Feel my heat 9/16

bloc party - helicopter
arctic monkeys - fake tales of san fransisco
dizzee rascal - fix up, look sharp
chemical brothers - block rockin beats
lcd soundsystem - daft punk is playing on my house
bright eyes - take it easy(love nothing)
of montreal - Requim for O.M.M
Beck - girl
Toots and Maytals - pressure drop
bob marley - punky reagee party
Matisyahu - youth
Murs - L.A.
danger doom feat. talib kweli - old school
the dandy warhols - smoke it
death from above 1979 - blood on our hands
franz ferdinhand - the fallen
flogging molly - seven deadly sins
the flaming lips - yeah yeah yeah song
violent femmes - kiss off
gnarls barkley - gone daddy gone
ryan adams - to be young
my morning jacket - one big holiday
bright eyes - make war
whiskeytown - 16 days
wilco - jesus, etc.
tom waits - make it rain

Feel My Heat

That's right continuing the long trend of me being a rock nerd I have my own college radio station. The name of the show is Feel My Heat, and I will be playing all sorts of stuff. Not suprising if you have seen my ipod. But you can count on hearing a fair amount of Tom Waits, Elvis Costllo, Bowie, and Johnny Thunders. Along with my favorite new artists.

Oh and if you are interested Butch Walker should be famous. His new album The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the lets go out tonites is great. It 70's British glam with a modern La feel.

Butch Walker - Hot Girls in Good Moods
Head Automatica - New York is Burning
Dirty Pretty Things - Gin and Milk
Tom Waits - Way down in the Hole
Elvis Costello - (I don't want to go to) Chelsea

ASP Redux

Hello from Ohio...I am good thanks for asking but we have more impotant business A Sophmoric Production has been updated. And its finally returned to form. No more story pieces that are connected and making a story. No more random scenes for my brothers friends in a fast food joint. Just pure slacking. Same Characters as before. Mike and Tommy just continuing to waste thier potential. But this time with commentary on modern television. Thats its two guys watchin tv. Pure Brillance.

Top 5
Social Distortion - Prison Bound
Replacements - Waitress in the Sky
Kings of Leon - Four Kicks
Mike Ness - Don't Think Twice
Adolescents - Who is Who

gaye marriage

I sincerely stand against gay marriage. No its not because it is an attack on the scared practice of marriage or it is not supported by the bible. When you can get married drunk at 4 am in Las Vegas by an Elvis impersonating Mr. spock with one blood shot eye, clearly your institution is in trouble. No I stand against it because I believe in the sanctity of divorce. Divorce is between a man and a woman who clearly hate each other. And with any luck this divorce can occur when after the couple have had a couple kids. And as we know gays can adopted but they can't have children through the relationship and what fun is a divorce with out running the lives of several innocent children aswell? So keep up the good fight Mr. Bush just change our rationality about gay marriage, just like you did with the war in Iraq. Because we all know that when we can't find a link between al-queda and gay marriage, we can then say that gays have wmd's and once that doesn't work we can believe that we are protecting the sancitity of the gay people.

top 5
blondie - x offender
x-ray spex - I am a cliche
the queers - punk rock girls
tom waits - way down in the hole
the jam - going underground

Apathy

There was a new york times editorial today which pointed out that world war three can be started by several diffrent scenarios and each one is likely. Which really just depresses me. Dallas wrote about the lack of protest songs by young hip bands. And he is totally correct there isn't much. Mostly because the youth no longer feel the urge to do anything. It seems like there is no passion in my generation, no one wants to protest, no one wants to fuck authority, seems like my generation just likes to be raped over by Bush. My generation - generation Apathy.

top 5
seu jorge - five years
Diverse and Mos Def - Wylin' out
desaparecidos - popn' off at the F
TSOL - World War III
(What's so Funny about) Peace, Love, and Understanding

bands

So in the past two days I have seen two of the best live shows ever: Gnarls Barkley and the Flaming Lips. Seriously if you have the chnace to see either band I highly suggest seeing them. Gnarls Barkley was very entertaining and funny. And the Flaming Lips show was amazing I can not describe the show. It was sorta like a kids birthday party, an acid trip and a rock concert mixed with plenty of technicolor. Seriously after a string of lesser concerts, warped tour, and less active and visually pleasing concerts but great sounding, pearl jam and sonic youth, it was fun to see bands that mixed both aspects so well. So ya my life has been changed.

Anyway I saw clerks II today, in fact I saw the first show at my local movie theater. It was okay it had its moments, but it was not as good as the first clerks. But then again it was better than Mallrats or Jay and Silent Bob. So it was a return to form for Kevin Smith but it just isn't quite up to his original work.

Top 5
Gnarls Barkley - Go-Go Gadet Gospel
Flaming Lips - Bohemian Rapsodey
The Black Keys - All Hands His Own
Ted Leo - Six Months in a Leaky Boat
Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind

Conspiracy and Concerts

So does anyone else find it interesting that Kenneth Lay is dead? I mean this is one of the most dangerous men in the world for George Bush, and he happens to die. Now some people think it is a suicide and others think it is a murder, me I just think it is an impossible coincidence. But then again what would happen to Bush? Nothing its not like his numbers can go any lower.

