F Me

Richard Wright layed any hope of a Pink Floyd reunion tour to rest…. if you will.

Shawn reminded me that I haven’t written anything in a while, so I should get off my ass.  Mostly I’ve been spending more of my time over at tigergeist.com, but I need to spend some time cleaning up old posts here.  I realized I blogged much of Ero’s reactions to the 2004 Olympics, and this year she’s in rare form.  From here on out, I’m going to refer to her as PhelpsPhan69.  You get the picture.

Stumbled on this ad from JC Penny.. which apparently they didn’t release.

How to Have Sex Without Your Parents Knowing

Pointed out on mgoblog.com:  Apparently she’s a Michigan fan, based on the shirt she keeps putting on and taking off.  Word.

I hate starbucks because they make it so difficult to get a coffee in the morning.   Maybe its only because i go there 2x / month and i don’t “know the system”.  Whatever.  I stand in a fake line, where other people look like they’re either waiting to order, waiting to pay, figuring out what they want to order, or waiting for their drink — they all have the same look on their face.  Then they ask you what you want, and sometimes your name.
THEN, instead of just calling out your fucking name, they call out what you ordered… very loudly.. and then softly mumble your name.  The second part is probably due to the fact that the person taking the order didn’t take the name down right… though honestly it can’t be that easy writing on these cups.  I don’t understand why they just don’t call out “John.. get your fucking order” instead of “non-fat xxxxxxxxxxxxxx….. for John”.
Or, in this case, they might have said “travis”.  I didn’t listen.  so i hate the system… and some dude named travis hates the system and hates whoever stole his coffee this morning.  and, honestly travis… this coffee sucks.  I’m def. not the big winner today.

Sometimes the world gets you down. Work… IRS.. whatever. Sometimes its just too much.

SF loses one of the best chauffeurs it has known, when Richard decided to give NAFTA the big F-U and took a job in Hong Kong. Its been a tough week; Last night Richard cried in my arms about how much he’ll miss me and didn’t know if he could handle the big city alone. I assured him that he would be missed, and that I’d retroactively charge him for all of the taxi fares i expect to accumulate in the future.

Just when none of us thought we could go on without Richard… whose flight leaves this evening, the Lord giveth back to us. First, someone sent me a link to this site — www.superficial.com. Its one of those gossip type websites that seems to make fun of everyone. Then, later in the day… a miracle happened. A magic post that comes around once in a lifetime. I think the URL speaks for itself:

http://thesuperficial.com/2008/05/sarah_mclachlan_in_a_bikini_it.php

Yes. You read that right. And she looks AWESOME for 40.
Sorry to see you go Richard. Thanks for the memories. And i think you’d also appreciate the link to your hot fellow canuck.

Its interesting that this dog actually has two names — Laura calls it “Shayda”, and Scott calls it “Shamrock”.

Based on her bahavior, in the last 72 hours we’ve called her a combination of the following:
Shit machine

Poopy McPoop Poop

McPoopy

Sir shits-a-lot

Pukester

Poopy McPuke

McLovin-to-Poop

Attention Whore

Psychotic dumbfuck

Stripe

Note — Not quite sure how we determined she was irish.  But it fits.

Ok, thats a joke. But Scott & Laura asked nicely (actually they asked Ero) if we would dogsit their maniac boston terrier for a week while they’re in Hawaii. Yeah… if it wasn’t enough that they’re out of town, they’re going to Hawaii. This dog is psychotic — of all things, it bites hawiians (kevin) and tries to rip your heart out through your neck (Collin). All in a wonderful 18 pound package.

This is what you get when you leave it to us to dog sit. Picture time!

As you can see, Ero likes to be nice to the dog.

Yet Sheyda really loves me. She loves to watch me cook:

She loves to watch me eat

She loves to watch me dance:

Yet, at the end of the night, like most of us, she just wants a little bit of vino.  Or a bottle.

