Buried In Verona Signing Video
This makes me laugh every time I watch it. http://www.youtube.com/user/weareunified#p/a/u/0/mPdk4DYauBo
Anti-Depressants
It disturbs me that so many people I know have started taking anti-depressants without thinking twice about it. People need to research that shit and find out how impossibly bad they are to get off (think 24/7 New Years Day hangover for a month), and what they do to your mental health, energy levels and sex drive for long after they are out of your system. Try exercise, eating healthy and not drinking so much if you’re really down. Swallowing a pill once or twice a day seems easy now, but it will fuck you up long term. Just strengthen up and take the hard way out.
My only new years resolution is to be heaps better at everything I do. I practiced my running hook shot, did a life budget and cleaned my room. The world is my oyster.
Top 10 Albums of the year
I can’t be bothered explaining why, but everyone should listen to Times of Grace.
1. Times of Grace - The Hymn of Broken Man
2. Transit - Listen & Forgive
3. The Bride - President Rd
4. Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
5. Macho Distorto - To My Dead & Beloved
6. The Getaway Plan - Requiem
7. Drake - Take Care
8. Drive - Soundtrack
9. The Lonely Island - Turtleneck and Chain
10. Architects - The Here and Now
Underrated Bands Part 3: Team Dresch
Long before Paramore inspired every remotely good looking tom girl with some pipes to front a punk band*, there was Riot Grrl - a movement started on the North Western United States around the same time Grunge was a thing. Team Dresch aren’t the band most people remember from that scene (Bikini Kill, Sleater Kinney and later, Letigre are the queenpins) but I reckon their album “Personal Best” is the best thing to have come out of it.
Listen to “Scewing Yer Courage”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZVY0jsBEGs
Underrated Bands Part 2: Something Corporate
Ok lots if people heard of their earlier shitty stuff, but this is specifically about their album “North”, which is hands down the best pop/rock/emo/punk type record ever made. Start to finish, there is no weak moment on this record. They should be bigger than All Time Low and All American Rejects by now.
Listen to “Space” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=376kDIWVnDk
Underrated Bands Part 1: The Kinison
I actually don’t know why this band never got massive. Travis Barker signed them, Robert Smith talked them up and the album got amazing reviews everywhere. “What Are You Listening To?” is one of the coolest records to come out of the weird sing/scream thing that went mainstream in the early to mid 2000s - maybe it’s too cool for The Used fans and too emo for the Pretty Girls Make Graves fans. Something like that. Now you can’t even get the album on iTunes in Australia. Weird.
Listen to “You’ll Never Guess Who Died”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwH8L200vqY
Skylaw
I want to start a new airline where people who have to fly a lot can be without the hassles provided by air rookies and annoying bullshit. Features such as:
* No children or babies allowed on the plane
* Instead of talking every 5-10 minutes over the loud speaker (thus preventing anyone from getting some much needed rest), the Captain will just introduce himself and then wake everyone up 5 minutes before landing. That way when everyone nods off during take off, no one will inexplicably decide to wake them all up by telling them shinfo that no one cares about.
* Flight attendants will be under strict instructions to never run so fast down the aisle that they knock passengers who are just trying to sit and have a good time.
* No insulting crackers as food. No big metal cart going up the plane. If you want something (which people hardly do on domestic flights) just ask.
* Use your phone and laptop all you want. Everyone knows it doesn’t interfere with the planes signals, or they would confiscate them before you get on.
As if you wouldn’t pay an extra $30 to fly on a plane with these features.
