Thinking About What A Friend Had Said, I Was Hoping It Was a Lie

       I finally managed to whittle the list down to one so it's Post 19: A Song From Your Favourite Album. Before I get to the song honourable mentions go out to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon, The Tragically Hip's Phantom Power, Matt Mays and El Torpedo's Terminal Romance, Rage Against The Machine's Renegades, and Neil Young's Harvest. So without further ado the title track from my favourite album

Great Album Creepy Cover

Neil Young's After the Goldrush is sentimental without being sappy, it's the rare album that works for every mood, it's calming, but still uplifting. The albums lead track "Tell Me Why" is a perfect introduction for what's to come while "Cripple Creek Ferry" manages to wrap everything up in a neat little package. The best known song would probably be Southern Man which is probably the song that seems the most out of place, It's the longest song on the album, it's also the one with the most anger. Unlike most Neil Young albums there are no long jams and Southern Man is the only song that has any of the "Disjointed" sound that would dominate the majority of the rest of his output. It almost feels more like a country album than anything else, A Cover of Don Williams Oh Lonesome me really drives this feeling home. The only real downer on the album would be Birds but even then it's not unwelcome. This is an album that when played on a car trip will make any time this album is playing fly by twice as fast. Really the only place this album wouldn't work would be at a wild party, other than that it can be played anywhere and fit in perfectly. If you have never heard this album from start to finish I highly suggest you go purchase it and listen to it in it's entirety right now
it's only 35 minutes long so I will wait.


I have decided upon a new goal for my life. To be the best at one thing. Let me clarify, one of my greatest frustrations is that in everything I do I am at best average, at worst awful. This encompasses everything in my life. There are a select few things I would say I am good at such as cooking, however I know numerous people who put me to shame in that regard. I don't need to be the best in the entire world I just want to be the best out of everyone I know. I don't need to nor do I want to be the best at everything, for that would make me even more insufferable. Of course for this to realistically happen I will need to select at least 1 if not more things to work on perfecting, and for some reason I believe that may be the most difficult part of this whole task. Things such as best Son/Brother/Boyfriend/Husband/Father etc. do not count since there is no clear way to figure out who is best and to compare skills. If you have any suggestions for what I should perfect feel free to tell me in the comments. Whatever it is I decide, I have a feeling I may have to wait awhile to be the best at anything besides being perfectly average.

Indecipherable Korean, and Song About Boys

Post 17:  A Song That You Hear Often on The Radio

This is actually pretty hard since I generally spend 6 hours a day listening to and talking on the radio so for simplicity's sake I am excluding anything heard on the station I work at, This leaves me with the station I used to work at and there are two songs that I always seem to catch and they are both awful.

Seriously name me two current songs that are worse.

I have nothing to add for Psy, Taylor Swift on the other hand I have many negative thoughts about.

When is Taylor Swift going to grow up and sing songs that grown ass women would sing? Has she ever released a single that's not about boys and how much she likes them, or dislikes them, or how relationships are so haaaaaard etc.? Seriously she's turning 23 in a few weeks and still sings songs for 15 year old girls who have pictures of horses on the walls! When she started out it all made sense but thematically she hasn't progressed as an artist at all. Yes she has changed musically to keep with the times and is moving away from the very little bit of a country sound she had and is recording pure pop and asking some poor soul to lay a banjo track so her songs can torture me at work. I feel no ill towards Swift and she seems to be someone who isn't a horrible human being but unless she starts to write songs for her own age I never want to hear from her again.

Oh Dixie Land, I Hope You Understand

Blah Blah Blah, here are a couple tunes I'm really digging at the moment

This song makes me wish I was born in the southern U.S.

Or The 20's/30's Yeah I'd Be O.K. With That

I've been singing this one loudly and off key for a month

And to because 4 is better than 3 to wrap it up a song introduced to me by my best female friend 

I'll send this one to the one who calls me Nichimoose 

I have no intelligent comment to add to this. I will hopefully post another song challenge post next time but there's no real guarantee.

