Every year I make a playlist and manage to forget to save it. This year, however, I made sure to because scouring through the amount of music I have for those few perfect Halloween songs is a real pain in the ass.
That being said, here’s what I’ll be listening to this year to get me jazzed up for the holiday.
Halloween Theme – John Carpenter
This is Halloween – Danny Elfman
Monster Mash – Boris Pickett
Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
Halloween – Dead Kennedys
Superstition – Stevie Wonder
They’re Coming to Take Me Away! – Napoleon XIV
Friday the 13th Theme
Thriller – Michael Jackson
Now, if that don’t put you in the Halloween spirit, then I don’t know what to tell you.
I really hate disappointing people which is a shame because I’m so good at it. Asking me not to screw everything up and let people down is like asking LeBron to be good at basketball. It’s bound to happen.
Man, I really thought I had moved past that disappoint-everyone-you-know phase in my life. Looks like I haven’t.
Less than a year ago I converted from being a Playstation guy to being an XBox guy. How could do I such a thing? Didn’t I have plenty of fond memories with my Playstation(s) over the years?
Of course, but even the strongest relationships end sometimes. I guess I just kind of fell out of love with the PS3 and the next thing I knew I was playing Bioshock on the 360… and everything just felt right again. It was a kind of gaming exhilaration the likes of which I hadn’t felt in some time.
However, despite this sudden closeness, there was a certain passion lacking in my relationship with my XBox that I had never missed during my lengthy tenure as a Playstation owner.
And then… tonight happened.
It was something simple really. Something I had done more times than I can count with my Playstation. And now my XBox and I are on a whole other level. Continue Reading »
This is the show I’ve wanted to see for close to ten years.
I remember begging my parents to let me go to the Pop Disaster Tour back in middle school and they said no. Since then, of course, Green Day has turned to shit, but Blink 182 remains classic and infallible in my eyes.
So, why am I an idiot?
I got too drunk and don’t remember most of this show, that’s why.
Shit, I’m still pretty drunk right now and I’m gonna fall asleep.
I still remember the first girl I ever asked out who said no. It was tough for me because I had never heard that word before. No other girl I had asked out had said that to me. In an undefeated season, the first loss is the hardest.
It was midway through my junior year of high school when I got my first no and I was absolutely stunned. I had failed to get girls on second dates before, but I usually didn’t care because I’d already gone out with them and there were plenty of other girls out there. So, when I approached this particular girl and asked her out only to be denied, I was shocked.
One can assume that this was for two reasons:
1) My ego
2) I wasn’t used to it.
Of course, since then I’ve become no stranger to being turned down by girls. It’s just one of those things that happens. Some girls say yes, some girls say no. After a while it wasn’t really a big deal anymore.
Until now.
I’ve decided to step up to the major leagues and attempt to court a celebrity. I’m not going to specify which celebrity but I will point out that she is one of the young ladies pictured below.
Being turned down is not an option. The only question: How am I gonna pull this off?
Midway through July and I’m still unemployed. I’ve had the opportunity to drink on several occasions and have fallen far from intoxicated each time. Not until a few days ago did I finally realize I’ve been granted what some people only dream of: three months with no responsibility to anyone other than myself.
I’ve heard people talk about how they wish they could just take some time off to relax, get in shape, and not answer to anyone but themselves. Well, that’s exactly what I’ve been doing and until earlier this week I was taking my gift for granted. I was so preoccupied with the fact that I was broke and unemployed that even in my downtime I was feeling stressed out and unproductive.
Thankfully, that stress has subsided and I’ve decided to take full advantage of what I’ve been given.
