so i dunno if this is real or not, but it's pretty interesting:

http://www.pbnnews.freeservers.com/

It's supposedly a scholarly report from military people about how to stop meteors from hitting the earth. hooray for google.

so here's some random mp3s i've been listening to recently -
cornelius - bird watching in inner forest - he's kooky, some music critic types have called him the japanese beck. this song he samples birds chirping and forest sounds
ted leo and the pharmacists - parellel or together - a neat quick song with cool guitars
catatonia - village idiot - cool, i duuno what else to say. is funky

check em out yo

so i was fiddling around at work and found the website for shawnta rogers' team in france. shawnta played for gw, where i went to school, and was awesome. he was 5'4 and led the conference in points and assists and led the nation in steals his senior year. check out the links.

the team. I think it's funny that they all have different uniforms. or at least they are all wearing the home, away, and alt jerseys. weird.

shawnta.

stats I think PD is steals

buy some stuff . shawnta is the model on the left. nice hat dude.

go lemans

so i like it when the server at work crashes, which makes it impossible to do any work. good times. i think ludacris said it best: "i got big balls, i'm a sac king like chris webber."

or maybe it was "i get saved by more bells than lark voorhees." i forget.

so maybe it's just me, but i don't understand why elton john's "saturday night's alright for fighting" is famous. i mean, it's elton john saying "i want to make a southern rock song," and him singing about getting a belly full of beer and hanging around with his old lady just isn't believable to me. maybe it was back when it came out, but i dunno, a guy in a white suit with sunglasses the size of dinner plates playing the piano doesn't strike me as a big brawler. don't get me wrong, i think elton john has some cool songs, and the music is ok in this one, but i dunno. kind of odd.

so i think the people who are interviewed on fox news and entertainment tonight whose jobs are to say what celebrities like and will be wearing are ridiculous. how many times did these people have to sleep through work at mcdonalds to get these jobs? honestly. i can't see anybody growing up and saying they want to guess what other people will be wearing. i spend enough energy finding a clean t-shirt, i don't want to have to think about what other people might possibly be wearing. and what if they're wrong? do they get fired? do they get paid by performance? is there a rating scale? like such-and-such was 62% correct, he gets a raise. "well britney thinks that she's going to wear more pink this year because pink is fun and girly." come to think of it, i'd be pretty good at that. i just made that up and it sounds like any of those other shmos. and really, is there that much desire from people to hear this? i don't see a groundswell of picketers carrying signs saying they want to know what sort of pants jennifer lopez will wear this season. oh well. i guess everybody needs a job.

ps, happy new year. i didn't make a resolution to post more often, but i should have.

so, one of the main guitarists and singers in stereolab died the other day, which really sucks. they were a great band that i liked a lot, and i never got to see them. if you haven't heard of them or haven't heard much of their music, i suggest you check it out: try searching for them on amazon or artistdirect.net to read about them and hear clips. they were pretty funky and kooky, and i enjoyed their music a lot. it seems as time goes on, bands i want to see break up or stop playing, like ben folds five, pavement, belly, and lots of others. i guess i should go see bands when they're in town and not wait around. i think that applies to everything too, not just concerts. we shall see.

so i went to see Superdrag and The Donnas at the black cat. i went for superdrag, who are from knoxville and who i like a lot, but i figured i'd stick around and see the donnas, too. i'd never seen either group, and i was looking forward to superdrag especially. there were some other bands too, but my friends and i didn't get there in time. superdrag put on a good show, they rocked pretty hard and played the songs i liked, plus some cool new ones. my friends who'd never heard them liked it too. i talked to them afterwards about knoxville and stuff, and they were nice dudes. the donnas also rocked hard, though all of their songs sounded the same. however, they're pretty hot chicks and all of their songs are about how they like to have sex and drink beer and how they only like guys who drink beer, so that was pretty cool. they were a lot louder though, as in very loud, and and my friends and i all noticed that we couldn't hear too well the next day. the black cat is very neat place, it's not too big, it's not too dark, and it doesn't smell like cigarettes. plus wherever you are is a good view of the band, and they have good beers too. so a good time was had by all. i recommend seeing these groups if you can. good stuff.

this is my new favorite place:

map

geography is awesome.

so i think everybody should go and download the song cock mobster by MC paul barman. it's definetly the funniest song i've heard it a long time. the rest of his stuff is very funny too. i heard him first on this internet radio thing i listen to at work. thankfully, i have headphones.