Over Cooked Eggs and Undercooked Hamburgers

clean shave

2009-12-28T13:46:00.002-05:00

I have been using the same razor blade for about 4 months now. this morning i went to shave and like most mornings realized that it was not sharp, and hurt to shave, but today i got out a new razor blade which i had a whole box of. So it made me think of how there are many things that bother us in our everyday life that we could easily fix but don't, and why we are too lazy to fix it when it really is easier than doing the task around fixing it. and that is my thought, anyway my dad gave me his old shaving lotion thing with the brush that he always used when i was a kid, it is pretty cool, you buy this cheap soap disk, then put it in the bottom of the cup, wet the brush and lathewr your face with it. im pretty sure this disk will last about a year or so, and it came with a free calling card. lot cheaper than buying the shaving gel. I still wonder why i don't have a straight razor, i always felt like that would be a good fit for me, and would be good at using it. I don't know if it is the roundness of my face, and not having a chizeled chin, but i have never cut myself shaving, is that normal? i shave every day, it seems like in movies people cut themselves shaving all the time.

time for the soundboard

2009-12-20T15:15:00.002-05:00

I was just watching a video the other day by three doors down, and they did the sound board video, like it is all relaxed and there is all this stuff going on, then when it kicks in you see the sound guy in the studio, pushing up levels on the mix, and shit like that. Now i am always aware of this, like a band pulls it out for the one, usually a ballad or something like that. Now today is my day off, and i am watching my Guns n Roses video dvd that julie got me for christmas, 1 or 2 years ago, great investment. While watching the patience video i started to think of this whole idea about the soundboard video. Like do you think the band is like dude we have to do the in studio video for this song with the sound guy pushing up our mixing levels and shit like that. Why not do every video like that? it has great effect. very memorably is the final count down sound board. I also wonder if the in studio video is actually real to what it is really like for the band in the studio, or if it is a staged hyped up version of it. like in patience axl is reading from paper while he sings the song. I Know in the metallica nothing else matters video it is actual footage of them in studio. i like the part in that when they are playing basketball with the black jordan basketball, it reminds me of the one we had, and the era.. Then there is also always the on the road, setting up the stadium video, that everyone does. SO i wonder if when the albums are made is there someone sitting there going ok this song, studio video, this song , road video?

Chevelle is this generations Boston

2009-12-16T00:59:00.002-05:00

I mean what is better than Boston. Boston, Boston is one of the best rock albums ever made. it has great catchy riffs that you make that face and say yeah to. It could even make most people play air guitar, and if a boston song hasn't made you do that you probably listen to shitty rap music. The name kind of sucks though, because Boston kind of sucks, the city. So anyway I make these comparisons in music sometimes, like John mayer is our generations Eric Clapton, over hyped very talented musicians that music could have probably survived with out. I know i could survive without John Mayer, and see the same types from the other generation thinking clapton is a god. I always wonder what was actually cool in other time periods, luckily my Dad was cool then so he helps me with that stuff, and he said Clapton was cool at a time, John Mayer was never cool in my opinion, and i feel single handedly ruined the tattoo. If i ever wanted to get a tattoo i changed my mind when i saw john mayer with sleeves. I would like to get a guns n roses tattoo though use your illusion II of course. So back to Chevelle, is one of the most solid rock bands ever, they are weirdly enough i say one of my favorite bands. I don't get tired of them, much like Boston. They do their own thing, they happened during emo, and are kind of emo, but could not be lumped and discarded with that category. and can not be related to all the shitty rap rock stuff that was happening while they gained popularity, and probably lots of their fans listened to that stuff also, but probably still listen to chevelle, but do not listen to papa roach, or linkin Park anymore. Or hoobastank. they have not put out a bad album yet, to date, and i count 5 that i can think of. I have never seen them live, and need to put that on my bucket list, although i would have liked to see them when the bassist brother was in the band.

land of the lost

2009-10-22T23:00:00.002-04:00

I have seen a bunch of good movies lately, but none of this caliber. This movie is just straight up retarded. They don't make movies retarded like this anymore, and it was retarded with like a huge budget. I guess that is a power that will ferrel has. It is up there with like a bill and teds, like abraham lincoln saying, Party on dudes. four score and 2 days ago? anyway i would check this out, favorite scenes include chaka grabbing boobies, chaka saying chorizo enchilada, and when they sing cher, that was right up my alley. Thinking on it i think cher invented the electronic voice. I don't remember the original land of the lost, but ill settle for this version. i give it five double yolked eggs, fried on a griddle out of five. Hey severed ways is on dvd, watch it

hamburger train

2009-10-22T22:38:00.003-04:00

i refound primus the other day, thinking about the pork soda album, lead to rebuying the album, then to getting frizzle fry, and suck on this with my emusic subscription. suck on this is one of the best live albums ever made. I don't think im ready to buy sailing the seas of cheese for a third time. i can probably borrow that from someone. Primus is the closest to a jam band i could ever get into, but they are beyond that category, they can't be labeled, . I would like to think of music at that time as different, you would listen to a band like primus, and helmet, tool, none really alike anything else out there. bit all cohesive in a way. I like the story that les claypool tried out for metallica, thank god they didn't grab him, or else music as we know it would be very different, it would be like if Bill and ted never told them selves to listen to rufus because he knew what he was talking about, and the wyld stallions never formed. Then Pat Duffy always rocked primus songs and shirts in his video sections, and even had primus skateboard decks. I don't really remember thinking many musicians were amazing, but i always thought that Larry landone, and herb alexander were incredible, performing on a different plane with les claypool. I have vivid memories of seeing them live during the pork soda tour, and for some reason the mosh pits were really intense. I think mosh pits in all genres were at their most intense moments at that time in history. I think primus is a pretty serious band, and haven't reall paid much attention to them since pork soda. did i miss out on good material?

evolution

2009-10-07T01:32:00.002-04:00

now, im not saying that i belive in creationism, but am i really suppose to believe that we evolved from amoebas, and shit like that. i understand why i should believe in evolution, and why i dont believe in creationism, but it doesnt make any sense to me. I would actual be more willing to believe that we are aliens, and where we come from we are the single celled type organisms, and there are giant alien creatures that think we are just simple animals, like rabbits or something. but then how did they evolve into those things. it seems very impossible, kind of like the possibility of us landing on the moon in the 60s before we had modern technology. Did that really happen? Can we even do that with modern technology? i don't even know how a t.v. works.

attack of the cow

2009-10-05T22:31:00.002-04:00

i walk by cows every day on my way to work, so by now i am use to it, sometimes i walk 5 feet from them , and they just stare at me. today, at about eight oclock, in the morning, on my way to work, there was a new bull, and as i got closer i noticed he was wearing a crown of grass around his horns. i guess they do this to themselves to look good for the heffers. I have never seen anything like it, but it looked really cool. I did not have my camera so couldn't snap a shot, but what happened next happened so fast that im glad i wasn't fucking around with a camera. When i got like five feet from him, he grunted and charged straight for me. When cows do this they move very fast, are very big and very scary, especially with the psychotic crown of grass around there head. luckily i was right next to a hill, i ran straight for it, and also luckily ran through a row of trees that the cow couldn't go through. If i was in the wide open, i probably would have been gored. It was crazy. Dairy bulls are known to be particularly violent when they are horny, like this one, and after further research, they sometimes kill, humans, which for some reason, they don't like while experiencing these changes in their bodies. The livestock farmer assured me he should be fine now, because the cow did his business many times today, but i am still weary of this bull.

what a couric

2009-10-05T22:11:00.002-04:00

Bono and u2 suck. i hate them, and i hate bono, i hate that they are always on the cover of rolling stone, and seeming important. I hate that Bob dylan, in the chronicles book has a whole story about how him and Bono stayed up all night one time talking, and drinking Guiness. I think Southpark was right on when they called him the biggest couric ever made. "Couric, is a unit of measurement, used to weigh shit, one couric i s approximently two and a half pounds standard. the measurement was developed in zurich, so it actually weighed in Kilograms." So anyway, if Bono and U2 cared so much about the world, and the polar ice caps, or whatever he needs to meet with obama about while wearing sunglasses. Why the fuck do they have the biggest tour ever, where they need to lug 700 tons of shit around which they need 120 semi trucks for, just to go from place to place. So they can play live from outer space.

Grinding baby chickens

2009-09-07T11:59:00.002-04:00

Come on, really. I guess there was a video leaked where a guy at a factory was caught doing this, i haven't seen the actual video. I just saw it on treehugger.com. If you need to eat chicken patties so bad just buy a whole bird, bone it, grind it up, add egg, bread crumbs, and some herbs/ seasoning, and bread it. I mean why the fuck do we even need ground chicken meat, another reason to steer clear from nuggets, and fast food chicken sandwiches. its like going to a dog fight where you watched one of the dogs get killed that Michael Vick tortured. I mean you didn't torture the dog, you were just along for the ride.

Dondero

2009-08-31T12:25:00.004-04:00

While bubble bathing, and listening to my ipod on shuffle, one of my favorite David Dondero songs came on, boulevard of broken dreams, shattered will "booze and Pills". From the first album also from live at the hemlock, probably my favorite album, because it really captures the Dondero, Craig D live experience, that i experienced myself when they opened for the good life, when album of the year came out, and when david dondero came out with the transient. I feel this was a high point of David Dondero's career, one of many. Omaha music was at a high, saddle creek, and one of the most famous acts, bright eyes, was just someone trying to imitate what Dondero had already been doing. except bright eyes was doing at a more depressing emo way. which people like more. I like Dondero because he falls into the more punk, dead milkmen, this bike is a pipe bomb category at least to me, and lately, more country/ folky. I listened to the whole live at the hemlock which is like a greatest hits album, with commentary, and David Dondero is one of those artists that benefits from rawer recordings. It took me back, and i forgot how much i enjoy his music, and some of the songs are more relate able than maybe before. I always totally respect him because he follows the old school folk transient lifestyle, like woddie guthrie. One time during conversation with him i found out he was from Jersey too, than he spewed off about thirty other places that he lived. Julie asked him when he was playing next and he said in Maypril, i think she made him nervous, and just us being fans made him nervous i think, I think when julie knew the longest scrabble word when he asked live, that surprised him too. but it was from her favorite song. I was surprised that one year after the sold out good life show, we saw David dondero headlining at the same place, and there was 10 people there, me, my sister, julie, connor oberst, two girls with him, and a few other people. That same year i saw connor oberst"bright eyes" play 3 sold out shows at Town Hall. It didn't seem fair, but that is the way it goes, at least Connor releases Dondero on his label, and still appreciates how great he is. so pick up live at the hemlock, or any material 5 eggs baked on an engine block out five. if you can't get it right you can call me D

velodrome

2009-08-31T01:09:00.002-04:00

One of the first things i wanted to do out here was ride my track bike on the velodrome. I rode on it today. It is amazing how steep the walls are, once you get over the initial fear that you are going to fall over it is pretty fun. this picture is in the center where it isn't really that steep. You can get going really fast then in the turns gain tons of speed if you start on the wall high, then drop in. There were 2 professional track racer types there, and i think they though i was a kook. I went to an actual race the other day, and it is amazing how close they ride next to eachother, it is great to watch, but more intense in person than you would think, and how much skill it would take to race competitively. I couldn't imagine doing it in a pack of people, i felt scared enough to eat shit while riding by myself. The cool thing is you find yourself just staring at the lines, and nothing else surrounding you, almost falling into a track biking trance. I'm going to have to get back there soon.