On a happier not I saw Pearl Jam last night. They put on a great show and really are the biggest band in the world, not necessarily the most popular but goddamn can they play. They are in a hard place since they can play there greatest hits every night like there hero's, the who and rolling stones; or they can play whatever they want and lose people who go who like the music but just the greatest hit and only have their fan base, similar to Neil Young. But Pearl Jam did a great job of mixing the two. Plus they had Rodney on the rock introduce them which is just cool. Oh and for those of you wondering the opening band was Sonic Youth. I believe that this is the perfect 90's show. And as Eddie said SAVE TRESTLES

Top 5
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Ain't no Easy Way
Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine
Pearl Jam - Off he Goes
X - Fourth of July
Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers

nothingness

Hurray I got my laptop to connect to my internet, so now I freedom of motion where I type and I am not dependent on my ipod for music. It seems like a minor miracle that it worked since I am techology illiterate.

I highly recomend the book Nothing Feels Good by Andy Greenwald. It is all about teenagers, punk rock, and emo. Audrey and I both enjoyed reading it.

top 5
alkaline trio - mercy me
smashing pumpkins - daydream
tom waits - cold cold ground
Nas - N.Y. State of Mind
Kanye West - two words

Ohio: A recap

For all of you that didn't know I was in Ohio for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday this week. Here is a recap of what happened:

• Got to the airport, the airline didn't have record of our tickets but they did eventually find them
• My mom spilled an entire bottle of water in he purse ruining the maps and orientation papers we had
• Lost my keys in the airport at some point and no longer have keys to my car, my brothers car or my la fitness tag
• Got stuck in the small airplane ever
• Landed in Chicago to find that due to weather the plan we were supposed to take to Dayton was delayed and kept getting delayed
• Met a crystal meth addict who was missing everyone but two of his teeth
• Decided to drive from Chicago to Dayton, over 300 miles apart, starting at 11 pm
• Saw over 20 abandoned cars and 1,000 truckers
• Saw all of Indiana, let me tell you it is flat
• Went to a convince stare at 3 am in Podunk Indiana and met a nice cashier who was missing all her teeth
• Got to my hotel at 4 in the morning in Dayton
• Blew off morning orientation
  
• Found out that Dayton and Miami are not very close and took over hour and half to get there
• Got directions from a friendly chain smoking mailman
• Finally arrived at Miami at noon
• Sat through most important parts of Orientation, what to pick for classes
• Found out that I am not allowed to drink at college and that sexual assault is a serious offense
• Learned what Corn Holing was
• Didn't sleep in the dorms because my roommate got up so many times
• Got my classes and discovered that were some kids at Miami that were preps
• Drove again from Miami to Chicago, taking a longer distance trip but faster since we avoided most of the construction on highways
• Saw the rest of Indiana and Illinois I hadn't scene; Who knew that Americans still farmed
• Found out that the airline canceled my tickets due to the fact that I didn't take the Dayton flight; resulting in me buying tickets for a flight that I already had tickets for
• Met Callan in the Chicago airport on accident, she was comign back from Paris, we caught up on everythign that had been going on
• Had my flight from Chicago delayed over two hours due to Weather and President Bush
• On the plane Callan discovered that she had lost her ipod, she cried; I felt her pain
• Eventually I got home

It was a wild ride. And I don't think that anyone will quite appreciate what middle America's like just by reading this little synopsis

Emo-core and Waiting for Godot

Haven't blogged in awhile.
Haven't had much to say.
Still don't have much to say.
I have been happy the past couple days.
Today I hung around waiting for people to be able to do something.
No one was able to do anything.
I spent most of the day listening to punk and emo.
I like punk and emo.
I wish my friends liked punk and emo.
I wish there were more punks and emo kids that were my friends.
I wish my school allowed more of them.
I want my tv to work cause I want to watch noggin right now.
I am a sucker for canadian Mellow-drama.
I am a sucker for girls who say aboot.

top5
the promise ring - red and blue jeans
jawbreaker - chesterfield king
hot water music - trusty chords
minor threat - screaming at a wall
the blood brothers - ambulance vs. ambulance

the play

see I wrote about wanting to resseruct A Sophmoric Production but really I have nothing to write about and for the most part have lost insipartion for it. I think I am going to include the short parts that I wrote in the Original play along with a new more graphic and depressing ending. This one does not let mike get off easy. In fact I am sure that it will be sure to shock many of you. Anyway that is really what is happening with it is a couple new minor parts, editing for the first time, and a new ending. And if anyone is interested I want to film this thing. Kinda a fun little project for summer since seniors have jack shit to do. I expect that it won't actually get filmed but we can pretend for a coupel days that it might. By the way I don't want to play Mike. So if anyone wants that role they can have it.

top 5
The Animals - Good Times
Roxy Music - The Bob
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
Patti Smith - Gloria
The Scientists - Last night

Back Packin in Central Ohio

A mix that I was listen to when I went to Miami
All Liberal Art style back pack hip hop

Kanye West - School Spirit
Foreign Exchange - All that you are
Notorious B.I.G - Hold Ya Head
Sage Francis - Personal Journalist
Aesop Rock - Fast Cars
Atmosphere - Smart Went Crazy
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
Atmosphere - Get Fly
Felt - Employees of the Year
Atmosphere - Substance Abuse
Gangstarr - Battle
J-Live - Hush the Crowd
El Da Sensei - Crowd Pleasa
Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard
Hieroglyphics - Classic
Living Legends - Night Prowler
Eyedea and Abilities - Big shot
Soul Position - Keep it Hot for Daddy
Lootpack - Long Awaited
Pharoahe Monch - My Life
Planet Asia - All these Beats
Talib Kweli - Drugs, Basketball, & Rap

Parents

So yesterday Julian had a bbq at his house which was fun. And I suggested that we could have one at my house tomorrow. And he said that he owed one ot his mom because she allowed them to be loud in the pool. Now this seems bizarre for two reasons: first his parents kept telling us to be quite so it wasn't like they never said anything and second isn't that what you do in a pool be loud and splash. So the idea of owing her one seemed completely ludacris to me. Especially to your parents isn't that what they do put up with your shit?

