This post contains no circa-1998 journal entries

This post contains no circa-1998 journal entries and is better off for it.

I wanted to thank everyone who came out to the cd party last Friday. It was fun and I got a lot of new music, which is really what Christmas is all about: Jeff getting new music.

For those who couldn't make it, download the following songs and it'll be like you were here all along. These were the songs that were listed on more than one cd:

Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
Feist - One Two Three Four
T-Pain - Buy U a Drank (feat Young Joc)
M.I.A. - Boyz
M.I.A. - Paper Planes
Bjork - Earth Intruders
Caribou - Melody Day
The Conchords - The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room
Panda Bear - Comfy In Nautica
Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe
Spoon - The Underdog
And any song off the new Kanye West, Animal Collective, or Radiohead (which were mentioned a lot, but never the same song). Just randomly picking songs: Kanye West - Can't Tell Me Nothing, Animal Collective - Peacebone, Radiohead - 15 Steps.

So thats 15 songs for a killer year end cd list culled down from 8 lists, killer in their own right. Enjoy quickly before this post is buried below years of relived awkward teen experiences.

Matt, Get with the Projam!

E period, study was spent with Matt Landry working on the projam, which we started on Monday and no isn't a type-o. The projam teaches you how to critique a booty, how to pick up hootch, what to do with hootch and how to critique a movie. It even has art by Brian Des.

And a glorious reference to a conversation once had with Ashley.

We also went to a book store, Willow Books, American Video, and uhhh James Comics though we didn't get aps, I got the druids handbook. We had the BBT the extra b is for big so it was the big big talk, we also watched Glory Daze and Evil Dead 2 and talked online at length convincing Ash that Ninjas had stoped a drug deal in Westford and stuff it was funny.

A gem from Tim

Also Tim was talking about how Matt's brother Brad has been pissing blood lately and how he's been wicked sick and he has to go see a cocktalogist. In the immortal words of Tim "You guys let's face it, Brad has something wrong with his penis and he needs medical attention. Now that's funny!"

From around January 30th of 1998. You can just hear him saying it, can't you?

You guys love my journal entries!

One word, barium. I went to the hospital and had to drink a pint of that crap, but it wasn't so bad, saw gershes mom and had some x-rays, a few of the times the guy didn't use the shield so if I'm impitant later in life, not my fault, it's emerson's fault. Um after that I hooked up with Koerber and Tim at browse and had some coffee, ate some rinds hung around. It was fun, Koerber walked over to the gas station and bumed a but of that Reedy kid, then he and I went over to my house after renting chasing amy then we played some pool, and Ash came over, Tim got roped into working more, this really pissed me off. He didn't even ask if I could still pick him up, but we made him leave earlier than he was going to, we all went to his house to watch Chasing Amy, and he wouldn't stop talking about Holden's beard, this ticked me off and Koobe kept shifting around and stuff so I missed most of the movie. At the end they were talking I got pissed and went to the car. Witch earlier either Ash or Tim almost broke my cup holder. Ash I think it was and she was so nonchalaunt about it it pissed me off and when I told Tim and mike to be quite cause I hadn't heard most of the movie she was all like well how come than I heard the hole thing, which pissed me off. After I droped of Mike, she was like yelling at me, and I would just give the same answer and then she was like bawling and wailing I don't even know you, so I pulled over and we talked for a while. It was weird lately all I've felt is anger and self pity. And when she was crying I didn't feel anything but when I talked about my problems I cryed, and was all choked up. We walked around the Nab school and I took a leak, and then after a while we went to her house and talked.

And email exchange from Early november of Sophomore year...

(From Ash)
see that's the thing just "call me sometime." i want to get back to the way things were this summer but i don't quite know how to. should i just say "hey skline want to hang out this fri?" what would happen? i realize that we grew apart a lot this school year, but i want to try to get it back together. i just don't know how to or even if you want to. did you ever actually consider me your best friend or was it a one sided deal? be honest. anyway, i seriously miss the way things used to be. I drove past churchill drive today and i thought about how i just used to walk over to your house and i missed it. i don't even come over after work on sundays anymore. i miss hanging out with you.

