"Let me check the back."

I recently went shopping, I used to hate it, but now in some strange way it makes me feel important. I don't know. Anyway, I was looking for a tie, a narrow one. So I was in the store and they had about 4 different kinds of narrow ties. I liked one but there was a color I had in mind and they didn't have it, so I asked one of the workers if this was all the narrow ties they had. The lady said "Umm, I thought we had some more, let me check the back. Hold on one second." In my head, for the moment I actually thought there might be something "back there" and when she returned of course she said, "No, I'm sorry. This is all we have." I smiled and said thanks and then I thought to myself, when have I ever asked for something and the person said I'll go in the back and check and actually came back with it? Never. If they had it, it would be in the front. And then i started to think about when I worked in Sears selling treadmills, I would tell people all the time "I'll go back and check" knowing full well that it wasn't there but I just wanted to get away from them and sit in the back room and do nothing. I would literally sit in the corner of the storage room and stare at nothing for about 5 - 10 minutes and pretend I'm doing something. It just satisfies the customer and shows them that you tried. So the next time I go looking for something and it's not there, I'm going to ask someone if they can check the back and then leave before they return. Maybe I'll look from the outside and see if they try and find me in the store. I haven't decided yet if that's completely ridiculous, but I think it would be pretty funny to see.

Rage, Lions, Machines, and Mars

Another music installment, just recently purchased One Day As A Lion. The band consists of front man Zach De La Rocha from Rage Against The Machine and the drummer from Mars Volta, Jon Theodore (all rock stars spell their names differently). Anyway, the EP is only 5 songs but it's still awesome. Zach De La Rocha plays an organ that sounds like an electric guitar. It's pretty successful in sound, here is a clip from The Black Keys using the same type of instrument http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3r8qb1A_Fk . I would put one from One Day As A Lion, but there isn't any on the web from it. And since this is a two man band as well, it's the same type of effect. And plus it was awesome live -(I saw it). But if you like Rage Against The Machine, then you would def like this, it's raw and very political. And I'm not even into hard music, but for some reason I've always liked Rage and this is along the same lines. So if you have 8 dollars, might as well spend it on something you can listen to and ponder over for a few minutes.

Modern Guilt

I'm pretty sure no one is reading this and it will fade away into the infinite cyberspace. So I will write in this every once in a while when I'm bored. It will be filled with rants and just plain non-sense. And in most cases the grammar, spelling and sentence structure will be awful because I'm not going to go back and edit it.

Recently I just bought Beck's new album Modern Guilt, it's the follow up to The Information. (Which by the way was amazing, buy it if you have the chance.) Coming into this album i was a little skeptical because the 'famed' producer Danger Mouse was going to be in charge of this one. He is the producer of such bands as the Gorillaz (Their first two albums are awesome), The Good, The Bad, and The Queen, and Gnarles Barkley (not so much). But recently he just produced the latest album from one of my favorite bands The Black Keys and ruined it!!!! If anyone reads this, you should def check out The Black Keys.

So coming into Modern Guilt, I was a bit scared because I happen to be a pretty big Beck fan and like i said, I'm skeptical of Danger Mouse's previous work. I listened to the album through and I was a little disappointed after the first listen. But since the drive to Queens is about 30 minutes with no traffic, I continued to listen to it and it's really starting to grow. After the first listen I thought there was about 3 or 4 songs I liked, now after road work being done, rubber necking, and women being aloud to drive - I've gotten more time to listen to it and tracks 1-6,8,9 all sound awesome. So, for an album that has only 10 tracks I'd say it's pretty successful. It's no Kid A by any means but Beck ,who usually I can't tell what he is talking about most of the time, has lyrics that actually stick together for a whole song. It's a short album, only 33 minutes and most songs are from 2-3 minutes. But hey, it worked for The Beatles so why not Beck Hansen? It's got a type of psychedelic 60's drug feel to it, but then again I love that type of music and if you like it also check out - The Black Angels, real psychedelic, tons of drone machines.

That's it for now. I have to continue to my Spanish homework. Tell me this isn't ridiculous, I can't receive my degree in ENGLISH because I haven't fulfilled my SPANISH requirements. So now I have to take one Spanish in the summer and another next semester. Unbelievable.

"I follow the road, though I don't know where it ends." Neil Young - On The Beach

I am reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy, so far it's nothing to go crazy about. I was expecting something a little different after viewing No Country For Old Men, I guess I can say that it's pretty well done if I'm still reading 110 pages in and nothing has really happened yet. It basically consist so far of a fire being built on every page. What I'm curious about is what they are using for toilet paper, maybe at the end Mr.McCarthy will englighten us.