metro

Don’t you know who I think I am?

Entertainment, music

So after the last post defending my overall musical taste I’m going to write a post about the new Fallout Boy album. I like their music, what I don’t like is that douchebags sometimes also like their music. This is best illustrated by a new cingular commercial where a random frat guy at the gym is talking about how the new song, “This aint a scene, it’s an arms race” gets him pumped. Then he procedes to have a seizure or play air guitar, whichever is worse.

Their last album was pretty much the soundtrack to my Metro rides last summer. So much so that I pretty much played out all the songs and can’t stand them any more. But give them a few years and they’ll be good all over again. Just like those Black Eyed Peas songs that I ran into the ground, circa 2 years ago.

At first listen the songs were nothing special, but I just put them in with the rest anyway. I found that whenever they would come up on shuffle I really liked them. So I listened to them yesterday in order again and I decided that they are in fact good. Which is pretty much the begining of the end for them. I’ll most likely overplay them and be done with them.

So it begins sir.

Mark

Winter is officially here!

Life, Randomness

And how do I know this? I mean I went snowboarding this saturday and that wasn’t officially winter. It’s something that used to happen to me every day when I was waiting for the bus.

My hair froze.

In the time it took me to walk from the parking garage to the train my hair had frozen solid. I thought I’d put in some kind of new gel or something, I couldn’t figure it out for a while. I think it was 11 degrees outside when I got into my car. That’s way too cold. Also the window wasn’t iced over but it was a little dirty so I decided to use the washer fluid, bad idea. I went from being slightly annoyed with the window to completely blind pretty much instantly. Which is not good when you’re driving through the neighborhood. So I had to pull over (which is hard when you can’t see!) and wait for the window to defrost.

Twas a good morning.

Metro… Oh Metro…

Life, Randomness

So it’s not that I want to drive in the morning. Actually just the opposite I like riding the Metro to work. I wish it didn’t cost $12 per day to come to work, but it’s better than driving. But if I’m going to pay that much I really need the “sleeper seat”, it’s the one that’s tucked in between the two perpendicular handicapped seats. There were a million people at the station this morning and it was really cold out so I thought I’d just duck into a close car and find any seat, which felt like a good idea for about 3 stops. Then I started getting sleepy, I’m sure the lady next to me appreciated me falling into her all those times. So tomorrow I have to make sure I get the good seat… it’ll be better for everyone.

Later!