This is the big 31st blog entry. Finally out of the younger years and settling into the relaxed routine of mid-life. Maybe my blog will start to settle down, consider a family, really get down to thinking about the important things in life. It's about time to put down a down payment on a beautiful suburban home, buy a lawnmower, and start looking through the phone book for a company that builds good, solid decks. This blog is thinking about the future.
But not the present. This blog is not at all concentrating on what's going on at the present or what would be interesting to write about in it. Too much thinking about great future entries, or reminiscing about earlier, more raw, and more heartfelt entries, before it had sunk into a routine that worked, but didn't quite capture the energy and enthusiasm of its youth.
This blog is at a crossroads - will it get mired down by its past, too caught up in its future, or will it concentrate on turning out good product during its present? Only time will tell what the present will hold in the future...
Monday, December 17, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Muzak
First off, do you like how plain and unassuming my blog is now? Pretty stupid.
So last week I was going through some old song files on my computer from when Zack and I first started fucking around and recording the results of our goofballism freshman year. I was surprised that there are a couple of workable songs in all that screaming and laughing. Prompted a discussion between Z and I about recording and arranging a few different versions of some of our songs.
Also have had discussions with Pete about our potential to really make each of our shows unique for the crowd and for ourselves. Not just through playing a solo differently or playing a different setlist, but just give a show a little extra something, whether it's a costume we wear or a song we make up on the spot or a little joke we pull or whatever. We both think this could create incentive for people to come to our show as well us keep us thinking about ways to push ourselves past the boundaries of the group a bit. Exciting stuff.
Anyway, very excited about the group's potential. ~2 months til a reunion show in February. I'm sure the 3 or 4 people actually reading this already know about it, or will shortly, but regardless they will be reading about it with increasing frequency in this space.
Enthusiastic goodbye.
So last week I was going through some old song files on my computer from when Zack and I first started fucking around and recording the results of our goofballism freshman year. I was surprised that there are a couple of workable songs in all that screaming and laughing. Prompted a discussion between Z and I about recording and arranging a few different versions of some of our songs.
Also have had discussions with Pete about our potential to really make each of our shows unique for the crowd and for ourselves. Not just through playing a solo differently or playing a different setlist, but just give a show a little extra something, whether it's a costume we wear or a song we make up on the spot or a little joke we pull or whatever. We both think this could create incentive for people to come to our show as well us keep us thinking about ways to push ourselves past the boundaries of the group a bit. Exciting stuff.
Anyway, very excited about the group's potential. ~2 months til a reunion show in February. I'm sure the 3 or 4 people actually reading this already know about it, or will shortly, but regardless they will be reading about it with increasing frequency in this space.
Enthusiastic goodbye.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Reminiscing
As I stand there looking at all the dishes piling up in the sink, on every counter, and on the stove, I remember the post-dinner routine when I was 12 or 13. I looked forward to cleaning the dishes, not because of the actual cleaning, but because of the accompaniment.
My parents gave me and my brother the chore of scrubbing all the pots and pans clean, I can only assume, in the hopes that we would acquire a good cleaning ethic. But we both hated it, so we'd pop a tape into the kitchen tape machine and listen to music to lessen the boredom and wasted time of washing dishes.
Without the music, it might have taken us 15 minutes to finish all the dishes. Because of the music, it usually took us between an hour and an hour and a half. The music in question was either a bootleg of the Allman Brothers at Woodstock '94, or some mix tape that had 'Freebird' on it.
Both of us have a natural talent for air guitar. We should probably start an air band and tour. This is what kept us in the kitchen all that time. 'Freebird' on repeat, 10 straight minutes of dual air guitar, over and over, with a few dishes scrubbed while the tape rewound, or while the slow first half played, until all the dishes were clean.
'Freebird' was the only reason to do those dishes. So now when dishes pile up, and I sit on my lazy ass in front of a computer, wishing I had 'Freebird' on a tape somewhere so I could get them done.
My parents gave me and my brother the chore of scrubbing all the pots and pans clean, I can only assume, in the hopes that we would acquire a good cleaning ethic. But we both hated it, so we'd pop a tape into the kitchen tape machine and listen to music to lessen the boredom and wasted time of washing dishes.
Without the music, it might have taken us 15 minutes to finish all the dishes. Because of the music, it usually took us between an hour and an hour and a half. The music in question was either a bootleg of the Allman Brothers at Woodstock '94, or some mix tape that had 'Freebird' on it.
Both of us have a natural talent for air guitar. We should probably start an air band and tour. This is what kept us in the kitchen all that time. 'Freebird' on repeat, 10 straight minutes of dual air guitar, over and over, with a few dishes scrubbed while the tape rewound, or while the slow first half played, until all the dishes were clean.
