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Lynam Family Christmas 2010: Setting Up The Tree

By on December 21, 2010 in Straight Livin

This year in the Lynam house… we did things a little differently (check out these two vids from 2008 as reference).  You see, our house has changed this year.  My Mom decided to do a lot of redesigns around the house, including new paint, new carpets, and in some rooms, removing the carpets to the cold, bare, old hardwood floors below.  I’m definitely going to be getting used that that part for a while…

However, perhaps the biggest changes in the house would be the relocating of the Christmas tree from the sunroom to the living room, and by going fake.  I know, I know, I never thought we’d be one of those families that does a fake tree, but I have realized its advantages.  Those being:

  1. No pine needles on the ground or poked into my skin.
  2. Pays for itself after two years.
  3. We can leave the lights on in the off season so we don’t have to do it every year.
  4. We don’t kill trees.

The only problem with all of that was that the lights that came on the tree didn’t work.  So, cue really fast paced video with all of us removing the old lights from the tree, where the wires were wrapped around each little branch.  It took a whole hour to get these off!

Stay tuned for “Lynam Family Christmas 2010: Decorating the Tree / Electric Boogaloo”

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Tron Soundtrack and Nightclubs

By on December 7, 2010 in Straight Livin, Tuneage

The other night I went with a friend to a listening party for the Tron soundtrack at the Hudson hotel. It was my type of event, music industry folks and all, but it definitely wasn’t my kind of venue or what I expected.

I’ve been to a few other listening parties. I went to one for Chiodos’ Illuminaudio at Angels & Kings, which was basically twenty people we were lucky enough to get off of work at 5 PM to head over. There were also a few actual fans (non-industry people) there, but it wasn’t promoted a ton so it wasn’t packed. Haha one of the kids there even asked if I liked prog metal, so I said yeah of course, so he told me to check out his band. Only problem was he wasn’t sure what his band was called. Lame, kid.

This one was at a club. Now, being in a club is cool. I don’t get to do it often, so when I do it’s kind of a treat. Everyone is dressed well, the music is great, and they turn the lights down low so everybody looks a whole lot better then they really are (unless you’re in a bad lighting area/pose). Its getting INTO the clubs that I hate.

Waiting in line, I am wondering to myself (or really making myself panic about):

  • How cool my shoes look. Are they hip enough? Or should they be more classy looking? Are they too hip?? Are they hip but just too dirty???
  • Pants. They’re definitely jeans (cause that’s all I have) so how does the bouncer feel about jeans? They’re skinny jeans so at least they look kinda cool. Or are skinny jeans out of style now?
  • How many girls do I have with me? Probably at least one, but that’s definitely not enough. Must make friends with loner girls in line, just for the sake of getting in.
  • Do I look like a baller? I mean, I sure do feel like one. But between me and the 27 people in front of me, how am I gonna figure out how to look like one?? Flash some benjamins up front?

Anyway, dive bars rule.

But about the music. While what I heard that night was some very good tunes, I realized that Daft Punk really made a score, not a soundtrack. So beyond the couple of songs that you could turn on and bob your head to, most of the rest of the tracks are more texture based, and were clearly written to go along with the visual scenes from the movie.

Here is clip of Daft Punk’s “Derezzed.” I can’t WAIT for this movie to come out.

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Black Friday: The Movie

By on November 26, 2010 in Straight Livin

For Black Friday 2009, my bro and a couple of my cousins woke up at 4:00 am so I could go to Target to buy a TV.

This is my story….

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Things I Found at the Grocery Store

By on November 23, 2010 in Straight Livin

So I’m home for Thanksgiving vacation for the whole week (w00t), so mini me and I decided to cook dinner for our folks on Monday night.  I haven’t been a huge, non-big-city grocery store in a while, so I was surprised when I found some items not usually stocked in the big apple.  Also, don’t be 6’5″ and hungry, have a 6’6″ brother who is also hungry, and go to a grocery store.  You buy a lot.

This is liquid butter in an aerosol can.  Thereby, also compressed.

More after the jump…

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Two Awesome Motor Vehicles I Saw Last Week

By on August 31, 2010 in Shenanigans, Straight Livin

A bigass truck

And ECTO-1!!!

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Show Offs

By on May 23, 2010 in Straight Livin

What in the world is this?! Some college team who put their rowing team on the back of their bus??? I’m not sure how I feel about this…

If your rowing team has enough money to put their rowers’ ugly mugs on a bus, that doesn’t mean they’re good (aka fast). Good rowing teams aren’t about swag.

They’re about SWAGGER.

I may or may not be jealous that I didn’t have this when I rowed. We had Pater Pan busses that were named after Disney characters. But we won races.

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Trivia / Pool

By on May 19, 2010 in Straight Livin

On Monday I went with a few friends over to the Alligator Lounge in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for some trivia. I can’t quite remember all the questions, but I can say that our team “I Can’t I’m Mormon” took second place! Who knew we could be so smart on a Monday night.

Now as for the reason why I can’t remember any questions… in between trivia rounds they had “shot questions,” where instead of writing the answers down, you shouted them out and the first person to do that would get a shot (of the cheapest whiskey). The category that night was “debut albums.” They say the debut album, you should out the artist. I got…

“Cracked Rear View”
“Bleach”
“Faith”

And then we played some pool.

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