Sheer Awesomeness

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Damn You, Guitar Hero (Wii)

Look what you've turned me into!
Who knew that playing the guitar was so damn hard/skillful?!

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On the Up & Up

I start my new job on Friday morning. At 9am. Meeting with HR. (gag)

But not before I ride the Pacific Surfliner from Union Station in LA to Santa Barbara to SEE TEGAN & SARA, bitches!!

That's right. I shall be enjoying the show tomorrow night in Santa Barbara, which apparently is quite the place on Halloween. Whatever.

Then I sell a piece of my soul and begin regular, contracted employment on Friday.
Then it's Saturday.

Well played, ctrl-freak. Well played.

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Music :: I Love Tegan & Sara

Initially, for their hair.

Now it's because every single track on their album, "The Con" is good. Very good. I want to go out and get sleazy mullet so bad but I went and got this legit job so it might be a bad idea.

Seriously, this is a good album. And these girls are hot.

Update: Just found out I have tickets to their show up in Santa Barbara, the night before I am supposed to start my new job. Ruh-roh.

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Music :: What I'm Currently Abusing

The Editors, Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors

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Tonight's iTunes Purchase :: Cazwell "Watch My Mouth"

Fun.

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Freestyle Flashback

Lady Tigra is back. Welcome back, Lady Tigra.
Personally, I enjoyed 'Supersonic' the most, but here's a tip 'o the hat to your white-hot hit single which established you...as awesome.

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Music

I got bit by the iTunes bug and bought all this new music:

• Metric,
  
• Go! Team
• Shiny Toy Guns

Complete albums. No 99¢ per song bullshit. Look for selected tracks to be served up soon.

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Portland Hometown Heroes :: Swan Island :: Crumble

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Buffalo Bill - You Got Competition

(Although, this individual strikes me as one who wouldn't want to part with his lotion, unlike Bill.)
Please, please watch this video all the way through. It's...worth it.

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Royksopp - Remind Me

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Classic

I was bored and feeling somewhat down this morning for a bunch o' reasons but this cheered me up.

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Wow. My Ringtone Matches the Music Clip That Plays on MySpace Page

How...moderne.

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Looking for Some Action

via Pink Tentacle

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Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before

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The Association

Something about Peter, Bjorn & John's "Young Folks" reminds me of this:

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Everything About This is Awesome

These kids have restored my faith in young people today.
First, cheers to them for even knowing the Buggles and this song. Second, to quote the comments, "harps a pimp". Enjoy. [from reddit.com]

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Giving Credit Where Credit's Due

Wow, this is impressive. I confess, I don't know what a Modest Mouse is (I think he was on the Garden State soundtrack and/or may have committed suicide) but this fan-video is really well done.

Max Tyrie's Hand Made Modest Mouse Video [Wooster Collective]

"Myself and a couple have friends have entered the above into the Modest Mouse video competition. Using green screen footage provided by the band we cut a simple music video. We then degraded the images and printed out each frame sequentially. (all 4133 of them) We then nailed each "shot" of 50-100 posters to various structures and posts. Then using a digital SLR camera with a long exposure we frame by frame shot each poster. Oh, and theres a little video projection (again, frame by frame on the SLR) just to mix it up. There is no compositing, no shortcuts, just lots of blood, sweat and tears, and a huge Kinkos bill!".... Max

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I Want One: Hang

[via reddit.com]
Ladies and gentermen, I present to you, the hang:

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Untitled

Through a circuitous set of circumstances (a sole Google return), I came to suspect that an old friend and ex may have died last year. She was my girlfriend throughout High School and someone I kept in high regard despite not having had contact since then. It literally took the wind out of me when I saw the Social Security death entry. To be honest, I suspect that the kickback from this revelation will slowly register and manifest itself. I do hope I am wrong in my sleuthing. If this all reads as somewhat clinical or robotic, it's cause I'm actually..freaked out.

On a lighter note, here's the track by Swan Island that I've abused. Enjoy. And again, don't say that Daddy never gave you nothing.




And play nice together out there kids. Let's not take each other for granted.

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