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Name: Kenny n Will
Country: United States
State: Virginia
Metro: Fredericksburg
Gender: Male
Interests: Kenny: 2 hour naps, cleavage, the Savage Brothers
Will: Mike Keaton movies, hot pockets, burritos, eggs benedict, Friends, Matt Broderick films, asking obnoxious questions at work, hating things.
Expertise: We work in customer service/support (read: "answering a telephone") at a business (read: Initech).
Occupation: Customer service/support
Industry: Business
Message: message me
Member Since:
1/30/2006
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| - I've been watching Season 1 of Weeds. It's pretty awesome, I really like the music in it and Mary Louise Parker is probably my favorite cougar in the world. I had to post right now because I just watched episode 7 and Coach Hayden T. Fox's daughter gets naked. I thought you would all need to know that. | | |
| - I've been watching Season 1 of Weeds. It's pretty awesome, I really like the music in it and Mary Louise Parker is probably my favorite cougar in the world. I had to post right now because I just watched episode 7 and Coach Hayden T. Fox's daughter gets naked. I thought you would all need to know that. | | |
| - My friend at Reddig's Rants commented that he thought NPR's end of year listener's choice was better than the editor's picks. I think this is because the editors went out of their way to put stuff on their picks that they hadn't pimped as hard. They definitely recommended everything on the user's picks.
- Farb and I have a half bathroom in between out living room and kitchen/dining area. The fan goes on simultaneously with the light in that bathroom and it's pretty loud so you can't really hear anything in there. Sometimes, when Goldfarb isn't home, I leave the light off and make my business in the dark with the door open so that I can hear the TV. This is not something I'm proud of.
- Farb and Shoe went to the city Friday night so that they could get snowed in there where there is stuff to do. I didn't go, because I wanted to do some work today. That went ok, meaning I did about 60% of the work I wanted to do. This dude I work with told me that to work on the weekends, he used to reward himself ie he'd smoke half a joint on the way to work and then keep the other half in his car to reward himself afterward. I made a deal with myself today that if I would only drink beer if I did work. This led to me getting a little loose this afternoon while working then stopping work to sober up. This probably isn't the best way to go about doing business.
- Farb took the train to the city. His car is at the train station. Our snow shovel is in the back of his car. I'm here.
- While sobering up, I watched the last 8 episodes of the first season of 24. I only started watching 24 the last couple years. The distinct difference is that the story arcs go together a little better, ie the last 8 hours make a little more sense with the first 16. In the most recent season, the African general angle didn't really match up with the Jon Voight angle. The real bitch was that the disc I had messed up for the last 2 episodes. I had to buy them on iTunes, because if you watch 6 straight episodes, you certainly need to watch the last 2. I got a little pissed off with the ladies on the show, such as President Palmer's wife is a monster bitch and, seriously, Kim Bauer, how many times can you get fucking kidnapped in one day, but the last episode of season 1 of 24 might be the best fucking 45 minutes of television from this decade. It's like if they rolled Die Hard and The Bicycle Thief into 1 hour.
- Please excuse all spelling/grammar/incoherence mistakes in the post as I am fairly drunk.
- I watched the Hangover while drinking/drunk twice in the last 2 days. It is the first times I have seen it and, frankly, I loved it. Hilarious/great buddy moments/made me smile all the way through. I will save Shoe the review cause he fucking hates them, but I did want to bring up 2 things. First, the soundtrack is kind of awesome. Watching the first 30 minutes, I was just kind of dancing around by myself cause the soundtrack was so good. Second, cant' everyone put one of their friends in the roles of the guys in that movie. For instance, I immediately thought of Shoe's bachelor party and thought of Goldfarb as Ed "Dr. Faggot" Helms, J as Bradley Cooper, and, obviously, sadly, myself as Allen.
- I actually was thinking that the Ed Helms and Galifianakis characters were more like me and Goldfarb then the guys from Superbad, then I put Superbad in and that scene right off the bat in convenience store restored my faith that 2 friends couldn't be more defined by a movie than he and I by Superbad. When I make the movie about my life, Goldfarb is still definitely going to be played by Cera, but Galifianakis could approach Rogen/Jonah Hill as the actor I choose to play me.
Alan Garner: Gambling? Who said anything about gambling? It's not gambling when you know you're gonna win. Counting cards is a foolproof system.
Stu Price: It's also illegal.
Alan Garner: It's not illegal, it's frowned upon, like masturbating on an airplane.
Phil Wenneck: I'm pretty sure that's illegal too.
Alan Garner: Yeah, maybe after 9/11, where everybody got so sensitive. Thanks a lot, Bin Laden. | | |
| - I'm on a email list serv where people are exchanging their 10 favorite albums of 2009. I'll post mine here in the case that anyone still reads this blog. Shoe should hate this an unbelievable amount.
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2009 was a real year of discovery for me in terms of music. When Sox sent out the email about making a list I was pretty excited. Then, as I tried to compile the list, I realized that I wasn’t exactly on the cutting edge because a significant portion of what I was planning to include on my list actually came out in 2008 (or before). In attempting to stick to the intent of the list, I’m going to exclude everything that didn’t come out in 2009 though I’d like to mention that I really loved Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson’s self-titled debut (It’s opening track, Buriedfed, is the most played song on my iTunes), Frightened Rabbit’s Midnight Organ Fight, and Tallest Man on Earth – Shallow Grave.