Guns

2009-08-25T21:00:00.002-04:00

I was at the army Navy today. in the back of the store is a huge gun section. Being from jersey where it is impossible to buy a fire arm, one of the first things i want to do is get my PA license and buy a gun. Probably a 22 for shooting rabbits, then move up to a shotgun to shoot bigger things and try my hand in hunting, a sport i always wanted to get more into. I'm not sure if i could pull the trigger, but im pretty sure i could, definitely if i know i will eat it, which i will. Maybe i'll eat the liver like in dances with wolves after they kill the tatonka. So anyway, there was a guy there that looked like he was 20 checking out used handguns, which were considerably cheap. He said ill take this one. next it was as easy as filling out a paper, and showing his drivers license. I was amazed at how easy it was. Jersey was like a six month check. Bottom line is if you are going to get a gun you will get a gun, legally or illegally, I don't know why they make it so hard. I'm not sure if people need pistols, but i could see the allure of an antique revolver, or something like that. Johnny Cash said he used to get out of his mind dress up like a cowboy, and go on stage with a holster and loaded revolvers, that is pretty radical, i guess he wanted to feel like a real cowboy, but for some people feeling like a cowboy might go a little further. but wouldn't you want to buy an illegal gun, that doesn't have your name attached to it to do illegal things. So why is it so hard to buy a gun in New Jersey. Why do they make it so hard to hunt?

inglorious basterds

2009-08-25T13:45:00.002-04:00

Last night i went to see inglorious basterds, at a late movie after work. late is 10:30 in fogelsville. The movie theatre called the rave is this awesome massive movie theatre that is better than most NYC theatres i have been to, and 9.50 a ticket. This movie was pretty great, and had more gore than most movies i have seen. I wasn't expecting this but when it happened i was not to surprised. It had a great story, and great characters, but was not about the basterds as much as i thought it would be, or could have hoped. It is strange that tarantino has made so many movies that they don't seem as great as the original ones because the style is very familiar, even though they are great. I really liked that this movie was about a subject that everyone takes so seriously, and would never think to poke fun at, but why not make a world war 2 fantasy movie, and they also did not take the movie too seriously either. There are great long conversation scenes, that are Tarantino at his best, and the throat cutting, head bashing scenes are so gross that they are funny. check it out 5 soft boiled eggs out of five in an immersion circulator.

silence of the lambs

2009-08-16T17:14:00.003-04:00

So, it is my first day off that, since my other one, which i slept all day for. I am finally catching my breath after the move, and straight into being totally weeded with 20 years worth of work left from my predecessors, while in high busy season in pennsylvania. I could have been working in taiwan for the past 2 weeks, because wherever you go it is the same, there is a kitchen, and you spend all day in it. With that said i am finally getting time to do some of the things i have been looking forward to doing. the land is bountiful with freebies i would generally pay guy jones top dollar for, and i have never had too many heirloom tomatoes, that i can't process or preserve them fast enough. I usually am begging for them. I had a live chicken brought to me upside down and asked if it was about the size i wanted, then it bokked at me and i realized it was alive which was cool, and if i need parsley or basil it is right outside, along with any other herbs. I walk past these sheep every day, and they run away and baa at me, but the funny thing is when i look at them they looked dead and skinned, i see them as whole carcasses, that i will need to carve up. they look so similar alive and dead. they are cuter alive. Late at night i walked by them and they stampeded away from me and it reminded me of the minor threat album cover. There are also some real cute peking ducklings hanging around too, and my first week i carved two of the biggest pigs i have ever had to carve, and process, 400# each. very sore the next day. I usually don't like to write about food and work, but i have no other spare thoughts or energy right now. except for how wild my 20 year old metal head dishwasher is with his new death clock tattoo on the back of his neck. I haven't met anyone in a long time that was into metal, so that is refreshing, and maybe something i missed about the burbs. he wrote days off the calendar, i said what the days were for, and he started listing shows he was going to ,and said he would be too sore to work, afterwards. I said that sounds like a legit reason to me. It really does but i always put work before stuff like that, i can respect that mentality though. because to him that is more important than sweating behind a sink. no more road construction outside is a nice thing, it is funny how you feel tied to a place, then you leave it and it doesn't really affect anything that much. I haven't felt like i missed out on anything yet, except for the devildriver show in allentown, which would have never even happened in NYC, because they wouldn't draw a big enough crowd. Metal feels better out here too, i think the city is good for pop music.

Frank Black

2009-07-23T11:36:00.004-04:00

One of my friends/ employees at work, is a die hard pixies fan. being a few years younger than me, probably wasn't a fan while they were still together, I am barely old enough to be like that, but under unusual circumstances have been listening to the pixies since i was like eight years old. Yesterday, she asked if i ever listened to black francis's solo albums, because she always wondered what it was like but never knew anyone that liked it. I am an outspoken Frank black fan, and am a bigger frank black fan than I am a Pixies fan. I listen to Frank Black and the Catholics more, and would go out of my way to see him live over the pixies. I didn't even go out of my way to see the pixies when they reunited. So i am very excited to be able to give her a few Frank Black cd's. This album, the self titled that is pictured is like the pixies album that was never made, and probably is material he was working on when they broke up. It is the natural next step from trompe le monde, which is my favorite pixies album, probably because it was the soundtrack to glue induced hallucinations of my child hood. I remember when my sister bought Frank Black self titled tape, it was a very exciting day for me, she got it at alwik records because the clerk told her to if she was a pixies fan, he said it was amazing. It is amazing, and he is underrated as a solo artist. Can you imagine what it would be like to hear Frank Black for the first time in.

Severed Ways on DVD

2009-07-23T11:18:00.002-04:00

If you have a few hours of your life to spare, you should netflix severed ways, I think it is on DVD now for your home viewing enjoyment. It was the movie that inspired me to start this blog after all.

the machinist

2009-07-23T11:11:00.004-04:00

i watched this movie a while ago, always hearing about how christian bale lost like 70 pounds for this role, and all this shit. So finally i checked it out. Now he has been in some cool movies, and is a good actor, but he must be straight up crazy, or thought the machinist was the next good bad and the ugly or something."best movie ever made in my eyes" The movie was alright but not a movie where i would think you would want to go that deep into the character, and put yourself through that. I wonder if he read the script and was like holy shit this is going to be amazing, what do i need to do? lose 70 pounds for it, no problem, count me in. one cool perk of the movie is Michael Ironside, but I would say don't go out of your way to watch it.

electronic voice

2009-07-15T01:30:00.000-04:00

I should talk about this more but you can't get away from crappy electronic voice in music anymore. Nobody sings with their regular voice, they just download their voice from Ms dos and put it over a beat that they stole from another group that actually wrote it. I think really you all are going to follow the herd on this shit. wake up, it sucks. it is almost as bad as del amitri. Peter frampton did it cool with a guitar, and so did mick mars sometimes, but that is guitar voice. did you see that whitest kids u know where the politician does guitar voice, that was funny as hell but weirdly enough i was in the car today and heard by the way by red hot chili peppers and they were totally rocking electronic voice. I was like that is weird, and in a way so far ahead of its time, but not far ahead of a good time.

Satyricon Volcano

2009-07-15T00:55:00.003-04:00

I wanted to review Satyricon's Volcano album. I have been listening to this one a lot lately, so i find it fit to review albums that are current in my life instead of only new stuff. So this was Satyricon's first album that was a departure from their more old style sound, and went more towards a melodic Black Metal sound. between rebel extravaganza, which is a droning Masterpiece, and hard as hell, and the incredible Now Diabolical which is chock full of hits. i think i have been saying chock full a lot lately. This album is a mix between the two, which makes sense because it came between the two, you will have one song that sounds like it could have been off of rebel extravaganza, and vice versa. Hands down Fuel for hatred is the punkest song i have heard in years, punk is not punk anymore this shit is. Punk is all melodic and crappy. I guess when i think of punk i kind of think of american hardcore, that is my punk, not 70s nyc crap. Fuel for hatred hits that style totally rough and vicious. I think to myself this must be what all punks my age listen to now, this or punk from their time. Possessed, another favorite is assaulting in the beginning, then goes into one of the meanest melodic breakdowns i have ever heard, it is a perfect song in the way Metallica's the prince is. Then following that is self repined bastard nation, that has this crazy metal riff, all Satyricon songs do,"do we need another bastard nation, another force fed disgust." I love their lyrics too. The chorus for bastard nation has this great droning guitar with the really fast played high black metal guitar playing over it, it is perfect. those are the standouts, all are good though, mental Mercury segues into black lava almost like it is one thought and black lava is like 15 minutes long and they end it with that. eight songs in total, with no weakness. When i saw them this year off this album they only played self repined bastard nation, they opened with it, i can't wait til they come back, Satyr said they were going to headline, and play everything, from all their albums. This time was mostly age of nero. Satyricon is one of those bands that make me think how the hell did they come up with that, every song has a riff that is just as good as the other, and you wonder where they all come from and why they haven't been done before. It makes me think of how untalented my guitar playing is. And Frost forget about it, i cant even keep up air drumming. He also does a great job of slowing down on this album and keeping the songs still hard, and blastbeating when necessary. He is the ultimate battery. must have 5 out of 5 egg salad sandwiches.

Nick Hornby

2009-07-13T01:31:00.002-04:00

Is it me or does Nick Hornby just write the same story over and over again. He changes the main characters obsession, in each story but they are all the same, man that has to choose between a women and his favorite hobby then in the end finds that love is more important than any record, or sport, etc. Dont get me wrong i have read all of them but on vacation i picked up one called slam, and just couldnt do it, it is about a skateboard guy or something, who was obsessed with tony hawk. It seemed like a desperate attempt, i think he is out of things to write about that actually are personal to him. He is like an adult version of Matt Christopher, the kids sport writer that writes the same story over and over again about every sport, I read al of those too. I liked the one where the kid found a motorcycle in the bottom of a lake, and he fixed it up and raced with it. Against all odds the laughed at beat up bike was the best bike on the track.

Baseball cards

2009-07-13T01:10:00.003-04:00

The other day i bought some baseball cards at a flea market. I got one pack of 1990 upper deck, two packs of 1988 topps, and two packs of 1989 donruss. I thought this was great, he had all sorts of old unopened packs of baseball, and football cards, all which grabbed my attention right away. I felt like i was 9 years old at a baseball card store, because they were all packs from that time. This is the time when i was most obsessed with collecting baseball cards. I always buy baseball cards every once in a while, and like to give them to kids as gifts if i think about it because i remember how much i loved baseball cards when i was a kid. They always felt important. Because i think when you are that age baseball is the most important thing in the world. So anyway i opened the packs, and it was just like i remembered it two of the packs were complete bummers but then i or 2 were just chock full of great cards. The first card i got in my upper deck pack was this Nolan Ryan Card. I felt excited like i would have if i was 19 years younger, and knew this card well, because i collected Nolan Ryan. At the end of the day none of them are probably worth anything, but the experience was worth something more. Scott and Matt were very excited about the cards and i gave scott my hologram yankees sticker. Nancy and Salena ate the gum from the topps packs and it disintegrated in their mouths, and they said it was unbearably disgusting, no one else tried the 21 year old gum that was terrible 21 years ago.

Intro/ outro

2009-06-23T01:07:00.004-04:00

I wanted to take a minute to talk about intros, and outros in music. I think it is really cool when bands outro on one album and into with the same thing on their next album. I can think of two great examples,

1. Hatebreed- outro on Perserverance into Tear it down, on Rise of Brutality

2 . Mayhem- Symbols of bloodswords on Wolfs Lair abyss into A grand Declaration of war, on A grand Declaration of War.

This is the ultimate for me, usually it is kind of rough on the older album, then alot cleaner sounding when they intro with it. It makes me think that maybe the band didn't feel finished and wanted to leave that idea out there, and i always wonder if it was pre meditated, or if they just did it like that for the hell of it. I think it is a bad ass way to connect the music to each other, and it is exciting to hear as a listener. I think it is strictly a Metal thing and wonder why that is, it is hands down one of the most amazing things to hear, it is like the music is always a living idea.

Walking Tall/ Kevin Durand

2009-06-23T00:41:00.004-04:00

I have been holding off to watch this movie for a long time, kind of always saying i got to watch that movie. I mean come on, the rock is in it. Generally a sign of a good movie, ie: Scorpion King, Southland Tales, i even watched the Game plan, that was a Disney movie where he was a self centered football player, and his 7 year old daughter shows up that he previously did not know existed. Walking Tall was a cool movie, it was really exciting, and had me sitting up in my chair wondering what would happen next, and also knowing what will happen next. very predictable. His town is overrun by a casino/ drug lords, and he has to take it back. He gets the people on his side by saying people in this town use to walk tall. Then he becomes the sherif, and takes it back, and it was over. It was only 75 minutes long, it could have been like a t.v. miniseries, i cant believe that they got away with showing a movie that short in a theatre. In this case i think there was a lot more there, in the story they could have done, and made it a little longer, it was a little too short and sweet. It was sweet though. His main enemy is one of my favorite upcoming actors Kevin Durand. He hasn't been in too much. He was the big guy in the new x-men, and one of the punk assassins in smoking aces, and my favorite was one of the deputies in 310 to yuma. Where he got stabbed by Russel Crowe with a fork. He was also that asshole military guy that was hell bent to kill ben lioness in lost. What i really can't wait for is the new Robin Hood, where he plays little john, and i think russel crowe plays the sherif of nottingham. I think he is destined for many great movies to come. I think his days of being an extra on T.v. shows are done, and i was psyched to see him in this movie. I picture him and Russel Crowe going out at night, getting drunk, and beating people up with telephones, hopefully they will do more movies together, after Robin Hood. The whole cast of 310 to yuma was cool, i think they should all do another movie together.

clone wars

2009-06-18T12:26:00.006-04:00

Before episode 3 of star wars came out there was a company that made little mini episode cartoons called the Clone wars to bridge the gap between episode 2 and 3. They were really cool cartoons, each were about 15 minutes, and they all fit on one DVD. I watched it recently, and was surprised how much i liked them. The animation was super minimal but also very technical in ways. Had a very anime feel, while not having it, and the stories were cool too. George Lucas liked them so much that he had the same company make a movie, and he also approved the cartoons or something. I watched the movie about 2 weeks ago, and it was also very good but was more computer animated.you can see the difference in the 2 pictures i posted, one is more cartoony and the other more realistic. There is this whole story of i think her name is moussaka, and she is anakins, padawan. both pictured. Now there is a new series that follows the same computer like animation as the movie which i found yesterday while watching cartoon network, which is great, i watched like 3 episodes yesterday. Each episode focuses on one character and their campaigns in each, which are all related. So clone wars god in any incarnation, 5 eggs out of five. I was thinking it would b really cool to do more series like this with the new star trek, how it is in the new alternate dimension or whatever, the story options would be limitless. I'm not a huge star wars freak but enjoy the movies. I almost like these Star wars cartoons more than i like most of the movies, hate to say it, but they also are more action packed all about the wars. The biggest mistake Star Wars ever made was Jar Jar binx though, that was the worst idea ever and im glad they scrapped it, i just feel bad for the poor bastard that played that part, i'm sure it didn't do wonders for his career. I also heard from older people the same about ewoks, being very young when that came out i remember loving ewoks, but can imagine how it angered people. I think Star Wars should be aimed at adults, and kids will just watch it anyway.

