Rave: Madvillainy. I had completely forgotten about this album until I came across All Caps in an MMA highlight video. Fuck, this album is so awesome.
Rave: Tonights Umphrey's McGee concert is being broadcast live on iclips.net. Rant: Two songs in and they still havn't gotten it right. The first song had two audio sources overlapped, 1-2 seconds apart for a good 5-10 minutes. They fixed that, but now the audio is 1-2 seconds behind the video. If this keeps up, I better get my $15 back.
Rant/Rave(?) - There are six guys rolling bones across the street from my apartment. Oh northeast DC, you're quite the diamond in the rough.
Rave: Got me an I-phone today, and beer. Rave: This girl who helped me had big boobies. Rant:Some kinda dollars got spent and my wife didn't appreciate the boobies as much as me.
RAVE: Spent half the day yesterday in bed naked with the most beautiful woman in the world! RANT: Couldn't find anywhere showing the WEC fights last night. RAVE: Starting my sunday with a good coffee and a huge ass carmel roll.
Rant & Rave Rant: I wish that my fellow tenants weren't disgusting assholes who insist on throwing food off of their balconies. It's irritating when I'm trying to take the dog outside for a quick bathroom break and I constantly have to pull him away from bread, fish, chicken bones, pizza crusts and apple cores. And then there was the used diaper. Yes, I'll say that again for comedic effect... One of the other tenants in my apartment building saw fit to throw a USED DIAPER off of their balcony. Rant II: I'm sick. It's a pretty bad cold and it's kicking my ass. Rave: This cold is as good a reason as any to hibernate today. Perhaps I'll just watch movies and play video games.
Rant: My Mom has been diagnosed with stomach cancer. They got the tests back on Thursday, and the worst fears were confirmed. She's been having stomach pains for the past two months, and will be starting chemo in early May. She beat cervical cancer last year, but this is a bit of a different situation where the odds of survival are cut-down significantly. My Dad told me over the phone yesterday, and assured me that she's coping as well as one can, and her attitude remains positive. She told me to keep living my life as I've been doing and that I'm not to spend my days worrying from a far. The second I hung up the phone I broke down, and the girlfriend saw me cry for the first time ever. Up until that moment, I had been having a great weekend: Canucks win 7-2, an awesome concert Friday night, some good eats and yet right now NONE of that matters in the least. I would trade it all to have my Mom healthy again. Heck, I'd trade it all just to be able to give her a big hug. Cancer affects everybody to some degree, and I'm sure that there are many folks in here that have had similar experiences too, but damn it hurts. Here's hoping that they caught it in time, and that the chemo can minimize the spreading and she can live pain free for many years to come. Rave: I've got some very supportive friends who have overwhelmed me with kind words. Hopefully their kind words and prayers will be able to assist the recovery.
Rave: What a great fucking weekend. Originally, there was supposed to be a fuck-you-in-the-ass storm coming through that was set to cancel the annual Arts festival in town, Double Decker. Thankfully, the storm passed with much less rain and mayhem than anticipated. This meant my weekend consisted of lots of booze, baseball, and great music on The Square. Double Rave: Ole Miss sweeps LSU in all three baseball games this weekend. HOTTY TODDY! GEAUX TO HELL LSU!!!! Our rankings are going to be amazing come tomorrow morning. Here's to beating the No. 5 ranked team. Rant: On a much less jubilant note, 10 people including 3 children were killed in a tornado spawned by the storm that missed Oxford and allowed to me have such a great weekend. So awful...those poor families.
Rant: Bought an iPod touch today. Haven't opened it yet. Think I might just return it and get an iPhone. Edit: New plan. I'm going to return this and wait until June to see if the 4g iPhone comes out. Unfortunately this means I'm without a music player for the next two months though. Damn.
Rant: Spring Weekend has ended. Rave: It was absolutely insane. Rave: Neither me, nor any of my friends got injured or arrested. Rant: A group presentation on Monday, and two more on Tuesday that I am not prepared for. Rave: Summer is almost here.
Rant: Can't get going on this short essay about Transatlantic gender structures or whatever. Rave: Luckily I have plenty of time tomorrow to do it and I know the prof well. Rave: Gonna smoke a blunt soon followed by Vancouver-LA and some NHL 10. As long as its a good game hockey is great when you're high.
Rave: Went out yesterday because SO wanted to stay home. Came in second on euchre tournament, played some cash games after, left the bar $10 over what I went with after drinking for 8 hours Rant: He's pissed because it's fine for him to do this, but apparently not okay for me to. Even though when the call came through asking me to be the partner with a mutual friend, he was okay with it, because he blew me off the night before. Rave: Made my first ever Beef Wellington tonight. Turned out stellar! Rant: Had to feed the guy I'm still pissed at.
RAVE: Today and the past couple, have been amazing. It is so nice to see the light shining through the clouds. I've needed this. RAVE: Has anybody watched Black Caesar? That is one of the best films I have ever seen. To be clear, I watch a lot of movies, I rarely watch a film. Jesus, blaxploitation to the fullest.
RAVE: Today was what I like to call Food of the Gods Day: a snack of toasted Italian bread rubbed with raw garlic and olive oil, topped with fresh mozzarella and roasted red peppers. Dinner was colby-jack stuffed burgers with roasted fingerlings tossed in garlic and olive oil. Dessert was a homemade Tres Leches Cake with fresh whipped cream. If I could have any other job in the world aside from interviewing sexual deviants, it'd be a cook on The Food Network. GOD, I love cooking.
Rave: Went to SoCal this weekend to cover a few fights. Friday night was at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario. Was a solid card, talked to Chris Arreola about his fight the next night on HBO a bit. Saw some hot Latina ass. Got wasted afterwards. Saturday, the big boys rocked it at Citizens Bank in Ontario and I enjoyed the fights from press row. Took a picture with new middleweight champion of the world Sergio Martinez. Ravey Rave: I hate Sugar Ray Leonard. I took a picture of him at the fight. Then he looked at me and looked at my shirt and made a face like he was shocked. I looked down at what shirt I was wearing and realized it was a Sugar Ray Leonard-Terry Norris shirt. For those who don't know, that is a fight where Leonard gets shitkicked for twelve rounds. I love that fight. I wasn't even 3 years old but have watched my DVD of it at least 20 times. When Leonard saw the shirt and how young I was, he looked absolutely puzzled. Tony Thompson, who is a heavyweight fringe contender, was sitting next to Leonard and began laughing his ass off. It was awesome.
Rave: And Vancouver is on to Round 2. I know he hasn't looked great recently but these past few games, and especially tonight, Luongo has looked like his old self again. It's a weird feeling, going into the third period and still feeling confident the Canucks will win the game. I think they've got 13 wins now this season when trailing after two periods, including two games in these playoffs. Their defense is looking a little sketchy with Mitchell done for the year and having all our "6th" defensemen getting injured constantly (Rome, Baumgartner) or just playing like garbage (Alberts). But as long as the twins play like they can and Luongo keeps his game at this level, the Canucks could go very deep this year. I'm fucking pumped. My girlfriend would be too, were it not for the greasy excuse of a playoff beard I'm currently rocking And no, I'm not shaving it into a goatee, I just can't grow any hair on the sides yet.