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I know it's silly

sometimes my heart aches a little. It seems to come out of nowhere. I can be skimming the internet for album reviews and suddenly, I just ache inside a little. I think it must be the feeling of lonely. I am not sad. I am loving Chicago (still no job:( ). I am learning to make myself happy. I am not sad. Sometimes, for no reason, I just feel like....... my heart is breaking a little.

Fuck.

Robert Altman Died.

Pitchfork Slams...

I have been reading Pitchfork recently at work and I wanted to collect some of the awesome dissing power. Having linked these things does not mean I agree... although I do sometimes.... it just means that after initially reading what I have pasted below I responded with a vocal sound much like this: oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhwww


Muse
What's most difficult of all to look past is that Black Holes was created in all earnestness by three dudes in Hot Topic shirts advancing a vision of rock music that operates on three fundamental assumptions: 1) distortion is always better than no distortion; 2) every measure of music should contain at least one drum fill; and 3) the future will be dominated by robots. Muse leave no room for compromise on these points. So for peace of mind, call them retro, because they can't reasonably consider such a vision inventive or resonant in 2K6. Can they?

Ben Kweller
Any ex-Partridge Family member will tell you the main challenge being a teen musician rests on those make-or-break years between teenhood and adulthood-- that 18-24ish range where you ideally produce something profound, a rite of passage signifying the end of Weezer ripoffs and un-ironic lyrics about ice cream. For Ben Kweller, the clock's ticking. He's no 21st century Leif Garrett by any stretch of the imagination, but Kweller, like fellow former teen rocker Daniel John of Silverchair, appears uncertain of his next step after a short-lived grunge backwash band. Although his latest self-titled offering expresses a desire to sound adult, he overshoots the mark, creating an album of innocuous, world-wearied alt-pop that lacks the fun or energy to stay up past eleven.

Cursive
Wait, people actually care about lyrics? Without them we couldn't have the same powerful, personal connections with people who make songs? Okay, fine. Words are important. But screams are better. That's something Cursive frontman Tim Kasher seemed to understand a decade ago, when he ripped out his heart, sewed it on his sleeve, and called it Such Blinding Stars for the Starving Eyes. But around Y2K, a funny thing happened-- he seemed to decide he'd rather his lyrics be understood than his voice be heard.


Jay-Z
He's grown up, alright. With the energy Jay brings to most of these tracks, you'd think 30 was the new 60. His patented whispery change-up is used more than ever before, and often makes him sound like Dr. Moreau-era Marlon Brando when all we needed was a little Apocalypse Now. We didn't expect the young, brash Jigga, but we never thought Jay would be flashing AARP brochures in our faces and dropping Gwyneth Paltrow's name in a rap song. Twice he addresses his recent heavily publicized boycott of Cristal champagne which even he acknowledges is unimportant. But that's Kingdom Come: Jay boringly rapping about boring stuff and being totally comfortable with it

and Finally....

The Mars Volta
None of this is surprsing: It's the Mars Volta's third proper album and a blizzard of onanism is expected-- to quite a few people, it'll be highly anticipated. Hell, it even had me interested: This is ex-At the Drive In bassist Paul Hinojos' first studio stint with the band after he started touring with them in 2005. Maybe he'd turn back the clock and force his comrades to look in the mirror and see how far they've strayed off course? Sadly not. Which reminds me: Bixler-Zavala and Volta keyboardist Ikey Owens guest on Mastodon's new Blood Mountain album. Maybe they'll brainwash Atlanta's finest metal band into this kinda bullshit so the world can celebrate the crushing loss of two great bands together.