Giro D Italia

2009-06-17T13:03:00.005-04:00

I didn't follow it religously, i actually watched the weekly 2 hour long wrap up shows that basically set up what to expect from each race day to day, then basically showed the last few minutes of each stage and showed the sprints, and final time trial sprints. I really just got into cycling as a sport this year as i became a more avid cyclist in my free time, and commute daily on my bike. It was just the natural progression, ride bike, fix bike, buy bike magazines, follow professional races. I always compared in my own brain the similarity of cycling and Nascar. You have the stars who lead the teams, the strategy of the teams, and the supporting people on the team mean as much to the team as the team champion. I dont follow nascar either. They just seem similar to me. But pro cycling is cooler because you have the day today thing, climbing stages, time trials, team time trials, overall race leaders, and daily race leaders wearing different color jerseys, and tons of national pride. Like Italian riders really wanting to win the italian race, and the fans really backing up, like i think you would see anywhere. What i thought was cool this year was after Cavendish won the last sprinting style stage, which he is the best at, with no future of actually winning the tour, him and his team just dropped out, and were onto training for the tour de france hoping to get an overall win there. On another stage Denis menchov who ended up winning, and Danilo Di Luca, i think who got 2nd, didn't go for the stage win the day was all about keeping on di luca making sure he didn't wear himself out for the win, but beat out Di luca in points for the day. It is cool because winners get seconds gained or whatever on their actual time so that is the incentive to win day to day, and how the races get won most of the time. Then there are the fans, complete maniacs who wait on the roads giving the pros water and cheering them along. for the sport we have nothing like this for cycling in the US. Here it is all elitists and rich people who do most of the cycling, or who consider themselves cyclist, or cycle for a hobby. There i feel like it is the everyman sport almost like football or nascar is for us here. Maybe the difference is because they can ride their bikes as commuters more in europe because it isn't as spread out, and we like nascar because we are lazy, and like to relate to stock car racing. They are into formula 1 racing there, but that is not an every mans game. It just doesn't seem like cycling is as douchey there, and it is more of an everyday thing which i think is cool, and how it should be. You don't need a 6,000 dollar bike to enjoy cycling, it is good exercise, and fun. Plus any bike you have is better than a bike a pro may have ridden ten to twenty years earlier than that bike was built. Also most newer bikes are great bikes, and someone said to me would have been ridden in the tour de france five years ago, talking about a friends bike that cost about 800 dollars. So a good bike is all a matter of opinion. Plus most people aren't worried about shaving seconds off there commute, or leisurely ride.

Slip into some Slayer

2009-06-16T12:20:00.006-04:00

I just celebrated my one year Anniversary last monday the 8th. These are what i received as a gift. Aren't they glorious. I have been contemplating getting a pair of slip ons for a good six months now. Reason being, is riding in the warmer months on my fixed gear bike. If you get your laces caught in your chain on a fixed gear, you most likely severely hurt yourself, because the bike keeps pedaling, and you get more and more wrapped up until finally you flip and land on your head. Not going to lie i was eyeing up the Iron Maiden Powerslave slip ons, i saw these but thought they might be a little too hardcore, You have to be pretty sure of yourself to go out in Slayer slip ons. But they definitely show you are alot more hardcore than the average Joe that would throw the Maiden ones on. Plus this is the coolest slayer graphic that exists. Which surprises me because i think i tried to buy the shirt with this graphic on it, and Julie said no way, and it looks like a Nazi shirt. I have been wearing them, and i love them. Plus they feel alot safer then riding with my simples on the fixed gear, even though the hemp laces never untied, i know now that these definitely will never untie, ill be riding and look down to check my laces, and be like oh yeah, i don't have any. Plus they are great for skateboarding, and they match my duane peters board. Plus they are Slayer, and you can't get more badass than that, especially not on your feet. Now when coordinating my outfits, i feel like i can't wear some of my t shirts, being to metal, on metal I think the shoes say more than any tshirt ever could.

CHEMICAL WARFARE

drink vodka, and save the earth

2009-06-16T12:02:00.004-04:00

Today I celebrate 365 days being alcohol free, and wanted to talk about Tru organic Vodka. We get this vodka at my restaurant, and I always think their companies approach is pretty funny. I forget how many bottles of Vodka you have to buy but for how ever many it is they plant a tree for you. We got a thing from them the other day that said they planted 20 trees for us. Me and the bossman laughed, and talked about how contrary it was. While doing something terrible to yourself in turn you are saving trees, or planting trees to save the environment. You see this kind of stuff all the time, like, Im a vegan, or vegetarian but i booze and smoke crack. I guess people care about everything else except for their own body. I guess it also shows how selfless humans can be, like how people will pay tons of money to take their animal to the vet, but without health insurance, or dental, probably never dig into their own pocket to take care of themselves. With all that said, i think that they make pretty good flavored vodkas, but it is a desperate attempt, and King of the Hill already made fun of companies, who advertise planting trees for buying their product. so that means it is already a joke, but if they are really planting trees that is cool. In king of the Hill Strickland hired Dale to plant the trees, but he was just pretending to plant the trees, and he was making money to plant trees he wasn't really planting, which seems more likely to happen in the world today. Kind of like the shit that goes on in the movie gommorah, or the guy that was supposedly recycling computers from america, then they followed his freights, and they were going to china where these chinese people were melting them down, and the average life expectancy in the village was 30 years old. And everything was completely polluted, water, and the ground were totally destroyed. Think about it, and take personal responsibility. Also drinking is not good for you or the environment.

Wolves in the Throne Room, Two Hunters

2009-06-13T01:32:00.002-04:00

On my month of june emusic, subscription I bought this C.D. I really liked the other record i got from them so decided to get it all. I'm bummed i did not know about this band a month ago because they played in Brooklyn on May 22. This would fall into the catergory of black metal that i would call ambient black metal. It is very natural sounding and can be very slow and droning, almost like sitting in the forest and hearing like someone steadily chopping a tree down. Then when it gets heavy it is so heavy but not in a industrial way, heavy in a way, to quote Tim, "so heavy that you could meditate to it, talking about Sun-o who own the label this album is on. it sounds like it was recorded in the forest. And seems like it would only benefit from being listened to while walking through a forest. I feel too confined in the city right now listening to it. One song will be crazy heavy then it will slow down, and stay heavy in a slow way, and set up for the next onslaught of heaviness, it is very dark, and think that musically somehow it tells a story, and makes me think of certain things, and images that would be happening to the music. What other bands can do that. I would reccomend this record to go along with with a mushroom trip, i think the two would work well together. This album is definitely worth checking out if that sounds like that could be your thing. I love it, and think this band is amazing, I can't wait to get more of their stuff.

Metallica Hair length study

2009-06-13T01:12:00.003-04:00

I know this graph is small, but you can look at the real one on guantlet.com i think. anyway, my friend TIm sent this to me a while ago and i have been thinking about it for a while. The study says that Metallica music is better when all members have long hair, and accordingly to how many short hairs there are it gets better or worse. So the early years, of course the heyday everyone had long hair steady flow of good albums up until The black album. Then in the 90s everyone cut their hair, and the music dropped accordingly, as people grow back hair productivity gets better etc. I thought about it and my final decision is it is all about Kirk Hammets hair bottom line. he is the main guitar shredder, and his hair determines How good a Metallica album will be. although i do like the covers album they did in the 90s but i think alot of the stuff i actually like on it was on Garage Days. St Anger Kirk hammet was figuring his shit out, maybe was working on growing his hair back, Metallica maybe wouldnt even be considered a band at that point with Bob Rock on base, in my opinion. still have yet to get that album but on a recent watch of the documentry i thought there were some cool tunes. I think it is sad when a band like Metallica or Slayer, who influenced so many bands, then go and try to disband their original sound to sound like the bands who are trying to sound like them. That is why i like the new Metallica album, they tried to sound like metallica, and not like a modern band, and the st anger no solo thing was a big mistake. Kirk hammets hair is long now, and Metallica is doing good music, Lars and James have short hair, and robert Truillo has really long hair, so half the band is long hairs now. SO we should pray that Kirk Hammet never cuts his hair, i think Metallica is more metal that way.

Gnar video

2009-06-11T11:32:00.001-04:00

2009-06-11T11:21:00.004-04:00

This video is so sick. I have watched it about ten times. There is a longer version of it on youtube, if you like it that shows them driving in the car on the way up, and some more takes of the same scene. THis hill must be about 5 miles long by how long they are riding, and i bet they are going about 50 mph the whole time. Me and my friend justin, used to longboard, and we did this huge hill once, clocked each other by following with my honda civic, and we went 45 mph. That was real fast, and afterwards our hands shook for at least an hour from adrenaline. Once was enough we never went back, it was right before we all left for college, maybe that is reason 2. I wish i did more of this when i had less worries for injury, i remember thinking on the hill, ill just bail to the side if i need to, at the streaming blob of green grass and concrete on the side of me, and hopefully ill just break my arm or dislocate my shoulder. That was a better option than falling on the concrete. That is one of my favorite things i have ever done. I never felt like that before from anything else. I cannot imagine how these guys feel doing this hill. When i was younger we used to watch skate videos, and needed to go skate right away, this video does the same thing for me, it makes me want to longboard down a huge hill. this video is crazy.

The Excalibur

2009-06-10T00:45:00.005-04:00

In Pennsyslvania the other day while looking for a bike shop by the lehigh valley velodrome, There was this place, or house with a garage, that had tons of bikes at it so I was like hey we got to go there and check that out. We walked around the shop for like 4 minutes looking at all these original schwinns from every decade schwinn has been around, THe guy had a very impresive spread, at really good prices. Th man finally came out, talked slow, and told us about every bike he had, the whole story about all of them. Talked about how him and his son, fix up schwinns, and stuff like that. Told us about all the things in his shop, he had tons of cool stuff. Then i saw a few skateboards, a newer looking one, an old Nash, and the excalibur. Of course the excalibur caught my eye right away. Holy shit i thought that thing is awesome. Mint condition, original urethane wheels, i really liked it whether it was worth something or not i liked it. I knew it had to be worth something, you just never see boards like that.

"How much for that board?"

"that one?, Twenty dollars." the man said

"Can i try it out"

"He looked at me like why the hell would this grown man want to try out an old toy skateboard like this, and said "Sure but if you hurt yourself, im not responsible."

"yeah don't worry about it" i said and took it for a spin

What can i say, it rode good, looked good, i wanted it, but did not have cash on me so said ill be back, went got cash, and bought the board.

"Come back, ill be getting plenty of old skateboards" he said

I definitely will. It is a very cool board to add to my collection, and while on bull dog skates today, a very reputable old school skateboard information site, in their ebay store they were selling just the trucks for 75 dollars. so Id imagine the board is probably worth complete $100 to $150 dollars. Pretty cool im just glad to have it, i want to throw new bearings in it, and bomb hills with it. just like the z boys, probably not barefooted though.