Then again I live a very different life when it comes to parents. First my parents are almost never consulted when it comes to most aspects of my life. The major descions they might play some role but even those I make the choice for the most part. They really just let me do whatever. When it came to applying to college they didn't tell me where to apply or anything like. In fact I think they only told me two things about applying: you cant apply to either USC or Buffalo. And certainly no one at the school really knows who they are. A few people know my dad but no one knows my mom. That's because they really don't see the point in doing the school functions. After I leave, my family will have nothing to do with the school. Neither of my brother's will go to smes and that might be why people find my family so bizarre. We just don't care bout the school.

the other thing that I find interesting about parents is the need to proclaim there love for the kid. In the year book there is about a million pages of ads saying how proud the family is that the student graduated and that they love them. This sort seems like a given. When a kid graduates the parents and the parents love them. If you don't meet those two qualities, chances are your kid isn't graduating. So why are there all those damn pages? I guess its to tell everyone that you love them. A need to once again show off. As if your big house nice car and fashionable clothes aren't enough. In the end all that these things say is that "fuck you I am better than you and that I love my kid more than you love kid"

top 5
Gnarls Barkley - Smiley Faces
Ted leo - timorous me
Bruce Springsteen - If I should fall behind
Lyle lovett - If I had a boat
Robert Earl Keen - Crystabel

Senior Projects

I think the idea of the senior project is a good idea but it does not work. First not everyone is working the same amount of hours. Some people are only working two days a week, while others are working everyday and barely get 60 hours. The system seems inherently flawed by making people work hours. Also many peoples companies do not have enough work for kids to do. Thus it is impossible to hold the students responsible if they do not get 60 hours if the business does not have enough work for people. Lastly I find it bizarre that our last two weeks of school we all get separated. I like the idea of a senior project but why should the students do something that helps the community and allows them to spend their last few days together? If the grade got split in thirds and the groups all worked the same hours doing a beach cleanup or building a playground for the less-fortunate would not the students get the same benefits as filing for 8 hours. All the jobs seem to have taught most students is to pay attention in college because they would never want these jobs ever again.

top 5
Da Backwudz - you gonna love me
love equals death - bombs over brooklyn
frontline - bang it
transplants - gangsters and thugs(chopped and screwed)
Bouncing Souls - OLE!
*Bonus* Artist Unkown - You'll never walk alone

End of School

School is over. I just have to turn in a poster board and I will be done with high school. Which seems kinda bizzae since...well actually it doesn't seem bizzare at all. I was never that into high school. I can't remember my first day of High School. ANd this is my second high school and 7 overall school. So I don't really have the attachment that alot of people have. But life goes on and we are no going on to COLLEGE. Something I have been waiting for. And in the midst of all the chanigng and leaving I have rediscovered the greatness of 90's rock so that is my top 5.

top 5
Pavement - Range Life
Nirvna - Lounge Act
Cracker - Low
Gin Blossoms - Found out about you
Sonic youth - Sugar Kane

RIP Dekker

Desmond Dekker, the Jamaican singer whose 1969 hit, "The Israelites," opened up a worldwide audience for reggae, died on Wednesday. He was 64.

He died after collapsing from a heart attack at his home in Surrey, England, his manager, Delroy Williams, told Reuters.

"The Israelites" was the peak of Mr. Dekker's extensive career, selling more than a million copies worldwide. He was already a major star in Jamaica and well known in Britain. The song was his only United States hit, but it was a turning point for Jamaican music among international listeners.

The Jamaican rhythm of ska had already generated hits in the United States, notably Millie Small's 1964 hit, "My Boy Lollipop." But that song was treated as a novelty. "The Israelites," with its biblical imagery of suffering and redemption, showed the world reggae's combination of danceable rhythm and serious, sometimes spiritual intentions.

Mr. Dekker was named Desmond Adolphus Dacres when he was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1941. As a teenager he worked in a welding shop alongside Bob Marley and auditioned unsuccessfully for various producers until Mr. Marley encouraged him to try out for his own first producer, Leslie Kong.

Mr. Kong produced Mr. Dekker's first single, "Honour Thy Father and Mother," in 1963, and it reached No. 1 in Jamaica. Like many of Mr. Dekker's songs, it carried a message. A string of Jamaican hits followed, including "It Pays," "Sinners Come Home" and "Labour for Learning." Mr. Dekker had a total of 20 No. 1 hits in Jamaica.

A series of songs including "Rude Boy Train" and "Rudie Got Soul" made Mr. Dekker a hero of Jamaica's rough urban "rude boy" culture.

His 1960's songs used the upbeat ska rhythm, a precursor to reggae also known as bluebeat. By the end of the decade, Mr. Dekker had won the Golden Trophy award, presented annually to Jamaica's top singer, five times and was known as the King of Bluebeat. He won the Jamaican Song Festival in 1968 with "Intensified."

"Honour Thy Father and Mother" was released in Britain in 1964 on Chris Blackwell's Island label, which would later release Bob Marley's albums. Three years later, Mr. Dekker had his first British Top 20 hit with "007 (Shanty Town)," a tale of rude-boy ghetto violence — "Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail" — sung in a thick patois, which Americans would hear later as part of the soundtrack to the film "The Harder They Come" in 1972. Paul McCartney slipped Mr. Dekker's first name into the lyrics to the Beatles' ska song, "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," on "The Beatles" (also known as the White Album) in 1968, the year Mr. Dekker moved to England.