Girl Look At That Body

I'm a pretty straight forward guy when it comes to most things. I make no claims of being a enigma wrapped in a mystery, I have voiced my opinion on pretty much every thing I have encounter and I've always held the belief that if your comfortable asking the question then I should be comfortable answering it. That being said there are anomalies in everything myself included my musical taste which brings me to Post 14 "A song that no one would expect you to love". I don't necessarily "love" the song that I chose but in terms of songs I shouldn't find any enjoyment at all in listening to, this is the one I like the most.

I'm not really that attractive don't worry I am already aware.

It's hard to attach anything of significance to a post with this song, so I have nothing more to add to this one other than it gets the floor packed at weddings and despite the poor lyrical quality it's catchy as a cold in the wintertime.

I'm Gonna Be a Pirate On The River Saskatchewan!

So now I am back for Post 13 "A Song That is a Guilty Pleasure" I am aware I planned on making a new post sooner rather than later but life managed to get in the way. I picked up a second job which halved my free time and made it so I barely had time to eat and sleep let alone write anything that was more than a few sentences long. Even when I did have the urge and the time for making a blog post I found that I had to write stuff for Saskatchewan Youth Parliament, but that is now done and I have some free time this morning so here I am.

Personally I think the easiest way to describe a guilty pleasure or at least my definition of a guilty pleasure is anything you wouldn't tell your friends/family about. Even if it is non-typical of the things you usually enjoy or embarrassing but you still willing tell people about it then whatever it may be doesn't make you feel all that guilty. For me, my guilty pleasure is something I started listening to when I was 12 years old sometime during grade 6 or 7. Despite not always being funny I have always had a sense of humor so it almost makes sense that the first CD I bought with my own money wasn't from one of the well known names myself and almost everyone else would appreciate at some point in there life but instead was a live Arrogant Worms album.

I Know the song and the post title aren't the same but methan gas comes out my ass doesn't make quite that good a title. Actually on second thought it does and it's kind of true.

My first introduction to the group was the above song being sung by my counselors during  summer camp. Then one day I did a KaZaa search and downloaded all the different songs I could find and over the course of a few months managed to memorize the words to most of them. Then one day I found out the Worms were coming to Prince Albert so of course I had to save up a few weeks allowance so I could go and check it out and then spend another two months allowance on three different CD's. Even back then I didn't go around mentioning my enjoyment of the group and shortly after seeing them live I more or less grew out it and I doubt if I still have those three CD's and if I do I have no idea where they are. That being said should someone begin singing most of their songs I will quickly join in and all of their good songs are still on my iPod and I only occasionally skip them if no one else is around to hear them.

Do You Wanna Be Somebody Else?

So here is one I have been ready to do for a little while now. It's Post 11 "A song from a band you hate". I am actually really excited for this one since I am very opinionated when it comes to music and there is tons of stuff I dislike and even despise but there are very few artists I hate. In order for me to hate something there has to be no redeeming qualities or merit to anything the group has ever put out and there is only one group I can truly say this applies to.

I feel gross just putting this video on here. My blog has been violated!

My problem with Simple Plan boils down to one simple point. They are the biggest posers in the world. If you look and listen to what they do you see they release an album of music that is whatever is popular at the moment. Their first album was a cheap Blink-182 or Sum 41 rip off and had all their albums been that I wouldn't have that much of a problem with Simple Plan. Heck even on their second album which was a bit darker and sounded exactly like Billy Talent wasn't too large of a departure. Then they officially become shape shifting clones after their third album when they went almost complete pop because that's what was selling at the time. Simple Plan is the equivalent to guy who cheers for whatever won the Superbowl or respective championship and completely denies and forgets cheering for a different team the year before. We all know that person and we all have utter disdain for them since they have no opinion/style of their own and that's Simple Plan in a nutshell.

So I'm back home for a few weeks and I decided to not tell anyone except for a select few that I was returning and so far I am glad that's how I decided to handle it. Usually whenever I come home my phone goes off constantly and I find myself running all over to please everyone. This time I have spent two days at home relaxing, recharging, and recuperating. This does not mean I will not tell my friends and acquaintances that I am in the area since that would mean I would end up on the opposite side of the scale and see no one which would be no fun at all.

