WOXY
If any of you kids do the whole internet radio thing, I found the greatest ever.
woxy.comArtists of mention so far today...
The Black Keys, Low, Badly Drawn Boy, Morphine, Mars Volta, Sunny Day Real Estate, Johnny Marr & The Healers, The Arcade Fire, PJ Harvey, Oasis, R.E.M., Of Montreal, Lucero, Jeff Buckley, Stereolab, Sonic Youth, Aimee Mann, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Spoon, Patti Smith, Beck, The White Stripes, Fugazi, Radiohead, Ryan Adams, Robert Pollard, The Psychedelic Furs, The Beta Band, Guided By Voices, Elvis Costello, The Strokes, The Smiths, Nirvana, Paul Westerberg, The Pixies, Alkaline Trio, Bjork, The Clash, Sigur Ros, Morrisset, Hot Hot Heat, Franz Ferdinand, The Faint, The Redwalls (Jill), Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Moutain Goats, Pearl Jam, Superdrag, The Pretenders, British Sea Power, Rainer Maria, The Velvet Underground... and those are just some since midnight. It's like the internet radio equivalent of Magnet magazine.
Plus, apparently there is some kind of technology called PodCasts, which from what I understand allow you to download broadcasts on to your computer/mp3 device or something like that. F-ing crazy.
Salad Week Day 2
Well, the first day of salad week is over. I didn't do so bad considering... I had some juice in the morning, a single serving bag of popcorn at lunch, and then a salad at dinner. I also ended up having a few cheese bread slices to cover the taste of the salad... And then I had pudding as a snack. But the important thing is I ate almost all of my salad. It really sucks, but I think it will be worth it in the end. I think this weekend I might do taco salad, with that fake vegan taco meat shit that supposedly tastes like real meat. We'll see. If I do I'm gonna go all out and get one of those tortilla bowl things. Those always looked good. Well, it's Friday. It's slow (at work). And almost everyone is gone today, at least around where I work. So I imagine another post this afternoon. Have a wonderful day.
Items On My Salad Last Night: Lettuce, broccoli, corn, chicken, a little cheddar cheese, like four croutons total, and two huge thick slices of cucumber, which I didn't eat. They were thick and gross. And by the way I got the salad from a place up here, so when I say there were like four croutons total, I'm serious. Oh yeah, and Parmesan Peppercorn dressing.
Salad Week Day 2 Weight: 276
Now Listening To: Decibully "You Might Be A Winner..." (If theres more to the album name I don't know cause I can't see it all on my iPod screen.
Oh yeah, while I'm at it... CD's I've purchased recently...
The Decemberists "Picaresque" (Best Buy card)
Jolie Holland "Escondida" (Best Buy card)
Elvis Costello "The Delivery Man" (Used, doesn't look like it, no scratches... $2.99)
Willie Nelson "The Great Divide" (Used, doesn't look like it, no scratches... $4.99)
And then five cd's for a dollar each, brand new still wrapped, from the library used book sale... including Everclear, Shawn Colvin, The Toadies, Joan Osbourne, and Pearl Jam. They were cheap, brand new, and help towards my goal of getting every cd. Ever.
Salad Week Day 1
I'm a little worried to be honest. I want to do this, but it's a lot for me. I know I'll be better in the end, and the only way I'd ever do it is to force myself like I'm going to do, but it's still hard. Ah, well... First salad tonight.
Current Vegetables I Like: Potatos
Starting Weight: 276 (I know, I'm a fat.)
Wish me luck.
Salad Week Day -1
So let me go ahead and explain salad week.
Those of you who know me well know that I do not eat vegetables. It's not cause I want to be fat. I just never have eaten them. I gag when I try and they are not the slightest bit appealing to me. I do know that this is bad, and for my health and to lose weight, I know this has to change. Therefore, I am initiating Salad Week. The rules for Salad Week are this...
1. Talk about Salad Week. This way people will keep me in check and make sure that I haven't been cheating.
2. Dinner is a salad with grilled chicken, a little cheese, some dressing and any vegetables.
3. Lunch and breakfast still have to be fairly healthy. In as far as I can't get enough junk food at breakfast and lunch to make me not be hungry at dinner time.
My thought behind it is this: Can 23 years of tastes be changed in one week. I think so. By essentially "force feeding" myself salad/veggies to keep from starving, my body will be forced to become accustomed to them. I'm guessing the first day or two will probably be me gagging down as few vegetables as possible. Around day 4 I hope to be eating them without much problem, and by day 7 to be enjoying my salads/veggies. There is always the possibilities that I will have to go to one of two drastic measures to succeed and make me a rabbit food eating fool.