'Freebird' was the only reason to do those dishes. So now when dishes pile up, and I sit on my lazy ass in front of a computer, wishing I had 'Freebird' on a tape somewhere so I could get them done.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Hope you like numbers.
Finally done with Final Fantasy XII. Story wore a bit thin, but the cinematics and the gameplay are pretty spectacular. Now I'm hell-bent on finishing some of the older FF's, most notably IX and VIII. Also looking into III on the DS.
Also started reading Book 2 of Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, all about time. Turns out that Chronos, the Incarnation of Time, moves backwards through life while we all move forward. I really enjoyed Book 1 (re: Death) so I'm excited about the prospects of this one.
I am bored. You don't care about what I'm writing about. Let's call it off. Be back when I'm more interesting.
Also started reading Book 2 of Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, all about time. Turns out that Chronos, the Incarnation of Time, moves backwards through life while we all move forward. I really enjoyed Book 1 (re: Death) so I'm excited about the prospects of this one.
I am bored. You don't care about what I'm writing about. Let's call it off. Be back when I'm more interesting.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Whoa!
Just a quick little note here guys.
I've been getting a lot of e-mails lately asking various questions about the behind-the-scenes going on here at Over-Analyzed. First off, thanks so much for all the interest and support - really makes me feel great. Second, I honestly do try to answer each and every e-mail, but with my crazy schedule, sometimes it gets a bit hard. So my promise to you - I will do my very best to get back to you if you shoot over an e-mail, but if I don't get back to you, it's just because I'm totally swamped over here!
Thanks for understanding guys.
I've been getting a lot of e-mails lately asking various questions about the behind-the-scenes going on here at Over-Analyzed. First off, thanks so much for all the interest and support - really makes me feel great. Second, I honestly do try to answer each and every e-mail, but with my crazy schedule, sometimes it gets a bit hard. So my promise to you - I will do my very best to get back to you if you shoot over an e-mail, but if I don't get back to you, it's just because I'm totally swamped over here!
Thanks for understanding guys.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Hopes Dreams and Reebok
Bought a little cabbie hat action this weekend. Meaning to do that for some time. I think I would like to make it one of my eccentricities when I'm older, just to have a ton of hats that I wear around all the time no matter what.
Another thing I would like is to be sponsored. Just getting money for wearing some shoes or eating a certain brand of potato chip in public, that seems like it would be a fun way to earn cash. That scene from Wayne's World is about right - just to be lounging in a full Reebok track suit eating Doritos and drinking Pepsi and receiving income based on those actions. Real American Dream.
Let's see. Other things. Spending significant amounts of time in the American southwest. New Mexico beckons. Chronic dry skin says keep it to vacations, but some part of me says go there forever. Who knows what will happen, but I might as well start with some vacations from time to time.
Guys, how interesting is it to hear about what I would like to happen to me without necessarily working toward it? I'm worried that it's too interesting, and as such I think I should stop writing. Modern life only allows for so much interest in a given day - more important things than thought abound.
Another thing I would like is to be sponsored. Just getting money for wearing some shoes or eating a certain brand of potato chip in public, that seems like it would be a fun way to earn cash. That scene from Wayne's World is about right - just to be lounging in a full Reebok track suit eating Doritos and drinking Pepsi and receiving income based on those actions. Real American Dream.
Let's see. Other things. Spending significant amounts of time in the American southwest. New Mexico beckons. Chronic dry skin says keep it to vacations, but some part of me says go there forever. Who knows what will happen, but I might as well start with some vacations from time to time.
Guys, how interesting is it to hear about what I would like to happen to me without necessarily working toward it? I'm worried that it's too interesting, and as such I think I should stop writing. Modern life only allows for so much interest in a given day - more important things than thought abound.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Whoops, this post sucks!
Episode 1 of Season 2 of the Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! is up and you should watch it.
BREAKING NEWS
Thanksgiving is on Thursday. Did you know that eating is the main purpose of Thanksgiving, which makes it more directly applicable to human survival than almost any other holiday?
I think I had a thought to write about at some point, but it is gone now. That thought is gone forever.
This post is a horrible failure. Closing down production pending further ideas.
BREAKING NEWS
Thanksgiving is on Thursday. Did you know that eating is the main purpose of Thanksgiving, which makes it more directly applicable to human survival than almost any other holiday?
I think I had a thought to write about at some point, but it is gone now. That thought is gone forever.
