I'm home sick!

But anyway, I noticed that this month I've added a lot of music to my library. It's weird. This is the list:

The Incredible String Band
The Decemberists
Iron and Wine
NaS
Fatboy Slim
iiO
India.Arie
Jack Johnson
Daft Punk
The New Pornographers

I had heard of India.Are, Daft Punk, NaS, and Fatboy Slim before of course, but the others were basically completely new to me. Weird.

http://thebudgetgraph.com/index.php

way interesting.

So I read all this stuff about CIT letters, and I'm like "I should go check if mine is here...". So I do. And theres a letter from Buck's Rock there!! YAY!






It's a Payment Invoice.

Story of my life lol.

ok, so apparently the tulips in my front yard are sprouting. in january. wtf.

El Niño is no fun. where has all my snow gone?

Oh yea, to Denver.

once again, I love the Dilbert Blog...



I remember my excitement the first time I saw a restroom faucet with a motion detector. It was like magic. I just waved my hand in front of the sensor and water spat forth. It was like the food replicator on the Star Ship Enterprise, but Version 1.0 that only produces cooty water.

Eventually the soap dispenser caught up. That was less exciting for two reasons: 1) It was just copying the water faucet, and 2) It is exactly how I imagine it would feel if a bird pooped on my hand.

Lately, some paper towel dispensers have joined the action. Activate the sensor and a paper towel presents itself. Scientists have obviously spent a lot of time calculating the proper dimensions for this towel. It’s precisely the size that is too small to be satisfying and yet large enough that you won’t rip the dispenser off the wall, smash it in the sink and grab a big wad of towels from its stinkin’ guts. But you’re tempted.

I love all of these motion sensor devices despite the fact that I live my life in a partial Sixth Sense way, i.e. barely registering as alive. For example, I often have conversations with people who don’t know I’m even talking to them. I am usually not aware of this until they get distracted by a bright light or noise and wander away. Motion sensors give me the same problem. I generally have to solicit two or three sinks before I find a faucet that will acknowledge me. It takes two or three more sinks to find a soap dispenser that is willing to poop on my hand. If the paper towel dispenser has a motion sensor, I know I’m in for a long day.

I’m anxiously awaiting the next innovation in restroom automation. I assume developers are already working on the last mile: A robotic arm to unzip my pants, grab my unit, then do the holding, shaking, and repackaging. I’m too busy to do that stuff for myself. Plus I was already spoiled by the time they automated the paper towel dispenser.

The Autopee device (it needs a name) would be problematic because every guy is built different. Somehow it would need to know the dimensions of what’s behind your zipper so it didn’t accidentally neuter you. I suppose the best way to do that is to have some sort of voice recognition software that asks you what kind of car you drive. If it’s a Porsche, for example, you might be compensating. If it’s a Honda minivan, you’re probably sporting an anaconda.

You’d also have to tell the Autopee how much shaking you want, ranging anywhere from two quick flicks to a happy ending.

Good luck getting that image out of your head.

National Day of Mourning for President Gerald R. Ford
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America


As a further mark of respect to the memory of Gerald R. Ford, the thirty-eighth President of the United States, NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, in honor and tribute to the memory of Gerald R. Ford, and as an expression of public sorrow, do appoint Tuesday, January 2, 2007, as a National Day of Mourning throughout the United States. I call on the American people to assemble on that day in their respective places of worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President Ford. I invite the people of the world who share our grief to join us in this solemn observance.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty eighth day of December in the year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-first.

GEORGE W. BUSH


too bad we don't get off school...

Starryeyes328: u never planned things
Superclown1860: yes i did
Starryeyes328: yeah
Starryeyes328: nd then we put a stop to it
Superclown1860: ?
Starryeyes328: ur birthday
Starryeyes328: 8th grade
Superclown1860: umm
Superclown1860: 8th grade
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Starryeyes328: we the party of julia melissa nd norrell
Starryeyes328: declared never again to let isaac plan any get to gether
Starryeyes328: we were involved in
Superclown1860: can i ask something
Superclown1860: who cares?
Starryeyes328: no one
Superclown1860: ok good
Superclown1860: glad we sorted that one out
Superclown1860: anyway
Superclown1860: sup

hey so cinnamon apple tea with splenda and milk at 12:37 at night is amazing.

ROSIE GOT TRUMP3D!

http://break.com/index/donald_trumps_rosie.html

Hey I usually never do stuff like this but its 8:15 in the morning and I missed my bus and im waiting to get driven to school so here we go…

There are 239 movies on this list. So if you've seen over 85 movies, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen.


( ) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
( ) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
(x) Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane
Total: 8

(x) The Princess Bride
( ) Anchorman
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) Labyrinth
( ) Saw
(x) Saw II
( ) White Noise
( ) White Oleander
( ) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
(x) The Princess Diaries
( ) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Total so far: 14

( ) Scream
( ) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
( ) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
(x) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
( ) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
Total so far: 16

(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
( ) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
( ) The Village
( ) Lilo & Stitch
Total so far: 20

(x) Finding Nemo
( ) Finding Neverland
( ) Signs
(x) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
( ) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
( ) 13 Going on 30
( ) I, Robot
( ) Robots
Total so far: 22

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
( ) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
( ) KingPin
( ) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) Joe Dirt
(x) KING KONG
Total so far: 27

(x) A Cinderella Story
(x) The Terminal
(x) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
(x) Dumber & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
( ) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber
Total so far: 33

(x) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
( ) Practical Magic
(x)Chicago
( )Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
( ) Secret Window
( ) I Am Sam
( ) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards
Total so far: 35

( ) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
(x) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
( ) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
(x) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
( ) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 39

(x) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Sleven
(x) Ocean's Eleven
( ) Ocean's Twelve
(x) Bourne Identity
( ) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Lone Star
( ) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
( ) The Fog
(x) Ice Age
(x) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George
Total so far: 44

( ) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
( ) ET
( ) Children of the Corn
( ) My Bosses Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
( ) War of the Worlds
(x) Rush Hour
(x) Rush Hour 2
Total so far: 47

( ) Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
( ) She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
( )Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
( ) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
( )Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
( ) The Terminator 3
Total so far: 52

(x) X-Men
(x) X2
(x) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
(x) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
(x) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
(x) The Skulls
( ) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2
Total so far: 64

( ) Swimfan
( ) Miracle on 34th street
( ) Old School
(x) The Notebook
(x) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
(x) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old-virgin
Total so far: 68

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
( ) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
( ) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Total so far: 72

( ) Baseketball
( ) Hostel
(x) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses
( ) Devils Rejects
(x) Elf
( ) Highlander
( ) Mothman Prophecies
( ) American History X
( ) Three
Total so Far: 74

( ) The Jacket
( ) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
( ) Shaun Of the Dead
( ) Willard
Total so far: 77

( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
(x) Hulk
( ) Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook
(x) Chronicle Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
( ) 28 days later
( ) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
( )Waterworld
Total so far: 80

( ) Kill Bill vol 1
( ) Kill Bill vol 2
(x) Mortal Kombat
( ) Wolf Creek
( ) Kingdom of Heaven
( ) the Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
( ) Army of Darkness
Total so far: 81

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Total so far: 87

(x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
(x) The Matrix Revolutions
(x) Animatrix
( ) Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
(x) Team America: World Police
( ) Red Dragon
( ) Silence of the Lambs
( ) Hannibal
Grand Total: 92

Yea im only 7 OVER having no life…

OMG FLASHBACK:

Huckapoo

so i like gnarls barkley. and i like the red hot chili peppers. so i was naturally excited when i found out that they were gonna be touring together during the beginning of next year. then i found out that its gonna be in the south-eastern united states. WTF.

So today I got my $75 order of ceramics tools from Sheffield Pottery.

OMG.

its a ceramo-gasm.

My list is:

2 wooden "sculpture" tools
1needle tool
3 synthetic sponges
1 high-quality elephant ear sponge
6 ribs
-1 small rubber
-3 semi-plastic (www.mudtools.com)
-1 wooden
-1 metal (scraper)
1 sugarloaf chamois
1 regular ribbon tool
set of 6 small ribbon tools for porcelain
8" calipers
1cutting wire
1 fettling knife
1 "pear pitter" loop tool

Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium (Warner Bros.)

Early in the second hour of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' mammoth new double album, the guy who once yelped, "I want to party on your pussy!" whisper-sings a gentler, though not unrelated, proposition: "All I want is for you to be happy/And take this woman and make you my family." The delicate "Hard to Concentrate" is the most vulnerable Peppers tune ever -- a full-on marriage proposal from Anthony Kiedis, with Flea's muted bass and John Frusciante's layered guitars slow-dancing over Afrobeat hand drums.

The twenty-eight-song, box-set-length Stadium Arcadium isn't a middle-aged concept album about trading in your tube sock for a tux. But the band's ninth studio album is the most ambitious work of its twenty-three-year career -- an attempt to consolidate everything that is Chili Peppers, from their earlier, funnier funk-metal stuff to soul-baring "Under the Bridge"-style balladry to Californicating vocal-harmony pop. And unlike the Foo Fighters' similarly expansive but bloated double disc, In Your Honor, and almost every other double album of the post-vinyl era, the band pulls it off. It's a late-career triumph that could pass for another, lesser group's greatest-hits collection.

Much of the credit for the album's depth -- and the swelling, ever-morphing, headphone-candy arrangements that boost every track -- goes to the band's not-so-secret weapon, John Frusciante. It's been clear since his return to the band on 1999's Californication that Frusciante came away from his near-fatal heroin addiction with new musical superpowers, and they're in full bloom on Stadium Arcadium. Take "Charlie," which sounds like a monochromatic "Give It Away" retread until it bursts into the rainbows of Frusciante's falsetto harmonies and dueling, simultaneous guitar solos. Also of note are the laser-gun funk riffing and nuclear-fuzz solo on the pulsing, supercatchy "Tell Me Baby" and the Art Garfunkel-like backup vocals on the eerie, droning ballad "If."

