...I will eat you alive..." Very, very eery.

I negotiated hard with the parents, and i got my Macbook Air early!!! I'm loving it so far. It's about twice as fast as my old sh!tty computer. Luckily, Firefox works here, so I can still use it. Unfortunately, I need to use Safari to get the special trackpad features, but I can use both.

Surprisingly, even after about two weeks without a blog, I still don't have much to talk about. My last day of school is on Tuesday, we graduate on Wednesday, all go to Disneyland on Thursday, and then have a half day where we sign yearbooks on Friday. Then...sweet freedom!!!

Tomorrow is Father's Day, and I'm playing a two man beach volleyball Father-Son tournament with my step-dad. Should be fun. i'm pretty sure I get along better with my parents than most people do.

Next Friday-Monday, I have a four day volleyball tournament, and then two weeks after, I have Junior Olympics in Utah. Damn mormons. It's four days. JOs are always fun. You play, and then go mess around with your teammates. Last year, we played cards in the lobby every day, and at night played dare poker, and we got one player to call someone and ask them out, but they called a mom to trick him. He ended up asking the mom out, until he was told that it wasn't a hot chick. He was mortified. It was fukcing funny. Last year, a McDonald's next to our hotel got held up. Awesome.

...'til it burns up my arm..." From one of my two favorite albums together. It's a softy on a pretty rocking album.

I'm sure some of you have heard the new,s and others haven't, but, well...

BARACK OBAMA IS NOW THE PROJECTED DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!!!!

Now, some of you may be thinking, "Wow, great, who cares?" But for me, this is a big deal. I strted supporting Obama lightly in early December, and began supporting him more and more. Soon, I was a part of what some people would call the obsessive supporters. I checked polls every day, watched CNN on every primary and caucus day, and cheered when he won, and tried to sugarcoat when he lost. Well, it all worked out for me. The one I supported came out on top, something unusual. In 2000 (I was in Kindergarten or 1st Grade, but we had a little school election for fun), I supported Al Gore. In 2004, I didn't give a flying sh!t, but Bush seemed to f**k up a lot, so I wuld have liked having John Kerry instead. Now, in 2008, Barack Obama is the first African-American presidential nominee in the history of the U.S.. Even if you don't care about politics, you have to recognize that achievement.

Now, he enters the general election battle. Surprisingly enough, tonight, the way he spoke about Clinton, and the way she spoke about him, it sounds like there's a shot at an Obama-Clinton ticket. A pretty good one at that. I believe that if Obama were to choose Clinton as his running mate, he would be locked in as the almost definite president, and her the definite VP. If he chooses someone else, it will remain a close race. Many of you are talking about how some people just won't want a black as president *cough*Shadow*cough*. Oh excuse me, I have a cold (no, seriously, I do). But you have to think a little harder. The states where the amount of people who wouldn't support Obama for that reason are already states that he is projected to lose. All the midwestern and South states, except Colorado and a few semi-rednecky states that he dominates in for whatever reason, are all red on the electoral college estimates. Shadow also pointed out that some people would just tell a pollster that they would vote for Obama, just to not appear to be a bigot, but he doesn't seem to understand what kind of poll it is. They anonymously ask you who you want to vote for. And even if you didn't feel ready to have a black man as president, why wouldn't you just say you liked John McCain better? They don't ask you why, you just say why and that's that. There is no doubt that Obama's ethnicity will play a factor, but when else (bar Bill Clinton's election) has a democrat actually won most of the southern and middle states? It doesn't make a difference is my point.

One last argyment I have is based on youth. It has been proved numerous times that Obama appeals better to young people than any other candidate (as proved by myself as well in a school survey for Current Events) right? And there are millions of new voters going into the polls this November. In fact I know a few like that who do indeed support Obama. I've read quite a few articles about this, and they all seem to convince me that it could help him edge out. I would appreciate if hp and/or Tweek (who hasn't been here for a while) don't talk about being 17 or 18 and supporting McCain because young as they are, they are two people. Anybody else this goes for you too.

