Monday, October 29, 2007
2007 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS
BOSTON RED SOX
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Saturday Random 10 (but really 20) XXII: LET'S GO RED SOX!
As it stands right now, Boston is leading the World Series 2-0, and Game 3 is getting underway. I've said it before and I'll say it again; since I started following the Red Sox, I never believed they'd ever win a World Series in my lifetime, and they did it in 2004. Everything else they ever do is just icing on the cake. If they blow this Series (and that's not entirely out of the question), sure I'll be a little disappointed, but they still have that awesome 2004 series to look back on, and it makes me smile.
Here's your Random for this week:
1. Killing Joke - Seeing Red
2. Buckethead - Stick Pit
3. Taproot - 1 Nite Stand
4. Madonna - Frozen
5. 2 Pac - All Eyez On Me
6. Faktion - Take It All Away
7. Aesop Rock - Bring Back Pluto
8. Redman - Watchoogonnado
9. Slipknot - Duality
10. The Vines - She's Got Something To Say To Me
11. South Park - Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo
12. Amon Tobin - Kokubo Sosho Stealth
13. Wintersun - Winter Madness
14. C.W. McCall - Convoy
15. 311 - Running
16. Iron Maiden - Man On the Edge
17. The Smashing Pumpkins - Here's To the Atom Bomb
18. Bayside - Masterpiece
19. Sum 41 - We're All To Blame
20. 36 Crazyfists - Chalk White
LOL! This is the funniest collection of songs that could possibly have come up by random. C. W. Mc Motherfucking Call, ferchrissakes! Wow. I will say that Frozen is the one and only Madonna song that I really, seriously dig. All embarassments aside, there's some choice picks in here. Killing Joke, whose bassist passed on earlier this week (R.I.P. Paul Raven) kicking ass with the usual industrial/punk rave-up Seeing Red, the most talented guitarist alive noodling around electronic backbeats, one of the whiniest nu-metal bands around (which I'm half-ashamed to say I really enjoy from time to time), a Roadrunner Records one hit wonder, Aesop Goddamn Rock rapping about wanting scientists to recognize Pluto as a planet again, Redman being Redman (like him or not, he hasn't changed at ALL- he sounds the same on this year's Red Gone Wild as he did on Whut? thee Album in 1992). Follow that up with Slipknot's most-played song ever, a track off of The Vines' seriously underrated second album. Throw in Iron Maiden, Smashing Pumpkins and 36 Crazyfists and you've got a halfway decent Random this week. Not too shabby.
WE'VE GOT A GREAT BIG CONVOY! ROCKIN' THROUGH THE NIGHT! WE'VE GOT A GREAT BIG CONVOY, AIN'T SHE A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT?!
CON-VOY!!!!
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As it stands right now, Boston is leading the World Series 2-0, and Game 3 is getting underway. I've said it before and I'll say it again; since I started following the Red Sox, I never believed they'd ever win a World Series in my lifetime, and they did it in 2004. Everything else they ever do is just icing on the cake. If they blow this Series (and that's not entirely out of the question), sure I'll be a little disappointed, but they still have that awesome 2004 series to look back on, and it makes me smile.
Here's your Random for this week:
1. Killing Joke - Seeing Red
2. Buckethead - Stick Pit
3. Taproot - 1 Nite Stand
4. Madonna - Frozen
5. 2 Pac - All Eyez On Me
6. Faktion - Take It All Away
7. Aesop Rock - Bring Back Pluto
8. Redman - Watchoogonnado
9. Slipknot - Duality
10. The Vines - She's Got Something To Say To Me
11. South Park - Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo
12. Amon Tobin - Kokubo Sosho Stealth
13. Wintersun - Winter Madness
14. C.W. McCall - Convoy
15. 311 - Running
16. Iron Maiden - Man On the Edge
17. The Smashing Pumpkins - Here's To the Atom Bomb
18. Bayside - Masterpiece
19. Sum 41 - We're All To Blame
20. 36 Crazyfists - Chalk White
LOL! This is the funniest collection of songs that could possibly have come up by random. C. W. Mc Motherfucking Call, ferchrissakes! Wow. I will say that Frozen is the one and only Madonna song that I really, seriously dig. All embarassments aside, there's some choice picks in here. Killing Joke, whose bassist passed on earlier this week (R.I.P. Paul Raven) kicking ass with the usual industrial/punk rave-up Seeing Red, the most talented guitarist alive noodling around electronic backbeats, one of the whiniest nu-metal bands around (which I'm half-ashamed to say I really enjoy from time to time), a Roadrunner Records one hit wonder, Aesop Goddamn Rock rapping about wanting scientists to recognize Pluto as a planet again, Redman being Redman (like him or not, he hasn't changed at ALL- he sounds the same on this year's Red Gone Wild as he did on Whut? thee Album in 1992). Follow that up with Slipknot's most-played song ever, a track off of The Vines' seriously underrated second album. Throw in Iron Maiden, Smashing Pumpkins and 36 Crazyfists and you've got a halfway decent Random this week. Not too shabby.
