Toasted Cheese Sandwich
2008-02-02 16:16:00
I have to say that I really love a good toasted, or grilled, cheese sandwich. Now the one I have pictured to the right is one I tried to make myself in the toasted cheese sandwich maker appliance we have. It's not much to look at but damn if it doesn't taste absolutely delicious. It's nothing compared to the toasted cheese sandwiches I used to get triple extra of in high school. The crust was hard as a brick and could crack your teeth but the interior was so cheesy and buttery and warm and yummy.
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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
2008-02-01 18:02:00
I just finished watching The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and I would say I was pleasantly surprised by how good a movie about Donkey Kong could be if I hadn't already expected it to be great, and it was.The King of Kong chronicles the rivalry between Steve Wiebe (right on poster) and Billy Mitchell (left on poster). Mitchell is essentially the golden boy for competitive gaming, having been involved with the "sport" at the highest level since its dawning in the early 1980s. Mitchell's high score in Donkey Kong had been standing for nearly two decades when Steve came out of nowhere to apparently dethrone Billy.Controversy arises as to the authenticity of Wiebe's score as it was achieved on a machine given to him by Mitchell's old nemesis Roy Shildt. Mitchell demands that the score
Saosin and Armor For Sleep
2008-01-31 19:06:00
Last night Nipper and I went to Allentown to see Armor
for Sleep
and Saosin at the Crocodile Rock Café. As usual, the Croc Rock staff and management managed to prove to me that there is a thriving relict population of Neanderthals. I overlooked this, as I always have, because this is the closest a lot of bands come to me so its either put up with it or drive to New York City or Philly. Anyway, we went to see Armor For Sleep and Saosin, and it was a pretty good show. This band, Meriwether opened and they were surprisingly good. Next, we had to suffer through The Bled, who were worse than I would have imagined they could have been.Armor For SleepFinally, Armor For Sleep took the stage. The crowd was really not all that into them and for what reason I don't know because they put on a fa
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Season 5
2008-01-28 15:05:00
Aqua Teen Hunger
Force
is one of my all-time favorite TV shows. The adventures of Frylock, Master Shake, and Meatwad are a seemingly never ending source of comic delight. The Aqua Teens are often joined by their furry neighbor Carl Brutananadilewski. Carl has had episodes revolving largely around him in previous seasons but season five has started off with two episodes featuring Carl as the only main character. It seems that the Aqua Teens have been sent to be cocooned by evil spiders by their (and Carl's) landlord Marcula because they complained too much about a gas leak in their house and now Carl has been trying to shop the empty house.I can't say I don't miss the Aqua Teens and I do think they are funnier and more interesting than Carl alone (but it is three characters opposed to o
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Rambo and two new trailers
2008-01-27 12:05:00
For some unknown reason, perhaps the innate human desire some believe exists to do something simply because we know it is wrong or bad, I decided to go see Rambo
yesterday. Predicatbly, Rambo continued sucking right where the second and third Rambo movies left off all those years ago instead of returning to the fine line between sucking and being a half-way decent social commentary raising the question of how a military machine can return to normalcy after a war of the original. There were far too many horrific depictions of genocide that totally sapped the fun out of Rambo killing all the bad guys. Overall a subpar film, and yet still the third best movie I've seen this year (it's only the third movie I've seen this year).Now the real treat was before the movie began. There were two t
Dear You
2008-01-26 15:13:00
I recently came into possession through regular legal methods a digital copy of one of the most influential albums of the 1990s, Jawbreaker's Dear You. While I can't say I'm in love with this record simply because of the hundreds of awful impostor wannabe horrible emo-esque bands that have emerged in the wake of it's 1995 release, I have been listening to it pretty much non-stop for the last four days.It's true a lot of the bands I listen to, including just about my favorite band, Thursday, owe a lot to Jawbreaker. If it weren't for Jawbreaker, there likely would be no Funeral for a Friend, Chiodos, Saosin, and the aforementioned Thursday as well as countless others. The only problem is that if it weren't for Jawbreaker there might not have been Fall Out Boy, Dashboard Confessional, Pan