I'm not saying this will be an easy victory. Iff the electionb were tomorrow, I strongly believe that Obama would win by the smallest margin. It would be in between a 3 to 10 electoral vote difference, but be enough for him to win. I would appreciate if no one rains on my paraderight now, as me and a few friends are strong Obama supporters. I'm sorry, but netiehr any of you nor I have the knowledge that political analysists have, and they don't think of race as much of a problem to Obama. They think it makes a differenc, but not big enough.

Watch this blog rake in a whopping two comments or something. Nobody is interested in the election besides me, NYBrian, and a few others. Shadow always comments on my blog (thank you), so maybe two or three comments and my response. Bye.

...cause they don't have any feelings..." Very, very easy. I expect everyone to know this.

I finally got back from New York, but I got pretty sick while I was there (like I do a lot of times), and I'm home from school today. I'm supposed to be reading at doing Math for school, but I figured I'd write a blog real quick.

In New York, I grabbed a DVD of Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance. It's amazing. Better than the other Nirvana DVD I have by far. The acoustic performances are perfect. Esdpecially songs from "In Utero" stand out above the rest and are nothing short of amazing. If you need any proof, here you go:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=X_apoJ0LLCk

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DH8fQT-147A

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2oAF3UdSJ1k

http://youtube.com/watch?v=209ArurxVG4&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yHe3ptt7B8Y

Nirvana: Unplugged in New York

The band has never sounded so harmonious. "Unplugged" is music from beyond Earth, obviously something that would have been made by Kurt Cobain himself after his death (if of course, that were possible). From the opening "About A Girl" to the closing "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" nothing fails to be less than perfect. Songs like "Dumb", "All Apologies", "The Man Who Sold the World", "About a Girl", and "Pennyroyal Tea" chill your soulas you witness the most wholesome any band as heavy as Nirvana ever was.

Score: 10/10

I finally saw Iron Man the other day. It was one of the best superhero movies I've ever seen. I decided to just review it now.

Iron Man

I'm not one who loves his superhero movies. The only superhero movie I remember enjoying in the past 5 years was "Batman Begins". "Superman Returns" was the only other half decent superhero movie I've seen for a long time. However, I couldn't help loving this movie. I fell in love with the ****c comic book hero as he trounced his former business partner. Amazing action that was supported by an equally great plot added up to one hell of a movie. Possibly the single best part, even more so than the action was Robert Downey Jr.'s performance. He took his leading role, and made it his to perform. Nobody could have ever fit the part as well. I'm eager to see this movie, which so far earns the spot as my favorite movie of the year so far.

Score: 9.5/10

Me being me, I have to include something about the 2008 Presidential Election. It's becoming clear that Obama will be the Democratic presidential nominee. However, it is also obvious that Clinton would have defeated McCain by a larger margin. Obama > McCain > Clinton in my opinion, but I think that we're in good hands with whoever wins. Realclearpolitics.com has begun doing an electoral vote count, and here it is.

(Obama v. McCain) http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/?map=10

(Clinton v. McCain) http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/clinton_vs_mccain/?map=14

These two counts are determined including toss-up states, meaning states that go back and forth between democrats and republicans, or states where the polls are so close, and are sometimes determined by past party wins in the general election. Here are electoral college counts where the toss-ups are not included.

(Obama v. McCain, no toss-ups) http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/

(Clinton v. McCain, no toss-ups) http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/clinton_vs_mccain/

Although some people have doubts about it, I think the democrats can say with certainty that they will hold office next year. However, we can't be completely certain. McCain could win the elecition, it just seems more aligned for the other candidates.

I don't have much else to talk about, so I'll leave you with a few more videos.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8oMtJaADvgA

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_GvzhV8gnvo

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jas6F3EZr5w&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rnImVkzEzI8&feature=related (I can't have just some of my top five bands)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MnQH44Xqwnw

http://youtube.com/watch?v=m47S8o6pdqU

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LqnETnu3Jw4

...for a guiding light..."If no one gets this, I will cut your nutsacks off.

Ha ha!!! I don't have school tomorrow!!! Why? I'm going to New York to visit my dad and some old friends. Even better, we had Monday off and today was a half day for Open HOuse. I only had 2 1/2 days of school this week.

In the world of video gaming, I'm still paying "Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" again, the greatest game ever (don't argue, as most people wouldn't). I got back to the second Water Temple. God damn it's amazing. Anybody who doesn't like this game has either 1. never played it, or 2. is sick in the head. The best Ocarina song in the game is the Song of Time. It's eery.

