Last 3 days in 5 mins or less...

• Watched the State of the Union address last night. I freaking love our president. I would pay good money to have been able to take some of his Law and Politics classes at the University of Chicago. Critics (Palin) called the speech last night a 'lecture.' Maybe they're right. It did come off that way. But you know what I think? Most of Washington NEEDS a lecture, and possibly detention on the weekend! Parts of the speech WERE scolding, but rather than whining about it like an admonished teenager, maybe... I dunno... internalize what you were told and learn from it.
• Watched (500) Days of Summer again. That movie is excellent. The title screen is super cool, the writing is funny, and the message is both heart-wrenching and hopeful at the same time.
  
• Used my new shoes for the first time, and they're super comfy! A good buy.
• Having some crazy re-structuring at work today. I've managed to come through several of these re-organizations and re-alignments without losing my job, and luckily today was no different. Threaded another needle.
  

New Shoes Dance!

Got some some new running/working out shoes today at the 'mal.'

Adidas Marathon 10s in black and white:

Randoms > 3 *s

iTunes Smart Playlist: Randoms > 3 *s
Rating is greater than ***
Limit to 5 songs selected at random.

1) Fake White Van - Short of 1st
2) Basket Case - Greenday
3) Scarborough Fair - Simon and Garfunkel
4) "40 -80" - Lucky Boys Confusion
5) I Don't Live Today - Jimi Hendrix

Hand me up

Its not that often that I get older brother to take any 'hand me ups' - but there was one good one in particular recently. See below:

That's right, its a vintage Iowa Hawkeyes '86 Rose Bowl t-shirt. Its the softest thing in the planet, other than the Snuggle bear.

And, of course, I handed this piece of hawkeye apparel down the way any respecting Stater would - throwing it in the garbage for a hawkeye fan to dig out. (jokes. It had stains from facewash stuff on ancient tee material and stained it pinkish around the neck. And I was just giving it to Goodwill, not the garbage.)

Goals for 2010

• Grow a beard. (I'm thinking No-Shave-November this year)
  
• Learn to solo the way I want to be able to.
• Go to Church.
• (Start to) learn another language via Rosetta Stone.
• Learn to skateboard.
• Build and paint a skateboard.
  
• Grow my hair out. (not the same time as the beard.)

...that's it for now. More later. The list got petty there at the end and I'm not pleased.

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Roscommon and I hit up a movie last night - The Fantastic Mr. Fox.


Roald Dahl was one of our favorite authors growing up with family favorites of Danny, Champion of the World; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, The B.F.G.; The Twits, and Mr. Fox. We knew most of them. This movie was done very differently, and I enjoyed it. The script was hilarious - both of us thought it was the funniest movie we'd seen all year save for maybe The Hangover. We both highly recommend this one.

Guitar World Outakes

I thought maybe this new blog would be more high-brow or 'relevant' - but I was wrong. 2nd Post = gag reels!

Maybe you have to be an internet guitar junkie to get how half of this is funny, like the "_____ played in the style of ______ ."



here's a clip of the real song: