Double Take

Ok, so perhaps my initial reaction to Shinedown was a bit hasty. It really is a good album. Lots of good songs, just not a whole lot of "awesome" songs that you wouldn't mind playing over multiple times. "Devouor" and "Second Chance" are probably my favorite tracks. But they're all good.

Bought a couple of CDs at the UofA bookstore the other day. I mean, how can you turn down a 75% sale? Plus I was one of few people whoo actually did buy albums from the Replay store before they turned it into the salad shop. Brief summary of purchases:

1. The Best of Fuel. Looks like it's up to '05. They are still a band, 'cept now they have a new lead singer, from which I think is a good ensemble.

Top tracks: "Bad Day", "Hemorrhage", "Falls on Me"

Down points: End songs not as potent. And where is "A Million Miles"?

2. Dishwalla's self-titled album. Want to say '05.

Top tracks: "Collide"

Down points: The whole thing is a little medioccre. I should go relisten to it.

3. Switchfoot- Nothing is Sound. Again, I think '05 ish. Where was I in '05? Oh yeah, starting college and trying to be cool. Somehow CD buying was not on the top of my list.

Top tracks: "The blues", "The Shadow Proves the Sunshine", "Stars"

Down points- Apparently I can't copy it at all onto my comp. Copyright stuff they put on it. I haven't actually tried yet, though...

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Had a pretty good 4th of July. Pretty chill, except when I had my butt handed to me by a friend of Brent's. He's good. Well, at least I still have Guitar Hero. Plus it was frikkin' awesome when Brent and I tied at Super Metroid, despite both of us dying once. Stupid fish. We both had a time of 1:29. Not a best for either of us, but still pretty darn good. I mean I wouldn't have even started these speed runs if it weren't for Brent, so it was pretty good.

As we headed back to his apartment, Brent started getting a little philosophical on me. I admit, I try not to think too much about stuff, but that's most certainly a bad thing. We started talking about stuff like freedom. I'm pretty sure I'm afraid to try stuff (Saying 'no' to my parents, letting the pieces go and see how they fall, etc.) because I'm more afraid of the potential consequences. An idea passes into my head, and a bazillion what if's fly in, too. That's just how I've always thought. I am a pessimist, after all.

I wrote this short story-ish thing in January of '07 called The Wolf and the Eagle. Brent is the eagle. Talking with him last night reminded me of it. I think it still holds. Um, it's on the links. Oh no, I've said too much. I haven't said enough. That's even where my profile quote comes from.

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It's been two years today since my nana passed away. God, I still miss her. Went to church today, and in a cruel twist of fate, they started playing one of the hymns that annoyed her (they played it A LOT at our old church), so that was rather peculiar.

The A/C is broken at our house. The landlord is in San Diego for who knows how long. Oh yeah, living it up in Oro Valley.

We have our official midterm report due tomorrow for our research project. Gonna be a stressful day. Dave then wants to talk to us on an individual basis about our personal aspects of the project. Not sure what I'll say. The guys are cool. Dave is cool. This project is becoming ever cooler. I just wish I understood the programming a little more. Sure, I can make graphs on MATLAB, and that's useful and all, but I feel like I should be working more on the hardcore stuff.