you want a ride? RIDE THIS!

well. It came down.
evolver
its hard for me to start even with the simplest review.
i know 311 is not important. They have no significance to the world of modern rock anymore....the rap/rock gimmick has worn off in the bands mind and in the general public's. Its been 8 years since they hit it big with that second single "down" and then "all mixed up".....6 years since the commercial failure (yet musical acheivment...depending on how you see it) of the followup "transistor".........so those days are long gone. Since then, the band has been on a ride into what should have been their death. But they are still here. Why have they lasted so long? theyre cheap, theyre chili pepper knock offs, white rappers from omaha, washed up hacks. fuck em, right?
well i dont really fucking care why they are here...but they are here, and are damn good.
i think its their connection with their fans that they have established since their inception that has kept them alive. Its inspired them to make these past three albums with almost a since of wrting a lover letter to their people or maybe the human race in general (their hippy sides coming out). (maybe im just being selfish........alot of them are getting married and stuff now.....so i guess they have other stuff to write about. whatever...)
Evolver is prolly the most lovely of these "post-platinum days"...
It seems to throw away all technicality, all cheesiness, and all those little references to pot.....and it just takes a deep breath of the most refreshing air it can find and exhales.
I think the title is appropriate....its the next step for them. I guess when you are 33 you find a groove very different from the one you would find if you were 23. They are progressing nicely as a professional band, no gimicks here. Theyve become a solid band that knows how to fucking write a song, play it perfectly, have fun with it, and bring it to the masses.

my emotional attachment to this group of guys enhances 3 fold....i continue to grow/evolve with their music.

You got your rockers, you got your romps, you got your reflection, you got your love.......melodies and harmonies all up in dis. All the instrumentals are just crisp, like a freshly opened dr. pepper...or whatever your preferred soft drink is...and everything just sounds so clean to me.......i cant really imagine 311 ever sitting down and saying "lets try to impress people with technicality"...but if they did it would be totally not what their about, but it would be interesting.

i think the highlights of the album are SA and Nicks vocals...theyve broadened their horizons......and Tims guitar...its so much more present in this album than any other, save transistor i suppose.

Everyones bound to like something about this album. unless your an elitist.


But anyway....went to south padre.....i boozed hardcore. Went to austin....bizarro world. everything was backwards.

who cut the provolone?

man oh war, ive had a stressful past few weekdays...
this search for a semi-pro video camera was more intense than i had originally planned.
At first i thought i was gonna save alot......but when i wisened up, realizing this must be 'too goo to be true,'...I read some reviews of shady 3rd party sites, and their faulty practices...i found that they are a pile of shit. And i have to actually look for a good deal AND a good place to buy. which was taxing.
Apparently in NYC, there are alot of online photoshops that use, so called bait and switch techniques along with all kinds of other bad stuff on the array of being a bad sales site. Then i tried ebay.....but....thats too much stress and i can never make a good decision, esp when time is a factor, and considering the amount of money im dealing with online. So i crawled back to amazon.com. I found someone selling one slightly under 2 grand and with a warranty, and the american version, and with a battery, and with an english manual, and with a return policy, and it wasn't coming out of NYC.....

it came from florida...
my birthstate.

im free, im fucking free

i love all five of you

im really sun burned...

kerry posted this...
it makes my free-spirit angry, so go sign it

big trouble in little katy

im having trouble getting this videocamera...damn internet retail and their layers of lies.
But i will get it. NO DOUBT
im going to the "hill country" this afternoon...for a relaxing and sickening weekend away from everything.........except jenny and her family....and the "hill country"

johnny depp is cool....and is 40
11 days til new 311...Super Joint Ritual....and KISS..................everyones getting on the 7/22 bandwagon, and im callin' shotgun/waguespack
Im begining to become very excited, as i usually do. I know i will be fulfilled soon. And for all you untrue-believers out there...for the first time ever, there will exist a 311 album in which there is no name dropping, which i guess means minimal hiphop influence.
Although god probably looks down upon enjoying something so much that is not him....the members of 311 are people/souls, and people are not satan, nor earth. Therefore by liking 311, im, sort of, just inpersonally loving all mankind. word.
But is hating radiohead AND nirvana a sin?

can i jump out of your second story window?

worth $1500?

the past two days

somehow...i deleted all the code for my entire website. Luckily i had my website open and was able to view the source, or whatever, and was able to get all the code back. thank heaven.
For awhile...i was just like "fuck having a website" but then i started longing for it, and began trying to fix it.
And i did...
i wanted to change alot of things, but realizing that there is greatness in simplicity, i decided to just tweak a couple of things.
i think i end up just making my text smaller...but still, it seems refreshing to me.
went and saw T3
it is a good action movie....and because it is a 3rd installment, i didn't expect much. Fucking arnold is like 56, so i REALLY wasnt expecting anything at all.....but ofcourse i was surprised by prtty much everything except Nick Stahl, he kinda sucked.
Its a very good story, with some interesting action, and also some interesting paradoxes about destiny/timetravel...and all that jazz. Much more humor added to the begining...i guess so you are not given time to thing "this exactly what happens in all these stupid movies!"
I still like judgement day better, even with that really hot terminator trying to woo me, in this one.....
its weird how theyve waited like a decade between these three movies and it still sells.
T3>matrix reloaded (3 fold)

Oh ya...i added a link to the tard blog. It is very funny, you must read a few posts. atleast the ones with "agusta" in the title. It almost (almost...) makes me want to be a teacher of a sort, because of how interesting and funny these women make teaching retarded children seem, which is a phase i occasionally go through and something ive always thought of as some sort of civil, fulfilling backup plan for my life.
But really....its so funny and surprisingly not offensive to, seemingly, most people....
hmm, maybe not

thanks elliot

a balanced breakfast

my sister is bad. She escaped from my parent's home yesterday for a hot night on the town until around 3 in the morning. My mom heard her leave, with her keen mothers ears and she waited for her to come home...after locking all the doors and windows...
She is like one of those popular kids who will get really burnt/cracked out by the time she graduates...."sex, booze, and rap muzak 4 eva" is her chosen slogan.

This weekend was neat i guess...went to an astros game. Which is always somewhat fun in a not so fun kind of way. I dont like to watch baseball that much, yet i get involved in the game....probably in order to take out my annoyances from my day to day life on fucking stupid sports players that screw up occasionally......perhaps thats why they get paid so much.

28 days later was excellent. I heard beforehand that it had all been done on DV, which is exciting for a DV enthusiast like me. I like film, but i think breaking conventions is always a cool feeling. Once everything you see in a theater is shot on DV then it will suddenly be cool to use film again....its the way 'cool' goes. I think the main reason this particular film was all on DV, was completely for cost purposes...
Danny boyle, being fairly indy, doesn't get a great amount of money for his films, i assume...so he prolly spent most of the dough on all those expensive city locations you see in the begining, when the human race seems to be gone except for our main character, jim, who after waking up in a hospital, naked, is a bit confused about where everyone is. Then he runs into some people and stuff happens....zombie movie type stuff, i dont feel like getting into it. I thought the plot was surprisingly pretty cool for a zombie movie, lots of cool little foreshadowing, and a nice tempo....and the various social commentary works a little.......but its still a zombie movie. And the zombies vomit blood, and it is excellent!
The music also is pretty good, a few indy bands that elliot knew of provided most of it....the only one i could pick out was godspeed you black emperor.......Music i can never listen to in real life, but is definitely good for setting a mood.

There is a new foofighter video for "low," that has been banned from mtv...check it out

reminds me of that scary UK commercial for Aphex Twin's drukqs or whatever....if youve seen that....not as scary though.