If the media is to believed, then Nevin Shapiro may have just crippled or killed the sports team I cherish above all else and have for over 20 years. I figured maybe I should write a blog post about it. Why don't we start with the basics: -Nevin Shapiro is in jail serving a 20 year sentence for a $930 million Ponzi scheme -He is also a former University of Miami sports booster -Between 2002 and 2010, he claims to have provided illegal (according to the NCAA, not the law) benefits to 72 Miami Hurricanes football players (and some basketball, but who cares about UM basketball?) including use of his mansion, yacht, throwing sex parties, buying of strippers and prostitutes and even paying for a stripper's abortion -Twelve of these players are current players (also one current basketball player) -6 coaches are implicated as being either knowledgeable or even involved with providing of illegal benefits (Frank Haith [now at Missouri] and five assistants [two basketball, three footba...

here's what Thrice would play in my utopian fantasy world: 1. Lullaby 2. The Weight of Glory 3. Yellow Belly 4. Burn the Fleet 5. Flags of Dawn 6. Broken Lungs 7. Daedalus 8. The Earth Will Shake 9. Hold Fast Hope 10. Talking Through Glass/We Move Like Swingsets 11. Come All You Weary 12. Open Water 13. Lost Continent 14. The Whaler 15. Red Sky 16. Music Box 17. Like Moths to Flame 18. Backdraft 19. The Weight 20. Trust 21. The Melting Point of Wax 22. All That's Left 23. Silhouette 24. The Artist In the Ambulance 25. Cold Cash and Colder Hearts 26. Kill Me Quickly 27. To Awake and Avenge the Dead 28. Deadbolt 29. For Miles 30. Beggars The more of these they play, the more epic this show will be...

...and a lot of people seemed to like it for some reason. Personally I think it could use some updating, which is why I'm storing it here for now. In storage but on display. Think of it as a "demo version." UPDATE: I've edited it a bit and have a second draft now. The edited version is directly below and the original version is underneath the edited version and italicized. float away catch a star on your way let it expire in a fury of light that once was so small to those far away yet now it fills the sky and when you show us that we'll cry but we'll know that love never dies we'll hug in great numbers and take home reminders of all that we have and we'll know know that best friends forever is more than just a cute catchy phrase know that the words we say are more than just words and we'll say them with more conviction than ever and we'll cry but these tears will be the happy kind the kind that come from community from words spoken with sin...

So it seems there's a new trend going around Facebook. It's called 30 Day Song Challenge . Basically the idea is that you post a video every day according to the list of songs you're meant to select (found by clicking on "Rules"). As I was reading this list, I felt remiss at the idea of posting these videos and not offering any explanation as to why each fits into its given category. There are plenty of good stories behind more than a few of these songs, at least for me. For the purposes of this blog entry, I tried to, whenever possible, avoid boring videos of just the song over some pictures. Many of them are live versions, some music videos, a few special versions, and a couple of the aforementioned boring videos. Some I didn't bother posting videos for for what should be obvious reasons. day 01 - your favorite song - Thrice - For Miles It wasn't long ago that I'd have had a hard time even putting a four-minute song with a pop song structure i...

What I Will by Suheir Hammad (sue-HEAR HA-mud) I will not dance to your war drum. I will not lend my soul nor my bones to your war drum. I will not dance to your beating. I know that beat. It is lifeless. I know intimately that skin you are hitting. It was alive once hunted stolen stretched. I will not dance to your drummed up war. I will not pop spin break for you. I will not hate for you or even hate you. I will not kill for you. Especially I will not die for you. I will not mourn the dead with murder nor suicide. I will not side with you nor dance to bombs because everyone else is dancing. Everyone can be wrong. Life is a right not collateral or casual. I will not forget where I come from. I will craft my own drum. Gather my beloved near and our chanting will be dancing. Our humming will be drumming. I will not be played. I will not lend my name nor my rhythm to your beat. I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death. Your war drum ain...

As much as I love the System of a Down double album Mesmerize / Hypnotize , I really could have done without a number of the songs from both records. Most double albums probably should have never been double albums. I think SOAD had it right with the process they went through for Toxicity where they recorded somewhere around 30 songs and then whittled that down to 14. However, with the positive response to Steal This Album! , I think they felt like this time they could just leave those songs in and make an epic double album. Unfortunately, they had it right the first time because there's a lot of filler on both albums that doesn't fit in and interrupts the flow of the album. So what did I do? I removed them and reorganized the tracks the way I would have had them in a playlist. I call it "IZE." 1. Intro (Soldier Side) 2. B.Y.O.B. 3. Attack 4. Dreaming 5. Revenga 6. Violent Pornography 7. Kill Rock N' Roll 8. Question! 9. Tentative 10. Lost In Hollywood 11....

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