Author: Mark540

Notes on the 500 best songs evar by a 25 year old

Entertainment, music

So I’ve been jotting down some thoughts on the songs as they come up in my playlist. I’m not trying to comment on every one. Just trying listen through them and write down what comes to mind. If I don’t comment on a song it didn’t mean that it wasn’t good, it just didn’t make me think of anything… so here I go…

#41. The Band – The Weight

I know I’ve heard this song before but I had no idea who played it.

#45. Elvis Presley – Heartbreak Hotel

Is really short! 2:07??

#51. Grandmaster Flash – The Message

First hip hop song on the list, not a bad choice.

#55. The Kingsmen – Louie Louie

Oh man, I need a continuous mixtape of this and a regulation 5 story panty raid ladder.

#58. Michael Jackson – Billie Jean

Has there ever been a more memorable intro to a song. It just makes me want to dance on a glowing sidewalk.

side note… Bob Dylan sounds 80 years old

#60. Al Green – Lets Stay Together

This song is the shit. Makes me want to get funky.. or play a brass instrument, I don’t know which.

#63. Buffalo Springfield – For What it’s Worth

This is the first of many times this will happen. But I love the music to this song, because I heard it in “he got game” by Public Enemy. Not that that song is better than this, but it reminds me of something that happened in my lifetime. The LA riots, so it speaks to me more. Still a good song though.

#67. Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock

Great Intro, but another short E.P. song

#71. The Beach Boys – California Girls

Apparently there was a time when people could take this song seriously, Rolling Stone must be beyond that because I can’t listen o this anymore…click.

#72. James Brown – Papa’s got a brand new bag

I AM A SEX MA-CHINE. If only I could get his old toothless mug out of my head when I hear this song.

#73. Eddie Cochran – Summertime Blues

My parents must have had shorter attention spans than I do… 1:57

#74. Stevie Wonder – Superstitious

I think this is my favorite song on the list so far. I could seriously listen to it continuously for an hour and not get tired of it. It’s got the beat, oh yes.

#76. The Beatles – Strawberry Fields

I’ve really liked some other Beatles songs on this list, but Strawberry Fields can suck it!

#80. Marvin Gaye – Heard it through the grapevine

Damn those dancing raisins, relegated with the beach boys now

#86. Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road

All I can think of is that this is why the craft in “Explorers” was called the Thunder Road. I’m very sad

#91. Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds

Without really knowing when this song came out I can guess that it’s the Vegas jumpsuit Elvis, because it’s 3 times as long as any other E.P. song and it sounds like it was recorded with a backing band. Also it’s very repetitive so bloated Elvis could remember the lyrics.

#92. The Ramones – Blitzkrieg Pop

First punk song on the list. I feel like this should have been higher

#96. Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls of Fire

1:50 ? come on Jerry couldn’t you think of another verse?

#135. The Beatles – While my guitar gently weeps

This makes me realize how good Dangermouses Grey Album is. This song NEEDS Jay-Z over it.

#136. Elton John – Your Song

Man, that queen did have some great songs. Makes me proud to have his pinball machine in the parents basement

#140. Led Zeppelin – Kashmir

I don’t need my Diddy on this song, but it’s definatley on par with the original… for me

#143. Prince – Purple Rain

Shelley, why is this song good?

Project Skully Completed.

Projects, Stuff and Things

So over the weekend I finished the “Skull Door Knocker” that I’d been working on for a while. I guess I’m going to pass it off as a halloween project… then just keep it up for the rest of the year. I threw together a picture of it for my Laptop Background in between deploying the application at work today. I cant stop looking at it actually, it’s got this HDR quality about it. I really did very little to the picture, just adusted the curves a little. I had to photoshop together some pieces of the door though. I think it came out really well.

Later!

Guess what’s on my mind?