Anyway, I'd like to talk about a somewhat unusual topic. As has been proven on many occasions, that most supergroups suck. If you don't know what a supergroup is, it's a band made up of memebers who have found success in other bands in the past. Two examples of well known supergroups are Velvet Revolver, Audioslave, and A Perfect Circle. Although some are good, like Velvet Revolver, they never quite live up to the original bands (e.g. Stone Temple Pilots, GNR (I'm more of a VR fan, but GNR was greater) > Velvet Revolver, Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine > Audioslave, Smashing Pumpkins > A Perfect Circle, etc.). just for fun, I decided to make up my on supergroup using musicians from some of my favorite bands:

Chris Cornell (lead vocals), Jerry Cantrell (lead guitarist), Dave Grohl (drums, yes drums, not vocals or guitar), and Jeff Ament (bass) (I wanted to include Mike McCready, but his bluesy guitar wouldn't work with some of the heavier band members).

Weird as it looks, that would be one hell of a band. Grunge-tastic. I'm gonna get some heat for the supergroup having only grung band members, but that's because grunge died out,, and this would rock and bring the genre back up again.

That's all for today. See ya.

...of a troubled mind, I try to understand..." I used this song two or three blogs ago and no one guessed it, so I'm recycling it like Shadow does.

Today was a great day. I got my talk box in the mail, which was even better than I was expecting it's really easy to use, sounds great. I played "Man in the Box", and figured out "Do You Feel Like We Do" (just the talk box solo). I mastered making it talk, and using it for a wah effect. I'll record some demos soon.

At 5:30, I went to the Varsity Volleyball CIF Division I Championships (the high school state championships, courtesy of a friend for my birthday present), between Mira Costa (the school I'm going to next year) and Newport Harbor High (the #1 seeded team in the CIF, before today). We lost the first two games lcosely, but pulled off three in a row to get the 3 out of 5 to win state championships!!! Fukc yeah!!! Mira Costa are the champions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And my friend found a new idol, the libero for Mira Costa (the libero wears a different colored jersey and can sub in for anybody an infinite amount of times without using a substitution). The Outside Hitters and the Opposite Hitters were my idols for the game (especially Opposite, considering it's the position I have to play next year). The game was like a football game. Crazy, energetic, scream-fill;ed, and especially: obsessed fans. We moshed after the victory, and almost got smashed against the bleachers, but I jumped just in time to avoid getting hurt. It was an awesome game, something we'll be talking about at school.

Anyway, I don;t have much else to say. I'll do what I did with movies last blog, and do it with bands.

Straight-up Rock: Pearl Jam

Heavy metal: Alice in Chains

Electronic: Radiohead

Alternative: Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumpkins

Hip-hop: The Beastie Boys (this is the first time I may say something that shocks anybody, I do enjoy a good dose of hip-hop now and again)

****c Rock: The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Indie: Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine

Overall: Radiohead, followed by Pearl Jam

...I don't give two sh!ts on how you feel..." This one is specifically designed to be guessed by Shadow.

Today I celebrated my birthday with five friends. We went to that glow in the dark mini golf place I mentioned, and had a 3 v. 3 competition. My team had the two best: my friend who golfs a lot, and me. However, we lost because on a 18 hole min i golf course, one of our team members got a 89!!! I did OK, got about a 65, even though I know I screwed up counting in the other team's favor, but only by one or two, and my friend got a 55. It was damn hard course for mini golf. The other team all wrote down about 68-70, but they lied on the scorecard. I watched my friend get 7 strokes on a hole and they marked down 2 for it. They do al suck at math. My team had all the smart people: two Math honors students and one computer genius (AKA, my nerd friend, you gotta have a couple). We didn't give two sh!ts about who won though, so who cares if someone cheated.

We then saw the new Indy (Indiana Jones for those who are slow to recognize nicknames) movie. I actually got a pleasant surprise. I was expecting something pretty bad, like the Star Wars prequels. I thought it would be fun, but not great. Mark's review got my hopes up, and then the movie matched my new expectations. It was damn good. One of the best sequels I've seen from any movie. THEY NEED TO KEEP SCI-FI THE FUKC AWAY FROM MY INDY!!! But, it was still quite good. Great action, decent plot, and the characters were great. I'd give it in between an 8.5 and 9 out of 10. Maybe a little more towards the 9 for the wow factor. Great movie. It rocked.

