June 2008
10 posts
Self-Evaluation
Things I Don’t Like: the dentist (the drill makes my skin crawl) tomatoes & watermelon stuff under my fingernails people that take two stairs at a time when they walk up them (it looks ridiculous) crappy covers of Beatles songs used for commercials frat-tastic or sorori-tastic kids (popped collars and uggs yo!) Things I Do Like: quality beer staying in and playing scrabble with close...
Wheldon donates Iowa IndyCar winnings to flood... →
I don’t follow car racing at all, but this is a pretty classy move for someone who has probably only been to Iowa twice in his life. I hope athletes do charitable things like this more often in an age where they make more than some countries in a year.
High Gas Prices Put Brakes On Indie Band Tours →
WatchDavid Byrne: Playing The Building (instead of burning down the house, he turns into art)
via pitchfork.tv
“The selling point of Mr. Obama’s vision of change is not doctrinaire liberalism...”
– Frank Rich - One Historic Night, Two Americas
Top 5 Lyricists
In no particular order, here are my five favorite songwriters of all-time. I tried to take their whole bodies of work into the equation and heres what came out:
-Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service) -Stephen Malkmus (Pavement, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks) -Justin Pierre (Motion City Soundtrack) -Frank Black (Pixies, Black Francis, Frank Black) -James Mercer (The Shins)
I...
My Weekend...From HELL!!!1!!1
So, I won tickets for the Cubs-Rockies game in Chicago on Friday. My seats were on top of a building across the street and it was fully catered with free food and alcohol the entire game. Quite obviously I was excited for this and even planned to see a few friends on Saturday before returning to Des Moines on Sunday. This sounded like a peach of a weekend but sadly, it was not to be, here is...