It was one of the most fun nights I’ve ever had. Good friends, good times, and oh…what’s this? We also had some folks stop by who we thought had recently left town…
While I was tending to the brew and and conversing with my friends “Fruit Punch” and “Orange Blend,” Alex and some other friends took hold of my camera to document the evening, as seen in the video below. I know, it’s kinda long but I thought there were so many awesome moments so I had to include them all. Check below the video for a breakdown of what happens.
0:00 The Start
0:42 Second hour – The Sparge
2:30 Couch time, I takes a break
3:41 Jug time (we pour the boil into the jug)
6:46 This is the part where I add way too much yeast
7:21 Shaking, aggressively
8:56 Vuvuzelas, and a missing recap
10:32 What we did today
11:50 One more thing…
SO. MUCH. FUN.
Now all we have left is to bottle the beer, in like two or four weeks. I’m not really sure yet. Also we were supposed to have enough for ten bottles, but I think we boiled too much of it off so we’ll maybe get three or four. We’ll see. I wonder if the “bottling” party will be as fun as last night’s “brewing” one…
This summer, Flowing Data posted this very interesting article on movie trilogies. The Rotten Tomatoes score for Toy Story 3 had just come out (99%), so they decided to compare scores for “true trilogies” as listed on Wikipedia and present them in a couple of nice looking graphs (which, by the way, is what Flowing Data is all about / just plain cool).
So first they made this chart (see below), which I think is actually a bit hard to decipher…well the top half anyway.
I generally agree with chart–Bourne got better with age, MI:3 was bad ass, Ocean’s 12 was such a cop out, and yeah, like HSM 2 was totally lame.
The atrocity in this chart that I refuse to get over is WTF is up with the Back to the Future chart?! In my book, BTTF 2 is the clear champ of the series, followed closely by 1, then 3 by a slightly larger gap. I think of all the things Bobby Z and Stevie Speils had to come up with to put Marty in the future!! Hoverboards, flying cars (what other movie have you seen that does that so realistically) and then the genius for them to actually GO BACK to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance from the first movie!!! That is pure motion picture gold right there!!!!
Cause these things go hand in hand, right? And posting a New Year’s Resolution list on the first of March is timely, right?
On the drive back from VA after the winter holidays, the gf and I were checking out a gift she received: Sasha Cagen’s, To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us. Luckily I was able to look past the long title and actually open the book! It was pretty cool, yet simple. It’s just a collection of people’s to-do lists for various categories of life: Dream Jobs, Relationships, Obsessive-Compulsive, etc. In between taking naps while the gf drove (btw she’s awesome) we decided to try our own versions and am posting them mine here for all to see.
First I had to get some stuff off my chest–pet peeves:
I’d also like to make these additions:
With people:
Those who don’t know what personal space is.
People with walk slow / short legs.
People who are generally in the way, know it, and DGAF. I will be more than happy to drop a shoulder into you if you’re blocking the subway door. I did once and I realized NYC has changed me if felt SO GOOD.
Those who don’t use as much enthusiastic text in emails / letters / text messages. Yes, I AM that excited to tell you that I can do a conference call at 2:30 or when I’m out of the subway.
With Bands:
When they don’t look on stage while performing. I paid to see your axe, not your ass.
But here’s something I’m undecided on: people who have a big “hissssss” sound when they say words with “s” sounds. Do you know what I mean? It’s like if they said “So, I thought of something for us to do on Saturday,” it would be almost like a whistling parrot is mixed into their into there voice or trying to talk over them. I used to think it was cool, but now it just bothers my ears.
Ok, ok, onto the positivity.
I’ll just let this one speak for itself:
(I would like to mention though, that the bourbon and blogging lines are doing quite well, thank you very much)
Since this is a weekly twitter thing, why not blog about it, too? I may have also ripped this idea off of Mitchell Davis (livelavalive).
I was doin some net surfing the other day and saw that the Atticus Metal Tour II was coming to town soon, so I thought I’d check out who was on the bill.
Tonight is the big night! The best show on TV, The Jersey Shore LOST returns!!!