Dairy Queen's Cotton Candy Blizzard
2008-01-25 22:09:00
Oh cruel fate, why must you mock me with seasonal menu items? Dairy
Queen
's Cotton
Candy
Blizzard
is one of the sweetest treats I have ever had, and apparently I won't have it again for eight months.Vanilla ice cream with cotton candy syrup and little bits of pink, purple, and blue cotton candy - I can't believe it took humanity so many millenniums to come up with it! And I also can't believe that Dairy Queen feels it's in their best interests to not sell this remarkable confectionery creation year round. I went into the Dairy Queen in the Viewmont Mall today looking to purchase one of these sugary masterpieces only to be informed that they were no longer carrying it. I was left with no other option than to try the Butterfingers variety and begin biding my time until the Cotton Candy
Blizz
Breaking Bad
2008-01-22 20:16:00
Lost somewhere in the post-Packer's loss haze of late Sunday night was a fantastic new program airing on AMC. AMC, has begun taking the MTV station trasnfmormation, wherein a station begins to alter its programming so drastically that in short order it begins to hardly resemble its old self at all. This was of course a huge problem with MTV and has led to the creation of one of American culture's most destructive and numbing shapers of young minds. However, if Breaking
Bad is any indication, AMC is not likely to trip over the same pratfalls MTV (and MTV2) has.The show stars Malcolm in the Middle dad Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher, part time car wash attendant living with his wife and their teenage handicapped son. Walt is struggling enough to make mends
Fucking gay ass Giants
2008-01-20 21:16:00
What the fuck??? Seriously, come on, the Giants
? It appears I must have accidentally tripped over something and fallen into an alternate dimension where the New York Giants don't always end up screwing themselves over and sucking and being the perfect definition of an average, so-so football team.I was right about the Patriots but the Packers sure let me down. They couldn't get a running game going, Favre threw too many errant passes, and Plaxico Burress made Al Harris his own personal bitch. Well, I'm totally nowhere near as hyped for the Super Bowl as I would have been.And I suppose I look like somewhat of a douche bag now. Only half though, I'll take the bag part.
Reign Over Me and Once
2008-01-20 17:18:00
I went into Video King the other day to rent Shoot 'Em Up and Rescue Dawn and I was somewhat surprised when I discovered a striking similarity. The box art and posters for Reign Over Me and Once are eerily similar in my opinion. I guess the only similarity is that it's the two main characters walking down a city street with nearly identically aligned text. I know the film industry is basically founded on the idea that imitation is the highest form of flattery and that nothing is really original anymore so this isn't really a big deal. Just struck me as odd.Or is this a long running style of movie posters that I have somehow remained entirely oblivious to in nearly two decades on Earth?
Super Bowl XLII
2008-01-19 18:52:00
This blog post is simply stating that I am going on record as predicting the New England Patriots over the Green Bay Packers in a close game, highlighted by a classic shootout between Brett Favre and Tom Brady. This will provide Brett Favre and his young teammates the necessary motivation to return to the Super
Bowl next year and come away victoriously allowing Brett to retire on top. This will cap off the Patriots record shattering perfect season in the grandest of fashions.I predicted the Patriots would win the Super Bowl
this year the second I first caught wind of the Randy Moss draft day trade and never looked back. I didn't choose the Packers as my NFC representative until week 8 or 9 and even then had my doubts about if they could beat the Cowboys but that doubt was settled after
Be Kind Rewind
2008-03-15 09:10:00
Last week I was going to go see 10,000 BC. The reason I didn't is pictured to the right. This delightful treat of a motion picture turned out to be showing at Regals Cinemas which was a very pleasant surprise for me.One of my favorite directors, Michael Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep) hit another one out of the park here with his unique vision and film making style. Starring Jack Black and Mos Def as an odd couple living in Passaic, New Jersey. Jerry (Jack Black) lives merely feet from the town's power plant and complains to his friend Mike (Mos Def) that it is being used to control his mind. Mike works in a video rental shop owned and operated by Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover) who goes on a trip and leaves Mike in charge. In a botched attempt to sab
Audiosurf
2008-03-19 09:42:00