Entertainment, music

So I’ve been listening to “Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time” today at work. I must say that they’re very biased in the classic Rolling Stone way. Probably 50% of the songs are from the 60’s and 70’s and definatley 90% of the top twenty. With the exceptions being Nirvana “smells like Teen Spirit” and the Clash “London Calling”. It’s not that I’m saying that I disagree with the list. Because with all opinion based lists the only way to disprove it would be to write an opinion and I ‘m just too lazy to do that. So they’re just going to have to go on being right by default. It is a little early for me to judge the entire list, I’m only on song #32. Which is exactly why i decided to post this.

#32 Ray Charles – Georgia on my Mind

I can’t seem to tell if it’s sad or awesome that I can’t hear this song without seeing the Stone Mountain Laser Show in my head….

I’m gonna go with awesome!

Later!

Weekend Report. 10/13 – 10/15

Life, Randomness

So it was a pretty non-descript weekend around the sausage (Vienna Sausage = our house). We did venture out after Charlie and I got Killed at softball. I have never seen a softball hit so far in my life. 300 ft fence and the ball was 50 feet over it. Absolutley stunning. So Frenchie, Jesse and I piled in Jesse’s Accord heading to DC for scary movie night at Amanda’s place near Howard University. I wish I could tell you tales of dice games and partying in the street ( it was homecoming weekend) but nothing much was going on in the ‘hood. We got there late, apparently they had just finished watching “Sleepaway Camp” which, according to reviews, was not very good at all. But that was kind of the point of the evening. We talked and BS’ed for a while before decideing to watch the original Halloween. It was fun pointing out all the flaws in slasher movie logic and trying to figure out if Jamie Lee Curtis really was a hermaphrodite.

After the movie the remaining crew played taboo and ate cookies until late in the night. I discovered that I am rather bad at Taboo, but I can eat the hell out of some cookies.

So on to Saturday, Jesse and I had been working on our respective projects all morning so we decide to stay in for the night (like we really needed an excuse) The mysterious Josh made a rare apperence that night too. By 10 we had the whole crew assembled and we did what we always do. Played the Pong. This was a rare night, for I, perennial loser… went undefeated the whole night. AND the stars must have been aligned, cause IT happened. It may not seem like much but in the first game, overtime, I had the ball land on the triangle intersection of three cups. It’s like a triple play in Baseball. Except harder. More like a no-hitter. I still haven’t wittnessed a Perfect Game ( 2 same cup rounds in a row ) but I’ve only seen this happen one other time.

Relax, it was only amazing

And you know the rest of the night was good after that! So good in fact that I didn’t get out of bed until the 3rd quarter of the Redskins game the next day.

Looking ahead at the stuff we have to get done before the Halloween party I think I really have to get working on some stuff. Not to mention that we’re going down to see Brian Regan in Roanoke the day before the party!

It’s gonna be sweet!

Projects progressing niceley

Projects, Stuff and Things

On recovery monday we did some nice work on a few projects that we have around the house. I made major progress on the skull door knocker, finally attaching the knocker piece. Without which it wouldn’t be much of a knocker. It looks sturdy enough to be actually used, but this is the B version of the design. I had to go back to the drawing board after I kept breaking off the knocker. So really all that’s left not is to glue on the skull and paint the thing. I’ll get started on that tonight, since there’s nothing good on TV.

Jesse continued work on the beerpong table 2.0 installing 60 out of 90 blue LEDs ( he would have more but he forgot to order them!)

But the ones that were there looked sweet!

A minor incident happened when he was showing me how bright they were. They started flickering on and off in weird patterns, I heard him say “wow, I wonder why that’s happening?” and then we saw smoke coming from the board. turns out it was just a short circuit and the driver chips are OK. But one LED was reduced to a smoking crater.

check this link for progress pics

Later!

Workdoodle 003-006

Art, Projects

WD WD WD WD
I was going back through the blogs today and besides noticing that I get comment spam for World of Warcraft Goldfarmers I realized that I wanted to start posting the little doodles that I do at work. I’ve started keeping my sketchbook handy so during those 2 minute long deployment processes I can sketch something small. But I think they’re starting to look at me when I brought out the colored pencils.

Later!