This post is a horrible failure. Closing down production pending further ideas.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
MY BLOG = YOUR FAVORITE
I've recently registered myself online! On Technorati! Make me your favorite blog ever on Technorati, thus increasing my readership...we're almost over 1 million guys, you can do it!
That's all for now - keep "swingin'"!
That's all for now - keep "swingin'"!
Monday, November 12, 2007
The sound of two hands clapping, like in an old 50's song.
All in all it was a pretty great weekend. The Ween concert I mentioned before was great, even if the crowd were a bunch of a-holes. They make me envious.
The Douggie storyline is coming along nicely. At least, me and Zack really like the idea. Dunno bout the rest of the band. But I'm pretty sure the base of the thing will be done before anyone can complain. First song's basically done, third song is moving right along, and I'm forming up ideas for 2 and 4. A simple but powerful tale of two orphans who separate and reunite for literally no other reason but that's what happens in movies.
BLECH! UOAHHHOUUUH! ZOUNDS!
BLBLBLBLBLBLBL! OGOGOGOGOGOGOGOG!
The Douggie storyline is coming along nicely. At least, me and Zack really like the idea. Dunno bout the rest of the band. But I'm pretty sure the base of the thing will be done before anyone can complain. First song's basically done, third song is moving right along, and I'm forming up ideas for 2 and 4. A simple but powerful tale of two orphans who separate and reunite for literally no other reason but that's what happens in movies.
BLECH! UOAHHHOUUUH! ZOUNDS!
BLBLBLBLBLBLBL! OGOGOGOGOGOGOGOG!
Friday, November 9, 2007
Writ...
Many great things.
1. I guess the writer's block lifted. After work I wrote "The Ballad of Little Douggie Sweetbaum and Little Davey Wheat", which is about two orphans who eat garbage. It might be expanded into a 3 or 4 song storyline in which one of them covets too much garbage and they end up splitting from each other. I don't know, maybe one of them becomes a rich guy, then upon seeing his poor friend, decides to become poor again and eat garbage. That's just the idea I had just now, and I think it might be "the one."
2. Going to see Ween tonight. Never seen them before, and I'm looking forward to every minute of their 3-hour, no opening act show. Damn but it will be good.
3. Tim and Eric have started doing a live talk show on Super Deluxe. I'm only like 5 minutes into the first episode and I'm already a gigantic fan of it. Watch it here if you've got a half an hour which you would like to fill with joy and laughter.
Happy Friday chochachos!
1. I guess the writer's block lifted. After work I wrote "The Ballad of Little Douggie Sweetbaum and Little Davey Wheat", which is about two orphans who eat garbage. It might be expanded into a 3 or 4 song storyline in which one of them covets too much garbage and they end up splitting from each other. I don't know, maybe one of them becomes a rich guy, then upon seeing his poor friend, decides to become poor again and eat garbage. That's just the idea I had just now, and I think it might be "the one."
2. Going to see Ween tonight. Never seen them before, and I'm looking forward to every minute of their 3-hour, no opening act show. Damn but it will be good.
3. Tim and Eric have started doing a live talk show on Super Deluxe. I'm only like 5 minutes into the first episode and I'm already a gigantic fan of it. Watch it here if you've got a half an hour which you would like to fill with joy and laughter.
Happy Friday chochachos!
Thursday, November 8, 2007
...er's Block
Can you guys guess what is even more fun that reading about someone who knows what they're doing and is on their game? Reading about someone who is suffering from severe creative block. In this particular blogger, this block manifests itself by allowing me to get an initial idea, then being 100% unable to expand upon that idea. For instance, I have like 5 or 6 beginnings of songs, little scraps, maybe 15-20 seconds each, which I like and would like to take somewhere. But for the life of my, I can't.
Being in the bottom of this ditch is characterized by me listening to a ton of music I like and being completely jealous and hopelessly wishing for things to turn my way, instead of taking some time to do something about it. I try to emulate that music and fail, and get more upset.
By the way, whenever I've tried to write something about having writer's block (as is my inclination when I have writer's block - write what you know, etc.), it has turned out miserably. So no go on that idea. Maybe I just need to get out in "the world" more and pay attention, see what I see, and try to translate that somehow.
We'll see how it goes.
Being in the bottom of this ditch is characterized by me listening to a ton of music I like and being completely jealous and hopelessly wishing for things to turn my way, instead of taking some time to do something about it. I try to emulate that music and fail, and get more upset.
By the way, whenever I've tried to write something about having writer's block (as is my inclination when I have writer's block - write what you know, etc.), it has turned out miserably. So no go on that idea. Maybe I just need to get out in "the world" more and pay attention, see what I see, and try to translate that somehow.