Bond

Casino Royale: ***
It was hard for me to decide whether this was a 3 or 3 1/2 star movie... I may change my mind and up it later. It was great. It was everything you want your Bond movie to be. It had great huge explosions, several hot women, hot men (fucking hot men), and even some crazy unbelievable torture! This also has cards, (obviously) and I have noticed the trend both in playing and watching poker on t.v. in the last 2 years so, I think it is safe to say that most people know about Texas Hold 'Em. Anyway.. great Bond movie....

but....
I actually went to see it so that I could see the SPIDERMAN 3 Trailer!
HOLY FUCK!
Maybe you don't know this about me but Spiderman 2 may be my favorite movie ever. It is atleast in the top 3. I fucking love Spiderman and this trailer did not let me down at all. Still no Venom (which is PERFECT! ) but you get a lot of the emotional pre-story in this trailer. I will say that I held my breath through the whole thing (was it a minute long?!?!?!) and I almost cried (During a TRAILER, wow.... I am a little wussy but I think that says more about the movie then about me.. or atleast I hope it does) ... and when it was over... the theatre was quite and I breathed out and moaned, baby. Some people sitting behind me laughed and I laughed too. See that shit ' cause I don't want to ruin it for anyone else...

Joey was here too for the filming which was at my house on sat and a little sun. I didn't even do anything and I am exhausted and stressed out. We have one day before Andrew comes... one day to relax... Maybe I can get Casey to watch The Incredibles...

The Wiikend

Both Ian and Tim are Wii owners. and they both have Zelda.
I have neither, so it is easy to see why I am sad.

Working in an Office, I really want a Wii, and Job Interview

So working in an office is really strange. Everyone is so polite all the time. Everyone says please and thank you. What about when there are like 8 people in the elevator and everyone ignores everyone else? Also, and this is driving me nuts, all the men in the elevator will wait for me to get off. They all stand there until the women leave the elevator. I think this is supposed to be Chivalrous but it is fucking ridiculous to wait there for me to get off, especially when I always ride in the back of the elevator.

I really want a Wii. Really a lot.

I had an interview yesterday that was supposed to take about 1 and 1/2 hours and it took 2 and 1/2 hours. I had asked the place I am temping if I could be about 15-30 mintues late coming back from lunch because of it and, they said yes, of course but, I was gone an hour longer than I thought I would be. Oops. I just felt like shit because I couldn't call and tell them because I was in the interview part of an interview (there were some tests and an application first) and I just felt like a douche walking in to work after, what amounts to, a 2 and a half hour lunch break. Didn't get to eat anything, though....

I am really sleepy today. I think I hopefully (come on Netflix) will have The Machinist to watch when I get home and I may see Let's Go To Prision or Stranger Than Ficition tomorrow....

The PS3, making losing your mind easy!

PlayStation 3 shopper shot outside Wal-Mart

Round One.... FIGHT!

Hey everyone should go to google and click on the google image. It will take you to a Google homepage you can customize. Choose to add more in the upper right hand corner (I think) and it will take you to a page where you can click things to add them to the page. FIND GOOGLE FIGHT. You can type in 2 things and then there is a little stick-figure-fighting-animation and then you get to see which of the things you typed in has more hits. Make sure everytime the word FIGHT animates on your screen you say fight like they do in Mortal Combat. This has seriously kept me entertained for about 2 hours.

no computer no posting....

well, seems to me that I used to post a lot more often, and I am wondering whether I am going to go the way of so many before me and just give this up. I don't think it is keeping an accurate record for me for sometime later.. it's mostly a place to hold links to all the pages I like to look at on the internet. Maybe if I were saying something of trying to make a difference I would have more success blogging but, I mean I just don't have shit to say right now.

I saw a Fucking awful movie called 9 songs and it was just bullshit and no good. Maybe 1/2* for showing me more porn then I have ever seen... but it wasn't even exciting sex:(

I also saw Borat ****
it was perfect, who could ask for anything more:) I smoked a bowl and then navigated the city via bus and walking routes to end up in the movie extremly pleased with getting myseld around in such a state and the movie was really funny.. there were definetly times that are not for the squemish and there were some jokes I didn't laugh at ( but other people did...) and I really almost fell on the floor with the naked wrestling/balls in face scene.

Squid and the Whale: ***
I liked this movie but is seemed kind like just another intellectual family deals with how fucked up they are. The Tennebaums is in my top 3 movies of all time and so maybe that is why this just didn't seem as fresh and new as I wanted it to. The dialogue is wonderful and Jeff Daniels is MR. AMAZING BEARD... so that is reason enough to see it in my book.

I am also digging Heroes on NBC? I can't get the networks straight.

I don't know about you guys but, I am not loving Studio 60.