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Saturday, April 20th, 2002The CD run was pretty fruitful today, not in sheer quantity, but quality. At the Archive on Mt Hope I picked up the Queen of the Damned soundtrack for $5, which was a steal… and then at the Archive on East, I found the new Down CD, II, which only came out on March 26th! Excellent southern rock from members of Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar and EyeHateGod. Been just chillin for the past couple hours, and then we’re going to Dan’s LEAD conference thingy Most likely a party here tonight… stop over 156 about 9:30 if you’re interested!
Current mood: content
song: Down – The Seed
shirt: AIC / Tour 93 (In tribute to Layne)
RIP Layne Staley
Saturday, April 20th, 2002Layne Staley 1967-2002
A body was removed last night from the University District residence of Layne Staley, a victim of a drug overdose. Staley was the lead singer and guitarist for the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains. KOMO-TV, citing an unidentified source, said the body was that of Staley, 34. .
A King County medical-examiner’s investigator said his office removed a body from the Staley address and planned an autopsy today, but he refused to confirm the identity of the person. He said it appeared the person had been dead for some time and would have to be identified scientifically.
Staley had a history of substance abuse, and in the early 1990s publicly acknowledged an addiction to heroin.
Now, I was and still am a huge Alice In Chains fan. They were the first band I really took a strong liking to, and thanks to a friend in high school, they primarily got me into collectiing CD’s as well. But don’t expect me to be wallowing in a “Sea of Sorrow” over it, ala Kurt Cobain. Everyone had Layne on their dead pool lists, and while no one wants to see anyone else die, unfortunately he had it coming. But I’ll definately throw on some AIC today in rememberance. Looks like I’ll never get to see AIC proper, but now in light of Layne’s death, seeing Jerry Cantrell is going to be that much better.
Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134439958_staley20m.html
80’s song foods
Thursday, April 18th, 2002Amanda sent me this:
80’s Foods!
Sundae Bloody Sundae
Banannarama Split
Prince’s Rhaspberry Sorbet
The Milli Vanilli
Hungry Like the Wolf special
Papa Don’t Peach
Meatloaf
“Just Can’t Get Enough” buffet
“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” side dishes
Unforgettable Fire (some spicy food)
Take My Breath Away mints
Every Breath You Take mints
Rock the Casbah (register – Sara’s idea…) 🙂
Don’t Dream It’s Over Easy
Never Tear Us Apart sticky buns
Puttin on the Ritz appetizers
“AH HA” surprise platter
“You Can Call Me Al” waiters
Condiment-nation or Condom-nation
Janie’s Got a Bun hamburger
Get Into the Groove hot dog
Peter Gabriel’s Solsbury Steak
“Seven” appetizer platter
Wham!, Sledgehammer, and Oh Sherrie (alcoholic drinks)
“I Want Your Sex” – would jest be funny to hear someone say I guess
“Take It On the Run, Baby” – take out menu
Key Limelight Pie
The Sweetest Confection
“Just What I Needed” drink or dessert menu
Sweet Dreams are Made of this – dessert menu
Knead You Tonight bread
Trout (Shout)
Crazy for Stew
Red Red Wine
Salmon (Lemon)
Hanging Tough – term for well done meat
Beat It scrambled eggs
The Grill is Mine – BBQed foods
Culture Club sandwich
A Forest Cake
Dead or Alive burgers
Manic Monday specials
Ladies Night “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” specials
Be My Cherry Pie
Rock Lobster
Everything Counts tip jar
Carmel Chameleon
rockin the balcony
Tuesday, April 16th, 2002Just got back from Sevendust…. awesome show, review will be up later, as I’m tired now and don’t really feel like typing anymore than I have to. I will say that Breaking Point wasn’t much better than when we saw em with Fuel, but they did play RVD’s theme song!! Sevendust played mostly the same set as Buffalo, and it was every bit as good! First row balcony at water street, yay! 🙂
nice days for cantrell and 7dust