Guitar books

2009-06-06T03:09:00.002-04:00

I wonder if anyone learns how to play guitar from reading, how to guitar books. As an aspiring guitar player, who has stayed at a pretty basic level, Learning Guitar and book, seem like two opposite things. Maybe it is just the way my brain works, but i think you are either good at it by ear, or you get better by playing with people who are better than you and can show you stuff, and songs. It is like reading a how to skateboard book. Both activities take hours, and hours, of practice to even get remotely good at, or you just start one day, and start shredding right away. The term shredding works for both activities. I right now just sit around and play the same songs i know over and over, then my sister will come over, and i will learn more than i have about guitar on my own in months. I think i tried to ollie for like 3 years by myself when i was a kid, then i was shown by a friend and in 2 days i could ollie. Same thing, i never even thought about how relate able the two were. I had a guitar teacher tell me once that on saturdays i shouldn't hang out with my friends, i should stay home on saturdays, completely isolated, all day and practice guitar. That is how he got to where he was. I was like great so i can teach kids how to play guitar as a career, and waste away my childhood, so i quit. He was my second teacher, my first one went to jail for showing kids my age dirty magazines, and doing who knows what else with them. So beware of guitar teachers, in my experience they can be creepy. Learn guitar from someone you know, and don't buy a book. being good at guitar barely gets people famous but good songs do. I don't know what happened with John Mayer, it really doesn't fit my logic.

1998 Called

2009-06-06T02:49:00.003-04:00

And they want their music back.

Why couldn't eminem just give it up. I mean he was on the top of the world, had like 3 or 4 top albums, and was very cool at a time. It could be like oh yeah eminiem was cool, he did like 3 great records then just produced for the rest of his life. But no, he tried it again, he had a hit movie too back then. i will personally give him credit for two cool innovative albums, the first two, but im sure that i would listen to them now, and it would be like listening to Limp Bizkit or something, not that fun outside of the nineties. Not that Limp Bizkit was fun in the nineties, but luckily they stayed there. His new songs have the same exact style, which did not age well, not timeless style. Was lumped with and toured with such acts as Papa Roach, Korn, Limp Bizkit, and should have stayed and died with them. He Raps now about being molested, and shit like that, People are on a more positive thing right now, that misunderstood troubled thing doesnt fly as much right now. I just felt embarassed when i saw the video, then saw him on the music awards clips. He should have been like Dre, Made the chronic, waited six years made another amazing album proving he was the best then quit. By doing that Dre's music is as immortalized as tupac, or notorious. I always liked Dr. Dre better than them anyway, Dre would probably be the most famous if he got shot or something like that. Bottom line talented person who should have just stayed out while he was on top. But i guess Green Day got famous again, and found a whole new generation of fans and didn't even have to reinvent themselves. At least the Red hot Chili peppers reinvented themselves, they get credit, and their music stays current with the times.

My EMusic downloads this month

2009-06-03T03:36:00.008-04:00

1.Blood Bath- Unblessing the Purity

2 Mayhem- Orde ad Chao

3.The Gaslight Anthem- Sink or Swim

4. Wolves in the Throne Room- Malevolent Grain

5. Bleeding Through- Decleration

Blood Bath is pretty good. Pretty straight forward Death Metal, haven't gotten too deep into it but read a review and was surprised that the name wasn't taken yet.

Mayhem_ Orde ad Chao was released this year, did not get it right away, because it was purposely recorded really rough, to capture black metal at its roots. Also because Blasphemer and Maniac left, so wasnt sure what to expect I listened to the whole thing the other night after the concert, and it definitely, is worth listening to, and see getting more into it, and it growing on me. You could meditate to it, I really like Atilla as the new frontman, he does some cool shit with his voice.

The Gaslight Anthem- I know i am late on this one, but really have a hard time giving new punk bands a chance. This is really good, and i am going through their catologue backwards. I really like the 59 sound. I like how they sound old and don't use distortion, they have a throwback sound, and i really enjoy the music, listen to it at work when i break down often.

Wolves in the throne- are on Southern lord records, which all of their releases are a good bang for the emusic buck, most songs are like 15 minutes long, so you can get a whole album, and it only counts as like 4 downloads, but you get a whole album. These guys are good, i like the music, Oregon Black Metal, One of the only U.S.A. black metal band i have heard and liked. usually they dont capture the sound for me. They are like punks from the woods in oregon who are conservationists, and carry around ak-47's and shit. Pretty hardcore.

Bleeding Through- The only reason i got this is because in a review they said it is all metal, and no more Emo singing. I never liked bands like this because of the emo singing, and always thought they should just play straight metal. Now they are doing it and so far it is a pretty good album.

15 dollars a month pretty well spent

Thank you for young Guns

2009-06-03T03:14:00.004-04:00

On the t.v. show, Im a celebrity get me out of here, Spencer Pratt, and his wife Heidi, the center of attention on the show decided to leave for real, after many threats. This was some of the greatest, craziest three hours of television i have ever watched. I kind of think this guy is amazing. Before he left they just had to tie up one loose end. Spencer needed to get baptized by his "i'm totally going to be like that guy in two years" idol Stephen Baldwin. After that on the way out he said to Lou diamond Phillips, who i like to call L.D.P. "Thanks a lot for young guns, and i don't know what i ever would of done without it." Im pretty sure i would like to thank L.D.P for the same thing. Thank you so much for that brilliant movie, and i hope to go to the spirit world sometime, and shoot a shotgun at a gigantic chicken. Thank you very much Spencer, You guys should have stayed on the show for longer, i don't think that the performance can be topped for a long time, Im pretty sure Joel Mchale is going to have to do an hour special of the soup, just to cover the Highlights of Im a celebrity get me out of here.

Rancid lets go summer of 1994

2009-06-01T22:38:00.004-04:00

So Rancid is coming out with a new album tomorrow, I am actually kind of excited to hear it. Im not sure why because i haven't been excited to hear a Rancid album since life won't wait. I think that this year might be a good year for music, and maybe Rancid will come through for me, and in a review they said it rocks like Lets Go. Lets Go is probably one of the single most influential albums on me. I wore it out on CD. That did not happen to many cd's, and that is the only Cd i think i ever wore out. It wasnt scratched or destroyed just worn out, cd players couldn't read it, there was nothing left. Im sure maybe to 80s punks Rancid was cheezy, like how id think about sum 41 or something like that, but to me they were the most important band that had happened in my lifetime, I identified with them, and that they were new, before that i listened to stuff that already happened like sex pistols, dead milkmen, what ever was punk that got passed to me. By 13 i was conscious of music, i had been to shows, was into ska because i was taken to ska shows. The mighty Mighty Bosstones were one of my favorite bands. I saw them late at night on a local access music show when i was staying at my friends in Massachusetts, and as soon as i got home bought don't know how to party, the only reason i say this is i was finding music on my own, and have always been the type who had stuff before my peers, and really researched music. If i went to a show and saw someone iwith a rancid shirt on, the next day id buy a Rancid cd etc. Spent lots of hard earned money on shitty music that way too. but you couldnt hear anything before you bought it then. It was part of the fun. So I got Rancid Self titled, i had to special order it from scooters, I put the sticker on the garbage can outside, I was one of the first people to do that"some of you know what i am talking about, sorry to others" In the epitath pamphlet, they described it as Lint and Matt from operation ivy, that was all i needed to hear. I listened to that religously for a good part of the year. Rancid at this point was my favorite band. I hated Nirvana, I would tell people that i liked punk, not grunge shit, and hated nirvana, even though in hindsight they are probably more punk than Rancid. oh well at least i didnt get into Heroin, so right there i was one up on the town of Flemington. Im glad i never thought Heroin was punk, drinking scotch was that is what tim armstrong said. I wanted to be so full of it that i could not stand up. So i went to Alaska to hike, i didnt want to i wanted to smoke cigarettes and skateboard, but i was excited we were going to stop in Seattle before Alaska. At Steves Broadway news, My dads friend that i was named after, I bought two punk magazines i never saw before, Flipside, and Maximum Rock n Roll. Opened them up, Ads for Rancid Lets Go, i was like holy shit, i didnt know they had a new album coming out, there was no way to find that kind of stuff out except for these magazines that were not available in Flemington at the time. So in Seattle i found out, and this really ruined my trip, I wanted to hike get it done go back and buy the cd. It was all i could think about, the cover looked awesome, i couldnt even imagine what it would sound like. I think it was all i talked about the whole time, i probably hiked with the magazine and read about it the whole trip not even taking in the awesome alaska experience. Back in Seattle i bought the Cd we were staying at Steves for 3 days. No Cd player, so i had to wait until i got back to New Jersey before i could hear it. Put it in my Cd player and could not believe how fast, raw, and short the songs were. I had never heard anything like it, it sounded very modern to me, and fresh, every song was extremely catchy. I saw the video for nhilism on 120 minutes, and immediatly after it shaved a mohawk identical to Tim Armstrongs "lint back then", Put Beaus choke chain around my neck, and locked it with a padlock, and wished i had money for a black leather jacket. Rancid look like street thugs, they looked cleaner on the back of the self titled cd. This pissed off my parents, and everything i did from that point on was called anti social behavior, and some stuff before that. Forced to cut the mohawk off, what the hell, i thought you guys were like hippies or something, Freedom of expression man. I guess a little skinhead was less anti social, but whatever, i grew one back later in life. anyway for the next 5 years of my life that cd was my anthem. It is one of the best cds ever made. I will still stand behind that. 1994 the year of epitath so many great California Punk Albums,

Face to Face, Big Choice

Nofx, Punk in Drublic- second best punk record ever

Pennywise- Unknown road

Offspring- smash-

Rancid- lets go

there isnt a bad song on any 5 of those albums

Bob dylan Chronicles

2009-06-01T02:10:00.002-04:00

Bob dylan better start making new books, i need to read more chronicles, leaving it at volume 1 made me think there was going to be more coming out. I love his writing, it makes me feel like i was there, and current even though it was way before my lifetime.

Meaningless Garbage

2009-06-01T00:37:00.007-04:00

I bought a Concrete wave magazine today at Barne's and noble, along with a few other periodicals, and felt bad that i didn't have a bag to put the magazine in and needed a plastic bag from the store. A guy walked past me with a recycled carrying style bag that said this bag is made out of plastic bottles., or one plastic bottle, something like that. It also said a plastic bottle takes up to 1000 years to biodegrade. THat is when i was like shit i should have brought a bag, to carry these magazines around in. It also made me think of a show my friend corey told me about where they talked about if we went to extinction how long it would take for there to be no trace of us, and they showed how long it would take for the brooklyn bridge to disappear, and things like that, steel frames, buildings, etc. were were sitting at the seaport talking about that, then julie pulled up and made fun of us, two men staring into the east river talking about life, etc. Now this is making me think of Scott Bourne, one of my teenage heroes, professional skateboarder, the man with the blue arm,ranting in a recent interview that i read in an artsy skateboarding magazine. He was talking about "how stupid human beings were and how we are ruining everything, for what, plastic soda bottles?" He reminded me of an extreme version of myself, how he didn't believe in anything not tangible, like he only listens to records, writes on a typewriter, doesn't fuck with anything digital, takes photo on film, etc. Im sure people have heard me say similar things. He thinks it is all going to disappear soon. I agree, and don't think we should rely on saving all of our music, and photos on a computer, so one day our grandkids can take out our ancient apple computer that they don't know how to use, and listen to old music, and look at pictures. id rather pull out a box, plus there is so much now, like i'm sure 99.8% of the photos and videos we take we will never look at again, and it seems disposable and not as sincere scrolling through a hundred photos at a time. Then there is the catch 22, isn't all that stuff less eco friendly, and is it better to have everything digital, for the world. But im pretty sure that computers create some pretty hazardous garbage, and we constantly need to get new ones. The new thing is people don't even enjoy concerts anymore because they are too busy recording it to post it on youtube later. It also cheapens the whole experience for others at the show, to see 100 cameras in the air, when you just want to watch the band. Im pretty young and already feel like an old man, and everyone should think twice and take personal responsibility for all the garbage we create.

check this http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/05/great-pacific-garbage-patch.php

2009-05-31T13:15:00.001-04:00

The smith factor

2009-05-31T02:44:00.003-04:00

SO I claimed that morrisey was borecy, and the smiths were overrated, I am going to go out on a limb and go as far to say that all things musical that contain smith are terrible, so here we go

1. The Smiths- i wont comment anymore, but over rated

2. Patti Smith- over rated rich kid that is credited some how with punk music, and sucks

3. Patti smythe- has the same name as other

4. Will Smith- i dont know what to say, wild wild west, woohoo, daddy loves you

5 . Elliot Smith- coolest thing he ever did was stabbed himself in the heart and ended it

6. Smith n Wessun- sucky 90s rap that tried to ruin my life

7. ill spare Robert smith, but technically i shouldnt spare him if im taking down the smiths, kinda the same shit but standing on a beach is cool, and my sister would get mad at me.

Proof

2009-05-31T02:04:00.002-04:00

On a life long quest to watch all movies that Russel Crowe has been in, not a very hard feat, but one i am still trying to attain, on my own time schedule. I DVrecorded proof on Ifc. Good decision, this is probably one of the better movies i have seen in a while. It is about a blind guy, who befriends Russel Crowe, who works as a dishwasher at a local restaurant. The type of guy that no one gives a chance to, and the blind man is in the same boat. So they quickly become friends while saving a cat, by taking him to the vet. The blind man, played by the same guy that plays Elrond in Lord of the Rings, who i think is probably more famous than Russel Crowe at this time in their careers, He takes pictures of everything where ever he goes, knowing where he was and what was going on at the time, he carries the pictures around and has people explain the pictures to him. This is his way of gauging people and learning who he can trust. Pretty cool Idea i thought. Then there is the blind mans house maid who has a weird attraction to him, Girl+ Russel Crowe= problem, and a messy situation with the whole situation. There is also a part where Russel crowe and Elrond get beat up at a drive in movie by Davey in Romper Stomper. But in this movie davey and Russel Crowe both have long hair. The first time I saw Romper Stomper i though That Russel Crowe was a real Nazi, and got casted because of that. but that was not true i found out later when i watched LA confidential in the movie theatre, probably like 96 and he played a straight laced Cop. I was like hey, he is an actor, and maybe one of the best of all time. People say he is an overrated asshole, but i think he is underrated. even his shitty movies are cool. wait what shitty movies? SO Proof, 5 eggs, scrambled out of 5. check it out

Mayhem

2009-05-29T02:45:00.005-04:00

I was pretty pissed that i dint bring them Pig heads from work, I have been talking about doing it ever since i found out about the concert. They definitely could have used them in place of the doll heads"only lame part of the show" I thought it would have been hard to get them into them though so i didnt bring any animal heads. I guess it would probably be pretty hard to tour another country and line up, getting animal heads for your stage show every city you went, especially in the U.S. where there are barely any local butchers. Dude what can i say, this show blew my mind. It was so awesome i cant even explain it, I could talk about how much i loved it for hours, and probably already have, and since you are my friends that read this, you have already heard me talk about it. Atilla as a vocalist was great, and the new guitarists were pretty sick too. And i felt lucky to be in the same room as necrobutcher, and Hell hammer, legends of Black Metal. When they came out they tapped around guitar plugs and made reverb sounds for like 20 minutes, it was so uncomfortable and weird, no one knew what the fuck was going on. That moment to me was like this is what they are all about, and it made it even more intense whan the curtain rolled up, and they went straight into it full on. I was super psyched when they played Grand Declaration of war material, I love that record, the soldier drumming, and machine gun sounding guitar and drums. They played everything, Orde de Chao is still growing on me, it is a little to low and sludgey. My favorite song they played was My death, it blew my mind, i cant explain it in writing, i have a 20 second clip of my death that Julie took before she left the show. She said it was the worst show she has ever been to, It is a funny contrast in opinion. I hope this tour isnt the last time Mayhem plays in the states because i have to see them again. If i remember right they opend with ancient skin from Wolfs lair abyss. The whole show was incredible, and it doesnt all sound the same and isnt all the same shit. I guess all Jazz sounds like the same shit to me though, but i am smarter than to actually proclaim something like that. I love Black Metal, it is the best metal genre, and Mayhem is one of the best bands in that genre. I love the icy ness of the sound, There is a certain quality you hear and know it is from Norway, it cannot be duplicated. Julie says she got her flu from this concert and calls it the black metal flu. That would be pretty metal if you could get the swine flu at the mayhem concert. If i was going to get it that is where i would want to acquire it.

"Only a Fool has a Pool and Keeps it Full"

2009-05-29T01:56:00.007-04:00

"and only a trader wont drain his pool."

This is my new skateboard. It is a Duane Peters, Santa Cruz Reissue. I think they reissuedlike 2,000 of these. I always loved this board and it always just seemed like an unattainable. The

original is like a hens tooth. Duane Peters is one of the greatest innovators of early skateboarding. He invented a whole handful of vert tricks, and was the first do loop around in a full pipe. Under rated is an understatement when it comes to DuanePeters. And he has had some awesome punk bands. He still skates and used to skate for one of my favorite companies Beer City. The inventors of the 9 ply skateboard. Strongest skateboards i have ridden. The strongest skateboard i ever had was a creature powerply, creature is a sub company of Santa Cruz. Creature is the shit. I loved that board it had a spiderweb with a spider on the bottom, it was like an 8.15 , i always hated to ride any board that was smaller than 8. This Duane Peters is a 10.5 X 29. so super fat and super short, perfect cruising board, made for pool skating. It reminds me of a Natas I had, that i left at the Jersey shore a few years ago. I hate myself, because i loved that board, but getting this i knew it was going to be just like that board i missed so much. SO anyway i bought all new old stock parts for this board, i got Grind King sliding axle trucks, and Vision Big wheels, this gear is past date of what the Duane peters would have originally had but, oh well. I really wanted to get super big, super hard wheels for this so i could do crazy power slides. Which i was successful with. They are a pain in an ass to find because nowadays all big wheels are made for longboards, which are really soft and grippy not what i wanted. It took me about 4 days of ebay shopping to finally settle on these, and im happy i did. Julie and I custom gripped the board and i think it looks pretty nice. This board defines punk skateboarding, i love it. The design is awesome, and i love the cutaway rails. Next im going to go to the outdoor park in bay ridge like 2 miles from my apt, and skate their concrete bowl.

Bike for Julie.......... Done

2009-05-29T01:18:00.007-04:00

SO i finally finished my single speed bike project for julie the other day. In idea it was an easy job, but the surprises that came about as i built, and the tools/ supplies i had to buy, then wait for made it a long process. The last bike i did was very easy and everything fell right in place, but not this bike. This bike was sitting at julies house for like 2 years and i always tried to take it home to work on for about a year and every time i was stopped. so about a month or so ago i finally got it home. It is a blue schwinn continental, i stripped all the original things off the frame, derailers brakes etc, it was all corded garbage that needed to be replaced. The wheels came off of my SE. the reason i put them on this bike is they stripped on the fixed sides cog, so i had to get new ones. I almost died when the lockring shimmied off while a truck was trying to run me off the road, and i entered into a flat skid. Kind of scary, but i lived. Stripped because i re tightened the lockring the wrong way, it is counter threaded and i tried to thread it clock wise, fixed gear hub down the drain, lesson learned. I will never make that mistake again, but it is fine because julie just wants the bike to have a frewheel anyway. I took off the cranks, got new ones from Belles bike shop in philly, just generic blue singlespeed cranks that look cool with the bike. But when the cranks showed up with the bottom bracket, i realized that the schwinn has a huge american style bottom bracket, that only fits one piece, or bmx cranks. So I found out that they sell adapters, i bought one from Sheldon Brown online, and a week later i was ready to put it in. Then fuck i bought the wrong bottom bracket tool to install the cranks. and my local shops none of them have the tool i need which is one of the most common bottom bracket tools out there. So i ordered it from amazon, and another week later i was ready to go. So basically the cranks took me a month to install. Put the new chain on, and the bike is essentially ready to go. Next the brakes i have were to short to reach the wheels, because older bikes require a longer reach on the brakes compared to the newer bikes. So the other night i had an aha moment while installing a bag on julies Bianchi. I took her reflectors off, sawed off the mounts, so there is just a piece of plastic with two screw holes in it that is a

perfect length to mount the brakes

onto the bike without getting new ones. other than that I got some bmx levers put new bar tape on it installed cables, kept the original seat, and it is ready to go. Julie has the swine flu and hasnt gotten to ride it yet. I rode it and it is as smooth as goose shit. So all in all it was definetly more than meets the eye, but i learned a ton of shit that i didnt already know and hopefully i will never again walk into a bike store and be stumped by the first question they ask about my question. They know what to ask to make you feel stupid. That is what i found out, or i was just stupid. Hopefully not anymore.

In the pictures

SPecial crank Bracket and DIY Brake Modification

Price is Right set has cryogenic properties

2009-05-09T02:09:00.002-04:00

Cryogenic is the word for like people being frozen in time right? Ok so like 1 year ago Bob Barker looked the same as he did for my whole life, then leaves the price is right, and shit what happened. I wonder if Drew Carey will age? he doesnt seem to anyway, but i wonder if there is something about the set like all the old props and everything that made him feel like he never left the seventies, then therefore, never aged past his age in the seventies, until her had to go back to the real world, and was like shit, im pretty old. I think Happy Gilmore could take him at this point. Have you tried to watch the price is right with Drew Carey? To me it is unbearable, i try and try but just cant stomach it. I remember the Price is right always being a constant my whole life, then it wasnt anymore, they should have just shut it down. Drew Carey rushes everyone through and tries to hard to be funny, and no one wants to kiss him either. Everyone used to want to kiss Bob.

Gwar live from Antarctica

2009-05-09T01:54:00.003-04:00

When i was a kid there was a Gwar VHS tape called live from antarctica, where in the video they shot dog shit in the audience, among the other regular gwar blood and cum. I thought the shit was pretty extreme, can you imagine being at a concert and getting hit by dog shit. The funny thing aboout this was i was just thinking about it, and I always just believed the video was filmed live in Antarctica which makes no sense. I was just like thats cool Gwar played a show in antarctica, not realizing that no one lives there. I probably realized this when i was like 20 and was like hey there is no way Gwar could have played in Antarctica. Gwar was supposedly from there. Gwar videos were so awesome me and my friends would watch them religously, I dont know about other age groups but for my age Gwar was it. It was all we cared about, we thought Gwar was the coolest band that ever existed. We thought that if we went to a Gwar concert we would get killed. it was something we had to work up. We really thought people got killed at Gwar concerts in the pit, it seemed like a very normal thing that would happen. Then ralized later on that you dont get killed at a Gwar concert you just have a great time. Whenever Gwar tours i always want to go but never end up making it. I still like Gwars music, but one time i thought they were the best band ever. It was like Gwar.

weird crustacean

2009-05-09T01:29:00.002-04:00

Every once in a while there is some bizarre picture like this. I call this one weird crustacean, the other disturbing one was the montauk monster. I wonder if this is real, and if it is real how is he comfortable enough just to hold it like that. I would be scared that a hidden mouth would open up and take a finger off, or worse. Is it just some almost extinct species, or are there just all sorts of crazy things that we dont see. Why is this bug rare, and lobsters, as prominent as cockroaches. is this like the centipede of the sea? Because for every one centipede i have seen i have probably seen a thousand cockroaches. I do live in NYC though. Like what the fuck is a mole? Julie was talking about moles the other day and i got r=freaked out, are they like a mouse, or something, why am i more scared of a mole than a mouse or even a NYC rat. Have you ever seen the montauk monster? look it up it is really disturbing. That crustacean must be at least 15 pounds, look at it compared to his body. i think he is too comfortable with it, it looks like he is proudly holding a 25 pound stripe bass not a 15 pound bug that could bite his penis off. But then where did they get the picture of the weird crustacean to photoshop. I love when they do the tv documentaries on these things like hogzilla. The coolest one was a fish that they thought was an evolution link that they caught in the forties, and never caught again until the 90s, and found out it wasnt a link but just a weird prehistoric fish species that swims differently than other fish. So this poses one of my favorite questions, is there a possibility that there are dinosaurs in the rainforest?

Me my bike and the 5 Boro bike ride

2009-05-04T18:35:00.006-04:00

Pictures: before, during and after the ride

On Sunday I participated in the 5 boro bike ride with my sister Amanda, and my friend Matt.It is a 42 mile ride that i kinda have always been interested in doing because off the mass ride, closure of Nyc streets, and the chance to ride over the Verrazano bridge. Most people there were dressed optimistically for no rain, and some were ready for it. It was a miserable rainy day that progressively got worse as the day went on. There were lots of fair weather riders riding in unfair weather, and even id imagine people that have never ridden a bike before riding which made the conditions even scarier to ride in in a group that big. You always had to be ready for someone suddenly swerving into you, or flat out crashing right in front of you. I almost got clipped a few times but managed to finish the ride unscathed, we all did, and no mechanical issues. Tires would pop and on the side of the road you'd see people trying to change their inter tube while the wheel was still attached to the bike. Towards the end we were soaking wet, and freezing cold. Then id imagine 30 percent of the riders caught pneumonia while waiting for the staten island ferry, which was the most miserable part of the day, but there was nothing you could do. All in all it was a good ride and cool to do with no traffic interuptions, only time of the year that happens.I rode my 1987 Peugeot Tourmalet, Matt rode a Bridgestone, and Amanda rode bikey"name for my old bike, NYC bikes hybrid. Weird enough it was the only NYc bikes i saw the whole day. That was one of the fun things was seeing all the bikes. There were some real cool bikes but mostly cookie cutter treks. Not being bias but my bike was one of the coolest bikes there. Having the matching vintage waterbottle puts my ride over the top, other than that it is basically how it came out of the factory. I really like the way the old 90's flourescent treks look though, and the really old treks that most people that did have had them as vintage restored, or cool looking fixies. One of the cooler bikes i saw was a francesco moser bike, at the end of the ride the guy that rode it swung it around and ran in circles with it, im not sure what my opinion of that was, maybe he was just really happy that he had that bike. I didnt see any newer bikes that made me excited because anyone could just get one of those. i guess im the type of guy that if i was going to buy a colnago, or any expensive bike i would buy an old one for the same amount as a new one. I just like the look and feeling of the older bikes better, and lets get real, unless your a pro it isn't necessary to have carbon frame with all the bells and whistles. I passed many carbon framed spandex clad riders on the way up the verrazano bridge and was not passed by any of them until we were going downhill, so i don,t think they benefited. old pros rode old road bikes when they were new too. It relates to anything though, I would definitely invest in a classic car before i bought a new car. If i needed an everyday car id buy a used honda or something for cheap, because a new car would be a shitty car in a few years but a classic car will not be shitty ever, or lose value like a new car.

