Forgot to make it public...
I downloaded the Portishead Trip-Hop Reconstruction. It is absolutely great. If you like portishead you might have heard the remix version of 'Numb' already...its off this 'reconstruction', which is full of remixes like that. Numb is still one of the best, if not the best, but some of the remixes are still pretty damned good. The Toy Box remix is very 60's.
I decided to click on some of the buttons on myspace. Music is pretty lame, Games is lame, so are most of the rest, but Events is pretty neat. Someone posted a Pants Party, awesome. Someone is also hosting a dance party saturday night, which is cool. If I weren't such a pussy I'd go. But I think I will watch this thing now.
There is a cool thread on badasses in the SA forums. Teddy Roosevelt seems to be winning it out, pretty kickass guy, I learned a lot of things:
- Climbed to the top of the Egyptian pyramids at age 14.
- Pursued boxing while serving as president, to the degree that he ended up blinded in one eye. When told he could no longer box, he took up jiu-jitsu.
- Ran a ranch and hunted outlaws in the Dakota Badlands.
- Was challenged to a duel. When pressed for what weapon to use, he chose a shotgun.
- Climbed Mt. Blanc., making him the third man to have ever done so.
- Rehabilitated the corrupt and graft-ridden NYPD, including walking some of the most dangerous beats himself.
- Ran the first ever regiment of the U.S. Calvary, and personally led the charge up Kettle Hill.
- Posthumously won the Congressional Medal of Honor for the aforementioned charge, the only president to have ever done so.
- Took great personal pains to curb the burgeoning power of corporations around the turn of the century, including (but not limited to) threats on his life.
- Turned the U.S. Navy from an afterthought into the strongest in the world.
- Delivered a 45 minute speech after being shot by a potential assassin with the bullet still lodged in his chest. The bullet was never removed.
- Went skinny dipping. In the Potomac River. In January. Repeatedly.
- Led expeditions through both the Serengeti and the Amazon.
- First American to be awarded a Nobel Prize (in any category) in 1906.
- On November 9, 1906, he made history by becoming the first sitting U.S. President to make an official trip outside of the United States, visiting Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal.
- Won the Medal Of Honor during WWII for storming ashore on Utah Beach using a cane due to his arthritis among other things.
- Roosevelt was also the first to sail in a submarine (aboard the USS Plunger, 1905), and first former president to fly in an airplane (October 11, 1910).
- Roosevelt was the first and only president to ever knife fight a cougar in 1901.
- Roosevelt was the first president to ride an automobile. The car was a purple-lined Columbia Electric Victoria. On August 22, 1902, Roosevelt rode through the streets of Hartford, Connecticut, along with a 20-carriage procession following behind.
- Roosevelt was also the first president to own a car.
- First President to invite a black man (Booker T. Washington in 1901) to dine at the White House.
- First President to appoint a Jew, Oscar S. Straus in 1906, as a Presidential Cabinet Secretary.
- First and only U.S. President to be awarded the Medal of Honor (posthumously in 2001), for his charge up San Juan Hill.
Teddy:"Is there anything the constitution to prevent me from declaring this place a National Bird santcuary?"
Some Guy: "No. There's no such thing as a National Bird sanctuary."
Teddy: "I Declare this a National Bird santcuary."
Here is a funny statue:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v308/Sporadicus/babybashing6pc.jpg I cant think of anything more badass than kicking and punching babies.
There is also a story about a guy who instead of killing a lion that attacked him with his machete, reached into its mouth and ripped out its tongue.
Good story about Henry "Red" Erwin, who was in a B-29 over Japan when a cannister of white phosphorous, which reacts with oxygen alone, failed to exit the craft properly and burst into flames so hot it melt his nose and much of the skin off his face and blinding him. It rolled backwards towards 3-tons of incinderary bombs when Erwin grabbed it by feeling towards its incredible heat (thousands of degrees). He carried it for more than 10 seconds, setting his entire body aflame and burning the hair and clothing off his body, towards a door which he opened and ejected the flaming mass from. The pilot pulled the plane up just 300' from the ground and they flew home. Erwin was treated for a week while doctors struggled to keep him alive, pulling pieces of white phophorous from his body (face, and eyes) which immediately burst into flames, until finally he died at the end of that week on April 19th, 1945.
