Kyle chugs ftw!

Completing the first physical challenge of the evening
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Happy new year!

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Joe Rogan

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Prerogan

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Yotes

We came upon a somewhat gruesome scene while driving through rural central Texas yesterday: a collection of dead coyotes hung on some rancher's posts. Yeesh.

Balls up Christmas!

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Bullypicks 2007

This year's list was pretty easy to make. The top ten just jumped right out at me. Recently I added links in the sidebar to other lists from years gone by.



1. Radiohead - In Rainbows
Favorite Track: "Weird Fishes / Arpeggi"



2. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Favorite Track: "No Cars Go"



3. Blonde Redhead - 23
Favorite Track: "The Dress"



4. Interpol - Our Love to Admire
Favorite Track: "Pace is the Trick"



5. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
Favorite Track: "The General Specific"



6. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Favorite Track: "Impossible Germany"



7. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Favorite Track: "Sea Legs"



8. Peter, Bjorn, and John - Writer's Block
Favorite Track: "Objects of My Affection"



9. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Favorite Track: "My Little Japanese Cigarette Case"



10. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Favorite Track: "Someone Great"

Lookin out my back door

At our sample staging area next to a beer distributor. They have a artificial waterfall built into the side of the building. Weather is much better today on our second sampling day and looks to remain nice for the duration. I'm basically here to help out with paperwork and organization, tag and bag samples, and learn more about this type of event.

We're somewhere between Midland and Odessa, or slow-deatha as some locals call it. West Texas is pretty gd flat!
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Partying in midland!

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This Just In

Teens don't save? I'll be hornswoggled.

To paraphrase Willow, those new Portishead tracks are great. Waiting with bated breath for the rest of it.

I've also been listening to the 2007 LCD Soundsystem album Sound of Silver. A very interesting mix of trance and indypop. "Someone Great" is up there with my favorite tracks of the year. It would be an excellent companion to PBJ's Writer's Block. I will say that some of the repetitive lyric marathons, such as those in the title track, are a little annoying. A gem otherwise.

What do we know?

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Head

Sweet. Just found out from T about the new Portishead tracks on Idolator, recorded live at All Tomorrow's Parties (never heard of it - I'm guessing it's some sort of whathaveyou). I'm betting that these will kick ass before I even listen to them. Blind nillo if you will. From what I've heard so far, the sound quality is not that great (live tracks) but the opening groove on the first song is very promising.

Work dinner at saltgrass

Good times but Saltgrass sucks!

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Ketchup

Last weekend we tried out the Tilted Kilt way up north of mopac. It's essentially the same as Lion and the Rose in San Antonio: a british pub-themed Hooters. They do have a better beer selection than the Hoots, I'll give em that. The food was so-so. I had a couple pints of Stella and a fish sandwich; c2 had a "irish dip," which was their version of a french dip roast beef sandwich. Both meals were decent, and I especially liked the fries. The service was a little dippy. It would probably be a fun place to watch a game if it wasn't so goddamn loud inside. Still, I might go back.

No Country For Old Men was awesome. Pretty fucking cold balls but awesome. Will had already seen it a couple weeks prior but went with me to see it again. I get now why he was so eager to watch the movie a second time. Very suspenseful with great black humor dialogue. Chigurh is one of my favorite bad guys now. Thankfully I had totally forgotten that Josh Brolin was Brent in Goonies or else I might not have taken him so seriously. Don't let anyone give away the ending for you!

Mr. Brooks was definitely head and shoulders below No Country, but I still think it had its merits. Pretty much every scene with Costner, Cook, and Hurt together is great - the alter ego gimmick worked for me - everything else is terrible. The entire sideline plot around Demi Moore's character tracking Brooks down is worthless.

Hmm what else? I threw +2 on the 9 hole at Wells Branch the other day, beating my personal best of +4. That was pretty sweet.

Oh yeah, I finally got The Orange Box, and it's as great a set of games as I was expecting. I already beat Portal, a neat little game centered around one of my all-time secret wish fantasy toys: the portable hole. It's essentially a first-person puzzler with great graphics and the same creepy, quiet atmosphere as games like Myst or the original Half Life. A great title. Teamfortress 2, however, is a fucking masterpiece. TF2 is probably one of the most perfect computer games I have ever played. The graphics are cool and the mechanics are very smooth. Obviously you need an internet connection and a worthwhile server, but there's always tons of them to choose from. All the classes are equally fun, some more challenging than others. I don't think I'll ever be a very good spy or sniper, but I'm decent with the heavy, engineer, pyro, and medic classes. It's so fun to set up those sentry guns that you just want to cry.

Drop Shot

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The view across the table

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