These are the words of Conrad. They are the truth. "You wanna hear a terrible name for a song? 'Sk8er Boi'." Now that that's taken care of, I'd like to share something with you. Often times when I am working, I will hear someone say something over the walkie-talkie about a "Tanner". When this happens I think to myself "Who is Tanner?", and I contemplate this for a few moments with a puzzled expresion on my face until I realize that it's my buddy Maddog! Then I smile, knowing that I have a buddy named Maddog, even though people sometimes get confused and call him "Tanner".

The return of rock.
That's what I experienced last night, and let me tell you, it was glorius! Rising Action and Love are having a heated battle right now for my most anticipated cd of the year, and it's close, but Rising Action is getting a bit of a lead after last night. It's sunday, and here I am, getting all emo'd (made-up word courtesy of me) out again. You'd think I'd learn. Oh well, maybe I'll just go to Wal-Mart now.

Go and read Adam's blog for some encouragement. It was for me anyway. It IS kinda hard to be serious reading something out of a tuxedo though... I think it's good to be serious sometimes... Not all the time, not even most of the time for that matter, but every now and then it's a good thing, otherwise you lose touch. Anyway, I got the new Blindside cd today, and I like it way better than I thought I would. There's not very much screaming, and when there is, it's not usually too bad, and the lyrics are great. It also got me thinking... I think that for me personally, I should listen to a bit more christian music. Now, I'm not saying that secular music is bad at all. The thing with alot of secular music is, it's depressing. Christian music can be depressing too, but there's always a messege of hope too. I just know that for me, I really absorb music, so if I listen to alot of Dashboard or something, I get bummed out, and we all know the hilarity that ensues when I get bummed out. When I listen to things like Fine China, or Blindside (The only christian cds I've gotten lately), they usually make me think and stuff, as opposed to just bumming me out. Anyway, that's something that I have to do, I don't know if you do or not, but it could help, who knows. Ok, there's my dose of seriousness, have a nice day.

I was just eating some Butterfinger BB's, and I wasn't really enjoying them. Sitting here eating them I was thinking to myself "These sure are crunchy, they're almost crunchy to the point of not being good. They hurt my teeth", but then I got to the last 3, and when I ate one, it was all soft and wonderful. Then I had another, and it was even better! I then thought to myself "I really shouldn't take my chances eating that last one, I know I'll be disapointed because there's no way any Butterfinger BB could be as good as that last one". What did I do you ask? I ate it like the idiot I am, and it sucked. Bad.

I'd like to extend a big "thank you" to everyone in the world who's always doing things for my sake, it really means alot, especially when people who don't even know me do things for my sake. Thank you all.

Whew, I fixed it. Thanks Destroy!

Yikes, something in my blog has been screwed up. Help me Destroyer!

Holy monkies that sucks. I had a big blog typed up last night, and the internet quit working. Now my wonderful blog that contained all the answers to life is gone. Sucks to be humankind.

It's a good thing I'm a christian, otherwise I'd probably be questioning the exsistence of good in the universe right now... There is no reason in the whole world that Eminem should've beat The White Stripes for video of the year in the MTV awards. Actually, if I wasn't a christian, I'd probably like Eminem. No, now that I think about it, I didn't like him then either.

"What's new on The Pistol front?"

That's what people ask me (When I say people I of course mean nobody). I respond to them by saying things like "I really enjoy Howie Day, I got his compact disc for the low low price of 8 bucks!", I also might respond by saying "I'm saving my money to buy a new bass, since I won't be able to play the church's bass for much longer". They then reply by saying "How are you going to buy a bass when you're spending all you money on Howie Day and Coldplay? I respond to that question by punching them in the face.

One thing people (I) should learn is that things don't always work out just the way you'd like, even if it seems like it would be wrong for them not to work out that way. When things like this happen, people (I) always have to blame something or someone, even if there's nothing to blame. That's another thing, there isn't always something to blame, sometimes things just don't work. Also, sometimes the blame is your own, and this is what people (I) accept the least. I'm not trying to sound smart, this was just something I was thinking about.

