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And I’m not talking about Curtis….

Son of a Ardvark…. I feel icky…. I haven’t this icky since I heard the term “He fondled the box of chocolates”

Ok if you are really confused… read the post just below this one then read the opening line again… it may make more sense, just know that it’s me and that it’s just this thing I call a personality.

Who knew I had one?

And no this isn’t not a “beer flavored blog” this is brought to you with me hopped up on water and saltines.

So I haven’t talked about EVE recently… EVE the Game not Eve the blogger. You really should read Eve the bloggers blog though… it is insightful and unlike mine she posts stuff that you might actually find useful.

OK so getting back to EVE the game, as you all know (or maybe not) this is a space based game with various types and classes of ships. The largest and most powerful of these ships is called a “Titan” they cost 100’s of billions of in game currency and several months in real time to build. This week the first player produced Titan was revealed (keep with me I promise it’s going to get better). So in the unveiling video they have this song going on in the background…

Hey that song is pretty good I think to myself….

Hey it’s the opening music to House! (about the only show I watch other then CSI that isn’t on Sci-Fi)

I fastforward through the video… the ships impressive but once you’ve seen on big ass ship you’ve seen them all. The song is by “Massive Attack” now I have heard of them before I just have never listened to them.

So I do what any self respecting music lover does… I jump on iTunes and sure enough their entire catalog is out there. I find the song in question (it’s called “Teardrop” if you were wondering). I proceed to buy the album.

Yes I know it’s iTunes… I know I can buy just the song I want but I find that I enjoy the music much more if I get the entire album. Some of my favorite songs were never released as singles… Heresey by NIN, Like Suicide by Soundgarden, You Are by Pearl Jam, No Quater (cover) by TOOL (Odd that my favorite TOOL song is a cover of a Led Zeplin song huh?)

Anyway I’ve been digging the album as a whole… I don’t have any “Trip-Hop” but this is generally in that vaine of electronic music that I like. It’s not as in your face as The Crystal Method were with Legion of Boom… more Vegas on a couple of those tracks… The one with the moon clips comes to mind off the top of my head.

OH and if you would like to see the really big space ship that is in the game I play follow the link: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/0609/newdawn.wmv

You know I think I’m going to start using that phrase instead of "son of a bitch" it’s got the same ring to it and when you actually say people look at you kind of funny and go "Ardvark?"  WTF?

Here is a image for you… Some one "fondling a box of choclates"  I really wish I were making that up but I’m not… I actually heard it at work today I don’t think I will ever touch a opened box of choclates ever again.

"Hey look at the box of choclates!"

"Oh it’s open… Son of a ardvark!"

So Battlestar Galactica (BSG to those of us who watch) has a myspace. http://www.myspace.com/scifibattlestar
It’s a pretty standard promo myspace page but it has a few clips that I found nice.. Including the 3 minute catch. Not a good place to start but it’s better then nothing.

Anymore I watch 5 shows on a pretty constant basis… Stargate SG1/Atlantis, CSI, The Daily Show, and Battlestar Galactica. I realize that this list is very sci-fi centric but look at who you talking to 🙂

So where I was going with this was the Stargates would probally do very well in syndication. And they have for the last 9 years now. I think that BSG would be able to stand on it’s own on a network. Curtis and I have argued about this he is of the mind that BSG is to graphic and violent for network tv. I argue that based soley on CSI and the amount of stuff that they show on there. I think that BSG wouldn’t fare well on network tv simply because it would be lost in the void of some random night of the week. It’s a heavy hitter to be sure but would it be heavy enough hitter to take on the CSI’s, Lost, or even lord help us the double crap shot that is Desperate Housewives / Greys Anatomy. I think in a 3 network world no problem… in the 500 channel universe we occupy doubtful. At best it would be a summer series or a mid season replacement.

There you have it… my thoughts on why BSG would probally die on the vine in network world. So long as their is a sci-fi channel there will be geek friendly television and I will have a place to call home. Even if it’s only me, curtis, kristina, matt, kristi, and 10,000 other people watching it… at least we will have it.

You could be dead right now…

Of course if your into the dead and bloated thing then life just got a whole hell of alot better for you.

I started out the football season with wide bits of hope that the Cardinals would actually do something. I’m happy to report that after today my hopes for a better cardinals season is starting to circle the drain.

But I am a Arizona sports fan… We won’t believe anything until it happens. Even then we will a good thing into something much smaller then it really is since we don’t the severe pain and disappointment when it’s not a constant thing (See the Arizona experience with the world series in 2001).

So yeah that is my view from a Arizona sports fan… At least basketball season is right around the corner.

Moving on… A rare moment where I say Congratulations to one of my own flesh and blood. Congrats goto my Grandmother for being Humanitarian of the year in Kingman Az. I don’t know what it takes to be humanitarian of the year in Kingman Az but I know that two people I know were mentioned during the speech as being vital in there patience as she towed them around town when they were very small. I would like to think that little brother and I better for the experience but honestly we were probally more interested in getting home to cartoons then the good we were doing 20 years ago.

Telepathic Space Monkeys….

If you haven’t seen “Fight Club” in a while you probally won’t get that… I saw it last week and I barely get it… I’m pretty sure it’s a refrence to how easily modern man (as in males) can be turned into “cannon fodder” through the direction of one charasmatic leader who strikes a chord or just plain strikes them.

