He said What Do You Want to Be? She Said 'Alive'

It's been a while since I've made a significant post. I apologize to my several faithful readers.

I'll start off with the Super Bowl. I won't comment too much on the game, since if you really care about it you'll see 17,000 different articles and TV shows discussing it. But I'll just say that the refs sort of blew it again. Not on a Pittsburgh-Seattle level, but still pretty bad. You can't call like seven holding penalties on one team and not on the other... there's holding on every single NFL play! The roughing the passer penalty was bull if you consider how Ben was scrambling and extending the play just about every time he dropped back. Sometimes you just have to let them play. And not reviewing the last play was absolutely inexcusable.

Commercials were so-so this year. Careerbuilder.com was the clear winner this year (anything involving a koala bear with glasses wins for me). ETrade always produces quality stuff. I was actually very disappointed with the lack of a Geico commercial.

Oh, and The Office episode tonight probably ranks as one of my top 3 favorites ever. It was classic from start-to-finish. This is especially impressive because I've felt that the last two seasons have gone nothing but downhill. They definitely saved this one for the right time.


Alright, I've claimed this many different times. But I have officially found... the funniest video on youtube. Ever.

And if you love ShamWows like I do... watch this.

And I have an obligation to post a Stevie Wonder video. And make a joke about it (despite my love for him). Really, do you think they said "Stevie... please don't step forward or backwards or anywhere really"?


Listen To:
Thrice - A Song For Milly Michaelson
Madcon - Beggin
City and Colour - Sensible Heart
The Prize Fighter Inferno - The Going Price For Home

My Top 5 Most Listened to Artists for the Week (according to last.fm)
1. Circa Survive
2. City and Colour
3. Gym Class Heroes
4. Thrice
5. OutKast

Days til my 21st Birthday: 23

I've Been Trying to Get Back to the Center

There are some days that I wish I had something that I could rationally blog about. Oh well.

I'll start off with the snow. I know this is an old story for many fellow Western New Yorkers... but I'm going to break this down to its most simplistic form: Why the hell does anybody live here? Driving anywhere is a constant death trap. Every time you go outside it's like a fifteen minute preparation. Don't even get me started about scraping off your car. I actually carry two snow brushes in my car (so me and the passenger can go at the Impala like The Wonder Twins). And it's more expensive to live here too (than the South)! I know I'm another one of those people who constantly say "When I grow up I'm going to move down South"... but when I get out of school I'm freakin' moving down South!

And to make it worse is the fact that I really don't find anything remotely redeeming about snow. I don't snowboard, ski or snowmobile. I'm not a super good snowball maker (though I can chuck them pretty decently). I secretly wish that every paper snowflake that I've ever made was actually a ninja star. I don't even like making snowmen. In fact, "Frosty the Snowman" is in my bottom three least favorite Christmas songs.


Even though I know that I'm better off now, I kind of missed when I was poor. I recently received my school loan check, but for the past two weeks I was living off of like twelve bucks. I was figuring out ways not to drive to anything. I basically lived off of Easy Mac and angel hair spaghetti. I couldn't buy any drinks, had to mooch alcohol, basically only drank tap water (which I really don't have a problem with, besides that I miss out on Riptide Rush). I'd have to make decisions like "Can I afford toilet paper or should I skip out on buying shampoo for a day or two?" When I shoveled my grandmother's driveway and she gave me a twenty for my services the first song I listened to was "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen. I'm probably strange for calling all of that fun.

ShamWows are massively overrated. I just thought I'd say that.

It's 1:04AM. Sounds like a good time to go food shopping. Hugs and kisses.


My Most Played Artists In the Last Week (according to Last.fm)
1. City and Colour
2. Kanye West
3. Junior Boys
4. Vampire Weekend
5. Girl Talk


Days Til My 21st Birthday Counter: 30

and Crash, Crash, CRASH Into a Ditch. Just Playin'.

I've been really sick since Monday morning. Basically everything that could be wrong is extremely wrong right now (my brother felt like he had a pretty decent explanation for it). I'm feeling slightly better now, but not actually good. Moving on.

Let me start off by saying that I think somebody's been using my Youtube or something. Either that or Youtube just sucks at recommending things. Why do I say this? Because on the front page of Youtube there is a little section that says 'Recommended For You' and then it has like three videos under it that are supposedly recommended for the user, which is me. Well, the three videos that are recommended to me are a ten second clip of some girl's boobs bouncing (no I do not use Youtube for that!), a music video by Papa Roach (yeah, okay lol), and this video that not only completely baffles me, but makes me wonder how it could ever be recommended to anyone.

Keeping on with random things, I'm going to talk about toilet paper. This morning (okay, I woke up at about 2pm today) I noticed I was running kind of low on toilet paper. So I made a quick run out to Tops, grabbed whatever was on sale, and came back. Finally, when I got to using my my new purchase, I realized that I had bought 3-ply toilet paper. THREE PLY! I didn't even know how to feel about this. I mean, I'm all about keeping my hands clean, but I'm not really sure that the third ply was necessary. I decided to read the label on the package. It read: "Introducing New 3-Ply Quilted Northern Ultra Plush. Two layers of pillowy tissue for extra softness, and a third layer for added absorbency." I'm glad they painted such a vivid image in the minds of those making a difficult choice between their product and Charmin. I think eventually they're going to straight up come out with Ass Pillows. They just give you a full fluffy pillow to clean your ass with, and then you can wash and re-use it. Like a ShamWow. We can't do this all day.

I watched the first two episodes of the new Real World season last night. I'm fairly positive I'm not going to enjoy this one too much. And that's coming from one of the biggest heterosexual male Real World fans ever. Issues:

1. Lack of ridiculously attractive female. It helps me get through boring episodes.
2. Too many people in the house. There's eight people on the show this season instead of seven. There literally just isn't enough time to give adequate camera time to each person. In the second episode, the only people really shown at all were Ryan (the close-minded frat boy), Chet the Mormon (who I hate), and Baya (the borderline cute-but-gap-toothed hip-hop dancing chick).
3. Not to say transexuals still me make sort of uncomfortable... but yeah, transexuals still sort of make me uncomfortable. I was praying they'd put on a midg.. er, little person on before a transexual. Or a basketball-playing Asian.
   
4. I hate Chet the Mormon. Not because he's Mormon. Just because he's a douche.
5. J.D (the token gay one) is completely full of himself. This will lead to numerous of my conversations with other people going like this:

Me: I hate JD. He's a prick who is waaay full of himself.
Other Person: Oh no, you just don't like him because he's gay.
Me: Actually, I just think he's a prick. I'm fine with gay people.
Other Person: I know. But I think you secretly don't like him because he's gay.
Me: Okay. I totally hate people just because they're gay.



My Top Five Most Played Artists Last Week (According to Last.fm)
1. OutKast
2. The Doors
3. Underoath
4. Crystal Castles
5. Sublime

My Top Five Most Played Songs Last Week
1. OutKast - Da Art of Storytellin' (Part One)
2. OutKast - Da Art of Storytellin' (Part Two)
3. Crystal Castles - Vanished
4. Underoath - A Boy Brushed Red Living in Black
5. Underoath - The Impact of Reason