airline to heaven

so last weekend, or the weekend before that actually, we took a little trip, took a little trip, took a little trip hiking. we headed north towards boulder, but turned off west and went hiking in el dorado canyon. this place was awesome. we had to drive through this little town, and i mean little town. the only thing separating the houses was a dirt road with tons of potholes. i had to drive about five miles an hour. you had to pay to get in because it's actually a state park.

the park was awesome. for the first mile or so, it's straight up. you can see in the bottom shot demitria sitting down. we had some water there and i took that shot of her and tried to show how far up we were. even at that point, we had higher to go. we continued up the trail and took a few more shots. there was this giant boulder up there sitting on top of this other giant boulder. so demitria and i climbed up there and took shots of us holding it up.

finally when we were down and came all the way back down the mountain, we sat by the stream and ate some horrible sandwiches we packed. we were pretty exhausted by that point.

the top picture is the night wolf. i've been telling a few people about the night wolf. he's actually a fox and he hangs out in our neighborhood. he mostly sits in one dude's front yard. that's where he's at in the picture. he'll just sit there and hang out. the dude who owns the house said he has no idea why the night wolf hangs out there because he doesn't feed him or anything. but we get a huge kick out of seeing him. we love/fear the night wolf.

holding onto black metal pt. 2

there is a series going on that is tremendously worth reading. it is a five part series. and four parts are out. they take their titles from clint eastwood movies.

for a few dollars more

fistful of dollars

the good, the bad and the ugly

the outlaw josey wales

unforgiven (still to come)

holding onto black metal

we had a great memorial day weekend. i have some pictures to post soon. saturday i took my FAR test and we cleaned and mowed and cleaned and got ready for sunday. we grilled out on sunday and had a few people over. it was fun. too much fun. i had to hang around the house most of monday.

and then a weird thing happened. i couldn't sleep. i slept about three hours monday night and then four hours on tuesday night. i laid in bed tuesday night from 9:30 to one in the morning and i couldn't fall asleep. you ever have sleep deprevation? the world gets real slow. and work takes a long time. i hope i have some serious sleep tonight. i need some rem sleep. i went into the basement and slept last night. i'm going to try that again. it's pretty depressing not to fall asleep when you want to. you feel powerless.

fake empire

the heat beat the bulls last night to set up a rematch against the dallas mavericks. i don't really care about basketball until it gets to the finals. but what's interesting is that since 1984, only a select number of teams have won the nba championship.

1) the lakers (8)
2) the celtics (3)
3) the bulls (6)
4) the pistons (3)
5) the rockets (2)
6) the spurs (4)
7) the heat (1)

that adds up to 27. so in 27 years, we've had seven different champs. that's it. maybe the mavericks will make 8. but if you notice, those teams have come and gone and come back again, well mostly the lakers, pistons and celtics. who knows about the rest. maybe it's time for another 27 years of a different set of eight champs. maybe it's time for the warriors, the hawks, the bucks and the thunder. probably not.

Scenes from the Suburbs - trailer

fore!

yes, that is a huey lewis reference. and if i'm lucky, it won't be the last one. most of my life, i've been pretty good at sports. baseball, football, basketball, tennis. i wasn't great, but i wasn't horrible. i was never the last kid picked. well, if we were playing golf, i would be the last person picked. on earth. and earth is pretty big. with a lot of people that's how terrible i am. i couldn't even hit the ball down the fairway. i hit it left. i hit it right. i hit it on the ground. most of the time, the ball never even went in the air. sad. but i don't really enjoy the game. i don't think i'll be playing again any time soon. apparently, the nine minute video i watched last night did not do the trick. maybe i should have watched the ten minute video.

we don't need no education pt. 2

two weeks ago i was an amateur fourth grade teacher for charity. tomorrow, i will be an amateur golfer for charity. sounds fun? can anyone guess how many times i've played golf in my life? the answer after the break....

well, we're back. the answer is: zero. zero times. i have gone to a driving range once. when i was seventeen. or sixteen. i can't remember because that's how long ago it was. i think the golf outing will be more terrifying than teaching fourth graders for me.

stay tuned for the outcome.

who taught you to live like that?

is the sloan best band that nobody's heard of?

before today

my teaching day at the elementary school was awesome!!! i taught fourth graders about money and resources and gains and losses. i had lunch with them, but we were too rowdy and we couldn't talk for the last five minutes of lunch. i think i was a bad influence on the kids. i really dug it. they called me mr. wright and kept asking me to come back the next day. i had a blast.