(To Ash)
When I say like call me sometime, I'm implying ASAP, as in when you get the e-mail then call me. if you called and said you want to hang out this friday we would probable hang on Friday, with Tim probable and maybe Koerber cause I'm withthem 24 7 now. And ya we did but we even started to during the end of summer too, but maybe it's my imagination, one of my complexes is fading away and feeling forgotten, so as soon as things slow down it kicks in. And yes I did for a while consider you my best friend, but not really, it's hard to explain but I never really have a best friend, I have best friends, and they are the people I feel understand an aspect of me the best, cause next to no one understands more than one. Jeff, I now recall, I had gotten really upset with around when he started dating Amber cause he'd been really cocky about dating a pretty upper classman, and Chu and Matt and Dan I just didn't hang out with a lot until later that year. These folk were who I was closest with Freshman year and it seems really weird seeing that (well mainly just the Aaron and Koerber and Tim parts... speaking of which anyone know where that kid is?)Usually it's Aaron, Dunc, and Holak, you were there for sometime too, but in my mind I don't pit them against one another, and Aaron and Holak are my only two friends that I don't feel i loose if I drift a bit, I don't know why but I just don't. Also I feel that if anyone ever got to no me too well they wouldn't be my friend anymore. I can only rationalize developing that fear through moving, and through Evan and Brittany, I knew them as well if not better than I knew myself and turned a blind eye to many of there faults, though Ev actaully is a very good friend, but I let them know me atleast to an extent, and look at it now. Look at all my other friends from other states, pricks most of them, two I feel were jen-u-win good people but other than that, I'm empty handed. I would like to talk to you cause I'd like some advice, but you do realize we're gonna have to shift to how we were like Dec of last year, a few phone calls and get together for a movie. After doing that a few times, we'll probly be back to normal. But bare in mind in the future I freak out really easily, cosmetically, on a shallow level I don't seem to freak out but now you know, no matter how calm I look or act, I'm probable glitching pretty hard. Also I don't like to call people so much as get called and sometimes I feel like I call you more than you call me, and I probable shouldn't think about that just because it's never worked out well when ever I begin to think about that. Anyrate it's eight o'clock and I'm freaking hungry. Good Bye.
Scott

(From Ash)
i love it when letters end totally abrubtly. "it's 8 o clock and im freaking hungry" i laughed very hard at that. well, i am totally willing to make due with a few phone calls and a movie or something as long as i will one day be back into your circle of best friends. anyhoo, do you want to hang out on friday?????????
about the whole calling thing, i almost never call people either so... but i will call you!!! but its 5:10 and i have to go to work.

All this is set against the back drop of me trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with my stomach.

look everybody, matt's got twin!

here is a picture of the matt







and here is a pic of his twin in france, in a bar, listening to beirut

So here's a bad idea...

And in the continuing tradition of digging out old stuff for Ashley, here is the second reference I make to her in my old Journal. This one is from April 18th 1996. The 8th grade. I'm still living in the condo. Its the second reference to Ashley.

I'll let Dunc read this and anyone else I become really good friends with in the new house. This is going to sound idiotic but I plain on becoming good friends with Asheley. She's funny and friendly and Jeff and DeSimone really like her and if she thinks Brittany should go out with me she's my God. Not really but you get the anology. And still the phone doesn't ring.

I'm actually enjoying doing this so I'm going to keep reading...

Huh, mainly this is all about my ridiculous crush I had a Brittany Calla. I honestly can't thank you guys enough for staying friends with me through that. It's amazing to go back and read this... Also, believe it or not, my spelling has gotten much better.

Aaah, Oct. 7th, 1996. It was a good day. Well for me anyway. I had apparently still not yet learned to spell Ashley's name, which was a shame, especially in light of how I would be discussing her in my journal that night!

