| Best Albums of Decades? |
[Nov. 19th, 2009|02:33 pm] |
according to Pitchfork the best album of the 90s was OK Computer, and the best Album of 2000-2010 is Kid A.
I disagree, I think the best album of the 1990's was "In an Aeroplane over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel, my top 5 would would look this
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane over the Seas
2. Radiohead - Pablo Honey
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
5. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
the best of 2000's so far imo is
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Radiohead - Amnesiac
3. Kanye West - Late Registration
4. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antartica
5. The Shins - Chutes to Narrow
On a side note my favorite albums from the 80's were
1.The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
2.Black Flag - Damaged
3.Joy Division - Closer
4.Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
5.Beastie Boys - Pauls Boutique |
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| Chevrolet Aveo Would not Shift out of Park |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|11:57 am] |
Yesterday, my car would not shift out of park. Before I called a tow truck or took it to the dealership, I decided to check google.
I got the idea below. So I managed to get it out of park and into gear, went to class, then took it to the dealership. The guy said he never heart of the problem and he thought he would have to take the entire gear box apart. To which I said, "The GM bulletin said change the brake switch first, then look at the "brake transaxle shift interlock (BTSI) solenoid". To which he said he would go check. He did, and went in, and came out and checked the brake light and the diagnostic fit. So he said that I should leave the car and come back the next day because they didn't have the part. In total he quoted 75 dollars. I left the car, they dropped me off at home, I came back the next day after they changed the brake switch, and guess what, I was right. So instead of having to do what sounded like hundreds of dollars diagnostics and repairs it cost me, 59 dollars.
The lesson is, if something is wrong with you car or something else, it doesn't necessarily hurt to do a little bit of research.
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| Towel |
[Oct. 2nd, 2009|03:34 pm] |
I always Travel with a Towel, but I never really thought about it in this context.
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
-Hitchhikers Guide |
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| Scrubs |
[Sep. 9th, 2009|06:08 pm] |
Heres a thing I find concerning. To my understanding the purpose of medical scrubs was to keep germs and bacteria external to a hospital outside of the hospital, and keep the same internal to the hospital inside the hospital. So when you are on the bus which goes by a hospital, and you see all of these nurses get on wearing their medical scrubs.. don't you wonder what's the purpose of them wearing them, if they are going to just wearing them on the bus? |
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| Folk Music |
[Sep. 7th, 2009|12:59 pm] |
An odd change which has happened recently, is I have found myself listening to a lot more Folk Music than I used. I mean before I definitely liked some acoustic Rock, like Elliott Smith, and Jeff Buckley. But I don't think those really count as folk.
I'm not quit sure where it started. I think the point when folk music started to really creep into my mind was when I listened to Neutral Milk Hotel's "In an Aeroplane Over the Sea" and Dallas Green's Album "Sometimes". It's not like I have completely stopped listening to metal, but I have found I also like Folk.
The thought of it got pushed significantly along after I went to the "Folk Fest" in Vancouver, and I heard a number of artists which I really liked including the awesome Dan Mangan. Since then I have been listening to more of Conor Oberst and M. Ward , because they are pretty good too.
Maybe I'm just old now. |
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| Amazon Kindle |
[Aug. 10th, 2009|09:11 am] |
The Price of the Kindle is now 299, which is actually a price I am willing to pay for the technology. I am really seriously considering buying it in the future. i have reservations, because Amazon has done some irritating things in the past with the format. However, I do like hte idea of being able to carry around like a bunch of magazines and books in a device of that size. |
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| Dan Mangan |
[Jul. 20th, 2009|11:32 am] |
It is rather amusing the way I discovered this Artist. I was actually browsing through the merchandise tent at the Vancouver Folk Festival when I spotted the cover for his cd. I didn’t actually know a lot of the artists who were present for the show, and I didn’t really want to buy a Rock Plaza Central, or Iron & Wine cd. Looking over the EP at 8 dollars Canadian I debated whether I should buy the cd or not. After sometime of considering I made the decision to actually buy the EP.
Upon listening to the first song, in which the chorus sings “Robots need love too”, I couldn’t help but be drawn to the artist. Often the current trend for this form of art tends to lead towards terms like “freak folk” or “psychedelic folk” or some other sort of term which sounds hip, yet annoying at the same time. Dan Mangan can be described as fairly honest music, he doesn’t climb too high on his soap box, and addresses the themes of the every man; with a lyrical quality that most artists only wish they could emulate.
If you are looking for an honest cd which you can relate to, and be entertain by, these elements are amply present within the work of Mr. Mangan. Dan has a new CD coming out in the month of August, I am eagerly looking forward to see what this up and coming Canadian artist has in store for us next, in the dialogue which is his work.
Check out his Myspace Here |
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| Detroit Mercy Law School |
[Jul. 15th, 2009|10:50 am] |
I hate my Law School. There is maybe a month untill classes start, and they still haven't given us registration dates for the next semester of classes. This school's administration is completely absurd.When I asked the registrar what date the registration would be, they gave me attitude about wanting to know this simple question. They hand us our exam rooms often the day of the exam, and it took them 3 months to get us Student Cards (a process where which takes 10 minutes to do in almost every other school on the face of the planet). So, people ask me, what would I say to someone considering going to UDM?