Monday, April 15th, 2002Sunday night was lab write up and lounging, watched parts of two hockey games (Isles beat the Flyers, and the beginning of Blues-Red Wings), went to the Woo to take bottles back and pick up a few things. Finished up my Routing and Switching lab, and sat talking to Dan and Jeff for a while last night also. this morning was beautiful, the sun was shining, and it was WARM!! My weatherbug says 74 currently… very nice. SysAdmin was about Periodic processing, and scheduling tasks. We had a nice hour break before routing and switching, so we hit the SAU, the boys got some grub, and we oversaw the passerby that were on the quarter mile. Routing and switching brought the return of our midterms. I got an 87, not too shabby! I come home to find out that Mary jumped the gun on everyone and got us 4th row at Darien Lake for Nickelback / Jerry Cantrell…. YES!!! I never got to see Alice In Chains, so seeing their guitar player is the next best thing, and he’s been doing AIC tunes during his other tours, hopefully the trend will continue. The show isnt till the middle of june, so we got these waaaaaaaaaay early! So the mail comes, and dad sent me the ticket for Nickelback at Buff State! Plus, after the Routing and Switching practical, its SEVENDUST TIME!!!! I’m picking up Jason and we’re heading to get rocked at water street! 🙂
current mood: waiting to get R+S practical over with
song: BoyHitsCar – Lovefurypassionenergy
shirt: Sevendust – animosity tour (no, I’m not wearing it tonight….)
rockin the sears database
Sunday, April 14th, 2002From Sears’ customer records, courtesy of Scott:
Last night ended up being rather slow. Sat around for a long while, dabbled in a little homework, mostly vegging. Mary and I finally trekked out to Eastview about 8 or so, and we’re one of the last dogs to be shot at the mall. We came back, and watched the majority of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure with Dan and Scott, then Nick from work showed up because he was just as bored as us. When that was over, VH1 had a countdown of the top 80 80’s videos that we caught for a half hour till SNL with the Rock was on. SNL is getting funny again! The Rock always does a good job when he’s on. We flipped back to the VH1 countdown, just in time to see Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel) at number 2, and oddly enough, MJ’s Billie Jean as Number 1. Number 1 video of the 80’s? Thriller was like 8, and Def Leppard’s “Photograph” was 6, which made no sense to us. Whatever. Slept till 11, and now there’s an APB out for our TV remote. fun wow. Looks like HW day for me today. Yippie.
50 Mission Cap
Tuesday, April 9th, 2002As countless others probably have, I often wonder about the meaning of the Tragically Hip’s song “Fifty Mission Cap” (off Fully Completely), which is about the Maple Leaf great Bill Barillko scoring the Stanley Cup winning goal in 1951 and subsequently disappearing, only to be found in the wreckage of a plane in 1962, the next time the Leafs won the Cup. I actually found an answer.
What is a “Fifty Mission Cap”? Is there any connection between the “Fifty Mission Cap” and Bill Barilko or is just a coincidence that Gord Downie keeps his Bill Barilko card under his “Fifty Mission Cap”?
Gord Downie likes to mix things up in his songs. The song is about both
Bill Barilko and 50 Mission Cap which is from the old fighter pilots
who’s leather hats were worn in after each mission. The Fifty Mission
Cap is a really good worked in cap. “I worked it in to look like that”
could be taken as someone wanting their cap to look like it had been on
fifty missions. I heard him say he didn’t really know the history of
Barilko scoring and disappearing so when he read the card it inspired
him on that front and I believe that that ( don’t quote me ) but the
Fifty Mission Cap idea came from the fact that planes were used to
search for Barilko and that is where that tangent came from. A lot of
the Hip’s songs go similarily with a few meanings and interpretations.
Sorry for rambling just my two cents.
This is almost disappointing, because I had a much weirder and, in my little mind anyway, cooler picture in mind whenever I heard the song. Mine was more along the lines that he got the hockey card (which I also have a couple copies of), and worked the card in “to look like that”. As in wearing the cap with the card in it the whole time, like a cherished momento or something. And as far as fifty mission cap, I had a dumb vision of a Labatt 50 beer logo. Apparently it wasn’t so dumb, because someone else had the same idea, and made a custom shirt out of a Labatt 50 bottlecap with “Fifty Mission Cap” on it as well. I guess the artists are right when they say they let the fans take their own interpretations of songs. Mine was much cooler to me this time around. It’s still a great song.
not another music survey!