7th Cooler day! It starts with the bus ride this mourning Asheley told us she had a dream about haveing sex with Rodney Dangerfeild which provided me with material for the rest of the day. Then the day went as normal except the class elections canceled out G period, no spanish for me! And I found out that Bridget and I have the same desk in math (seperate classes of course, although that could be cool)

Rodney Dangerfeild Ashley? Honestly! I don't care if it was 11 years ago, I think we should still make fun of you for that! Geez, Ashley, no respect.

And then from the 11th: Then Yesterday on the Single Guy they had Rodney Dangerfeild so I called up Asheley and she got so pissed at me.

I didn't learn to spell Ashley until the big ice storm that knocked out everyone's power the winter of Freshman year. c. December 10th.

And last from Dec. 23rd of 1996, the first, and to my knowledge only time I let Ashley write an entry in my journal.

23rd
hey pk mr smith is my idol. i want to be a drunk computer teacher when i grow up. just like t. smith. oh yeah, in case you couldn't tell this is ASHLEY!!!!!!!!
churchill macdonald, to be exact. brown hair, blue eyes, 5'5", 115 lbs, 34B. 7
there. all physical info you'll ever need to know about me. so if someday i run away or get kidnapped you'll know how to tell the pigs what i look like. good god man u can't spell. yeah.. whatever, i am going to be buried in this bathrobe i love it so.. the tick marathon was so superb on sat. "You sun worshipping dog launchers!!"
"Your dad's wicked slick" "This place is a labyrinth of terror! Good point" god the tick is the man. the scandinavian couple on taxi is the bomb. i love em. why in the fuck are we watching a show on tv's funniest weddings?? that's when you know you have absolutely no life in which to value. "YOUR WINDSONG STAYS ON MY MIND" i love cheesy commercials. Sutter Home is delicious red wine. not that id know um... look over there! it's pee wee herrman. watch out there's a donkey behind you!! madame o'donnell said that in french and i laughed my ass off. it was so out of context. how can u not have a trashcan in your room what is wrong with you! you must be an alien or some such nonsense. for my 21th birthday, get me a case of Elephant Red. Then force me to drink all of it and then let dan cunha take advantage of me. "If it wasn't for date rape/I'd never get laid" Some college mad that their offical song. I want to go there. It was probably like Bunker Hill Community College or some other crap skool. I have to buy a Wonder Bra. You can come with me when i try one on. "I can what with you?" "Come"
And I'm kidding, you pervert. don't get a hardon. Just joshin. I know you don't like girls, I wouldn't insult you. hee hee
CHINESE FOOD IS THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! animal house is a great flick.
have you been to Lui Lui in Nashua yet? when you get your liscence you are taking me to dinner there and you have no choice. you can play trivial pursuit or chutes and ladders on some of the tables, but you have to ask for it especially. we shall be sitting there. it's not debatable. And evan cannot come because i despise him.
ITALIAN FOOD IS THE WOMAN!!
MY BALLS ARE BIGGER THAN YOURS DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
um this is now awkward.
"King of the Hill" looks like an amusing show.
that's just the way it goes. If you happen to invite adam down for feb. vacay, that's just the way it goes.
If i happen to live at your house while he's here that's just the way it goes.
if adam and i happen to sleep in the same bed, that's just the way it goes.
if adam and i happen to fuck every night, that's just the way it goes.
it can't be helped or stopped. "Look at me I'm a vaccum cleaner"
la la la la la la la la la la
yo i am the antichrist. just kiddin. i felt kinda like santa claus in that red bathrobe. now im cold since i took that bathrobe off. JESUS IS FROM MALAYSIA!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE SILK PAJAMAS. blarg.
you had better read this or i'll castrate you with a plastic knife while blasting mariah carey cos that's how'll you'll sing after i rid you of your jewels.
i still think its funny that i got 5 bucks for singing and you guys got jack squat. im not even christian.
sorry i just grabbed your feet for no reason and you didn't seem to enjoy it. sorry.
pears are way too soft to be a fruit. but strawberries kick arse.
god my stomach hurts. i did 200 crunches last night. oh yeah i have a life. but i have a very nice tummy. yeah. i love godzilla movies. KING KONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"How many Minnebatonga River People could you fit into a phonebooth? None. Because they don't exist!" you have to invite me over this vacation beacuse i have no life and -69
friends. TAINTED LOVE
ok time to go MARK SUCKS AT FUCKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love aShLeY

So...