Here's an updated list of songs

My Every Battle
Don't Tell Me What I Want To Hear *I think I'll write this next*
My Quiet Life
Don't Stop Until You Win
Quit And Die
November 12th
You Should Have Called
Sundays Are Boring
You're Already Gone (And I Miss You) *Done*
The Lonely Road
Movies Make Me Sad
You're Welcome Here
Sometimes Things Are Bad
I Should Forgive You
Slow Days
Gazing At Fire (And Thinking Of You)
I Didn't Mean To Ruin Things

There ya go, you can try to figure out what they are about, and post your guesses on the messege board if you have nothing better to do.

School starts tomorrow, how much does that suck? Let me tell you, it sucks alot, that's how much. Somebody needs to invite some sort of ethernet port that goes into our hand, or arm or something, that way we can just download knowledge while we sleep, that would rule.

I enjoy things that are cheap, like half price appetizers, and free pop. On that note, Jordan Culver is the best server in the whole wide world.

I might go to a festival in SD next weekend, that is if I can get someone to switch saturday with me... Pray that I can, otherwise there's gonna be trouble.

Maddog is playing guitar a few feet away from me, and Air John has a small mountain of change. Air John just did something with the phone, and I yelled at him like I was really mad, when in reality, I wasn't. It was funny.

I finished writing "You're Already Gone (And I Miss You)" which you may recognize from a few blogs back. The musical part isn't too bad, the stuff Maddog does is good, but unfortunately lyricly, it sucks. Oh well, maybe I'll ge better at writing songs, maybe not. Who cares, it's something to do. If I ever make a decent song, I'll record it and throw it on here for fun.

Hey, I just remembered something that rules... I got Dave Mirra 2 for my Gamecube at Target (where I am currently employed by the way) for the low low price of $14.30, good times I tell ya, good times.

Sometimes I listen to too much emo, and get all sad, especially on sundays, when I don't have anything to do, and I'm bored and tired. Hilarity then insues, as I mope about the house feeling sorry for myself and running into door frames because I don't have the heart to avoid them, and the I get so bored that there's nothing else to do but sleep, and when I wake up I feel like the whole world went by me while I was asleep and I get upset. I'm weird like that, but it's pretty funny to think about.

I really like to play Max Payne. It's a very enjoyable game.

I got Aliens vs. Predetor 2 for the low low price of $10 at Target too, that was a few days ago though.

I've been going to work on writing "You're Already Gone (And I Miss You)", with the aid of Maddog. I might change the name to something like "I Shouldn't Be Concerned With You" though, either that, or I'll just make a songs for each title.

Oh, I almost forgot!
Song Formula:
1. Think of cool title.
2. Apply meaning to title
3. Apply chords to meaning.
4. Apply (crappy) words to chords.
5. Apply rock to chords.
That's how I write songs. Try it sometime.

I hope you liked my completly random thoughts. It's fun to write them down, try it sometime.

The following qoute is one of the funniest things I have ever read in my entire life, get ready. Ok, here it comes. "If a 30-second piece of media can make an individual want to tear his eyes out with a rusty melon scooper, there must be something fundamentally wrong with it." There. You can thank Maddog for that one.

These may or may not become songs at some point in my life:

My Every Battle
Don't Tell Me What I Want To Hear
My Quiet Life
Don't Stop Until You Win
Quit And Die
November 12th
You Should Have Called
Sundays Are Boring
You're Already Gone (And I Miss You)
The Lonely Road
Movies Make Me Sad

Well, there ya go, that's probably the deepest thing I've posted on here, have fun with it (and don't rip me off, jerk.)

The Warcraft 3 collectors edition is on it's way to my house as I type this. I need to go shake with excitement now.

I got a freaking new computer, it rules, end of story.

Mmm... Brains...
There was a "study" recently that said that video games turn kids in to mindless zombies, well here's a response by a gamer/developer who's obviously anything but a mindless zombie. Read it, it's good for you.