I've come out of internet exile and am now checking Facebook at least once a day just to see what everyone is doing. When I was in exile I nearly went insane a few times since I have a compulsive need to know everything about everyone which is rather inconvenient when you know people are telling and keeping secrets but I digress. I did go on Facebook a few times during exile to find out required information for a few events and to fulfill social customs and wish friends Happy Birthdays. I'm glad I went into exile for a little while since I now no longer feel the need to check Facebook every hour. The same applies to Twitter which I haven't returned to except to delete all links to my blog since I have decided I don't want future employers and random followers knowing most of the things I talk about here.

You Say You Got A Real Solution Well You Know, We'd All lLove To See The Plan

For some reason I thought my next post was supposed to be a band I hate. I spent a few days thinking about which artist I absolutely despise and came up with a definitive answer only to discover this post is actually Day 11 "A Song From Your Favorite Band". This is a much more enjoyable post to write since I can think about nice things not wretched things. To make this easier for myself I am interpreting the title as bands only not artists so that I can come to a decision much faster. At this point in time there are two bands that are more or less tied for being my favorite and only one of them has been featured so far so it's time to say hello to John, Paul, George, and of course Ringo.

If I remember correctly this is the third song I sang in front of an audience. Not by myself of course that would be horribly awkward there was an actual rock band involved.

 O.K. so I'm going to have ask you to bear with me for a second because I'm about to say something that will sound incredibly odd/wrong but don't worry it will all make sense in a few minutes.


We are wasting all our compliments on dead people. Think about it dead people apparently told the best jokes, were the best at (insert activity), did the craziest things, and in general were just the best people ever. I am not going argue whether all these statements are true but how much to you want to bet that when they were alive people said they told bad jokes, wasted all their time doing (insert activity here), did the most idiotic things, and were in general a giant pain in the butt. If you ever have the misfortune of going to a funeral you will hear everyone praise the recently deceased and remark and how much they will be missed. How often do you think the deceased's friends and family gave them these compliments when they were alive? Probably not nearly as often as they should have. 


A few years ago I read Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom. It's actually quite a good book and I would suggest it if you're looking for a nice light read. Anyways in Tuesdays With Morrie I first heard about "living funerals" The whole idea behind a living funeral is that funerals are wasted on the dead since they can't hear the nice things being said about them and being a corpse and all it's quite difficult for them to converse with all the friends who have traveled to pay their respects so why not have the funeral shortly before you break on through to the other side? Of course this only works if you know your going to die shortly and in a perfect world there would be no need for a living funeral since everyone would tell you how much they appreciate you and how important you really are to them on a regular basis so that should the unfortunate happen both you and they will have no regrets in that regard. 


Just to clarify nobody I know has died recently this is just on of those things my ADHD filled brain decided to stop on a few days ago and for no reason whatsoever it incubated into a full fledged post/thought. So in conclusion if there is anyone who is important to you be it parents, friends, or partners etc. tell them how great they are I'm sure they would appreciate it and it might just make their day

When The Day Is Long And The Night, The Night Is Yours Alone

It is starting to become glaringly apparent that there are certain things I simply cannot do. Actually I should rephrase that since I can theoretically do everything, there are certain things I simply cannot do well. This list includes but is not limited to sitting still for more than two minutes, keeping a normal sleep schedule, intimidating others (I still don't get why people laugh when I get genuinely furious seeing as how I am 6'2 and manage to yell even when I'm calm), complex math, and the latest addition to this list is play baseball. There are a few reasons for my general lack of skill in baseball starting with the fact that not only do I have no experience playing the sport I am also horribly out of shape. I may have never been the epitome of physical fitness but there was a time when I was halfway decent at most sports. Currently I can more or less hit the ball. There is a 30% chance that if a ball comes in my direction I could catch and there is 10% that any ball I throw will land within 5 feet of it's intended target. I would say I throw like a girl but that would be incredibly insulting to females everywhere especially the ones on our team who throw the ball quite well. That being said I am considerably better than I was in the pre-season game but I still have a ways to go if I want to say I am even "decent" at baseball. Also for some reason it took 4 days to write the first segment of this oh the joys of ADHD

Ok time for Post 10: A song you can fall asleep to. I'm going to skip the intro and just lay it on you today

I'm not a huge fan of the video since it makes the song depressing instead of soothing

