Mrs. Karolyi

If you were alive to watch the olympics in which Nadia Comaneche  stunned the world with an amazing, perfect 10 performance. Then you probably remember Bela Karolyi, her coach. For the past week, Bela has been commentating through the gymnastics segment of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Of course, all he says is that the Americans actually have to try to win. Words of wisdom.  Bela retired a couple years back, but  since has passed on his coaching skills to his wife, Martha. She coaches  the American gymnastics team with a heavy training course, but It was obviously not heavy enough from what we saw yesterday.* It seems the American's could not perform without at least two mistakes. 

Bela Karolyi and Alicia Sacramone blamed the faulty performance on Chinese officials, claiming that they maid Alicia wait awhile between courses. All claims were denied. 

In my opinion, I don't think it's the time lapse. I just think they need to stop texting and face-booking on their iphones between performances. Kinda' breaks their concentration.

*China beat USA by a landslide

The Best Furniture Deal In The History Of Man Kind, Ever

So Brian, Claudia, and I were out all over town today browsing and carousing at modern furniture.  One of my personal favorite hotspots, Design  and Concept happened to maneuver itself onto the list of places we needed to hit up. The owner there, happens to be my homie, so I was pretty stoked about stopping in and saying "whassup". 

After a few hours of doing(or looking at) the weird stuff, we came across what Brian believes is "the ultimate bad-ass chair for designer-like guys" or also known as the Eeams. Supposedly, he's wanted it for quite some time now, and when he discovered that Design and Concept was carrying these; he just had to get a quote. The price came out to be 2 grand a piece, and Brian wanted two. Chuck, the owner, is a nice, sensitive guy who is normally willing to compromise prices, and so Brian decided to try and talk him down. The following is the exact conversation Brian and Chuck exchanged: Chuck: I'll give them to you for 2gs. Brian: What if I buy two? Chuck: About 4,000. The conversation was followed by sheer awkward silence.

Now, I don't know if Chuck knew what Brian was talking about, but I think that was one for the books. Please don't let this discourage you from shopping at Chuck's!!!!

Conclusion: Brian ended up purchasing two Eeams chairs from Lawrence's at 750 each. Oh, and you're going to love Brian and Claudia's new house!!!!!!!

He's The God Damn Batman!!!!!

Yesterday, news was released that Christian Bale had allegedly assaulted his mother and sister. The British actor turned himself in for no apparent reason when he decided to cooperate with police. Bale denise it, but prefers to resist getting into more trouble. Wether or not he did it is completely out of the question, but what is important is that he provided humor and blogging material for people around the world. Thank you Bale! Even if he did do it, who cares? He's the god damn Batman!!! I look forward to seeing novelty t-shirts of this occurrence in the near future.

What The Hell Is Rick Rolled?

Supposecdly it's a trick in which you fake a link to a web page or video, and then a video featurign Rick Roll appears. So this is what the internet has come to. *sigh* Oh, well to take the pain away, watch this trailer from the new watchmen movie.

Crack Band Part Deux- No Time For Intervention

As I was flipping through gamespot.com, I noticed a little article mentioning the soon- to be existence of Rock Band 2. What The F***? " They just came out with the first one last November, and now they want me to beg my parents to buy me another $190 game for Christmas"?, I thought. The hefty 200 hundred dollar price tag can actually be avoided, as it turns out. All the instruments from the predecessor are compatible with the latest installment, and after searching through the track list, I'm definitely buying this game!!! It's almost as if every single creator went to a liberal arts school, or at least have an excellent taste of music. If the very thought of being able to sing along with friends to songs such as "Float On" by Modest Mouse, and "You Outa Know" by Alanis Morisette doens't make you wet, then once I list a few more, it will. The instruments aren't much of an improvement, but the guitar is definitely an interesting investment. The drums however, contain a minimum re-design scheme(except for the awesome fact that it's wireless). Another awesome feature that is new, is the ability to be instructed on how to play these songs on a real drum set + the fact that you can free play any downloaded song from your 360. That means any ipod song! You might want to check out of rehab.

Here are a couple other song examples:

Beck- Epro

Disturbed- Down With The Sickness

Jimmy Eat World- The Middle

System Of A Down- Chop Suey

Beastie Boys- So Watch Want

nirvana- Drain You

The Offspring- Gotta' keep Em' Separated

Pearl Jam- Alive

Rage Against The Machine- Testify

RHCP- Give It Away

Smashing Pumpkins- Today

Sound Garden- Spoonman

Bon Jovi- Livin' On A Prayer(you heard me, drunk and belligerent time)

Billy Idol- White Wedding

Duran Duran- Hungry Like The Wolf

Jane's Addiction- Mountain Song

Go Go's- We Got The Beat

Metallica- Battery

Motor Head- The Ace Of Spades

The Replacements-Alex Chilton

Sonic Youth- Teenage Riot

Survivor- Eye Of The Tiger(yes, that one!)

Blondie- One Way, Or Another

Bob Dylan- Tangled Up In Blue

Cheap Trick- Hello There

Journey- Anyway You Want It

Talking Heads- Psycho Killer

and much much more.............

Your Saturday Funny Video

Since, Cladeedah was unable to supply for you a funny video for your weekend, I have decided to substitute for her. This Video is freakin' hillarious. You may not be able to stop laughing after you hear the end.
In celebration of the Dark Night.

Bangs, I Like

So as usual, I was listening to a TMBG song, and noticed that the lyrics gave an in-depth look at John Linnell's fascination with bangs(yes the ones that are connected to your hair.) Yes, I know it's pretty damn random, but I felt I could somehow connect with this song. I happen to think that females look beautiful with hair covering their eyes. I don't know what it is, but there's just something about it. "Bangs to drape across your for head, to swing like concordant angels as you incline your head"- I couldn't have said it any better. Where do they come up with this stuff?

That said: For the next few days, until I get bored I will try to unravel the mystery that is TMBG's songs. I know it's not in my place, and some of them are just radom, but it sounds like fun!