WE'VE GOT A GREAT BIG CONVOY! ROCKIN' THROUGH THE NIGHT! WE'VE GOT A GREAT BIG CONVOY, AIN'T SHE A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT?!
CON-VOY!!!!
Monday, October 22, 2007
Don't Blame Us If We Ever Doubt Ya, You Know We Couldn't Live Without Ya...
RED SOX!
You are the only, only o
oooooooonlyyyyyyy....
Holy CRAP, that was a close-ass game. And, being a life-long Sox fan, I was fully ready to throw it in at Game 4. Now it's on to the WORLD GODDAMN SERIES, and I couldn't be happier. Oh, the Rockies have been on one hell of a hot streak, but we've got something they don't:
Our closer is certifiably insane.
Check. Mate.
Now fire up some Dropkick Murphys, ya scalliwags!
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RED SOX!
You are the only, only o
oooooooonlyyyyyyy....Holy CRAP, that was a close-ass game. And, being a life-long Sox fan, I was fully ready to throw it in at Game 4. Now it's on to the WORLD GODDAMN SERIES, and I couldn't be happier. Oh, the Rockies have been on one hell of a hot streak, but we've got something they don't:
Our closer is certifiably insane.
Check. Mate.
Now fire up some Dropkick Murphys, ya scalliwags!
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Saturday Random 10 (but really 20) XXI: THIS. IS POST 300!!!!
300 is a LOT of posts, but not if you figure I've been at this for over 4 years. Still, a benchmark is a benchmark, regardless of how prestigious or pointless it may be.
But this'll be a real quick post. I have errands to run and shit to do.
1. Queens of the Stone Age - Someone's In the Wolf
2. R.E.M. - Stand
3. Hot Water Music - The End
4. Dio - Gypsy
5. Datsuns - Harmonic Generator
6. Brother Ali - Uncle Sam Goddamn
7. Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn
8. The Pogues - Boys From the County Hell
9. Devo - Big Mess
10. The Smashing Pumpkins - With Every Light
11. Ozzy Osbourne - Suicide Solution (Live & Loud)
12. The Rolling Stones - Can You Hear Me Knockin'?
13. The Chemical Brothers - The Jazz/Sidewinder (312 vs. 216 Stomp Mix)/Doin' It After Dark (D-Ski's Dance)/Don't Stop the Rock/To A Nation Rockin'
14. Jerry Seinfeld - Air Travel
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hollywood (Africa)
16. Massive Attack - Superpredators
17. Blink-182 - Degenerate
18. The Fiery Furnaces - Rub Alcohol Blues
19. Senses Fail - Martini Kiss
20. Isham Jones - I'll See You In My Dreams
A nice eclectic Random, right here. You got your Queens, one of the better (and yet overlooked) R.E.M. singles, the awesome power of DIO(!!!) and the neo-Garage also-rans Datsuns to head it off. Goes from there into the best blind albino Muslim rapper to put out an album this year, then one of the only good songs Bloodhound Gang ever released, followed quickly by Pogues, Devo, Pumpkins and some sweet live OZZY. You look at the rest of this Random, and you figure "Who in thier right goddamn mind would have all this music in one collection??"
Evil Brian.
And I'm not in my right goddamn mind.
P.S. You show me someone who's playlist goes from trip-hop to pop-punk to playful indie to emocore to a hit song from the NINETEEN MUTHAFUCKIN TWENTIES and I will call you a liar, sir.
