Maxïmo Park

So, I've been delving into the vaults of my iPod (looking back, instead of forward for once) and for whatever reason, I've found myself engrossed once again in Maxïmo Park's A Certain Trigger. I discovered the band sometime early my junior year and absolutely loved the album. Looking back on it, I probably would have said it was a happy album, but the lyrics were obviously written by a guy who was really hurt by someone.

Anyhoo...did you know that the lead singer for the band was discovered by the drummer's girlfriend at a pub while he was singing along to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" when the band was on the verge of breaking up.

What else I've been listening to recently: Doves, matt pond PA, The Stills, The Thrills, Brendan Benson, The Fratellis, Stars, and whatever comes on XMU 43 and The Verge 52.

P.S. If anyone ever gave me a beer bottle as freaking awesome as a Maxïmo Park New Castle Brown Ale bottle...I'd cry and be forever indebted to said person.

CHOKE

Holy crap, so I just remembered Choke was turned into a movie.

I'm so stoked...I absolutely loved the book and have pretty high hopes for the movie (although, I'm suspicious of how they crammed everything into an hour and half) and I'll probably go see it this weekend. I have a test in 40 minutes, so I'll probably come back and add a lot more about Choke (or maybe not).

And for everyone who's seen Fight Club, believe it or not, it was originally a novel and the same guy (the amazing Chuck Palahnuik) also wrote Choke. Go see it.

Walter Meego

I've been listening to these guys for about a month now, without tiring. It's some really good stuff (although, I feel lame because I discovered them through that Heineken commercial). I've been listening to a lot more electronica, techno, and funk lately. Because, who can be depressed about all the work that needs to get done when you're listening to that? No one. That's who.





And, wouldn't this make a freaking awesome t-shirt? I think so.

Mixed Feelings

So, I downloaded the first two seasons of Eureka. I'm not exactly sure what it's about, but I'm pretty excited to find out. And I suppose that'll be very soon, as I need to unwind after a stressful drive. Then I suppose I'll study for my Engineering Economy test that's tomorrow and work on my group project. Woo!

Oh, and it was a great weekend for Football. Tech beat Nebraska. App. State crushed The Blue Hose. The Redskins over the Cowboys. And the ACC did fairly well (minus Wake losing to freaking Navy).

Blogging...round 2

So here we go again. I'm gonna try and maintain a blog. ready go.