Posted on November 30th, 2006 in WTF, sports by dja
Here I am on a Thursday night. I don’t have to work and the Bengals and the Ravens are going to be playing an awesome football game. I love the Bengals, not to mention I have T.J. Houshmandzadeh (yes, I can spell his name without difficulty), Shayne Graham and Mark Clayton on one of my fantasy teams.
I WANT TO WATCH THIS GAME
But I can’t. Because it’s on the NFL Network. And the NFL Network is a complete screwjob. They want over $150 million
T.J. Houshmandzadeh and the Bengals are playing at this very moment, but you won’t be able watch because it’s on the NFL Networkfor cable companies to carry their network, which will result in huge hikes for regular cable tv subscribers (most of whom probably don’t even watch football). So now we’re all stuck with not being able to watch the games because they’re selfish bastards. I guess I’ll just sit here and watch my Yahoo! stattracker :/
Anyway, for those of you fortunate enough (usually I would say unfortunate, but in this case you are the lucky ones with the only alternative options) to have PCs I give you the following links, if you’d like to stick it to the NFL Network and watch streaming, bittorrent style NFL games (I haven’t been able find any with Mac compatible software).
Posted on November 30th, 2006 in Uncategorized by dja
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somewhere in greenland is a small village nestled in between the arctic glaciers. the village is brightly colored with emerald green grass and populated by many humble villagers who don’t speak. they go through each day, silently doing their tasks, getting married, having babies, falling in love and dying. their eyes are filled with hope and their hearts filled with contentment. eventually the village will end, but none of the villagers are aware of that. the sun rises each day and sets each night. the sky is orange at dusk and the surrounding ocean is cold and lonely.
Posted on November 30th, 2006 in Uncategorized by dja
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Ray Frenden is an illustrator guy that is able to make really good drawings. You can view his portfolio here: frenden.com. He also is the madman genius behind the hilarious web comic voorhees a jolly good fellow. An exerpt (LOL):
Anyway, I have had the pleasure to talk to him a little bit over the interweb as we are mutually involved with Oddica and several design message boards. I recently took the opportunity to ask him a few questions:
1) what is your favorite color I never have a good answer for this. I immediately think black, but black is boring. My next instinct is to pick something garish, but then I start to
Ray Frenden is an amazing illustratorthink about its compliment and I digress. That’s your answer.
2) if you could kill anyone in the world, who would it be? Alive, now? My childhood arch nemesis comes to mind, but that would just be gloating. Last I heard, he ended up in a real bad way. In all probability, the sort of “people” deserving a death sentence are actually corporations.
3) what is your art-making process? Depending on the sort of art, I typically find some reference, throw it on my second monitor, and go to town with my tablet. I pencil in light blue first and either finish off with ‘inks’ in Painter or Manga Studio or paint in Photoshop. It’s a totally digital process. I work at about 1200 dpi, so if I need to make something vector it’s one easy step away.
4) do any of your animals ever help make art with you ? I live out in the boonies and I have four dogs, five cats, fifteen chickens, and a horse; there aren’t many people to draw, so my lifedrawing comes from them!
5) if you had a time machine, and you could go back to any time period since the beginning of time, but you could not interact with anything… and only observe, where and when would you go? I’m an armchair history buff with a penchant for the period that dealt with manifest destiny and the push westward. I’m supposedly 50% native american, but I’ve never had the genetic tests done. Their culture has always interested me. I realize that pursuing a chance to witness romantic nationalism at work is an entirely selfish answer. The atheist in me would be better served to get some definitive proof that organized religion is a sham.
6) what are you listening to right now? Right this instant? The Decemberists. All Colin Meloy’s body of work set to shuffle. I really like sea shanties. You asked!
7) be honest, when you hear about huge natural disasters that happen to kill lots of people out in china, or indonesia or something, does a little part of you get excited to witness such a historic event ? I’ll be as tactful as possible. I’m not a huge fan of humanity.
8) what inspired you to create voorhees a jolly good fellow ? I really like the concept of Jason having an internal dialog that we never get to hear. I had a really rudimentary paint app open and Jason was the first thing that came to mind. It was a given.
9) what is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word “inordinate” Too much. I’m simple.
10) what is your favorite childhood memory, EVER I have a picture of me sitting on Smurf sheets, wearing pleather pants, sporting a bowl haircut, playing with an Ewok playset. Consumer whore for the win!
• I completely overhauled explodingNOW!!!!. Hopefully you dudes or dudettes dig it. I tested it on Safari and Firefox on Mac. But not PC. I obviously didn’t test anything on Internet Explorer because if you’re using that I hope it looks like crap, because you are probably the bastard child of Satan. Personally I think the new look is a sort of Web 2.0 take on the 70s.
• All my fantasy football teams got completely destroyed this week. In one league I had the good fortune to play against Tony Romo and his 5 TDs. In the other I got to go against LaDainian Tomlinson and Drew Brees. Aslo, omg @ Joseph Addai tonight. Anyway, all in all it was a pretty fun week around the NFL.
