life hereafter

No. Not SPAM. I’m talking about the real life in your physical mailbox kind.

I seem to get an awful lot of it compared to my roommate, and it mostly focuses on credit card offers and car insurance quotes. For the month of June I propose a test. Instead of shredding into oblivion each little piece of marketing material that comes my way, I’m going to save it. And, at the end of the month, I’ll count it up and see where I stand.

I’m not sure what sort of conclusion this will yield, or if there is really any point to it… but its a Thursday night and I’m bored people.

The Rob & Big Show has been brought to my attention as quite possibly one of the greatest shows on television. I base this solely on the fact that they purchased a mini-horse to keep in their downtown Hollywood home. Amazing.

See the episode here.

Just arrived back after traveling to Indianapolis for work. Let me tell you; not much of anything there.

Our adventure started on the third smallest plane I have ever been on, but it was fairly empty so I was able to spread out a bit. At some point during the flight the person I was traveling with passes me a note. The note read, “The guy in the seat adjacent to you is watching porn.” So I of course take a peak over. Yup. Watching porn. On the plane. Who does that. Now… we later determined that the kind of porn he was watching was potentially illegal… no need to get into details, but lets just say you go to jail in these 50 United States for that type of stuff.

Segway from there, I’m not sure what it was, I guess they were having an off week, but for a “Mid-Western city” the people in Indy sure weren’t friendly. We got yelled at on the road, people at food establishments weren’t very service oriented etc… Maybe it had something to do with being from the east that threw them… didn’t seem to take kindly to our kind.

The nicest person in the whole city was a lady we met while vising one of the sites… she was from New Jersey.

Went down to Delaware this past Tuesday to see the rocket summer, boys like girls and hellogoodbye perform. During the performance I was reminded of one of the many things at concerts that really annoys me… before we get to that lets step aside to the following…

Have you ever been on YouTube looking for a music video for (insert favorite artist here)? If you notice, as you are looking for that video, there are 4,000 other videos created by fans of live performances by said artist. Most of these videos are just awful… voice dosn’t sync to sound, too far away, too dark… the list goes on.

Back to this past Tuesday… I have now met these people who put awful music videos up on YouTube. They were standing in front of me at the hellogoodbye concert. Instead of just enjoying the show and looking at the stage like everyone else, these girls were holding up their cammeras watching the show on their tiny 1.3 inch LCD screens. Trying “oh so hard” to get the perfect shot so they can place it up on YouTube. This boggled my mind… Why ruin a perfectly good show by spending your own hard earned money to stand there, very still, not making an extra sound or movement so you can record the show for others to watch in really really poor quality?

Dear Circuit City,

I used to hate you because your stores were crap. Now I hate you because your ads for your ‘firedog service’ (more on that later) take over the entire damn webpage. Leaving me unable to click any link without being taken to your puke green website.

Curtly,

-b

P.S. Who the hell names a service which helps fix and set up computers, FireDog… Your name tells me nothing about what you do. My first reaction is… ‘How is a dalmatian going to help me with my computer problems?’