So here's the article I wrote making fun of the article Ashley had written the year before. Its not really as funny as I remember in part because the references are dated and in part because I have virtually no memory of the original article, but perhaps more so because, having been to England, it's pretty solid.

Today at Burger King a crime was committed. I got a fat nubbin in my chicken tender. People, we can’t stand for this! It is time to rise against the tyranny and oppression of sub-par chicken. This sort of thing never happens in Great Britain, where no one and no one in their colonies have ever known unfair laws.
England is like the Canada of Europe! I’ve recently returned from the land of the gray skies and stained teeth, and let me tell you they have us beat in every respect. Their pop-culture is especially amazing. For instance when you go to a Rave in England the Queen actually comes and knights everyone there. Isn’t that simply rave-a-licious?
I’m eighteen, and while I was there I didn’t get carded once, because you can be really young and still get into places. It was great, I like little kids hangen’ out and doing stuff with me. Here in America I look around and think, “Man, if only there was a way to get more small children to drink and smoke. That’d be pretty cool, dude.” Sometimes I call up small children I baby sit for and see if they can go club hopping with me, but in America we just have to pretend. Sometimes I take toddlers into my basement, set up a strobe light and make-believe. It’s wicked cool, dude!
One time, in London (that’s the capitol of England you know) there was this kid at this club, he was seven. I mean, when you were seven here in America you never went clubbing, never ever. Man I hate Democracy or Democrazy as they call it England. They say every thing cooler over there. Like a bathroom is called the lou, the subway’s called the tube, and they even call TV the tele. First the metric system now calling french-fries chips, what will they think of next?
Also, oh my God, the food! Who doesn’t love English food? It’s like Chinese food with out the good taste. Where else but England can you eat stew three meals a day? Sometimes while you eat in Great Britain Prince Charles and his ears come over and rub your feet. When was the last time Al Gore did that for you, huh?
Further more let’s not forget double-decker buses. That’s two times the normal amount of people you can fit on a bus. Not a day goes by here in America that I don’t look at a bus and think to myself, “God, if only there was some sort of automobile that can hold twice as many people.” In England they’re all over the place! And their telephone booths are even red! That’s so rave-a-licious.
So in conclusion I’d just like to say burn the flag and don’t vote! America bloody sucks!

i've missed the hell out of you, my darlings

so it has been simply way too long since i have seen or really talked to any of you. le bernardin has stolen all of my time, along with a large portion of my arm hair. as i write this i am in what i like to call my "personal time" or "no man's land" - i have been out of work for about 2 hours and am due back at work in about 6. this restful time is where i accomplish my life's maintainance (smoking trees, eating candy and ice cream, sleeping). but tonight i feel i have the energy to post some of my most recent investigatory journalism (i am sure you all have fond memories of my last journalistic post about cats and stuffed bunnies becoming sexually expressive with one another). please click on the link below and hit play on the second video on the page. you will be watching beirut's "the penalty" on la blogoteque. besides being dazzled by the beirutness of the song i want you to pay extra attention to the people in the video and see if you notice anything interesting. tomorrow i will post an image from the video that i feel will drastically change the life of one our friends.

as we always used to say in middle school, "keep on rockin' in the free world!"

dan

HYPERLINK!!!!!

Master Spam Theater

I don't typically check the spam that gets through my work filter, but today while I was deleting emails in Outlook this one opened up and I thought it was funny enough to post:

"Turn your cock into da bomb! It'll be so big, you could ski down it."

