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No Iggy and the Stooges, but Madonna? Rock and Roll? Come again? What a load of horse shit. Until The Stooges (and the MC5, for that matter) are inducted into this, it's not even real. The Stooges and Fun House are two of the greatest records of all time. And I mean, come on, they put the fucking Sex Pistols in there, and the Stooges are at least as important as they are in the grand scheme of things...

Meh. I don't get it.

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So I'm sitting here watching Snoop Dogg's Fatherhood (I don't know why I started watching it, and it's pretty apparently scripted, but Snoop is funny, so it's worthwhile), and every other commercial is for a movie called "How She Move", which I guess is a movie about "stepping". I've gotta wonder how stupid a person has to be to lap up this mindless drivel? This is the most formulaic of movies. Take an underprivileged lower class inner city youth that has aspirations of dancing/cheerleading/drumming/singing, and tell their story about their rise from the streets of Los Angeles/New York to gain acceptance through doing their activity at a high level. It is in this youth's struggle and success that the audience gains a warm feeling inside, no matter how cheap, and cliched it is.

Chance are, the people that are going to see this movie have also seen all the other movies that follow this exact same story arc. They are the stupidest sons of bitches on the planet. They are the same ones that buy "album by cute boys in a band" and "album by pretty young girl". There is a reason that the record companies and movie companies put out the same shit over and over again. It's because there are so many goddamn idiots that will buy the shit with their parents expendable income. This movie is going to be all the rage on Michigan State's campus in the very near future.

This would not be "grinding my gears" if it wasn't for the fact that the commercial is on so goddamn much during one of the five shows I actually like. It is no wonder that this is an MTV film. They have been suckering stupid kids into watching awful rubbish for 20 years.

On a more happy note, I have a laptop now. Thinkpad Z61t. It's great. I'm really digging it.

Edit: Seems there is another movie called "Step Up 2" coming out soon also. I can't even begin to describe how stupid this up (start with the '2')

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Ok, I finally worked out my top ten for the year.

1 (tie). Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between
1 (tie). Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
3. The Snake the Cross the Crown - Cotton Teeth
4. Guilty Simpson - Stray Bullets (mixed by DJ Rhettmatic)
5. Blue Scholars - Bayani
6. Ghostface Killah - Hidden Darts Special Edition
7. Sundowner - Four One Five Two
8. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
9. Various Artists - Chrome Children v.2
10. The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights

Biggest disappointments:

Bright Eyes - Casadaga
The Stooges - The Weirdness
Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab

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1. Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
2. The Snake, the Cross, the Crown - Cotton Teeth
3. Sundowner - Four One Five Two
4. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
5. Blue Scholars - Bayani
6. Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth
7. Feist - The Reminder
8. Various Artists - Chrome Children v2
9. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
10. Lifetime - Lifetime

After the first two albums, it's a huge drop off to me. I've gotten 42 albums released this year, so I didn't have very many to pick from.

Current Music: Shellac - End of Radio

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Not going to type out a bunch of thoughts about these albums.

1. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
2. Defiance, OH - The Great Depression
3. J. Dilla - The Shining
4. Oh No - Exodus into Unheard Rhythms
5. Moneen - The Red Tree (very surprised by this album)
6. Murs - Murray's Revenge
7. (tie) Johnny Cash - Personal File & Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
8. The Streets - The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living
9. Cursive - Happy Hollow
10. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
11. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
12. Feist - Let it Die
13. J. Dilla - Donuts
14. Kevin Devine - Put Your Ghost to Rest
15. Feist - Open Season

Biggest Letdowns:
1. Less than Jake - In With the Out Crowd
2. Tilly and the Wall - Bottoms of Barrels
3. Heavens - Patent Pending
4. Saves the Day - Sound the Alarm
5. Ice Cube - Laugh Now, Cry Later

Best EPs:
1. Cursive - Dorothy at Forty
2. Okkervil River - Overboard and Down
3. The Mountain Goats - Babylon Springs

Current Music: The Loved Ones - Sickening

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Guess there's a lesson to learn
As if I hadn't learned it before
I tried my hardest to keep it all in
I ain't keepin' it in no more

Made mistakes every day
And I learned from two
Keep those that you love the furthest from you
And try to take care of them too

It's just a feeling I have
And it ain't what I think I should do
Pluck out my heart and I'll give it to you
Then you'll get more use from your's too

Get back (x4)
Look what I've done to you
Get back (x4)
Look what I've done to you

I'm too tired to go home
And I'm too lost and alone
I looked in the mirror on the back of your door
All my weaknesses show

There's a bomb going off
Out in the yard of the house
When we worked so hard to pull all the weeds out
What were we talking about?

Get back (x4)
Look what I've done to you
Get back (x4)
Look what I've done (x2)
Look what I've done to you

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On the sidebar now, there is a link to Music. I wrote a plugin for the best music player ever to write all the songs I listen to to a mysql db. It only writes it when I've listened to the song for longer than thirty seconds, and it writes the time I started the song, the time I ended it, the artist, title, album, and length of the song.

You can view what I have so far up here . This is inspired by some shit that Mike Neir did on his site.

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The needle on my record player has been wearing thin..
The fucker has been playing since the day you've been with him
No more long rides home
No more of your station
I didn%u2019t like it anyways

Remember the time we wrote our names upon the wall
Remember the time we realized thriller was our favorite song
Have I waited too long
Have I found that someone
Have I waited too long
To see you
Have I waited too long
Have I found that someone
Have I waited too long
To see you

Maybe it%u2019s for the best
Maybe it%u2019s not for anything
It wouldn%u2019t be so bad to take this right from me
No more long rides home
No more of your station
I didn%u2019t like it anyway

Remember the time we wrote our names upon the wall
Remember the time we realized thriller was our favorite song
Have I waited too long
Have I found that someone
Have I waited too long
To see you
Have I waited too long
Have I found that someone
Have I waited too long
To see you
How many times I%u2019ve tried
It%u2019s simple to you, so simple to lie
How many times I%u2019ve tried
Blatant mistakes of your design
How many times I%u2019ve tried
It%u2019s simple to you, so simple to lie
Blatant mistakes of your design
Have I waited too long
Have I found that someone
Have I waited too long
To see you
I%u2019ve had so many chances
Turn my back and I ran away
I%u2019ve had so many chances
To see you

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I got Make Believe, Weezer's new album yesterday, and I'm REALLY digging it. I made the statement that you have to look at Weezer as two bands... pre-Pinkerton and post-Pinkerton... but now I'm not so sure about that... this may just be something where I'm really digging the new album too much, but I'm not sure... I am really enjoying This is Such a Pity, Peace, The Other Way and Hold Me of all the songs on the album... track list is as follows:

Beverly Hills
Perfect Situation
This Is Such A Pity
Hold Me
Peace
We Are All On Drugs
The Damage In Your Heart
Pardon Me
My Best Friend
The Other Way
Freak Me Out
Haunt You Everyday

In other news, I left my car on from 4p until about 10p yesterday... the penalties of getting out of my car with my ipod headphones on.. can't hear if the car is on or not...

Going to install OS9 on my "new" PowerMac7500 tonight... should be fun, anyways...

Edit: Pardon Me is my new favorite song

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