bittersweet

    In the dark edges of the high tower, where the spaceships meet, praying for daylight.  Such dry spaces shan't be ever seen by human eyes, lest they sleep and feel strange sensathish that they feel embarrased to speak their memories of.  Yet ye fall helplessly, seeing again what cannot be seen with logical site. 
  In the dark crevaces of this high tower, thy wonders who dareth jump high enough to etch these things that were made from rock so high up from the ordinary ground.  Thy feels strange, yet thy dare not speaks.  If ye understood, I doubt ye would say so.


In the paint, the colors, vivid and rife with life.  These walls, filled with aforementioned colors, I shall walk and feel the weight of my body in a different light.  I have walked through said walls, ye shall refuse to believe, but I was once invincible.

Mattypalooza video online – check out what’s coming for 2011! [UPDATE]

Mattypalooza video online – check out what’s coming for 2011! [UPDATE]


THIS IS JUST SO F--------'N AWESOME!!!!!! Looks like Mattel is finally A) getting their arses in gear with getting the darn things into the hands of the public and B) branching out into other territories of GB-hood and C) not being as "exclusive" with their license, as in TOYS R' US HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - THIS XMAS!! GB2 4-pk @ $50 coming through...........
This is just REALLY REALLY good news. Now let's hope the 4 pak doesn't look too dull to spend fifty smakaroos on..........they've already shaat all over their RGB aspect of the line, making them "mego" style, as if mego was something a kid in 1986/1987 was typically playing with......not to mention the proton pak accessories they're supposed to come w/ look like a stick someone gathered while in the yard...(as opposed to the ultra-neato electronic superduty nuclear accelerator seen in the films, and more or less in the cartoon...). I swear, those IDIOTS! I'll probably buy 'em anyway if they don't charge $10++ for 'em tho. I might be OK w/ paying $8 for 'em, although I'd hope for them to be less....they're selling those at Toys 'R' Us as well so I can just pick 'em up "on impulse" (or whatever) instead of shelling out X cost + S&H for something so close yet even further away.....

dangerous beauty

Last year, circa late summer, I became aware of an ultra-passionate pop-punk/emo hybrid band named THE DANGEROUS SUMMER.  Via the previously mentioned (see most recent post excluding this 1) Napster on-demand streaming audio service, I just finished listening to a live EP (simply titled "Live In Baltimore"; I checked at 11:55 apprx central time and Amazon didn't have it for sale yet, but I guess Napster isn't as strict about who and when they can listen in...) and surprisingly, they actually know how to play their instruments & sing... - either that or they have a bag of tricks at their disposal - which would be weird b/c THE STARTING LINE (same genre, except less emo)'s semi-recently released live recording sounds like CRUD!  And TSL have been around longer & are sorta the poster boys for emo-y pop-punk (which admittedly isn't as popular as the snot-nose pop-punk, i.e.: FALL OUT BOY, GREEN DAY...)
  So now I'm revisiting their full-length debut, and I'm just not impressed.  Crazy, they sound better live.  If only it weren't a whopping 22 minutes long...parting is the pits...

penniless so soon? So?

My money's all gone...but I got a month of {up to} 7 MILLION songs to listen to...the whole world is at my fingertips...yep.  I spent about 15 minutes looking around in BestBuy, thinking I could get that AND a CD.  Turns out all i got was the Napster prepaid card...couldn't be happier!

I've noticed I get bored listening to albums...I always put one on, but lately I've been wondering "Why?  Why don't you just listen to LastFM or...something?"  Napster gives me the ability to listen to ANY song, ANY time, in ANY WAY I wish!!!

Then the thought comes that someday Napster won't be here.  When that day comes, I hope THE PEOPLE have enough guts to wage war...I mean, they could raise the price by thee or four times the monthly rate and that'd be worlds better than them going away...and they've been offering the $5/mo rate for over 2 years now, and the service itself has been around for almost a decade (I'm excluding the now-illegal/defunct service of the same name...) so if it ever does get shut down, either the economy will have changed in some way that makes it impossible for the service to operate, or the gov't will shut them down...things change. I'm fine w/ that (so far...).  But the gov't "cracking down" on too-good-to-be-true-ness is just unjustifiable.  The gov't already tried that with the internet radio companies and so far hasn't succeeded, and so it's a lot easier to bank on that sort of horror than the unforseeable (at least to a guy with my low-mid intellect) events that the tides of time may or may not bring...

I swear, this country could so easily turn into a war zone.  I, for one, don't have enough money to pay for every single song BEFORE I hear it.  There's too much crud I don't like, too much crud that shouldn't exist in the first place, and a MAMMOTH amount of mediocrity.  I'm not sure how much of a minority that makes me, but I guess it doesn't really matter.  Just about everyone was against the Vietname Conflict, but only a tiny handful of citizens stood up and tried to do something about it.