Wow, that is big.

Huh, in retrospect there were hints!

So here is a conversation between Matt and I from 1998. In other news I'm not going to publish anything particularly embarrassing or that drudges up bad memories (ie fights between our friends). But in light of recent romantic developments I think this one is quite interesting!

Bresette1: sup

Rev Skline: written a letter to elisa

Rev Skline: where did you go?

Bresette1: my dad came in and was like "get off"

Bresette1: its a long story why he did

Bresette1: i'll explain that later

Rev Skline: no worries

Rev Skline: K2incubus this is dees

Bresette1: is he on

Rev Skline: that is to say that that name is what dees is on as

Bresette1: where is he

Rev Skline: at dundes

Bresette1: did you read elsia's letter

Rev Skline: ya it was quite bad she's pissed at me

Bresette1: why?

Rev Skline: cause she thinks I'm just trying to find fault with her and that she wasn't leading me on

Bresette1: scoot, when i get back, you give me her number and i'll set her strait on the situation

Bresette1: seriously

Rev Skline: sounds good to me man

Bresette1: what did she say in the letter

Rev Skline: i sent them too you

Bresette1: harsh very harsh

Rev Skline: both or just hers?

Bresette1: but she has a point, she i really flirtty

Bresette1: hers

Bresette1: she is really flirtty rather

Bresette1: you know?

Rev Skline: ya I know.. l

Bresette1: but still i'll talk to her if you want and tell her all the shit cause it dosen't sound like the same old shit coming from somebody else

Bresette1: that may sound clutter but its all right to mee

Bresette1: you want me to?

Rev Skline: I hear ya and I think if you do it more power to you but I don't want to be like behind it you know? like hey matt thinks this not like hey skline made matt say this

Bresette1: no i'll just set her strait

Rev Skline: das ist gut

Bresette1: is ashley back from London, Engaland yet?

Bresette1: W W two

Bresette1: heh? HEH?

Rev Skline: not yet I wish

Bresette1: why? folks on bad terms

Bresette1: you folks, rather

Rev Skline: not really I just want to talk to her

Bresette1: so you want her to be home, or you don't want her to be home?

Rev Skline: I wish a ton that ash was home

Bresette1: when is she cumming back

Bresette1: heh?

Bresette1: heh?

Rev Skline: soon I think I'm not sure

Rev Skline: shit it hasn't even been a week yet

Bresette1: yeah it has

Bresette1: ddn't she leave tuesday last week

Rev Skline: something like that... uh the morning of the 10th

Bresette1: i wish i weren't friends with ashley

Rev Skline: funnyyou should say that I see where your going with this and my sister had just told me how she thinks i should date ash and i was like "can't friend."

Bresette1: no shit

Bresette1: i dont think we have too strong a friend ship

Bresette1: i've beaten down bigger walls

Bresette1: (not really though)

Rev Skline: best of luck man are you officially declaring interntions at this point?

Bresette1: not really

Bresette1: but i would like to invite her over and do the ol' "This is my house, this is my room..." bit

Rev Skline: I know what you mean that girl is hot

Bresette1: yeah but i'm pretty sure she will always only think of me as "oh matt, yeah he's a pretty funny kid" instead of "oh matt, i think he to be a fine piece of ass"

Bresette1: but if she we ever to mention to you the latter, please do tell me

Rev Skline: will do styles will do

Bresette1: but drop some of the old hints for me if the oppertunity comes up

Bresette1: i read the funniest book in the world today

Bresette1: and the name of that book is "Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass"

Bresette1: futhermore i must depart

Rev Skline: aee ya

Hey Jeff

How come I can't edit my posts any more?

Edit: Well you either fixed it or I can do it from my Desk top PC.

Disorder turning anchor's skin from black to white

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/12/18/turning.white.ap/index.html

DETROIT, Michigan (AP) -- Lee Thomas' skin is betraying him.