We'll see how it goes.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
This Post Brought to you by...
What is it, November now? I can't tell. There's no real weather where I live. Just a bit warm and then sometimes a bit cold and maybe it'll rain.
Let's see. Is there anything to write about, or is this just an exercise in boredom. I've got an Idea. More folks need to insert Capitalizations into their writing for emphasis, as opposed to bold and italics. Not that bold and italics are morally wrong, just that they are overused.
This is a horrible blog entry. I'm losing readers by the word. So I have to make the choice that many business owners have had to make in the past - do I cut my losses and run, or do I stick it out and try to turn this entry around? Most businesses who try to turn it around are really just drowning and should have cut it off when things started to turn south.
But wait.
[This is a message from Blogger. This blog has run out of funds and will henceforth become an advertising space for Pepsi's new Sierra Mist brand lemon-lime flavored carbonated soft drink beverage. Please "bear" with us! - The Management]
Let's see. Is there anything to write about, or is this just an exercise in boredom. I've got an Idea. More folks need to insert Capitalizations into their writing for emphasis, as opposed to bold and italics. Not that bold and italics are morally wrong, just that they are overused.
This is a horrible blog entry. I'm losing readers by the word. So I have to make the choice that many business owners have had to make in the past - do I cut my losses and run, or do I stick it out and try to turn this entry around? Most businesses who try to turn it around are really just drowning and should have cut it off when things started to turn south.
But wait.
[This is a message from Blogger. This blog has run out of funds and will henceforth become an advertising space for Pepsi's new Sierra Mist brand lemon-lime flavored carbonated soft drink beverage. Please "bear" with us! - The Management]
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Listen.
10 points to myself for a Kurt Vonnegut reference in the title of my post. Net gain of points: 0.
I am engaged. Both people reading this know that. One of them is the lovely lady to whom I am engaged. But I figured what is this blog if not a chronicle of things that happen to me to be read by people who already know what happened to me? So yes, engaged, and very happy.
Goodbye A-rod. Hello Girardi. Don't get rid of the young blood, Yankees. It will serve you well.
Send money to: me. Thank you.
I am engaged. Both people reading this know that. One of them is the lovely lady to whom I am engaged. But I figured what is this blog if not a chronicle of things that happen to me to be read by people who already know what happened to me? So yes, engaged, and very happy.
Goodbye A-rod. Hello Girardi. Don't get rid of the young blood, Yankees. It will serve you well.
Send money to: me. Thank you.
Monday, October 22, 2007
BOG! L!
Job progress: Wrote an article for Neil last week, and he classified me as a winner, which makes me feel good, and I think he wants to take me on full-time soon. Could be good stuff.
Music progress: Successfully wrote the worst set of lyrics. Very awful and funny. Trying to keep my chops in order.
Darjeeling progress: Limited. And also very great.
PGR2 progress: 3rd time through this very old game. I hate the American Muscle series with a passion reserved only for the things which I truly despise. I just want to get through that series of cars so I can have fun in that game again.
Bye guys!
Music progress: Successfully wrote the worst set of lyrics. Very awful and funny. Trying to keep my chops in order.
Darjeeling progress: Limited. And also very great.
PGR2 progress: 3rd time through this very old game. I hate the American Muscle series with a passion reserved only for the things which I truly despise. I just want to get through that series of cars so I can have fun in that game again.
Bye guys!
Monday, October 15, 2007
THINGS
Finished Ep. 2. Ruled. Can't wait for #3.
New Heroes tonight. Want some action, dammit.
Forgot to send in my timesheet by 12. Hopefully I get paid this week.
Got to finish Kitchen Confidential. Need to read more.
Got to finish Final Fantasy XII. So close, yet so far.
It's also about time to write a couple more tunes. I've been kicking some stuff around for a while, maybe this week I'll do some exploring of ideas.
Idea 1: What happens if you give a baby a gun? Did you ever wonder.
Idea 2: Elephants have parties...?
Idea 3: Answering a telephone with a racial slur.
These are just ideas.
New Heroes tonight. Want some action, dammit.
Forgot to send in my timesheet by 12. Hopefully I get paid this week.
Got to finish Kitchen Confidential. Need to read more.
Got to finish Final Fantasy XII. So close, yet so far.
It's also about time to write a couple more tunes. I've been kicking some stuff around for a while, maybe this week I'll do some exploring of ideas.
Idea 1: What happens if you give a baby a gun? Did you ever wonder.
Idea 2: Elephants have parties...?
Idea 3: Answering a telephone with a racial slur.
These are just ideas.
