I love local commercials, but my favorite are definitely the ones for the Wild Card Casino. You've almost got to wonder whether this are willfully bad. It certainly doesn't help that I saw the second one first. Enjoy.

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I know you were all waiting with bated breath, so you'll all be excited to know I did in fact start the music blog I was talking about.

Check it out! I even made the first (rather short) post. It's about country cover bands, so you know it'll be good ( Read more... )

I've had this particular livejournal account for some unrecallable number of years now. Anymore, the way that I operate it seems to make less and less sense. Most of what I feel motivated to write about on it happens (by no big surprise) to be about music. That's really what I care to write about, and if things go well, writing about music may ( Read more... )

Things have improved greatly for Rebekah and I. We had originally been told that we'd never see the inside of our apartment again after the fire because of asbestos. But this week, somebody finally convinced the property managers that instead of declaring the whole building a loss because asbestos was found, that perhaps they should pay to have ( Read more... )

Okay, to begin with if you haven't seen the video for V.I.C. (feat. Soulja Boy) "Get Silly," then get yourself caught up:

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Finally, a dance craze that I could probably participate in without fear of looking like an idiot (since looking like an idiot is a pretty important part of the dance it seems ( Read more... )

So since the last post, we had some terrible news followed by a string of good news ( Read more... )

Just to keep you all informed this happened to us yesterday. Both Bekah and I are fine. I was in the apartment at the time, but got out without incident. After a trip to Target for supplies, the entirety of our belongings fit inside 3 Target shopping bags ( Read more... )

There have been so many attempts at compiling "best of" lists in music (i.e., best album, best song, best band etc.) that it seems every possible category has already been exhausted. Yet, I have a submission for a category that to my knowledge has not yet been explored: Best Rock and Roll verses ( Read more... )

A good friend recently gave me Paul Morley's book Words and Music over spring break. I only just now started reading it, and on the whole, I like it very much so far ( Read more... )

I was twelve years old in the winter of 1996 when my dad bought my family's first real computer. We brought it all the way home to South Dakota from an electronics store at the Mall of America. It was a Packard Bell with an Intel 486 processor and windows 3.1.1. Al Gore had only just recently invented the internet and it was slow to catch on in ( Read more... )