I'll Sleep When I'm Dead...and load when I feel like it.

I have made a video for the album overview to Warren Zevon's Greatest Hits album I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD CD1. There are 2 CDs in this set and I finished part 1. But for some reason, I'm having trouble loading it. It could be because it's about 13 minutes long. I don't know. Long story short, it isn't loading right now. Hopefully it will load sometime within the next week. Or I may go back and shorten it some.

Star Trek Rocks!

I started getting in the process of making a video for the album overview of Warren Zevon's I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD Anthology 2 CD set. Somehow in the process, I found this image. I don't remember what it was under. But previous to this, I thought only the Star Wars one existed.

15 albums and 15 movies

A lot of people on facebook are posting the top 15 albums and top 15 movies that they can say will always be with them or something in a matter of 15 minutes each. So I wanted to do this too.



15 albums that will always be a part of who I am or something.

1. Life'll Kill Ya - Warren Zevon
2. Like A Rock - Bob Seger
3. Footloose Original Sound Track
4. Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf
5. Born In The U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
6. Running With Scissors - "Weird Al" Yankovic
7. Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Music of Warren Zevon - Various Artist
8. Man Of La Mancha Original Broadway Cast
9. Corporate America - Boston
10. The Wind - Warren Zevon
11. Blue Moon Swamp - John Fogerty
12. Then & Now - The Who (Yes, I know it's a greatest hits album. It's the only album with "Real Good Looking Boy")
13. Making Movies - Dire Straits
14. Day and Age - The Killers (Very rarely do I find new groups I like. This was my first Killers album).
15. Racing The Tide - The Elders

That is my list of 15 albums that will always be a part of who I am (or whatever the list is supposed to be). And now for movies:



1. Star Trek: First Contact
2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
3. Forrest Gump
4. Stranger Than Fiction
5. The Lion King
6. Back To The Future
7. Jurassic Park
8. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
9. Stardust
10. Star Trek - 2009 (If not just for it's own merrit, then who all I saw it with)
11. Armageddon
12. Hitchhicker's Guide To The Galaxy
13. Robin Hood (Disney version)
14. The Land Before Time...the Original...the first one
15. Independence Day

Here are my top 15 albums and 15 movies that will always be a part of who I am or something. I realize the campy/crappy value of some of the movies I mentioned...like Armageddon. It's still going to be one of those movie.

Album cover

I found out from Chris Hurt's blog update from last Wednesday about this thing involving making an album complete with band name, 1st album, and album cover. First of all, you need to go to Wikopedia and go to random artical. At the random artical, I was given Hiroyuki Hamada. I have no idea who this is really. But right away, Wikapedia gave me this information about him...

Hiroyuki Hamada was Born in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima on October 29, 1925. He was the founder of Nihon Koden Shindo Ryu Karatedo and master of Felton Messina.

This was the name of the band. I was then supposed to go to a random quotes page and go to the last random quote it gives me. From that quote, I was supposed to take the last 4 or 5 words. (I cheated a little bit and went with 6 so it would make sense). The words put together were

I happen to be a quack.

This was the title to my first album. Then I was supposed to go to flicker and get the 3rd photo (no matter what) from the last seven days. The one I found had a hold on it so I had to "print screen" it and take it to Paint before I could do anything with it. For this reason, I will not be posting the picture by itself. I will, however, post the final project that I got between PowerPoint and Paint.

You Know What's Annoying? 004

You know what's annoying? Political ads. I'm so sick and tired of political ads. I live in Johnson County, KS and I have yet to see many political ads for any one or any issue that I'll be voting for or agaisnt. 98% of all the political ads I've found are all Missouri ads. I'm not political enough to care about issues that Missouri has on the ballet. But the news I get is from Kansas City. There are no issues up to be voted for other than issues soley on the states and all the ads I've been seeing are for Missouri. Then at the primaries, I got political ads for Kansas but I wasn't for any of them. I found it annoying when they would talk about a certian canadate being pro NRA like it was a good thing. Then, it didn't even matter because August were the primaries which means ONLY Democrats and Republicans got to vote (by the way, I've got my own issue with this but that's another story). And there is no cross voting like their is in the general election. I didn't even know that there were any Democrats running because all the ads were Republican.
By the way, for those who don't follow politics or do follow politics but may be by some chance reading from overseas or something, in the primaries, you vote for who you want to vote for in November. It's like the Democrats have 3 guys and the Republicans have 3 guys and the one with the most votes go head-to-head in November.

Another annoying thing about political ads is that, once again, I live in Johnson County, KS. This is very much Eastern Kansas. You can't get much more Eastern without going into Missouri. There are issues that as a Kansan, I vote for or against, but as a Johnson Countian goes against things that I'm interested in. For example, I'm 27 years, 3 months, and about 21-23 days old or so. I've lived in Kansas all my life. I just found out that we actually have "small towns" in the last 5 years. I thought small towns were something Hollywood just came up with in Superman stories to make us look rural. There are small town/farm land issues that are never going to affect me.

Bottom line, I'm sick and tired of political ads for peole or issues that I'm never going to be voting for or on...not out of spite...but for the main and simple reason that I don't even live in the state they are campaigning in or their views and beliefs, when they are directed to me as a voter, go against what's most important to me.

By the way, this is probably my most politically driven blog entry to date. I don't like getting political on blogspot. But this isn't so much political as it is about the advertising of politics. I don't really want to talk about a specific political issue because it usually just gets me angry or somehow overtly passionate.
My mom told me something she heard on the radio is that this guy isn't going to vote for any of his canadates because their political ads don't say anything about what they do, they just talk about what the other canadate has done wrong.

