Cigar Post

I am a big fan of video games and bought the first rock band despite the big price tag (it is the one game my wife enjoys playing and therefore makes it a good excuse for me to play instead of working).

Anyway, being the freak I am, I pretty much finished the game in a week’s time and moved from the guitar to the drums. All in all, I was happy with the game.

Well, RockBand 2 came out a couple months ago so I decided that that was a good enough excuse to go and grab it. The game itself is much deeper than the first and the best part is that you can actually go on tour solo (the first rockband made you go out with a friend or not go out at all).

So what about the songs? Here is a taste of the songs for RockBand 2

2000’s AFI Girl’s Not Grey
2000’s Avenged Sevenfold Almost Easy
2000’s Beck E-Pro
2000’s Disturbed Down with the Sickness
2000’s The Donnas New Kid in School
2000’s Dream Theater Panic Attack
2000’s Guns N’ Roses Shackler’s Revenge
2000’s Interpol PDA
2000’s Jimmy Eat World The Middle
2000’s Lacuna Coil Our Truth
2000’s Linkin Park One Step Closer
2000’s Mastodon Colony of Birchmen
2000’s Modest Mouse Float On
2000’s Panic at the Disco Nine in the Afternoon
2000’s Paramore That’s What You Get
2000’s Rise Against Give it All
2000’s Silversun Pickups Lazy Eye
2000’s System of a Down Chop Suey
2000’s Tenacious D Master Exploder
2000’s Abnormality Visions
2000’s Anarchy Club Get Clean
2000’s Bang Camaro Night Lies
2000’s Breaking Wheel Shoulder to the Plow
2000’s Libyans Welcome to the Neighborhood
2000’s The Main Drag A Jagged Gorgeous Winter
2000’s Speck Conventional Lover
2000’s The Sterns Supreme Girl
2000’s That Handsome Devil Rob the Prez-O-Dent
1990s Alanis Morissette You Oughta Know
1990’s Alice in Chains Man in the Box
1990’s Beastie Boys So Whatcha Want
1990’s Bikini Kill Rebel Girl
1990’s Dinosaur Jr Feel the Pain
1990’s Foo Fighters Everlong
1990’s Judas Priest Painkiller
1990’s L7 Pretend We’re Dead
1990’s Lit My Own Worst Enemy
1990’s Lush De-Luxe
1990’s Mighty Mighty Bosstones Where’d You Go
1990’s Muffs, The Kids in America
1990’s Nirvana Drain You
1990’s The Offspring Come Out & Play (Keep ‘em Seperated)
1990’s Pearl Jam Alive
1990’s Presidents of the USA Lump
1990’s Rage Against the Machine Testify
1990’s Red Hot Chili Peppers Give it Away
1990’s Smashing Pumpkins Today
1990’s Social Distortion I Was Wrong
1990’s Soundgarden Spoonman
1990’s Testament Souls of Black
1980s Billy Idol White Wedding Pt I
1980’s Bon Jovi Livin’ on a Prayer
1980’s Duran Duran Hungry Like the Wolf
1980’s The Go-Go’s We Got the Beat
1980’s The Grateful Dead Alabama Getaway
1980’s Jane’s Addiction Mountain Song
1980’s Joan Jett Bad Reputation
1980’s Megadeth Peace Sells
1980’s Metallica Battery
1980’s Motorhead Ace of Spades
1980’s Ratt Round & Round
1980’s Replacements, The Alex Chilton
1980’s Sonic Youth Teen Age Riot
1980’s Survivor Eye of the Tiger
1970s AC/DC Let There Be Rock
1970’s Allman Brothers Ramblin’ Man
1970’s Bad Company Shooting Star
1970’s Blondie One Way or Another
1970’s Bob Dylan Tangled Up in Blue
1970’s Cheap Trick Hello There
1970’s Devo Uncontrollable Urge
1970’s Elvis Costello Pump it Up
1970’s Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way
1970’s The Guess Who American Woman
1970’s Jethro Tull Aqualung
1970’s Journey Anyway You Want It
1970’s Kansas Carry On Wayward Son
1970’s Rush The Trees
1970’s Squeeze Cool for Cats
1970’s Steely Dan Bodhitsattva
1970’s Steve Miller Band Rock’n Me
1970’s Talking Heads Psycho Killer
1960s Norman Greenbaum Spirit in the Sky
1960’s The Who Pinball Wizard

Well, after a little thought, I have decided to repost my Obama sign in my front yard. Now, I think that the same person (and I believe it is likely to be a neighbor pulling them down) is going to revisit my sign and rip it down. Only this time…I have something in store for him.