So I went with R.E.M.'s Everbody Hurts for a couple of reasons. It's not overly loud and it's not so quite that you have to strain to here it , it's not upbeat but it's also not so slow you think your at a funeral, plus it's long enough that you can fall asleep before the next song starts and forces you start the process all over again. Everybody Hurts is a different kind of song compared to most of R.E.M.'s other work and the only other place in their catalog where you will find similar songs is on the 1992 album from which this post's song came Automatic For The People. It's also worth noting that the string arrangement on Everybody Hurts was composed by none other than Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones who was the Led Zep's "Quite One" mainly because he did his job well without fanfare and didn't subscribe to the theatrics of Jimmy Page, John Bohnam, and Robert Plant.

My Daddy's Sleepin' And Mama Ain't Around

So last time I talked at length about what was going on in my little corner of the world and then put the song challenge result up. This time I'm going to switch it up by talking about Post 09: "A Song You Can Dance To" first. This is another hard one due to the fact that I can't dance unless copious amounts of alcohol are involved. I don't particularly enjoy dancing and when I dance it looks like someone having a seizure and a heart attack at the same time. That being said a select few songs have the ability to get me out of my seat even when I'm stone cold sober.

Did you really expect to see something hot and new here?

This is pretty self explanatory. It's a novelty dance that doesn't require more than one move and it's catchy as hell and it gets played at almost every wedding. This could possibly fall into the category of guilty pleasures as well. 

So who want's to come to Yorkton to go and see Gord Bamford next Sunday? I hope somebody does because our sister station GX94 is having a backyard concert and Gord Bamford is the main act. Even though this is a GX event Fox employees are allowed to go and since I happen to not be at work during the backyard concert I signed myself up to go along. Unfortunately I made a mistake when doing so and added a plus 1 beside me name because everyone else on the list had as well. It wasn't until this morning when a co-worker asked who I was taking to the concert. At first I thought he was mocking me then I realized I had inadvertently said I was bringing someone to the concert. I went to quickly remedy the situation then I realized that this was perhaps a great opportunity to invite someone to go along. I quickly remembered that I don't know anyone in Yorkton who doesn't work at the station but now that the idea has entered my head I want to take someone along. This is of course very unlikely since the show is in 7 days and I will probably just white out the plus one when I come to work tomorrow but stranger things have happened. So if you or anyone you and I both know want to see Gord Bamford let me know!

It's These Expressions I Never Give, That Keep Me Searching For a Heart of Gold

I am not dead. I am aware that I have chosen a very odd statement to start this off with and I am sure nobody actual doubted my vitality but it has been said if you don't have an online presence you aren't really alive and at the moment I have no presence. In fact this is the first time since last Sunday that I have posted anything online at all. I also haven't seen what others have posted except for the blogs I subscribe to. Its a state of self exile that came to be for two reasons. First in the span of two or three days I had 5 things happen that on their own are inconsequential and would be almost non-issues but combined in a short frame of time made it so that I was better off not having a way to spew words forth to everyone I know. Second I noticed that the only reason social media exists is to make points and argue about stuff. I have enough stuff to deal with without arguing everything from which kind of ice cream is better to the various political ideologies. I will admit from time to time I enjoy arguing but that's only when it involves people who are articulate and knowledgeable in the topic at hand or at least can add something to the conversation. This is not the case with 98% of the arguments so for the time being I shall remain in exile except for blogs.

This is post 8: A Song You Know All The Words To. This should be incredibly easy seeing as how I know the words to a bunch of songs. However it's a case of I have too many to choose from so I decided to go with one I can play and sing and that always seems to get requested when I whip Neil out. Considering my guitars name this song is fitting

This song also comes from my second favorite Neil Young album

This is also one of the few songs I don't mind playing when it's requested since it's actual quite enjoyable to play. It is easily recognizable, it is mainly chords but also has an easy fill, and everyone knows it. When I first learned how to play Heart of Gold I could also sing almost exactly like Neil Young. This is no longer the case but I still break it out whenever I get the chance.