Friday, October 12, 2007
NEWSNEWSNEWS
Boy, do I have news for you - Radiohead has a new album! That's right, "u" heard it here first! "U" can find it here. It's super "kewl" "2" listen "2" on "ur" iPod, plus "u" can set "ur" own price and support experimental record distribution!! I didn't pay for it cuz I'm a cheap Asshole (see two posts down), but some dude (/company?) who really liked the idea payed $1,000 for it in support of their quiet revolution.
It's raining today in the Bay Area. It must be that time.
Basically Radiohead has been on my mind since Wednesday. Also the Orange Box. Finished up Portal last night. Pretty short, but also really really inventive and suprisingly funny. Valve has yet to miss the mark in a game. I'm sure they worked very hard on this, but the relationship they create in Portal between the player and their environment seems effortless and the result is fantastic.
Started Episode 2 last night and the environments and gameplay are starting to shift away from HL2 and Episode 1. Can't wait to see where it goes.
How exciting are my opinions. HOW EXCITING.
It's raining today in the Bay Area. It must be that time.
Basically Radiohead has been on my mind since Wednesday. Also the Orange Box. Finished up Portal last night. Pretty short, but also really really inventive and suprisingly funny. Valve has yet to miss the mark in a game. I'm sure they worked very hard on this, but the relationship they create in Portal between the player and their environment seems effortless and the result is fantastic.
Started Episode 2 last night and the environments and gameplay are starting to shift away from HL2 and Episode 1. Can't wait to see where it goes.
How exciting are my opinions. HOW EXCITING.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Tomorrow
Come tomorrow, I will once again blog. Blog on my blog. Bloggily. Blog! Is this a bloggy font? Can't think of anyway to make blog into a pronoun, preposition or a conjunction...can you?
Monday, October 8, 2007
Been a while
Sorry faithful readers. It's pretty incredible to think that I'm leaving 20,000+ readers out in the cold when I don't post my thoughts here. I know how many of you rely on me to interpret the world for you and provide you with your opinions on most of today's hot-button issues, and I'm sincerely sorry. But don't worry, in about 12 months, 'round election time, you can look here for all the right opinions to vote for!
This message brought to you by Me - I think so you don't have to!
Had a pretty swanky weekend, during most of which I was spending unspeakable amounts of money at extraordinarily lavish events all around the world. Money was no issue to me as I party-hopped from Paris to Hollywood to Milan and back again. I toasted with the smartest and most important people on the globe, and waiters received tips that were larger than their entire families' ten-year incomes. I was a King this weekend.
Somehow I also managed to partially cook and consume an autumn-based feast that lasted all of Saturday. Dining and boozing with good friends was something I sorely needed. Also, I learned that playing Cranium turns me into an Asshole. King or Asshole - a party weekend brought to you by yours truly.
Which story is the lie? Who is the real man behind the blog? King or Asshole - you make the call!
a: Asshole.
This message brought to you by Me - I think so you don't have to!
Had a pretty swanky weekend, during most of which I was spending unspeakable amounts of money at extraordinarily lavish events all around the world. Money was no issue to me as I party-hopped from Paris to Hollywood to Milan and back again. I toasted with the smartest and most important people on the globe, and waiters received tips that were larger than their entire families' ten-year incomes. I was a King this weekend.
Somehow I also managed to partially cook and consume an autumn-based feast that lasted all of Saturday. Dining and boozing with good friends was something I sorely needed. Also, I learned that playing Cranium turns me into an Asshole. King or Asshole - a party weekend brought to you by yours truly.
Which story is the lie? Who is the real man behind the blog? King or Asshole - you make the call!
a: Asshole.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Welcome to a Job
So if you'll kindly refer to my first post......
See it? Read it? Good.
Neil has decided to take a chance on my inexperienced ass, and for that I am extraordinarily grateful. He sees some potential in me in his line of work, and I am beginning to see it in myself. I have to rely on my genuine kindness and good-personitude and let these qualities shine forth like a beacon for all the world to see. Flashing, saying "stay away from the rocks, gentle captains... I will show you the way home." And in the warmth of my guiding light, the masses will feel comforted, respected, and worthwhile, and will want to put our press release in their trade publication.
Now it's time to look for another part-time position. Hopefully my current job down in Palo Alto will let me stay on while I find some more convenient workplace.
More about new ways of thinking in a bit.
See it? Read it? Good.
