Leave, Don't Die
Sometimes it's funny how big a deal people make when other people leave. They act like they'll never see each other again. I mean, it's sad and all, but the only reason you'll never see someone again is if they die, or you don't make the effort to see each other again. Good-byes are sad, but not as sad as people make them. I think anyway.

The most amazing thing in the world

Whoever decided to build a big gym and nail corn on the walls is a genius. The Corn Palace blows my mind. Anyway, I'm still in Mitchell... Isn't that cool? I got a hair-cut yesterday. At Wal-Mart. When they say super, they mean it. I also went to a drive in movie last night, which is pretty cool... If you're in the front seat that is, my neck still hurts from trying to see. Ok, I'm going to go to church now. I probably won't have anymore posts from Mitchell after this. Just regular Bismarck posts, sorry.

Don't drink the water.

I'm at the Comfort Inn in Mitchell, SD. They have a comupter so that I can update my blog. Pretty cool, huh? I mean, I've got to have something else to do since the water tastes like fish and dirt.

Ok, this is freakin' awesome.

METAL GEAR SOLID� EXPLODES ONTO NINTENDO GAMECUBE

"Konami and Nintendo Collaborate to Deliver Blockbuster Action Title to Nintendo GameCube

REDWOOD CITY, CA. - May 1, 2003 - Continuing to broaden the Nintendo GameCubeTM library, Konami and Nintendo today announced Konami will publish a new Metal Gear� adventure exclusive for Nintendo GameCube. Metal Gear Solid The Twin SnakesTM combines the thrilling story of the original Metal Gear Solid� game with the jaw-dropping graphics and unparalleled gameplay found in Metal Gear Solid� 2: Sons of LibertyTM. The game is scheduled to ship later this year in North America and Europe, followed by the Japanese launch in early 2004.

Bringing heart-pounding espionage action home to gamers, Metal Gear Solid� is one of the most highly-regarded action series ever created. Metal Gear Solid The Twin SnakesTM for Nintendo GameCube will combine stunning next generation graphics and gameplay, an epic storyline and unmatched content designed specifically for mature gamers.

Under the guidance of Konami's Hideo Kojima and Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's exclusive second-party developer, Silicon Knights, is working with Konami to develop the game. Silicon Knights previously developed last year's award-winning Eternal Darkness: Sanity's RequiemTM for Nintendo GameCube.

"I am tremendously excited to introduce a unique Metal Gear Solid� experience to a new audience of gamers as well as collaborate with my mentor in game design, Mr. Miyamoto, on Metal Gear Solid The Twin SnakesTM for Nintendo GameCube," says Hideo Kojima, vice president, Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, Inc.

"Mr. Kojima and I have spoken about this project for some time, and I'm excited our ideas have matched so perfectly," adds Shigeru Miyamoto, senior managing director of Entertainment Analysis and Development Division, Nintendo Co., Ltd. "It's this shared passion for game creation that has allowed us to collaborate to bring a special Metal Gear� project exclusively for Nintendo GameCube."

Metal Gear Solid The Twin SnakesTM will be featured at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) on May 14 - 16 in the South Hall at Konami Booth 900 and in the West Hall at Nintendo Booth 2816."

Alright, did you catch that? Hideo Kojima, Shigeru Miyamoto, Konami, AND Silicon Knights! All working on this freaking game. That rules to the point of absurdity.

Shameless plug!
Hey, just so everybody knows, my employer Rock 30 Games just got their website up. If you like used games at better prices than most other stores, you should at least check it out. Oh there's also free shipping on orders over $75, so that's a pretty sweet deal. Anyway, I'm done. I'll put up some more reviews in the not too distant future.

"He has risen, just as he said"

Uhh... Right.

Ok, I'm pretty sure my blog is possesed by some demonic force. I just went to it and all there was was a small picture of a shadow of a guy and a girl in the corner, nothing else. The guy shadow had a camera, and the girl shadow was making a gun with her hands and pointing at the guy shadow. WEIRD.

Pete Yorn has no track # 13 on his cd. He has # 12 and # 14, but no # 13. That strikes me as odd. I think instead of naming his new cd "Day I Forgot", he should have named it "Track I Forgot".

Ok, it's time we have a little talk about a band I like to call The Elmses. Now, keep in mind they're not actually called The Elmses. Their real name is The Elms. Anyway, moving on.

"Truth, Soul, Rock & Roll" by The Elms.