Run, Run hard, Run Fast, Run away. |
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| NPR |
[Jul. 12th, 2009|10:35 am] |
So, lately I have been listening to NPR. For those who don't know NPR is national public radio, it produces and distributes news and cultural programming. Individual public radio stations are not required to broadcast all NPR programs that are produced. Most public radio stations broadcast a mixture of NPR programs, content from rival providers American Public Media and Public Radio International, and locally produced programs. NPR's flagships are two drive time news broadcasts, Morning Edition and the afternoon All Things Considered; both are carried by most NPR member stations.
To be honest, lately I have found that most radio statio DJ's have this quality to their voice which I find grating. It just annoys me. I like NPR because it doesn't have that quality, and I feel like I am learning things. I need to find what the NPR station is in Detroit. |
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| Pet Peeve |
[Jun. 16th, 2009|11:08 am] |
Here is a pet peeve I have:
When I am in a conversation with someone, and I am like "Yea, I got " *such and such thing*, and they look at me and saw "awwwe .. lucky". It irritates me because it is rarely said for things which actually have some element of luck to it, like "I won this concert". It is most often things I have worked my ass off to get, and now they are acting like I got it because it just fell out of the sky into my lap. It annoys me. |
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| Delirium tremens |
[Jun. 7th, 2009|04:21 pm] |
Delirium Tremens was named as "Best Beer in the World" in 1998 at the World Beer Championships in Chicago, Illinois, USA.Stuart Kallen gives it the number one spot in his The 50 Greatest Beers in the World.
Delirium tremens is Latin for "trembling madness", commonly nicknamed "the DTs", indicating a violent sickness induced by withdrawal after alcohol abuse.
The color was interesting, bt it didn't really pour with a lot of head. I liked the flavour which I got from it. The beer was actually pretty good. It had a sort of sweet taste, and was lightly fruity but not too much.
Tree, Lesile and I split a bottle, it was 11 bucks.
I would say it was like an A- beer. |
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| Found Pepsi Throwback |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|01:19 pm] |
Yea, I finally found Pepsi Throwback, after Tree drove me all over the Kitsap Penninsula to look for it, we found it in a 7-11 in Bremerton. It's good, I like it.
Observations
Things I noticed about Pepsi Throwback
-Once I put it in the glass it holds the fizz a lot less
-I can definitely taste that there is a difference, i can taste the sugar
- I don't reallu see any sort of color difference
-Maybe a slight smell difference
Really it is too bad that is it just a limited time thing. I think if I was in a store and I had to chose between Coke and Pepsi Throwback I would chose Pepsi Throwback because I like the fact that it doesnt use HFCS. But to be honest, I usually chose Coke Zero these Days anyway.
This is the last post (for now) on my obsessing about Pepsi.
On a side Note I had the Natural Cola which is made by Red Bull. The one people compared to Pepsi Natural because they both use natural ingredients. It honest tasted horrible. |
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| Pepsi Natural |
[Jun. 5th, 2009|11:48 am] |
"An all-new premium cola, Pepsi Natural is made with all-natural ingredients, including lightly sparkling water, natural sugar, natural caramel and kola nut extract. The amber-hued cola gets its color from natural caramel and natural apple extract. From the amount of bubbles to the foam that rises to the top of beverage when it's poured, Pepsi Natural offers a brand-new cola experience.
Pepsi Natural is packaged in a sleek 12-oz. glass bottle and is available in single-serve and 4-packs initially in the premium and/or natural food aisles of retail outlets in the following ten regional markets; Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas and New York."
Being in Seattle I tried it. To be honest, it wasn't very good, it has a sort of odd taste to it. I have had other organic Cola's before, it honestly loses out on comparisons to the likes of Thomas Kemper, Boylan's, or the ultra fabulous "Virgils" line of Soda Pop. However, it is quite good. I bought 2 bottles (355ml) of the Pepsi Natural in Seattle which came out to be 3.67 us (after tax) which clearly marks this out to be a "higher scale" product. Or in other words, the equivalent of 2 cans of pop for almost 4 bucks U.S. .
In summary, I don't think I am going to be making a regular habbit of buying and drinking them. Maybe every so often I might buy one, but I don't see myself buying it, like I buy cases of coke. So far, not making the switch from Coke to Pepsi... now if I could just find some throwback (and if I liked it), I would consider the switch. |
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| Pepsi Throwback |
[May. 31st, 2009|04:39 pm] |
"This spring, Pepsi and Mountain Dew are inviting consumers on a nostalgic trip back in time by offering special retro versions of these popular beverages."
"The Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback packaging feature a retro look and are sweetened with natural sugar, just as they were back in the '60s and '70s, to give consumers a taste of the past"
I like the idea of Coke made with Sugar and not High Fructose Corn Syrup. This is big, because I actually considered switching from Coke to Pepsi because of this (I prefer Coke over Pepsi). But I can't find Pepsi Throwback anywhere. So, guess no switch. |
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| Back Home |
[May. 10th, 2009|11:32 am] |
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So, I am back home. I survived my first year in law school. To be honest I am exhausted. I don't think I have ever been this burned out at the end of a school year. Regardless, I made it, I am home. Time for a few days of R&R. |
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