Track Listing
1. Vices
2. Bed
3. At the Bottom
4. Gasoline
5. You Stole
6. Be Gone
7. Sink
8. Bought a Bride
9. Daisy
10. In a Jar
11. Noro

Bonus Tracks
12. At the Bottom (Acoustic)
13. Bed (Acoustic; with iTunes purchase)
13. Bought a Bride (Acoustic; with Amazon purchase)

Okay, September 22, 2009 Brand New releases their fourth album Daisy. It's all I have been listening to for the past two days while playing Halo 3: ODST.

Brand New has been a really great band ever since their first album Your Favorite Weapon, which is one of my favorite albums of all time. However if you listen two Your Favorite Weapon and then listen to Daisy, it is pretty hard to tell that it is the same band. With each new album their music evolves. In Your Favorite Weapon it was straight up punk rock/pop punk whatever you want to call it. Fast paced music. Great stuff.

Their second album, Deja Entendu, sounds absolutely nothing like the first. That's not a bad thing, I love Deja Entendu. The songs are more slowed down, more mellow, and mature.

Then the third album rolls around. The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me. It sounds a little similiar to Deja Entendu, but with some of their songs sounding post-hardcore, with Jesse Lacey screaming into the microphone.

I don't know, I'm not great at describing the music I like so this is difficult for me. But what can I say about Daisy?

Well, there is a delightful looking dog on the cover that gives me nightmares. There are some songs, too. It sounds like a good successor to TDAG. I'm not going to individually review each song on the album, but I will pick out my favorites.

Vices is the first song. For about half of the song there is some lady singing. It sounds kind of sad and it gives a pretty gloomy picture too and I feel like playing Bioshock whenever I listen to it. The second half is a fast paced borderline post-hardcore. Än extremely catchy song. "Just say goodbye to the ground and JUMP."

You Stole is the slowest song on the album, but I dig it. The lyrics are decent. See, that's all I can think of. I don't know how to analyze songs. It's good, what else do you want from me?

Bed is a pretty interesting song. I'm only point this song out because there is a lot of speculation that this song was made after the movie Fight Club, but I don't know about that. Sure enough there is some lines in the song that may reference the movie such as "I don't want to ever go to bed", which references Ed Norton's character's insomnia. "Turn to vapor and float away", possibly referencing Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden who isn't real but rather Ed Norton's character's alter ego. And of course, "And we got into a bad fight", but that could reference anything. Just because there is fighting in the movie Fight Club (go figure) doesn't mean it has to reference it. Those were just from the first stanza of the song alone, there is a few more but I'm bored of talking about this song now.

At the Bottom was the first and only single from the album so I'm pretty much sick of it since I listened to it 20 times if iTunes is to be believed. It's still a good song, though.

Be Gone is the instrumental of the album. Pretty freaky at times but it has a great beat. It has nothing on Welcome to Bang*** from TDAG but it's still good.

Noro is the last tong I'm going to comment on. It's the last song on the album and it closes with the same song that played at the beginning of Vices. Apperently the song at the beginning of Vices was only the beginning of that particular song, and at the end of Noro it's the same song but the end of it. Try to make some scence out of that.

Or just listen to the songs or even better buy it. Support the band. I know that bands only get 11% or some other made up number of profits, but do anything to help this band. Great bands like Houston Calls had to disband because of their **** labels and lack of profits. Bands like A Static Lullaby are getting their vans stolen with all their equipment in it. Seriously, do what you can to help out good bands like this. If you don't like buying albums because of corporate big wigs then just send the band a check right to their address.

It's only $9.99 on iTunes, don't pirate music. The industry is crippled because of ****s like The Millonaires or The Jonas Brothers. I admit that I downloaded the acoustic version of Bought a Bride, but I''m not buying the same album twice for just one song, Interscope Records.

Overall, great album. Listening to it as I type and will be listening to it after I'm done. Nothing's perfect, though. Some of the lyrics could have been better (Gasoline) but still a great purchase to add to your music collection.

4 creepy dogs out of 5.

Well, this is my first blog. I don't know if anyone would want to read it or not, but who cares? I'm not about that. I just need to take out my frustrations on my fingertips and keyboard so let's get started shall we?

SportsNation, a new TV show that has been around for all of a month and a half, is a sports show. That's about it, really. 60% of it's content is made up of fans opinions/questions/etc. if Wikipedia is to be believed. It's an hour long show consisting of polls, "weird web stories", and a bunch of other segments. Really, that's it. They talk about sports what else do you need to know?

