preseasoning

it's fall. and you know what that means. it's time for me to embarrass myself by posting madden screenshots again. no screenshots yet, but i played through the preseason of what i suppose would be 2010 (my seventh franchise season) in the game this weekend. we didn't do too badly, considering we've gone 0-4 in the last two preseasons. then again, we did go 1-3 and lost one game 58-27 and one 43-14. the team is not very good this year.

nonetheless, we're opening against perennial pain-in-the-fucking-ass seattle. sometime this weekend, if i can drag myself away from all this rewarding work i'm doing and sit my ass in front of the television, you'll be seeing screenshots dropping like jason mcaddley was dropping passes in the last game...that metaphor didn't work so well.

until then, adieu. oh, and if anyone has a secondary that doesn't completely suck, send them my way.

reckoner vids

radiohead, badassed as they are, commissioned the creation of shitloads of music videos by any willing internet users awhile back, and these two were selected as part of the top 10 best videos by (i assume) the band.

since i've said over and over again that "reckoner" is my favorite song of 2008, i'm a little biased. the rest of the top 10 can be viewed here.

#1:

watch more at aniBoom

#2:

watch more at aniBoom

i have tracks picked out for september's mixtape, never fear. i just have to find time to sequence and upload them.

i mean, one of my blog entry tags is "introspection"...

...how not-insane can i be expected to be, really?

pretty fucking not a lot, that's how much!

what?

critical distance

8 years away from the 90s, i finally have enough critical distance to sit down and listen to the wallflowers' bringing down the horse and realize that, yes, i really like this album and it's really well put together and stands up to the test of time well.

for the first time i just hear some good jakob dylan songs and not the album that ended up having something like half of itself used at some point as radio singles (including "one headlight"). i don't actually immediately associate that song anymore with the time that i totally blew my chance to dance with the girl of my dreams at the eigth grade social. sometimes it's a good thing to be old.

finishing up a few things at work, going home to slack off for a bit, and then it's off to sushi and then back to work from like 7-midnight. trying to keep a handle on how good i really have it. when you suddenly become dialed in on something at least slightly resembling romance to the exclusion of everything else, and then just as suddenly realize that you have to stop because you're a fucking megalomaniac of love, you end up with a big vacuum in your brain and heart that's shaped like all of the things you could have sworn you weren't taking for granted...

probably more about that later.

pandora's playing the cards' version of "down in a hole". seems appropriate.

seriously, holy fuck.

for once, i'm not exaggerating my excitement.