...and some pics from Jessica's birthday party.

Some pics from my phone at the party in some hip little bar. The cake looks like a fireball here...The whole day was fun because after this we went bowling! Thanks to Tom for setting it up and for Scott and Sally for the ride yo!






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...the winning streak continues

More good luck this week...a week or so ago I won a trip to Seattle for 2 nights...the luck continued on Saturday night with the first Shaba no-limit texas hold 'em poker tournament. I actually managed to outlast 20 other people to win the grand-prize ($100 Best Buy gift certificate)! Tamsen managed to get a very respectable third place, especially having not too much knowledge of the game. I think she may be my good luck charm...in addition to my Sabbath shirt...




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...quick question

Does anyone know if the star wars "the clone wars" animated dvd is any good? I'm considering buying it...

...another reason to get a mac

So recently Trent Reznor just released the newest single from his new album in garageband format. Man I really want a mac with garageband 2 so I can mess with this 16 track song. Granted the song isn't too good...I got a bad feeling about the album as well. It all falls into my universal band theory:

1. Band A is great and put outs good albums (in this case Broken and The Downward Spiral).
2. Band A puts out an album that is not as good as their previous works (The Fragile). Usually this album is more "mature" and has less edge than past albums; oftentimes this album takes longer to make as well.
3. Every album from then on the band will never regain their past talent.

Bands that fall into the above (Smashing Pumpkins, Hole, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses, Metallica...). I have asked many people and have never heard of a band that was able to overcome step #2. The lesson is, like The Beatles, strike while the iron is hot...if you are making good records don't stop for anything...keep cranking them out!

...fell in love with a psp

...got a psp last week as a present from work (yay!) then returned it last night as I was sick of my 8 dead pixels driving me insane and keeping me awake at night (boo!)...as soon as best buy gets some more in I will get another one, then return it if it is not pixel puurrrfect...repeat ad infintum until I get something deserving of the quality $250 should get you.

On a positive note, the bird that comes by to wake me up all the time has been incorporated into my dreams without waking me up last night....

...pics from last weeks shows

The pics from the 2 shows I went to last week as promised:


Oxen guitarists both had no wires for crowd action...this guy got a beeer mid set!



Big business played a new song without vocals so they invited anyone to come up and sing.









These Arms Are Snakes singer danced around so much he was drenched in man-sweat.




I was joined at concert #2 (Death From Above 1979) by Tamsen...which was nice as I usually end up going to shows alone.



The actual pics from the DFA show aren't so great, but this one below shows the middle band (controller controller) notice the guy in the white shirt with a mohawk...thats the DFA '79 singer.

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...some current game reviews

Currently playing or just finished:
Freedom Force 2 (PC) - B+ so far
Fight Night 2 (PS2) - B
Brothers in Arms (XBOX) -B+ so far

Also saw Sin City (grrrrr ate) and changed the layout here on the right. The book and movie reviews were getting too low on the page so I mixed all the reviews up. I'll have last weeks band pics up tommorow night.