Archive for August, 2005

I Seriously Want an Answer to This

What is the deal with people and the high pitched whistle at sporting events and concerts?

Yeah I want to see an encore. Yes I want to cheer for a team. But when the person behind you does that high pitched, ear drum destroying whistle, it ruins everything. Do they understand that nobody around them enjoys it?

I think at this point if someone does that whistle the person directly in front of them should be allowed to turn around and punch them in the face. Like as a reminder not to do it.

Of course this rule needs to be printed on the ticket… You know for legal reasons.

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  • So many shows so little time

    Wow… what a weekend… what a great two weeks actually. For tons of reasons…. I have been to three shows in two weeks… I know it isn’t a lot compared to some people on my friends list but they were all high quality.

    Ben Folds Aug 19 2005

    Wiltern Theatre

    1. Bastard
    2. Gone
    3. Bitches Ain’t Shit
    4. Lyle Lovett “LA County’ improv/ Careless Whisper (with Rufus Wainwright)
    5. Landed
    6. You To Thank
    7. Jesusland
    8. Late
    9. One Angry Dwarf
    10. Philosophy
    11. Gracie
    12. Narcolepsy
    13. Rockin’ the Suburbs
    14. Brick
    15. Missing the War
    16. Not The Same

    How many people can cover Wham! And Dr Dre in the same set and get away with it? He played all my favorite songs off of the new album and a couple of my favorite all time…

    Plus I finally got to see Ben Lee whom I have wanted to see for years…

    Anyways I know a lot of people don’t listen to Ben, or aren’t familiar with his stuff besides “Brick” do me a favor and take a listen:

    http://www.myspace.com/benfolds

    The first single from his new album “Landed” is on this page. Take a listen… It’s a great song.

    Moving on… So on Saturday Night I went to the Sunset Junction Street Fair… I have to say it is the first time I have attended this event and hell would have to freeze over for me to go back again. Trying to park is next to impossible (it took close to an hour to accomplish that feat) and the crowd was an eclectic mix of people. I wasn’t impressed with the food offerings (think low grade county fair) but I wasn’t there for crowd or the food. I was there to see a band that one of my “myspace friends” turned me onto. (And I can’t thank her enough.)

    Rilo Kiley…

    They were headlining the Saturday Portion of the shows. While their set was short I have to say that I was blown away. I got pretty close to the stage and I was just in shock how talented this band is. It has been very rare in my life where I have seen someone perform and have almost been made physically ill because they are so talented. The lead singer Jenny Lewis played five instruments in their short set; she has a great voice, great lyrics, and great stage presence. I actually felt like I was watching something special.

    Go to their page right now:

    http://www.myspace.com/rilokiley

    At least listen to Portions for Foxes and It’s a Hit… I have turned a few people onto them already… But these guys are seriously the next big thing. They are opening for Coldplay starting this week… I just can’t believe that they will not just blow up.

    Finally on Sunday I made my way down to Carson to catch my usual summer show, The Dave Matthews Band.

    First let me comment on a couple of things.

    The Home Depot Center is really nice. I am glad the US National Soccer Team has a home, and I want to go back to see a game there very badly. It was a great setup and I was impressed.

    The second thing is I think this was the first Dave Matthews Band concert that I have been to that hasn’t sold out or has been super close to selling out. LA sucks… Plus the crowd was eh… It just wasn’t the same as seeing them at SPAC or some of the other east coast venues I am used to. I love the fact that LA people love to show up late and leave early… Ugh… You know you gotta beat traffic!

    The John Butler Trio opened the show and they were great. I have been listening to them for a little bit now and I was happy to see them live. It was disappointing though that like 1/20th of the crowd was there at best… I mean the place was EMPTY. Once again LA sucks.

    http://www.myspace.com/johnbutlertrio

    Take a listen… All three songs on there are good.

    Jason Mraz was next… He sucks… let’s move on.

    DMB played… One of the better set lists I have been to. The show was good, the crowd sucked, and I think the version of Lie in Our Graves they played might have been one of the better ones I have seen. Also watch tower with Robert Randolph was unbelievable. It was the first time I have seen him play with the band… I have seen DMB for about ten years in a row every summer… I can never complain about there shows… Good times everyone.