With "The Israelites," released in Jamaica in December 1968, Mr. Dekker had an international impact. "I was telling people not to give up as things will get better," he said in a interview last year for the Set the Tone 67 Web site.

"The Israelites" reached No. 1 in Britain and No. 9 in the United States in 1969. The song would return to the British charts in 1975 and was reissued as a single after being used in a commercial for Maxell recording tape in 1990.

Although Mr. Dekker had no further hits in the United States, he continued to have hits in England with "It Mek" in 1969 and the first recording of Jimmy Cliff's "You Can Get It if You Really Want" in 1970. But while Mr. Dekker kept up a busy performing career, the death of Mr. Kong in 1971 ended his streak of hits. He returned to the British charts with "Sing a Little Song" in 1975.

The punk era of the late 1970's brought with it an English revival of ska by groups like Madness and the Specials. Mr. Dekker's songs were rediscovered, and he was signed by Madness's label, Stiff Records. His 1980 album, "Black and Dekker," featured members of a venerable Jamaican band, the Pioneers, and Graham Parker's band, the Rumour. The British hitmaker Robert Palmer produced Mr. Dekker's next album, "Compass Point," in 1981. But in 1984 Mr. Dekker declared bankruptcy, blaming his former manager.

In 1993, the Specials reunited and backed up Mr. Dekker on the album "King of Kings," with remakes of ska hits. In 2000 he released the album "Halfway to Paradise." He continued to tour regularly; his final concert was on May 11 at Leeds University.

Mr. Dekker was divorced and is survived by a son and daughter.

A return to plays

So after a break I have returned to writing plays. The new set is going to be called Breakdown and Oso. The first part was called Heartattack and Antonio. Heartattack will be up soon in a finalized version. The stories are once again true enough and this time I hope that I really hurt because I am not pulling punches. I am tired of the hypocrisy in everyday life. And honestly I really hope that it makes the people I am writhing about take a good luck in the mirror. And hopefully when they are looking int he mirror they are not just chopping another line. Since I am here I will give some details about the plays:

1. Everyone in the play is someone in real life
2. Hearttack is all real stories and occasionally actual conversations
3. Breakdown is what imagine will happen with the characters, since it will be finished before I go to college I have no way of knowing what exactly happens
   
4. Heatattack was meant to be funny
5. Breakdown is meant to give you a look into the way I see life
6. Breakdown occurs during early summer, basically now
7. Hearttack occurred about spring break time
8. I am Mike, but you have changed

top 5
sonic youth - teenage riot
the clash - kola kola
Hank Williams - six more miles
Bruce springsteen - pay me my down
Supremes - Baby Love

Is a dream a lie if it dont come true?

top 5 songs about work and lost dreams

bruce sprinsteen - The River
Whickeytown - too drunk to dream
Billy Bragg - Levis Stubbs tears
Fred Eaglesmith - Just dreamin'
Desparecidos - Greater Omaha

Songs about growing up and losing all the dreams that you once had.

tom waits - cold cold ground
Leonard cohen - famour blue raincoat

felt like those two should just be throwin in there

Waiting for Rocko: Mixtapes and work

So I am at work and I am waiting for Rocky to arrive so I can show him that I am in fact at working and even sorta working. I wouldn't call what I am exactly doing working since I am sitting here writing in my blog but I am pretty sure I am doing more than a lot of students. The sad state of affairs at SMES. In a way I wish I was still at school simply because it was fun to just hang out and do nothing in most of my classes. If I could have gotten out of Spanish, I would have had the perfect schedule.

At work I do relatively minor things because I am untrained and uneducated labor. Thus I am filing, data entry, and doing inventory most of the day. Except for the part that I am eating lunch, taking a break, or working on my blog. So a great way to use my time. But I do enjoy working. My coworkers are smart and relatively funny. Also they seem to like me which is a plus because I am sure that some people in the school did not like me.

As I was sitting here I read a comment Dallas left me on my blog, which was my grade for a paper which I turned in as a blog. This was a post modern assignment and I went the post modern route and posted it. The reason I find it postmodern is that why do I think anyone cares about my thoughts on society and capitalism. Thus I am adding to the needless noise that our world is being filled with. And yet I continue to blog.

The second thing I saw was his great piece about the mixtape. An occupation that has taken up too much time in my life. As just about anyone at SMES can tell you I listen to my ipod a lot. And in Ms. finchers opinion too much. As she said it is disrespectful to listen to your headphones while talking to Mr. Boyle. While I listen to my ipod, about 75% of the time I am making an on-the-go mix of songs that I like and want in a convinent playlist. frequently the are poorly though out and badly time but they sometimes morph into a better playlist. Occasionally they even make it to cd form,and when that happens it means one of two things: one that the cd is properly mixed and I will not be embarrassed to play it for someone riding in my car or two that I wanted rap songs and I am too embarrassed to have power 106 on my stereo.

