Mandrill Attack, the band I'm contributing to right now. Their song "The New Machine," recorded live at F Studio, 25 February. Chris's vocals are fucking awesome, especially because it's all inhale.

This thought occurred to me today.
Edward Cullen gets a bad rap for watching Bella sleep. Well, ( let's talk about Jacob Black for a minute. )

The coolest thing happened yesterday morning.
I crashed over at Ben's, and his dad was on the phone with tech support that morning. I was wavering in withdrawal-sleep, occasionally being started from the dead-deepest depth but never breaking the surface of consciousness. That means to say, I didn't consciously note any dialogue of the telephone ( Read more... )

What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. Only now the fingers were Nosferatu-long and the thumb was too short, but he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler had sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself.
One minute was ( Read more... )

Pet Peeve #789,263,764:
Guys who say of female growl/scream vocalists, "I wonder how she screams in bed lol."
Yeah, let me burst that bubble for you right now. Like any other chick getting railed. Boring. I mean, unless you ask, I guess, but that might be kind of awkward.

Here is yet another of the millions of things that piss me off.
People with 100 lights on the outside of their big, fancy houses. They keep them all lit up all night like some significant point on a videogame's world map. Your house is unimportant. No one wants to see it, fucking narcissist. Get a porch light like the rest of us and turn that ( Read more... )

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I'm sick of Balloon Boy. To hell with him. For fuck's sake. He wasn't even in the goddam balloon. Can we all stop glorifying this misbehaving little shit and dedicate this press to more deserving, actual missing-children cases?

People I Am More Likely to Boink:
Those who can spell 'definitely.'
I have seen more bastardizations of this word than I could have reasonably come up with and they all put me off.

People I Am Less Likely to Boink:
Those who say "calvary."
Look at the word. Look at how it's spelled. C-A-V-A-L-R-Y. See how the L is between the V and the R?