To avoid leakage, Jack and the boys released this almost without warning. I haven’t found any reviews from the typical sites so I’m posting my own. Because that is all that matters, what I think. Just ask my wife.

Starts off as a serious rock album. Similar to the first album, i think it’ll be better performed live. Upon the first listen, it sounds like they got a little too cute with some of the songs. After a few go-rounds it sounds much more ‘even’, a very very solid sophomore effort.. It is obvious that the addition of Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler are serious talent and it makes you wonder if Mr White over-does some areas because he’s not used to it. Almost get the feeling of a 70’s style rock album with country influences… without the 70’s rock pretentiousness and over-the top solos. Interesting that this album has some very white stripes-esque songs; “broken boy soldier” was very careful to avoid any comparisons, but Consolers of the Lonely has a very jack white influence. Wonder how much the White Stripes recently cancelled tour had to do with it.

1. Consoler of the Lonely:
   solid rock song. Took a while to get into. 5.5 / 10
2. Salute Your Solution:
   Rocking. 7.5 / 10
3. You Don’t Understand Me:
   Slow ballad type. not my thing. Though it does have a nice haunting piano ending. 3 / 10
4. Old Enough:
   Upbeat country-rock style jam. Fast and fun, great vocals, supporting keys. 7 / 10
5. The Switch and The Spur:
   Interesting mix of horns, guitar, keys, and vibra slap. 6 / 10
6. Hold Up:
   Driving guitars and rocking vocals move this song along at a vicious pace. Probably find the workout-mix on the old ipod. though it would make me jog too fast. I’m out of shape. 9 / 10
7. Top Yourself:
   Very white stripes sounding. Ballsy & Bluesy guitar with banjo rhythm. 7 / 10
8. Many Shades of Black:
   Horns are back; sounds like Jack kept the phone number of the horn player from “Conquest”. Brandon sings a 50’s style love song. A little long winded. 6 / 10
9. Five on the Five:
   Recorded version of a popular song from their last tour. Pretty rocking take, though I think I would have liked a different style of vocal on it. 7.5 / 10
10. Attention:
    Some pretty cool effects on the instruments; a different sounding song. Chorus kind of drops itself on its head, killing the momentum of the verses. 5 / 10
11. Pull This Blanket Off:
    Melodic short ballad. Of all of the songs, it might show off the talent of the musicians and the singers the best. 8 / 10
12. Rich Kid Blues:
    Almost an extension of “Pull this blanket off”. Song evolves a few times, and moves in and out of the illegitimate child of Styx, Night Ranger and Joe Cocker. Does it work? Yes, its outstanding. 9 / 10.
13. These Stones Will Shout:
    Another WS sounding song… hints of “get behind me satan” and “icky thump”. 6.5 / 10
    Carolina Drama:
14. Longest song, tipping the scales at almost 6 minutes. Another WS song, eery and similar to “A martyr for my love for you”. I didn’t really like that song either, so “Carolina Drama” doesn’t get any favors. 4 / 10.

Overall album? I’ll give it a 7.5 out of 10. Very good stuff, but a few duds.

Ero’s take?
J: What’s your fav songs on the album?
E: that is a tough one
J: Give me your top 3
E: I really like Attention, Top Yourself and Many Shades of Black. In that order.
J: Not my favorites
E: Hate you. We will talk about this later.

Conversation with the groom at Nate’s costa rican wedding:

Nate: You have to admit, I have the hottest bridesmaids of any of our friends.
John: Yes, but you have to admit that you admit you have the ugliest groomsmen I’ve ever seen.
Nate: Can’t argue with you on that one.

John: A movie with both Scarlett and Natalie? Solid.
Ero: “best spanking-it movie ever”
John: totally. who said that?
Ero: You did. Before you even knew what the movie was about.
John: oh. well, totally… Eric Bana can’t really go wrong on this one. I mean.. i’d go with Scarlett.. but i’d be fine with taking natalie.
Ero: Yeah, its kind of win-win.
John: Unless you’re a breast man.