For my birthday today, I got two gift cards to Best Buym which total up to about $60 or so, a $25 American Express card (can be used anywhere like a gift card), a nice shirt (I invited the guy yesterday, so anything at all was nice), and another person I invited yesterday is taking me to a volleyball game for the high school we're going to (this is a kid who I trained after school almost every day to get him good enough for our school's A team, mission accomplished, he played on it).

Only one more day until I can do this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=rvGPYPugyQ, and many other things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, I ordered a talk box on Tuesday, and it's expected to arrive tomorrow (it will, this company never fails me). I can't wait. My friend wants me to imitate that Geico commercial with Frampton, but I'll just play the original solo.

This has to be the most bizzare guitar video I've ever come across. This guy is fukcing talented though. Genius: http://youtube.com/watch?v=5sYL6-9ocKo&feature=related. He does this with "Man in the Box" and other songs too! He's mad!!! At heart, he's one of those mindless shredders I so hate, but he's so innovative in it!!! Hell, he's doing the vocals, lead guitar, and the rythym guitar by himself! Talk about a one man band, those other two guys are just props in the background.

As I said, on Monday, I went to the music store, and got "Blues For the Red Sun" by Kyuss, "Parklife" by Blur, and "Pablo Honey" by Radiohead. "Pablo Honey" was pretty good, but not normal Radiohead materail, as I expected and knew. "Parklife" and "BFTRS" were both pure awesomeness. "Parklife" was unique and catchy. Some music is just fun, and this sort of is that kind of music. It's fun, but it's so much more as well. It's just flat out great.

"Blues For the Red Sun" blew me away. It rocks so hard. The biting riffs tear at your ears, and the rough vocals make your head start banging no matter where you are. Rocking at its absolute hardest. It sounds like something the original Alice in Chains would have made if they were all simultaneously stoned. Fukcing awesome. I'd like to thank Shadow for such a great suggestion and Elis for reassuring me to buy it (if Elmis and Shadow agree that an album is great, it always is), and once again Shadow for telling me to get something by Blur, and again Elmis for suggesting "Parklife" many times (once again, they agree Blur rules, they do). I'll give both full reviews later, but they both score 9.5 and upwards. Genius albums. Go buy them if you don't already have them.

I need some sleep, need to rest my mouth for talkbox use tomorrow. I'm still rewatching the original Indys. I'll watch "Temple of Doom" tomorrow, "and "The Last Crusade" on Sunday. School's off on Monday, so I'll watch "Star Wars VI: Revenge of the Sith" (I watched IV and V last week), and I'll have my classic Lucas-Speilberg fix all done and good. As a closer, here's my favorite movie from every genre I feel like talking about.

Action/Thriller: No Country For Old Men, 007: Casino Royale

Adventure: Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Sci-Fi: Star Wars IV: A New Hope

Comedy: Juno

Overall: Star Wars IV: A New Hope, Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, No Country For Old Men

...come on rain down on me..." No one got the last one, so I'm doing another song by the same band. Try and guess both if you can.

Well it's finally my birthday. I got to play huki under the pretend reason (which my mom made up), that I have a "volleyball hangover", meaning a horrible headache caused by dehydration I actuaible headache from dehydration. I've opened a few presents and so far, everything's not bad. I of course got the tickets to see Radiohead in August, but I also got a giant "OK Computer" poster with the lyrics (if you can call them lyrics) to "Fitter Happier" printed at the to, with the album cover (awesome cover) and "Radiohead: OK Computer" printed below. I got Eddie Vedder's soundtrack to "Into the Wild", which is pretty good. I didn't expect too much, but "Guaranteed" is a great song. I'm heading to F.Y.E. today, and I'm getting some albums. I'm definitely getting "Pablo Honey", "Blues For the Red Sun", and "Parklife", but I don't wanna get much else yet, as I'm trying to save some for my talk box. I'm definitely getting it now, I just need to order it. I will also go to a rare online DVD store and buy "Radiohead at Glastonbury 2003". I've been trying to find it for a while, and I just wanna grab it. It's only $12, so it's worth it.

