This was a test record to try out trackbacks, and pingbacks, but I can't delete it. Let it now stand as testament to the fact that computers suck.

I don't really think The O.C. is that much a detriment to the young people of America. It simply appeals to the same audience that wears Abercrombie and Fitch, frequents Starbucks, and listens to Dave Matthews Band. I do none of the following, so I feel like even more of tool when I watch the show.

Anyway, don't hate what you don't know. Oh, acronym stands for Orange County. But dung heap is good too.

Later kids.

Why on earth do they have to preface an acronym with The? The O.C. isn't a respectable name for a TV show, and quite frankly (i'm probably the only one) I was befuddled as to what The O.C. was when Lorin kept going on and on about it. Though, I'm quite sure that it sucks.

All I can figure is that the FOX execs decided to come up with a name that would be as vaguely descriptive of a dung heap as possible, and then give it "from the streets" feel. Also, don't hope to get much out of the website about the show, as it seems dedicated to selling music, clothes, and ecards. No, I'm not being fair to the show, because frankly, some things don't deserve to be considered, let alone exist.

You ruffians with your hip-hop lingo, television, and pop rocks, the future of this country is more dim than ever.

Hey kids, I know I've been owing you an update but the busy life I lead keeps getting in the way. Anyway, here I am, with some fun and wimsy.

Item #1- Crack, heavily buttered popcorn, The O.C. What do these three have in common? Highly addictive, great when you start, but leaves you kinda sick in the end, and certainly bad for you. The first two make sense, "but The O.C." you say, "how does that compare to crack?" Well my friends, The O.C. is the new great addiction/conundrum of my life. I've had them in the past. Dark Angel was one, before it was cancelled. I realize now its less than stellar quality, but damned if Jessica Alba wasn't a mega hottie. But back to the O.C. Every week good looking teens, with equally good looking relatives have the kind of problems that can only be thought of in a writers conference, or, in a recent story arc, stolen from Dawson's Creek. That's right, the old stand by "younger man with older woman". It was all rather shameless, but it did have one good point. It alerted me to the fact that the older woman, another characters mom, is actually the hottest chick on the show. Go fig. I don't think I've really stressed the badness here yet. The acting ranges from good (Peter Gallagher) to decent (the funny kid who plays Seth) and horrible (just about everyone else). Yet, I can't stop watching. Hell, I had McCarty tape last weeks episode. Watching it now, it's inherent badness is so readily apparent, yet I CAN'T LOOK AWAY! I'm caught! Oh, the Seth kid just made a comic reference, yip.

Item #2- The Punisher was my fave comic character when I was in fourth grade. I mean, I could do that, all you need is unbridled rage and guns. And training, sure. The new Punisher movie was supposed to be awesome. The comic magazines were hyping it. "Look at the impressive arsenal. Thomas Jane is taking this really seriously. They're adapting a Garth Ennis story." All of this was very uplifting. But oh oh oh, the final product. This isn't the Punisher, this is the Prankster. The Punisher would shoot these people in the face, not steal their cars and put fake fire hydrants by them so they'll get tickets, thus making jealous husbands suspect their wives of cheating. No, he would shoot the husband in the head. Then he'd kill the wife. Then the credits. The end had him killing people, sure, but what about the rest of the fucking movie? Forget it. Forget this movie.

Item #3- The weekend of April 17th was a pretty fine one. MTU turned out to be more inviting than I'd ever thought it would be. The two kegs were nice, but the big shocker for me was the fact that everyone was pretty cool. Besides the douchebag friday night, what awesome people. Also it was good to see the team again, and also the ladies. Those girls are wild let me say.

Item #4- I want to hype the Twilight Singers album again because it's so fucking good. Really. Also want to mention Kill Bill vol. 2 soundtrack, Eagles of Death Metal, and Bear vs. Shark. All quality. I honestly thought I'd be writing about Franz Ferdinand and the new Local H, but sadly neither has really thrown me right now. Yeah, I was a little down about it too.

Closing thoughts. I like tight jeans on girls and I hate being tricked. Man on Fire should be good.
Later.

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To blatantly rip off the Daily Show, here's your moment of zen for the day. I have no idea as to how this picture originated, but thought it was worth the post. No idea as to when or if these little penguins will remain hosted here for bandwidth reasons. Until then, link away.

Hey kids, how goes it? I'm well and all, rest be assured. Many movies have been seen, numerous albums listened to.

First though, I want to say that the new ad that Six Flags is running is the most frightening thing I've experienced in awhile, and I've been having Dawn of the Dead nightmares for the past two days(more on that later). This ad is just damn strange. A freakish bald man with large ears and glasses, wearing a suit, shows up in the suburbs with a large Six Flags bus. A Venga Boys song (remember them? Surely you don't) plays over the entire ordeal as this weird man, smiles eeriely as he dances around, coercing the neighborhood to join him on the bus that will take them to Six Flags. We are then treated to various images of the bald man on the rides, still wearing that smile. The whole thing is so plainly disturbing, I can't figure how it made it to my television. If you see it, tell me whether you don't think this guy looks like a molestor or something.

