I Kan't Spell

 
A Not So Young Man Looks at a New Year

Where the ground gets warn away to brown, trodden, lumps of grass; they look so wet and matted with wear and time - that is the place where your foot steps gently. The tall crisp, almost neon grass on the sides, near the pavement, drinking of what hopes is soon-to-be Spring is framed like priceless heirloom. The brown stays slick and warns your heel as if to say, "Be careful of me. I'm slimy and moist."

There is black muck that you reach your hands into because it's your job now. You are the one that roots in the danger. You are the one that puts your foot forward before the young and before the old. It's your place. It's your time and what black muck sticks to your hands, face, and breath, comes away repainting your soul.

With the breath of the responsible come the spoils of the rewards. Dark glasses on the end of your nose guard your squint from the light off the table of water in front of you. Your woman sits in a chair enjoying her security. Your friends merriment and cheer can be heard to the clouds. Your face almost let's you enjoy it.

The slope that you want to walk down isn't 45 degrees but it sure seems that way. It's more or less a 7% gradient. It's more or less a death sentence. It's time to come to that ledge and spit.

At some point all men should hold up their fists and scream, "Enough! No more! Not today! Not now! Not ever again!" This is the time that your body rejects your brain. You quiver in your spine and you can feel your heart beat through your neck. It's too late for anything else. You stand. After the initial shock, the adrenalin subsides and it's just you and why you said the things you said. After the initial tremble you realize that you have what is needed to do anything.

Brown grass. Green grass. Black muck. Water like glass. Slanted hills. Raised fists. Welcome to manhood. Welcome to the granularity of life that allows for books to be read, meals to be enjoyed, and moments to be savored.
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Easily the Best 12 Pains of Xmas Video


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Soccer vs Football

For those who think that American Football is the most exciting sport... I really... on so many levels feel sorry for you. While I may have grown up in a soccer household; my father would often drag me to bars in the 80's and early 90's to watch world cup matches that were only shown on some crazy Italian satellite channel and I would watch Dutch Football on ESPN2 at 8 am every Sunday morning. Cruiff was always in my living room. But... anyway...

American football is just that... American. It's loud and it has way too many fucking rules and leaves far too much to the farcical judgment of officials and referees and cameras.

Soccer is like liquid being poured out onto the floor. You have no idea where it will go or how it will play. The rules are simple. The game lends itself to beauty and movement. I hope those of you that bash soccer one day give it a try... take it from a prior die hard football fan... soccer... is so much more fun to watch.

This is the draw for the Champions league -

Chelsea - Juventus
Villarreal - Panathinaikos
Sporting - Bayern
Atletico Madrid - FC Porto
Lyon - Barcelona
Real Madrid - Liverpool
Arsenal - Roma
Inter - Manchester United

I can't even compare this to American Football. I could if anyone else played Football and they were in Mexico, El Salvador, Canada, and Iceland and they were all equally amazing yet equally different in their styles... and there were dozens up dozens of those teams with rabid fan following year round...

My pick to win it all - Inter -
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Set List

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals @ MSG setlist - 17th December 2008

Cobwebs
Crossed Out Name
Everybody Knows
Fix It
Off Broadway
Go Easy
Sink Ships
Natural Ghost
Come Pick Me Up
Magick


Oasis @ Madison Square Garden Setlist - 17th December 2008
Rock 'n' Roll Star
Lyla
The Shock Of The Lightning
Cigarettes & Alcohol
The Meaning Of Soul
To Be Where There's Life
Waiting For The Rapture
The Masterplan
Songbird
Slide Away
Morning Glory
Ain't Got Nothin'
The Importance Of Being Idle
I'm Outta Time
Wonderwall
Supersonic

Encore:
Don't Look Back In Anger
Falling Down
Champagne Supernova
I Am The Walrus
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This will be played tonight at MSG



A TOAST! To the Irish Pub and the Masterplan!
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IASIP



Greatest show ever made.
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100 things I hate about America

After attending the Ravens game the other night and the week before - I realized - that I really only do what I LIKE. I don't put myself in positions multiple times that I find pathetic, dreadful, and just sad. It's not that I didn't like going to the game with my friends and being with them... it's the surroundings of that game...that make me shudder .

Along with this, too many times in the past months I have been watching television or been out and about and have muttered my new favorite phrase "God damnit America."

So - this is an attempt at the 100 things that I hate about American society. Not all of them are going to be beholden to America itself - but I think we will be able to see a trend. These are in no particular order:

1. Drunk college girls.
2. The ability for drunk college girls to set trends for girls older than 22
3. Girls that use cell phones like their life depended on it.
4. Text messaging
5. Litter
6. People over the age of 23 smoking pot
7. Liberal democrats that live in Million $ houses
8. People who think 2nd-tier colleges aren't a sunken cost that just prove you are able to borrow money
9. People who openly sell and do drugs
10. Football games with people that only LIVE for football games. It's really not that important. Go home and lay your wife, play with your kids, lift a weight, IMPROVE yourself - the Ravens WILL carry on ... trust me.
11. Poor art carried out by poor people
12. Cable television
13. The misconception of Obama
14. Open air mutual racism between two races – like when a white dude thinks I'm just going to start agreeing with him because he uses the "n" word openly.
15. America's inability to control it's own media
16. Single moms out on the town
17. Losers that follow local bands because they know someone in the band and then tell everyone else in the world how great that band is…and then end up working the merch counter for them.


I'm too sick and ready to leave to keep writing right now… but you saw where this list was going.
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Personal Hero of the Day - Eric Burdon

He went from the Animals to War to being the Eggman to John Lennon. Eric Burdon should be every budding white boy's blues voice hero.




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Overdue Oasis Review

I don't know if any of you read but Oasis had the #3 album in the country for a couple weeks this year. I don't know what that means in comparison to downloads or what people really listen to but I imagine it means very little.

I don't know yet what my tour schedule is for the coming weeks - xmas money plus other things make the tour not... really... the greatest timed thing in my life but... I would like to go - else they will be back for the summer and if you've seen Oasis once you've seen them as much as I have (27 times).

Well the new album Dig Out Your Soul was once again a mixed bag of psychedalia that spawned from Noel's record collection while he was in a cover band of the Stone Roses. Quite the interesting blend if you ask me. I really do like it - and I think it's much more mature than anything they have released in 5 or 6 years but at the same time -- it's missing the anthem... it's not flat - but it's definitely something that would play at a mid 30's something dinner party.

That is all.
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