Oh yeah, and I got the "No Country For Old Men" DVD, a book of pictures from my trip to Death Valley (surprisingly fun to look at), and some new boardshorts (awesome ones). A while ago, I got Mario Kart Wii, but it turned out that my mom and dad both bought it for me, so my mo returned it and I just got a $50 gift card to Target. Sweet! I've got three more presents to open at dinner (at a Chinese resataurant that's THE best). I'm still getting gift cards and stuff in the mail from relatives, so everything's good.

At my volleyball tournament yesterday, we got 3rd place (our usual), and we moved up to 4th best team in the state out of 45. We almost beat the #1 team in the state, but came up 4 points short. Damn. Oh well, next time. I had a great day, and turned out with an amazing kill percentage. It should total up around 500, and a normal outside hitter should get about 300. I'm just too good, almost twice a great score. I got 13 kills in one match, with only 2 returned hits and 2 errors (I hit one just out, and got blocked once, but had four blocks).

There's the poster. Isn't is badass?

...and what they do to you..." Amazing song. Runs with the theme of the blog.

Well, it's finally Saturday, and I've got plenty of time on my hands to beat a few dungeons in Ocarina of Time (I'm addicted all over again), watch some TV and maybe a movie, listen to music, and of course, piss time away on this website. I don't have too much eventful to talk about except my school volleyball teams tight 1-2 game loss toAmerican Martyrs, easily the best school we've played. We lost two games 23-25, 18-25, and won one game 25-19. I pulled out a jump serve (which I usually don't do), something that worked out pretty well, although eventually I missed one serve. I still played like crazy, and even scaled a wall to save the ball before going out of play, dug a (estimate) 45 mph spike, and hit quite a few hard spikes of my own, about the same speed as the one I got up.

I'm exhausted right now. I just got back from playing volleyball at the beach with some friends from the school tea. We played 3 games against each other, and 2 against other people. We won against some guys who are either seniors in high school or somewhere in college. They weren't bad either, we were just better. We beat them in front of all their girlfriends. I said they would should get them for winning: I call the one with the big boobs :P. I'm not kidding, I call her. I have an indoor club tournament, which should seem really easy because (1) it's harder to jump on sand, (2) passing is harder, (3) hitting is harder, (4) you have to co ver more court, there's less people, and (5) my club team is better than the team I had today. I'm playing some 2-man beach tournaments with my new beach partner. He's our school team's other outside hitter. His spikes are great, he's the fastest person in our whole grade (5:30 mile at the age of 14, and the best 200 m dash time), and can set if he needs to. He's an OK passer. His defense needs work, but I have a really good beach coach that'll whip him in tto shape, and we'll be a team to be reckoned with.

Now on to something else. I'm reviewing every Radiohead album now. I don't have "Pablo Honey", but I have heard enough to make my best guess as to how good it is. This is in order of how much I like them.

1. "OK Computer"

Quite easily one of my two favorite albums ever. "OK Computer" was the first sign that Radiohead was taking a different course in **** which turned out to be a great idea. The first thing that you may notice, and that some people (like music a$$ Robert Christagu) criticize, is that "OK Computer" lacks soul. It sucks you dry of any soul, and sends chills down your spine. From the opening "Airbag", to the closing "The Tourist", the album glistens beyond perfection, something achieved by so few albums.

Standouts: "Paranoid Android", "Karma Police", "Lucky", "Climbing Up the Walls", "Exit Music (For a Film)"

Score- 11/10. It's something I don't do often (only with two albums), but I give albums that are close to perfection perfect 10s. Albums that I feel meet and exceed those albums, I give them beyyond a 10.

2. "Kid A"

I was a bit worried about listening to Radiohead's electronic side, having been a full out rocker for a long time. I had loved the Radiohead guitar albums I had, but this album, dominated by percussion, vocals, and FX strings worried me. My worries had dissolved by the time the opener "Everything In Its Right Place" was through. The streaming beats and acoustic guitar driven tracks, mixed with the mostly percussion and strings songs makes for a perfect mix.

Score: 10/10. Yes, Radiohead has two albums that are at least perfect.

