sub-par due to pitchfork but I think it has something to do with the "bobby Conn playing showtunes" feel I get these last two times I've seen them. I really thought Summer Sun was fabulous and the live show for that album left me breathless but apparantly the new album is good Yo La Tengo and the last album was so so according to Churchill's internet report. I don't know I think I heard about 7 seperate conversation during one guitar solo and I don't know I just think it went way too long. I'm all for the crazy psycho jamouts every now and then but 3 times in the row with the same grooving bassline and gyrating spastic guitar slinging. That may have been over the top. A bit too blasphemy to get me into heaven but what the hell. I fell in love with Yo La tengo's harmonys and keyboard parts not the guitar.

Jumping back 8 hours I went and saw this palestinian play the Ud and in between songs talk about having to flee his home during the occupation to live in the woods and eat eggs, wine, and sardines. When he went down to visit his mother he got arrested and treated badly to say the least. He speaks of growing up and falling for a girl while having to live this terrible frightful life. To make matters worse he was christian and the girl that he was interested in was muslim. I enjoyed seeing him play very much and during one song he had us all hold one note that he played over. He was very impassioned in the way he spoke and it made you feel lucky that you didn't live in a war-torn region without a chance for peace as boundary lines rip through a collective holy land. There were parts that had some humor like saying that every palestinian man growing up talks of politics because thats what it means to grow up. He said you could walk down any street and find a hall where men are talking politics. This makes sense, you are protected as a child but once you grow up you have to come face to face with the quagmire you have inherited from the generation before. The last song he played was peaceful and he said it was to relax everyone in the audiance from the gauge of stories he explained and then he said at least he needed to. A great noon lecture, one of many perks of still being on a college campus at the this age in my life.

science of sleep and recording

Saw science of sleep. Its written by Michel Gondry who also did Eternal Sunshine. I think this may even better than that spotless mind what with the blending of spanish, French, and English into bastardized versions of each really was quite fun. It also had many handcrafted scenes which you don't get nowadays with the computer age and all. I whole-heartedly suggest seeing this movie as it carries my double stamp of approval.
On Saturday we tried out our new drummer, Ray, who I thought was Donnie in a mask since he was able to pick up on all the changes in a very Ogy-vee way. After practice came the afternoon nap and then leftovers for dinner and Matties art show. Mattie had his show at the green lantern which was a great space and had nice people. It was mostly our friends since the singleman affair played, with high points of gary on the trumpet raised high to the ski. The gallery was on milwaukee so you could see the EL go by as they were playing. It made you feel like a true chicagoan.

Here's a couple of pics from the recording sesh:

masters at work









The last time beating the skins for darling. weep weep it was nice while it lasted


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