The Boy in the Background

Happy 4th

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:33 GMT

Good stuff

Fri, 01 May 2009 17:19:04 GMT

Anyone who liked Toad the Wet Sprocket, Nickel Creek, etc. New "super" group consisting of Glen Phillips, Sean and Sara Watkins, Luke Bulla, Benmont Tench (piano for Tom Petty), Pete Thomas (drums for Elvis Costello), Greg Leisz (steel guitar god), and Davey Faragher.

http://www.wpamusic.com/Works_Progress_Administraton/Welcome.html

Great stuff. Can't wait for them to drop an album.

And my crush on Sara Watkins gets deeper by the day.

Volcanos melt you down

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:25:15 GMT

Nice knowing you westerners

I'll be in the bunker.

Moneymaking ideas

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:39:15 GMT

Time to recall all of the maritime navigational charts and write "HERE THERE BE PIRATES" next to Somalia/east coast of Africa. Might have to add "seriously - we're not kidding. Pirates." since ship captains can't seem to understand that these days.

Confessions

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:18:31 GMT

Things I don't give a shit about:

Twilight
True Blood
Vampires in general (emo fucks)
Ford trucks
0% car financing
Fast food
Sarah Palin
The monument to terrible writing that is Heroes
Celebrities
Celebrity opinions
Sarah Palin's celebrity opinions

Vote wasted, don't waste votes

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:52:48 GMT

It's too early for this shit.

What does she know?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:01:05 GMT

Netflix instants

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:42:08 GMT

Quick recommendations for folks looking for a movie to watch, all available on Netflix instant:

Cashback
The Rage in Placid Lake
Primer
Groundhog Day (of course)
I'm Reed Fish

Oops, time to go to work.

Interesting debate

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:17:28 GMT

So Fark.com is having a discussion which begins with "if you could erase five bands from history ...."

I had to think about it. I'm going with:

Blink 182 (ten years later and every new band *still* sounds like these fuckers)
The Bee Gees (obvious reasons)
Guns N Roses (fuck it, I hate 'em)
The Beastie Boys (I know, blasphemous, but their voices and background music grate on me after a while)

I had problems thinking of a fifth. I could go with something simple like "Britney Spears" or "nickelback", but I'm actually leaning towards The Jackson Five right now. Gasp. But Michael Jackson! Thriller! Noooooooes! But goddamn that family is just frightening and I'm willing to lose Thriller to keep them off of my TV for my entire life.

For all of you parents of small children out there

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:38:44 GMT

The problem with kids today is no work ethic. Start 'em early:

Baby mop

Also, if you haven't seen this yet, you need to:

Haven't laughed so hard in the morning in a long time.

These are not the hammer.

What. the. fuck.

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:37:21 GMT

UK's Missing Top Model

Fucking check please.

The day the humor died

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:35:00 GMT

~~Moe~~
~~Larry~~
~~Curly~~
~~Shemp~~
~~Abbot~~
~~Costello~~
~~Benny~~
~~Martin~~
~~Hicks~~
~~Pryor~~
~~Dangerfield~~
~~Carlin~~

There's nothing old school funny left in the world. That was the last of my comedy influences. Good night, funny man.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7068677712290004125

I GOLed

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:21:56 GMT

About damn time

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:32:08 GMT

A new mattress has been secured. Perhaps one day soon I will stop crawling out of bed feeling like someone kicked the shit out of me while I ~~slept~~ tossed and turned.

So the world is falling apart?

Tue, 13 May 2008 12:39:02 GMT

Anyways, yeah. Tornados, earthquakes, cyclones, military juntas, more bombings, gas prices, devaluation of the dollar, looming economic collapse, young black presidents, old white presidents, cats and dogs living together.

Now that that's out of the way, question for you:

What is the funniest thing that's ever been professionally committed to film? I'm not talking about the train wreck with clowns that is the life of celebrities. I'm talking about genuinely laugh-out-loud funny. And I do mean of ALL TIME. Not just "Dane Cook makes me laffo he so funny any movie hes in is hilaryous hurr hurr hurr".

Something that's made you laugh every single time you've seen it.

