Circle

 

Destiny isn't something you can argue or bargain with...it's the fixed and unchangeable path down which you're meant to travel. Unless you are on a "list" of variables that can change the end game.

A Video for the best track...

...off of "Murs For President".

DOPE ISHT!!!

Amazing Doesn't Change

 

Believe that finding your sense of wonder, of learning to appreciate the vastness of the universe, is one of the most important growing experiences a person can have. And the fact the universe is amazing doesn’t change.

LP's?

 

I’ve been getting lots of LEGAL leaks via Okayplayer and Facts (http://yahlean.com/)..spread the love! I haven’t bought a single album this year and for me this is depressing. I want to support peeps but I feel that WHOLE LP’s are a goodie bag of good and mostly bad. With that being said…here is a list of NINE projects that I will purchase when they come out this year. Crazy? Maybe…

The Clipse “Til The Casket Drops”
Styles Of Beyond “Reseda Beach”
Pac Div “Universal Project/Untitled”
Evidence “Cats And Dogs”
Mos Def “Life In Marvelous Times”
The Roots “How I Got Over”
Tanya Morgan “Brooklynati”
Elzhi “The Feed”
Edan “Untitled”

Peace, DAG!

Shot all in one take...

Nyle "Let The Beat Build" from Nyle on Vimeo.

...With live music? UN-EFF-ING belieable!

Bestest BUY

 

Best Buy had a CRAZY video game sale on Sunday (Thanks Kotaku!). I went and threw down on thirteen games for $140. Overkill. Possibly but the fam is going to have some GAMING Birthdays this year. For myself…I picked up 007 Quantum Of Solace on PS3 & Infinite Undiscovery Xbox 360 stylee. Never underestimate a man on a crusade.

Money Bird

 

Money? It’s basically a promise from the bank to give you a dollar’s worth of gold, as long as you promise never to ask for it. Making money out of thin air, now that’s magic…but the trick is on us. Time to implement a tax a la Shangri-La.

Agreed!

He forgot which cable news channel he's on...

Pushing Daisies LIVES again

 

We are heading more toward Idiocracy every day and we willingly lower our expectations and standards until decent stuff like "Daisies" is considered great and POOR isht like "Life With Jim" is considered good. Programs that are actually good or great are usually relegated to the pay channels or fail to find an audience as we become more and more stupid. At least we can get back to reading more...

The canceled ABC TV series will see new life at DC Comics as a 12-issue miniseries.

“We got a 12-issue order for a comic book for DC Comics,” Fuller told E! “I think the comic book is great, because it has all the characters in it, and it starts a new story. It’s basically Chuck, Ned, Emerson and Olive versus 1,000 corpses, so it becomes a zombie movie, but the zombies are articulate and smart and can do things that no other zombies can do. The Pie-Maker versus 1,000 corpses.”

The comic is set to debut this fall.

If you haven't seen the PUSHING DAISIES...go out and get the first season. It's AWESOME on Blu-Ray!

Bored of the board?

 

Another small torture anecdote that sums up the whole thing nicely (from Gawker)...

One of the current pet arguments for torture made by both the dumber and the more psychotic elements of the commentariat is that it was bad (ineffective) when Pol Pot and the Commies and the Nazis used it to elicit false confessions, but it was good (effective) when we did it, because we were just looking for actionable intelligence.

Also, of course, we were looking for "evidence of a non-existent link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, which is sort of the midpoint between "false confessions" and "actionable intelligence."

A former U.S. Army psychiatrist, Maj. Charles Burney, told Army investigators in 2006 that interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility were under "pressure" to produce evidence of ties between al Qaida and Iraq.

"While we were there a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al Qaida and Iraq and we were not successful in establishing a link between al Qaida and Iraq," Burney told staff of the Army Inspector General. "The more frustrated people got in not being able to establish that link . . . there was more and more pressure to resort to measures that might produce more immediate results."

So there you go! Good thing we waterboarded a dude 183 times in order to find proof of something we just hoped was true to justify a pointless war we were planning on starting regardless.

He who fights with Monsters...

 

So, what was the message "we" were trying to send? Did we want the world to know that the moral and ethical limits we have traditionally set for ourselves were gone. Wanting to terrorize the terrorists? A war on terror or A war on american ideals? For that I say...Mission Accomplished!!!

I think the last two links are the best...torturing kids with insects, WTF?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103177115

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103281803

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/20/cia.waterboarding/index.html?iref=newssearch

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/16/us.torture.documents/index.html?iref=newssearch

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1170857/Obama-wont-prosecute-CIA-agents-used-insects-waterboarding-sleep-deprivation-terror-suspects.html

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25345940-401,00.html

Pleeay

 

Elektra started her Ballet classes again yesterday. I caught the last five minutes of the session. The teacher (Ms. Lindsey) had them jumping over a rainbow that was on the ground while a rolling piano melody played. 1-2-3 Pleeay. 1-2-3 Pleeay.

WILDCAT!

 
 
 

I haven't bought a Madden game in ages. The last version I purchased was on the PSP. THIS might be the reason I throw down on it in '09 (Fo Sho I'll at least rent it). They have implemented the WILDCAT! I think this year the Phins should call it the "Thundercat" Hooo! There are two ways to look at this...One, the Madden Curse! I'm not sure if Ronnie Brown is going to be on the cover but these screen caps they have been passing around focus on him ALOT and so...the Dolphins will be a five win team with the schedule they have without Brown. Two, Sparano was talking about how there's more to the Wildcat than the Dolphins showed last year. Maybe they should let Ginn take the snap?