But like the Rolling Stones -- another rhythm-conscious act who started by ripping off black music only to dig much deeper -- the Red Hot Chili Peppers are a real band, where everybody counts and no one is replaceable (save for, perhaps, Bill Wyman). Flea has spent years whittling down his frantic popping and slapping to a Zen-like melodic minimalism, while melding ever more deeply with Chad Smith, who remains the swingingest rock drummer this side of Mitch Mitchell. But after 2002's By the Way, the band's least funky album, the bassist finally cuts loose again here, reasserting himself as the best non-hip-hop reason to buy a subwoofer. Flea's quacking, double-time lines on "21st Century" are a reminder that the Chili Peppers were recording Gang of Four-influenced dance rock back when Franz Ferdinand was just a dead Austrian.

And then there's Kiedis, whose vocals keep improving at an age when many rockers start slipping their high notes to backup singers. He shows versatility throughout, from his dead-on impression of Jimi Hendrix (his biggest vocal influence) on "Hump de Bump" to a new country-rock growl on the chorus of the riff-o-rama track "Readymade." Kiedis is also, more or less, the inventor of rap rock, and he embraces his roots, dropping the most rhymes on any album since BloodSugarSexMagik. He hasn't updated his flow in a couple of decades, and most of his lyrics are still unrepentant nonsense ("Ticky ticky tackita tic tac toe/I know everybody's Eskimo"). But the very familiarity of the style makes it an appealing counterpoint to the band's latter-day melodic splendor, instead of a Durst-ian embarrassment.

Stadium Arcadium has too many midtempo tracks and, in the manner of U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind, is more of a summation of the Peppers' career than a step forward. But the band is still capable of surprises, as on one of the discs' many potential singles: the bouncy, four-chord "Make You Feel Better," a Sixties-influenced pop tune with Fifth Dimension harmonies and a Ringo Starr beat. A few songs later, Kiedis seems to confess some fears about the project at hand: "The risk, is it worth it?/The disc, is it perfect?" Perfect? Nah. But close enough. (BRIAN HIATT)

i think dan has a problem...

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-12819_7-6656382-1.html?tag=next

Superclown1860: ok i sound emo
Superclown1860: lets get off this subject
bina925: aww dont go on a wrist slitting rampage

I foung this rapper who i've never heard of online. i got some of his songs off limewire, and hes very good. here's an article about him, cuz im bored.
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Let's make one thing clear: drunken college kids can (and will) dance to anything with a beat. Whether it's "Hearts of Oak" or "Candy Shop", put it on and they will bust moves. And, in most cases, it will look funny.

That made for some interesting scenes at Brother Ali's Grinnell College show, where most students are used to performances of the Yo La Tengo and The Elected varieties. But whatever their musical tastes, kids came in droves to see the underground hip-hopper spit rhymes.

Hailing from Minneapolis, the city that produced some of today's best MCs, Ali's recent full-length Shadows of the Sun cemented his position among fellow members of the Rhymesayers collective -- Atmosphere, ANT, and MF DOOM to name a few. Incidentally, many of the Rhymesayers artists have attributed part of their underground success to the support they got from indie and punk rock fans.

Ali deserves all of the praise he has received; the MC put on a solid hip-hop show. His performance was lively, with a versatile DJ providing the beats and healthy crowd participation. Ali was visibly angry but it was more inspiring than scary

Had the audience read Ali's biography they might have been expecting something more unique than what they got. In addition to a number of old-school rappers, he lists among his heaviest influences Earth, Wind, and Fire. At his best, Ali's sound falls somewhere between Mos Def and Jurassic 5, but I'd be hard-pressed to find a "Head to the Sky" or "Saturday Nite" in his discography -- though that might not be a bad thing, given his talent as an MC.

The audience also might have been surprised to find Ali's rhymes generally avoid the theme of race, a subject upon which Ali, who is black and has albinism, might offer particular insight. He seems content to let his audience think what they want about his race; he has plenty of other interesting topics to cover.

Treologic, who kicked off the concert with jazz-infused beats and socially conscious lyrics, were more musically unique than Ali. The crowd of students was understandably impressed: playing a flute, or a saxophone, or a keyboard, or even a drum kit, with enough rhythm for MC Billa Camp to rhyme over it requires a level of coordination that hardly seems possible -- at least when you're watching it.

The two acts offered an interesting contrast: Brother Ali is a genuinely excellent lyricist, accompanied only by turntables. The remarkable part of Treologic's performance, however, was more the jazz band accompanying him.

By the end, most of the students at the show who weren't hip-hop fans before certainly had a greater appreciation for the elements. If this catches on, don't be surprised to find yourself amid a cloud of clove smoke at the next Nas show. Now if they could only dance…