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300 is a LOT of posts, but not if you figure I've been at this for over 4 years. Still, a benchmark is a benchmark, regardless of how prestigious or pointless it may be.
But this'll be a real quick post. I have errands to run and shit to do.
1. Queens of the Stone Age - Someone's In the Wolf
2. R.E.M. - Stand
3. Hot Water Music - The End
4. Dio - Gypsy
5. Datsuns - Harmonic Generator
6. Brother Ali - Uncle Sam Goddamn
7. Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn
8. The Pogues - Boys From the County Hell
9. Devo - Big Mess
10. The Smashing Pumpkins - With Every Light
11. Ozzy Osbourne - Suicide Solution (Live & Loud)
12. The Rolling Stones - Can You Hear Me Knockin'?
13. The Chemical Brothers - The Jazz/Sidewinder (312 vs. 216 Stomp Mix)/Doin' It After Dark (D-Ski's Dance)/Don't Stop the Rock/To A Nation Rockin'
14. Jerry Seinfeld - Air Travel
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hollywood (Africa)
16. Massive Attack - Superpredators
17. Blink-182 - Degenerate
18. The Fiery Furnaces - Rub Alcohol Blues
19. Senses Fail - Martini Kiss
20. Isham Jones - I'll See You In My Dreams
A nice eclectic Random, right here. You got your Queens, one of the better (and yet overlooked) R.E.M. singles, the awesome power of DIO(!!!) and the neo-Garage also-rans Datsuns to head it off. Goes from there into the best blind albino Muslim rapper to put out an album this year, then one of the only good songs Bloodhound Gang ever released, followed quickly by Pogues, Devo, Pumpkins and some sweet live OZZY. You look at the rest of this Random, and you figure "Who in thier right goddamn mind would have all this music in one collection??"
Evil Brian.
And I'm not in my right goddamn mind.
P.S. You show me someone who's playlist goes from trip-hop to pop-punk to playful indie to emocore to a hit song from the NINETEEN MUTHAFUCKIN TWENTIES and I will call you a liar, sir.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Goddamn You, Warner Home Video!
I'm gonna have to break down and get an HD setup for my living room now, and I'm pissed about it. I don't have that kind of money, but Warner Home Motherfucking Video is forcing my hand.
How, you may ask?
One of my absolute favorite movies of all time is coming out on HD-DVD October 23rd. As it stands, the substandard DVD transfer that has been in circulation for 10-or-so years is mindblowing. In high definition? It's gonna melt my face off.
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I'm gonna have to break down and get an HD setup for my living room now, and I'm pissed about it. I don't have that kind of money, but Warner Home Motherfucking Video is forcing my hand.
How, you may ask?
One of my absolute favorite movies of all time is coming out on HD-DVD October 23rd. As it stands, the substandard DVD transfer that has been in circulation for 10-or-so years is mindblowing. In high definition? It's gonna melt my face off.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Saturday Random 10 (but really 20) XX: Double X's, bitch!
Here we are....20 goddamn randoms. Seems like just yesterday I decided to use this stupid meme as an excuse for posting in the ol' blog, as it was getting dusty and totally unused. Even I'm surprised I've kept it up this long.
I would be remiss if I didn't bring up the biggest timesuck since Final Fantasy. I started playing this particular game in December 2004, then totally forgot about it until about 2 months ago. Surprisingly, my account was still intact, and I've been grinding through ever since. Ladies and Gentleman, the coolest free stick-figure-and-text-based RPG ever, Kingdom Of Loathing.
Try it, and become addicted forever!
Now, to celebrate my 20th Random, I give you the Random 10 (but really 20) * TWO!