i just heard the most amazing interview on npr. the author of a book about area 51 was talking about a source she had that claimed that the aliens that landed in new mexico were not aliens. they were genetically/surgically altered human beings by josef megele who was working with the russians. how crazy is that?!?! check out the full interview here.

the astros were sold this week. i don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. i hope that new management brings in smart baseball people who can identify young talent. i think they need to make a play for the young blokes in tampa bay. one of them is from houston.

speaking of baseball, i went to my first rockies game last night. they won 7-4. we had a good time. my company paid for it. that made it even nicer.

we don't need no education

i'm currently watching a video (a 42 minute video, i should add) that is going to train me on my junior achievement training because tomorrow i'm going to an elementary school to teach them about money or something. i think about banking. i'm going to start with fractional reserve lending and then move into the audicity of the federal reserve. and right about then, i should be getting kicked out.

but i'm actually looking forward to it. i think it will be exciting and a welcome break from the day to day. of course, i do have to wake up super early. like being back in school. except no bus. i have to drive. and no recess. i do, however, get a lunch. i hope they still those large, flaky rolls i used to like so much. and steak fingers!

the video is finally about to start.

savage night at the opera

it's beautiful outside. i'm laying on the couch studying. wondering why did i ever want to take the cpa test? what is wrong with me?

"let's face it, old souls like us are being born to die."

my eyes are crossed. my brain is mush. i cannot decipher common rules and applications. i still haven't gotten REG back and i won't until june. so i can't use that as a motivator anyway.

"it's not a war til someone loses an eye."

i know losing AUD and BEC won't be the end of the world, but man, if i lose those credits and have to start completely over studying, i'm not sure what i'm going to do.

"yes, i'm familiar with your scene. some would say shockingly uptight."

in the long run, this will only help my career. i know that. but what am i missing in the meantime? weekends pass me by. weeknights pass me by.

"you'll never guess just where i've been, a life abandoned midstream."

and i can't stop listening to destroyer. but i did go to the furry scurry this morning. and i did have a great lunch. and i'm about to study outside. so life isn't horrible. it's just mildly disappointing. it's amazing. the luck i've had. working in big four in denver. how did that happen? if only my luck could be extended to standardized tests.

the fix is in

so what is america without a middle class? it's these facts. and if things don't turn around, there will only be a few haves and everyone else.

do the panic

i am probably in a very small minority, but i think that phantom planet is a very underrated band. i mean, raise the dead, is a pretty solid album. it's not going to change the world, but i dig it. also, the self-titled album is pretty good too. i know that the lead singer used to be or still is an actor or something and that jason schwartzman was the drummer for a while, but even his band coconut records isn't bad. i mean eddie murphy was and i guess still is an actor, but "party all the time" is an anthem. i mean, they're not on the level of underrated as elbow is, but they're in the ballpark. probably a big ballpark, but still.

easy like sunday morning

ryan adams has emerged as general sunday morning listening fare for me. the dude confounds me. he's got all this talent and puts out half-great, half-banal albums, but if you turn down the voices in your head, even the jejune can be smile-inducing. whatever that means.

jumping someone else's train

zerohedge has a letter to congress. there's a line in the song "the gloaming" by radiohead that has a line that repeats several times at the end. "your alarm bells, your alarm bells, they should be ringing, they should be ringing, they should be ringing, they should be ringing, they should be ringing, they should be ringing, they should be ringing, they should be ringing, they should be ringing, they should be ringing, they should be ringing, they should be ringing, they should be ringing."

i am trying to break your heart

paste magazine has ranked the 30 best wilco songs. i'll let you guess which one they ranked as #1. plus, jeff opens up about the new album coming out this year.

the birds

there have been six rocky movies. i'm guessing the sixth one is probably the last one. but what if there was a seventh rocky movie. what would happen in that movie? i think it would have to involve the passing of the torch to rocky's son. we'll call it rocky 7: bad son rising. rocky's son will rise from the bottom ranks of the boxing legion to ferociously beat his competition and gain the attention of the boxing/world community. along the way, rocky teaches him how to earn the respect of the those around him. he becomes a spiritual hero in his community/world. his son meets a new love, someone who acts and looks a little like adrian. in the end, he loses the big fight that would have landed him the championship fight, but he marries his new love, which sets up perfectly for an eighth movie. sounds corny? you know you want to see this movie. i do.

montague terrace (in blue)

the time says i posted this at 11:00:00. it's a chilly night. and i'm listening to scott walker again.

happy easter

hey everybody. have a great easter today. it's cloudy and a little chilly in denver today, but we're going to go out in the backyard and plant our herbs and berry plants today. i'm trying to develop a green thumb in the brown landscape here. so far, so good.

really?

really. in all seriousness, i see the houston texans going 11-5 this year. i can't believe i just typed that.

new jeff tweedy song

check it out here. it's called open your mind.

have you fed the fish?

murder in the city

i bought our first tickets for red rocks this summer. we're seeing the avett brothers!!!

what we've got here is a failure to communicate

i finally did it. i don't know what took me so long. i finally watched cool hand luke last night. now, i know. what the hell right? my dad loves that movie and has watched it probably 100 times. if not more. i just never sat down to watch it. but i did last night. and so many jokes from the simpsons and his jokes and jokes in general finally make sense. plus the intro to guns and roses "civil war" makes total sense now. any man who doesn't post to his blog, spends a night in the box.

no work and all play

i need to amend an earlier post. the stanley hotel is not where they filmed the shining. it's where stephen king stayed and was inspired to write the shining. the exterior shots were shot in oregon, while the interior was on a soundstage in london. so the hotel looked a little different then we expected. but it was cool nonetheless. they play the shining all day and all night on one of the channels in your room. we watched most of it. however, our room was not haunted. we stayed on the most "active" floor, but no ghosts or ghouls for us that night. the next day we took off from estes park and headed to the rocky mountain national forest. we hiked around sprague lake, where it was still pretty snowy. we tried to go up further in the mountains, but the weather turned on us and we headed back down. estes park was great. i bought that red hat for $10! and it's immediately the best hat i own. we found a local brewery there and talked to the owner for a while. they have a big party in june we're going to be going to. we had a fantastic time. and we're really happy enjoying our new state. by the way, we tried to go to a rockies game on sunday. it was snowed out! can you believe it?!

redrum

there is a real possibility i'm going to be staying in the hotel where they shot the shining this weekend. it's called the stanley hotel and it's up in estes park. if i see those crazy twin girls or that suggestive bartender, i'm punching them in the kneecap.

let's play ball

friday is opening day. the best day of the year. after my birthday. and elvis's birthday. i think last year with the giants beating the rangers in the world series, anything is possible. everyone's got the phillies. but i just don't see it. they have no offense behind great pitching. some things are obvious. i think the red sox were the most improved team in the offseason and i think they're going to the world series. on the national league side, i have to go with the colorado rockies. that's right. my new home town will be in the world series this year. for divisions, check it out: nl central: brewers nl east: braves nl west: rockies nl wild card: phillies al central: twins al east: red sox al west: rangers al wild card: yankees and all that will end with the rockies losing the red sox in the world series, just like 2007. except this time not a sweep. and this time i will care.

we were wealth

two albums on my mind these days:

kurt vile- smoke ring for my halo

wye oak- civilian

where is my mind?

i watched the pixies documentary loudQUIETloud late last night. i've never been a huge pixies fan. i've always liked them, but never really loved them. that hasn't changed after watching the documentary. but it was still a really good documentary. it was based on their reunion that occurred a few years ago.

check out where is my mind?

i had a burger for dinner. i've studied for eight hours today. four hours last night. another nine hours tomorrow.

where is my mind?

codex

"the water's clear and innocent."

i can't go for that (no can do)

if i were to wake up tomorrow and my cat could suddenly talk, i really would be anxious as to pick a topic for conversation. but it would probably become quickly apparent that even though she could talk, she probably wouldn't be that smart. so we'd have to talk about stupid stuff. probably cat stuff. and i'd quickly wish for the day when it couldn't talk.

fail

i didn't pass FAR. i missed it by one point. one point. now, i've lost the month of may. instead of being outside in the funny, sunny denver fun sun, i'll be inside studying. every weekend.

i take REG a week from friday. let's hope i pass that one. if i don't, there's potentially big trouble.

guy who got a headache and accidentally saves the world

yesterday was a productive day. finally worked out for the first time in like two weeks. it's hard to find time to do that when you're working 14 hour days.

i also finally watched the flaming lips documentary fearless freaks. i highly suggest watching it if you dig the flaming lips or even if you don't. it's a great story and it made me like wayne cohen ever more. and it really made me admire steven drodz. i had an idea of how important he was to the band, but after watching the documentary, it made it abundantly clear the flaming lips are greatly driven by steven's ideas of melody and his musicianship. check it out!

