Wow…

Well, I guess I’m going to try and write some more on a blog, I’m sure it’ll be epic fail again since I don’t really get up to anything interesting, but hopefully I can take some good pictures with my new DSLR and post something up here, we’ll just have to wait and see.

At the moment I’m listening to a live recording of Ra Ra Riot, awesome band from Syracuse, NY, kind of a pop band with an upbeat sound. The concert is recorded at The Black Cat and it’s provided by NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast. They also have what they call ‘Tiny Desk Concert’ which is video of a band playing for the host Bob Boilen, at his desk. It’s a really excellent way to listen to bands in concert, I’ve listened to The Ting Tings, Shearwater & Bon Iver so far, really good stuff.

Where’s Al…

Well here is a pic I snapped with my Pearl, it’s not a very good shot, you can barely see Al. It was a really good show, he started off with a crazy polka and then went into a medley of his hits, he played Eat It, Fat, Yoda, The Saga Begins, Your Pathetic, White & Nerdy, it was a hell of a show for 10 bucks that’s for sure, well worth the money. The setup had really good sound as well.

The Shakles of Addiction..

Well it was very short lived WoW session. I didn’t even complete an entire month. I cancelled that shit ASAP because I just couldn’t get into it. I should just sell my account to someone I’m sure there is someone out there hurting for more wow accounts, maybe get a nice gold farmer…

So the last little bit I haven’t been up to much, I went and saw Transformers which was pretty good, if you go in expecting anything other than giant robots and explosions you’re insane as it’s a Michael Bay movie, there is going to be some semblance of a story, a love story and some awesome giant fucking explosions… Expecting anything else is just setting yourself up for disappointment.

Last night I went and saw Live Free or Die Hard, which was a good straight up action flick. I haven’t seen one of those since.. hmm what was the last good straight up action flick I saw? Anyways, it wasn’t bad, being rated PG13 didn’t really change much, just no crazy gore or swearing, the no swearing feels kind of odd, all the crazy things that happen the natural inclination is to say ‘Fuck!’ It was good over all though, well worth the $4.99 my buddy paid for me to get in!

Tonight I’m off to see Weird Al at Ed Fest, something that happens at Capital Ex one of those summer carnival type setups we have every year, hopefully he’ll play some classics and some new stuff, I’m gonna try and snap some good pics of the Al in all his glory. The last time I saw him was in ‘94 I think at the Jubilee Auditorium here in Edmonton so it’ll be cool to jam out to some polka again

Hooking the crack back up to my veins…

Well it looks like I’m going to start playing World of Warcraft again. Well have to see if I can stick it out a bit longer, I was at about level 50 or 51 my last character, I’ve been told that we can do the end game content with 5 to 10 people, no more 40+ raid parties and having to join a guild and stuff so hopefully thats true. Just gotta install it when I get home, only going to take like 5 hours to install it and download all the patches

What to talk about…

Well I’m not sure what to write about… We won 2 of our 3 games at corporate challenge, we won one by forfeit and we won the second one with skill. Last night I went and saw Pirates of The Caribbean At Worlds End, it concluded a lot of the story line from the second one but also left it open so that they could film a fourth movie if they wanted too. If you liked the first two you’ll probably like the third one. Its more of the same.

Okay so I’m not off to a great start…

Well I’m off to a poor start out of the gate, but I’ll post today. I just bought myself a new soft ball glove and I’ve gotta go play some soft ball tomorrow for corporate challenge. Hopefully I won’t do to bad at it, its been awhile since I’ve played any kind of baseball..

I just completed 5 stars on all the songs in Guitar Hero II and I finished all the Medium songs. The Hard songs have already started kicking my ass, I need to learn to slide my hand up the guitar to hit the first fret it’s supposed to be easier to slide up than down, I guess I’ll just have to start playing.

The Inconsistent Blogger Strikes Again…

Wow, I go through massive stints of not posting anything it seems… No wonder I have no readers! Also my life is pretty boring anyways, who wants to read ‘Well today I did something nerdy with a computer and fixed the comboulator and the gyroscoptic dohicky..’ I’m interested in computers and even I don’t want to read that shit.

I’m going to try and do things so that I have something interesting to write about in here. I’m going to try and get out on my bike more, I’m going to get a digital camera and start taking pictures because I really have no pictures of any of my friends or myself anywhere and I’m going to try and write a little something everyday. I’m hoping if I keep forcing myself to do it eventually it’ll stick. We’ll see how well that goes.

Still Tired…

Well its Saturday again, thankfully today I didn’t sleep until 6 p.m. I was out of bed by noon. But god damn did I ever want to just sleep and sleep. The bed was nice and warm and I don’t really have anything important to do today, so I’m low on the motivation for getting up.

I think I need to find myself a hobby of some sort, but I don’t really know what and A hobby ends up being expensive no matter what it is I think I’ll just ride my mountain bike till my legs fall off, at least I’ve already spent the money on that and it gets me out into the fresh air. Just needs to warm up around here so I can start riding again.

Tired..

I’m pretty tired today, I was in bed with the laptop by 7:30, which is hella early for anyone let alone myself. I just came home and veged out today, had some dinner and then watched some 24. Today has been a non-productive day at home, but I did learn a new feature in Quicksilver (A launcher app for OS X). It’s called Append to File, pretty slick so I’m gonna start using it for noting down things I should be remembering or just things that I want to remember.

Holy Shit…

So today I watched Cocaine Cowboys, Jesus Camp and Sir! No Sir!. I’d already seen Cocaine Cowboys, but this was the first time I’ve watched Jesus Camp and Sir! No Sir!, they are all documentaries, I seem to be watching a lot of them lately.

So Cocaine Cowboys is pretty obvious title, it’s about drug trafficking, specifically cocaine in the 1970’s to 1990’s in Miami Florida, it’s interesting to see that nothing really happened until they started gunning rival drug dealers down in the streets in 1979.

Jesus Camp is about Evangelical Christians and how they are indoctrinating their children to be ‘warriors’ in ‘Gods army’ and those are comments made by children that are 9 and 12. It’s pretty scary stuff, especially when the Pastor advocates that the children should be as prepared to lay down there lives for the Gospel as they are for Islam in Pakistan, Israel, and Palestine.

Sir! No Sir! is about the GI movement during the Vietnam War, about how they came back from Vietnam and protested the war, a lot of them were jailed or threatened with Mutiny charges. It’s interesting to look at the Vietnam war and how a lot of things seem to dove tail with the present American war. They started in North Vietnam, and it ended up spilling over into Cambodia. They started in Afghanistan and it ended up spilling over into Iraq. The Vietnam war started off as a seemingly necessary war, but as more and more reports came home of what was actually going on they started to lose popular opinion, similar things have started to happen with the second Iraq war, LBJ was ousted from office because of it, and then so was Richard Nixon, Bush has started on a downward spiral after he was re-elected in 2005, his popularity has slowly been declining since 2004 and has reached an all time low of 34.8% approval rating in February this year.

It’ll be interesting to see how the 2008 elections go down, an african american and a women in the running. I wonder if one of them will get elected just so there is some one different, because what the states doesn’t need is an other old white guy from a state whose name starts with the letter T. I say Vote Stanhope! Night all.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,”