Today is my big day

I'm graduating tonight, so my summer officially starts around 9pm. So stoked continue reading...

Food, Fun, and Family. The 3 F's that don't suck.

I started working in a kitchen this summer and here are some funny pictures and poor jokes about kitchens/cooking. 

-Did you hear about the new head chef at KFC?

He's quali-fried!

-Why don't men cook at home?
No one's invented a steak that will fit in the toaster.

-What do you call cheese that doesn't belong to you?

 Nacho cheese!!!

As you can tell, summer jobs have already gotten to me. 

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Some quotes from my trip to VA

Quotes from the East Coast. They are all from quality pieces of cinema such as "Leprechaum 5: In Da' Hood", "If I Die Before I Wake", "Toxic Avenger", and "Hot Rod". Enjoy.

(after toking up with Ice-T in the bathroom of a Compton club, Leprechaun says, "Mmmm... a curious aroma...A friend with weed is a friend indeed, but a friend with gold is the best I'm told."

" I hope you had sex last night, 'cause I'm gonna come over there and I'm gonna cut off your dick, then I'm gonna feed it to my pit, then I'm gonna burn the shit when it comes out my goddam dog's ass, you hear me? Don't fuck with me, bitch!"

"I have been blessed with the gift of *snarl* tongues... *snarl again*"

"I'll take it from you, homie, you'll see, cause you know the Leprechaun is the real O.G."

"If you're gonna' pussy out, you can go downstairs and make yourself a fuckin' omelette!"

"All right everybody, drop your tacos or I'll blow your brains out."

"Cool beans."

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SUMMER TEEN ZINE PT. II

I forgot to tell everyone a deadline for the Summer Teen Zine. If you're like me you work better under certain deadlines. It motivates you, right?

The date is Friday, June 5. So you have a week and a half. I've already received a poem and a short story, so keep them coming.

And, I promise you will have a real post from me by the end of the week. I have an article due for the Daily News, and after that is up i will post the link for it. i'm not really into the whole newspaper business because i don't think many of the things that interest me are newspaper material. but i digress.

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Album of the Week II

I know that most of you already have this album, but here it is anyway.

Dan Deacon - Bromst



--Click to Download Album--

After Last.fm kept on heckling me to listen to Dan Deacon, I finally did the good and ethical thing and torrented every album of his that I could find. As I do with most new albums, I put on Bromst and listened to it straight through.

It starts with the song "Build Voice" which takes a good 30 seconds just to build up to an audible level, but once it gets going it is both haunting and intense. But the song that totally blew mind was "Snookered." My gosh, I don't even understand how a song can sound that good. There are not many songs that I think deserve to be 8 minutes long, but "Snookered" defintely merits the time frame. The first half of the song is magical and gets more and more exciting as it move along... and then at 4:16 the song breaks loose. The drums, synth, and samples are all going full speed at this point. This is where I thought the song was incredible, and then it hit 4:48 and I have never heard anything like the type of vocal cutting that happens at that point. Totally rad. Another song I really enjoy is the last song on the album entitled "Get Older." The use of a vocoder near the end is pretty sweet.

another thing about Dan Deacon... i have no idea how he makes the sounds he does. just looking at his set-up is so confusing. i guess that's part of what makes it so good.



if you don't have this album yet, get it. it rules.
-Stephen
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Text Messages From A 17 Year Old Sister

Here is a string of text messages that my seventeen year old sister sent me last night.

5:50 p.m.
"if u want the van u have to get over to the ball diamonds and get it i have to work and that goes over any crap ur doing in muncie"

5:55 p.m.
"well ur a piece of crap who never l3eaves me gas.. i have practice int the morning... so whatever u and ur "friends" are doing it needs to be home before i leave at 725"

6:01 p.m.
"i had things i needed to get done this morning and couldnt bc ur an egotistical arrogant lil boy who thinks the world revoloves and and ur delinquent friends"

6:04 p.m.
"remember how i said all u need to do is tell dad it needs gas? well obviously u didnt.. go back to college bc i dont want u here"

6:06 p.m.
"and remember the countless other times u have left me at home with no gas.. u dont care ab anyone else but ur self... seriously do everyone a favor and go back.. none of us want u home."

6:06 p.m.
"u do nothing but cause problems"

6:14 p.m.
"and im sure when i get home ull have already cried to mommy and daddy ab it.. im sure u arent man enough.. if ur even a man to take anything from a 17 yr old" continue reading...

My Girls - Gigamesh Remix

I've been pretty into remixes lately... mostly because of all the dance parties that have been going down. This is one of the coolest ones I've heard

--click to listen, right click to save--

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