Honorable Mentions: Andrew Bird – Noble Beast, The Antlers – Epilogue, and Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains (probably the worst title going)
My Top Ten of 2009 (in reverse order):
10. Discovery – LP
Favorite Tracks: Orange Shirt, Carby
I like to take Oxycontin and listen to this. – Billy Joe Armstrong
9. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
Favorite Track: Plans
8. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
Favorite Tracks: The Fixer, Just Breathe, Amongst the Waves
This was probably my favorite band from 1999 to the time the “Pearl Jam” album came out, then I pretty much abandoned them completely (yes, I was with them through the Riot Act years). I listened to this album pretty steadily up until I saw them play the last show at the Spectrum. They still play a pretty great show.
7. AA Bondy – When The Devil’s Loose
Favorite Tracks: Mightiest of Guns, I Can See the Pines are Dancing
I mainly listen to whatever Bob Boilen tells me to on the All Songs podcast
6. Fanfarlo – Reservoir
Favorite Tracks: The Walls Are Coming Down, Harold T. Wilkins or How to Wait a Very Long Time
5. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
The album as a whole is probably not worthy of this high of a rating, but it starts with 2 pop tracks so perfect I couldn’t rate in any lower. If you don’t like 1901, I’m not sure I can be your friend. (Of note: I’ve also made this claim about Okkervil River – Unless It Kicks and Kelly Clarkson – Since You’ve Been Gone)
4. Passion Pit – Manners
To me, this album more than any other on the list, highlights how much my taste in music has changed in the last decade. (In the spring of 2001, I saw Godsmack, Stain’d, and Cold. At the time, it was the best concert I had ever seen. To be fair, I grew up near State College and could choose between a country station, a pop station, a station that played 70s rock, and a station that mixed these bands with Puddle of Mudd and System of A Down. The fact that I have yet to drown a kitten or put some firecrackers up a rodent’s ass separates me from like 86% of my high school graduating class.)
Favorite Tracks: Sleepyhead, The Reeling, To Kingdom Come
3. Dark Was The Night
I originally thought I shouldn’t put this on the list because it is a compilation of many artists, but it is an album that was released in 2009 so I went with it. This is a who’s-who’s of artists loved by NPR/XPN. I’m not sure it works as a cohesive unit, but there are definitely some excellent individual tracks, especially on the first disc (disk?)
Favorite Tracks: Knotty Pine, The Giant of Illinois, Tightrope, So Far Around the Bend, Deep Blue Sea, Brackett, WI, I Was Young When I Left Home
2. Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
I’ve actually been thinking about burning a copy of this album for my parents.
Favorite Tracks – I and Love and You, Perfect Space, Kick Drum Heart
1. Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns
Every summer, I tend to get stuck on an album and listen to it every day with my windows down while I drive. This was that album this summer, blowing Phoenix, the early favorite, out of the water.
Sadly, I was introduced to this album by this: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/b080b3abab/my-mother-s-red-hat-w-alicia-silverstone-alanis-morissette
Later, I saw them with Sox and Kandace and it was pretty excellent.
I actually like all the tracks on this album.
Post Script: What the fuck happened to Alicia Silverstone? I think she may be joining Susan Sarandon, Dean Cain, Wilmer Valderama and Kelsey Grammer some time soon. Her role in Clueless will make people care just enough for this to work.
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| I've taken the week off from work to study for finals. I'm taking a quick study break, though. I'm inspired to return to Kenny n Will by the posts of Nick Reddig, who I've noticed will take extremely long breaks between posts but never lets the blog get entirely away from him. The reason I thought of Nick Reddig? I was watching "Away We Go" (a recent Jon Krazinski vehicle featuring a script from Dave Eggers) with Clare and noticed an impressive cameo by my celebrity double, Pete Wiggins (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7O693mzp6M&feature=related). As usual, Pete's performance was understated and sublime. One of the incredible upsides to being busy all the time is that I haven't really watched any Steeler games from start to finish (save for the Minnesota game, which was awesome). The Steelers are really sucking up the joint. I'd rather not watch them. I like Cris Carter's analysis. By being a "run first" team, the mentality of the team was to buck up and smash the opposing side. Since the Steelers have adopted a more pass friendly approach to football, both the offense and defense find themselves stepping back into coverage way more than they're used to. The Steelers aren't bullies anymore, they're trying to fancy-dance their way to victories like the Niners or Cardinals. I sure hope that hiring Tomlin wasn't a move in a bad direction. I say that the Steelers should hire the Fox Chapel area high school coach from 1998 when the team only threw 9 passes for the entire season and had two running backs go over 1,000 yards. The other team knew what was coming and they just couldn't stop it. Speaking of football, a subject that I'm entirely ignorant on (whatever) - I think it was bullshit that the Redskins released their kicker. Because, yeah, it was that guy's fault that the team sucks. Even though my Mac is perfectly fine, I bought a new computer recently b/c I had to have Windows 7 installed on it so that I can take law school exams via laptop. (and it didn't make sense to spend a whole ton of money to buy Windows when I could just buy a new computer for a few hundred bucks more). My recent purchase has crystallized my allegiange to Macs. This Dell cannot hold a candle to the Mac. There's freaking annoying popup ads everywhere, and Mcafee antivirus is always trying to sell me some new shit, and the trackpad doesn't work as well, and everywhere I turn fucking internet explorer is trying to make me use Bing. | | |
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