binary fusion - damn fine group - from detroit....maybe after google-ing it's binary star either way it's mine as soon as I pick it up and such - rock.

Locusts - "we are the swarm"

Last night I watched this made for tv movie locusts after a couple of weeks ago having seen tlc's "Super Volcano". Both are fictional accounts of natural disasters of apocolyptic scale. Super Volcano was pretty bad and while the artificial plot line was terrible, there was absolutely no way that it could have prepared me for "locusts" starring Xena the warrior princess, and the swarm of flesh eating locusts (spoiler warning) that were in the end electrocuted after the entire US turned their lights out for a day in the stead of gassing them w/ a nerve agent. It was real bad, even offensive - at one point Xena's husband was talking to some foreigners and he was on the phone with Xena who was giving him hell - in the subtitles the translater said, "these Americans know much about farming, but little about women." I think that was supposed to be funny, but how would these foreigners have delt with the situation - I'm thinking likely with violence - not cool. Anyway, I didn't finish it and I miss Xena w/out her sword and armor.

bye

First Draft

1. braylon edward wr San Francisco 49ers
2. alx smith Miami qb Dolphins
3. aaron rodgers qb Cleveland Browns
4. derrick johnson lb Chicago Bears
5. carnell williams rb Tampa Bay Bccaneers
6. atrell rolle cb Tennessee Titans
7. mike williams wr Minnesota Vikings
8. cedrick benson rb Arizona Cardinals
9. adam jones cb Washington Redskins
10. shawn merriman de/lb Detroit Lions
11. demarcus ware de/lb dallas cowboys
12. markus spears de San Diego Chargers
13. ronnie brown rb Houston Texans
14. alex barron ot Carolina Panthers
15. troy williamson wr Kansas City Chiefs
16. thomas davis s New Orleans Saints
17. travis johnson dt Cincinati Bengals
18. david pollock de Minnesota Vikings
19. jamal brown ot Saint Louis Rams
20. dan cody de dallas cowboys
21. carlos rodgers cb Jacksonville Jaguars
22. mark clayton wr Baltimore Ravens
23. shawn cody de Seattle Seahawks
24. brodney poole s Green Bay packers
25. jason campbell qb Washington Redskins
26. heath miller te Oakland Raiders
27. khalif barnes ot Atlanta Falcons
28. roddy white wr San Diego Chargers
29. erasmus james de Indianapolis Colts
30. marcus johnson g Pittsburg Steelers
31. matt jones wr Philadelphia Eagles
32. marlin jackson cb New England Patiots

Hey, that's just my prediction, we'll see where that one goes. Luckily I'm working from 11am to like 9:30 today, so I'll be otherwise involved because if I wasn't my eyes would be glued to the tv watching espn from like noon to 7 or 8 and that's just no good, bordering on unhealthy obcession. I'm a football fan, but moreso than being a fan of the regular season, I'm a fan of the draft. Somehow a game of variables built on inumberous veriables spins me just right. Yeah, that's my call for the day and I'll likely pour over the boards when my day's done, which is fine with me.

Later on,
Chromeeyes

Greetings From the Fine Grind (clean; publicly safe edition)

First off, yeah, I'm still ranting about that smoking ban, but I'm sure it'll be forgiven as soon as forgotten or some such shit. The shins show was the start to a great smoke free metro - hurah (murmers in the background disapprove).

Righto then, it looks like I missed an opportunity to see fire and wine (that sounds right, but it just doesn't ring true, somebody help me out with that one. Bright eyes is coming up though and after furthur review, honestly, I've been waiting for an album like Digital Ash in a Digital Urn for a while, the new ('04) streets didn't do it, although that was pretty cool and RJD2 really didn't do it for me. Frome time to time there's an album that just get stuck in my brain and DAIDU really did - so that's that and I'm much ashamed to say so.

My roommate and his girl are big into that american idol thing - me not so much, but there's this show on afterwards that I thought was good for that last few weeks - this hospital drama called House. I don't usually tolerate hospital drama, but this is an internal medicine hospital drama, which deals much less with blood and much more with differential diagnosis, which byway of the logic involved is fairly cerebral. You see Fineas and you're like well we'd better take that railroad spike outta urr 'ead. In contrast internal medicine is the figurative interpretation of the body's goings on - I kinda digit(s.i.c.). Today, I got sick of the formula revolving around it's this, but wait, no it's not it's this, no it's not it's actually that, maybe it only seemed good because after american idol I'd likely watch M.A.S.H or Friday Night Videos or even the Golden Girls and feel good about it. Too much tv, not enough books read - lesson learned.

lates,
Chromeeyes

Weekend update,

So, none of my three expectations came true, but I did hit the new walker for a spell, that was mighty fine.