• I don’t think I’ve even mentioned on here that I recently got engaged! With the craziness that’s been going on in my life I haven’t found much time to do anything. I will be moving back to Iowa in two weeks and getting married probably sometime in the summer. So updates on this thing could be sporadic until then. Stick with it.
• It’s fall, which means nothing but acoustic and folk-rock has been coming out of my speakers. If you were near me the last week or so you’d be hearing a lot of My Morning Jacket, Idaho, The Microphones, Band of Horses et al.
• For reasons which escape me, I only just recently have begun to appreciate Sparrow House (Jared Van Fleet of the wonderfully Spoon-like band Voxtrot). I’ll admit that when I first discovered the EP on Oink I jumped all over it. But for some reason on the first few listens it just didn’t command my attention. But it came on randomly a few days ago and I was confused. Was this the same band? Apparently I didn’t listen hard enough the first few times.
• Effen vodka and blue Gatorade is the best drink ever. And no, it’s not a girly-drink. It’s refreshing, not fruity.
• I finally got my brand new Guild acoustic in the mail last week. Maybe if you’re good, I will post a song for you sometime.
• Points are definitely not all that matter in fantasy basketball. I’ve come to the conclusion that the key to winning is two strong Centers. The more stats besides points that you can accumulate, the better. Also, my team sucks.
Posted on November 26th, 2006 in Uncategorized by dja
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this song is very tranquil and reminds me of light brown, or perhaps a rusty orangish color. It also kind of makes a single tear slide down my cheek :’(
oh, also i should mention this is jared van fleet (of voxtrot fame)
Posted on November 22nd, 2006 in Uncategorized by dja
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Posted on November 22nd, 2006 in Uncategorized by dja
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apocalyptic minus the bear is almost as good as regular minus the bear. all i can imagine when i’m listening to this is a bunch of dudes getting shot execution style in the mexican desert spliced in with a fast foward montage of a girl vomiting up blood from a heroin overdose.
and at the very end two dudes get in a cadillac and roll off into the sunset
Posted on November 22nd, 2006 in Uncategorized by dja
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lovedrug – heart shaped box
this is exactly what was playing in kurt cobain’s brain when he was dying and traveling toward the afterlife.
• I’m listening to Minus The Bear’s remix album, Interpretationes Del Oso for the first time and: it is awesome. Seriously, listen to this immediately. Indie/rock remixes are usually pretty hit and miss (as opposed to trance/house/etc, which are usually good), but this is a definite hit.
• I’m trying out fantasy basketball for the first time this year. I’m in a Yahoo! rotisserie league, and I’ve found it’s been a huge factor in getting me involved in the league. I’ve always kind of hated the NBA, but now that I have an excuse to get immersed in the stats, I’m totally into it. And, wtf@Lebron’s pitiful 15 points tonight. I hate you, Lebron. I should mention I’m still in second place despite him, though.
• My newest addiction (well, for the last month or so now) is Franchise Football at simgalaxy.com. It’s an insanely addictive simulation game that pits you as an owner of a professional football team. You make all the financial decisions, sign players, trade and everything else. You play against other real owners. I already have three teams going in different leagues.
• My other newest addiction is a web-based island warfare/civilization role playing game at inselkampf.com. It’s horribly designed, disgustingly slow, and altogether just bad, but still has managed to completely immerse me.
• My new favorite Subway sandwich is a 6″ oven-broasted chicken breast on parmesan oregano toasted with swiss cheese, lettuce, mayonnaise, and yellow mustard. Mmmmm, so good. That doesn’t mean I don’t hate Jared, however.
• The Shins’Wincing The Night Away is far and away their best album to date. I just keep putting it on. Again, and again.
• After over a month, I finally got my brand new Guild acoustic in the mail from Musician’s Friend yesterday. It’s been far too long since I’ve owned a guitar, and my fingers are well aware of it already.
• I stumbled upon an old interweb friend’s blog tonight. Go to it, he likes good music and is more intelligent than me. He’s also the guy who turned me onto The Microphones, My Morning Jacket, Idaho, and others. It’s located at studiomoustache.com.
• Anders Parker (of Varnaline fame) has a new album out. I am listening to it for the very first time as I write this. It’s already outstanding. Recommended for any fans of good folksy indie rock.
• Frank Caliendo was on Letterman recently as part of Impressionist Week. He has always been a genius, but this trumped everything he ever has, and ever will do. I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever seen anything this funny in my entire life.
• The Royal Tenenbaums is still the greatest movie ever made. Actually, The Life Aquatic is better. actually, maybe Bottle Rocket is the greatest movie ever made. Whichever the verdict, Wes Anderson is probably the greatest human alive and I need his new movie very soon or I will cease to exist. Also, The Squid And The Whale is almost as good. Sometimes I wish I had a machine that could erase my memory of a movie after I’ve finished watching it so I can watch it again for the first time :( On a related note, I love how Owen Wilson basically plays the same character in every single movie he does, but it always makes the movie a million times better, and even makes crappy mainstream movies worth watching (You, Me and Dupree).
• 30 Rock, starring Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan is my new TV obsession. Watch it, it’s hilarious.