OH MY GOD THE GUY FROM THAT VH1 SHOW IS ON LOVELINE. This guy fascinates me, I love stories about addiction. I wish I didn't miss the first half, and that Adam isn't here to comment on it (this guy has to be one of the most interesting guests theyve had), but I'll download it later.
READ IT:
As the medevac chopper landed the wounded were examined one by one. Staff Sergeant Benavidez could only hear what was going on around him. He had over thirty seven puncture wounds. His intestines were exposed. He could not see as his eyes were caked in blood and unable to open. Neither could he speak, his jaw broken, clubbed by a North Vietnamese rifle. But he knew what was happening, and it was the scariest moment of his life, even more so than the earlier events of the day. He lay in a body bag, bathed in his own blood. Jerry Cottingham, a friend screamed "That's Benavidez. Get a doc". When the doctor arrived he placed his hand on Roy's chest to feel for a heartbeat. He pronounced him dead. The physician shook his head. "There's nothing I can do for him." As the doctor bent over to zip up the body bag. Benavidez did the only thing he could think of to let the doctor know that he was alive. He spit in the doctor's face. The surprised doctor reversed Roy's condition from dead to "He won't make it, but we'll try".
The 32-year-old son of a Texas sharecropper had just performed for six hours one of the most remarkable feats of the Vietnam War. Benavidez, part Yaqui Indian and part Mexican, was a seventh-grade dropout and an orphan who grew up taunted by the term "dumb Mexican." But, as Ronald Reagan noted, if the story of what he accomplished was made into a movie, no one would believe it really happened.
Roy Benavidez's ordeal began at Loc Ninh, a Green Beret outpost near the Cambodian border. It was 1:30 p.m., May 2, 1968. A chaplain was holding a prayer service around a jeep for the sergeant and several other soldiers. Suddenly, shouts rang out from a nearby short-wave radio. "Get us out of here!" someone screamed. "For God's sake, get us out!"
A 12-man team consisting of Sergeant First Class Leroy Wright, Staff Sergeant Lloyd "Frenchie" Mousseau, Specialist Four Brian O'Connor and nine Nung tribesmen monitoring enemy troop movements in the jungle had found itself surrounded by a North Vietnamese army battalion. With out orders, Benavidez volunteered so quickly that he didn't even bring his M-16 when he dashed for the helicopter preparing for a rescue attempt. The sole weapon he carried was a bowie knife on his belt."I'm coming with you," he told the three crew members.
Airborne, they spotted the soldiers in a tight circle. A few hundred enemy troops surrounded them in the jungle, some within 25 yards of the Americans' position. The chopper dropped low, ran into withering fire and quickly retreated. Spotting a small clearing 75 yards away, Benavidez told the pilot, "Over there, over there."
The helicopter reached the clearing and hovered 10 feet off the ground. Benavidez made the sign of the cross, jumped out carrying a medic bag and began running the 75 yards towards the trapped men. Almost immediately, Benavidez was hit by an AK-47 slug in his right leg. He stumbled and fell, but got back up convincing himself that he'd only snagged a thorn bush and kept running to the brush pile where Wright's men lay. An exploding hand grenade knocked him down and ripped his face with shrapnel. He shouted prayers, got up again and staggered to the men.