He also stated what every geeky guy believes which is that we are king of the mix tape. There can not be a million kings to a kingdom that tedious. Now I do not believe that I am at all the king. In fact I probably would be a middle manager level if it all came down to it, but I know that. Many many boys do not realize that there mixs just plain suck. Eventually they figure it out and let the pros take over for the party, but they originally make the rest of us suffer through bad songs from 50 cent and other assorted pop stars. But with any luck by the end of the night a different dj has taken the ipod and revived the party.

top 5
Catherine wheel - black metallic
Happy Mondays - 24 hour party people
David Bowie - here's/helden
Lcd Soundsystem - Yeah(crass version)
Kasbian - Club Foot

Times are a changin

New Name...Same old bad attitude

sorta

so I am back yall...from interning and proming
both have been fun, prom more than interns

hope yall have been having a good time the past couple days
for the name change it was time to move on and find a new theme song for the blog and I flet I need to keep it indie

if anyone has seen the street scene this year yall know its gonna be nuts
Kanye, Bad religion, Snoop, Social D, modest mouse, bloc party, and WU TANG CLAN

tops
cascada - everytime we touch
common - on my way home
kanye west - addiction
catherine wheel - black metallic
sonic youth - teenage riot

Lost in the Supermarket: A discourse on Post-modern life through the grocery store with an appearance by Jesus

Im all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
A guaranteed personality

I know cliche to start a paper out with song lyrics but this is the last one I have to write for a while. American life has become all signals with nothing to signify and no one to receive the message. While there are a plethora of examples to use on the ideas of post-modern life, I chose the good old supermarket. A place that everyone goes to and for the most part likes. In many ways the supermarket determines how a person likes the area he or she is living in. If the supermarket is nice then it seems like they have a better feeling about the entire area. Since most working people spend most of there days in the office, where they live really plays very little role in life. A suburban office park in Kentucky will look very similar to a suburban office park in California. But the grocery store is where the difference is made.

I remember that I hated many aspects of Florida. It was hot, ugly, bad food, and poorly designed. All of these things are true but I realized that what I was remembering was my neighborhood Albertsons. When I visited my old home town and saw just how lousy the store was I figured out why I hated the place so much. But enough rambling on this subject time to begin my real idea.

That is what you walk in to and out of: a candy stand. Big bright colors of nothingness. The candy will not provide and sort of nutrition and the packaging disguises the small amount of candy that you will actually get, but it sells and people buy it. If you look more closely at the packaging you will notice something that is very disturbing to me the trends when it comes to packaging. A flavor will be assigned a color and it will be the same style, color, and flavor no matter which company it is.




This further proves my idea. That is a picture of three different brands version of chicken flavored cat food. This pictures says two things to me about postmodern life: First that we have gone in sane with choices. If our cats require three versions of the same flavor food, then we have in fact lost it. They are cats, they are pets, they do not need options they need food. Second it shows that if you want a go no where job where you do not have to be original: go into label design. Look at those cans they look the same, this can not be by accident. Either A) the designers are copying off each other or B) they are hoping you grab the wrong can and give your 89 cents to friskies instead of nine lives.

Here is the same idea only with apricot jam and chili





Another serious problem society has is options. Never before has there been this many options. Can someone please tell me why society needs 10 different kinds of milk and who is buying all these different brands anyway? How is the store brand 2% milk any different from the private company's 2% milk? Both come from cows and both are white. Seems like it should be almost the exact same.



Even worse are naked juices. They are worse because the juice is great but why does society need all these different options. Twenty years ago there was four types of juice: Apple juice, Grape Juice, Orange juice, and Cranberry juice. The last two probably were not in most states but since I am writhing this in California I am certain they had all four. But now I have mango and pear and kiwi and wheat grass. When did wheat grass become a juice, I want to know. All of these choices and signals for one very basic intended message: DRINK ME YOU ARE THIRSTY



The last point is why do company's make the same cereal twice? Clearly the same company manufactures these cereals. And why do we as a society feel the urge to pay more for the name brand when the same company make the store brand as well?






As you may have noticed all of these cereals are named the same thing. And they all have the same colors and have the same logos. IT baffles the mind why people pay more for brand name items. But I do it just as anyone else.



This picture seems to conflict the very message that religion represents. This is a candle of Jesus. And he is watching society shop for brand name products which in many ways have become modern idols. And inevitably right across the aisle from that candle was a picture of Mickey mouse the ultimate false idol. Yes these are the contradictions that are postmodern life. Hope you all had the same fun I did.

Television

Television

TV as we know it is changing dramatically next year. That 70's show, Malcolm in the Middle, West Wing, and Will and Grace are all finished. I stopped watching West Wing a number of years ago and never watched Will and Grace but still those are big shows that are done. And with Malcolm in the middle over it seems kind of bizarre. When the show started Malcolm was in 6th grade and I was in 6th grade; he had just been put into advance courses and I had just been put into advance courses. There were many parallels which made it a show that I enjoyed. Now he was able to go to Harvard and I am going to Miami but still close enough.

Top 5
1 Bright Eyes - Make War
2 Ryan Adams - Beautiful Sorta
3 Drive-by Truckers - Gravitys Gone
4 Brand New - Jude Law and a Semester Abroad
5 Rancid - Ruby Soho

Random List

I have rediscovered my love for country and soul music. It is really amazing to imagine alot of the songs I am listening to lately were recorded several decades ago. There was some point I was trying to make originally but I have forgotten it.

A selected List:

Angel from montgomery - Bonnie Rait
Love and Hapiness - Al Green
Sweet Home Chicago - Keb Mo
Too Drunk to Dream - Whiskeytown
Beautiful Sorta - Ryan Adams
Statesbrough Blues - The Allman Brothers
I will be there when you die - my morning jacket
5 years - david bowie
Rebel Rebel - david bowie
Young Americans- david Bowie
Dance to the music - Sly and the family stone
Set you free - The balck keys
Gravitys gone - drive-by truckers
Mannish Boy - muddy Waters
Son of a preacher man - Dusty Springfield
High fashion Queen - The Flying Burrito Brothers
4th of july - X
Shades of Grey - Robert Earl Keen
I gotta woman - Ray Charles
It takes alot to laugh; it takes a train to cry - Bob Dylan
Baby love - the sumpremes
Living for the city - Stevie Wonder
6 more miles - Hank Williams
Why don't we get drunk and screw - Hank williams III
I walk the Line - Johnny Cash
New Amsterdam - Elvis Costello
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Virgina Plain - Roxy Music
I am Waiting for the Man - Velvet Underground
I Wanna be your dog - Iggy pop
Inner city blues - Marvin Gaye
Dead Flowers - Rollign Stones
A New England - Billy Bragg
Live in a Hiding Place - Idlewild
Smalltown boy - bronski beat
Can't hardly wait(Tim Demos) - The Replacements
Primevil Love - Sand Rubies
Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

Daft Punk is playing at my tent: Madonna ruined Coachella

So as most of you know I went to coachella over the past weekend. It was great experience, mind you there were some problems but over all it was great. My only real complaints were one it was hot, not that anyone can change that;and it was expensive, I was expecting it so not that bad.