Tuesday, April 9th, 2002Sara did this, and I like stating my musical opinions, so here y’all go… plus midterm studying is looming, I’m starting after this, really I am!
1. Favorite band(s)? Staind, Cold, NIN, OLP, Tea Party, Sevendust, Tool, Korn, you get the idea
2. Do you enjoy concerts? 105 later? nope, don’t think so….
3. What was the last concert you attended? David Usher at the Tralf
4. Music you couldn’t live without? Like sara said, mine… 🙂
5. Kind of music that could fall off the face of the earth and you wouldn’t care nor miss it? techno.
6. About how many CDs do you own? Exactly 537
7. How many CDs can your stereo hold at a time? the AIWA holds 3, the computer can do 2 (two drives!)
8. Do you have a discman? Of course! Has the neat little wired remote thingy too
9. What CD could you listen to for hours? There’s a couple, The Fragile, Ten, BoyHitsCar
10. Can you sing well? : hell’s yeah! Karaoke superstar!
11. How many CDs do you own by Sublime? 2 (Self-titled and the What I Got EP)
12. Pink Floyd? zippo
13. Tool? 5 (Opiate, Undertow, AEnima, Salival, Lateralus)
14. Eminem? zero hahah
15. Incubus? not a one
16. Blink 182? Are you kidding me? ZERO
17. Everclear? Gag me
18. Weezer? geek rock is for trendy assholes.
19. Garbage? none
20. RATM? 3 (RATM, Evil Empire, Battle of LA) and I have the VHS with the videos on it
21. Dr. Dre? Just one, Make my bud The Chronic!
22. Fuel? 11, have a ton of promos and a bootleg
23. Linkin Park? Just the one, Hybrid Theory (I do have the original EP in mp3 as well)
24. Radiohead? zero
25. The Pixies? none. I know they were forrunners of grunge, but I don’t dig them
26. KoRn? 11, just got the Here To Stay promo
27. Limp Bizkit? 7, and I had 3 Dollar Bill waaaaaaay before MTV got to them….
28. Smashing Pumpkins? 2 (Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie)
29. MxPx? We used to be Christian but that wasn’t cool so we forgot about it but we still suck…
30. Foo Fighters? zero
31. Tom Petty? none
32. Eve 6? : yeah I have the first one…
33. Sum 41? RIT CAB just HAS to bring someone better next year…
34. No Doubt? that they suck?
35. Nine Inch Nails? We’re up to halo seventeen, so I have 21 (UK head like a hole, 2-disc closer import, 3-disc we’re in this together, TO 2000 bootleg) plus the Closure video… havent gotten the Fragility DVD quite yet.
Which lyrics come to your mind when you hear/or what do you think of:
36. Goo Goo Dolls? “Caught in a breakdown…” (Lazy Eye) (And I still resent them for their selfish display of 6 mediorcre songs at the Charity show)
37. Lifehouse? .- mad boring live… lyric? “Hanging by a moment here with you…”
38. Saves the Day? *whining like a baby* “…and I will sing, the requiem…” WAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
39. Staind? “CAN’T BREATHE…. SHUTUP…. SHUTUP…” (Spleen)
40. LFO? These are those “I like girls who were Abercrombie and Fitch” assholes aren’t they?
41. Beatles? “I wanna hold your haaaaaaaand…..”
42. Papa Roach? “My name’s Coby Dick, Mr. Dick if you’re nasty, rock a mic with a voice that’s raspy…” (Infest)
43. The Bloodhound Gang? DRUMMER FROM DEF LEPPARDS ONLY GOT ONE ARM! (I’m with Sara here, I think this is from Hold Your Head Up High (And Blow Your Brains Out))
