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.