The Flying Scotsman

2009-04-29T12:48:00.006-04:00

I just finished reading this book the other day. I have been reading it on and off for about 2 months now. The reason i read this book is because i saw the movie and really liked it, and thought it would be even better on paper. It is such an awesome story, and Graeme Obree is a real inspiration to me. Struggling with personality disorder , and manic depression it allows him to achieve such greatness, and while attaining those goals he is left depressed. At times he is suicidal, and attempts suicide a few times. Basically he came out of nowhere, and built his own bike to beat the one hour record. There are many different reasons, why he builds the bike he does and out of what he does. He is a perfectionist and always looking to evolve. He also struggles with alcoholism, and that doesnt help his depression. I really enjoyed this book because i really relate to him as a person in many ways. and i think many people could in many different ways, I think the story is universal to any career/ life experience. I know what it is like to set goals work your ass off to get there, then when you get there you are like ok what is next, and what do you do when you attain all your goals, do you make new ones, or do you just enjoy life, and not be so competitive about everything. In the end Grame Obree just has to cycle for fun, or else it will drive him crazy. Being in recovery, I also can relate to how hard it is to talk about recovery, and the more you do the better it is because you can't go back after that. So I imagine this book was incredibly tough for him to put out there, but also massively rewarding in the end, for his own recovery. So definitely watch this movie or read the book, and i'm sure no matter who you are you will like this story.

Zorlac Skateboards

2009-04-26T12:59:00.005-04:00

Back to classic skateboard designs. If i was going to focus my collection to one brand it would be Zorlac skateboards from the 80's. there is this guy at wheelbite.com, that has a giant collection of zorlac boards, that is where i got these images from. Zorlac was like the metal skateboard company. I used to think it was so cool that you could get a Metallica skateboard, why i got a Caballero and not a Metallica skateboard is beyond my comprehension. I secretly always wanted zorlac and used to stare at the decks in the back of Thrasher magazine. Heavily influenced by my brother there was no way i could buy a Zorlac, Powell was the only way to go. They did alot of graphics with pushead, who also did all of Metallica's album graphics. The boards mostly looked like Metallica album covers, and i used to refer to them as the Metallica company. But the sacred cow deck has an awesome graphic without looking like an album cover, and they had many like boards. Great team too, John GIbson, and Craig Johnson stand out as their top 2. Another thing i liked about skateboarding in this era was it was so directly related to music, it still is but you really felt it then. Plus rap hadn't come around yet to ruin skate videos. Thrasher sold albums called skate rock, and for a while may have been a propaganda tool for suicidal tendencies. I wish i would have been a little older in this time so i could have soaked it all in and actually had real memories of living through not just living it through skate videos, thrasher. I wanted to be one of those guys my mom told me to stay away from hanging outside of the arcade at the mall, and may have become one in a different generation, but rap music was around for my generation and killed all the fun.

The Babyshambles

2009-04-24T02:43:00.001-04:00

I don't think i have ever personally met a Libertine fan, or a Baby shambles fan. It blows my mind that everyone isn't. Pete dohertys antics off the stage usually overshadow his music, and are what they are more famous for, than actual music. In my opinion in this country, They are huge in England and stuff like that i bet. I own all albums by both groups, and while writing this i am listening to summer in albion by Babyshambles. Pete Doherty is obviously the brains behind both bands, because the other Libertines offshoot Dirty Pretty things is nothing really special. Baby shambles mix Punk, Classic Rock"English". with some blues and ska. Perfect balance of everything, always with kind of weird melodies. Libertines/ Baby shambles music always sticks with me too, and i think i will listen to them for years to come. I generally listen to this stuff on my days off. They are making Modern classic rock. If i have ever made you a mix you have most likely heard the Libertines, or Baby shambles and may not know it, but if you haven't forget what you heard and check out some of this stuff.

My Earth Day Pick

2009-04-23T02:25:00.002-04:00

What better way to celebrate Mother earth than to wear recycled sneakers. I always liked simple sneakers, but never owned a pair until about 2 years ago. I had a pair of knock offs from payless, that were pretty good. I used to buy all my skate shoes from payless, because i would ruin them so fast, and usually would only pay 15 or 20 dollars a pair, but i bet they were not made from recycled materials. So being the organic sustainable person that i am, i decided i would go wear the idea on my feet as well. I love these shoes, and they are the most comfortable shoes ever. I am still wearing my first pair that i bought about 2 years ago, and they are in great shape. I wear them every day. I like them so much that i own two more brand new pairs, because i was scared that when they wore out i would never be able to get them again. These shoes are bulletproof, and hemp is a great shoe material. also the soles are made from recycled tire rubber. The hemp laces have never untied ever, and i am sold, i will never wear laces that were not made from hemp, I hate tying my shoes, i like to slip them on. I really dislike business casual shoe sneakers. I call them man shoes, You wear them when you still want to have the look of a sneaker but the edge of a douche. I don't think these are man shoes they remind me of skate shoes from an earlier time, early etnies that cost 40 dollars. Everyonce in a while i get self conscious and ask Julie if they are man shoes, and she says no in disgust. She hates man shoes as much as i do. Im pretty sure she would stop me from buying man shoes.So hopefully more shoe companies will make there shoes from recycled materials but until then your going to have to wear simples. Stop complaining and start carpooling.

My new Project

2009-04-16T02:21:00.002-04:00

Scotty found this bike on the side of the street like 2 years ago, it is a schwinn continental, i believe a 1976 or something like that. It is not in as good condition as this but still pretty fine condition. a few months ago i looked at it and realized it had horizontal dropouts, good for single speed conversion. SInce all the derailer and all that stuff probably would neat to be tuned up again and it has heavy one piece cranks i'm going to turn it into a single speed for Julie to ride. It is a good size for her, and a good project for me. I think she will like the worry free simplicity of riding a single geared bike, and be able to pay more attention, not having to worry about what gear you need to switch to , to do whatever minute incline or decline. I just replaced the wheels on my bike so will donate my old wheels to this project. I stripped the hub on the fixed gear side, of my wheel so now the wheel can only be ridden with a freewheel, so i bought new fixed only wheels for my S.E. I'm going to need to get new cranks, chain, tweak the brakes, clean it up and i think it will be good to go. I like the stock seat it reminds me of the seat my Dad had on his 70's Jeunet, that disappeared one day. I like the green bar tape too, but i might have to redo it or put a different color tape job. It is going to be sweet, and my ultimate dream would be that by getting this bike julie would want to ride with me more, which might not happen, Maybe she just needs a flyaway helmet, and we could match.

Morrissey

2009-04-15T02:32:00.003-04:00

SO i wanted to talk about Morrissey. I love music and all types of music, but one thing i never understood was Morrissey. I have listened to people talk about him like he is some sort of music saviour for a long time, and very recently it seems like he is all anyone talks about. What is the big deal. Is he prolific or something. Most of the songs i have heard are just kind of Corny sounding to me, like cliche, or maybe he is the original and everything else copied him so his songs sound cliche to me. Anyway Smiths were good i guess but in my opinion highly over rated, but anything that just says Morrissey on it sounds like garbage to me. Did they coin the term Meat is Murder? I thought he just loves himself, why does he care about meat so much, did he sing about veganism, maybe i need a morrisey lesson? Johnny Marr is a good guitarist, but in my opinion Morrissey is a bit like "Bore"ssey.

Gomorra

2009-04-15T02:14:00.002-04:00

On Sunday I went to see this movie Gomorra, i didn't watch any previews for it, i just heard it was about Italian Gangs, and that sounded good to me. I don't like to know too much about a movie, before I go see it. I saw an ad for it with 2 people on a scooter and another guy flying through the air like he just got shot, it looked like a real cool scene but i don't think it was in the movie. There were some good violent parts though. The opening scene was one of the coolest parts of the movie, it is a whole scene taken in a tanning salon, with the U.V. lights, it had a cool effect. I took this film class in High school and the teacher was obsessed with interesting uses of light in movies, that is about all i remember because i slept through most of it. But for our final project we had to draw scenes on paper, and to finish my project i had a guy knocked over looking up at a chandelier, then my last page was a picture of the chandelier from first person view looking at it from the ground. He gave me a 10 out of 10 on the project and said i really got it, and he loved my use of lights in the scene? I think about him or the class whenever i see light used in cool ways in a scene, much like this one. right now i'm trying to type on beat with frost's drumming. it is impossible. SO my biggest thing with this movie is there was so much good stories going on and great character development, but too many important characters. In the end i felt i didn't care what happened to any of the characters, i just waited for them to die or something and go home. Some of the characters made good choices and some bad, some very predictable. My favorite story was the one of the clothing designer, and i wonder how it turned out for him. It was a very well thought movie though, and it is cool to see all the different levels of Mob corruption in society, and scary. Gomorra is a real crime family or crime syndicate, so it is loosely based on truth i think. I would reccomend seeing this movie, and it is probably a better choice over most movies out there right now. Ill give it 4 hard boiled eggs out of 5.

Go Back to Jersey

2009-04-13T13:15:00.003-04:00

I was walking down the street the other day, and there was a weird moment between a cyclist, and a turning car, like when you walk down the street and someone is walking toward you and to get out of each others way, you walk into each other, then you do a little dance, ad say sorry and go along. It was something like that. But in this case the driver had New Jersey plates, and the biker said "Go back to Jersey". That always angers me when i hear it, I get real pissed off, but then happy at the same time about the disdain everyone has for New Jersey. What is the reasoning? I've never met anyone who had a good reason. They always say "I hate New Jersey" and then i ask why, and its always like I don't know. Every once in a while you might hear me say I hat New Jersey but it is more for reasons like when i go home and see people i know who i didn't want to see, or i get pulled over in my hometown because the cops have nothing better to do, but i'd imagine everyone would hate their hometown for those reasons, or love it. So back to the subject it always pisses me off when New Yorkers say that, because New Jersey is more New York then New York State is, why isn't Long Island hated on more either, it has to be just as bad., and where the fuck are these people from who spew their Jersey hating from, Iowa, Missourri, who knows? BUt definitely not from anywhere East Coast. In Nyc if someone has a Minnesota plate and they drive like an asshole, you don't see people going hey go back to Minnesota. That is because everyone who lives in NYC is a transplant from somewhere else, and when they are done with it they will disappear, and New Jersey will still be there taking flack from all the newcomers,who want to think they are better than New Jersey. No one will understand what it is like to be form New Jersey, an why people are proud to be from there. So many important things have come from New Jersey that i would think one would be hard pressed to compare another state to it. Why do we let both New York football teams play in New Jersey anyway, they should be renamed.

Ozzy Vs Ozzy throwdown

2009-04-13T02:14:00.004-04:00

On That metal show 2 weeks ago they did an Ozzy vs Ozzy throwdown. Meaning Black Sabbath Ozzy against Ozzy solo material. Im pretty sure most of them went with black Sabbath Ozzy due to the importance of Black Sabbath, and I also think they felt it was stronger material. I disagree. I would choose Ozzy Solo material over Black Sabbath any day. In my life time i have definitely listened to way more Ozzy than Black Sabbath. I know Black Sabbath have tons of important/ good songs, but in my mind Ozzy solo has lots more. My favorites being, No more tears, crazy train, Mr Crowley, Close my eyes, and I Don't Know. I don't know always makes me think of the opening of the Plan B Questionable skate video, which is one of the best skate videos ever. also opens the best Ozzy album ever"Blizzard of Ozz" followed by crazy train, goodbye to romance after that. The only album i can think of off the top of my head that starts off that good with songs 1,2,3, is Rancid Lets Go. Plus Black Sabbath made albums without Ozzy, and Ozzy never made an album without Ozzy. There are probably a lot more bands out there influenced and who made good music because of Black Sabbath and Less because of Ozzy, so there is a good point there but the light in the window is a crack in the sky, and a stairway to darkness in the blink of an eye.