Standouts: "In Limbo", "How To Disappear Completely", "Optimistic", "Morning Bell", "The National Anthem"

3. "In Rainbows"

This was actually the album that really got me in to Radfiohead. I had heard "Creep" before, and a few others, but I never had an album by them. I wasn't sure if I would like it or not, but I found it to be my favorite new album of last year by far. It sounds like a halfway point album in between "Amnesiac" and "Hail to the Thief", like it hsould have been released in between them as they returning to guitar on "Hail to the Thief". You can hear a beautiful white sound on a few of the tracks, which indicates that they all recorded in the same room sometimes. It was beautiful and powerful more than anything.

Score: 9.5/10

Standouts: "Weird fishes/Arpeggi" (my favorite song of last year), "Bodysnatchers", "All I Need", "Jigsaw Falling Into Place, "15 Step"

4. "The Bends"

For some reason, Elmis thought I hated this album (according to his comment on Lockedge's blog), but it's one of my favorites. Easily the best 100% guitar driven album (in fact, one of only 2), and has both beautiful arrangements, and post-grunge all out rockers. Thom Yorke had some of his best vocal performances on this album, and it was Johnny's best guitar album. It was the last album Radiohead di before experimenting a little, which payed off well. However, this album is still 100% bonified badass.

Score: 9.3/10

Standouts: "Fake Plastic Trees", "Just", "Black Star", "My Iron Lung", "Streep Spirit (Fade Out)"

5. "Hail to the Thief"

After Radiohead's two extremely tense and tight recordings, they loosened up and a relaxed jam session, then threw in elements of the electronic albums, added it to a guitar sound, and they were the same young rockers they had been a few years before. They have some exotic electronic songs like "The Gloaming", but for the most part, the songs are pretty relaxed and have more guitar than its two predecessors.

Score: 9.1/10

Standouts: "Myxomatosis", "2+2=5", "The Gloaming", "Sail to the Moon"

6. "Amnesiac"

After confusing fans and for the first time dividing critics with "Kid A",, I'm sure most people were expecting Radiohead to go back to their original sound and guitar the main instrument like they used to. However, they continued the streak of innovation, and pulled out yet another great album. The recording is arguably the most intense recording and listening they've put out. That doesn't make it any worse. It's still a great album as usual, and one of the best composed.

Score: 9.0/10

Standouts: "Knives Out", "Pyramid Song", "Morning Bell/Amnesiac", "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box"

7. "Pablo Honey"

Radiohead's debut album, and pretty much the worst foreshadowing of their future possible. It has its jewels like "Creep", but for the most part, the songwriting and lyrics are bad, and the music just isn't overall as great as Radiohead can be. I don't own the full album, but I plan to soon. From what I've heard (all but a few songs), it's mediocre for Radiohead. It's not a bad album, but they could have done so much better. At least it was their debut and they've made up for one OK album.

Score: 7.0/10

Standouts: "Creep", "You", "Thinking About You"

I hope your happy. I'm actually not an easy scorer, but I strongly believe that all these albums deserve the scores they got.

I found the best Radiohead setlist ever, and I have hope for a similar one since this was their latest show.

1. "All I Need"

2. "Jigsaw Falling Into Place"

3. "Lucky"

4. "15 Step"

5. "Nude"

6. "Pyramid Song"

7. "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"

8. "Myxomatosis"

9. "Idioteque"

10. "Faust Arp"

11. "Videotap"

12. "Paranoid Android"

13. "Just"

14. "Reckoner"

15. "Everything In ITs Right Place"

16. "Bangers + Mash"

17. "Bodysnatchers"

18. "Like Spinning Plates"

19. "Optimistic"

20. "Karma Police"

21. "Go Slowly"

22. "Planet Telex"

23. "Fake Plastic Trees"

24. "The National Anthem"

25. "House of Cards"

Notice something? I finally found a show where both "Fake Plastic Trees", and "Karma Police" were played. What's more? "Just", "Myxomatosis", "Weird fishes", and of course the king of their heavier songs (heavy for a lot of the song) "Paranoid Android". Damn I hope that they play this. Maybe add in "Black Star" and it would be perfect.