But otherwise it was amazing. The lineup was great, I could only find one year that I wanted to go to more and that was 2002. The sound was incredible, with the exception of Madonna. The artists could all perform, even if I didn't like them ie. Yeah Yeah Yeah's. At night the grounds were well light and the sculptures came alive. I highly recommend that everyone go see it some time in your life. Also I recommend going with your buddy's and seeing the entire day. I unfortunately did not get to the park when it opens, missed: Wolfmother, Ladytron, Common, Murs, Giant Drag, and Clap your hands and Say Yeah; and stay till closing, missed: Daft Punk and She Wants Revenge.

For reference I saw:
Kanye West
Damian Marley
Depeche Mode
Atmosphere
Sigur Ros
Franz Ferdinand
Massive Attack
Coheed and Cambria
Madonna
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Matisyahu
Bloc Party
Ted Leo
Seu Jorge
Gnarls Barkley
Paul Oakenfold
Digable Planets
Eagles of Death Metal

Finished and Beck

So I finished ASP and have actually put it together in a chrnonological order and it even kinds tells a story...my only real problem is that all told it only ends up being 17 pages which isn't that long...I kinda want to see what it would look like if it were made...so if anyone wants to actaully act in it jsut contact me and I will be happy to let you pick a part...haha that last part was dumb but who knows it could work

top 3
Beck- Hell Yes
Beck - Sexx Laws
Beck - Devils Haircut

Go See Brick

So everyone needs to go see BRICK it is a great movie...I saw it last night and that was pretty cool...I have come up with an idea for a Sophomoric Production and how to link all the stories together, it will still suck but at least it will be complete...That's all I really have to say

top 5
1. The Who - The Punk and the Godfather
2. Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
3. The Who - 515
4. Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat
5. Al Green - Love and Hapiness

Kirsten Told Me to Write This

So I have hit writers block....Which is upsetting cause I liked turning out a play in a day...plus I can't think of how to write dialogue for female characters most of the time...for the most part I have begun to lose inspiration's because I don't have any idea how to piece the stories together....plus the stories are never going to be anything so its difficult to continue peruse the stories

Top 5
Al Green - Love and happiness
Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Sly and the Family Stone - Dance to the Music
Aztec Two-Step - The Persecution and Reseration of Dean Moriarty(On the Road)
Billy Bragg - A New England

I Swear I don't Love You Anymore

So, I am still writing plays and not English journals...A lot of the new material I have written is too profane to be published most likely....Some people wouldn't appreciate the subtle humor and sexual perversion...I went to Miami(OH) over the weekend, and really liked it...Only problem was that the town surrounding it was a little too small but if that is my only complain then I am gonna be good...My friends and their relationships are screwed up and I am waiting for it all to come crashing down...I think this will all go into a play at some point

Top 5
Jawbreaker - Bad Scene, everybody's Fault
Joy division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
The Killers - Jenny was a friend of mine
Idlewild - Live in a hiding place
Atmosphere - A Girl Named Hope

A Sophomoric Production

So apparently people actually liked my little skits. Thus I have decided to start its own site. That's right A sophomoric Production has its own website. It will still deliver the same high quality product that you come to expect from me. You can stop laughing now. The website is of course: http://asophomoricproduction.blogspot.com.

So hope you all had a good night. I know I have.
Top 5
1. The Mountain Goats - No Children
2. Elliott Smith - Waltz #2
3. The Libertines - What Became of the Likely Lads
4. The Killers - Jenny was a friend of mine
5. Jawbreaker - Bad scene, everbody's fault

College

Accepted to Miami OH
Accepted to Oregon
Denied Hamilton
Denied Colgate
Denied Kenyon
Waitlisted Vermont
Waitlisted Skidmore



equals

Apathy and a strong hatred toward liberal arts colleges
and that I am going to Miami

top 5
1. The Loved Ones - Jane
2. T.I. - What you know about that
3. Arctic Monkeys - I bet you look good on the dance floor
4. Love Equals Death - Bombs over Brooklyn
5. Teenage BottleRocket - Blood Bath at Burger King

Stuff

I was supposed to write a hateful blog about a student and the article my advisory and I came up with but I decided not to. Mostly because then I run the risk of becoming my Tesoro counterparts. Anyway I have decided that I am going to Miami(oh) because I have not been admitted anywhere else.

And I think I have a serious problem I fall in love with waitresses and girls with good music taste way too easily.

top 5
1. Gatsby's American Dream - SSSHHHHHHHH! I am Listening to Reason
2. Brand New - Mixtape
3. Atmosphere - get fly
4. Gym Class Heros - Cupid's Chokehold
5. Hot Water Music - Jack of All Trades

Hi I am glad you are here!

I got into Miami Ohio.

Thank God I am on a roll.

Life is good.

My Mac died which means I may have lost all my music and I have got a detention but I don't care.