Tom Penny

2009-04-13T01:43:00.002-04:00

Tom Penny is the most influential skateboarder that was around when i was a teenager. We all wanted to skate like him, or at least me and my friends did. The other thing that was cool was him, Geoff rowley, Rune Glifberg, "the Flip team" were from England so they had their own style, different from the U.S. and they could totally rip ramps just as well as the streets, which was cool because no one was skating ramp in that time. He had a section in 411 when he was like 15, when i was 13, so that was a huge inspiration, and he was a druggie, or at least he seemed like he was, and that seemed cool to us at that age too. He was the whole 90's Skate package. HE always did more regular tricks really well, and slow, and i don't feel like i saw him doing super technical stuff, which was more relate able, and i feel always a better style of skating. Just doing like 180, and varial kickflips over huge handrails, and the shit in this clip speaks for itself. He disappeared for a long time, like from1995- 1999 then came back stronger than ever, so he a recluse or something, and there would always be articles about where did he go, and stuff like that. I love watching this video every once in a while, it makes me want to skate.

Taken

2009-04-12T05:21:00.001-04:00

Forget about Quantum of Solace, this movie is better, and only if it had the budget of james bond movies. Nothing against Daniel Craig as Bond, I think he is the best yet, and Casino Royale could be the best Bond movie ever made. This movie isn't exactly like a Bond movie, but it would appeal to the same type of movie goer. Liam Neeson, is an ex special agent, who quits to spend more time with his daughter. overshadowed by her rich stepfather, he can't win her over. Against his will he lets her go to Paris with her friend on vacation, which he knows is very dangerous because of his line of work. She goes, and they get kidnapped, or "Taken" right away. Liam Neeson talks to the kidnapper on the phone, and tells him that he has a specific set of skills, and he will find them and kill them, if they don't let his daughter go. The Kidnapper Laugh's, and says good luck. and that is the set up, for the whole movie. i would Give this 5 eggs sunnyside up out of a possible 5. It is short sweet and to the point. 1.5 hours long in a sea of movies that are way longer than they need to be. I miss regular length movies it seems like every movie since the lord of the rings has to be 2.5- 3 hours long. Lord of the rings needed to be long, and makes sense, but The Dark Knight, and The Watchmen could have been great at 1.5- 1.45 minutes, along with just about every other movie out there

Angela Lansbury

2009-04-12T05:09:00.000-04:00

uh, huh, huh...

The resemblance is stunning. I never put two and two together, that the reason Angela Lansbury doesn't really age is because she is whatever Yoda is. Yoda must be like 3,oo0 years old so that means about 2,000 years ago Yoda may have looked alot like Angela Lansbury. in the next thousand years she will start to get a smaller forehead, and her eyes will get bigger, and beadier. I wonder if Angela Lansbury is a smoker, or if that is in the Yoda gene. Seriously though, i could never figure it out, my whole life Angela Lansbury has been in T.V. shows and movies, and lots of them came out before i was born, and she still looks exactly the same. That is the one thing i love about Angela Lansbury is i just keep getting older, and she stays the same age. It is good to know she will outlive us all, in a galaxy far, far away.

Lost

2009-04-10T03:02:00.000-04:00

Is it just me or did the budget for lost get cut due to the recession. I felt like i was watching xena the warrior princess last night. It seemed really cheesy. I think lost jumped the shark last night. With the smoke monster and Ben. It has had its bad moments, but i think it is done. So what the hell is going on anyways, some of them crash landed back on the island, in the present, and the others 30 years in the past. Only some people can travel through time on the island? What happened to Daniel Faraday? Time travel doesnt make much sense but the different laws of it on the island really don't. Why doesn't Richard ever age, but every other other does. Why does Juliette always have that look on her face. None of it makes any sense and i think the writers definitely make it up as they go along. Every once in a while they draw me back into it, and it seems so interesting all over again. Seriously though did i miss something, what happened to Daniel Faraday?

The only female fronted band that i like, besides heart

2009-04-10T02:18:00.000-04:00

I like Jefferson Airplane too, but there really isn't many groups i like that have female singers. I don't know why, but it just is that way. Let me think of a few though that i have liked, Dance Hall Crashers, My friend and i liked a Tilt song, but i think it was because we listened to it so much because of how bad it was that in turn we ended up liking it. Joan Jett, Lita Ford, so maybe i should try the runaways? Walls of Jericho are amazing though. I first started listening to them when their first album the bound feed the gagged came out. I used to listen to it all the time, awesome hardcore, 90's era,. Then they broke up, and came back out i guess a few years ago, but i had lost track. I just recently caught up with their catologue, by buying all the albums i missed. All of which are all solid, and they even made an unhardcore E.P. called Redemption, where it is just regular songs with Candace singing normal which is pretty good, and they would almost be a good band just like that. She has the most Brutal hardcore, Metal voice out there. It is insane i cant believe her throat hasn't fallen out. The New album "The American Dream is amazing, and it is great to still have a few bands out there that still do Hardcore that good. I'm excited because they are going to play shows with two of my other favorite hardcore bands from that era, Earth Crisis, and Vision of Disorder. If you have never listened to Vision of Disorder you should, and i don't need to say anything about Earth Crisis. Destroy the Machines was the heaviest album i ever heard in my life when it came out. It changed music. My all time favorite band from that genre is Snapcase though. Walls Of Jericho and other bands on Trustkill records "Poison the Well"I always really liked because they were more Metal always, and didn't really do the Hardcore breakdown thing. The American Dream is a must Have.

Branston Pickles

2009-04-10T02:04:00.000-04:00

Branston Pickles are delicious. I started to think about them today when i tasted a really good English, caramel like product that came in a very english looking tin, but i forget what that was called. Im not sure how much these are used in british countries, but it is kind of like the perfect condiment. It contains pickled vegetables which i imagine are carrots and stuff, bound with a really thick gooey worchestshire type sauce. I was turned onto eating it inside grilled cheese, and have been told it is good with hamburgers which makes perfect sense to me. It could almost be used as a ketchup style product, sweet, vinegary, type thing.

Civil War

2009-04-06T22:34:00.001-04:00

I have thought a lot about the backlash of people who don't appreciate Use your Illusion Guns n Roses. I do respect your opinion on The magnitude of importance and genius Appetite for Destruction requires, but how do you dismiss the song Civil War. okay, November Rain has orchestra, Estranged is weird, you could be mine is T2 soundtrack, live and let die is a cover, Don't cry is too slow. I could understand that in a way, but how do you dismiss Civil War. Civil War is probably my favorite Guns N Roses song, Even over anything on Appetite. It is amazing, and except for when axl says what is so civil about war anyway, flawless. I thought it was the most poetic thing i ever heard when i was 11 but now when i hear it, i think why the fuck did he have to say that. You can't Fuck with Civil War. Ue your Illusion I and II are worth getting into.

A Dog in a Hat

2009-04-06T22:15:00.000-04:00

A dog in a hat is a belgium term for something out of place, related to cycling. Like when a rider that isn't suppose to charges the front of the Peloton "Group of riders in the front of the race, " as described in this book at one point. The dog in a hat in this book refers to the author, who is an american who goes to belgium to cut his teeth in cycling, in the late 80's. It reads like a Kitchen Confidential of the cycling world, a world which i always thought was a pretty clean cut world. Which the more i read in general it really isn't at all. It is a very good book, and doesn't only focus on drug use in cycling. It has tons of great stories, and is just good literature whether you have an interest in the subject or not. Pro's ride like 50 miles or more a day to train. I rode 30 miles for the first time yesterday, my knees are sore from i think riding in too low of a gear all day, maybe i need to do more revolutions per minute instead of grinding all day. It was a good way to spend a day with friends and family, and i have to get used to riding with people. Safety etc. but it is fun to ride with others.It definetly felt good though, and would like to do longer rides more often, my goal is to do a hundred miles. Probably a year or so away from that but i think is attainable. I would like to do more riding/ camping, but my only fear is not showering and riding again for a day. In this book they say in europe you can ride and there are people that will let you stay with them for the night, for a small fee, then you can go on, I don't see that happening so much now nowadays, or here, but who knows. riding without spandex makes me feel like the dog in a hat.

Motley Crue The Dirt

2009-04-04T01:22:00.000-04:00

The dirt is an awesome read. The type of non fiction books i generally read are about music, and bands. The way this is written is basically like a gigantic interview, by each member seperatly, then all compiled together and the members tell the story or each story in the book, in ther own perspective and how it was for them. then branches off into more direct stories about bigger things that each member did. what comes to mind is, tommy lee going to jail, vince killing razzle from hanoi rocks in a car crash, nikki sixx dying then being brought back to life, mick mars and his painful life crippling disease. Then stories told by the whole are things like when ozzie snorted a line of red ants, and all the other exploits on tour and beyond. So i would definetly recomend to read this, another book written exactly like this is Please Kill Me. I have been a Motley Crue fan for as long as i can remember. I first heard them when i was 7 and my next door neighbor also seven, somehow had girls, girls, girls on vinyl when it came out, and i vividly remember listening to it , and eating soup with chinese spoons both things being completely new to me. Then a few years later dr. feelgood came out. I listened to that album in its entirety probably more than appetite for destruction. Dr. Feelgood changed my life. It was the first album i liked, and bought by myself, not under the influence of my brother and sister. Usually i liked what they liked or they told me what to like, but i don't think anyone in my family liked Motley Crue. They had lots of good albums before that but i didn't listen to them until later. I think too fast for love is one of the greatest rock albums ever and rivals Boston, Boston, another seminal rock album. The one thing i love about Tommy Lee is that i just keep getting older and he stays the same age

The best movie that was never made

2009-04-03T01:48:00.000-04:00

SO here it is the best movie that was never made. Starring Russell Crowe as a yankee General, and Mel Gibson as the opposing confederate General. I think it is time that Both of these actors star in another period piece, and what would be greater than having them in the same movie together. To me they are the best two actors in that genre. Mel Gibson should direct it too. There hasn't been a good civil war movie in a long time, and this is the best way to bring it back. Im just not sure who should die in the end or be defeated, since Mel Gibson is directing it i guess he will be the winning General in a battle of a war his army is going to lose, as confederates. That would be a good twist. I wonder why they never made more master and commander movies, in my opinion that was one of the best movies ever made, and it was a set up to make more movies, there are tons of books in that series. Mel Gibson hasn't starred in a good movie since the Patriot. He does direct masterpieces though.

Story of my fall

2009-04-02T02:31:00.000-04:00

i was riding my bike with my sister the other day, getting prepared for our 45 mile five boro bike ride in May. It was so nice to ride out in the country, and it seemed like the perfect ride. Just when the day started to get good we turned into a small town and while going up a hill my sister coughed, but i thought she was calling me, so i turned while i was turning back around, i noticed i was going to hit the curb, thinking i wouldn't I tried to turn out of it and did not brace to crash. That was a mistake, so instead of clipping out of my pedals i fell sideways and landed on my head. The catch was i was not wearing my awesome vintage flyaway helmet, itself deserving its own blog. It happened because the only time a stupid crash like that would happen is the day you didn't wear a helmet, and everyone told you that you couldn't go out without a helmet, but you said you'd be fine, and not to worry. I hit my head in a good spot to hit it they told me in the emergency room, and sent me on my way after a neck x-ray and neurology test. it all could have been avoided if i would have done one thing, which ill never forget to do again. it just isn't worth it to die because you couldn't put a helmet on. i always crash in the country, the last 2 crashes i have had in 4 years have been in new jersey and not N.Y.C. this story was written while listening to Nemesis Divina. which is blowing my mind right now, and also this story is for Nancy thanks for the baked ziti it was good.