...I got off being sold out..." Shadow, Elmis, you must get this our I will personally burn you alive.. Especially Shadow since he threatened me if I didn't know this song before :P.

Apparently, yesterday's school volleyball game wasn't our last. We're scrimagging that Christian school I talked about. I have some friends on that team, and some former and current teammates, so it should be good fun. Definitely a good challenge. I don't know if I talked about my worries for my tournament on Sunday, but I will again. My club team's starting middle blocker (one of them) has to go to New York for his siter's graduation, something I have no objection to at all. Unfortunately, his mom was in the hospital because she got an infection after surgery. However, she's getting better, and she's well enough to travel, so at least that worked out for him. On our team, there was nor problem at all. We moved in somebody of equal height, who did a great job at practice. Personally, I hate him (the middle blocker who's missing is cool, but this kid's an a$$), but he's a good athlete, and always has his mind in the game. I think we'll do fine. We're playing our other team, and two crappy teams, so we're guaranteed at least second in our pool, which guarantees us 3rd place in the tournament. We have a good chance of making the top 2. The other two teams we could possibly play are both team we've beaten before, and when they beat us, it's close. Should be a good day.

I decided to make up a little survey. I've seen hundreds of these things, but I wanna make one that finds more out about things you like to do, rather than blank things like your age. Well, actually, the first few are like that, but it changes a bit.

1. What's your name?- Grant

2. What's your birthdate? - 5/19/1994 (I'm damn young)

3. What's your favorite sport?- Volleyball

4. What's your favorite band- Radiohead. Yes, I finally broke the tie, and they very very closely came out on top. It'll probably switcch around in the future.

5. What's your favorite song?- I have two. "Say Hello 2 Heaven" by Temple of the Dog, and "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead.

6. Favorite album?- "OK Computer" by Radiohead and "Vs." by Pearl Jam

7. Do you play any instruments?- Yes. Guitar, I can play bass, and I know how to drum, just not very well :P. I can sing also.

8. What's your favorite subject in school?- P.E. :P. If that doesn't count, I actually enjoy Math now and then. Only if it's easy.

9. What's your LEAST favorite school subject?- Language Arts/English. With the exception of reading an occasional good book like To Kill a Mockingbird, the work is boring and overloading.

10. What's your favorite book?- I have quite a few. I like The Odyssey, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the Harry Potter series are among them.

11. What concerts have you been to- Let's first go over ones that weren't great. I went to a Green Day concert a while back, which I regret, and a few of the bands at the LA Invasion sucked. The great ones were seeing Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bad Religion (twice), Social Distortion, seeing Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Chris Cornell, and Velvet Revolver all in one night at the LA Invasion. Of course you know, I'm seeingRadiohead live in August, which I will now admit I payed $200 per ticket for :P.

12. Favorite video game?- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

13. Does your hair rock?- Mine does. Don't know about you. I still have a pending hair-off with Shadow and Tweek, which judging by how much Elmis used to talk about how badass his hair was, he might want in. Mine looks like Jerry Cantrell's, but shorter (still looooooong though, a bit longer than in my videos), Shadow's looks like Slash's when it's gron out, Tweek's looks like George Harrison, and Elmis (judging by his band's myspace picture) has hair like I guess Eddie Vedder more than anything. HAIR-OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

14. We put you in a fight against Jet Li, who wins?- Me. I'll whoop his a$$ all down the floor. Then Jackie Chan come flying at him and I catch while he's doing a fly kick and throw him. Yes, this will happen in the future :P.

15. Hi.- Is that a question? There's a question. No.

16. Do you have a job that's badass or you would rather die in a hole filled with sh!t than work there?- Neither. No job right now. I'll get a job in the stocking room down at the skate store Vans. Right down my street, fun, rocks, end of story.

17. Have you done your homework tonight? (only I need to answer this)- Rhetorical question I already KNOW the answer...no.

18. Can somebody make this survey for me? It's getting boring- No.

19. Then why don't you just stop making the survey?- That involves too much effort. I have to like, you know, press the "Post Entry" button. Too much work.

20. But you're pressing more buttons typing this than it would if you just posted this.- That's not a question.

21. Fukc you- Fukc you back.

22. I'm confused- Once again, not a question.

23. Huh?- What?

24. Who?- Shut up.

25. I sthis the most pointless survey ever?- Yes, and I'm stopping now.

26. Did you stop yet?-............................................................................................

Thank god that's over with. I had a pretty heated argument with myself, but think I won.