Life is good and I am happy.

Top 5
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Elliott Smith - Say Yes
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
Frank Zappa - Camarillo Brillo

Academy Awards

SO like every other blogger I am writhing about the Oscars. What I have heard has annoyed me. First that Hollywood has gotten the message that the American people won't stand for homosexual movies. See I am not sure I would say that since Crash wasn't exactly the feel good hit of the year, from what I remember it brought up rascism in Los Angles and the problems with everyday life. Yup I left the theater with a smile on my face.

Second that Three 6 Mafia didn't deserve to win the oscar for best song. Now this is a little more controversial and biased since I love Three 6 Mafia. But why is that they don't deserve to win? I have heard both songs, both are really good songs. Personally I liked Three 6 Mafias song more but that doesn't take away from Dolly Parton's song.

top 5
Three 6 Mafia - It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp
Bird York - In the Deep
Dolly Parton - Travelin' Thru
Willy Nelson - Cowboys are Frequently Secretly (Fond of Each other)
Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line

Random Bannter

This is more of a journal for me then a blog. If you want a blog go read Rolands or one of the Knights or D.Clem. This is more to mute concsince. I have some serious problems:

1. I am the greatest half reader ever, I can read the first half of a book in a day. Its a miracle if I ever finish the book.
2. I do not understand Spanish. I think I get it since on homework and in class I seem to do all right but on tests I just fall apart.
3. I have a serious apathy streak which is not helpful in school.
4. And the discord in my head is getting to me.

Ok well that was productive.

Top 5

1. The Dandy Warhols - All the Money or The Simple Life Honey
2. The Elected - Fireflies in a Steel Mill
3. Bright Eyes - Make War
4. Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen
5. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet That You Look Good on the Dance Floor
   

End of an Era

Today was my last basketball game for high school. And there is a good chance it will be my last organized game ever. I am still going to play street ball and open gyms but never again will I play with a referee and uniforms. This might be a sadder occasion if it weren't for the fact I have had such a bad high school career. Freshman year I barely played since I was last man on varsity and midway through the season I was put on Freshman team. Sophomore year I was on JV but the coach and the Team and I were all on different pages and I end up fighting and hating most of the team. Junior year I did not play since I transferred. This last year was fun but I did not have the emotional attachment that Smith or Guerro had. The only high points with my experience has been spring and summer basketball when I played with club teams or at open gyms and was allowed to just have fun. See you at 24 hour fitness.

top 5
1. Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
2. Rancid - The Wars End
3. Jimmy Cliff - The harder they Come
4. Social Distortion - Telling Them
5. Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies

Sometimes I am a kiss ass

Unfortunately I came much too late to SMES. I would have really liked to have been here for a lot longer. If for no other reason than to have met the Knight brothers. These two guys seem to border on both genius and comically insane. There ideas for blogs and wiki have been both amusing and insightful, a hard combo. Seriously they have taken sarcasm and irony to a level that I can never hope to achieve. I am now done with my unnecessary sucking up.

top 5
Bob Marley- Easy Skanking
Bob Marley - Soul Shakedown Party
Keb' Mo' - Sweet Home Chicago
Keb' Mo' - Dirty Low Down And Bad
Johnny Cash - 25 minutes to go

Ten things

Ten Things

1. The second line of something that I read today:
American History is not begin taught in our schools
-Punishment Park booklet

2. A weekend is complete if I:
Find a new song I like and hang out with friends

3. The favorite placed I've lived:
New York City or Vienna

4. My favorite airport is:
Burlington or Long Beach

5. My least favorite airport is:
John Wayne or Miami

6. IÂ’d like to visit:
London, Boston, or SanFranciscoo

7. IÂ’d like to revisit:
Vienna or Budapest

8. (Can be true) Something I could send to PostSecret:
Somebody got murdered
And it' left me with a touch

9. I envy this blog design:
Kevin Verbal's is suprisingly well done

10. I felt emotional after this movie:
Reservoiror Dogs - Anger
Punishment Park - distrust
Clerks - apathy
Casablanca - Desire
Heathers - hope
Underworld - urge to vomit

Back after our commercial break

Boys basketball won league yesterday.
We are going to playoffs.

Mr. Clemmons made me a bunch of good blues CD's.
They are amazing and if you want them I can burn ya one.

I have applied to college I just have heard back from any.
Which is very unnerving.

Winter formal is tomorrow.
And I am rather uninterested, since I have no date or desire to get dressed up.

top 5 songs
Bottles to the Ground - nofx
do you want to change? - Time Again
Radio Havana - Rancid
Can I borrow some ambition? - Guttermouth
Julies been working for the drug squad - the clash

Back after our commercial break

Boys basketball won league yesterday.
We are going to playoffs.

Mr. Clemmons made me a bunch of good blues CD's.
They are amazing and if you want them I can burn ya one.

I have applied to college I just have heard back from any.
Which is very unnerving.

Winter formal is tomorrow.
And I am rather uninterested, since I have no date or desire to get dressed up.

top 5 songs
Bottles to the Ground - nofx
do you want to change? - Time Again
Radio Havana - Rancid
Can I borrow some ambition? - Guttermouth
Julies been working for the drug squad - the clash

Todays High Lights

Today in history:

• # 1649 - King Charles I of England is beheaded.
• # 1661 -Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is formally executed - after having been dead for two years
• # 1820 - Edward Bransfield lands on the Antarctic mainland.
• # 1933 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
• # 1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
• # 1948 - 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
• # 1968 - The album White Light/White Heat by The Velvet Underground is released. It reaches 199 on the Billboard Top 200.
• # 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch series of a surprise attacks in South Vietnam.
• # 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
• #1994 - The Dallas Cowboys win their fourth Super Bowl title, 30-13 over the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIII.
• #2003 - Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.