    Sunday Aug 28 2005
    Home Depot Center

    Pantala Naga Pampa
    Rapunzel
    What Would You Say
    One Sweet World
    When The World Ends
    Stand Up
    Lie In Our Graves
    American Baby Intro
    Dream Girl
    Warehouse *
    Steady As We Go
    Hunger For The Great Light
    Ants Marching
    Stolen Away On 55th & 3rd
    You Might Die Trying
    Tripping Billies
    All Along The Watchtower *+

    __________________

    Old Dirt Hill
    What You Are

    Show Notes:
    * Leon Mobley
    + Robert Randolph

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  • Fuck Jared and Subway

    The one thing I think I miss most about East Coast food is good subs, hoagies, grinders… whatever you want to call them.

    Out here I can’t find a good sub shop… The Jersey Mike’s Sub Shop chain is probably the best, which isn’t saying much… I don’t like Quizno’s all that much and I despise Subway.

    The problem with Subway is that it is like less then 50 yards from where I work. So when I am super busy at work and just need something to quick to eat I tend to go there. I know going in what I am getting, and I am not going to be happy yet I eat it anyways.

    Now back where I used to live there were three separate attempts to get a Subway up and running and all three times they failed, because the local sub shops were that much better. It would be like trying to put a Taco Bell in next to an authentic Mexican Restaurant. It just doesn’t fly.

    So you might ask why do I hate subway? Or you are sitting there saying, “A Sub is a sub” Kevin is just being a freak. No that is not true.

    1) The Bread- Subway’s bread blows in a number of ways. The bread is the base of a good sub… Aunt Cookie’s sub shop in Geneseo, NY makes a sesame seed bread that is toasted… It is amazing. All the sub shops around me had one thing in common, superior bread.

    2) Fresh Veggies- I don’t think there has been a time that I have gone to subway where the tomatoes weren’t like yellow in the middle or all hardened. It just doesn’t happen. The lettuce is never fresh either… I expect more out of my veggies.

    3) Subway puts nothing in their subs. The subs I am used to eating you feared. When you had to choose between a 6 inch and a 12 inch it was a debate… You didn’t think you could get down a whole sub… In fact it was a commitment to choose a 12 inch sub. You knew that it would require work and effort, because they were stuffed with veggies, meat, and cheese. Now when I go to Subway it isn’t even a choice, I know that a full size sub there won’t even fill me.

    4) I hate watching people make my sub at Subway. Because they have set instructions on how they make it the whole art form is gone… They only put a certain number of slices of cheese etc… It is so mechanical and boring… In NY when they are dumping oil on your sub or putting pretty much anything except the meat they ask if it is enough. I miss that… I like being part of the process… Maybe I am just an attention whore

    5) Jarred sucks… Fuck anyone that gets famous for being a company spokesperson. I hate the Verizon guy, Jarred, and pretty much any company spokesperson… They have no talent, no real reason to be the spokesperson, they just look a certain way or dropped weight eating at Subway because they were too fucking lazy to cook for themselves.

    So I just wrote a blog on how I don’t like a place that makes sandwiches… I need to get a life.

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  • I Think I Want To Be A Female Cam Whore

    Lately I have done a lot of thinking and I have reevaluated what I want to do with my life. For awhile I had my heart set on becoming the next rock, paper, and scissors world champion… but I no longer have the desire. I have decided as of last week that I want to become a cam whore.

    I know… I know there are so many people saying, “You can’t be a cam whore.”

    I have heard all the arguments…

    “Kevin you aren’t a barely legal teenage girl how would visit your site?” I think if I listen to enough crappy pop songs that I could transfer into a barely legal teenage girl. The county fair is in town maybe I could find a Zoltaire machine… (if you get that reference you are my new best friend)

    “Kevin your breasts aren’t big enough!” It is all about camera angles, you can make a cups look like c’s with the right lighting.

