Everyday is Like Sunday...

I haven't updated the blog nearly as often as I'd like. I looked up the site today and saw an advertisement for KFC, so I turned off the ads. What the hell was I thinking?

The weekend's been a whirlwind of excitement, with tons more going on for work. I've been feeling stress in abundance, but I think I've taken three things over the past few days that have really helped put things in perspective.

1. The new iMac rules. I've been pretty excited to do a lot more with my computer after I finally bought one that works. It's pretty exciting. It's helping me play music more often, write more often, watch more movies, and hopefully take better advantage of my time.

2. Planning your day around a sports game is rough in winter. The past week in sports has been verging on nightmarish, especially since the EPL and related tournaments have been in total havoc. Two Villa matches were canceled this week including a league game and the Carling Cup semi-final. They were both televised, so I was excited to see 'em. No football at all this weekend other than watching the Blues draw United at St. Andrew's. I caught a bit of the AC Milan v Juventus match, but didn't watch all of it. So football was canceled due to weather. And that doesn't even compare to the horror of the shooting on the Togo team bus at the Cup of Nations in Africa.

3. Punk music still rules. A few days ago, while riding the train home from work, I got the urge to put on Murder City Devils and listened to Thelema and In Name and Blood. When those were over, I made a point to listen to more of the music I missed--Fucked Up, Pissed Jeans, Converge, The Wipers, Coral Fang by The Distillers...I love punk music.

I have a big presentation for work tomorrow (and another application I'd like to hand in tonight), a few things to do around the house and a test to study for. In the meantime, I have to include three personal goals in the presentation for work. The final goal is releasing new music by the end of 2010. Punk rules.

Hello.

It's never going to be the same, til the life I knew comes to my house and says hello...

Monday Mournin'

It's 2:33 on a Monday Morning.

I wish I felt like calling it a night, but it's been a slow weekend with little to do. Priorities were usurped by trying to heal.



I got surgery again on Wednesday. I did a little bit of moving around since then, but overall I've stayed pretty quiet. Was excited to watch some EPL on Saturday as you can see below. Spent a lot of time revisiting Oasis albums. Also really digging the new(ish) Darker My Love record "2."

Hopefully meeting up with a few people to play music some time this week--either Wednesday, Friday or Saturday is how it's looking. I need to catch a train and study for my LSAT February 6th.

Til then it's Monday Mournin'

VILLA WIN! AVFC Beat Manchester United at Old Trafford!

Just a quick note to say it was a fun match to watch and a pretty great victory.

As a Villa supporter, I've never got to enjoy watching the team I support take the scalp of Man United at Old Trafford.

Read All About It...

Villa Victory, World Cup Draw, City Win at Chelsea...

Living in Chicago, you can't luck out every week with your EPL cable coverage, and this week they weren't airing the Villa match as Villa took on Hull City at Villa Park. I was pleased when I woke up to some good news, however, namely that Villa seemed to dismantle Hull without too much trouble.



Richard Dunne and Gabby celebrating Dunne's strike, which I'm still waiting to see on the highlights.

A thrilling match I did get to see was Chelsea and Manchester City. I was excited for Eastlands and co. when Robinho came through, and I thought he played a great game. Also, for me it's always exciting just to see Chelsea lose--especially this season. They look invincible half the time. Ancoletti has turned that team into a veritable force of strength, and I think it's fair to say that City gave them a run for their money today...no pun intended.

After World Cup draw yesterday, I'm actually pretty excited to see the USA get drawn in a group with England, though it's going to be tough to make it through. I'm confident that this will be a good World Cup for the US; they seem to have a fairly good squad.

New Radio Show is Up...

Good Afternoon all,

I played tunes on WLUW for the first time since my car accident in October yesterday morning from 6:00 A.M. - 8:00 A.M. I recorded the show and you can listen here.

More to come soon...

playing tunes on the radio for the first time in a while right now. tune in! http://wluw.org #fb