Ten bands that have changed my life or whatever

Ten bands that have changed my life or whatever
1. Pearl Jam
2. Social Distortion
3. Joy Division
4. Nirvana
5. The Clash
6. Frank Zappa
7. Elvis Costello
8. The Replacements
9. Ryan Adams
10. Bad Religion

Not necessarily my ten favorite or desert Island or anything, but the ten that I can say since I have listened to their music my life has changed in some way.

radio station

I am thinking about sending in a sample playlist to little radio because they have a couple open slots for shows. It would be pretty cool to have my own radio show, esp. because the radio station is an indepent station and I can play just about whatever I want. Yah, actually nevermind I just realized how dumb that sounds. Maybe I willd o it in college? Also today in 1924 the first winter olympics happened in Chamonix, France.

A short playlist

Lootpac - When I'm on da mic
Eyedea and abilities - Big Shot
Jurassic 5 - Concrete School yard
Felt - Employees of the year
Aesop Rock - Tap Dance for Scratch
RjD2 - True Confessions
Massive Attack - Angel
Chemical Brothers - Block Rocking Beats
Gwen Stefani - Hollabakc Girl[Dancehall remix]
Toots and Maytals - 54-56 was my number
Sympria - Skinhead Moonstop
The Specials - Little Bitch
English Beat - Twist and Crawl
New Order - The Village
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
The Jam - A town Called Malice

Goals in life....Hemingway style

1. Get wicked freakin drunk
2. Fight a Bull
3. Fight a War
4. Own a bar and get drunk in it
5. Write a book
6. Have sex with many many women
7. Write a good book
8. Fight the Poet laureate
9. Drink Many People under the table
10. Tell Rival Author that he has a small Penis
11. Attack every poet I meet
12. Kill a zebra
13. Catch a Marlin
14. Go Big Game hunting
15. GO deep sea fishing
16. Survive a plane crash
17. Have a manly and tough beard
18. Create a genre of fiction that is appealing to men and completely hated by women
19. Have it
20. Kill myself, when I realize I have lost it

Comics

I love comics. At least well written and interesting comics. I am a serious fan of Doonesbury and Boondocks for thier social critques. Calvin and Hobbes is better than 3/4 of all books written. I will admit that I love X-Men and Batman, I guess it is from watching all those shows and collecting the action figures. I even like some of the online comics like Nothing Nice to Say.

top 5
1. My Bloody Valentine - sometimes
2. The Who - I can see for Miles
3. Oasis - Roll with it
4. The jam - the modern world
5. pulp - Like a Friend

Stuff

I have been getting sick now for the past couple days, thus I am sick of going to school and dealing with stuff. But the problem is, I like school and I need to be in school, so I have a bit of a dilemma. Anyway, this alito businesss is really heating up. Which is a good thing since I am afraid of what is going to happen if he is voted in. I wonder what the average house costs in Canada?

Then there is this which is pretty sad,
But this is good since I know people with AIDS
and this is also good news.

So that should give ya'll some stuff to think about.

Oh and today's chapel was very good. It was quite moving, since I am white boy that prefers Malcolm X and W.E.B Dubois to Dr. King. And I was rendered speechless.

Top 10
1. Interpol - PDA
2. The Clash - Revolution Rock
3. Elvis Costello - Accidents Will happen
4. Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools
5. The Jam - That's Entertainment
6. Social Distortion - Telling Them
7. Billy Bragg and Wilco - All You Fascists
8. Bad Religion - Big Bang
9. Sid Vicious - My Way
10. Betty Everett - It's in his Kiss

Some News For Ya

House of Freaks Murder

and

Jon Stewart

Two things to keep you entertained

Moshing, Photos, and Girl Trouble

So this week was fun because I turned 18. That was ok but what was cool was I got to go to Social Distortion. It was one of the best concerts, if not the best, of my life. I went with my friend Trent and we saw the opening band who were very good and then Social D who played a great set and did some amazing covers. I had my first ever crowd surfer, which was pretty fun. Later in he week I presented my photo project which was good. It was kinda bizarre since my images did not correspond literally to the song but what I felt the artist would have wanted if he was looking at my pictures. It was of course a Bright Eyes song because I am artsy like that. Basketball won tonight against Whitney. I am having trouble with a girl and her personality. I am hoping to chalk it up to simply she does not know me well and is a sophomore and is expecting something else because I am a senior. But really who knows?

top 5
1. The blood Brothers - Ambulance vs. Ambulance
2. Social Distortion - Mommys Little Monster
3. The smithereens - Behind The Wall of Sleep
4. The Smiths - Shoplifters of the World Unite
5. Aesop Rock - Daylight

Blogs, Bright Eyes and Sam

Apparently I write too much. At least that is what Taylor cdub told me last night when we looked at SMES blogs. She was really happy to see that D.Clem has a blog and hopes that he writes about his students. I told her that I think he writes about his student but in an indirect manner. So from now on I will write shorter blogs and D.Clem should write about students using names.

For the two really long blogs:
Punishment park is a good movie you all should see it.
Extreme right wing politics are rising in Europe and it needs to be stopped.

top 5 songs:
Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have to Love
Bright Eyes - I Believe In Symmetry
Bright Eyes - A Scale, A Mirror And Those Indifferent Clocks
Bright Eyes - Drunk Kid Catholic
Cursive - The Recluse

I listened to a lot of saddlecreek today when I took photos for my slideshow project
and I talked for a very long time with Sam