Refused Party Program

I actually got The Shape of Punk To Come by Refused a while ago, but forgot to write about it. This blog is turning into more of me talking about banal happenings of my every day life, whatever. When Mike, John, and Will were here we listened to it while we played the Mario Kart Drinking game, which will be described right now. Both album and game are classics:

• Step 1: Plug in the N64/Gamecube/Wii/SNES, and get 4 controllers


• Step 2: Get a lot of crappy beer and 4 pabst(optional) pint glasses


• Step 3(Optional): Play rainbow road once to determine player rankings.


• Step 4: The first place player can fill his/her glass to their desired beer fillage level and choose the next map. Second Player needs to fill his/her glass to any beer fillage level above first place's. Third place player above second place, and fourth place above third. You get it.


• Step 5: When the countdown for the race begins, it goes beep....boop.....BEEEEP and then you can grab your glass and chug beer. Once you finish the beer you can start the race.


• Step 6: Finish the race, and go back to step 4.

Game is great. Tell your friends.

Don't Cook Bacon Without a Shirt On

Yeah man, I think cooking bacon after a night on the town is a bad idea all around. If it were only easier to make. I was trying to think of an easier way to cook it just now, like just as I was typing that first sentence, and I came up with this. OK this isn't actually easier, but it's new. You know those pie irons with the big long handles that you put bread and stuff into and then stick into the coals in a fire? Just throw some bacon into there, it would be really easy to flip, and this is a terrible idea. Nevermind.

Back to the point, the grease spattered all over my shit and it was really painful, and then the bacon got burnt because I was trying to solve the rubiks cube before I had to take the bacon off. I also found this video today, which was pretty dumb but I realized I wasn't cooking my bacon in my cast iron pan which was pretty ass stupid, that's gotta be one of the tastiest things to season the pan with no?

Start second point: I can't stop listening to Margot and the Nuclear So and So's. If you're looking for something to listen to, get "The Dust of Retreat" and "The Daytrotter Sessions" EP. Dust of retreat is really great, grab that, and someone who actually reads this tell Andy about it. Later.

Ratatat - LP3 , Pixies - Bossanova

These both came on Monday, I don't really know why I got the Ratatat record (Above). It was an impulse buy and, as I heard someone on CNN say about Barack, I think most of the pixie dust has worn off. This album is pretty different though, I feel that the bass and drums play a much larger role, or at least the rhythm section seems a lot more prominent than in their other albums. Dura I think is a really good song, but is much better when Andy raps over it, which makes me feel like it's missing something. You know what I mean? It sounds like an instrumental track, but there are some good songs, and album is alright altogether.



Bossanova has one of me favorite pixies songs on it, Dig for Fire, among other classics. Also, I just wanted to further complete my pixies collection. Two to go. Anyways, a lot has happened since I last posted, new post coming in a second.

Strokin'

Heyo! There's like a million things going on for Oktoberfest around the area. Tons of specials, happy hours, and oktoberfest beer being brewed. I'm not sure how many of these i'll make it out to, but the DCist lists a bunch to check out.

Anyways, I heard Clarence Carter's Strokin' on the way home from work today. Shit is amazing. CLARENCE CARTER!CLARENCE CARTER!CLARENCE CARTER! God, Hater Players makes so much more sense now.




Mike O, John O, and Will are all coming to visit me this weekend! It's a regular Field Club Drive reunion (That's where we lived). My hopes are that Brian will also be able to make it out and things will just be wild. Hahaha if I ever need a laugh, I can always go back to Brian's picture from highschool graduation, gets me every time.

Overheard at Cube 849-H

Yeah yeah, copying Tommy.

Middle aged white woman reading aloud: "...could result in paralysis or death."

"what is this? I thought it was just a treasure hunt..."

David Shredder

I was listening to XM radio comedy on my way home from Fairfax today, and this fool came on who was just making jokes about how he was high all the time and one time was double fisting Klondike bars and watching basketball or something, not really, but it was pretty stupid. But then, he started telling a joke about playing baseball high, how he hit the ball, and then was like "Oh damn! Now I have to run!" Good one David, but then I swear on my life, he starts ripping off George Costanza's answering machine song.



The words are different he says, "Believe it or not, I'm running for home,..." I forget what he said but it honestly started out "Believe it or not" and the melody and rhythm were exactly the same. I've been searching for an MP3 of this, but all I could find was David Byron - Shred Master and Guitar Instructor. So that was pretty rad I guess, but here is some so-so evidence to prove I didn't completely fabricate this story. I wrote down his name and the name of the track, and looked it up when I got home, and it existed. Maybe this David Shredder came first, and Seinfeld ripped him off. I doubt that. At least George came out on top.

I got my "Inside the Dust Sleeve" and it's everything I've ever wished for. Some of the other vinyl I ordered better come soon, I'm starting to get worried.

I'm Dead

Dudes, I think Joe Sanderson is going to kill me, I might have to just avoid him for the rest of my life. I put this picture up on MySpace, and I think Joe's pretty angry, he has a reputation to uphold I guess. It's Joe's My Aphrodite, but I'm quite proud of it.

I really kind of wish I was in Pittsburgh so I could play music with John, I'm just so jealous when I watch these videos cause I want to be doing that. He posted videos from the show with Farewell Flight at Garfield Artworks on Wednesday of Make up Your Mind and On The Holidays and also If I Had A Nickel from his show at Your Inner Vagabond which looks like it was so much fun. Anyways, watch that, I'm so jealous.