And If You Want To Find Me I'll Be Out In The Sandbox, Just Wondering Where The Hell All The Love Has Gone

So it has been well over a week since I posted anything and there is a very simple reason. I got stuck. For whatever reason I was incapable of finding a song for posts 6 and 7 for the song challenge. Thankfully my best female friend reminded me that they didn't have to be good memories so I now present the song that reminds me of somewhere as well as a certain event.

So the place is my high school and elementary school gyms and the events are of course the dances that some people might have enjoyed. I was never a big fan of school dances but I also didn't dislike them. If I was forced to take an official stance it would be neutral. The only reason I ever went to these things is because I really didn't go out much in elementary school so these were rare occasions to do something besides sit in my house on a Friday night. The first time I went to one of these I was over joyed it was fun there was junk food and people and music. I was having a grand time until this song came on and ever since that moment dances in general have gone downhill from there. What was everyone just mingling and jumping around became everyone scrambling to find a partner. As luck would have it there happened to be an almost perfect ratio of boys to girls unfortunately there was an uneven number of participants. This was the first of many times I was the odd man out and it seems that ever since then 9 out f 10 times whenever the number of people doesn't work out I end up on the short end of the stick. As well at this dance and even still today I have an aversion to asking people to be my partner in anything so really the reason I'm the odd man out is my own fault.

So the first dance and the first time I heard this song at a dance was a hint of things to come. The same applies to the second dance and playing of the song except it was a new lesson this time. Having learned from past mistakes I now knew that I would have to go outside my comfort zone put myself out there and take a chance unless I wanted to watch from the walls again. However I was shocked to find out that nobody wanted to dance with the weirdest kid in class and I was promptly sent to the wall feeling worse than I did at the previous dance. The same cycle of hesitating and hoping for the best a few times then taking a chance and failing more or less continues to this day and I now find a reason to use the bathroom when this and any other Aerosmith song plays at various types of dances.

But You Can Travel On Ten Thousand Miles and Still Stay Where You Are

So I finally figured out what I could use for post #5 "A Song That Reminds You Of Someone" This is a song I discovered a few years ago and like many songs I first heard it when I was driving home to Christopher Lake from P.A. At the time I was only a few months away from going to broadcasting college and just thought it was a neat song but now after completing school and meeting many different people in the industry I know now people this song could be about and I think none more fitting than the head teacher at WABC

I've been trying for months to learn how to play this song but as of yet no progress has been made.

This song could also be used to describe The Man Child or various other Jocks who managed to make it to the big time and then manage to find themselves back in a small market again due to various trials and tribulations along the way. I know of quite a few people who are married to the job and their wife/girlfriend is the other woman in the relationship. A small part of me is afraid that this may happen to me, I doubt it but only time will tell. Until then this ones for you Don Scott.

Your Future Fades And Your Minutes Are Few

I wasn't really looking forward to doing this post but I know that some better ones are on the way so I should be able to handle it. It is now time for post 4 "A Song That Makes You Sad". I had two candidates for this one. They are the only two songs to ever make me tear up when I heard them, the fact that one of them only accomplished this feat due to it's timing made it much easier to make this decision even though I much prefer the alternate song to the actual song I ended up choosing

Oddly enough I've heard this one 10 times tops but it has stuck with me

I have no clue as to why this song got to me since when I first heard it I was 10 and there really isn't anything in this song I can relate to. I am the oldest of two children and both my parents are alive and well. Despite the previous points when the final verse of this song ended I was sniffling in the back seat of the car. I am going to guess it had something to do with the fact that even when I was 10 I was paranoid and worried about everything and this song brought a certain set of worries to my mind all at once. After that occasion whenever I hear The Baby I will turn the radio off or change stations since that is the only place I ever hear it. It's not that this is a bad song it is quite good I just don't like what it does to me. That being said I haven't heard this song in years and am curious to see what happens next time I come across it.

I have a feeling the only way I am going to be able to select the next song is by listening to copious amounts of music and waiting for someone to pop into my head. It is also the first song that I haven't already decided on and I have a feeling it won't be a last. I hope it's happy I could go for another happy song. Also I decided again to not use lyrics from the chosen song seeing as how none of them really seemed to stand out for me.

Don't You Ever Feel Sad, Lean On Me When Times Get Bad.