My memory isn’t too great, so I don’t even remember too much about last season except that Juliet fell down a hole, blew up something (maybe), and the ending “LOST” screen was white instead of black. BUT I am really excited for this thing to be back on the air, and the fact that it’s premiering on Groundhog Day is quite peculiar…
Here are a few LOST-inspired vids I recently came across. I can’t wait to be that LOST guy at work:
and maybe we should write in what we think will happen at the end of the show… juuuuust in case they haven’t figured it out yet:
LOST haters be warned. You spoil something, you’re toast:
ALRIGHT! This is the first Top 10 list I’ve ever done, so bear with me here. I don’t even know how you really go about making it (so you might see some things that were released prior to 2009. Yes, that might defeat the whole purpose of a “Best of 2009″ list, so maybe consider this a “Albums/Tracks/Artists I Rocked Out To The Most In 2009.” I’m also going to cheat stick to my love of social networks and just go by my last.fm stats.…
TOPALBUMSOF 2009. Now I know what you might be thinking: “How the hell can you talk about listening to that much metal/screamo, but then have Owl City in your Top 5?” and you would be right. I have to tell you–I ran a whole bunch of errands one day and played his album on loop the whole time. It was PERFECT walking-around-NYC music. I was hooked. #10 was a big album for me in the last year, as was #4. I feel like #9 crept up there late in the game. #1 taught me that sometimes all you need are breakdowns, short transition riffs, more breadowns, and crabcore. Here’s the list, links are to Lala:
TOPTRACKSOF 2009. Okay, starting to get a bit more towards my well-publicized tastes in music. Now, my Top 10 (and 20) tracks of 2009 have several from the same artist, so to keep it interesting I omitted tracks if I had another track by the same artists with more scrobbles plays (still with me?). #10 was on BLAST after I saw them in February. I guess you could call #8 my indie jam of the year. I’m pretty sure #2 got all it’s plays in one day, after I heard them at Warped Tour and saw Adam sing upside down way up in the air. #1 is an awesome opening track to one of the best albums of the year. Here’s the list, and check the playlist at the bottom…
10. I Set My Friends on Fire — Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
TOPARTISTSOF 2009. There they are. These bands make the kind of music that, year in and year out, makes me want to straight up LIVE. I had the pleasure of seeing all of these bands perform more than once this year, and not surprisingly, they were some of the best shows I’ve ever been to (#3’s show on Dec 11 in NYC being the best!). #9 knows how to get down–but I really want some new tunes! I think #8, #7, and of course #4 all have their own genres. They did it first and the best. Okay enough, here they are, links are to myspace pages:
So that’s my first Top 10 / Best Of list. Now since I took these lists straight from last.fm scrobbles, they’re solely based on the number of times I listened to a track by a particular artist. So I have look at it this way: August Burns Red is my #1 artist for 2009 because I listened to more of their tracks than any other artist. Not necessarily based on me thinking they put out the best songs of 2009. However, I guess if I listened to them the most, they must be doing something right!
Last night I headed out with the ‘rents, bro, uncle, and two cousins to the boardwalk at Rehoboth Beach, DE. We had a great time (and was more fun than tuesday night because I didn’t punch one of these through to the machine and cut up my hand as soon as I got there…). Posting these photos here because I know @sweethooligan would complain it I did all on twitter.
I got a henna tattoo a couple summers, and while I think tattoos are awesome, I just don’t know what I would get. I like the henna tat only because I knew it was going to fade (did I mention I got a barbed one? sorry, just searched for a pic and couldn’t find… shucks).
I played Deal or No Deal! Won 125 tix, too. The game was going real well as I removed ALL of the left side of cases pretty early. Then of course I picked 400 and 200 right away. It was kind of a bummer to notice that the recession has also hit boardwalk ticket redemptions–80 tickets for a pack of nerds rope?!??!?!
The ‘rents wanted to take a stroll down memory lane and shoot some hoops. They weren’t half bad!
Tell no lies or else ye be walkin’ the plank!
Almost got this t-shirt for @rasp165 but then couldn’t remember if she actually liked ketchup that much or if I was making it up. Guess I have to build up some of my bf chops…
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