Last week I downloaded the most amazing game maybe ever. That game is Audiosurf and from the first moment I tried the demo out to the painful wait for it to download on my laptop so I could play anywhere, I've yet to not have simple and pure fun with it.The easiest way to sum the game up is Guitar Hero meets Tetris but it's even better than you could possibly think that combination would be. What you do is pick what cart you want to pilot from a varied selection that offers some different playing styles and difficulties and then choose a song. This is done by navigating to any music file you have on your computer and then through some sort of magical computer mathematical bedazzlement, the game renders a track that is uniquely crafted to match the speed and intensity of whatever song yo
Ron Dayne
2008-03-21 09:44:00
The scariest man in the NFL is still currently without a contract, reportedly because all 32 teams are too afraid to sit down and discuss finances with him. Ron Dayne, who some conspiracy nuts suspect is really a shaved Kodiak grizzly bear or even a Bigfoot (or wood ape), has gained a reputation as a punishing finisher, coming in towards the end of the last two seasons in typical dominant Dayne style.Dayne has been known to strike fear into his opponents' hearts by stroking his beard and repeatedly shouting his own last name in a guttural roar that measures a 10 on the Richter scale as he races down the field demonstrating his Heisman Trophy award winning speed, power, and vision.It's only a matter of time before a team gathers up the balls to sign Dayne or hires a trained professional bi
"I Will Possess Your Heart"
2008-03-21 07:02:00
The wait is finally over, and a few days ago Death Cab for Cutie finally released the lead single from their upcoming album, Narrow Stairs. While Narrow Stairs isn't due until May 13th, you can give "I Will Possess Your Heart
" a listen now on their MySpace page. Alternatively, turn on your radio to any station and I can't imagine how they could play anything else really.The radio version is about four minutes shorter than the version that will be included on the album, making it one of DCFC's longest songs. The song starts off brooding and slow and for several minutes it's simply fantastic mood music. Then Ben Gibbard comes in and you know for sure it's still DCFC. It's a little different than Plans, but not enough to alienate any of the fans they gained from their major label debut a
Man charged with table fornication
2008-03-28 19:28:00
A man was recently arrested for having sex with a table, according to this article on WTVM. Apparently, Art Price Jr. is the first open tablesexual. I would like to be the first to be a supporter of brave Art here and that other tablesexuals should come out in support of Art here. It seems Art couldn't control his table lust and fornicated with his picnic table in an area where the beautiful act of a man making love to his table was in plain view of school children.Honestly though, if his table was half as good looking as this one right here, how could he resist the siren song of the umbrella pole hole? Can any of you truly say if this table starting going wild in front of you wouldn't find it hard to resist your primal urge to fuck it?
Alive in Wild Paint
2008-03-28 18:46:00
Equal Vision Records just doesn't stop. It seems that just about every release that is graced with an EVR logo happens to be of tremendous quality. Okay, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration but the people at EVR certainly seem to hit the mark with bands they find more often than not, and certainly more often than can be said for most labels out there.The latest album to hit is the debut full length Ceilings by Alive
in Wild Paint
(formerly Goodbye Tomorrow). Alive in Wild Paint bring a much more mellow sound to the table than most of their labelmates. That's not to say that AIWP's brand of mellow piano rock is inferior to or in any way less enjoyable than other EVR bands.Ceilings is a great debut and I'm really struggling to find anything to knock the album for. I guess on the firs
Butters very own "What What (in the Butt)"
2008-04-03 08:35:00
Y: The Last Man
2008-04-02 22:25:00
Lately, when I've been able to drag myself away from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon to read anything else, it's been Y: The Last Man. The series, written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Pia Guerra, has been collected in ten trade paperback volumes, but so far I've only made it through the first three, which have all been phenomenal.The story starts off in 2002, everything is going great until suddenly, every species on Earth that has a Y chromosome dies. That is except for a lone man, Yorick Brown, and the capuchin monkey he had been training to aid disabled folks. Yorick isn't sure why he and his monkey appear to be the only males to survive, and neither are the people he comes into contact with.As you can imagine, society is shaken wildly by th
Bye Bye Bryant Gumbel!