Cancer Awareness

For about a week now, I've had friends on facebook update their status saying where they like it...I like it on the kitchen table...I like it in the hall...I like it on the door knob...I like it in the woods...I like it between someone's legs in the passenger seat...
The list goes on. Of course, we all know what they're talking about, right? Brest cancer. These are my female friends updating their status saying where they like to put there purse...which obviously teaches me something about Brest Cancer.
Ok, no, I'm joking. Telling me where they like their purse by saying that they like "it" in a certain location tells me nothing about Brest Cancer at all. As I said on a friend's or 2 status updates this evening...

I'm not any more aware of Brest Cancer than I was 2 months ago. But I am more aware of how kinky some of my female friends are.

Here's the thing, if you're going to make people aware of something, you should give something abscure that tells nothing related to the subject. Back in January, even more of my female friends were posting the color of their bras for Brest Cancer awareness. This made just as little sence because they only posted a color. When I found out what the color was, I suggested they should also post the color of thier panties to help fight cirvical cancer...it did about just as much the same work as saying what the braw color was. But I didn't get much feed back. So I decided to take my own tactic. I decided to post the color of boxer shorts I was wearing and say that with that, I'm helping to fight testicular cancer.
I actually got more of a response from that. I've done something simular this time. Since the girls were posting where they like to put their purses...something that is a feminine thing (it's a feminine thing...if a guy has a purse, it's called a murse or something like that). So I took a more manly thing and said...

I like car keys in the egnition. Since cars are manly, I just made you all aware of testicular cancer.

Bottom line, if you're going to make people aware of Cancer, do something about it or come out and say something about it. Don't beat around the bush and talk about something unrelated.

I Can't

I'd like to think that I have it all together. I'd also like to believe that I'm all that and a bag of chips/da bomb digity/whatever phrase is used now to mean cool. But I can't. I can't even get on the computer at night without realizing that the sun has already come up before I'm through on the computer. I want to have a regular schedule but I can't even get on the computer until about 12:15am. Now, it's 5am already and I haven't got caught up on everything I wanted to do. I haven't even update this blog since I posted the album overview to Warren Zevon's Learning to Flinch album.
I've been wanting to a full on movie review of this movie I saw a week ago with my mom for her birthday called Alpha and Omega. Since I'm not going to have enough time to do a full on review of the movie, I'll just try and do a quickie here:
The idea behind Alpha and Omega is that these 2 wolves, one is an alpha female and the other is an omega male (which is supposed to represent their social status in the pack) get shipped off to this park reserve in Utah or Idaho or something (where isn't all that important) in order to repopulate the species there. The male likes this because he likes her. The female likes him but doesn't like-like him (it's a kid/family pic so of course it's got that dynamic). The female's family was set to mate with the alpha from this other pack wolves but then she wound up missing (when the 2 wolves got sent to the park). While they try to find their way back, the packs become offended with the other pack...while the alpha male from the one pack starts to fall for the sister of the alpha female...who is actually an omega.
As it turns out, it works because the 2 that ran off together wind up both liking each other and the ones who stayed liked each other. The day is saved.
I found the movie to be very Shakespearean romantic-comedy-esk in nature...no pun intended. It may have just been obvious to me since I've studied enough Shakespeare to recognize the connection when I see one.
What sucked: I say it like this because there are parts that sucked about it. And for the most part, I can forgive it. There were things that were very irrational and cartoon-like and just simply wouldn't have happened in the real world. Even in the way they moved (the female wolf did a lot of mid air summer-salts* for example). Since this was a cartoon, I didn't mind it too much. It was logical enough for the storyline. The female wolf went through training to be an alpha (she went away to school to learn to be an alpha...like I said, cartoon). The human attributes they put on the wolves is why it could get away with being illogical. The other thing that sucked...and the only thing about this movie that I personally couldn't forgive was that when the wolves would howl, they treated it like a pop song. This is something I just could not stand. It was annoying. To me, the howl of a wolf is one of the coolest most awesome sounds in nature. And it seemed like what they did by putting it to a pop song sound was bastardizing it in the worst way. And not good pop like pop-rock...bad pop. The kind that made my part ways with my family on what radio station to listen to 10 years ago.

Yes, coming up, we've got the BackStreet Cubs...followed by N*Trail. Then coming out the rear, it's Justin Beaver! Why? Because they're wolves and he's a beaver so they ate him and digested him and now they're pooping him out.
-Radio DJ of the forest.

I really can't stand pop-pop...at all. I hate it. This is music that I was forced to listen to when I was younger and I wanted to stab the members of the Backseat Boys, N*Stink, and run after Hanson with scissors...if for nothing else to cut off their hair. I still do sometimes. I hate Hanson so much with every fiber of my being. I would be a lot happier if they had never been born.
But personal torture put on to me by pop bands aside, that's my review of the movie. I liked it for the most part except for that which I just ranted about.

Anyway, the time is now 5:40 so it took me almost 45 minutes to type this. This is another example of how not-together I have it. It took me half an hour to write a review of a family movie at least. Some of it was ranting at the beginning of this entry and here. But it shouldn't take that long to just type a movie review.

Now, I'll try and go to bed. Please notice my foot note.



*By the way, I'm not sure how to spell summer-salts. This is the spelling that Firefox doesn't have an issue with. I can't guarantee that it's right.

Learning To Flinch

Okay, this is the album overview of Warren Zevon's LEARNING TO FLINCH. It is a kind of a combination greatest hits and live accoustic album.