1. Voivod - War and Pain
2. Radiohead - Just
3. Days of the New - Now
4. Cake - Dime
5. Gang Starr - Take It Personal
6. Elephant Man - Jook Gal
7. Dead Meadow - Ain't Got Nothing
8. Spineshank - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
9. i, cactus - silver cactus
10. Moby - Spiders
11. Cody Chesnutt - Six Seconds
12. Andre 3000 - She Lives In My Lap
13. Al Green - I Can't Get Next To You
14. Brother Ali - The Puzzle
15. Emery - The Secret
16. Semisonic - One True Love
17. Fantomas - 4-20-05
18. Deftones - Pink Maggit
19. Dog Fashion Disco - Rapist Eyes
20. Beck - Jack-Ass
21. yuppster - red lens
22. Pink Floyd - Don't Leave Me Now
23. Hum - Stars
24. Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
25. Compay Segundo - Como la Avellaneda
26. In This Moment - Beautiful Tragedy
27. Aphex Twin - vordhosbn
28. Clutch - Milk of Human Kindness
29. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Shipbuilding
30. Favorite Atomic Hero - There
31. J. Geils Band - Centerfold
32. The Polyphonic Spree - Soldier Girl
33. The Killers - When You Were Young
34. Saosin - Voices
35. D12 - My Band
36. Radiohead - Kinetic
37. Seatbelts - Ave Maria
38. Ween - Marble Tulip Juicy Tree
39. The Arcade Fire - Black Wave / Bad Vibrations
40. Dream Theater - War Inside My Head
You know what? I think this is the perfect representation of my entire music collection. The ONLY thing it's missing is a TMBG track, perhaps a Beatles tune (though I have one, if you count covers)....eh, maybe another metal track or two. But other than that, these 40 songs pretty much sum up everything I have.
And you know what? It couldn't have happened on a better day. I AM hoping to get a non-Random piece of writing done for the blog, but no promises. Enjoy your weekend, everybody!
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Here we are....20 goddamn randoms. Seems like just yesterday I decided to use this stupid meme as an excuse for posting in the ol' blog, as it was getting dusty and totally unused. Even I'm surprised I've kept it up this long.
I would be remiss if I didn't bring up the biggest timesuck since Final Fantasy. I started playing this particular game in December 2004, then totally forgot about it until about 2 months ago. Surprisingly, my account was still intact, and I've been grinding through ever since. Ladies and Gentleman, the coolest free stick-figure-and-text-based RPG ever, Kingdom Of Loathing.
Try it, and become addicted forever!
Now, to celebrate my 20th Random, I give you the Random 10 (but really 20) * TWO!
1. Voivod - War and Pain
2. Radiohead - Just
3. Days of the New - Now
4. Cake - Dime
5. Gang Starr - Take It Personal
6. Elephant Man - Jook Gal
7. Dead Meadow - Ain't Got Nothing
8. Spineshank - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
9. i, cactus - silver cactus
10. Moby - Spiders
11. Cody Chesnutt - Six Seconds
12. Andre 3000 - She Lives In My Lap
13. Al Green - I Can't Get Next To You
14. Brother Ali - The Puzzle
15. Emery - The Secret
16. Semisonic - One True Love
17. Fantomas - 4-20-05
18. Deftones - Pink Maggit
19. Dog Fashion Disco - Rapist Eyes
20. Beck - Jack-Ass
21. yuppster - red lens
22. Pink Floyd - Don't Leave Me Now
23. Hum - Stars
24. Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
25. Compay Segundo - Como la Avellaneda
26. In This Moment - Beautiful Tragedy
27. Aphex Twin - vordhosbn
28. Clutch - Milk of Human Kindness
29. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Shipbuilding
30. Favorite Atomic Hero - There
31. J. Geils Band - Centerfold
32. The Polyphonic Spree - Soldier Girl
33. The Killers - When You Were Young
34. Saosin - Voices
35. D12 - My Band
36. Radiohead - Kinetic
37. Seatbelts - Ave Maria
38. Ween - Marble Tulip Juicy Tree
39. The Arcade Fire - Black Wave / Bad Vibrations
40. Dream Theater - War Inside My Head
You know what? I think this is the perfect representation of my entire music collection. The ONLY thing it's missing is a TMBG track, perhaps a Beatles tune (though I have one, if you count covers)....eh, maybe another metal track or two. But other than that, these 40 songs pretty much sum up everything I have.
And you know what? It couldn't have happened on a better day. I AM hoping to get a non-Random piece of writing done for the blog, but no promises. Enjoy your weekend, everybody!
Monday, October 08, 2007
Saturday Random 10 (but really 20) XIX: A too-much-fun weekend, and schoolwork follows.
Was out all night Saturday AND Sunday drinkin' it up, and never really sat down to post this week's Random. And, on top of all that, I have a 10-minute presentation to write, practice and plan before 5PM tomorrow, which I am just now starting. My bad.