TSRR as it will be called from here on is a CD that I�ve been meaning to pick up since it came out last year sometime. I finally grabbed it a few weeks ago on sale at Rainbow. I�m very glad I did. It seems like every time I listen to it, I like this CD more. TSRR is the kind of CD you listen to in your car and nod your head with while you use your hands to drum on things. It starts out with �Speaking In Tongues� (Track #1. duh.), which is also their first single. Good choice in my opinion, as it�s one of the catchiest songs on the album, and it�s a good song to show The Elms like to do. It�s kind of modern classic rock if you will. �You Saved Me� (#2) is an anthem that could be interpreted about how God is with us on the �Road� of life (The chorus says �I�m not alone on this road, You saved me�), but it�s actually pretty literal. The Elms were in some sort of accident in their van, and they amazingly came out alive, thanks to The Lord. �All The While Having Fun� (#3) is one of my favorites with a rad riff that goes along with a chorus of �Not in rock & roll did I find my soul� which at least for myself is a good thing to keep in mind. Another favorite is �The First Day� (#5), which is has some nice strings and is all about not being ruled by the past, and making every day the first day. The rest of the album sticks with the tried and true catchy rock songs with vintage distortion (which I love,) pretty bridges, big solos, and lyrics that you can�t help but sing along with. Except for the Acoustic driven �Go Toward The Glow� (# 9), and my personal favorite �Smile At Life Again� (#12) that beautifully closes the album. In closing, I have no complaints with TSRR, there aren�t any tracks I skip when I listen to it. If I don�t make myself sick of it by summer time, it could very well be my CD of summer. If you like feel good rock that puts a smile on your face, do yourself a favor and get TSRR. I can�t get enough of this album. 10/10.

By the way, April Fool's Day sucks bad. Don't worry though, you can belive everything you read here.

Hi. This part of the blog is for Maddog. Maddog, you should go to Velvet Blue Music and listen to "I'm Sorry (7-Inch version)" by Fine China. Trust me. "They'd be nothing without Jason" my foot. Oh, also listen to other stuff there because it's cool. Actually, everyone should do that. This part of the blog is for Adam. I'll put my review for The Elmses up next time, sorry I'm taking so long. Ok, this is for anyone who cares. My pants smell like wet dog, I'm going to change them. Good Night.

Figure Skaters
Ok... I just went to my blog, and the background was figure skaters. My only response was a monotone "what the pile?"

Whoa, those last two posts from last night were exactly one minute apart. Now, I know you're thinking "What do you mean last night? Your title still says Saturday." Well you see, the clock on my blog is all screwed up, so even though I posted those things on Friday, it thinks I posted them on Saturday. Umm..... Yeah, that or I posted them after midnight on Friday. I'd just like to state for the record that I'm an idiot. Laugh. It's funny. It's good to laugh at yourself. If don't know how to laugh at yourself, you're going to have a rough time of things.

Where are my manners? Nighty-night again.

The two previous posts had absolutely nothing to do with each other.

Quick tip for the day: Never get so attached to something that it makes you throw up if something happens to it.
Nighty-night!

Aminal Crizossingz.

I just wrote a song. In itself that may not be the most amazing thing (it still is for me), but I happened to do it in one hour! Considering it usually takes me a month or two to write one song, that's pretty freaking good. It's called "Long Walk To Your House", and it's self-deprecating humor at it's best. Someday, maybe you'll hear it. Laterz.

CRAP.

I started writing a bunch of stuff here, then I hit backspace and my computer was all like "What? You want to delete that typo? Too bad, I'm going to take you back a page instead." Now I get to start over.

"Love" by The Juliana Theory:

If there's one thing you can't say about The Juliana Theory, it's that all their cds sound the same. Well... I guess it's physically possible for you to say that, but if you did everyone would laugh at you and call you a stupid head. Some bands change to keep up with what�s cool, and some bands mature and get better. The latter is obviously the case with �Love�. If I were to put this cd into some sort of filing system, I�d put it in a folder labeled �Rock Music That Makes You Feel Tough Just By Listening To It�. The track list on this cd is near perfect, with every song flowing nicely into the next. The only song that throws it off is �Into The Dark� (Track 12) which was from their last cd, and has been re-made for this one. I don�t know, it just doesn�t go with the rest of the tracks on this cd, al though it is much better than it was before. The cd starts off with �Bring It Low� which kicks you in the face with a big tough riff and lets you know what you�re in for with the rest of the disc. Brett Detar has gotten so much better at singing and songwriting it�s almost absurd. His vocal range is freaking amazing. TJT isn�t really a �Christian band�, but Detar (Who writes all the songs) is a Christian. The interesting thing is, is that even though TJT is now on a major label (Epic), it seems like there�s more of a �Christian message� than their other cd�s when they were on Tooth & Nail. A few of these songs hit home with me, like �Do You Believe Me� (#2), �Shell Of A Man� (#3) and �In Conversation� (#11) to name a few. They�ve also got a new drummer, who rulez the drums with an iron fist. Listen to �Congratulations� (#5) if you want to know what I�m talking about. In fact, listen to it anyway because it�s one of the toughest rock songs ever, and one of my favorite tracks on the disc. There are a few tracks I skip though. Like �DTM� (#9) because it feels kinda generic, and doesn�t seem quite like TJT, and following that �Trance� (#10) which just kinda rubs me the wrong way I guess. But overall, �Love� is a great cd and you should all buy if you don�t have it already. Especially since it�s only like 9 bucks at Target.

