14 hours ago

Driving into work today

I saw a sign on a church that read “Winter is Coming”

Now I’m on the lookout for the Lannisters and the Others

3 days ago

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In the spirit of Christmas and Jack Bauer pictures here’s a video

4 days ago

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I need to add We Were Promised Jetpacks to my list of 09 albums I liked. Why is that I really like Frightened Rabbit and We Were Promised Jetpacks, but do not care for Twilight Sad? Aren’t you required to like all of the Scottish Trilogy of Bands?

I must also mention a disappointing album that I listened to more because I wanted to like it and not because I actually liked it. That would be Trail of the Dead - Century of Self. The songs felt impersonal and left me cold. Everyone of them was about two minutes to long. That being said I really liked track 11 “Ascending” A lot.

1 week ago

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I saw these two Lego sets today while Christmas shopping. Why were Indiana Jones toys not popular when the actual movies were out? I would have played with a working Temple of Doom mining cart set 24 hours a day. Why, yes, that is the giant boulder scene from the beginning of Raiders. I may have to revise my Christmas list for this year.

1 week ago

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09 Albums I guess I liked

These are albums I listened to more than once this year, so it means I must have been intrigued. Not necessarily 09 releases, but newish stuff at least to me

The Big Pink - The Big Pink

brakes - Touchdown

Crocodiles - Summer of Hate

Fever Ray- Fever Ray

Grand Archives - Grand Archives

Handsome Furs - Face Control

Homer Hiccolm - Sing, Bird, Sing EP*

Dead Weather - Horehound

Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke

Plushgun - Pins&Panzers

Superchunk - Leaves in the Gutter EP*

Ting Tings - We started nothing

Yeahs Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz

The xx - xx

And my album of the year (honorable mention to * above)

The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You

My hated albums of the year because one made me write an impromptu review at work and the other is sure to be on top 10 lists but is really an emperor wearing no clothes. These have the rare distinction of actually being deleted from my iPod.

Silversun pickups (my on the fly review)

Dirty Projectors

2 weeks ago

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Pontiac Silverdome sells for $583000

The former home of the Detroit Lions built for 55 million sold for less than 600000 dollars. I honestly think I could afford that. That would be the coolest house ever. I might have problems with the 1.5 million dollar annual upkeep cost and being in the heart of America’s first failed big city, but those are minor details.

via the Consumerist

3 weeks ago

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