44. Oasis? “Well, What’s the story, Morning Glory?”
45. Master P? as much as I hate this type of rap, “Make em say UUUUUUUUUUUUGH”
46. Our Lady Peace? “Super….. sattellite”
47. The Verve Pipe? “For the life of me, I cannot remember…” (The Freshman)
48. Limp Bizkit? “Breaker breaker 1-9, spittin out mad skills, suicidal punk let me know you’re real…” (Pollution)
49. Blink 182? Only good single they ever had, ahh the Gracie’s memories! “The timing, and structure, did you hear, he fucked her?” (Dammit)
50. Marilyn Manson? “Take your hatred out on me…” (Tourniquet)
51. 311? “…or play a track from your record collection, it’s your mix, congratulations” (Down).
52. Snoop Dogg? “…cuz it’s 1-8-7 on an undercover cop…” (Deep Cover)
53. The Fugees? “Killing me softly with his song…”
54. Britney Spears? i’m a slave for you (cuz i’m a big whore) (Sara said it best)
55. Janet Jackson? “We are a part of a Rhythm Nation”
56. Sisqo? “Somebody’s been sleeping in my bed…” (Acutally, that was a Dru Hill song)
57. Red Hot Chili Peppers? “Sometimes I feel like I don’t have a partner…” (Under The Bridge)
58. Elton John? “Daniel’s leaving tonight on a plane…”
59. Tupac? “How do you want it? How Does it feel?”
60. Aretha Franklin? “You better think… THINK! think about what you’re tryin to do to me…” (It’s in the Blues Brothers)
whew…
another music survey
Friday, April 5th, 2002Bowling was okay last night, I did my usual 110+ games, not as much fun without mary (she was sick). Joe and I did go to 7-Eleven afterwards to get our RVD slurpee cups and the WWF poster they had! Rockin! Work till noon now, and then fun with Dad and Jake!
Sara posted this, so I gotta answer these!
What was the first album you ever bought? First album on tape was Alice in Chains – Dirt, and first CD was (sadly) Green Day – Dookie
What was the last album you bought? Used CD run last week, so this one is the last one on the list: ZZ Top – Recycler (of which I had the tape a looooong time ago)
What was the last CD you listened to? Spinning The Tea Party – Transmission in the Discman
How many albums do you currently own? 537! (Yes, thats an exact number)
Which one of your albums do you wish you never would have wasted your money on? I’ve sold back all the ones I’d rather get rid of…. the only one that I still have that I’d ditch is Dope – Felons and Revolutionaries
Name an album you secretly love that would ruin your reputation as cool if people knew about it? I enjoy everything I own, however, most people snicker at the Vanilla Ice, Tesla, and my Sir Mix-A-Lot, House of Pain, and Kriss Kross singles 🙂 (middle school cheese, people!!)
What album do you listen to most often? As of late, WWF Forceable Entry, Sevendust – Animosity, and Matthew Good Band – The Audio of Being
How many concerts have you been to? 105
Which of the above, if any, was your favorite? – NIN in TO 4/00, Tea Party Buffalo 12/31/00, OLP Buffalo 6/97, Staind Buffalo 5/99
Name a fantastic album someone else introduced you to? Mary really got me started on Cake with Fashion Nugget
Name the last album someone else bought for you? Um, on a used CD run Mary got me Live – The Distance To Here
Name the last album you purchased for someone as a gift? I think I got Dad something, but I’ll be damned if I remember what it is!
Name a fantastic album you discovered entirely by accident, on your own? Me and Mary both saw Caroline’s Spine open for the Watchmen and were blown away…. so both Monsoon and Attention Please
Name an album you’d play for someone you wanted to seduce: Jeff Buckley – Grace
ressurection david
Friday, March 29th, 2002
Whoa. You’re loud, scary and just a little bit nuts. Better keep that angry temper – and those pesky multiple personalities – in check. You also have the tendency to run from room to room, making crazy faces, and you can walk through walls (as long as you have your hands in your pockets) — bonus!
Which David Usher Are You? [http://heaven.morethanart.org/blog/davidushertest.html]