Four of the soldiers were dead, the other eight wounded and pinned down in two groups. Benavidez bound their wounds, injected morphine and, ignoring NVA bullets and grenades, passed around ammunition that he had taken from several bodies and armed himself with an AK. Then Benavidez directed air strikes and called for the Huey helicopter to a landing near one group. While calling in support he was shot again in the right thigh, his second gunshot wound. He dragged the dead and wounded aboard. The chopper lifted a few feet off the ground and moved toward the second group, with Benavidez running beneath it, firing a rifle he had picked up. He spotted the body of the team leader Sergeant First Class Wright. Ordering the other soldiers to crawl toward the chopper, he retrieved a pouch dangling from the dead man's neck; in the pouch were classified papers with radio codes and call signs. As he shoved the papers into his shirt, a bullet struck his stomach and a grenade shattered his back. The helicopter, barely off the ground, suddenly crashed, its pilot shot dead.
Coughing blood, Benavidez made his way to the Huey and pulled the wounded from the wreckage, forming a small perimeter. As he passed out ammunition taken from the dead, the air support he had earlier radioed for arrived. Jets and helicopter gunships strafed threatening enemy soldiers while Benavidez tended the wounded. "Are you hurt bad, Sarge?" one soldier asked. "Hell, no," said Benavidez, about to collapse from blood loss. "I've been hit so many times I don't give a damn no more."
While mortar shells burst everywhere, Benavidez called in Phantoms "danger close". Enemy fire raked the perimeter. Several of the wounded were hit again, including Benavidez. By this time he had blood streaming down his face, blinding him. Still he called in air strikes, adjusting their targets by sound. Several times, pilots thought he was dead, but then his voice would come back on the radio, calling for closer strikes. Throughout the fighting, Benavidez, a devout Catholic, made the sign of the cross so many times, his arms were "were going like an airplane prop". But he never gave into fear.
Finally, a helicopter landed. "Pray and move out," Benavidez told the men as he helped each one aboard. As he carried a seriously wounded Frenchie Mousseau over his shoulder a fallen NVA soldier stood up, swung his rifle and clubbed Benavidez in the head. Benavidez fell, rolled over and got up just as the soldier lunged forward with his bayonet. Benavidez grabbed it, slashing his right hand, and pulled his attacker toward him. With his left hand, he drew his own bowie knife and stabbed the NVA but not before the bayonet poked completely through his left forearm. As Benavidez dragged Mousseau to the chopper, he saw two more NVA materialize out of the jungle. He snatched a fallen AK-47 rifle and shot both. Benavidez made one more trip to the clearing and came back with a Vietnamese interpreter. Only then did the sergeant let the others pull him aboard the helicopter.
Blood dripped from the door as the chopper lumbered into the air. Benavidez was holding in his intestines with his hand. Bleeding almost into unconsciousness, Benavidez lay against the badly wounded Mousseau and held his hand. Just before they landed at the Medevac hospital, "I felt his fingers dig into my palm," Benavidez recalled, "his arm twitching and jumping as if electric current was pouring through his body into mine" At Loc Ninh, Benavidez was so immobile they placed him with the dead. Even after he spit in the doctor's face and was taken from the body bag, Benavidez was considered a goner.
Benavidez spent almost a year in hospitals to recover from his injuries. He had seven major gunshot wounds, twenty-eight shrapnel holes and both arms had been slashed by a bayonet. Benavidez had shrapnel in his head, scalp, shoulder, buttocks, feet, and legs. His right lung was destroyed. He had injuries to his mouth and back of his head from being clubbed with a rifle butt. One of the AK-47 bullets had entered his back exiting just beneath his heart. He had won the battle and lived. When told his one man battle was awesome and extraordinary, Benavidez replied: "No, that's duty."
Wright and Mousseau were each awarded the Distinguish Service Cross posthumously. Although Master Sergeant Benavidez's commander felt that he deserved the Congressional Medal of Honor for his valor in saving eight lives, he put Roy in for the Distinguished Service Cross. The process for awarding a Medal of Honor would have taken much longer, and he was sure Benavidez would die before he got it. The recommendation for the Distinguish Service Cross was rushed through approval channels and Master Sergeant Benavidez was presented the award by General William C. Westmoreland while he was recovering from his wounds at Fort Sam Houston's Hospital.