Well how fortunate is this, I am in a slightly foul mood today and I get to talk about a song that makes me happy. If I was so inclined and believed that people would be interested in it I could make a list of the 25 songs that make me happy however it is possible to have too much of a good thing so I will try and stick to one. The song I have decided to go with comes from one of my favorite movies of all time The Blues Brothers and pretty much any song performed in the film could have been used. Interestingly enough the song I'm going with is only heard in the background on the radio but nonetheless it stood out and sent me online to find the details on what I was hearing.

The more innuendo the better!

Hold On I'm Comin' is just one of the many hits Sam & Dave had, their most famous work is Soul Man which has been covered by every blues and soul singer over the last 40 years. One of the reasons this song is so great is because and Sam & Dave were recording with Stax records at the time. Most times the label an artist is recording with doesn't make a difference but Stax is the exception due to the fact that they had Booker T and the MG's as their in house band meaning that almost every artist at Stax got some help from the MG's.

Last post I talked about how I usually love a song with some good piano in it but there is one thing better than someone tickling the ivories and that my friends is a horn section. It may have something to do with the band classes I took back in high school but if a song has some horns I'm sold. How can this song not make a person happy it's upbeat it has some horns and is chock full if innuendo. This is one of those songs that can dictate what kind of day you will have if you get the privilege of hearing it first thing in the A.M. 

Come On Take A Little Walk With Me Baby, And Tell Me Who Do You Love?

Day 02 - Your least favorite song.

There are many songs I want to put in here. Working in radio I hear tons of bad music however there is one song that goes above and beyond all other songs in making me want to jump in front of a bus. It's not that this is the worst song ever either I will admit that worse songs exist however I did not have to listen to them every day for an entire summer. Without further ado

The strange thing is this has the potential to be a song that I could love however it does everything wrong. I will admit I am not a big Paramore fan so automatically points get deducted for having Haley Williams. Most times I enjoy hearing piano in a song however I prefer it when they piano is driving the song and isn't just twinkling notes added as an afterthought and then hidden for the majority of the song. I could write a novel on the flaws in this song but I will stop now since no matter how much I rant on how much this song displeases me it won't make the song any better and it won't make me un-hear it. I also couldn't bring myself to use anything from this song as the title.

Things will surely be brighter next time with a song that makes me happy so the future optimism and praise should make up for all the haterade I just drank

Everything Is Bleak It's The Middle Of The Night You're All Alone And The Dummies Might Be Right

I keep seeing "The 30 Day Song Challenge" on Facebook and seeing as I am a music person I want to give it a try but at the same time I don't want to spam my Facebook however I have no problems spamming my blog plus it would be probably be a good idea for me to quit talking about myself for awhile since it's not that exciting of a topic plus I could talk about music all day everyday. I will make one slight change though, it will be called The 30 Post Song Challenge to make it more feasible. Here's a look at what the next 30 posts will include.

Day 01 - Your favorite song
Day 02 - Your least favorite song
Day 03 - A song that makes you happy
Day 04 - A song that makes you sad
Day 05 - A song that reminds you of someone
Day 06 - A song that reminds you of somewhere
Day 07 - A song that reminds you of a certain event
Day 08 - A song that you know all the words to
Day 09 - A song that you can dance to
Day 10 - A song that makes you fall asleep
Day 11 - A song from your favorite band
Day 12 - A song from a band you hate
Day 13 - A song that is a guilty pleasure
Day 14 - A song that no one would expect you to love
Day 15 - A song that describes you
Day 16 - A song that you used to love but now hate
Day 17 - A song that you hear often on the radio
Day 18 - A song that you wish you heard on the radio
Day 19 - A song from your favorite album
Day 20 - A song that you listen to when you’re angry
Day 21 - A song that you listen to when you’re happy
Day 22 - A song that you listen to when you’re sad
Day 23 - A song that you want to play at your wedding
Day 24 - A song that you want to play at your funeral
Day 25 - A song that makes you laugh
Day 26 - A song that you can play on an instrument
Day 27 - A song that you wish you could play
Day 28 - A song that makes you feel guilty
Day 29 - A song from your childhood
Day 30 - Your favorite song at this time last year


Kicking everything off my favorite song not surprisingly coming from one of my favorite artists is My Music at Work by The Tragically Hip. I know my best female friend is also a big fan of this one. I first heard this song driving home in the middle of the night. I had just dropped my sister off at some party and when the song started I turned it up since I had never heard it before but the intro sounded interesting and when the lyrics started I was hooked.

of course I will now be using hip lyrics as a title again but it's totally worth it

I will also make sure the future posts contain more than just a song so that you actually have something to read and possibly even look forward to. Also I'm always looking for things to talk about so if there is anything that you want to have me do a sub-par job on let me know!