Cruisin'
chromeeyes

In anticipation of not being internet concious this weekend

These are the things I anticipate:

1) retribution from k)(rel for a comment regarding a "U.S." senator and bodily excretions

2) a visit from "la policier contentia"

3) breakfast at the triple rock (ROCK!)

4) redemption

5) goons, insane asyulms and morgues

OVer,
Chromeeyes

Seriously "out of context" quotes

Oh lord have mercy on my soul. I'm listening to thursday's edition of The Majority Report and so speaketh David Cross,"I would take exception to that, because what benifits Paris Hilton in turn benifits America." Thanks to a()ron I've been listening to the last few of these Majority reports. It's alot of fun and I think Mr. Cross needs his own talk show.

Anyway, this weekend is looking to be some work and some play, I need another live show or something, but we'll see.

later,
Chromeeyes

Mourning Highlights

Checkitout, I woke up a little late this morn apres hitting the aforementioned 1stave last night for a pretty kicking shins and brunettes(not sure where they were going or where they were last night, but hey) show last night. Anyway I got to catch part of Regis and Kelly's opening discussion wherein Kelly was recounting her trip to the ballgame and she discussed the dynamics of squatting. Apparenty the girls make quite a mess in the privy as a result of the squatting and Kelly was complaining that at public places she had no choice, but to mop up others' refuse or the subsequent patrons who saw her exiting such mess would suppose that she was the slob that caused it and would call her a "bitch"(she said bitch at like 9:15am on brodcast televison). Amusing, the thought of a celebrity whiping up a pool of piss to avoid criticism.

Lates,
Erasmus

Concert Review in the form of an appology letter or "I perfer the sur-up"

Dear Shins,

I ardently appologise for the show you played at first avenue last night. I appologise for the minnesotans who bodysurfed, held lighters in the air, clapped, and did the fist in the air thing. Furthermore, I appologise that you could see all the way across the first avenue dance floor - there's lately been a ban on smoking and I personally neglected to organize a civil disobedience protest last night, next time I will.

Sincerely,
Desiderius Erasmus

post script: I'm not one to get all hairy about being irritated by patrons at a good show, but a guy in a brown, yellow and mauvre vertical striped shirt hit me in the balls one too many times while slapping his girl's ass in time to the music; I'm not sure I've been more irritated.

Praying on Assasins

I watched "Meet the Press" in brief last sunday and they were interviewing a bishop or and arch-bishop or something. Anyway, when asked how hard it was for the pope to sit down and pray with the man who tried to assasinate him, the bishop responded - "not hard at all for a man as spiritually grounded as the pope." Of all the commentary that's been mushed around regarding the late leader of the catholic church this piece is my favorite. In day to day life most of us struggle against an enemy more akin to Dr.Jeckle/Mr.Hyde than spiderman struggling against the joker. While public figures are more prone to aquiring an nemesis than the rest of our poor souls - the image of a man forgiving and reconsiling with a nemesis in real life, taking initiative to seek understanding with an opponent who he had never intentionally harmed, speaks poigniently to my sense of self and future self. We all would do well to aspire to such a level of intensity empathetically.

On a softer note: I've just acquired a couple of bright eyes' latest disks and bought a ticket to the May 12 show; let's call it an experiment in reconstitution. I saw bright eyes with grandaddy a few years ago at the 400 bar and then bright eyes again at the electric fetus the next day. I got a kick out of it and upon first review the new disks are pretty good - the music's got a rhett miller (not to be confused with the Old 97s) attraction to it. We'll see how it sticks, but for now I'm gonna say I'm enjoying the foray into bright eyes for the better part.

I filled out one of those lately popular mad libs things on a-ron's blog the other day and having shunned the whole concept before I think it's alot of fun, but I'm not sure I quite get the whole thing yet. Are you suppose to fill in the blanks putting yourself in the author's shoes trying your best to replicate the author's response, therein gauging how well you know the author by interpolaing the language for the spaces? Alternatively, is the object to remake the pasage as whittily as possible or with as much continuity as possible? These are the things, sometimes, that I question, possibly.

later,
Chromeeyes