Thursday, April 30, 2009

And the record begins with a song of rebellion

Graduation.....
SONGS
Set your goals-To Be Continued
Rise Against-Broken English
Modest Mouse-The World At Large
Atmosphere-Lovelife
Weezer-Best Friend
Rancid-Journey To The End Of The East Bay
Four Years Strong-Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die
The Ataris-In This Diary
Third Eye Blind-Jumper

The important thing is not to stop questioning.-Albert Einstein

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.-Aristotle

And we'll collect the moments one by one...


Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

New Release!

Rise Against came out with a new CD: Appeal to Reason.
Has been criticized for some of the songs being boring but the songs that are good are REALLY good.
The ones i like the best.....
Kotov Syndrome
Entertainment
Hero of War


Listen and enjoy.

The People's Court

Seeing Set Your Goals live changed my life. Front row, getting pushed into the people around me, singing the words as loud as possible while gazing at the band performing their art, it made me feel like everything was right. New Found Glory was pretty great too.
New CD comes out July 21st and i couldn't be more excited.
Also coming back to Des Moines with Four Years Strong (also great).

Friday, April 17, 2009

Photography

It's your chance to get one of your pictures in Monster Children Magazine! All you have to do is take a picture at exactly 3pm on Saturday, April 25th. Then write a fifty word essay describing the picture and send it here! It will be put in their monthly photo issue.



Monster Children is an art magazine. Very cool.

Inhaling Chocolate?!






This is a new product that was invented by a Harvard Professor. The idea is that you inhale the chocolate therefor eliminating the calories.


"[it's]a mix of culinary art and aerosol science" says the inventor David Edwards

It's a terrific way to curb an apatite or to accompany a cup of coffee according to the website. This product will not be released until later this month. You actually consume so little chocolate and that's what allows it to reduce the calorie intake to about one per spray. They will be sold in Paris, Chicago, London, and Tokyo. Inhaling one of these revolutionary chocolate tubes is called "whiffing".


I think it would be cool to try one just to see what it is like but i think it is kind of a stupid idea. Why should you want to inhale food? It doesn't even sound appetizing. But i guess i should try it before a say anything bad.


Buy One!

Monday, April 13, 2009

Away We Go

I saw a preview for this movie when i went to the movie Adventureland. Its release date is June 19th. The movie was about a young couple that was about to have a baby. They travel the U.S. to find the perfect home and along the way they revive their relationship and see different family members and friends. The genre is a comedy slash drama. I am very excited to go see this movie.
Directed by Sam Mendes who won an Academy Award for American Beauty.

Once

Once is an Irish musical film that takes place in Dublin. It got great reviews and won some awards including best foreign film. This movie is a love story different from most.

The two main characters are an Irish man who performs his music on the streets of Dublin and a Czech immigrant who sells flowers on the streets of Dublin. Neither of them are named in this film, in the credits they are listed as "Guy" and "Girl". The girl is lured in by the guys music and despite his withdrawal she persists with questions about his music. Eventually she finds out that he fixes vacuum cleaners and says hers needs to be fixed. The next day she comes to his spot with her broken vacuum cleaner.
They go to lunch and she tells him that she too is a musician. They go to the local music store and she plays piano for him. They sing and play a song together and it's perfect. (The sound track to this movie is amazing.) After more getting to know each other she takes him to her apartment where he finds out she had has a toddler and lives with her mom. She also has a husband who lives back in Czech Republic, who she seems to dislike. While the guy has a girlfriend who left him and moved to England. They record an album together because the girl wants him to move to London and promote his music. The story ends with all of these things fighting against them being together.