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| Being in the media business and working at a NBC affiliate station, I feel the need to say that I have felt what it's like to be around the business and how much these figures in NBC mean to everyone here. It's insane. I have heard the name Tim Russert and people were amazed that he died and sadly, until I saw his face I didn't recognize who he was. Now that I know that he is the man from Meet The Press I do feel sadness. I feel for his family and friends and I feel for everyone that had some sort of connection to him. So from a media person to a political person, Tim Russert you will be missed.
-Daniel | | |
| For the first time in my life, I'm paying for things with my own money and no real help from my parents. What a scary time this is. I just bought a plane ticket to Wisconsin to see my brother and his wife and my niece and nephew/god-son. I'm so excited. Kyna is coming along. I got an awesome price on the tickets. Good ol' searching google for discount codes, hahahaha. Seriously, 12% discount. Awesomeness if you ask me. I'm just growing up and it's crazy, plus I owed the IRS like 400 bucks!!! Geeze. That sucks so much. Money down the drain if you ask me. Why should I be giving the government money out of a paycheck that I earned? Well, I mean, everyone does it and I understand why, but it just sucks that it has to be done. Like, I can't say that they don't do anything for me, lets just go with protection and we'll stick with that for now and I can have peace of mind that I payed them a shit load of my own money.
On to other matters. THRICE - THE ALCHEMY INDEX VOL. III: AIR and VOL. IV: EARTH. This is the second part of THE ALCHEMY INDEX CDs. I have to say that I loved VOL. II: WATER so much, and it's still one of my favorite things THRICE has ever written, but VOL. III: AIR is getting up there in amazingness. VOL. IV: EARTH is also greatness. VOL. I: FIRE is not my favorite but it is listenable. I think that they are just getting better in time. They know what their fans are looking for, but it also feels like this is the most personal and favorite of any cd they have ever been a part of. If you know me well, you know that one of my all time favorite dead bands is FRODUS. Well members of FRODUS left that band and became other bands respectively. I'm not a fan of everything they have done, but I do like THE OUT_CIRCUIT. They are very nice easy music almost like the softer stuff that FRODUS used to do not very oftenly. Well, Dustin Kensrue (from THRICE) sang on a track that is very beautiful on the new THE OUT_CIRCUIT cd and Teppei (also from THRICE) produced that cd. So in turn THRICE covered "THE EARTH ISN'T HUMMING" from FRODUS' last cd AND WE WASHED OUR WEAPONS IN THE SEA. Well, as this song is amazing in itself and really never needed to be covered (I say that, but at the same time, my band EVER/REST covers FRODUS' song 6/99... see my muxtape http://dannylicious.muxtape.com for more details on 6/99), but it's just such a great song and I'm happy to see anyone take a swing at covering a FRODUS song, and I like what Dustin Kensrue has done with it, it still doesn't fit so much with THRICE, but still I like it. Now just like the first ALCHEMY INDEX cd (Fire takes on hard, screamy qualities. Water takes on a more liquid melody and electronics, much like RED SKY from VHEISSU) the songs take on the quality of the elements named on the cds. AIR takes on a more put together quality, feeling light and almost soft at times (like when the air is just nice outside) and sometimes it gets hard and windy and just altogether hard to take lyrically (which is amazing all in itself). All in all I guess it's just a great cd. It has a bit of everything needed to make a great THRICE cd. I'm very happy to have gotten to know this bands music and I guess I have to thank Bo R. for him forcing me to drive to Dallas from Abilene one night to see a couple small bands (THRICE opening for COHEED AND CAMBRIA before anyone knew of them) and getting me into these bands, making for some good times. I think I saw a bunch of bands thanks to him. We saw COHEED and THRICE a couple different times each... plus, who can forget the all so funny comment when seeing a big black guy peeing on my car, "I can see your penis." Probably not the brightest thing to say to a big black man peeing on my car. Thanks Bo.
