I Believe

From Joystiq via Derek.

Fun music quiz

Name 10 bands you are really into right now:

1. Oasis
2. Travis
3. The Beatles
4. Motion City Soundtrack
5. Phantom Planet
6. Sherwood
7. Limbeck
8. Death Cab for Cutie
9. Nada Surf
10. Arctic Monkeys

Now answer the questions according to the numbers.

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
“Asking Her to Stay”

What is your favorite album of 8?
“Transatlanticisim”

What is your favorite lyric that 5 has sung?
“Cupid you little F***, you shot an arrow and I got stuck” – Get Into It

How many times have you seen 4 live?
Once in Marshall

What is your favorite song of 7?
“This Place is Deserted”

Is there a song of 3 that makes you sad?
Yes, “The Long and Winding Road” and “Golden Slumbers”

What is your favorite lyric that 2 has sung?
“So hey, Here’s to everything, To peace and love in our time” – Selfish Jean

What is your favorite song by 9?
“Inside of Love”

How did you get in to 3?
My dad’s copy of “Past Masters Vol. 1 and 2″ when I was about 9 I think.

What was the first song you heard by 1?
“Wonderwall”

What is your favorite song by 4?
“Hold Me Down”

How many time have you seen 9 live?
Zero

What is a good memory you have concerning 2?
Hanging out with the band various times.

What is your favorite album of 5?
“The Guest”

What is your favorite lyric that 3 has sung?
“Now Rocky Raccoon he fell back in his room, Only to find Gideon’s Bible. Gideon checked out and he left in no doubt, To help with good Rocky’s revival.” – Rocky Raccoon

What is your favorite song of 1?
“Morning Glory” at the moment, but it changes often.

What is your favourite song of 10?
“Old Yellow Bricks”

How may times have you seen 6 live?
Once

What is your favorite album of 2?
“The Man Who”

What is a great memory you have considering 9?
Just listening to their stuff.

What is your favorite lyric that 6 has sung?
“And I’ve been spending all my time composing letters, To a girl who lives a thousand miles away, But writing never takes the place of living, And I need her arms, I need her smile again” – I’m Asking Her to Stay

What was the first song you heard by 8?
Can’t remember off hand, found an MP3 around the time they first started out.

Found through Tony of Motion City Soundtrack

BloodRayne 2

Last year I Netflix’d the movie adaptation of a cheesy but fun vampire video game known as BloodRayne. It was directed by notorious film maker Uwe Boll, known for his campy movie versions of b-level video games. BloodRayne, Along in the Dark and House of the Dead have all received the Boll treatment with a few more coming.

BloodRayne wasn’t a horrible movie, but saying it was good would be an over exaggeration. It was fun watching the half vampire Rayne in the flesh as it were. I enjoyed it enough to think that maybe the sequel might be worth while.

BloodRayne 2: Deliverance was a pretty significant departure from the first film. Jumping from the mid evil period to the 1800′s of the American wild west. This new setting takes away much of what made the two video games what they were. Granted the second film took place in modern times, but in this western setting everything that was Rayne was missing.

Check out the trailer on YouTube.

I put the DVD in with fairly low expectations, but upon seeing the first five minutes I knew I was in for a horrible experience. After taking a 24 hour break following the 5 minutes, I decided to give it a shot and muddle my way through.

I couldn’t really tell you what the story of the film was, it had something to do with Billy the Kid serving as a vampire. Rayne gathers a gang and they rid the town of Deliverance of all the vampire baddies.

Boll’s movies always feel like they belong on the SciFi Channel with their campy effect, D-level acting and poor writing. They have their place for campy afternoon viewing, but BloodRayne 2 just felt a little rushed.

Boll has 4 movies for release this year, (likely most straight to video) including the film version of Postal. I can honestly say I have no interest in that movie, especially after seeing the trailer for it in front of BloodRayne 2.

I’ve always given Boll a shot, but after watching a handful of his films now, I think I’ve passed it through my system.

Star Wars: A New (Family Guy)

On Sunday Family Guy returns with a special hour long episode that takes its 5 second Star Wars spoofs to the full length it can. The episode will serve as a retelling of at least the first chapter in the Star Wars saga. Should be interesting.

The Official Star Wars Web site has posted a handful of video clips. I’ve watched a few of them and I have to say I’m pretty jazzed for the new episode. Should be a good one. Check out the clips for yourself.

Update: There is a 10 minute preview of the episode at this site.

Complicated

I bet you never realized just how complex Rock/Paper/Scissors really is. Check out the complete guide.

Five things I'm diggin' right now

Here is a short list of the five things that are making me happy these days:

• New stuff on TiVo
• Finally getting some sleep
• Fresh air
• A paid off car
• The latest Travis album

I’m content at the moment.

This week so far, weather or not

As I recently wrote, my week started off with a major headache, one that left me no other choice by to find my way into bed and stayed there for the better part of Monday. Sure I was up for a bit, wrote a blog post, but for the most part I was out cold.

For the most part the migraine continued through Tuesday, but seeing as I had a county board meeting, I had to work through it. There were some interesting things that went down at the board meeting, if you’re interested check out that edition of the Independent.

Wednesday was a long one. It started off with an environmental fair in Marshall that served as the backdrop for the Independent Farm feature for the week. I actually learned some interesting historic information about the region during a soil discussion. Good stuff.

I’ve been covering the Canby Mayoral recall stuff for a few months now. I’m not going to go into the details here, but it was in court on Wednesday. A judge will now decide how it will go forward. The interesting thing was its location in Benson. This afforded me a trip home to visit my parents (very briefly). It was good to see them after their vacation trip.

I had an interview scheduled that night in Lake Benton which made for a lengthy drive, but well worth it for the amazing story. Because the story hasn’t been published yet, I won’t talk about it here, but I will say look for a good uplifting story in Saturday’s Independent.

Head Music

As most people that know me know, I suffer from chronic migraines. I don’t like to complain about them or even really talk about them, but every now and then the reality of it comes through and I have to put down everything I’m doing and deal with it.

Today I had a pretty bad one. I woke up with it this morning so I slept in a little bit to try to shake it as best I could. After taking my usual dosage of migraine killers, I had it relatively under control enough to limp into work.

As I made one of the final turns into the Independent I almost got t-boned by an idiot driver that decided paying attention wasn’t part of her job. This of course made my manageable migraine, a full blown energy killer.

I made a deal with myself that I would make it through the day at work as long as I could. I made it to 3 p.m. before I had to head home. I don’t like cutting from work because of my migraines, but this one was bad enough that I needed to lay down.

From about 4 p.m. through 8 p.m. I was pretty much laid up in the bed. I’ve since shaken it for the most part, but I’ve still got a little bit of the yucks going for me.

Why am I writing this? In the slimmest of hopes that the person that nearly wrecked my recently paid off car is actually reading this – you really made my day a rough one. Thanks a lot. Hope not paying attention paid off for your day.

Mario meets his maker

New Arctic Monkeys

The best band from Sheffield, England are back with a new EP on iTunes. I invite you to go check out what the kids are up to these days. Good stuff. While you’re at it check out their amazing second album “Favourite Worst Nightmare.”

Now back to your regularly scheduled blog.