2008-04-11 22:08:00
Worst commentator and play by play guy ever and all around douche, Bryant
Gumbel has been terminated by NFL Network. In a move long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long,
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Dear and the Headlights at Bloomsburg University
2008-04-25 21:02:00
Last night I attended a concert at Bloomsburg University
. While a majority of the people in attendance had come to watch Jimmy Eat World or (shudder) even Paramore, I was only concerned with the opening act. Dear and the Headlights wasn't even written on any of the posters I saw for the event but for me at least, they completely stole the show.While there wasn't the mad prepubescent push towards the bar caused by Paramore when DATH took the stage, they did have a handful of fans in attendance. Plus, by the end of their set, they had won over a large portion of the audience with their incredibly strong performance. They played several of my favorites from Small Steps, Heavy Hooves, including "Sweet Talk," "Run in the Front," and "I'm Bored, You're Amorous." They also offered up a selec
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
2008-04-28 18:56:00
Last week I saw a very funny movie I hope everyone's gotten the chance to see by now. After the lackluster Drillbit Taylor, Judd Apatow gets things back on track here with Forgetting Sarah
Marshall
.Forgetting Sarah Marshall is the story of Peter (Jason Segel) and his attempt to move on after his relationship ends with the titular Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). After trying the bar scene, Peter reaches the conclusion that he needs a vacation, and decides to stay in beautiful Hawaii. The only problem is he ends up at the same resort as Sarah and her new rock star boyfriend Aldous Snow of Infant Sorrow (Russell Brand).Peter at first doesn't know how to deal with staying at the same hotel as his ex but he is aided in his recovery by the beautiful receptionist Rachel (Mila Kunis) and a hila
Equal Vision Records New Sounds 2008
2008-05-06 09:18:00
I recently received this little comp in the mail. Equal
Vision Records
New Sounds
2008 serves as an excellent collection of what EVR currently has to offer listeners, as well as featuring some classics from former EVR bands.EVR New Sounds 2008 is made up of two discs, a CD featuring tracks from most of the current EVR roster and a few cuts from former bands and a DVD featuring music videos you likely would otherwise have a hard time seeing.The highlights of the CD are strong songs from recent EVR releases including tracks by Circa Survive, Chiodos, the Color Fred, the Fall of Troy, Pierce the Veil, Dear and the Headlights, The Snake the Cross the Crown, and Alive in Wild Paint. The CD also features a cut from the upcoming Cinematic Sunrise EP, "Goodbye Friendship, Hello Heartache" and an
Iron Man
2008-05-15 02:41:00
The summer movie blockbuster season is officially upon us and with fervor. A few weeks ago I saw the first blockbuster of the summer movie going season, Iron Man
, and what a film it is.Yeah, so what if I've been a tad lazy updating my blog at all these days. I'm not busy, I'm just lazy. That's not an excuse, it's just a fact. That doesn't change the fact that Iron Man is the best movie I've se
A Coloring Storybook and Long Playing Record
2008-05-15 01:15:00
My what a beautiful package the long awaited debut EP from Chiodos side-project Cinematic Sunrise is wrapped in! While the name of the record is somewhat deceptive, being an EP and not an LP and having but six songs as it does, "Craigery" Owens, as he is credited here, and crew have served up a shiny slice of terrific pop rock for listeners.The first thing you'll notice about this record is that
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, Record
Kiwi Teawi
2008-05-19 19:47:00
One of the great travesties in beverage history, right up there with New Coke, is the decision by Snapple to discontinue their phenomenal Kiwi Teawi. It didn't quite taste like tea, and it certainly didn't really taste like kiwi, but damn it, it tasted delicious. At my peak, I was probably drinking eight to ten of these wondrous thirstquenchers on a weekly basis. Why Snapple? Why did you put t
Ma Boot
2008-05-19 13:59:00
Apparently, Dr. Martens does a contest where people can design a boot and maybe it will get made. I simply had to try my hand at this. After countless, tiring hours, I poured all of my collective creative energy into it and came up with this beauty. Right now, I'm only ranked 4948th, but with your help, we can make my dream a reality!
Toothbrush Fence
2008-05-22 17:09:00
So I've decided to plan a trip to New Zealand in the next month or two. The reason I've made this decision is pictured to the right. It appears New Zealand is home to a unique attraction like no other - a toothbrush fence!There's a string of over fifty toothbrushes tied to a wire fence in Te Pahu, New Zealand. Local man Laird McGillicuddy Graeme Cairns decided to start stringing toothbrushes u
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Pride of Baghdad
2008-05-27 20:38:00
Brian K. Vaughan not only has the best first name a person can have, he's also one of my favorite comic authors. As readers of my blog could know, I love his Y: The Last Man series. I also picked up the first collection of another Vaughan series, Ex Machina, which was almost as amazing as Y: The Last Man. Today, when I was saddened to find Barnes & Nobles did not have the second volume of E
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, Baghdad
Damiera - Quiet Mouth Loud Hands
2008-05-28 19:30:00
The heavily anticipated follow up to experimental rock band Damiera's 2007 debut full length, M(US)IC, is almost here. Quiet
Mouth Loud Hands
hits stores June 24th and is one hell of a record.Equal Vision continues their streak of great albums thanks to Damiera. The band recorded and produced the album themselves in an old abandoned school building and the finished product is the work of a cohes
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