All right, for my Nasty Little Thoughts,
I'm Danny. Goodnight. | | |
| To most, a family dog is part of your family. He's like your little brother or something close to it. So when you're dog dies, it hurts so much, almost like losing your family member, not almost, it is. My brother just called and told me our dog Pudge had been hit by a car this morning and he died. I hate this so much because I love that dog more than a lot of things in this world. It hurts so fucking much. Death is such a bitch and not fair at all. And I just want to see that little dog again. I was gonna go home this weekend and be able to see him and play around like always but no, not this weekend. not ever again, I couldn't even be near him even close today. I can't remember the last time I went home and I feel like I don't even want to go home tomorrow. I just want to lay down and not do anything. I don't want to work, I don't want to play or anything. I just want to stop hurting. I can't even believe this, I haven't cried in so long. It's not fair to have this happen. I really hope that dogs can feel what you feel for them. I hope that Pudge knew how much I loved him. I hope that every time I called his name and held him and loved on him that he knew that my affection for him was great. I just want to have been able to have stopped him from getting out of the fence and running into the street. The biggest thing, I don't want to hate the person who hit him. I don't even know them and I hate them. I feel mad that Pudge, after all these years didn't know better than to run off into the street. I miss him so much.
So these are my feelings on the subject. I love Pudge and I already miss him so much.
I love you Pudge. I hope you knew that.
-Danny | | |
| I'm such a casual gamer... it's kinda crazy. I work at Gamestop and really... I don't play that many games. I own about 13 next gen console games... 3 of those games are the burger king games and 2 of the other games are wii games that came with the system and the wii zapper (so those 5 games right there don't really count, cuz they are just whatever games...). Then another 3 games are music games (Guitar Hero II and III and Rockband) So those don't really count as hardcore games, cuz they are casual games/party games... Then I have Viva Pinata, which is just a causal play as you go game about raising animals (pinata style).... So that rules out that... Then I have Assassin's Creed and Halo 3 for 360 and I beat Halo 3 and now I only use it for the multiplayer and I haven't really gotten through Assassin's Creed yet... I just don't sit down and play video games enough... Then I have my wii games, being Super Paper Mario (at the last boss, but haven't even tried to beat him), also The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess (took me a few weeks, but I beat it... just 20 more ghosts to go before I'm done with all the side quests), then Avatar The Last Airbender (really haven't gotten too far into it, I have it cuz I love the show), then Zack & Wiki (last level), then Super Mario Galaxy (another one where I haven't gotten far at all cuz I haven't sat down to play it)...
Now here is my theory. I love the story of Assassin's Creed, but i know it's a long game with lots of stuff to do. Super Mario Galaxy is amazing, but the same thing... long. I just don't have a big attention span to video games... some levels are just too massive to want to try and beat it all.
So here I am now, at the pause screen of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. I'm on the 3rd or 4th mission. Way Way farther then I've gotten on Assassin's Creed and I'm only checking it out from Gamestop and I just got it tonight... So here is my thing, all the levels are pretty short... but complicated enough to be fun. The story is just goofy in the way that it's just your team going in to take out terrorists... pretty basic stuff. I also already know that if you play it straight through, it should take you about 6 to 8 (at most) hours to beat it. So with 6-8 hours of single player missions, I know that I can beat this game and then be happy with having done that. Maybe it'll inspire me to beat my other games.
Also, I give CoD4 a solid 5 out of 5 stars. The graphics are fantastic. The missions are fun so far. The story is fun so far. I haven't played multiplayer, but it is supposed to be better then Halo 3 and I loved Halo 3's multiplayer. I am now as converted as I can be for this game. I have had so many people say it's good and I'm like, naw, I love Halo 3. Well my friends, it's so true, CoD4 kicks all kinds of terrorist butt.
So there is my rant on gaming and a fun review about Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
I hope you have a fun morning/afternoon/evening/night.
Peace,
-Danny. | | |
| Hey ya'll I thought I'd write and tell you some songs that really kinda are nice. So here is my list of songs that touch me in some way right now: Forever The Sickest Kids - Coffee Break Stroke 9 - Feel The Summer Lifehouse - First Time Billy Talent - The Suffering Anberlin - Dismantle Repair | | |
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