27. No you didn't.- Go away.

I just told myself to go away, wow. Enough of that. Here's a list of the albums I'm planning to buy.

1. "Pablo Honey" by Radiohead- Need to finish my collection.

2. "Blues For the Red Sun" by Kyuss

3. "Funeral" by Arcade Fire. 28. That's what it's called right?- Dammit.

4. Something by Deftones

5. New Portishead album.

6. A Blur album. Either "Parklife" or "Modern Life is Rubbish." Whatever they have.

7. Something form someone else familiar, presumably Pearl Jam. I need to complete that collection too.

8. Something else. Anything I find. I have gotten a ton of great suggestions recently, but I wanna try to discover at least one new band on my own.

I'm all done, see ya later.

...where you going now, don't turn around" A test of your early '90s indie knowledge.

I finally have a day off this week. I've been busy everyday doing something every day, but I had nothing to do today, except a 40 minute school volleyball game. We played one of the rich schools again (not the ones I talked about recently, but a few weeks ago), this time at their gym, and we destroyed them again. We beat theem 25-11 in the first game, they had no cahnce, 25-18 second game, we tested out a few weird things, a lot of us tested our jump serves, which was successful for me, but overall we kinda screwed ourselves by trying all these things, and in the third game we beat them 15-3 while we were testing a different rotation. That might have been our last school game, unless we organize a game with the Christian private school American Martyrs, who's really good. They'll be the only competeition we've had besides our very first game. I have a few friends on the team who are quite good, so if we get it worked out, we'll have a good game. After the burying, we watched our B team play (little sucky guys :P) and cheered them on. They lost the game we watched them, but they won two out of three games, so they won. For some reason, we played to three games every time this season, whether or not they needed it (we only needed it once). I kind of wanna get a tournament video up some time just for the hell of it, show ya how damn good we are. We have some games like this (the close team is the same club I play for, in fact, that's the same court my team usually plays on, the exact same). This is an older team having a mediocre game, so it should about equal us: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xqXW-EfQtdm. Difference i, our passing's usually a bit better than this :P.

On a quick political note. Even after Barack Obama's huge (and I mean HUGE) loss in West Virginia, and what will happen again in Kentucky, fortunately (for Obama supporters), John Edwards endorsed him, which has overshadowed the loss. His poll numbers have gone up to a higher point than ever (+7.2 against Hillary for nomination, and +4.5 against McCain for general election), and in recent polls form each state, out of 16 polls, Obama won 11, and out of the 5 big states (the 5 states with the most electoral votes from those polls), Obama won 3 (California, New York, and Pennsylvania) and McCain won 2 (Florida, huge shock there, and Ohio). Not to sound biased, but if things continue this way, Obama will win everything. Don't even deny it. It could swing in McCain's favor in the future, but Clinton is finished, and if things continue this way, McCian will lose. On top of all that, he's expected to win Oregon, and for the first time, he has more superdelegates than Clinton, and they just keep flocking to him.

Last night I had the ultimate combination of great things. I listened to "In Rainbows" by Radiohead while reading To Kill a Mockingbird for school. It rocked.

Yes, I'm still obsessing over Radiohead. Don't worry Shadow and Elmis, after my birthday, I'll have plenty of money to finish my Radiohead collection, grab a few from familiar bands, and still get tons of new stuff.

I'm kind of out of things to talk about, so I'll list my top ten albums right now. It's pretty much the same as usual, a little different to fit what I'm listenig to right now.

1. "OK Computer" by Radiohead (it broke the tie and jumped out ahead)

2. "Vs." by Pearl Jam

3. "Siamese Dream" by The Smashing Pumpkins

4. "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" by Red Hot Chili Peppers

5. "Badmotorfinger" by Soundgarden

6. "In Utero" by Nirvana

7. "Loveless" by My Bloody Valentine

8. "Facelift" by Alice in Chains

9. "Slanted and Enchanted" by Pavement

10. "Doolittle" by The Pixies

Yeah, not much different than usual, but oh well. I'm off to play more Ocarina of Time!