His once brown, even complexion is now mottled with pale patches around his eyes and mouth, along his nose and on his ears; his arms, shoulders and chest are speckled and blotched.

"I'm a black man turning white on television and people can see it," says Thomas, an anchor and entertainment reporter for the local Fox Broadcasting Company affiliate. "If you've watched me over the years, you've seen my hands completely change from brown to white."

Well, yeah, guy, you work for Fox.

so I thought this might be fun...

I thought it might be fun for us all to post old conversations we had with Ashley, then I thought it might be fun to just post old conversations we had with each other.

Anyway here is one between Ash and I. I'm gonna try to find the file to which I refer. No Typos have been corrected.

BLARG22: skline, im so sorry to hear that things dont seem to be working out. have you told her how you feel at all??
Rev Skline: Ahhhhh Nothen spells good idea like drinken' a bud while doing your term paper. God bless America, Football '97 I'm out!
Rev Skline: not really... I've done my little ultra subtle things, and the vibe is friend, plus there was mentions of vague crushes (but I think they're either over or in once case a 28 year old TA) see the thing is if I tell her and things get all awkward i gotta see her twice a week in class.
BLARG22: well it might be worth it
BLARG22: just for the peace of mind
Rev Skline: yeah, I know, I actaully wrote a little paragraph up that was a spin off of part of the marathon conversation she, a friend of hers, and I had last night
BLARG22: really?
Rev Skline: yeah... I'm like that when I'm smitten.
Rev Skline: actaully would you read it for me? Christ I sound like I'm twelve again.
BLARG22: of course i would
Rev Skline: what's your email at schoo?
BLARG22: same, i have it forwarded
BLARG22: blarg22@aol.com
BLARG22: send it yet?
Rev Skline: bombs away, and really I feel like we're in ninth grade again and you're hitting me for tlking about Britt
BLARG22: hahaha, back in the day
Rev Skline: yeah that's the last time I felt smitten to this degree
BLARG22: wow
Rev Skline: you know it... well I got a paper to do still... I spent most the day just day dreaming.
BLARG22: skline that was so beautiful
BLARG22: honestly
Rev Skline: "thank you" he said smileing meekly
BLARG22: what do you plan to do with that?
Rev Skline: I don't know. If she was ever feeling crumby I send it to her to let her know how special I think she is, other than that I think out of the blue it would do more harm than good.
BLARG22: i love it
Rev Skline: if some doofy jewy-looking kid, that you think is really funny, but other than that don't really have any romantic feelings for, that you'd only hung out with twice, sent it to you, wouldn't that make you feel really awkward? personally I would be complimented into considering, but I don't know.

Sacred Geometry

I once stared at this toroid for over an hour! I suggest you do the same.

Here is Leonardo Da Vinci's:



Chiggity check this site out on sacred geometry: http://www.geometrycode.com/sg/index.shtml

cheer up emo kid

so lately i've been really trying to figure out why i'm so fucked up. as you can well imagine, it's no small task! one thing i think has significantly contributed to my lack of touch with reality is the fact that my parents threw away my computer when i was in korea. this was the piece of shit desktop bought with the $1000 given to me at graduation by WA's board of trustees just for being me (another thing that probably fucked up my innate sense of worth). this computer had 6,000 songs on it, everything i had ever listened to while in college, as well as all of the papers i wrote (no small amount!) you know, my life? well it's gone and now i have no proof that anything ever happened.

so to remedy this, i've decided to replace at least some of those songs, at least the ones i played to death death death. first up: sunnday day real estate. jesus fucking christ. i don't even care that jeremy egnik is a born again christian. look at those eyes! this is from the days of "emo." remember that? it never fails to amaze me how things fade. in those days i had short hair and wore red sauconys like everyone else. matt says SDRE is "a little intense" and he's not wrong. they still stab my in the stomach (those eyes! that wail!). what's a girl to do?

