band o' the month

i try to find a new band to listen to each month. the other day, a commercial came on the TV for the new pontiac torrent. the music perked my ears up, and after some awe-inspiring Google-fu, i found out that the bands name is Ringside. Their latest self-titled album has some great jamz. after grabbing the album, i realized that their song "tired of being sorry" has been playing on satellite radio for quite some time, but the song that caught my ear on the commercial is "struggle". i would classify their music as chill rock. the gorillaz meets weezer meets U2 if that's even imaginable. listen and enjoy.

"the internet is for porn"

i guess one would call this a music video. the whole thing is funny but it gets great in the second half.

I HEART ALLITERATION!!!

i just spent my christmas evening in a pub in houston with my siter and brother in law. this pub did not have coasters, and my brother in law, kurt, always complains to the waitress about it. he complained agian tonight, and so Suzanne, our incredibly hot, social, and creative waitress made us each a coaster. keri and kurt hang at this pub all the time, so their coasters included their names, whilst mine said "Kurt and Keri's Kin's Kustomized Kristmas Koaster", stapled around the edge, and laminated with scotch tape. the message was written over a colored-in christmas tree and snow flakes and on the back said "Happy Chrismahannukwanzaakah!!"

i have met only a few handfuls of people so far in this world that are as refreshingly creative and social as this. those that read this know who they are, but it is always fun to meet people of this calibur. cheers to you all, and merry christmas!

blind wisdom

a husband and wife are waiting at the bus stop with their nine children and a blind man joins them after a few minutes. when the bus arrives, they find it overloaded and only the wife and the nine kids are able to fit onto the bus. so the husband and the blind man decide to walk. after a while, the husband gets irritated by the ticking of the blind man's stick as he taps it on the sidewalk, and says to him, "why don't you put a piece of rubber at the end of your stick? that ticking sound is driving me crazy!" the blind man replies, "well if you would've put a rubber at the end of YOUR stick, we'd be riding the bus, so shut the hell up!"

wtf??

this man is selling a fish tank cover.... i think....

ahhhhh.... my alma matter

based on the hazing i went through in my fraternity, i'm hoping this was just a miscommunicated order given to a pledge and that the "mission" went awry. no matter, this kid is a retard for robbing a bank.

we're supposed to be the best best educated alcoholics since 1847!!

We are, we are, we are, we are the Lehigh Engineers!
And we can, we can demolish forty beers!
Drink rum, drink rum, and come along with us!
For we dont give a damn about any old man who don't give a damn about us!!

loaded question

a co-worker of mine just asked me what type of music i listen to and, more importantly, what my favorite band was. i hate this question because for me it is a VERY loaded question.

i told him this:

"i hate that question because it's damn near impossible for me to answer, but if i must, then i say that my favorite band is The Black Crowes, my favorite musician is Eric Clapton because he not only taught himself to play the guitar amazingly once, but then he was in a car accident and due to amnesia had to re-teach himself guitar all over again and the results speak for themselves, i think the best rock song ever written is The Who - Baba Oreily, but the best rock song of my generation is Weezer - Say It 'Aint So, my favorite song ever is Pantera - Cowboys From Hell which is also a great album, but my favorite song right now is John Lennon's Imagine as performed by Jordis Unga on Rock Star: INXS, and my favorite album is The Toadies - Rubberneck, but to answer your question, i listen to anything though i only tolerate country music, i do not enjoy it, and this list would be 5 times bigger if i were to include classical, jazz, or blues."

he looked at me like i had three heads and nodded slowly and said "i like rock too" as he walked away.

SNOW!!

it's snowing here for the first time this season. i heart snow in a ridiculous way. this is the first snowfall i have seen in 2 years. my co-workers are all worried about the roads, and i'm jsut here smiling because it's just a dusting, but it's snow and it's not my fault that people drive like idiots here.

"things that vex me" #142 & #143

142 - why does it cost more to use one planes to fly from oklahoma to colorado than it does to use two planes?

a direct flight from oklahoma city, ok to vail, co currently costs $315
a flight that switches planes in denver on the way to vail costs $218

maybe this is why the airlines are going under. i mean come on!! this is mickey mouse math! more planes, more personell, more food, more fuel with extra take off and landing, & more time wasted must cost the airline more money, yet they charge less.... in fact, it would be cheaper for them in this case, to run a shuttle bus from denver to vail. i guess i'm just a foward thinker, but can i be CEO for a few days? please let me help us all out.

143 - why do people drive around parking lots for nine hours looking for "the best spot"?

i went to home depot yesterday to pick up some weather stripping. pulling into the lot i was behind a minivan that was aggrivating me by driving slowly. because of the layout of the parking lot, i had to follow this van up one aisle. i pulled into the first spot i saw even though it was one of the farther spots from the door. i got out and as i walked toward the door the minivan continued it's slow cruise up and down each aisle. i went in, got my things, and as i was walking out 15 mins later the minivan was just pulling into a relatvely close spot. i was done with my shopping in the time it took for this idiot to find the right parking spot. i guess some people truely have nothing else to do. it's the only explaination i can muster...