Peace, DAG.

Ps. Those screenshots are nice. You can almost see Ronnie Brown single-handedly destroying fantasy seasons.

Pss. And they have them playing against the JETS. Nice touch EA.

MANAic Monday

 

The reason magic can't be mass-produced is that it usually relies on some subjective quality of the practitioner...Intense concentration, spiritual purity, something that can't be substituted with another person or with a machine. Magic is, in a sense, evidence that the universe knows that you're a person. It is when it responds to you in a personal way.

...On WAX!

 

A skilled writer can turn something as simple as brushing your teeth into something transcendent and insightful about the nature of human existence, but there far too many writers who can't so, don't bother if you can't.

Zion I...

Zion I "Geek To The Beat" from Okayplayer on Vimeo.

Cool concept on a shoe string budget...

The Big Wave

 

Elektra heading to the Zombie Sushi Bar
(picture taken 4/7/09 @ The Treehouse Museum in Ogden, UT)

Game Over Continue

 

Today's pirate is tomorrows privateer, fighting for truth and justice. Freedom fighter or terrorist? It all depends on whose descendants will be writing the history books. When did we become so resigned to our dystopias and our demise that it became what we embraced?

Prime Night!

 

Hey YALL!

I took a bit off from the Blog. Elektra had her Spring break last week…and I was WRECKED! I need to get my energy up. We did some really fun ISHT through the week. Posts and pics to come.

On Friday night though…something unexpected happened. I went to Juniors (the neighborhood bar with flair) with Kelli, Marissa & Fisch. I took a 32ouncer to the dome while we chatted about music, I-Phones, face and randomness. When we stepped out onto the street…we noticed a guy up the block being followed by a camera crew (boom mic and all). As he approached us he asked “Hello good citizens, not drinking too much tonight are you?”…from there it was on.

Me: So, who are you supposed to be?

Masked Man: I am Citizen Prime!

Me: I’m Mark. So, what’s your power?

CP: Sorry to break it to you buddy. Real people don’t have super powers.

Me: So. You are kinda like Batman…but not really? Ok…So, did you make that outfit (pointing to his dapper costume)

CP: Why yes I did.

Me: (pointing to his “Under Armour” under his armplates)…That’s Under Armour…you didn’t make that.

CP: (Gathers his film crew) Ok guys, Let’s go.

I got thinking. Who “arches” this guy? I mean all good needs evil. So…I googled “Citizen Prime” and found these sites…

http://www.myspace.com/ParagonPrime
http://www.reallifesuperheroes.org/heroes_citizenprime.html

There is a lot more on there too…Like “Black Monday Society” and “Ted Dinero”

I got to thinking and tossed around the idea at work to some of my peers. I think I want to create a league of villainy to undermine these guys. Nothing bad…but like when they tell people not to drink, we buy them a beer. When they tell people to look both ways and walk we say…Run!

Thoughts? Any ideas on names? Costumes? Themes?

Let me know- DAG!

Dead Is Dead

 

What lies in the shadow of the statue?

The 10/31 Project! Colbert kills it again.

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
The 10/31 Project
comedycentral.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest

I love how Colbert's mockery of Glenn Beck's whimpering is more convincing then Beck's actual attempt.

04/09 Goals!

 

I did pretty good this last month. I'd give myself a B-. I need to get more writing done! That is the one area I'm lacking in...I'm going to really motivate myself to try and scribe something daily (not counting blogging). I only missed one day at the gym and the balance part of my life seems copasetic.

And...if there is anything else you think I need to add, hit me up.

Numbs:
Funk Butter
How It is
Three Way Duel- finish two 4 line verses

Self:
Finish the following songs...
Up High Intro
Sunrays
Miniboss

24 Hour/Gym:
Hit the gym at least four times a week

The Balance:
One Kelli date per week
Keep the 2nd grader going with her studies and well being Sunday thru Wednesday each week
Work my three shifts each weekend and try to come up with new perspectives and insight for the business
Read at least one book over the month
Try NOT to eat out as much
Take 15 minutes out of each day to sit in silence and reflect

PS...As you can tell, The Ratchet & Clank figures look GREAT!

Y & The Walking Dead (volume 1's)

 

Y: The Last Man (Unmanned)

A mysterious plague has killed every man on earth except Yorick Brown, who was somehow spared (oh…and his male pet monkey, Ampersand). That is the compelling premise of Y. The sole Y-chromosomed human survivor is an amiable, headstrong young man, the son of a U.S. congresswoman and, as it happens, an amateur escape artist. He spends most of the story on the run from a tribe of self-styled Amazons (think Feminazis) bent on eliminating the last vestige of patriarchy. He is also trying, with a bioengineer who may be responsible for the worldwide "gendercide," to figure out why he survived; hoping to reach his girlfriend in Australia; and, of course, contemplating the repopulation of the planet. The pedestrian artwork doesn't do much to liven the story. However…“Y” has fast-paced, Intriguing characters and plotlines as it lays the groundwork for what’s to come.

The Walking Dead (Days Gone By)

An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months, society has crumbled: There is no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. Rick Grimes finds himself one of the few survivors in this terrifying future. A couple months ago he was a small town cop who had never fired a shot and only ever saw one dead body. Separated from his family, he must now sort through all the death and confusion to try and find his wife and son. It has been said…that the Living can never stand up to the Dead: they are too many, and their hungry, avid minds are not freighted with the conscience of the Living. Kirkman and Moore have put that contention into question in their first auspicious volume of the "Walking Dead". Doubtless the Dead will Walk, and the Walking will die…but who will survive, and what will become of them?