Worldwide Sentiment

As this song/video/worldwide mantra says quite clearly, I wanna make it wit Chu.



Yeh, its an okay song and video, but they're signing about doing the nasty with Chu! How could I NOT post that? HOW!?!

Wu Tang is Here ForEver!

So I had a chance to listen to the new Wu-Tang and Ghostface Killah CDs today. And they just slayed it. Some pretty sick beats and solid rhymes. I'll post both CDs tonight on the databus while I watch Harry Potter. DON'T JUDGE ME!!!!

Rad Music Videos 2007

If you were looking for a list of like 8-10 rad videos from 2007 all embedded into a single post then you've come to the right place. These were picked because not only was the video fun to watch, but the associated song was sick. So with no further ado, here are my favorite vidoes from 2007, with some annoying associated text, in no particular order:

Leonard de Leonard - Screaming Dance

The music is what I imagine Georgio Moroder would write if he were scoring an 80s slasher flick that involved disco dancing, and the video is of godzilla-sized interpretive dancers destroying a city with their man ballet. So its pretty obvious why this made the cut.

St Vincent - Jesus Saves, I Spend

A vocal tolling backdrop, lyrics about Jesus, and a late-night cub scout meeting for supernatural children all add up to the least sensical video on the list, but also the most charming. Make sure you watch up the very end, the final badge is even cooler than Mind Sandwich.

The New Pornographers - Challengers

Though I think the song on its own wastes Neko Case's voice and a great verse and chorus by killing the songs momentum with the instrumental bridges, the song is still good and fits this video perfectly. I love how rediculously vivid the colors get towards the end. The goop coming out of their mouths is kinda troubling, also.

Soulja Boy - Crank Dat (Pooh Edit)

There were probably more video mashups in 2007 than real music videos and this song probably had the lion share of those. This was my favorite mashup of the year, especially when they super soak that ho. Another really good mashup here: Escort - All Through the Night.

Aesop Rock - Coffee feat. John Darnielle

This is your average mile-a-minute lyrics by Aesop over a beat that is simultaneously hyperactive and atmospheric, the kind of thing I'm so used to now that I almost ignore how great he is. The video is washed out and manages to be cheesy and creepy at the same time, which seems to be the perfect balance between horror movies and halloween. A surprise guest vocal by Mr Mountain Goats himself is a great and jarring ending.

I decided that I'll post the other videos some other time, so as not to overwhelm our front page. Besides, it will mean that more things are getting posted.

PS: Props to Chu for trying to drag us through a dearth of new material.

In NFL News...

Our regional sports team is amazing. 16-0 is gonna happen. Also, I have formed a small gambling problem due to the fact I keep winning.

Wu-Tang!

It wouldn't let me edit!

A pox on thee, blogspot!

More Boards!

So Future Spence and Malcolm fight through time here and, uh, Future Spence steals Malcolm's time belt in the process.

Who is for the children?

Mind Boggling.

Its mind boggling. My mind has been boggled: http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/12/05/teen.births.ap/index.html

and for those of you who like cross referencing: http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_SE.pdf

So what's it say? When I found the actual report, there are 19 states above the national average. Ten of those states had abstinence only or abstinence stressed education. 2 I couldn't find information on their policies (Alaska and Nebraska... though I'd be comfortable hazarding a guess...) 5 states had no specific policy (leaving it to the school districts I suppose.) Only one place above the norm stressed contraceptives (Washington DC) and one state covered both (California). Utah had the highest rate of teen pregnancy at a birth rate (live births per thousand) 21.2compared to the national average of 14. Utah not only is an abstinence only state they also have a law prohibiting teachers from answering questions asked of them by students if those answers would conflict with the law's requirements.

Without more comprehensive data its tough to tell exactly what kind of effect abstinence only/stressed education is having on birthrates but we already know from a previous study commissioned by congress (hoping to prove the effectiveness of abstinence only education) that Ab-o ed. fails to reduce sexual activity in teens but does suppress condom use.