    “Why would you want to be a cam whore they are the lowest form of internet scum?” I know that but think about working about 4-6 hours a day and raking in a ton of money while perverts watch you do the most banal things. I mean… I could cut my toenails for like half an hour and make a ton of money… It boggles my mind.

    “Dude guys will be checking you out don’t you find that rather gay?” I go with the ostrich theory, what I don’t see can’t hurt me.

    So in closing I am going to set out today on a mission to become a cam whore. Which means spamming myspace with crappy profiles… Posting messages on forums asking you to check out my profile…. And taking pictures with a pouting face, partially naked, and a random ass shot…

    Ok … I am way to bored at work….

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  • How Rolling Stone Brought Me To Tears

    Longtime readers of my blogs know my admiration… nay love of Scott Baio… Not like in a gay way, not like in a prison sort of way, but in an older brother I think he is way cool even though he isn’t sort of way. There is a threat to the Baio legend brewing in Hollywood right now… To be honest I find it rather unacceptable.

    First let me show you this list:

    Mandy Moore

    Mandy Moore

    Ashlee Simpson

    Ashlee Simpson (yes she is a no talent hack that I dislike but I am proving a point)

    Lindsay Lohan

    Lindsay Lohan (yes… pre coked out blonde hair days… I will never again post new pictures of her)

    Jennifer Love Hewitt

    Jennifer Love Hewitt……

    Now albeit not the most talented stable of young women they are not hard on the eyes. What if I told you one single person slept with all four of these females? Impressive… In fact men would say to other men. “This guy must be god like! It must be Brad Pitt, maybe even Colin Farrell?”

    No… it is not either of these two men…

    The next response might be that it is a major Hollywood power broker or an up and coming young model. Or even maybe a great athlete, like Lebron James or someone of that ilk… No… Sadly it is this man….

    Fez

    Wilmer Valderrama

    All I have to say is ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

    I knew about Lindsay Lohan… I could live with it once she turned into a coked out skank. That was fine.

    Ashlee Simspon… I mean who really cares about someone that can’t even sing their own music? So I was fine with that… In fact I kind of hope he gave her crabs.

    Mandy Moore… I never was a big fan… Then she has been on “Entourage” on HBO, which won me over. She has an innocence about her that should not be violated by a man that PLAYS FUCKING FEZ…

    I still was ok with it… I was able to maintain my cool. I mean really I don’t care about celeb gossip or bullshit like this. In fact I was finding it amusing… Until I opened this months Rolling Stone and found a “Six Degrees of Valderrama” chart… I decided to go into the supermarket and buy a magazine while my car was getting washed. Coldplay was on the cover of Rolling Stone… I figured let’s see what they have to say about Coldplay… Went back to the carwash and sat down… Sipping a bottled water and flipping through Rolling Stone I was content… Nice and relaxed…

    Until I saw that chart…

    At first I was amused until I saw that he slept with Jennifer Love Hewitt. I ended up spitting my water out almost hitting a five year old boy walking along the curb. Tears began to flow out of my eyes as I dropped to my knees and screamed,

    “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I HATE YOU FEZ.”

    The travesty of it all.

    I don’t know if I am more upset at the Jennifer Love Hewitt debacle or the fact that Fez is the new Scott Baio? How can this be? Scotty Baio had charm, talent, and… he was on fucking Happy Days, Charles in Charge, and was a stud on the Battle of the Network Stars….

    What shocked me even more is how big a slut Ms. Lohan is…

    Rick Solomon, Colin Farrell, Christian Slater, Wilmer Valderrama, and Fred Durst…. The first two Paris Hilton slept with, would anyone with their right mind want to follow that? Then there is Christian Slater, what has he done in the last five years? Even worse Fred Durst?

    The fact that any female out of their own free will choose to sleep with him makes me want to vomit…

    All of this has kind of made me light headed… I think I need to lay down

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  • My Dream Last Night: Dane Cook, Lesbians, and Deaf Hockey Players

    Ok I had one of my patented weird Kevin dreams last night. I think this one tops the Sam Jackson at Walmart one…

    I am going to give people that were involved in this dream generic name to protect their identity so they don’t feel weird that I posted it.