How to mess a sign vandal up

Answer: Since the person is literally just popping off the sign by pulling it off its base, I have decided to add a little mixture of petroleum jelly, honey, bug spray and transmission fluid and slathered all over the edges of the sign.

He may get the sign but will get his fingers dirty doing it!

I kind of wonder if other states are having this sort of problem. I normally don’t do this but a couple weeks ago, I went to the democratic headquarters here in Memphis and grabbed an Obama/Biden sign.

There were reports that some signs were getting vandalized on both sides but I figured that since I live in a relatively upscale (and Jewish) neighborhood that it probably wouldn’t happen. Yesterday, I went out (god, I wish I had taken a picture)….my sign was still there…or the remnants of it.

The vandal had ripped out the image part of the sign so that all that was left standing was the steel frame. My neighbor was hit too. Funny enough the Mccain sign 4 houses down was left standing…Hmmm…

This isn’t really a post about Memphis but it is something very funny.  I imagine that most guys will see the humor in it.  Actually, I believe that this could be written by a number of my ex-girlfriends.  The funny part is that I found this on Craigslist of all places…..

I know that all your ex-girlfriends are ‘psychos.’ I’ve heard all about them since hardly a day goes by that you don’t make some eye-rolling reference to ‘that crazy bitch’ who practically ruined your life and then went off and married some successful ‘douchebag’ leaving you to troll local college bars in search of no-strings-attached ass while she enjoys quiet weekends at home with her new in-laws in Connecticut. That selfish, cunt.

I know that you don’t think I could ever be as good of a ‘psycho ex’ as she was. But, I assure you. I can. I’ll be such a raving lunatic nutcase - you won’t even remember her when I’m through with you. Try me.

For starters - I am great in bed. Isn’t that how all the ‘crazy’ ones start out? You’ll meet me at some party through some friend of a friend of a friend who knows I have ‘whacko’ potential but will fail to mention this to the chain of people through whom we are introduced because…quite frankly, our friends don’t really care enough about either of us to keep our best interests in mind. Alternatively, they *do* have our best interests in mind but know that our dramatic personalities and overwhelming egos are forces too powerful for even the most friendly, logical advice. Thus, they abort all attempts to keep us apart and allow us to get drunk and grope each other publicly, shaking their heads all the while because..this shit is gonna’ blow up big time.

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We see all those talking heads on the boob tube talking about how necessary the 1 trillion dollar bailout was but I haven’t been sold on it since it was first brought up.  Here is why:

• I know that the claim is that if they don’t bail out banks, then they won’t loan.  If the banks don’t loan, companies will cut back on payroll.  If companies cut back on their payroll, many will lose their job.  If many lose their job, they will lose their homes which will cause the banks to lose more and the cycle continues.

A friend of mine who is a small business owner pointed out that the banks still won’t loan to the small businesses.  In other words, the “bailout” will just bail out the big multi-million companies and do very little for middle America, or as the media like to call us, “main street”.

On 20/20 John Stossel had an hour long special report in which actually supports the idea of less government intervention that was acknowledged by a couple economists.  The idea is that the government has got us into this mess…why on earth should we trust the government to get us out of it?  As one economist pointed out, it is like grabbing the arsonist who started the fire and asking him to help put it out.

I don’t know.  I think that these things are cyclical.  I have to wonder if this government intervention (which, by the way, is pretty close to textbook socialism) is going to do more harm than good in the long run.

Well, I figured I might as well start this blog off at the very beginning.  I am a 35 year old male.  Former musician (I had my share of bologna sandwiches on the road) and now am stuck here in Memphis, Tn.  I have a wife, and a young child and I am still trying to adjust to not only marital life but life with a child as well.

My partying days are over.  I pretty much lead a boring existance.  I think that Thorough once called it a life of “quiet desperation”.  Anyway, this blog has to do with my life in general and is more of a rant blog as some in the blogoshpere would call it.