Well, there you go. A really really really long review. Next time I'll review "Truth, Soul and Rock & Roll" by The Elmses because Adam told me to. I'll also use some kind of rating method because Adam told me to do that too. But don't worry, I wouldn't jump off a bridge if Adam told me to. Unless of course said bridge was over a river of tasty and delicious marshmallows. Until next time, don't foget to rock and roll.

P.S. I got a Standard Tele.

I was just about to change my template, Then I thought to myself "My template's fine." and I didn't change it.

I hate the fact that cars are so expensive. I could buy a car... or a big pile of video games or some guitars. But nooooo, not everything in the world is within walking distance! Stupid world. Stupid cars. Stupid money.

My nose is running because I have a chronic cold, I need some kleenex. I'll be right back.

I'm back. Sans runny nose.

I was lying in bed this morning (30 minutes ago) thinking thoughts, and all of a sudden WHAM! and it gets darker. I've been wondering what that was since I got up (30 minutes ago), and I think someone must've tried to shoot out the sun. Fortunatly they failed.

Highschool spring break sucks.

Remember when I said I'd talk about more cds and stuff? I don't feel like it right now. I think I'm just going to give up setting goals, because I never feel like doing them. I guess I'd rather just stare at nothing on the computer for hours on end than do anything useful.

Somebody's running around upstairs. Kia's running around upstairs.

Pop's on sale for $1.87 at Dans Supermarket.

Ick. I've got a cold.

I should take a shower instead of typing completely random thoughts.

Ok, I will.

Good.

Hi my name it MATT!
That's what I always say to Lenny, whom some know as Matt. Don't ask me why, it's something I like to do, it's something I find nice.

I've been buying cd's like a freaking maniac. All of them good. I think I'll start talking about them on here so that I actually have something to post about once in awhile. Today I will be speaking of the new Relient K cd that came out yesterday. I do this because I just listened to it and it's quite fresh in my mind. Anyway, here it is.

Relient K "Two Lefts Don't Make A Right... But Three Do."
Unless you can't read, you can tell that they're still funny. Anyway, like I said before, you could listen to their whole cd on their site before it came out. That's kind of a double edged sword, because you can listen, and get excited for the cd, but then the cd comes and there's nothing new. Oh well, it's good either way. They're definetly getting better at playing music. There's less straight fast punk songs (only one or two that I can think of off hand), and a bit more rock. There's pretty obvious Jimmy Eat World influences on the cd, which is pretty sweet. Trademark (Track #7) starts out like it could be Bleed American 2. Falling Out (#3) also reminds me of Jimmy for no reason. Matt Thiessen seems to have tried a couple new singing tecniques on I Am Understood (#10) and From End To End (#14), which is pretty cool. If you don't know, I'm not the biggest fan of punk, but even the few mostly punk songs on here I dont mind. Mainly because Matt T. is such a witty song writer, and they actually have lots of talent unlike alot of punk bands. It also has the funniest secret song I've heard in a while. When they do have a serious song (which it seems like they have a few more than usual on this one), it shows how good they really are when the want to be. My favorite song right now is probably I Am Understood. That's another thing, Relient K usually has songs that are just what I need to hear at that moment in my life. Anyway, Two Lefts Don't Make A Right... But Three Do. is a way better cd than I expected, and you should buy it (It's only $14 at Rainbow) and laugh and enjoy it.

There you go call it a "review" if you want, I don't care. I'll probably talk about "Love" by The Juliana Theory next time. Maybe you've heard of it. I also may or may not post more song titles and some serious tidbit. So stay tuned!