In movie news, I first want to say that Hellboy is everything I hoped it would be and then some. Funny, touching, real characters, great action sequences, swords(!), and cigars. Also, Nazi's are still the best villains, but Indiana Jone's proved that years ago. This just confirms it once again. Hellboy also has a real big gun called the Samaritan, which is funny to me, for all the obvious reasons.

Item! The funniest movie you haven't seen but should is Head of State. This sucker is hilarious I am pissed someone didn't tell me sooner. I was rolling on the floor through the whole thing, and that doesn't happen too often these days.

Intolerable Cruelty was particularly boring. Catherine Zeta-Jones is indeed hot, but that's about all I can recommend from this movie. I realized while watching it that The Big Lebowski came out in like 1998. I liked The Man Who Wasn't There, but this means that the Coen brothers haven't made a great movie in about six years. So sad.

Eagles of Death Metal is the album you should run out and buy right now. It's awesome in it's hilarious hedonism, and the guitar riffs are fantastic. Plus, it is a Queen's of the Stone Age side project, meaning it's extra good.

Well, that's all I got right now. Maybe next time I'll cover those nightmares. Not right now though. Still too scared I think. Out.

For those of you who're interested in running news aggregators, I've updated the xml feeds for the site. You can also get to it with the orange XML icon on the right.

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, this allows you to use a program to view when the site has been updated and a quick summary. Why is this useful? Well, because you can use these same programs to get an at-a-glance look at what pages you freqent have been updated, saving you the effort of having to go to all your news sites and seeing if they have new info that interests you.

Said programs are detailed on the xml feeds page, or can be googled for keywords like xml, news, rss, or reader.

1. Lorin has never and will never punch anyone in the face, even if that person is a shitty movie.
2. Lorin was right about the Grey Album.
3. Tony Hawk Underground's sick mode is impossible.
4. Jay-Z's Black Album is boring.
5. If you like cigars, try a Montecristo #2.
6. You're breaking the law by downloading the Grey Album.
7. Norah Jones Feels Like Home actually makes me like some aspects of country music.
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is refreshing.
9. Justin is a smart man who knows lots about movies.
10. Natalie Portman is definetly hot enough to make me want to see a shitty movie like Garden State.
11. The Beatles have been butchered in the Grey Album.
12. I wish Johnny Cash were my grandad.
13. I will buy the Matrix Trilogy despite the creamy shit center that is the second movie.
14. If you smoke cigarettes don't fucking tell me my cigar stinks.
15. Jim Carrey is a good actor.
16. Justin likes some shitty ass movies.
17. I wish I had a lightsaber.
18. Disney stole almost every story it ever made a movie of.
19. If you can do 40 fliptricks in one combo, you need to go outside.
20. Natalie Portman is definetly hot enough to make me want to see a shitty movie like Star Wars Episode III.
21. Disney is rich. DJ Danger Mouse isn't, and can't sell his album.
22. I liked Top Gun.
23. Good cigars are only tobacco. Cigarettes have all kinds of added chemicals in them.
24. I'm no better than Justin.
25. I hope Lorin punches somebody in the fucking face, one day, I really really do, and knocks them out cold.

I am smirking right now. I'm in a smirky mood. I dunno what it is, but whenever someone acts in a way that indicates they've gotten one over on me, my natural reaction is to smirk. Generally, it's because my gut reaction is to punch them in the face. Of course, that kind of violence would indicate that the person really did get one over on me, so smirking makes me feel like I haven't completely been made a fool of. Also, I don't like when people do something they think is revolutionary and amazing, when it really isn't that fucking impressive.

Anyway, the new Zero 7 album came out a week or so ago. It's Zero 7, but it isn't as exciting as the last album. I'm not quite underwhelmed, but I'm certainly not thrown.

On the other hand, the new album by the Von Bondies came out last week too. It has an amazing single. And that's about it. The rest of the album isn't bad, but isn't likely to make me want to wake you in the night either. Jack White of the White Stripes punched the lead singer in the face a little bit ago, maybe it's because he felt the same way, but has additional anger issues. If I had his anger issues, I'd have already stomped to death the Liars for their crap new album. The fact they had a budget for that load of shit, baffles my fucking mind.

In closing, I'm having a weekend of just watching movies, and I'm frickin' thrilled. So suck on that.

Hey there. How's everyone doing? Good?...that's good. I'm doing decent, thanks for asking. Lots been going on, with spring break just finishing up and only two month's till graduation. So, what are the good things and bad things to be aware of these days?

Good thing: Chappelle Show is probably the most consistently hilarious show on television. The fact that it is on after South Park and right before The Daily Show means that I get nothing done on Wednesday nights.