It's hosts are Michelle Beadle and Colin Cowherd, two sports journalists. (If you're this far in and are still trying to find the theme, it's "sports") They both have this sort of weird chemistry, almost like they like their job. It's weird, right? Here you are working an 8:00 - 5:00 day for 6 days and you turn on the TV and see people enjoying their job? "**** that", you say. Well, "**** you", I say. They're great together (not to make it sound too weird or anything). They're a real break from those puppets over at SportsCenter. Seriously, check it out if you're an avid sports fan. I rate it 9 stars/5 stars. You can find more info in the link that I will put in later*

This show has been my one of my only sources for TV entertainment (Things not so recently crossed off that list are "Scrubs" and that's it). Really, all I watch now is anything on ESPN/ESPN2 and the occasional "The King of Queens" rerun. Because I'm a man. And men like sports and do manly things like grunt, and lift weights, and not talk about feelings.

Anyway over this past month I've become aware that SportsNation is as reliable as a 12 cent hooker. Doing un-awesome things like moving the times around without sending me a memo or just taking the day off. Even more recently the show is being bumped by tennis, the ****ing Little League World Series, and other things that qualifies as **** nobody cares about.

In all seriousness, I'm glad little Adrian is doing well in baseball. I'm glad he's going to make the nationals. What I'm not glad about is having your kid's 11 year old baseball game on big named networks (such as ESPN, if you're SLOW). I don't see why this is such a big ****ing deal. When I was 9 my little league team came in first place in my league. I got a trophy and everything, but not even my parents gave 2 flying ****s.

And here these kids are bumping my favorite shows. And if you watch one of these games, for the sole reason you're waiting for your show to come on when it should have been on 27 minutes ago, the stadiums are friggin' packed. There are more people attending these games than the San Diego Padres (not that that's saying much).

I don't see why these kids can't be on a local network or something. "But, Jimmy" cried the rebutalling masses, "these kids are aspiring to their dreams. Can't you sympathize for the relatives that aren't fortunate enough to see these games in first person?" In short: No. In long: No, and come closer so I can smack you because my name isn't "Jimmy".

So here comes the sole reason for making this rant. Today on the show, breaking the commercial break, a poll came up with the question "Where will SportsNation be aired for all of next week?" Oh, I'm sorry. Didn't I mention that during commercial breaks the show itself takes a break of the commercials and has a poll? I didn't? Well too bad! If you were cool like me you would be watching the show, you would already know that.

I'm sitting there with my 7 girlfriends while eating rusty nails, and I screamed (err, I mean grunted) in agony as I saw the poll answers. The answers were something along the lines of:

A. ESPN2
B. Some other station I've never heard of
C. ESPNews
D. Verge (I don't know what that is, either)

My eyes scampered across the screen. Looking at the answers, and for a brief moment looking at Michelle's ***s. Looking at the answers again, I waited to see which one was the correct one, hoping that they were just ****ing with their audience. Apparently I was wrong. ESPNews was kept highlighted on the screen. "Oh, woe is me", I cried (I mean, yelled. In a manly, gravel voice) "Why would they want to do such a terrible thing?" I followed up with.

It wasn't until the very end of the show that I realized who my enemy was.

"Check us out next week on ESPNews, DON'T forget," Michelle said. "We're being bumped next week from a cable channel to a digital channel that alienates about 40%(lol 4 made up numb3rz) of our viewing audience because of the little ****s at the Little League World Series." she continued.

So now all of next week I will have to go without my favorite show because I'm not white enough to afford digital cable. Instead I will have to print out pictures of Michelle and Colin's faces, and paste them over the faces of Neil Everett and Chris McKendry at SportsCenter. I'll also have to make up the dialogue. I could make the polls, too. But then I'd have to cut out clothes for Michelle from my new "Victoria's Secret". I mean my new "Sports Illustrated" and "Lumberjack Monthly". Actually, this could be a fun little self-project. I could probably keep myself entertained for a week.

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Either I'll do that or I'll call my grandmother right now and tell her there are a lot of burglaries going on lately and I could steal her cable box when she passes out from her medicine.

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I still have time to think about it.

Send me hatemail at: miketheemailerguy@gmail.com

PS: I'm also sick of seeing plays from the Little League World Series on SportCenter's "Top 10". They make plays that any minor leaguer can make and no one even gives a second look at. Yeah, they're like 12 years old and all that tired ****, but don't try that on me because it doesn't affect my apparently cold and black heart.

PSS: Here's that link I said I'd put in

*http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/