What bothers me about this issue is how interconnected it is to other issues. We should want to reduce teen pregnancy. And although I think we should make sure that abortion is safe and legal, we should endeavor to reduce the need for it (in no small part by reducing... teen pregnancy). We should also endeavor to reduce the spread of STI's/STD's. We should want to reduce the number of people on welfare (there are higher rates of pregnancy in urban area and in lower income areas -hence DC).

So many of our problems are all tied together. We sit playing whack-a-mole trying to combat each problem as it pops up when we should be trying to figure out how to unplug the machine.

IT HAS ARRIVED!!! My Music List of Music #100-71

So who here likes lists? Me too...wow we have so much in common. I have had the chance to listen to a lot of music this year. Everything from A-Trak to Zookeeper. And here is my list of top 100 songs for 2007. I'll post the MP-Tree and a link to a video on YouTube if I can find one. I'm not gonna explain sh*t so in the comments teal me my musical taste sucks.

Let's Begin:

100) DJ Mehdi ft. Chromeo - I am Somebody (Lucky Boy) Vid
99) Tracy Jordan - Werewolf Bar Mitzvah (30 Rock) Vid
98) Nicole Willis - If This Ain't Love (I Don't Know What Is) (Keep Reachin' Up)
97) Over The Rhine - Trouble (The Trumpet Child)
96) The Brunettes - Small Town Crew (Structure and Cosmetics)
95) Eddie Vedder - Hard Sun (Into the Wild) Vid
94) Bon Iver - Skinny Love
93) Georgie James - Need Your Needs (Places) Vid
92) Dan Deacon - Crystal Cat (Spiderman of the Rings) Vid
91) Coconut Records - West Coast (Nighttiming)
90) Modelselektor ft. Thom Yorke - The White Flash (Happy Birthday!)
89) Cool Kids - Get Busy Sonnn
88) Lucky Soul - One Kiss Don't Make A Summer (The Great Unwanted)
87) Alaska In Winter ft. Zach Condon - Close Your Eyes We Are Blind(Dance Party in the Balkans)
86) Black Lips - Bad Kids (Good Bad Not Evil)
85) Jose Gonzalez - Fold (In Our Nature)
84) Bright Eyes - If The Brakeman Turns My Way (Cassadega)
83) Au Revoir Simone - Stars (The Bird of Music)

82) Dragonforce - Trough the Fire and the Flames (Inhuman Rampage) Vid - song came out in '06 but Guitar Hero III had it in '07

81) Tegan and Sara - Back In Your Head (The Con) Vid

80) Blair - Mona Lisa (Pluto)

79) Bjork - Innocence (Volta) Vid

78) Bloc Party - The Prayer (Weekend In the City) Vid

77) Dan Wilson - Free Life (Free Life)

76) Dntel ft. Jenny Lewis - Roll On (Dumb Luck)

75) Jason Isbell - In A Razor Town (Sirens of the Ditch)

74) Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing! (Sticking Fingers Into Sockets) Vid

73) New Pornographers - My Rights Vs. Yours (Challengers)

72) The Office - Oh My (A Night at the Ritz) Vid

71) Handsome Furs - Handsome Furs Hate This City (Plague Park)

All of the songs are up on the mydatabus site.

Stay tuned for part 2 and 3 in the coming Wednesdays!

Adorable Youtube Animals Go On Strike!

In response to Jeff posting about JO buddies and some writer strike or someting, the Youtube Animals have all go on strike!



Come for the cute animals...stay for the zinger at Carson Daly.

Also, I have completed my top 100 songs of two-double-ought-7. I will post 30 songs from the list this Wednesday and 25 songs every wednesday after that until Jeff's CD party where the final 20 will be unveiled. I'll try to post every song or the video for your blog reading pleasure. I bet people will like maybe 10 of the 100 songs.

In other news, this weekend was eventful. I saw 2 car accidents, got drunk 2 nights, won $200 dollars.