Update: 1:35

you guys are probably getting sick of my diatribes. here’s a really awesome video. what’s up with the robots?

Schnookums is like “Tell me all about it.”

Maybe it’s wrong to say. But I love corporate art. I saw this cool area, Fountain Place in Dallas

watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

Definitely been neglecting the site recently. Zach’s been doing an awesome job keeping it alive even though he’s probably busiest of all. That’s why I’ve begun writing the “Ballad of Zach.”

I’ve been having some reservations about my fanfic. Although I have a pretty clear idea where to take the story I fear that I’m not as good a guitarist as Cloud, so I’m pretty self conscious being such a fan of the world. I’d like to find a way to keep posting music and to keep posting fanfic chapters however.

With the exception of “Survival Quest,” starring the underrated dermot mulroney haven’t watched too much to review. Although I have put Halo Legends on the queue so hopefully I’ll have a review up shortly although the word on the street is that it’s hit and miss.

Seems like forever since I wrote a blog post. I never managed to get around to generating a best of 2009 list as I promised in Zach’s sticky post above. It did occur to me that the best trip of 2009 was definitely going to the lake and the best laugh was the new present Bruce Willis scene in Disney’s the kid.

I believe I already mentioned this but watched a ton of anime over the holiday, however, it’s really fallen off since I’ve gotten back, as has my K-horror watching. So I’m not sure I can do another review rodeo at the moment but I can at least link to a pretty awesome song. Joey Tafolla shreds. The title of the song is ‘open house.’ I like the name because it works on multiple levels. First of all it’s about shredding on open strings, but then open house as a phrase can imply a lot, like an actual open house event or just the pleasant feeling of an open versus cloused house.

Anyway, last night I had what I thought was the best idea ever for a roaring shark podcast. I feel the ‘review’ podcast is too limiting, as much as I love talking about final fantasy and anime. The idea is to call the podcast the ’survival guide’ and having each episode be about areas of knowledge that you don’t necessarily think about. One of the ideas for a show I had, because I’ve been pondering it recently would be traditional board games, like you know backgammon, checkers, parchisi, tafl, mancala. I’ve just been thinking a lot about what strategy is recently. Another idea would be a show about the different kinds of scents.

I’m hoping to get another chapter of the fanfic up soon. I came up with a fun metal riff.

Darren gave me a crazy statue he made of Cloud Strife. My mother broke it when she tried to scare the cat with it but darren glued it together.

Plan View!

Last week I had the opportunity to check off a couple blocks on the bucket list.  First up, game 6 of the World Series.  Serendipitously, I got to attend the title clinching game, so that made the experience feel much more significant.  I, however, didn’t have a dog in the fight, as I hate the Yankees and am indifferent toward the Phillies.  I wasn’t about to actively root against the Yanks in Yankee Stadium for fear of death.  Given it was the Yankees in a brand new Yankee Stadium, the atmosphere was not as electric as I thought it would be.  Exciting, yes.  Electric?  I don’t know…although I’m guessing a Yankee fan would say certainly.  To me, alot of the noise (inside the stadium; outside was another story) was inorganic.  The final out was met with a loud cheer, but seemed short-lived.  It wasn’t long before Sinatra’s “New York, New York” was pushed through the PA.  Seeing Mariano Rivera come out for the save to Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” was pretty cool though (the Yankee players come out to self-chosen music–e.g., Derek Jeter’s at bats start with that Jay-Z/Alicia Keys New York song).  I guess I was just surprised at the lack of goosebump/chickenskin-inducing crowd noise.  I’ve seen nearly comparable crowd craziness at regular season Cubs games.  I’m sure there’s an essay in there somewhere about New Yorkers’ sense of expectation/ego/entitlement, but I’m not going to explore that here.  A good time nonetheless.

The field at the new Yankee Stadium looks alot like the old one (similar dimensions, feel, look, etc.).  The change is in the corporate-style amenities.  I did enjoy the sausage, and, ironically, a tasty cheesesteak.

As if the World Series wasn’t enough, I capped off the week at the KISS Alive 35 tour.  KISS and I go back quite a long time.  The concert/crowd/etc. was what you’d think it would be:  musically light, performance heavy, crowd dressed in full KISS regalia (even saw kids as young as about 7–parents certainly not candidates for mother/father of the year).  Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have great energy for 60 year olds.  Gene did the whole blood-spitting, fire-breathing demon thing.  Paul swung over and into the crowd during the encore.  Ace Frehley and Peter Criss weren’t there, replaced by Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer respectively.  The songs everyone knows (Detroit Rock City, Rock and Roll All Night, Shout It Out Loud, etc.) were the most fun, but honestly, they probably could’ve played one song for two hours straight and most people wouldn’t notice a difference.  The originality definitely lies in the face paint and not in the songwriting.  It was, however, very entertaining.

Buckcherry opened for KISS.  Buckcherry could definitely take the DeLorean back to 1986 and, with the right haircut (or lack thereof)  fit right in with Tesla, Great White, Poison, Cinderella, etc.  My favorite part was the drummer, in overalls and no t-shirt, banging away while a hidden fan continuously kept his hair blowing in the wind.  High comedy.

And I’m not sure if you guys remember Jim Breuer doing Gunner Olsen on SNL, but both Paul Stanley and Buckcherry’s lead singer had the rock and roll “conversational” voice going full throttle.  “Awwwwwwriiiiigghht!  Are you ready to rock????????”  Makes you wonder how they talk to their kids at home.  “Did you do your homework?  I said, did you dooooooooooooo your hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomewoooooooooooork baby?  Yeeeeeeeeeeahhhhhhhh!  Awwwwwwwwwwwwriiiigghht!”  Classic.

Allow me to set the mood…[dims lights]

You’re going on hour 5 of a coffee and mozzarella cheese fueled youtube bender. Nothing seems more inviting then the warm comfort your bedsheets, but for whatever reason you can’t help scrolling through the ‘related videos’ list hoping to find the most related video. Then you reach that sad point where you are just trying to remember every song you ever liked at one time and haven’t heard in a while.

It’s important to note that the video doesn’t really get started until about 0:50. 1:15, are those “cynical eyes”?

I was telling zach and ross about this commercial.

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I realized what this site needs.

An injection molding machine.

anyway, just to put a question out there. why is ‘barometer’ the metaphor that people generally understand as opposed to the more commonly encountered ‘thermometer’?