Bad thing: Comedy Central has ditched old SNL reruns for Mad TV reruns. Mad TV has never been funny. Nor will it ever be funny. It actually sucks the life out of a room just by having it on. I landed on it while channel surfing last week and had a horrible coughing fit.

Good thing: Starsky and Hutch was every bit as funny as I hoped it would be. It is also notable for consisting of a primary cast made entirely of scene stealers. So, it's all great comedic talents vying for your attention in their own special way. My pick? Owen Wilson always has the charm, but Vince Vaughn, no one says "Bar mitzvah" like he does.

Bad thing:The previews that ran before Starsky and Hutch. "White Chicks" is the new Wayan's brother comedy where they play, are you ready, white chicks. However, someone must have never realized that they look less like white girls and more like burn victims after many hours of facial reconstruction. There is also a sequel to "The Whole Nine Yards" called "The Whole Ten Yards". It looks to be a lot like the first one, except without jokes or the little bit of charm the first one got by on. Also, Matthew Perry is the only person who's entire facial expression cache consists entirely of "confused", "frightened", and "frightened & confused".

Good thing: The Twilight Singers album "Blackberry Belle" is absolutely fantastic. Greg Dulli is such a captivating songwriter and singer, the emotion and sleaziness of the proceedings make you feel guilty to actually own a album this good. I don't think I can really communicate the wonder of this album right now, but, I will say it has a darkness that you could thrive in.

Bad thing: Joss Stone and her rendition of "Fell In Love With a Girl", which was retitled "Fell In Love With a Boy". Not only do I hate this cover, but I hate that I've actually heard positive buzz for it and the album it came from. The fact that the song has lost all of the meaning it had, and that Miss Stone's warbeling is apparently soulful, well, it makes me want to smash whatever device the song might be coming from. To put this in perspective, I've been watching MTV for a while, and never have I hated a song so much. The fact that ?uestlove of the Roots drums on it proves that no one is perfect and that if the check is big enough you'll drum on a crappy soul cover of a garage rock song for a manufactured chantuse no one will remember in a year.

Now, that was refreshing. Well, it was on my mind. I think I'll post again soon, so stay tuned. Lots of other stuff happened on SB, I might talk about that too. Or not. Reputations to consider. And what if my mom suddenly learns to use the internet? Things to consider there.
Later.

There's a beauty to Tor's post. He's got it perfectly. And there's nothing more refreshing than his dissing me. The real wonderful thing is that he did it without resorting to the usual arsenal of gay jokes. It's a big step. I'm glad he's listening to Queens of the Stone Age, but Prince? Hrmm. I can only listen to Pussy Control so many times. To each his own I guess.
In the meantime, everyone do themselves the favor of downloading The Grey Album, a mix of Jay-Z and the Beatles White Album. It's fucking great, and you'd be fucking stupid to think otherwise.

OUTIE!

Per Lorin's observation of the Internet, I've decided that this site is too serious and all somber with straight up reviews. Wednesday February 12th will be our first ever Chill The Fuck Out Day.

Now that I've officially structured an event for relaxation, all four of you readers of this webpage are required to chill the fuck out.

Send your email and experiences on how you chilled out to president@whitehouse.gov

I'll be listening to QotSA, Led Zeppelin, and Prince. Maybe I'll just take a nap.

Am I making fun of Lorin? Do I agree with him? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

The answer is a resounding yes.

I haven't posted in awhile and thus felt the unbending urge to. I've been posting music stuff but there's nothing out that I really want to spout about right now. The new Crystal Method was pretty by the numbers while the Dizzee Rascal album is more interesting and less fun to actually listen to.
I've noticed an unceasing amount of weblogs and livejournals full of spoutings that make me want to shit on my keyboard hoping it will show up on theirs. Luckily, I have the common sense (and bowel control) to resist this urge. People are so serious. Have you noticed this? Perhaps you have. Granted, we live in serious times. Everyone I know is older now, dealing with lives that move beyond friday nights at the movies and bullshitting at Gerards house until he kicks us out at 3am. I know that growing up means dealing with all this kind of shit, but when did so many people lose their sense of humor? I'm not citing anyone in particular, but this "all business" thing that keeps showing up in my face from some people is about as irritating as they come. I wish we had a national "Chill the fuck out day", where everyone just says fuck it, puts on a good rock and album and subsequently rocks out. So simple, so easy. Sadly, that will never happen and I stole the idea from the Wayne's World book that came out in conjunction with the movie, way back when. Anyway, I am on the eternal struggle to help people chill the fuck out. I've been told lately that I'm too tense, serious, and high strung. If this is so, then all is lost, and we need to pack it up and call it a day.
Right. So there, you now have an update. I'm certain I've sparked some kind of thought in your head, if anything, "Glad to know Lorin is still talking out of his ass."
Certainly.

Welcome to brainscat.com. I hope you enjoy your stay, and find something interesting here. We're gonna be playing stuff by ear here, and as of yet there isn't a lot to put on the site. I hope to remedy that.

Take care,
~Tor