The Workermonkey

Monday, February 14, 2005

i thought the v was for vagina 

# posted by josh @ 2/14/2005 08:37:00 PM

ron, i share in your disgust for this commercially created holiday. one theory of how this day started is that it was the day birds used to pair up in rome or something. dirty, disgusting, disease-ridden birds. and apparently saint valentine married people despite orders not to. in other words, all republicans should boycott this day, since they also seem to like to prohibit marriage. but alas, i once again caved in to society, i will admit, and sent some stuff to erica. however, if you use 1800flowers enough they give you discounts and shit. so i used some promotion code and it took a little of the pain out of today.

in other news, i stepped up and bought some quality poker chips. 650 of your standard 11.5g/39mm chips. now when we play at home we'll have chips big enough to count easily, and not so cheap looking (though i must admit i got a great deal on ebay). that may or may not be exciting to any of you and i may or may not care that it actually is.

otherwise, golf season is so close i can taste it. it's essentially here, but i've had trouble matching up my free time with a nice day thus far. but spring break is only a few weeks away, and i'll be meeting up w/ the jmu roommates and a few others in charleston for a few rounds and more than a few beers. so before that i'd like to get a practice round or 2 in so that scott and i can once again show the dirty southern boys who their daddy is.

santos puked on my bed yesterday. i needed a new blanket anyway. he licks his ass hello.

green day won at least 1 thing at the grammys last night. i was happy for them. i doubt if any musical group better defines/represents our generation than green day. i cannot think of one. it seems like we grew up w/ them, and watched them develop thru their albums and appearance changes. i also felt fortunate because i can usually only tolerate about 5 min of any show like the grammys. but it was a commercial during arrested development so i flipped over, just in time to see green day win. i was so pleased i changed teh channel after they left stage and never went back, for fear of going back to something inane and regretful. good times had by all.


josh/santos in 2008. we WILL pass more permissive public defecation laws. that's our promise to you. what have you done for the USA lately?

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ok so i fucked up on the link. whatever. why you tryin to look at flowers anyway? shutup

By  josh, at Monday, February 14, 2005 9:42:00 PM  

I'm excited about the poker chips

Where was Green Day during college? Hell during high school? Dookie was huge when we were in middle school, and now they're back, but I don't remember anything in between.

By  Damon, at Tuesday, February 15, 2005 6:40:00 AM  

they had a ton in between:
1995 - insomniac (many hits on this one)
1997 - nimrod (good riddance)
2001 - int'l superhits (best of compilation)
2002 - shenanigans
2002 - foot in mouth
2004 - american idiot (title track, boulevard of broken dreams)
2004 - 1039 smoothed out slappy (seems to be a pre-dookie album restored)

they were pretty constant, and most of the albums had hits. if not them, who else? i'm sure i can shoot down some suggestions, haha.

By  josh, at Tuesday, February 15, 2005 5:03:00 PM  

I checked the 1039 on my shelf, it's copyright 1990, so that's out. And just now, with tracks American Idiot and Boulevard of Broken Dreams playing on EQX in VT they got back to me. But hardly anything in between when Blink 182 then Good Charlotte took over the cutting edge of punk rock. Bowling for Soup is making a push now too, and probably as good as the current Green Day now. So while Green Day may be cool, and may have played those titles you mentioned, there's no way they are the definition. Hell Eminem came a little into rock in that time too. Oh yes and Sum 41. Green Day no where in sight of my thousand plus MP3 collection all through college. Anyway, I've no idea what's kicking now because there's NO radio in CT. Yay ClearChannel for taking the ONE modern rock station and making it the same as all the other kiddie pop hip hop shit stations that they also own in the same market. Which is too bad since I live in my car for work so it'd be nice to have something new to listen too, but it's CDs and more CDs all the time.

By  Damon, at Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:45:00 PM  

well i think this shows how our musical tastes diverge a little. i enjoy some of the green day albums in b/w, but i will admit they didn't get as much radio play as dookie or now american idiot. that being said, i also can't stand the radio, and probably haven't listened to it since 1999, with the exceptions of showers at home in ct where the radio's in the bathroom.

the reason i didnt choose such bands/performers as eminem, sum 41, good charlotte, is they all came out a bit after green day. i'll admit, some of them have been around for a while, but i guess there's just something w/ me and remembering dookie being one of my first cds (or one of the first i remember getting).

oh well, it spurred some conversation. that was mostly the goal. i appreciate the response damon

By  josh, at Wednesday, February 16, 2005 6:45:00 PM  

damon, you are just too modern rock for us. i'm still listening to marcy playground and everclear.

By  ron, at Wednesday, February 16, 2005 10:54:00 PM  

Ron I do love the new stuff, but those bands you mentioned make up 4 of the 96 CDs that ride with me every day and get regular spins. Also I had to defend Everclear against a tough woman telling me they were done with. Alas, my favorite band isn't even around anymore :(

By  Damon, at Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:31:00 PM  

come on, no mention of the Red Hot Chili Peppers? they've been constant and consistant over the years releasing a bunch of great albums. Bye the way, californication, one hot minute, blood suger sex magic. i rest my case

By  Anonymous, at Friday, February 18, 2005 12:25:00 PM  

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