Anyways, here's a quick-ass Random:
1. Motion City Soundtrack - Last Night
2. Sonic Youth - Theresa's Sound World
3. The Mars Volta - Miranda, that ghost just isn't holy anymore
4. The Good, the Bad & the Queen - History Song
5. Gnarls Barkley - Feng Shui (Chopped & Screwed Mix)
6. Faith No More - Pristina
7. Fantomas - The Devil Rides Out (Remix)
8. Shinedown - Burning Bright
9. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Iron Lion Zion
10. Eighteen Visions - Love In Autumn
11. Modest Mouse - Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice On Ice, Alright
12. Nada Surf - What IS Your Secret?
13. The Beatles - Back In The U.S.S.R.
14. Verbena - Dirty Goodbyes
15. Miles Davis - Spanish Key
16. Dead Kennedys - Take This Job and Shove It
17. dredg - It Only Took a Day
18. Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag
19. The Beatles - Rocky Raccoon
20. Unearth - Zombie Autopilot
This Random is so full of win, it's almost frightening. Oh sure, it starts out on a downnote with some emo (and one of the laziest songs on MCS' new album to boot), but right afterward? *BAM!* Sonic Youth! *BAM!* Mars Volta! The odd (but not altogether unlistenable) GoodBadQueen, a double shot of Mike Patton sweet syrupy goodness (and actually, #21 would've been a Patton project as well). Then you got the not-exactly-bad-but-mostly-generic Shinedown track, and then one of the most awesome songs Bob Marley ever recorded (probably my second favorite ever, after Buffalo Soldier). Hit up the indie kids with OLD Modest Mouse/NEW Nada Surf/Verbena and dredg; PLUS a double shot of The Beatles (and really, if you're gonna take two random tracks off any Beatles album and still have it sound random, you can't do much better than the White Album). Throw in some classic Miles Davis, Tom Lehrer, my favorite punk band ever and then end it with the most badass-titled song in my entire music collection, and you've got one hell of a Random there, buddy.
Alright, now off to research and schoolwork!
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Was out all night Saturday AND Sunday drinkin' it up, and never really sat down to post this week's Random. And, on top of all that, I have a 10-minute presentation to write, practice and plan before 5PM tomorrow, which I am just now starting. My bad.
Anyways, here's a quick-ass Random:
1. Motion City Soundtrack - Last Night
2. Sonic Youth - Theresa's Sound World
3. The Mars Volta - Miranda, that ghost just isn't holy anymore
4. The Good, the Bad & the Queen - History Song
5. Gnarls Barkley - Feng Shui (Chopped & Screwed Mix)
6. Faith No More - Pristina
7. Fantomas - The Devil Rides Out (Remix)
8. Shinedown - Burning Bright
9. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Iron Lion Zion
10. Eighteen Visions - Love In Autumn
11. Modest Mouse - Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice On Ice, Alright
12. Nada Surf - What IS Your Secret?
13. The Beatles - Back In The U.S.S.R.
14. Verbena - Dirty Goodbyes
15. Miles Davis - Spanish Key
16. Dead Kennedys - Take This Job and Shove It
17. dredg - It Only Took a Day
18. Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag
19. The Beatles - Rocky Raccoon
20. Unearth - Zombie Autopilot
This Random is so full of win, it's almost frightening. Oh sure, it starts out on a downnote with some emo (and one of the laziest songs on MCS' new album to boot), but right afterward? *BAM!* Sonic Youth! *BAM!* Mars Volta! The odd (but not altogether unlistenable) GoodBadQueen, a double shot of Mike Patton sweet syrupy goodness (and actually, #21 would've been a Patton project as well). Then you got the not-exactly-bad-but-mostly-generic Shinedown track, and then one of the most awesome songs Bob Marley ever recorded (probably my second favorite ever, after Buffalo Soldier). Hit up the indie kids with OLD Modest Mouse/NEW Nada Surf/Verbena and dredg; PLUS a double shot of The Beatles (and really, if you're gonna take two random tracks off any Beatles album and still have it sound random, you can't do much better than the White Album). Throw in some classic Miles Davis, Tom Lehrer, my favorite punk band ever and then end it with the most badass-titled song in my entire music collection, and you've got one hell of a Random there, buddy.
Alright, now off to research and schoolwork!