Do i look like a fucking people person

2009-04-02T02:17:00.000-04:00

THis is an awesome shirt. I always thought it was very classy. it think it is on par with the shirt that says fuck you , you fucking fuck. When i went to Jail for the first time and last time, for an open container on the street, after a very tough day at work already being up for probably 12 hours, then spending 30 hours in jail, with the scum of the earth. about 24 hours in i made a friend, his name was??? This was not the first time i saw him. First time i saw him he was singing the beatles at Strawberry fields, and i remember noting that he looked a little off. Then i saw him at the Borders on Wall street, I used to go there on my break from work. I saw him going up the escalator and thought hey there is that weird guy from strawberry fields.So it turns out he was a chef too, and he was in jail for the same thing. imagine that? He had an open container at guess where? Strawberry fields, it was the anniversary of John Lennons Death and after work he went to pay respects and got picked up there. He was drinking steel reserve he told me and was having the night of his life. I was drinking budweiser. He had more going on than that, i found out after conversation, like he was on parol for cocaine something or other. Our banter annoyed the other inmates, because we were both unlike most of them, so they hated us in the first place but, the fact we had things in common, and we were both in there for such a bullshit charge i think made them want to kill us even more. He was in the cell across from me, so we couldn't buddy up or anything like that. Did you know that people smoke pot in jail? either did I. I also watched a guy poop on the floor, and saw two kids try to make a quarter out of a cardboard cup, and try to make phone calls with it. They could have been bored but i think they were surprised when it didn't work. So Finally me and the guy got called on the last call, of the night to see the judge and said our goodbyes. julie worked her ass off to get me out of there, and probably spent as much time at the courthouse, as i did in jail. She saw everybody on the way out and told me all the creepy things the people i was locked up with did to get there. So back to the original point of this story. His shirt said, DO i look like a fucking people person to you. He seemed like one to me, he was pretty nice.

Better solo throwdown

2009-04-01T03:27:00.000-04:00

On that Metal Show their throw down topic is who has a better guitar sol, Eddie Van Halen, in Eruption, or Randy Rhodes in Crazy Train. Im going to have to go with the audience on Crazy Train in this one. I understand Van Halens importance and everything but don't dig them in general. Maybe Randy Rhodes wouldn't have played the way he did without eruption, but i think the solo in crazy train is better, I like the more distorted soulful, sound of it. Eddie Van Halen, sounds to clean and calculated, even though eruption is an awesome song, or is it only a solo? Plus Having to hear you really got me after eruption kinda sucks. just isn't a good way to spend time. I guess it comes down to I am a way bigger Ozzy osbourne fan than Van Halen fan, and Blizzard of Oz is my favorite Ozzy album, and Crazy train is one of the best metal songs ever written, and Eruption is not.Two of my favorite metal guitar solos are Kirk Hammet, unforgiven(Metallica) solo, and Synster Gates, Bat Country (Avenged Sevenfold)solo. P.S. did you know that Eddie Van Halen threw that guitar in the grave with dimebag darrel. That was pretty awesome of him.

Guns N Roses, Estranged

2009-03-28T02:33:00.000-04:00

Estranged is a song off Guns n Roses Use your illusion II. It is definetly like top 3 Guns N Roses songs. you know the one with the dolphins in the video, if you don't know you should listen to it. I felt like when these albums came out it was like the most important thing that happened in my life time thus far. Huge production, their videos were like movies. I wanted the tapes so bad and it was too expensive for me so i'm pretty sure i listened to my brothers until, i stole my own from that shitty video store next to seven 11 that i use to steal all my tapes from when i was 11. I bet if you bought it on cd it came in one of those big cardboard cd boxes with the artwork on them.The year or whatever before these came out, they released knockin on heavens door, and my brother recorded it off the radio, and didn't listen to anything else for the whole summer straight, only that one song. Which meant i did too, and i was fine with it. The albums were a lot of music to listen to. they should have released them a year apart or something. So anyway this song is like 2 songs, the first part an untrained guns n roses ear might skip to the next song, and wonder where that awesome song is they heard, that they were told was on use your illusion II. The second part of the song, every time i listen i tell my self it wont happen this time, but always after the bridge when Axl kicks in i get goose bumps. I cant think of any other song that affects me that way, and i don't know why it does, but it must just mean it is one of the best songs ever made.

The King of Kong

2009-03-28T01:50:00.000-04:00

The King of Kong is a documentary about a guy that gets laid of of his job, and decides he is going to beat the king kong record in his garage. Explained by his family he is the type of guy who when he sets his mind to something he goes after it, and attains it. one time he almost beat the record then his daughter distracted him. he eventually beats it. There is This Guy who is a famous video game record holder who doesn't like him breaking the record, and gives him a very hard time, making him travel across the U.S. to prove that he can really break the record on a machine of his choosing. It is a must see, and there has never been a better real life villain than the evil video game record holder, in the history of documentaries. They couldn't make up how good this movie turns out and in the end there is a definite legit King of Kong. I like this guy a lot and feel i am similar to him. That is totally the kind of shit i would do if i was laid off of a job and had no prospects. Why not. Except im not to good at king kong,, i would crack out on Pac Man, or Q bert probably. I excel in Pac Man and Tetris and would consider those my strongest two stand up arcade games. I even set a high score on a Pac Man machine, at The Punk bowling alley Asbury Lanes In New Jersey. it was only like 100,000 out of a possible million but still pretty hard to do and many screens in. I was actually appalled that an establishment like that wouldn't have higher expectations of their Pac Man machine. And i thought Punks would be better bowlers too,and It was the only game they had there. Don't Punks and Pac Man go hand in hand, or at least i thought so. I think that getting that high score was pretty Punk of me. Even more Punk than drinking urine. someone told me that was Punk once.

Heart shaped chest

2009-03-27T02:47:00.000-04:00

What the hell is this. My brother sent me this image , it is very bizarre. This picture is definetly worth a thousand words. There could be so many different things that could be going on in preparation of this photo. I cant get over the perverse look on his face. you ever have someone creepily say hi to you and then give you this look. Im not sure if i have either but thats what i think he is saying. it must be a valentines day gift for his significant other that always complains he has a hairy chest. After this photo was taken he hid in the closet and surprised his lover when they came home from a long day at their local home improvement store. they freaked out, and now this is his photo for match.com

Tom Green in Bob the Butler

2009-03-26T02:49:00.000-04:00

In the movie they are interviewing him to be a butler, and they ask him his name, he says Bob.

they Say oh so your name is Robert

He says no, just Bob

they say But isnt Bob Short for Robert

He says, wouldnt Bob be short for Bobert

then they say so your name is Bobert?

and he says, no just Bob

I always ask my friend Sean, so, most names are last names, stevenson, stevens, daniels, Michaels, Roberts, Robertson, Johnson, you get the point.

Why isn't there anyone named Seanielson, or Seanson?

This Bike is A Pipe Bomb

2009-03-26T02:25:00.000-04:00

This Bike is a Pipe Bomb is this really cool band, that i dont know much about, except that they are from Pensacola florida, and I have front seat solidarity on vinyl and nothing else by them.I picked it up after seeing their name around every once in a while. I dropped it on the turntable at Academy, and after about 4 seconds i knew that i'd love it. I am happy with having it only in this format because it is one of my go to records to listen to on my day off, and I can never hear it otherwise. They remind me of the Dead Milkmen, with that very un distorted fast guitar, folky style punk songs. I saw they just played recently, and was bummed i missed it, but i never knew they were playing until after the fact. Julie Hides the record every time i listen to it and i freak out the next time i want to hear it, because i have to dig for it. It is Very DIY. The album cover is the inside of another persons album they printed on. i think an ignite album or something. and it came with like 4 stickers. David Dondero was their original drummer, David Dondero is Awesome, too bad he still doesn't drum for them. Oh and the Dead Milkmen are playing shows again after 15 years. I want to go I've been a dead milkmen fan since my dad showed me eat your Paisley when i was 7. That is still one of my favorite albums, he also bought an Elvis Hitler album that day, wonder what happened to them, they kinda kicked ass too. I played this bike is a pipe bomb for my dad last time he was here, and a rube wadel record, another one to check out, i think its jacket was printed on a cereal box. He liked both .

Classic Skateboards, Tommy Guerrero

2009-03-25T02:28:00.000-04:00

I always wanted to start collecting old school skateboards, even some decks from the nineties were awesome and will probably be collectible . Fuck all the cool skateboards i had and destroyed, but i guess that was the function of them, unless you just bought one and never used it, which i guess tons of people did do, hence why there are still a lot in good condition out there. also lots of them weren't sold, and there were warehouses of them for the picking, but those days are gone too. We even had an original Alva that we would leave out in the rain and think of as a funny board which would be worth thousands of dollars if we would have kept it in the perfect condition it was already in, but i think we probably ended up purposely cracking it, for a challenge because of how thick it was. I saw lots of Classic Decks go out that way when skinny boards big pants, and small wheels took over. That was probably the fastest skateboard i ever rode, kryptonic wheels,and i'm not sure what kind of bearings but they were faster than Powell swiss.I think of skateboards from the eighties and early nineties the same as baseball cards from the 50's/ 60's, no one thought they would ever be worth anything. This Tommy Guerrero deck is one of the sickest boards, and if I collected this would be one of the first i would pick up. He was kind of an underdog in my mind on the powell team, and I think most people bought Caballero's, Tony Hawk's, and Mike Mcgill's. I don't remember seeing a lot of these but this is a great graphic and Tommy Guerrero was an awesome skater charging hills in San Francisco, and popping ollies like it was no problem. He was like one of the first real street skaters. Someone told me he was a big collector back then, and people use his and Lance Mountains collections for books and stuff.

That metal show

2009-03-25T00:23:00.000-04:00

I love the t.v. show that metal show, i wait all week long to watch it on saturdays. The 1/2 hour show flies by, and i laugh more at the jokes by Don Jameson and Jim Florentine than anything else in recent history. Also hosting the show is Metal D.J. Eddie Trunk who is like a computer with metal facts, and they have a segment called stump the trunk where the audience tries to stump him with metal facts, and they win about 1/2 the time and Eddie wines like a baby, and tries to discount their facts. Every week there is a different metal legend/ legends who sit in on the show. Then they do a throwdown every week like who is better old Metallica or new Metallica. What is a meaner album, Slayer reign in blood, or Pantera, Vulgar display of power. Here is what i think on those throwdowns. I actually listen to more new Metallica, "Black album and beyond" then i listen to old Metallica. With that said And Justice For All is my favorite album, which is old Metallica. Hands down Vulgar display of Power is a meaner album than reign in blood, both are great albums, but Slayer tries to hard to make a mean album and Pantera is just straight up vicious. I wasnt old enough to remember Reign in Blood coming out, but when Vulgar Display of Power came out it was the craziest thing i ever heard, and i remember watching the walk video for the first time and buying the album the next day. Cowboys from Hell was a little before my time too, or i was just unaware. but back to the metal show three guys from New Jersey talking about upcoming, and old metal, who lived through it, and are still huge fans. check it out on saturday, Vh1 classic. Dude what was i thinking, i listen to more old Metallica, old Metallica hands down.

Chris Doiron Spam Light

2009-03-24T02:57:00.000-04:00

This is the most badass bike light out there. it is brighter than any other bike light on the road, which makes it very safe and cool. Chris Doiron from Baltimore Maryland manfuctures these lights and does not only make bike lights, he makes desk lamps and any other light you can imagine with recycled cans. Everyone that sees it loves it and says that they want one, and they might be available if you can find chris on facebook. i currently have it mounted as a headlight on My S.E. Lager, and it is very lightweight, and holds up to every day use in the worst road conditions.

Satyricon The Age Of Nero

2009-03-24T02:06:00.000-04:00

The Age of Nero is The new Record by Satyricon, and is probably one of the best records I have heard in the last 5 years. Satyricon has gone even farther forward with their straightforward viscously assaulting approach to Black Metal. The music is very melodic and dark, and frost's drumming sounds like a machine gun. I think of Danzig with blast beats. Satyr's songs are bigger and badder than ever, and the album is flawless until the end finishing with Den siste which is growled in Norsk. I love the way Satyricon progresses from record to record, leaving them unpredictable, and always staying amazing . I enjoy every record they have made. They were amazing live for this albums tour with cradle of filth, and i will be there when they come back in the fall to headline their own tour.

Severed Ways "The Norse Discovery of America"

2009-03-24T01:32:00.001-04:00

So after I sat on it for a week and the idea of the movie simmered in my brain, and didn't go away, I have Decided that this is one of the greatest movies i have ever seen. I was lucky enough to see Tony Stone's Severed Ways at the Angelika theatre on it's six day run. Just so you know directly after I watched the movie, i believe i said it was the worst movie i have ever seen, and referred to it as unbearable. The imagery of this movie stays with you and as time goes my memory gets fonder and fonder of this movie. Basically Severed Ways follows two vikings up the coast of America to what i would say is Nova Scotia to a Black Metal Soundtrack. All of their friends have been killed by native Americans. There is about 2 minutes of dialogue in the whole movie but visually and sonically it is amazing. The movie shows them doing mundane tasks like chopping wood for shelter, and fire, hunting/ fishing, eating and moving on to do it all again. not to give everything away, but the vikings murder, burn a church, defecate on screen, slaughter live chickens, and eat them, get followed by native americans, one is drugged and raped by a native woman, and i wont give anymore away. In the end The two vikings have an unbreakable bond, and the epilogue sequence of this movie is the best part, worth the excruciating wait. I look forward to what Tony Stone will do next. Someone was bound to make this movie, and i'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

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