I Can Call You Betty, And Betty When You Call Me You Can Call Me Al

I have been trying to think of a post where I could work in some hilarious videos of Stephen Colbert preparing to meet the queen. Unfortunately I couldn't so I am just going to put them on here because I started crying I was laughing so hard. You might not find them quite that funny but if you get a fraction of the joy I did it will be well worth your time. So here they are in no particular order

So it seems I can't actually post the videos, just link to them so here it is Stephen Colbert preparing to meet the queen  Stephen ruining high tea and because 3 is better than 2 Stephen Colbert singing with roots The first two are definitely better than the third but I still suggest you watch it due to it's absurdity

While I am linking funny stuff I might as well throw The Pop Songs of 2010 With Proper English up as well.

This should keep you entertained on a Saturday have a great weekend!

I've Been Uptight and Made A Mess, But I'll Clean It Up Myself, I Guess

I have decided that I should share with you things that are keeping me up at night. Not in the sense that they scare me or are troubling but just run through my head aimlessly. Most of the time it is music sometimes it may be books or things like that so today I have two videos from two different artists. Both of them respective legends.

First it is one of The Tragically Hips Earliest singles Last American Exit

And a more recent single from Tom Petty off his 2006 Album Highway Companion

Sorry I couldn't find the original music video but it is the album version of  the song and not a live performance or cover

I find both of these singles extremely fascinating for different reasons. For Last American Exit it is interesting to listen to the Hip's earliest work and see how much it has changed in the twenty years they have recorded music. Last American Exit is off The Tragically Hip EP which was made when The Hip intended to be a blues group however by their third album "Road Albums" all trace of the blues is gone and they have become a straight up Rock group.

By comparison Saving Grace sounds like it could have been off of the classic album he made with the Heartbreakers Damn The Torpedo's. One of Petty's greatest strengths is that he never strays to for out into left field but also never sounds exactly the same. The fact that Petty was in The Traveling Wilburys with Beatle great George Harrison, ELO front man Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Bob Dylan only adds to his greatness.

Even if your not up late at night like myself defiantly check the videos out and don't blame me when you inevitably end up buying at least one of the songs on iTunes if not the entire albums they came off of.

I Wish The Real World, Would Just Stop Hassling Me

For the second time so far I don`t want to write anything but someone asked me too so I feel obligated don`t ask me why. I try not to be bitter but today sucks for some reason sucks. It just seems like everything is trying to straight up get me down. It`s probably karmic retribution for small acts of torture. Seriously earlier I watched Community the one thing that always makes me laugh and fills my heart with joy. Alas for the first time ever this was not the case. I have tried everything possible and just to make things worse the one thing that will make me feel better isn't possible. I know that if I could get some music going I would be back on a trail to being up but as I went to play some Hip my speakers died. So I am stuck being miserable and the stupid part is I shouldn't be since things aren't that bad which makes me guilty since it could be worse which brings me down even more. It's a vicious circle! O.K. so this while writing process is strangely therapeutic.

One of the problems I have is that I always compare myself to others which in itself isn't bad but now I am by the youngest person at work by a few years and I compare myself to everyone and ask myself why I am not doing as well as them and it frustrates me. Thankfully I eventually realize it's mostly because they have a 3-5 years head start on me. I really hope the next post is about how awesome everything is and not how I can't get time off from SYP and that people don't answer e-mails and other things. By the way don't give up on this sad excuse for a blog I feel like a T.V. writer in the sense that I have some awesome posts and ideas on the way but I am spacing them with mindless drivel about my life. If nothing else check back in on Valentines Day it will be a gooder and if you have any advice on how I can quit sucking at life let me know!