A fiver on a Friday
Friday, March 03, 2006
+ My pal Eric Metronome has taken on the extremely prolific challenge of recording and posting a cover song every week this year. I've been tuning in for the past few weeks and have yet to be disappointed. And I wouldn't expect to be, he's got great taste...who else is covering "A Hit" by Smog?
+ In the fast-paced world of daily blogging who's got the time to actually visit each and every site that they regularly read just to see if it's been updated? Well, RSS solved that problem. But now it's starting to look like people don't even have enough time for RSS! If this sounds like you, and if you're really into MP3 blogs, then go ahead and check out this free OS X app Mr. Kempa created: iSuckMP3Blogs. Smart or lazy, you decide.
+ I know a little about baseball. I like to think I know something about soccer (eventhough it's called football) and I rambled on about my previous obsession with ice hockey (scroll down) earlier this week. But basketball! This is a sport I was never any good at and therefore happened to not pay too much attention to. But back in the day you had to watch the good ol' slamdunk competition. Spud Webb! A friend of mine had the 1986 dunk competition on VHS and we'd watch it over and over, mainly to laugh at a no-name guy do the most boring dunk ever. Thanks to AJ for the link.
+ The Like Young's upcoming album 'Last Secrets' is going to blow the doors off of anyone who is into moody, rockin', lyrically-driven music. Joe and Amanda recorded this on their own and they got it exactly right. The guitars sound so crunchy and perfect. It's coming out on Polyvinyl in May but you can go peep some MP3s on their site right this very second.
+ In my Swedish class today we played Pictionary. We had to quickly think of a team name. The first team blurted "pannkaka" and my team followed suit and said, "semla". Confused? I was too. In English this translates to pancake vs. a traditional Swedish pastry. Whatever happened to Wildcats vs. Vikings? Oh, we won easily.
posted by mike downey @ 10:11 PM
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Hi Mikey, It's Saturday night and your Mom, Paul and I just had a great supper and are going to watch RENT, the movie/musical. I think of you often and know you're having a great time. Life's a blast! Love you bundles!
Yo! It's Hamilton.
My sister is friends with Anthony "Spud" Webb.
One of her friends dates him.
My sister and her friends like to go out drinking, as if there is anything better to do in Dallas, TX.
Sometimes Spud Webb is part of the group.
This makes my sister happy for two reasons, one being that Spud usually picks up the bar tab, and reason two being that my sister, ever the younger sibling, can tease him by calling him, "Spuuud" in the way that Rudy Huxtible (sp?) would call her best pal, "Buuud."
This really pisses him off.
He likes to be called Anthony now, apparently.
One time he got pissed at his "girlfriend" and, after saying he'd had enough, he went to the bar to settle the tab so he could leave.
Spud, or Anthony, then left the bar.
As my sister and her friends were making their way out soon thereafter, they were confronted by a member of the barstaff.
Spud had only paid for the drinks he'd drank, and left the girls to pay for their goddamned Cosmos themselves.
My sister and her friends were not laughing at Spuuud anymore.
Now that's what I call a slam dunk!
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