Greetings to all. I hope the break has treated you all well. It was a nice break between semesters, but I'm ready to be back at it again. Working 40 hours/week kinda blows so I'm looking forward to stepping it back at work and getting back at school.
I haven't been spending much time at my apartment recently, mostly due to little miss Ada, but also largely due to the fact that my roommates are dump-tastic to the most extreme form of the word. It's not like anything interesting has been going on here anyway. One of Craig's, my roommate, friends was recently arrested for a probation violation. I'm sure you feel as I do and just don't care, but for some reason they make it out to be such a big deal. Those ass-hats. Get a damn job, don't drink and drive, put down the bong once in a while, and don't be a burden for the rest of society to carry. And fucking pay for your electric bill.
I was laid up all last weekend with food poisoning. Word to the wise, avoid the spicy shrimp (or perhaps it was the sesame chicken) at Buffet Palace. It just so happened that on Saturday night, after I had spent all day in bed on a strict liquid diet, Craig has a party for his friend's birthday. I definitely was not in attendance (nor would I be if I wasn't sick). The apartment is completely destroyed by the next morning while the putrid stench of cigarettes, stale beer, and steaming vomit linger throughout the apartment. One day Craig will face the concequences of his actions and it wont be pretty.
Enough about my problems with my roommates, let's move on to sports. Last night Coach Bobby Knight became the first NCAA Men's basketball coach to reach 900 wins in unranked Texas Tech's upset of No. 9 Texas A&M. The game was very low scoring (largely due to the low quality of basketball played, not good defense) through the first half. The Aggies put up a very disappointing 17 points in the first half, a season low (previous season low of 30). Knight attributes much of the team's success last night to the packed crowd at the United Spirit Arena in Lubbock. This happens every season. The Raiders get overly excited about basketball right about the time the Aggies stop by and all of a sudden Lubbock is a basketball town again. I give it maybe a month before the team starts losing again and the town loses interest, just in time for them to see their team miss the NCAA Tournament... again.
Way too much going on with the Mitchell Investigation to touch it all. Basically all of the active players are screwed, as well as Roger Clemens. Surprising? Not so much.
The Cowboys still don't have more than 6 players on the entire team with the experience of a play-off win. I tried to care, but they played poorly and the Giants didn't, thus ends a great season. The Patriots are on cruise control and Old Man Favre is playing like a kid out of college, this should make for an eventful Super Bowl (one would be wise not to count the Giants out though).
Moving on from sports, I recently obtained a copy of the new Mars Volta album (The Bedlam in Goliath, scheduled for release 1/29/08). Crank up the bass and get that foot tapping, this is a very high energy album with great harmonics. The new drummer, Thomas Pridgen, is absolutely amazing. This addition is welcomed with open arms. Mixing in a double-bass pedal with this style of music is very difficult to do without drowning out the rest of the music, but Pridgen is a master of discretion with his bass strikes. Everyone knew how good Pridgen was going in to the project (he won the Guitar Center Drum-Off at age 9), the real question was really whether or not he could make it fit with the general sound of The Mars Volta. Job well done. The album also flows quite well from song to song. Seamless transitions from tracks such as Wax Simulacra to Goliath give the album the feel of a very large compostition broken into parts. I rank this album among the best set to be released in 2008, it will be an immense task to top this.
Thats it for now, thanks for reading. Check back periodically and you might be lucky enough to find an update!
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