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."