also we finally found a restaurant in town that had some taste. it's a small greek place in a shopping center and it was great. lots of places here in town taste bland to us, i'm not sure if it's because we're from the south and everything there tastes great, especially the international cuisine. but here, most of the food tastes pretty bland. but this place was awesome. if you're in town, we'll take you there. but you'll pay.

is this it?

apparently it's been about ten years since i heard what i still think is one, if not the best, rock and roll record i've ever heard. the strokes is this it was it. it was awesome. i've written about it before, so i'll spare you to hear it again.

well, like i said, it's been ten years. and we're now four albums in. the first one: historic. the second one: great. the third: mostly meh. the fourth: we'll see. it's out next week.

there's a great story on the history of the strokes. check it out here.

go here for the video of under the cover darkness.

go here to stream the album before it's released.

the king of carrot flowers

last night we saw the elephant six orchestra at the larimer lounge. the elephant six orchestra is a hodge-podge of people from the elephant six recording company. neutral milk hotel, apples in stereo and olivia tremor control are the main bands i listen to that are part of the elephant six recording company. i guess i listen to beulah sometimes too. anyway, a lot of those bands don't exist anymore and so some of the characters from those groups are touring as the orchestra. it was a great show. the guy i'm standing with up there is not tim robbins, although he does look like tim robbins. his name is pete and he was a member of olivia tremor control. cool dude. also, i didn't realize it at the time until i saw the picture, but that jacket makes me look huge. i haven't moved to colorado and gained fifty pounds. that is not the case. so we had a good time. seeing shows in denver is pretty sweet. i'm really digging the music scene here. i'm hoping to see phosphorescent at the larimer lounge in april. we'll see how that goes.

"i haven't eaten since later this afternoon"

last night we watched a movie called primer. it very well could be the most brilliant movie i've ever seen. i absolutely beg anyone who reads this to watch it. it was shot on $7K and made in dallas, texas. it is brilliant.

the illustration above is supposed to help the watcher understand how the box works. here is a discussion of people who have seen the film and they comment on what they think happened. i realize i'm a little late to the party, since the movie first appeared in 2004, but better late than never.

it's a jungle out there

rain king

i love change. i almost seek it out. i don't want things to stay the same. if they stay the same, i feel like i'm not advancing. or learning. or improving. every few years, i will probably throw everything back up into the air and see what i catch and what i miss. and what i miss, i obviously don't need anymore because i didn't try to catch it.

one thing i'll always catch is certain people. special people. and to those special people, one in particular who never ceases to surprise me and bring me back to thinking of great times in my life when i was the rain king, i say: thank you.

you are tops. thanks again for the package.

apothecary love

got the new low anthem in the mail today. listening to it right now. i saw them live in houston. one of the best shows i ever saw. they played with blind pilot in a small room with half the people listening. it was great. hopefully they'll roll through denver this year.

phospherescent is coming. so is john vanderslice. i might go see both.

i think tonight we're going to watch the harry nilsson documentary. tonight has potential.

Radiohead - Lotus Flower

give up the ghost

yeppers

morning mr. magpie

i am listening to king of limbs right now.

when i listen to radiohead, i feel like anything is possible. it's a good feeling.

king of limbs

i went to the show last night. totally awesome. the love language were great. i didn't think their sound would translate well to that small of an arena, but they sounded great. the opener was good too. kind a cross between my bloody valentine and the dandy warhols. the second was so terrible i wanted to punch myself in the face repeatedly. so all in all, it was a good night. a late night. totally dragging today.

the hi-dive was pretty sweet. a little dive bar as indicated in the title. i would see a show there again. for sure.

radiohead's new album comes out this saturday. by download only.

the grammys

the grammys are on tonight. i can't help but think of one of my favorite simpson's quotes:

"tonight on wings.....ah, who cares."

libraries

the love language is playing at the hi-dive next wednesday night. i am freakin' out.

i'm actually trying to get home in time to change and go to the hi-dive tonight to check out tennis and the shady babes.

get a haircut

i'm having an internal struggle. i have grown my hair out for three months. and i like the way it looks. but, i have a growing bald spot in the back. and it's not going away. so the longer it gets, the more the bald spot stands out. i never thought i'd be losing my hair at 31. should i shave it? and leave it shaved forever? it's kind of embarrassing to have a full head of hair and a white spot shining through. i'm not sure what i'm going to do. maybe just paint it red. red-ish.