Years later, his former commander learned that Benavidez had survived the war. The officer also learned more details of the sergeant's mission and concluded that Benavidez merited a higher honor. Years of red tape followed until finally on February 24, 1981, President Reagan told White House reporters "you are going to hear something you would not believe if it were a script." Reagan then read Roy Benavidez's Citation for the Medal of Honor.
Benavidez however, did not regard himself as a hero. He said of his actions. "The real heroes are the ones who gave their lives for their country, I don't like to be called a hero. I just did what I was trained to do."
WRATH
1. Who did you last get angry with?
RACHEL.
2. What is your weapon of choice?:
I guess a Abrams tank would be best. More realistically, a .50 Beowulf. It's name is also 1000x better than the 'abrams'.
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex?:
Not with a fist.
4. How about of the same sex?:
Yes.
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you?
I don't know, probably my parents.
6. What is your pet peeve?
Stupid people.
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily?
Yeah they go away fairly quickly, generally.
SLOTH
1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you haven't done in a long time?:
Floss.
2. What is the latest you've ever woken up?:
When I wasnt sick, probably 5 or 6 pm. LAN party.
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven’t?
Brian?
4. What is the last lame excuse you made?
"Its easy to forget to cork a bottle when theres always a bottle open."
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through?
No.
6. When was the last time you got a good workout in?:
Sunday, kinda.
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today?:
None. It wasn't on. I wake up on my own because I don't have to wake up early anymore.
GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice?
Since I've never bought a pina colada here, I'd have to say long island iced tea.
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat?
Dark.
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event?:
I am not sure. At coopers cabin in one day, from about 12-4 am, I had about 12 drinks. But it was very spread out.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company?:
No.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight?:
No. Other people do.
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods?:
Salty, probably.
7. Have you ever looked at a small house pet or child and thought, "lunch"?
No.
LUST
1. How many people have you seen naked?
I'm not counting, probably around 10 or 15.
2. How many people have seen YOU naked?
Excluding my childhood, just one or two.
3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation?:
Thats a stupid question.
4. Have you done things with the opposite sex?:
"Things"? What did a 12-year-old write this?
5. What is your favorite body part on a person of your gender of choice?:
I guess their face but there are a lot of close seconds.
6. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute?:
Not knowingly.
7. Have you ever gotten tested for an STD or pregnancy?
No.
GREED
1. How many credit cards do you own?:
1, now. I have not used it yet, though.
2. What's your guilty pleasure store?:
Kohl's, because I've been hearing more and more bad things about their labor policies.
3. If you had $1 million, what would you do with it?
Probably just invest it.
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous?:
Rich, I'll make my own fame if I want to.
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?:
Yes, I think it would be selfish not to, considering how much good this would mean for the people around me. Money can save lives, and considering the number of relatives I have with medical problems, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to see someone needing it.
6. Have you ever stolen anything?:
Nothing...argh I've answered this enough.
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive?:
Almost 10,000.
PRIDE
1. What one thing have you done that you're most proud of?:
Not being an douchebag or an asshole.
2. What's one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of?
Great fucking question.
3. What thing would you like to accomplish later in your life?
Build something useful.
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place?:
Depends what race I'm in.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors?:
Yes.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score?:
Well I've certainly never cheated to get a lower score.
7. What did you do today that you're proud of?:
I voted...
ENVY
1. What item of your friends would you most want to have for your own?:
Broadband, by far.
2. Who would you want to go on "Trading Spaces" with?
The upholstery guy from Pimp My Ride (Ish?). I want my walls in suede
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be?
President of the United States.
4. Have you ever been cheated on?:
Uh...
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own?:
Yes.
6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself?:
Focus.
8. Finally, what is your favorite Deadly Sin?:
Envy. Is that one of them? I don't even know, but as I am alive it doesn't seem it really matters much now does it?