July 2009

My mind often wanders, but today's mental recitation of "Love Is a Battlefield" in the voice of an old Russian man is creeping me out a bit.

Bringing extra shoes and socks this morning would have been a good idea. Staying home would have been a better idea.

Crafted a perfectly poignant tweet at exactly 140 characters only to discover that its central premise was incorrect.

First stadium concert in a long time. I can’t believe there are people who experience live music exclusively this way.

AC/DC has disproved my theory that I couldn’t be thoroughly entertained by a band playing a quarter mile away. Sad we missed Anvil, though.

Yeesh.

Successfully restrained myself from having a Tex Avery moment on the subway: youtube.com/watch?v=OQtYQouzN…

The middle story about the Tanzanian albinos is fucking crazy.

Lest you think you live in a modern world, be aware that people are making luck potions from murdered Tanzanian albinos. boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07…

Whiny acoustic cover of a-Ha's "Take on Me." File under Fuck You.

Dreamt James Cameron gave The Terminator the George Lucas treatment, removing "I'll be back" and adding an inflatable parking garage scene.

Planning for every foreseeable permutation of a nested list makes for some tongue-twisting CSS.

Overheard: "I was like, 'What the fuck do you care?' and he was all, 'I pay for your tuition.'"

I can’t wait to try this.

As it turns out, beer doesn't taste very good at 10am.

Drinking beer on a boat. For work.

Just scored a free ticket for next week's AC/DC show. @HMXCasey is a good man, despite what the tabloids say about him.

If there is one thing that will persuade me to get an eMusic account, it is being prevented from seeing what music they have to offer.

This would be impulse purchase #2 for today thanks to Drawn.

The first sentence is priceless.

At age 7, I misread Neil Armstrong's statement on my Apollo 11 pencil box and assumed that a "mankid" must be a very small creature indeed.

Scaring people off the dance floor.

I don’t think the font itself has much going for it beyond the gimmick, but I am completely amazed by that driver’s control.

What the fuck is this doing in a newspaper?

Even with the rain, it's great to see you, Philadelphia.

5+ hours into a 6.5 hour train ride, doing some pre-party iTunes prep, feeling extraordinarily positive on the concept of music in general.

Um. Kaboom. I can finally talk about one of the things I’ve been working on.

Psst. Hey. Musicians. Want your music in Rock Band? Soon you can do it yourself. Behold, the Rock Band Network! rockband.com/rock-band-networ…

Preparing to unzip the lips.

Is there a statue somewhere of the person who first combined dark chocolate and coconut? A pilgrimage is in order.

I get the sense this idea was well-intentioned, but you know what they say about good intentions. Who would be shocked to see Hollywood arrive late to the digital age with a calculated plan to line executive pockets on the backs of scores of faceless artist drones?

I can’t decide who’s stupider in this story: The dipshits who left iPods and laptops in their unlocked cars, or the dipshits that managed to get caught stealing them.

Scowling hard at my latest batch of referrer spam from Bing. Somewhere in Redmond, a dog whines at the low rumble his master can't hear yet.

Remember Kevin’s design vigilante concept? This guy is doing it. Awesome.

I’m really curious to see how far into its hallowed halls popular culture will let this crabcore nonsense get. I have a sinking suspicion that it won’t be long before it’s not even fun to laugh at it anymore.

Same old nightmare, but instead of final exams, it was a performance on national television I was unprepared for.

7-Eleven Day stats: 15 stores, 9 Slurpees, 63.99 fluid ounces (or, if you prefer, 1.9 liters, or 1/2 gallon), 0 dollars.

Final Free Slurpee in Harvard Square: Mountain Dew Blue Shock.

Free Slurpees conquered in Brookline/Allston/Brighton: Apocalyptic Ice, Mutant Berry Blast, Fanta Banana, Terminator Blood Orange Lychee.

Free Slurpees conquered in South End: Transformers Passion Fruit, Liqud Artillery (G.I. Joe). Denied twice in Back Bay.

Free Slurpees conquered in Cambridge: Sugar Free Wild Strawberry Crystal Light, Mountain Dew Voltage Freeze.

Sugar-mad bike gang mobilized (including @jyllish and @iamrumz). Free Slurpees imminent.

Today is 7-Eleven Day, and the people of Boston should feel free to take advantage of my Free Slurpee Treasure Map: maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=…

"You seem to have mistaken my home for an African American mortuary." #1stdraftmovielines

The fact that waivers are necessary for this is disappointing, though not at all surprising. I enjoyed all of the self-conscious, pseudo-scientific justification for childish behavior in adulthood.

Tempted fate less (more?) than usual by wearing a bike helmet for the first time in 20 years. Fully expected to be hit by a car immediately.

FYI, an upside down Mounds bar is a spunoW bar.

RSVPing to the US Air Guitar Brooklyn Invitational on August 5th: "Windhammer accepts." Tickets go on sale Saturday: brooklynfungwah.eventbrite.com

Invited to compete at the US Air Guitar Brooklyn Invitational. Last chance to go to finals. Should I ignore localist principles and do it?

A bit red in the face to find people referred to my site by a years-old blog comment I wish I hadn't made.

On initial offering, a simple "No, thank you" is always preferable to "Oh, I don't drink" or "That's probably not vegan, is it?"

Relieved to find that in my time away from Flash, it has not ceased to be buggy as fuck.

This piece pretty much sums up exactly how I feel about the whole hipster thing.

I really hope this has online multiplayer.

This is part of a massive series for the current No Doubt tour, and they’re all pretty nice. Check out the rest.

Being disrespectful to dirt.

Designing a t-shirt. Missing people and places and things. Glad @ChamberMonster is coming to visit this weekend.

Just remembered a dream in which Craig Wedren said Pony Express Record was Shudder to Think's debut, and I was like, "Duh, no, it wasn't."