    Ok so I was talking to this girl Jane (name has been changed to protect the innocent) and I was on my way to see Dane Cook on this college campus. She was going to the same complex but instead was going to see a movie. She said she would sneak into the show after her movie was done. So the Dane Cook show went on forever. (He just recently released a two cd set and he was doing jokes from the set.) So Jane snuck in and sat down near me. She asked me why the show was going on so long. On the stage a nurse (I have no idea why a nurse came out) came out and said, “I know you are wondering when this show is going to end, so here is the finale.”

    Dane Cook came out just wearing a sock on his unit and he had a can of cashews. (Ok this requires explanation. At the end of his cd he talks about waking up in the middle of the night and having a huge boner. So he was walking to fridge and he saw a jar of cashews. He looked at his dick and then looked at the jar of cashews and says, “Let’s do this.” So he put a cashew at the end of this dick and flicked it up into his mouth. It’s a lot funnier on the cd but I needed to explain it so I didn’t look totally gay here.) Mr. Cook explains that he is going to do the cashew trick now for the audience. He goes to remove the sock off of his unit and I look away. Jane says that he is huge, and I said yeah like that’s ok… I don’t need to see that. Then Jane says that Jack (name has been changed to protect the innocent) was on stage with Dane Cook. I decided to look up and when I did Dane’s junk was blurred out. Thank god for dream censorship. He was punching the munchkin on stage explaining that the little guy had stage fright and he had to get it up in order to perform his trick. While he is flogging the dolphin he is still telling jokes and Jack is behind him talking to the nurse. Jane and I were trying to figure out why Jack was on stage. Finally Dane gets it up and is explaining how he is going to do the trick, Jack steps forward and reaches out his index finger and touches Dane’s unit. Almost to see if it is real I guess. Jack then says, “HAHA I just touched Dane Cook’s dick.” Dane punched him in the face and decided to cancel the show.

    So Jane and I were leaving the theatre and this random girl walked up to Jane and started talking to her. It was the girl from HBO’s “Entourage” that is the owner of the talent agencies daughter. Here is her pic:

    Hot girl from Entourage

    Jane and this girl are talking, while I am slightly walking in front of Jane holding her hand. So we go over a bridge and the girl stops and says, “This is where I get off.” Jane let’s go of my hand and tells me to keep going because she doesn’t want to me to watch what is going to happen. I stood there for a second confused and then she yelled at me to keep going. So I kept walking off of the bridge which for some reason bent around a corner. When I got around the corner I sneaked a peek back and they were totally making out. This girl from “Entourage” was like way taller then Jane who is already pretty tall. When that happened though the dream like paused for a second and I was saying to myself. “This is a dream” Then it kept going. I was saying that it was hot at the same time I was getting pissed off. So I decided not to wait for Jane even though we had a class together and I went to class anyways. Our class was in the hockey arena on campus which was hosting a huge youth hockey tournament. Apparently there were like 10 ice rinks at this hockey arena with class rooms mixed in. I saw a flyer for the hockey tournament and it said it was for deaf schools only.

    Anyways I find the class room for what I think was a health class and everyone was split into groups of four. I sat down in my group and started talking to the guy next to me how I was pissed off that I was ditched for a girl and blah, blah, blah. At this point I was slurring my speech and I was drunk… (I have no idea why) Well Jane showed up for class and sat with a group in the back. So class went on and then I fell asleep in class and woke up the next day in the same class room in a recliner instead of my desk. Jane was on the floor in a sleeping bag. I stepped over Jane and she woke up and asked me if we were going to talk about this. I nodded my head and said after I got back from going to the bathroom. So I walked out of the room and started walking through the halls to find a bathroom. Finally I found one but it was like a phone booth but with those cheap dressing room type doors. You go into it and the toilet is right there it wasn’t a full bathroom; if you stand the door doesn’t shut all the way. I was really made because the door wouldn’t shut so I left it open while I pissed. When I got out of the bathroom I kept smashing the door trying to get it to close behind me when a deaf lady walked up and started yelling at me in that mute type voice. I totally couldn’t understand her and I was all freaked out and I woke up.

    So what the fuck does that dream mean?

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