One of the year's best...

Alright not exactly what I was expecting to post next (after SO much time of not posting ANYTHING) but nonetheless I do feel this is worth posting. You have to start somewhere right? So this new album is fantastic! One of the best I've heard this year. It's the most recent release from the Manic Street Preachers titled Journal For Plague Lovers. You may have heard of the Manic Street Preachers as they were at one point one of the biggest bands in Britain. Like so many other "big" UK bands, they never really caught on over here (not many Welsh bands do). My interest was sparked when @ the end of 1995 I kept seeing their album Everything Must Go on (or near the top of) almost all year end lists. Understandably my interest was sparked. While that album was great, their follow-up albums kinda lost me. I did like their stuff but nothing really kept me their. Music seems so infinite that it can be easy to be taken away to something else but it now seems I have been brought back.
Much like Everything Must Go, this latest album of theirs has been getting great reviews. I do know that great reviews don't mean EVERYTHING but sometimes reading those reviews gives good context to how the album was conceived/put together which was the case here for me.
In 1995 one of the key lyricists Richey James Edwards went missing leaving the remaining 3 band members fairly confused. Apparently Richey would write the lyrics & the other guys would work on the music (I believe this peaked w/ their fan favourtie album The Holy Bible). So after he went missing (a suspected suicide) just after The Holy Bible was released the band went through a minor change. The remaining band members used a few of his left over lyrics for songs on Everything Must Go (still their biggest album) & left it at that.
Now 18 years later the band has released this new album which takes all it's lyrics from a folder which Richey had given bassist Nicky Wire weeks before he went missing. Amazingly the band has taken these lyrics & made one of the year's best albums! It rocks! Not as immediate as people may hope for in their rock n' roll (is that what people hope for? Are attention spans are at an all-time low?) but that's what I find always makes a good album: one that you need to absorb.
If you are a fan of rock n' roll & some great lyrics (it's true - he was great) check this disc out. You will not be disappointed!

Alive...

Yes I am.

I'm thinking people like pictures. Less writing, more pictures.

Coming soon;)

It was a Sunday morning...

This is an excerpt of an unpublished blag I wrote it on the morning of February 25th:

I had tragedy turn into triumph as I ran out of milk this morning while assembling my cereal.
And in my books this would qualify as a tragedy, as this I believe this is the first time EVER I have run out of milk during cereal time. I ask, does anyone really like too little milk in their bowl? Hands please? (Can't see hands)
Sigh-ness for dry-ness.
Adding to this was the cereal situation itself. Indeed a dry situation with minimal a) Frosted Flakes (one of my top 4 crls though), with maybe 1 bowl left in the box, most likely less and, b) Crispix in tha' house which I had bought after the stunning realisation that I had never had it before. After 2 previous bowls of Crispix, I knew I was no fan.
Of course though now was the perfect time...
I thought an ideal mix... potentially... together...
I poured.
Crispix aplenty on the bottom half (I know they float & I wanna finish this box *still have the unfinished box) and Frosted Flakes gracing me with its presence on the top. I knew I didn't need sugar.

They looked good in the bowl together...
and at time of doing this I knew nothing of my milk situation. I know I didn't have any chocolate sauce & so I haven't been having choco milk.
There should be no question about the milk... my 1%.
- Actions:
Fridge open, milk grab, lift, weird, hold, feels light, gentle shake, question:
"Could I be out of milk?"

Of course I poured a Healthy bowl or cereal! Boo-yah!
Whatevs... I knew it'd be close.
Milk to cereal, milk to cereal, more milk, miiiiilllllkkkk....
It was not close.
I crushed the two cereals together in my milk puddle in a bowl, only to stumble across a new dream cereal mix.
People!
A NEW DREAM CEREAL MIX!!
I FOUND IT!!
UP THERE next to Harvest Crunch... AHEAD of Frosted Mini-Wheats! LIGHTER! And so so very very good. VERY good.

Have I sold it yet?

So now please note:
a) Crispix sucks on it's own. It's no good:(
b) Frosted Flakes remain strong and are an excellent cereal mix;)
c) Watch your milk levels & check especially before upcoming (morning) usage, not last minute as I did... I'm a lucky guy though;)
also
d) not to judge me, but to thank me for me wisdomamazing cereal info insight.

Aight... That would be brutal if I left it at that... ugh.

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I am leaving it at that. I will update so soon. SO soon.
JK


p.s. When you are writing (HAND-writing - everybody still does that, right?), do you ever, maybe occasionally, have your writing look like one of your parents?!?
That's happened to me a few times. It's crazy.

"Are you a part of it or NOT?"

I really want to see this movie. It's called Jesus Camp & it's nominated for Best Documentary at this year's Oscars. It looks great... & I hear it's surprisingly fair!! Nothin' like askin' some questions!! Go creationism!!
Watch the trailer HERE!

Oh... and this will CHANGE YOUR LIFE! (almost)


Jx

Worrisome Ripple Effect

This is a graphic of the terrible 12/26/04 Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami and how it spread.

On a side-note, my bowl is empty.

(this bowl is empty)




WHAT kind of corner (grocery) store only has Raspberry-Vanilla ice cream?!?


Well they didn't have just that flavor, but for the 1.5L size... ONLY rasp-van! Full-on disappointing (yes still, because I didn't buy any & I refuse to get over it tonight).


I thought, could they be sold out??? Low on ice cream?
NO! THAT ICE CREAM FREEZER SHELF WAS FULL!


This was not a freezer that was sold out of things - it had FULL stock... but not of ANY nice normal basic straight-forward vanilla ice cream. The closest I there was a (much too small) tub of "Vanilla Bean".
WTF!?

I want no beans involved with my ice cream - not even jelly beans (which I always love but never have)!

So with the corner store... you know...
...I try to stay loyal...
...avoid the big stores... It makes no sense the one on the corner is closer...
(but) COME ON!
...they have to help themselves... jeez.

Just order the basics & know that rasp-van is no basic... we'll try this again soon.

Alright,

FIN

And the winner is...

After 72 hours of final deliberations (with myself) the winner has now been chosen!

I am happy to announce, COLGATE MAXFRESH (w/ Mini Breath Strips), as my official NUMBER 1 INTERNATIONAL ALL TIME TOOTHPASTE 2007!!!

Unfortunately the foaming action(s) of Aquafresh Extreme Clean failed to really seal the deal with me, or should I say, brush away the competition... Muuahhahaha...

Oh God I'm lame.

This competition is now peaced out.

Go get yo' brush on fool!

Jx