The Office

I just finished watching all of the English version of the office. I think what really makes it better then the American version is the fact that it ended. Had the American office ended just a few seasons ago it would have been much better but it keeps going. But my point here isn't that shows should end when they should end, that's a tired enough argument, it's the uncertainty that I like. English Pam is with English Jim, but they're not married. English Micheal Scott had a successful date, but it's just one date. I assume the writers want to leave with a good taste in your mouth and hunch that everything will work out in the end, but they don't force it.

The American office's story is over. Jim and Pam are married and pregnant. What's left? Should I keep watching because I want to make sure the Dunder-Mifflin is not going under? It's too obvious now.

That's too bad, the jokes are better in the American Version.

Indie Cred

I feel as though I've lost a lot of my connections with the music world. I still look to find a new and interesting band once in a while but not nearly as often as I used to. Looking over pitchforks top albums of 2009 I feel disconnected from a world I used to be heavily involved in. I don't know when it was that I lost all my indie cred but suddenly it's long gone.

Speaking of old indie cred lets talk about LCD Soundsystem, in particular "Losing My Edge." In this song our singer tells the story of suddenly everyone around him is a music expert. The internet is to blame for this sudden rise in knowledge and becoming a critic has never been easier. Every kid in a basement with dialup knows about Animal Collective and Dan Deacon.

Lady Gaga made pitchfork's top 100 songs list with "Paparazzi." Maybe I'm not really that disconnected.

Football

So the last game for Michigan's class of 2010 has passed. Another year and another loss to the Buckeyes. I'm lucky in the respect that I've got another year to watch Michigan football from the stands. Of course how lucky that is all depends on how good the season turns out to be. We've had two heart wrenching years here as wolverines. 2008 was the worst season the team the team the team has ever seen and 2009 didn't look much better when you looked at the conference record.

But the thing is all would be forgiven if we could just beat the buckeyes. My friends who graduate this year for sure will never know what it's like to attend Big Blue after a buckeye beatdown. I only have one year left myself. Year after year I've been built up and let down. This is the last time I can truly say "there's always next year."

I may not be the biggest football fan but I am a loyal one and I've got a good feeling about next season.

Soda and Cereal

There's something unsettling about having a bowl of cereal and washing it down with a pop. If you do it in the morning it's like why are you having pop for breakfast. If you have any other time then why are having cereal at that time of day? They don't go together, but sometimes that's all you got.

I always thought "Soda and Cereal" would be a good song title. It's easy to write love songs because they're potent. I thought a song called Soda and Cereal would be good for a song about life gone slightly askew. So I got a title and an idea. That's probably enough to go on.

The darkness

I love rediscovering bands. If you have a large enough library of music perhaps you've experienced this. Recently I remembered that I really like the darkness. This band represents what modern rock should be instead of that hinder bullshit. seriously lets talk about hinder for a second. Even nickleback is tolerable at times (admit it, when you sang along to "how you remind me" you weren't being ironic) but hinder, three days grace and other similar bands have no redeemable qualities. The Darkness does everything a rock band should and remains original and fresh somehow throughout it. This alone blows my mind.
Rock is a dead genre, it's been done and has no new life. So how does "permission to land" fulfill our perceived definition of rock and still manage to remain fresh. The singing helps, the use of falsetto pushes rock to a level we haven't seem before. But rock has always been cocky and on top of the world. When we hear a song like "friday night", we see a rock that lives on the other side. This is a rock band that didn't fight the system, but lived within it. It plays the game, joins the clubs, and earns the grades. The rebellion of rock here doesn't buck the system by living outside it. Instead, it tries to be within the system and live a happy life.

Love

Love is quite the feeling. It's pretty much indescribable. When you're in love you know it and there's no doubt. Love doesn't require a perfect match, not in the slightest. It strikes at odd moments. I love my girlfriend, my heart goes crazy for her. Our differences don't matter, I don't care. I just want her.

I'm in love

Sunday

Sunday is the worst day of the week. The work that was meant to be done all weekend has finally caught up and there you are spending a day at your computer. Sunday is so bad it can even taint Saturday. I can't count how many times i didn't want to go to sleep on Saturday so I wouldn't have to wake up on Sunday. Today is one of those days. It's Monday, but U of M students have Monday and Tuesday off this week, making Tuesday the representative of the Sunday atmosphere. Friday is the only real freedom available. So make sure you live on your Fridays.