i just listened to the new strokes song. and i'm sorry. but it sucked. that first album of theirs was probably the best album of the 00's. maybe better than yankee hotel foxtrot, which would be number 2. you listen to that first album of theirs now and it's still crisp and full of attitude. pure rock chops right out of the gate. and then it just got worse and worse. kind of like what happened to julian lennon. valotte anyone?

sad and beautiful world

so i'm back from houston. when i left denver, it was snowing and below 20 degrees. my normal commute to work took an hour and a half. i drove 10 miles an hour the whole way there. i had to shovel the driveway twice to get the car out to get to the airport. but, we made it.

i get to houston and i'm sweating very heavily because i'm wearing two pairs of socks, two pairs of pants, three shirts, a jacket and a wool hat. but the sweating didn't last long. it soon got very cold. so cold in fact, there were rolling blackouts across the state. rolling blackouts? hasn't it been this cold before? isn't it hot during the summer? don't we all work our A/C's like crazy in the heat? i didn't understand the rolling blackouts and i wonder what the real story is behind that. remember enron anyone? manipulating energy prices? who knows.

but the cold and blackouts did in fact inhibit my grandmother's funeral. the pipes burst at the funeral home the night before the funeral. we had no toilets, no water. only coffee. but the more coffee i drank, the more i wished the pipes were working. so i stopped. the lights went out ten minutes before the funeral started. so we started the funeral in the dark. it was actually somewhat serene. it was quiet. it was dark. there was only candlelight. it was very peaceful. the lights did come back on though. we didn't go long without them, probably 15 minutes.

the gravesite was brutal. it was freezing cold. and that was it. my grandmother was buried and we left. actually we left before that. my flight back home to denver was one of only three flights from houston that got out to denver that day. flights were cancelled before and after mine. my flight was coming from amsterdam, so they didn't have any problems getting to houston before the freeze. and i have to say, it was pretty funny to watch the city basically stop because it was going to freeze and possibly, not probably, but possibly snow. as i am typing, there is half a foot of snow outside right now. after i took my FAR test today, i drove home in the pouring snow. it was coming down so hard, i couldn't see my lane. but i made it home. and the city kept going. it's what you're used to. and i'm getting used to the snow.

so i'm back in denver after my three day trip to houston. i don't miss houston. i miss the people. but i don't miss the city. i'll probably never move back to texas. i love it. and i'll always cherish it. i'm a texan. i was born a texan. but i'll never move back.

it was a tough january. i won't lie. we lost bear. we lost my grandmother. the strong, tough older women that i've known all my life are finally leaving to join their men. i hope they're all together. i hope they're all in peace.

as far as tomorrow, go packers. my preseason pick. make me a genius.

shu ba du ba loo ba

if anyone would like the opportunity to contribute to the making of what is going to be an awesome record, go here and check it out.

you don't get the opportunity to contribute to the making of an artistic moment very often and i highly suggest getting behind this guy. aside from the fact that he's a stand-up dude, the man's got talent. this is a song from leatherbag's previous album.

someone great, pt. 2

we lost another great woman. my grandmother passed away last night. she was 87 years old. she was a remarkable woman. we will truly miss her.

i had project back in the old radio/tv days that involved finding someone who was around when television was first introduced and interview them, get their feelings on the subject. how did it change your life? how did it change the family structure? that sort of thing. so i interviewed my grandmother. she was so proud to sit and talk to me for hours on the subject. and after we were done, she'd bring it back up again when i'd see her. "remember how we were talking about television...." and she'd tell me something new about the subject. she was very happy to have connected with me on that. and so was i.

i got mine

for the second year in a row, i have amazingly predicted, prior to the start of the season, the nfc super bowl representative. thank you. thank you. i know you are proud of me. but, you cannot be as proud of me as i am of myself. yes, i am amazing. amazing and mentally gifted. those statements are true. and accurate.

although i whiffed on my afc super bowl pick, i did come within two games of being right both years, san diego last year and baltimore this year. well, i hope you enjoyed my greatness as much i did. stay tuned for my predictions in golf, swimming, archery and aerial ballet.

that is all.

black sheep boy

we lost another voice of reason. keith olbermann has left msnbc.

is there room for reason anymore on the airwaves? i'm starting to wonder. at least bill maher is still out there stirring it up.

maher on reilly.

bodysnatchers

tonight is my last night in slc. we went out and got a steak. a big slab of meat. bleeding with butter and salt and pepper and other spices from far away shores. there was also broccoli, which i will write less about. wine was flowing and so were stories of seinfeld jokes and "hey is that the guy from perfect strangers" jokes. but eventually we spilled into the streets of slc. we stumbled upon a garden party with free vino and beer. we listened to covers of bob dylan and the band with mandolins and rhythm guitars. there were ice sculptures, but more importantly there was free vino and beer.

i have found a new love. grooveshark. that's right. i am a fickle free music online lover. if only i could figure it out. i think we would be perfick!

but i did kind of figure it out. i'm listening to scott walker "big louise" right now.

and eventually, i am taking the robes. and soaps. and maybe the lamp. you'll know if i did based on your x-mas gifts for next year.