1. Extend Salad Week to be Salad Two Weeks, or even Salad Month, whatever it takes.
2. Make Salad Week also apply to lunch. Meaning breakfast could be some cereal or a bagel, but then all I can eat are salads.
The point of Salad Week is not to lose a bunch of weight in a week, but to learn to like vegetables. I will be posting daily on the progress including a weight counter just to see how it's going. So for tonight... greasy awesome tacos. Tomorrow night... grilled chicken salad. MMM.
Three cheers for me
Ah-ha. My little scheme worked. The making of a great
blog, like
epth.blogspot.com, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. Anyway... I've started to make a
blog... in my head... for
all of you. Full of stuff
you likes. Full of stuff that makes
you happy. For the first time I can sort of see how that is done.
Who knows where the original quote, without my red edits, is from? Jill?
So, hopefully I'll have some stuff on here that is interesting for my new found readers to enjoy. For one, starting tomorrow is Salad Week. I have to eat a salad, and only a salad everynight for dinner for a week. The hard thing is that I don't eat vegetables. None. They make me gag. More explanation on this later. So that makes today Salad Week Day -1, which means I'm having tacos for dinner tonight because they're so delicious. But then starts Salad Week.
So, Jill... if you continue to read this, are you and Mike coming to Marcus' wedding? That will be awesome if you do, it's been so long since I've seen you guys.
Thanks to everyone for your help with the (sic) question. Aaron, you figured me out. Also tell Greg (not Little Weinberg, which was never meant as an insult, just that he was younger than you) congrats on the being engaged thing.
More later. Folkers.
Ladies and gentleman... The post you've all been waiting for...
So, I guess I've always had this feeling in the back of my mind that Brian Riggins was actually The Mountain Goats. He likes that band a lot, and I guess listening to them, I figured it could be Brian. This was only spurred on by the fact that as much as I scoured the internet, I couldn't find any conclusive pictures proving otherwise. This all ended tragically last night when I spent about three minutes more than normal (making it four minutes) looking for pictures of The Elusive The Mountain Goats and to my shagrin (spelling anyone?)*, I found some. Now, I guess this isn't the most conclusive evidence, such as actually seeing them play live or something the like, but there were pictures of the same people on more than one website, leading me to believe... Well I guess... Maybe...
Brian Riggins is not The Mountain Goats
I guess my world just came crashing down a little.
My first footnote.** Who would have thought when I read all of those DFW books that I pretended to "get" that one day I would be using footnotes. Well anyways, this footnote was in reference to my "(spelling anyone?)" question up above, which I guess I didn't have to explain since this is a footnote. But I did. So I'm wondering this... I often see, in writing and such, the expression (sic), or (sic?), or (!sic!) or the more emo (.sic.) or perhaps the more tEeN BeAT (sIc). I guess I never really understood it and so I assumed it either meant they were "filling in the blanks" in an interview. Like when someones talking to fast and you sum up what they were saying. And then part of me thought it might have something to do with not knowing how something was spelled and putting it in there as to say, "Hey, you probably aren't sure how it's spelled either, so lay off." I guess I could look it up on the THE INTERNET (in that James Earl Jones voice of God voice), but I didn't, and don't plan on it. So I still don't know. I guess if one of you tell me, it wouldn't be looking it up. So that'll do.
**I'd like to point out that even though this was my first footnote, I did know enough to make the font smaller, colored it blue, and applied the less prevelant "italicized" (sic).
Yo yo yo
I really want to post. I even have something interesting and funny to talk about. I just haven't found the time to sit down and work on an enjoyable post, and devote the necessary time to it. But it's coming. Yo.
Whiskey for my men, someone punch me in the face
"Whiskey for my men, and beer for my horses"
That's the song that my co-worker was playing this morning when I came in. I can't stand blatently horrible music taste. Nu Country is so horrible. It makes me want to punch myself in the face.
Anyways.
I really do mean to post on this more, especially since I have this sinking suspision that no one reads this anymore. Which is fine. Some day... Some day...
Well, let's see. I haven't been feeling so hot lately. I've been so tired- I just feel exhausted all of the time. I don't know why.
Sarah had surgery on both of her feet to correct a problem she's had most of her life. I'm glad she finally got it done, but it does suck cause she's in pain a lot and pretty much stuck at home for a while now. But she's getting around pretty well on her own now.
That's it for now I guess. More whenever.
