Stopped Making Sense

A long time ago. But it's fantastic anyway.

"The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying."




Good call, Cait.

Martin & Cathy

Went out to dinner with Martin and Cathy last night for Cathy’s birthday. I’m so banged up right now I shouldn’t be breathing, much less at work.

Just got off a conference call- 5 of us in an office with the door closed and I had CRIPPLING social anxiety the whole time due to this CRIPPLING hangover I'm blessed with. I couldn’t have been more awkward if I tried. Seriously. It was terrifying.

When the business development manager was going around the room introducing everyone in the room to the guy on the phone he got to me and realized he didn't know my name. He pointed at me and mouthed, “What’s your name?” But then I forgot it. I forgot my name. Or I didn’t understand the question. Or something like that. It was crazy. I just stood there with this confused look on my face trying to make sense of it all.

Haiti

Yesterday, a group of middle-aged men got off an elevator bay of my building as I stepped onto one to go back up to my floor… One of them said to the others, “Well, I guess I’ll have to cancel my vacation.”

“To Haiti?” another one questioned.

“Yup,” he answered, smiling as though he was very pleased with himself.

They were all sharing a hearty laugh as the door to my elevator closed. I wanted to punch them all in the face.

Though “slactivism”, as my buddy Kieran referred to it, I suppose it combats a prevailing feeling of helplessness to a certain degree… Check this out for ways to donate to the relief effort.

Yesterday, without thinking about it, I texted Wyclef's foundation and The American Red Cross before realizing my employer pays my phone bill.... Which I suppose makes what I've done slacktivism squared?

Knee Jerk

What do you think of Lane Kiffin? He was an assistant at USC -a successful one- then spent a brief but tumultuous stint in Oakland, rinse and repeat in Tennessee, and now he lands the USC job? Has this guy proven anything? Besides that he’s obnoxious and inflammatory? He's certainly not a proven head coach. I guess USC learned nothing from Notre Dame and the Charlie Weis experiment.

Also, and maybe I was just never paying attention until now, but is it depressing how much of a business coaching has become at the college level? I don’t know much about recruiting, but I assume most coaches don’t mention that they’ll leave their current programs if and when they’re offered more money for a gig with a more prestigious institution when they’re sitting on the couches of 17 year-old recruits and surrounded by their family? In fact, they’re probably touting other things: conferences, academics, the pretty girls at University of X, their offensive system or their defensive scheme, and the notion that they help kids become men.

Another P4k rip off with my 2 cents

I'm totally sold on these guys. All of these songs are well worth the listen, especially "California English". Whenever Contra comes out, if it hasn't already, I'll be all over it. These guys are TIGHT.

The intermittent interviews are pretty good too. On one hand I feel sorry for the interviewer who keeps lobbing them stupid questions. On the other hand I'm glad the band manages to make fun of him in a playful manner without making any of the banter confrontational. If I was good enough at anything to be interviewed about it constantly, I'd probably err on the side of confrontational dickishness.

Cousins



interview re: Phish


white sky


Molotov


Horchata


Vampire Craze

California English


Contra