the cycle

Cade got sick and threw up on Kerri and Jessica on Wednesday. I got sick and threw up all night long on Friday. Jessica threw up on Sunday. Kerri came home from work with an upset stomach tonight. Meanwhile, Cade and Savannah started having nasty disgusting poop sludge diapers yesterday, and today I started having nasty bathroom experiences again. I'm pretty sure this cycle will never end.

new Converge studio footage

CONVERGE New album out soon on Epitaph/Deathwish


Here is a short video of Converge in the recording studio. The band is working on a follow up to "No Heroes," which came out in 2006. Converge has yet to top 2001's "Jane Doe" in my eyes, but everything they have released has been spectacular.

ken andrewsapalooza

I am pretty sure Ken Andrews never made a bad album. Failure, Year of the Rabbit and his latest solo album are all great. Even ON, his least awesome work, wasn't really bad. It just didn't live up to the standard set by the rest of his bands.

Anyway...Here is a video of Andrews and Year of the Rabbit performing "Rabbit Hole."

we've got another smoking umbrella in here

Here's a video of Failure playing the song "Smoking Umbrellas" live. The video has to be old, since the band broke up like 10 years ago. The song is from the band's under appreciated spacey grunge album "Fantastic Planet," which is like 18 songs about heroine.

I have no idea who shot the video, or why they are obsessed with focusing on Ken Andrews.

A good first day

We took the kids to daycare this morning for the first time since we moved to Foley in July. Cade had been to daycare when we lived in Northport, but hadn't been since the move. Savannah had never stayed with anyone other than us for more than a couple of hours.

Cade cried as we were leaving, but stopped as soon as we were out of his sight. Savannah was fussy all day and wouldn't eat much. But that is kinda the way she is at home. Cade's teacher said he warmed up to the other kids by mid-morning, ate his whole lunch and napped when the other kids napped. Savannah was the only infant there today from the looks of it.

We gotta stay positive

Add The Hold Steady to the very short list of music that calms Savannah down.

Girl was screaming at the top of her tiny little lungs as I was putting her in the car to go see Kerri at the cafe tonight. As soon as I cranked the car and The Hold Steady's "Stay Positive" started up, she stopped screaming.

So the very short list of songs that calm Savannah down goes like this:
- Nas "Whose World is This?"
- The Hold Steady "Stay Positive"

The Inspector

Here's an episode of The Inspector, a cartoon loosely based on Inspector Clousseau. This particular episode, "Les Miserobots," entertained Cade and I this afternoon while Kerri and Savannah napped. Here's the description from Wikipedia of this 1968 classic:

The Inspector is fired after being replaced by a very efficient police robot, so he tries to destroy it. After the Inspector's many backfired attempts, the robot does such a good job that the Commissioner ends up losing his job and joining the Inspector in a skid-row soup kitchen.

I love the theme music, "A Shot in the Dark" by Henry Mancini. Mancini also did the music for The Pink Panther cartoon series. I also love that the Inspector and the Commissioner end up workin at "Le Skid Row Soup Kitchen" in the end.

Cade thought all the parts with the robot were hilarious.

converge at cave 9

Here's a video of Converge playing at Cave 9 in Birmingham. I remember this being a really good time. I was sore the next morning from various pile-on singalongs. Mike and my good friend Matt are all over this video.

worst movies

Videogum has a list of the worst movies ever. Sadly, I have seen almost every one of them. I only thought a few were worthy of the "worst movie ever" title, but I can admit that most of them are bad.

The review for Crash is great, since it is almost exactly what I felt when I watched that crappy movie.

this day forward

Here's an awesome video of a great band, This Day Forward. The video is from their last show in December of 2003. Band members went on to some other bands that aren't as good as This Day Forward.

These guys played the Boiler Room in Birmingham in '01 or '02 and the reception was not like this at all.

Enjoy!

a note to a-rod and michael phelps

A-Rod: Please do not apologize for doing something that you know you aren't sorry for doing. Those 'roids that you "didn't know you were taking" got you an AL MVP award and made you one of the highest paid baseball players in the MLB. Besides, what you did wasn't even against MLB rules back then. Tell the haters to back off. It's your body, man. If you want to have some other guy injecting you in the buttocks on a regular basis, that is your own business.

Michael Phelps: You shouldn't apologize, either. You should tell all those nanny-staters that what you smoke on your own time is none of their business. There are athletes who have raped women, been accomplices to murder, and pushed cocaine who still have professional careers. Hell, they are even talking about letting Michael Vick back into the NFL when he gets out of federal prison. So you smoked some dope. You didn't kill or rape anyone. The fact that you can smoke a little weed and still win 12 gold medals has to prove that pot smoking really isn't that bad for you. Besides, you were only doing something that the last three presidents have admitted to doing.

So stop with the apologizing, you wimps.

the world is yours

Yesterday I was driving the babies to Publix to pick up some last-minute Valentine's dinner items, when the younger one, Savannah, started screaming. My first reaction when the kids cry in the car is to talk to them. Sometimes it helps. This time it only made things worse. Cade, the older of the two babies, looked at me and shrugged his shoulders. Dude didn't know how to fix it either. Kerri is normally able to calm the kids down easily, but she was at work.

After trying to reason with Savannah, I thought I'd find something nice on the XM to calm her down. I found an easy listening station, thinking it might relax her. Didn't happen. I scrambled through five or six stations trying my hardest to find something that might work, but nothing worked. Finally, I happened to land on the hip-hop station by accident. "The World is Yours" by Nas was on, and Savannah immediately stopped crying. Apparently my three-month-old girl is down with early '90s New York hip-hop.

Whose world is this? The world is yours. The world is yours.

My friend Robbie has a blog that is a good read. Hit him up!

first post!

first post. i think it ought to be a good one, but i fear it won't be.

here are a few things about me:

i live in foley, alabama with my wife, two children and dog. foley is better known as that small town right before you get to gulf shores. foley is famous for 1. lamberts (throwed rolls!!!!), 1. the outlet mall, and 3. julio jones. it also the stomping grounds of a notoriously drunk ex-university of alabama quarterback.

i would like to update this blog on a regular basis, but we will see what happens. my previous blogging attempts were short-lived and ill-conceived. i will probably blog about my kids, music, sports and other stuff here.

my friend mike has a blog that you should be reading instead of this crappy blog.