"happy x-mas. here is a guest services directory. would you like a linguine pomodoro or maybe a greek piadine from 11 months ago? or maybe a complementary wall street journal from january? how about this bar of wrapped soap? it has mulberries in it. i'm sure of it." if only you were that lucky.

crazy for you, but not that crazy

i've already fallen out of love with pandora. i entered like over 20 bands and they don't a single song by those bands, but a bunch of unknown crap. what is that? enough. play what i entered mr./mrs. pandora.

rocky mountain high

i've been in salt lake city for only a week and a half. i am more than ready to go back to denver. we've only been there a few months, but it is starting to feel like home. i still have to catch myself when people ask me where i'm from, because they don't mean where i was born, they mean where am i from right now. i also still write houston a lot when i'm filling things out. but i'm getting better (that was weird, i almost wrote 'houston' instead of 'better'). that's probably due to a lack of sleep. we have cable in the hotel and i've been staying up way too late watching garbage.
i can't wait to hang out with demitria and sofie. listen to music in my office. or run to einstein brothers and drink coffee on colorado.

i was just informed about a thing called pandora online radio. i've already discovered new bands including the idyllists, velour, the wooden birds, discovery and noah and the whale. gotta have fun at work. if you can.

guster fever

saw a band called guster in salt lake city last night. sketch place, totally awesome. never heard the band before, but everyone in that joint had guster fever.

they came back out for the encore and played "under the bridge" with the drummer awkwardly doing the vocals. it was pretty cool. the band seemed to be having a blast, which made it a kind of a fun atmosphere. but man, guster fever, sweeping salt lake city. look out america.

for benjamin, our bear

benjamin, our bear, pt. 2

benjamin, you were one of a kind. i love you buddy. i miss you.

benjamin, our bear

we had to part with our little bear today. his body was failing him and we couldn't let him suffer anymore. i miss him so much already. i have so much to say about him, but i just can't make my brain work right now.

2010 football wrap-up

the houston texans finish the season 6-10. i had them going 7-9. one more game kubiak, you couldn't win one more game?!?

both of my super bowls teams are the in playoffs: the baltimore ravens and the green bay packers. the packers squeak in with a win over the bears. i didn't think they were going to make it in, but it looks like they wanted it more than me. and i didn't really want it that bad.

all in all, it was a pretty craptacular season for my former city and current city. but, denver definitely has a tebowner. this town loves that kid. we'll see what happens.

prediction

my celebrity death for 2011:

burt reynolds.

i know. it's messed up.

There's Something About Wilco

not sure if i posted this yet or not. it's a jeff tweedy interview with cbs this morning. very nicely done. look for the drummer glenn kotche. i actually met him outside of a sushi bar in houston before a show. i totally fanned it up!

snowed in

it's finally here.

paper thin hotel

so what happens when leonard cohen and phil spector get together? they make the most awesome, desperate, debased and colorful album of leonard cohen's career. these are songs of a man who has nothing to lose. a man who is watching the leaves fall and realizes desperation can be a tool for getting women. this concept album revolves around a guy who has come to grips with his age and place in life. i love it. this album is such a messy affair, it's impossible not to love it.

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

this is the lead track from "the suburbs" by the arcade fire, my vote for best album of the year. check out the houses, the streets, the fences. look familiar.

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yer birthday

the 23rd was demitria's birthday. i had to go to work, but only to pick up a shipment of study material. so once i got that, i headed home and we went ice-skating. there is an indoor ice skating dome in lowry, which isn't very far at all from us. we skated for about 30 minutes, realizing just how labor intensive skating is. but, our constant fight to stay upright, probably made it harder for us. later in the evening we went to le central, which is a pretty sweet french restaurant towards downtown. i think she enjoyed it and had a good time. i just don't know how someone who never skates could look so cute in her skating attire. we had fun.

merry christmas

i think this might be my favorite christmas song:

the old's man back again

hope everyone is having a blast. i'm about to go hand out sandwiches.