Neil has decided to take a chance on my inexperienced ass, and for that I am extraordinarily grateful. He sees some potential in me in his line of work, and I am beginning to see it in myself. I have to rely on my genuine kindness and good-personitude and let these qualities shine forth like a beacon for all the world to see. Flashing, saying "stay away from the rocks, gentle captains... I will show you the way home." And in the warmth of my guiding light, the masses will feel comforted, respected, and worthwhile, and will want to put our press release in their trade publication.
Now it's time to look for another part-time position. Hopefully my current job down in Palo Alto will let me stay on while I find some more convenient workplace.
More about new ways of thinking in a bit.
Monday, October 1, 2007
'nother day, 'nother week, 'nother blog
Satisfied with the weekend. Pretty great. Recorded a demo of that old new song I was telling myself about in this blog. The other boys in the band seem happy with it and excited to work on it. I can only see it going in great directions.
Gonna try to get my gym on later. Try to cut my pudge off at the start so I don't look pregnant by the time I'm 50 like a lot of older white men I know. Or maybe I should cultivate my belly, and really make the most of genetic inevitability.
I just cannot take myself seriously in these blogs. I have some mental block about writing serious things in this format, or even not so serious things. It can't act as a journal, cuz there is always the possibility that someone will actually read it. But no one does, so I'm just writing this weird semi-biographical yet non-diary-entry stuff for myself in this weird language that I never quite use except when I'm writing for other people. I only know one other person that reads this, and I could just talk to her most of the time. I guess this is necessary just to have a foot in the door in case Google awards all bloggers with some money just for being so cutting edge. But you know we'll never see that Google money. They just refuse to recognize our collective genius. No, we'll never get dollar one from Google. Not a single penny.
Is that bad joke funny yet, or should I keep going with it?
You make the call.
Gonna try to get my gym on later. Try to cut my pudge off at the start so I don't look pregnant by the time I'm 50 like a lot of older white men I know. Or maybe I should cultivate my belly, and really make the most of genetic inevitability.
I just cannot take myself seriously in these blogs. I have some mental block about writing serious things in this format, or even not so serious things. It can't act as a journal, cuz there is always the possibility that someone will actually read it. But no one does, so I'm just writing this weird semi-biographical yet non-diary-entry stuff for myself in this weird language that I never quite use except when I'm writing for other people. I only know one other person that reads this, and I could just talk to her most of the time. I guess this is necessary just to have a foot in the door in case Google awards all bloggers with some money just for being so cutting edge. But you know we'll never see that Google money. They just refuse to recognize our collective genius. No, we'll never get dollar one from Google. Not a single penny.
Is that bad joke funny yet, or should I keep going with it?
You make the call.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Guess the theme!
Panel four, last sentence.
Panel three.
Panel four.
Panel four, final sentence.
What do I want to do right now at work, then later on in the night?
ANSWER AND WIN THE PRIZE.
If you guessed mild drinking, you win the prize.
Panel three.
Panel four.
Panel four, final sentence.
What do I want to do right now at work, then later on in the night?
ANSWER AND WIN THE PRIZE.
If you guessed mild drinking, you win the prize.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Sports!
As promised, our little operation here at Over-Analyzed has become the premiere spot for sports on the web. Congratulations!
So here is a post about sports. The football season started up recently, and some of the teams are doing pretty well. Others of the teams are not doing so well - tough luck to those guys!
No. This feels wrong. I have sold out. Just look at that font. Ick.
Keep blogging purely and honestly, everyone! This is the lesson of the day.
Because of this post, my blog will shortly become the #1 source of collected information about lessons for life. Stay tuned!
So here is a post about sports. The football season started up recently, and some of the teams are doing pretty well. Others of the teams are not doing so well - tough luck to those guys!
No. This feels wrong. I have sold out. Just look at that font. Ick.
Keep blogging purely and honestly, everyone! This is the lesson of the day.
Because of this post, my blog will shortly become the #1 source of collected information about lessons for life. Stay tuned!
Walsh
Saw Matt Walsh and Jeff Garlin, plus Seth Morris some other dudes, doing some improv over at Cobb's Comedy Club last night with the lady.
Yeah, the aformentioned dudes were not the titular bad dudes from the game, that was misinformation.
Anyway, the show was great, Walsh is a right-handed genius.
Also, Yankees came back from being super-awful to clinch a spot in the playoffs. Guess all that money has actually been doing something.
Signing off now. Return later, when, after breaking the startling and unique news that the Yanks clinched, this blog will have been transformed into the biggest sports site on the web.
Man.
Yeah, the aformentioned dudes were not the titular bad dudes from the game, that was misinformation.
Anyway, the show was great, Walsh is a right-handed genius.
Also, Yankees came back from being super-awful to clinch a spot in the playoffs. Guess all that money has actually been doing something.
Signing off now. Return later, when, after breaking the startling and unique news that the Yanks clinched, this blog will have been transformed into the biggest sports site on the web.
Man.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Workin' on a new song
See title. Pretty excited about it, just have to finish writing it to see if it's any good. Tentative title is "Out My Mind" and it is a two-part SAGA about two different topics loosely connected by only a few ideas. [sarcasm]One half is a biting social commentary, and the other half is a poignant tale of a lonely man.[/sarcasm]* While those are, non-sarcastically, the two halves of the song, I'm not conceited enough to praise myself so openly. Look how much better a man I am than a man who touts himself and brags about his own work. Right?
Good lord I am a bored little man today.
*It is important in this situation to ensure that the period is also sarcastic, or else your readers might not understand the full import of your sarcasm tag.
Good lord I am a bored little man today.
*It is important in this situation to ensure that the period is also sarcastic, or else your readers might not understand the full import of your sarcasm tag.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Brief After-Lunch Post
If there's not a volume control on a media player, don't post all your audio on your website using that media player, Onion AV Club and Kevin Smith. That is all.
Title in an Incongruent Font
Italics. For emphasis.
Regular text for just writing like normal.
Link to relevant website.
I wanted to embed a video that is no longer available, but I don't have the energy.
What a hoot!
Regular text for just writing like normal.
Link to relevant website.
I wanted to embed a video that is no longer available, but I don't have the energy.
What a hoot!
Monday, September 24, 2007
The Real World Smells Like a Dentist's Office
At least, my office does. And it is not a dentist's office. Perhaps it's just my current issues with the modern business world. My argument boils down to the fact that the vast majority of office work is neither cool nor fun. I could make it a lot more complicated, and I do have more complex thoughts about it, but that's the nitty gritty of the argument. But maybe I'm wrong.
Defining intent and scope, because I can't help but think about this: I intend this page to be primarily for my own uses, to exercise my brain and my fingers, to actually Produce a Thing every day, to feel somewhat creatively satisfied when not writing songs. It is also an opportunity for some friends to read what I'm saying and continue to be impressed by my whimsical prose.
Now that my aims are clear, I can breathe a bit easier.
Reading back over this, I think I should be funnier when I write cuz this is fuckin' bleak and serious. LOOK HOW FUNNY.
Defining intent and scope, because I can't help but think about this: I intend this page to be primarily for my own uses, to exercise my brain and my fingers, to actually Produce a Thing every day, to feel somewhat creatively satisfied when not writing songs. It is also an opportunity for some friends to read what I'm saying and continue to be impressed by my whimsical prose.
Now that my aims are clear, I can breathe a bit easier.
Reading back over this, I think I should be funnier when I write cuz this is fuckin' bleak and serious. LOOK HOW FUNNY.
Twinkle Twinkle Blah Blah Blah
Evidently there is a universe in which I am not writing a blog right now.
But this is not that universe. This is a universe with me writing this blog right now.
In this blog entry I will reveal that I was in a band in college called Sex Piano, and that we are due to reunite and try to make it in less than a year's time. I will go on to inadequately describe our band as heavily influenced by Ween, great pop and rock music, and a small amount of terrible music. At the point I fail to describe the music, I will direct you to the link on the right which takes you to our site, where you can hear some songs of ours. I will then say that the application on the site doesn't work on some networks, but if you can hear our tunes, then you are lucky. Then I will presumptuously assume that the band is working on trying to get some more audio up there, even though I haven't talked to the band about this. At that point I will let you know that we are working on some new songs, in a coast-2-coast capacity. I will even reveal the name of one - "Sad Skateboarder" - which is hopefully less jokey in execution than its title implies.
Apparently there is also (will also be?) a universe in which I decide not to make the entire post a lame paradox...but which universe is it? At the risk of not knowing what I'm talking about anyway, I will at that point end the post.
But this is not that universe. This is a universe with me writing this blog right now.
In this blog entry I will reveal that I was in a band in college called Sex Piano, and that we are due to reunite and try to make it in less than a year's time. I will go on to inadequately describe our band as heavily influenced by Ween, great pop and rock music, and a small amount of terrible music. At the point I fail to describe the music, I will direct you to the link on the right which takes you to our site, where you can hear some songs of ours. I will then say that the application on the site doesn't work on some networks, but if you can hear our tunes, then you are lucky. Then I will presumptuously assume that the band is working on trying to get some more audio up there, even though I haven't talked to the band about this. At that point I will let you know that we are working on some new songs, in a coast-2-coast capacity. I will even reveal the name of one - "Sad Skateboarder" - which is hopefully less jokey in execution than its title implies.