If you like the footsballs

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:40:14 GMT

http://goallineblitz.com/game/signup.pl?ref=2048245

Sign up. PM ccoldsmoke. You can become the next superstar for the Virginia Hustlers. Play under the lights of Minnesota Fats Memorial Stadium. Tell your friends. Right now I have a team full of CPU controlled players and I'd like to get rid of all of them.

News flash

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:10:00 GMT

It rained today. 29th year in a row.

What's it gonna be?

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:50:05 GMT

Million dolla strong.

The kind of shit that only happens to me

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:34:22 GMT

So yesterday, I'm driving back to work from lunch hour. I've been doing this drive practically every day for six months. I could probably do it blind folded, driving backwards, down the back roads. I've seen every type of animal roadkill on these streets. I've seen mullets driving flat-bed *cars*. I'm pretty sure I've seen at least one case of roadhead. Nothing could give me pause on my way back to my boring ass job. Just another day in the life.

Until yesterday.

I made a turn onto a street with a 45 mph speed limit. I'm cruising along. I come up behind a pickup truck that's going a little slow, so I swing out into the next lane to continue my journey into daily oblivion. I'm about even with the pick-up's rear tire. Something flops down on the hood of my car and slides off. Naturally, I'm like "Dub.Tee.Eff?" so I slow down. Something flops down in front of my car and I run it over. Whatever it was, it didn't even register as a bump in the road.

So I slow down further until the truck is a car length ahead of me. My eyes finally register what the fuck is assaulting my car.

Bread.... There are hundreds of loaves of bread piled up in the back of this guy's pickup. The kind of generic bread you'd pick up off the shelf in a grocery store. And the speed of the truck and the crosswind is catching the bags of bread just right as to blow them off the truck. So as I speed up to pass him and consequently run over another unfortunate bag of Wonder bread, I can't help but question my purpose in life.

There are many paths in this world. Some lead to death, some lead to true love, some lead to money, some lead to fame, some lead to a standard, mediocre existence.

My path puts me directly behind the guy that thought it would be a great idea to toss a bunch of bread in the back of his truck and take a drive. Manifest destiny.

Sorry, but this made me laugh

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:56:55 GMT

From the movie Once

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:42:06 GMT

Music/Movie suggestion of the month

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:17:56 GMT

If you like acoustic music and the whole singer/songwriter dynamic and you're looking for a movie rental, give Once a shot. Fantastic music, a likeable story with likeable characters, and the all-too-rare "musical" movie where the songs they sing actually have a fucking meaning to the plot instead of people just breaking out into song because they just got on a trolley that didn't smell like piss. The fact that everything was written and performed by the stars of the movie makes it better than most movies out there.

I've been disappointed in damn near every movie I've seen lately. I put this one on my Netflix list just because I had heard that the stars wrote their own tunes and I knew I wouldn't be getting the "big" movies that had come out recently. Surprisingly, it exceeded my expectations.

I think I'll go download the soundtrack now.

Good riddance 2007

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:50:57 GMT

This is getting to be a theme. Every year, I'm happy it's over.

This year, I want to take a look back at sports in particular. This was one of those years for the record books as far as the time-tested question: "Where were you when...?"

Where was I when ... 2007 sports edition!

I was eating lunch in my car when WFAN sports talk radio dropped a sports bomb: an NBA referee was being accused of fixing games.

I was pressing my face against my computer screen, trying to wake the fuck up before showering when I learned that Sean Taylor had died.

I was sitting in my living room - the house I grew up in (two houses ago!) - when Peyton Manning finally won a Super Bowl.

I had just moved to a new state when the New York Mets began to blow their lead in the NL East, eventually missing the playoffs entirely.

I was sitting on my newly delivered recliner, in a mostly empty room, in front of my giant TV, when I watched the Packers play their first game of the season and thought "holy shit, we might have something here."

I was sitting at work, having been waiting over two hours just to read the Mitchell Report. I was disappointed.

I was sitting in my bedroom, watching the Red Sox win the World Series for the second time this decade over my computer.

I'll add more to this as I remember.

Last minute holiday e-cards

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:27:40 GMT

ESPN's holiday smack for last minute e-cards to your favorite Yankees, Notre Dame, or steroids scandal fan. Plus an all purpose card for Boston fans that I've sent to damn near everyone I know.

Enjoy!

Dub-tee-eff

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:46:52 GMT

75 degrees today? Really? December 10th?

Fuck the south.