Professor Peedston

Things that you can safely assume that everyone knows.

So of course, I make that post, then as soon as I step outside to indulge myself with one of my ungodly unhealthy cloves, it starts getting really windy, then it starts pouring rain like you wouldn't believe. :rolleyes:

:D

There's supposed to be a thunderstorm with severe lightning tonight, but nothing's happened so far. :dozey: Reason that makes me mad: free outdoor concert with the Roots 6 blocks away from my house got cancelled because of the rain that never happened. :rolleyes:

It's too much fun, though. :P Besides, I think karma had that puck coming to my throat, I dealt out my fair share of pain in those days. :lol:

Hockey can be a dangerous sport sometimes. I got hit in the throat with a puck once playing ice hockey. I couldn't breathe for a minute. :stunned:

Yeah... at any rate, I don't think there's much of an element of real emotional connection involved... but if that's the standard for dating, half of my "girlfriends" wouldn't really count. :rolleyes:

I kind of like some of those Chili's commercials. Especially the one with the guy beatboxing... so ridiculous, it's funny. They don't show that one anymore, though.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's hilarious.

(what does "dating" really mean when you're 13, anyway?)

I would liked to have taken a break from NOT dating when I was 13. :lol:

Something's not right when a 13 year old has to take a break from dating. :confused:

I'll give Britney credit for at least being a talented performer, but I don't think she has half of the brains (business savvy), charisma, or above all else, singing voice of any of those other people you mentioned (and Kate Bush and James Brown did write a lot of their songs). "Phony" wasn't really the right word for me to use, but I still think you're giving her too much credit. She's got talent, yes, but in my opinion, almost everybody else in the world of popular music has more. (except Avril Lavigne, obviously :P )

Good lord... I can't imagine why anybody would actually want to see that video. :stunned:

Nothing beats street hockey when you've got no ice. :P

:P

All right.... game 3 comin' up. *puts on Flyers jersey*

Fuse kicks mtv's ass :cool: It's from a Dire Straits song... And Fuse and MTV both suck. :P

You beat me to it. :lol:

No I just didn't know. :embarrased:

Brian Wilson - "Rio Grande"

These are all ones I've had the pleasure of seeing in person: Super Furry Animals - "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" Tortoise - "Swung From the Gutters" Coldplay - "Everything's Not Lost," "Shiver," and "Life is For Living" (as were already mentioned) Radiohead - "Morning Bell," "Nice Dream" Grandaddy - "Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake" The Beta Band - "The House Song" The Flaming Lips - "The Spark That Bled" Sigur Ros - pretty much anything they play Godspeed You Black Emperor! - "Storm" Built To Spill - "Untrustable/Part 2 (About Someone Else)" Death Cab For Cutie - "We Laugh Indoors" The Fire Theft - "Chain" Broken Social Scene - "Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl" That should do for now. :P

I might have an interesting perspective of this, because one of my professors knows the person who wrote and produced Avril's first record, and another one mixed one of Britney Spears' albums. At any rate, both of them had nothing but negative things to say about both, but the impression I got was that Avril Lavigne is as completely full of herself in private as she is in public, and actually thinks she IS the "anti-Britney" (when she's so clearly the exact same thing in so many ways). Inside secret: the only reason she's listed as a co-writer on any of her songs is that her manager made a deal with the actual writers (ie., "You let Avril have part of the copyright, and we'll use your song and make you a lot of money"). So I picked Britney. She's a complete phony too (and I would argue with the claim that she has a phenominal voice, because to me it's nails on a chalkboard even on the studio albums), but at least she's not trying to pretend that she's a serious artist or anything. It's the same reason I'd take the Backstreet Boys over Evanescence or somebody like that.

Public transit = where it's at. When was the last time a subway almost got hit in an intersection? :P

Should I assume nobody won the "guess the baby's name" contest?