Apparently there is also (will also be?) a universe in which I decide not to make the entire post a lame paradox...but which universe is it? At the risk of not knowing what I'm talking about anyway, I will at that point end the post.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Thinkin' about postin'
So I've been thinking about posting for the last couple days, trying to find an interesting lens through which to view the events in my life since Friday in order for me to feel like I'm contributing something unique to the ol' 'sphere. Blogo'. Well anyway, watched the first two seasons of Mr. Show on Friday. It's great how non-stop smart and funny they are, especially considering what passes for comedy on primetime television. That is a pretty boring thing to say about maybe the funniest show that's ever been on TV. Bob and David link to the right will lead you to what the Mr. Show dudes are currently up to.
Friday night was called by my bud Matt to go to an Arcade Fire show on short notice, down Mountain View way. They have made pretty good use of their fame, I'd say, overcoming the obvious obstacles of performing for a giant amphitheater though inventive stage and show design. I assume that it was pretty intimate to be in the front row, perhaps like enjoying a private concert with 13 or so of your best and most talented friends. But from way back on the grass area, where there is naturally very little intimacy, the private concert was replaced by an interesting light show and a beautifully ominous tableau which could not truly be appreciated from a "good" seat. This is a pretty poor description, and I'm sure I could do a good job of this if I were paying more attention. The question - should I come back and edit this, or just put it up and get on with my life because no one is reading this anyway.
Decision made.
Friday night was called by my bud Matt to go to an Arcade Fire show on short notice, down Mountain View way. They have made pretty good use of their fame, I'd say, overcoming the obvious obstacles of performing for a giant amphitheater though inventive stage and show design. I assume that it was pretty intimate to be in the front row, perhaps like enjoying a private concert with 13 or so of your best and most talented friends. But from way back on the grass area, where there is naturally very little intimacy, the private concert was replaced by an interesting light show and a beautifully ominous tableau which could not truly be appreciated from a "good" seat. This is a pretty poor description, and I'm sure I could do a good job of this if I were paying more attention. The question - should I come back and edit this, or just put it up and get on with my life because no one is reading this anyway.
Decision made.
Friday, September 21, 2007
A Child is Born
About an hour ago, my sister had her second child. I am now a proud uncle five times over.
Initial Over-Analysis
Personal blogs are dumb right? This is the premise on which I am building this thing, and this is the template by which it will be run. Which means, of course, that it will end up having nothing to do with the content of the posts or anything contained herein.
I consider everything about the personal blog funny. What compounds this is the fact that I'm now embarking on a fairly serious personal blog.
This font is funny.
Credit where it's due - Neil Vineberg, of Vineberg Communications, convinced me to take the plunge and become a blogger. Recently met with Neil himself, as he is thinking of taking me on as a West Coast consultant for his PR company. I assume I'll get into this more in a later post, as I go on and fulfill my blogging duty by complaining about my current temp job (read: not Neil's potential position, my current job). I see the masses lining up to read about that. "A dude who doesn't like his job," they think as they wait behind thousands of others thinking the same thing (which I guess makes this line infinitely long if everyone is behind thousands of people...) "What an interesting thing to blog about. I wonder if he's as upset with his great life as I am." But here it is, for better or for worse. I expect a readership of over 2,000 by the end of next week.
Ok now that my first post sucks and has gone off the deep end, time to finish it here. I expect I will post later today - taking a day off from work to meet with Neil and have a meeting with four seasons of Mr. Show which my lovely girlfriend got me for my birthday.
nk
I consider everything about the personal blog funny. What compounds this is the fact that I'm now embarking on a fairly serious personal blog.
This font is funny.
Credit where it's due - Neil Vineberg, of Vineberg Communications, convinced me to take the plunge and become a blogger. Recently met with Neil himself, as he is thinking of taking me on as a West Coast consultant for his PR company. I assume I'll get into this more in a later post, as I go on and fulfill my blogging duty by complaining about my current temp job (read: not Neil's potential position, my current job). I see the masses lining up to read about that. "A dude who doesn't like his job," they think as they wait behind thousands of others thinking the same thing (which I guess makes this line infinitely long if everyone is behind thousands of people...) "What an interesting thing to blog about. I wonder if he's as upset with his great life as I am." But here it is, for better or for worse. I expect a readership of over 2,000 by the end of next week.
Ok now that my first post sucks and has gone off the deep end, time to finish it here. I expect I will post later today - taking a day off from work to meet with Neil and have a meeting with four seasons of Mr. Show which my lovely girlfriend got me for my birthday.
nk
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