Børk! Børk! Børk!

I’ve been oddly meh about everything lately, sorry about that.

I went to a Blue October concert this past weekend. Well, it was actually a Live Nation event with four bands total. Blue October was the main band. This is the first time I’ve been to something like that. I really wasn’t familiar with the other three bands by name. But once they started playing, I knew at least two of each of their songs, and I knew almost all of the songs played by one of the bands (don’t ask me which now, it was a long night). I think I’d rather have had one opener and then Blue October. I’m either too old or out of shape to stand for 5-6 hours like that. And hoo boy, between the mixed drinks at the concert and then breakfast after the concert, I totally blew my diet.

We got the first big snow of the winter on Sunday. So I refused to change out of PJs and spent the whole day inside in protest. The dog was loving life though. I think she made about two dozen trips outside (she comes in long enough to melt the ice packed between her toes then right back out, except for the requisite indoor midday nap).

I was one of the idiots trying to get World Series tickets yesterday. For those of you not in the Colorado area, they put the tickets for the Colorado World Series games up for sale on the team web site yesterday. They got over 8.5 million hits and the servers crashed after only selling around 500 tickets. At least I only spent a few minutes total trying though. I kept the window up in the background and would refresh it when I’d get an error. From the uproar on the local radio sports station, it sounds like most of the city spent the entire day trying for tickets. I was a little surprised by the talk of how much productivity was lost until I realized that most people don’t work all day on the computer.

It sounds like we get to go through the same routine today. I wonder how much time folks will waste today and how long the servers will last.

In other news, we’ve been hacked. Well, kind of. Someone changed the address on one of our credit cards and racked up a couple of grand in charges. It’s not as bad as it could have been (as far as we know now), but we’ll have to spend some time and energy straightening everything out and then staying on top of things for a little while. Bleah. And here I was all happy with the pirates/hackers who got the domain away from the international version of the recording management goons. Maybe pirate hacker, but I wouldn’t put any gold down on that.

* – Wikipedia’s quote of the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show.

I Love YouTube

Where else would you find things like this:

*snicker* And I like me some Rammstein too….

Here’s the official video – he did a pretty darn good job, no?

I Love YouTube

Where else would you find things like this:

*snicker* And I like me some Rammstein too….

Here’s the official video – he did a pretty darn good job, no?

If You Love Your Country….

Beware – it’s not really safe for work.

If you have to watch the safe one, go here.

(heh I’d like to shake your daddy’s hand.)

If You Love Your Country….

Beware – it’s not really safe for work.

If you have to watch the safe one, go here.

(heh I’d like to shake your daddy’s hand.)

Lalalalalalaaaaaaaa

I had caffeine at lunch today.

Wheeeeeeeee!

Anybody else listening to The Fratellis these days? Lately, I’ve got this semi-play list going that looks like this:

Teenagers, My Chemical Romance – The video is a little weird, but I love the song. And the lead singer (a child. Child! I say!) looks sooo much better with black hair than that bleached out thing he had going on before.

Disenchanted, My Chemical Romance – I have no idea why I like this song so much, but it was on after Teenagers on the album. Okay, I know why like it:

If I’m so wrong How can I listen all night long
Now will it matter after I’m gone because you never learned a goddamn thing

You’re just a sad song With nothing to say
about a lifelong wait for a hospital stay
and if you think that I’m wrong
this never meant nothing to you

Misery Business, Paramore – Another group of babies, but damn is the lead singer Hayley adorable. Love the hair in the Misery Business video.

Always Something, I Hate Kate – This one stuck in my head. I found myself singing the chorus constantly while I was out on my bike. Constantly. I relented and bought it on iTunes, and I’m telling you. I suck at singing, but I can sing the hell out of that in the car.

Chelsea Dagger, The Fratellis – Women in corsets. I think every video I’ve ever seen from these guys have women in corsets or underwear. Now that’s how to be a musician. Hee. And I have absolutely no idea what the song is about even after looking up the lyrics.

Lalalalalalaaaaaaaa

I had caffeine at lunch today.

Wheeeeeeeee!

Anybody else listening to The Fratellis these days? Lately, I’ve got this semi-play list going that looks like this:

Teenagers, My Chemical Romance – The video is a little weird, but I love the song. And the lead singer (a child. Child! I say!) looks sooo much better with black hair than that bleached out thing he had going on before.

Disenchanted, My Chemical Romance – I have no idea why I like this song so much, but it was on after Teenagers on the album. Okay, I know why like it:

If I’m so wrong How can I listen all night long
Now will it matter after I’m gone because you never learned a goddamn thing

You’re just a sad song With nothing to say
about a lifelong wait for a hospital stay
and if you think that I’m wrong
this never meant nothing to you

Misery Business, Paramore – Another group of babies, but damn is the lead singer Hayley adorable. Love the hair in the Misery Business video.

Always Something, I Hate Kate – This one stuck in my head. I found myself singing the chorus constantly while I was out on my bike. Constantly. I relented and bought it on iTunes, and I’m telling you. I suck at singing, but I can sing the hell out of that in the car.

Chelsea Dagger, The Fratellis – Women in corsets. I think every video I’ve ever seen from these guys have women in corsets or underwear. Now that’s how to be a musician. Hee. And I have absolutely no idea what the song is about even after looking up the lyrics.

Theme Song

Anybody else feel the absolute need to have their own theme song?

Every time I watch one of the Lord of the Rings movies, I spend a good portion of the movie coveting Saruman’s theme music. All that booming base drums and bassoons. *sigh*

It reminds me of the Peter and the Wolf album I had when I was a kid. They told the story using musical instruments and themes instead of actors and dialog. You knew who everyone was as soon as their theme song began.

It makes me just need to have my essential personality distilled down into it’s base parts * and used to create my very own theme song that will play for me. Just think, it would be playing whenever I entered or exited a room and it wouldn’t be long before just thinking about me would cause the theme song to sound. Glorious.

No, just me then? *sigh*

* – or maybe that should be bass parts. Get it? Musical theme? Bass? Nevermind

Theme Song

Anybody else feel the absolute need to have their own theme song?

Every time I watch one of the Lord of the Rings movies, I spend a good portion of the movie coveting Saruman’s theme music. All that booming base drums and bassoons. *sigh*

It reminds me of the Peter and the Wolf album I had when I was a kid. They told the story using musical instruments and themes instead of actors and dialog. You knew who everyone was as soon as their theme song began.

It makes me just need to have my essential personality distilled down into it’s base parts * and used to create my very own theme song that will play for me. Just think, it would be playing whenever I entered or exited a room and it wouldn’t be long before just thinking about me would cause the theme song to sound. Glorious.

No, just me then? *sigh*

* – or maybe that should be bass parts. Get it? Musical theme? Bass? Nevermind

Today’s Soundtrack

Can’t get out of my head: Blue October’s What If We Could (lyrics and clip)

Woke up singing: Fall Out Boy’s This Ain’t a Scene It’s an Arms Race (lyrics and music)

Can’t hit the off button fast enough when it come on: Anything by Red Hot Chili Peppers