It could also be because I’m listening to Pearl Jam am doing laundry and had a couple of beers this evening.

I’m willing to bet it has more to do with the music and beer then Fight Club.

So if that didn’t turn you off nothing will.

So here is a thought for collective thought pool known as my 3.3 readers (the decrease is due to the start of the fall semster and Kristi and Curtis having to devote signficant portions of brain functionality to school work that they would otherwise use to digest this crap) (maybe not digest this crap so much as process it and let it all run)

Disneyland no longer the most evil place on earth has been returned to the status of “Annoying”

The spacemonkeys took to calling me “Mr. IBM” at work… I swear if the wallpapers were cornflower blue I would be a freaking spacemonkey…

hey look another beer.

I admire people who don’t drink… when they type they don’t wear out their “Backspace button”… They generally have better grammer too.

Pearl Jam has a song called “Big Wave” and Soundgarden has a song called “My Wave” they sound nothing alike

Little Lower, Little Slower…

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Notice the green…

It’s a little hard to see in this picture but yeah you get it.

It just made me feel better about my own bathroom.

OK so the KDKB thing was a plublicity stunt… Curtis called it.

All they did was open up the type of music that they play

They didn’t even change their staff…

http://www.kdkb.com/staff.asp

Again that is a good thing since listening to Alice Cooper in the evenings is rather cool.

For the last week KDKB has been pushing that on Sept 15, 2006 @ 9:33 AM they will be unveiling their new format.

Curtis thinks that this is just a plublicty stunt… I would be lying if I said I didn’t agree with him just a bit.

There is a part of me that is also really expecting KDKB to go the way of the Mariachi Station and suddenly I will be down to two radio stations in Phoenix (KEDJ and KUPD)

So in some sort of half assed orgainzed response to the maybe demise of KDKB I’m going to make predictions about what we will be listenining to on “Classic Rock” stations in the future.

When I say future I say 20 to 30 years… so think about music from 1975 to 1985 and what you hear on classic rock stations today and you know about I’m going for.

So in the year 2036 the classic rock stations will be playing. (maybe)

Damn Nirvana…. they had 1 good album and Kurt was to much of a pussy to stand up to Courtney and was killed for it. The really bad part is we will only hear Lithium and Smells Like Teen Spirit… we won’t hear any of the good stuff.

Freaking Incubus… I know it’s a odd ball but hear me out on this one. They will be one of those random songs that will come on and you will remember the first time you listened to “Make yourself” I associate Incubus with a few other things so I don’t listen to them as much but I like the first Album.

Sadly Metallica… hopefully will be pre-suck Metallica from The Black Album and Ride the Lightning.

Soundgarden… will probally be like Iron Butterfly… everybody has seen the video for “Black Hole Sun” and knows it but has no clue on the rest of the music. Much like Iron Butterfly and “In ga da vida”

I’m back and forth on putting Audioslave on their they make good music but they have also only been around for 4 years so not long enough to really tell.

You will also notice that I’m lacking Pearl Jam and Tool let me defend myself.

Pearl Jam will become the new Phish and just keep touring… Eddie and co. will be 80 and still rocking the house. They will also still be sticking it to Ticketmaster every chance they get.

Tool… I truly fear that Tool won’t be played much for being to weird and experimental.. you will hear it… it will only be on the Chris Cornell show done from his basement broadcast on the Intertube and only heard on specfic days of the week.

Maynard and Co. would have it no other way.

And now to the half assed organization part (this is where you the drivel reader get to particpate) So what will be on the “Classic Rock” “Classic Rap” stations of the future?

DON’T REPLY HERE Reply in your own freaking piece of drivel.

Whoops time to hit a new album almost hit “Whish you were here” bad juju for me there.

That title could also work for procastinators… that would also be a good slogan for me and my realtionship with my gym.

Hmmm I will goto the gym tommrow but I want a beer now. See that is my problem I don’t have any reward system for going to the gym. If I did that I would just buy whatever item I desired (insert crack about pretty little DS in my grubby hands) and not bother with the gym. I know I’m not going to be mr. Six Pack but yet I still go (most of the time) so it’s a odd realtionship the gym and I have.

Here is something for you people who read this drivel during the day to think about… my realtionship with the gym as it relates to my realtionships with other people.

Deep huh…

Speaking of drivel… WELCOME EVEY MARIEVEY!

Let me speak of Eve… she should feel honored she is only the second woman to get a good section of a post about her… the last one I called “fucking bitch” and if you click on the archives for September of 2004 you can see my little tirade!

So getting back to the drivel… Eve recently graduated from her training blog at myspace to a big person’s blog here at blogspot (http://death-by-blog.blogspot.com/) Eve is carrying on the fine tradition of drivel blogging that she somehow seems to have picked up from me? OK maybe I’m giving myself to much credit here, but she does the blogging thing in a manner which I find most intruging and will probally end up ripping off in one way or another in the not to distant future.

So what does the future hold for Eve? Well as soon as I can figure out how to do a perma link on the side of the thing under the “Terror Alert” icon she is going to get the only link to another blog I currently have.

You want a perma link on my blog? Be like Eve prove your self worthy or out distance me. I’ve been doing this for 5 years and have not intentions of quitting anytime soon.