tonight i went to a five iron frenzy show. i was really looking forward to it because it will be the last time i ever see them play live. they are breaking up at the end of this “winners never quit: the farewell tour.” the sad part is, i didn’t enjoy the show as much as i could have mostly because i spent most of it hating teenagers. here i am two years out of being one, and i can’t stand the majority of them. i remember having so much fun moshing when i was a kid, but man…now it’s just annoying. the place was packed, and these kids just had to push each other around, which is turn pushed the whole crowd around. i just wanted to watch one of my favorite bands play their last show…not play the “how much weight until you loose your balance” game. i actually almost got in a fight at one point, which is very unlike me. some kid ran into me really hard a few times, and i got sick of it so i grabbed him and threw him into the pit. he came back, we yelled at each other, and i can’t remember how, but it ended fairly quickly. i’m not sure what happened, but he ended up walking away…maybe i scared him off…ha…that’d be funny. growing up as a really small kid, i got stuck with this idea that i’m smaller than everyone else, and loosing the few fights i’ve ever been in, i got the idea that i can’t fight in my head too. it was odd, cause when i was yelling at the guy, the thought passed through my head that i could take him, and then i thought how odd it was that i thought i could, considering my past disposition to getting beat up. but all ended well…i apologized after the show when i saw the guy outside, and he said he was in the wrong too…heh…only at a Christian show.
my fiancee made the comment that it’s a good thing that five iron frenzy is breaking up, cause we both can’t stand fif fans. i mean…there’s nothing wrong with a kid being into a band, but there’s just a really big feeling of youth group overacting in the air. only the church kids will understand that one.

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naet huh?

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a little update on two of the things i posted on last time. apparently, heath ledger’s new movie “the order” didn’t even have a critic’s advanced screening. which means they didn’t even let critic’s screen it so they could write reviews. is there any better way to say that your movie is not worth seeing?
also, i mentioned david blaine’s next “trick”, which he has now started. 44 days in a box. neat. according to relevant magazine david has suffered not only starvation, but sleep deprivation. people have been seen throwing eggs and golf balls at the glass cube. one pedestrian was seen play a drum while david was trying to sleep. i’d feel sad for the guy, but he did put himself in a glass cube and hang it above london.

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i had something witty and funny to say here, and then i was gonna mention the review of five iron fenzy’s “the end is near” and you were all going to laugh and think about how important tb.com is to your lives, and then you were gonna send me lots of money. but then i forgot what i was gonna say. stupid ADD.

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i sure could stand not to see another commercial for the order. it’s that annoying new heath ledger movie where he’s the worlds sexiest priest/evil stopper. funny thing is, when i saw the first trailer, it was uber-anti-catholic. i think the tagline was something like “behind the face of good, lies the soul of evil.” but now it doesn’t even mention the catholic church…thought that was funny.

on another note, i wonder what the animal rights people are gonna say about this. david blaine proves magic is nothing more than sitting around. first the ice thing and now this.

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some of you may know about the “star wars kid.” story goes, some fat kid filmed himself practicing his light saber skills with a gollf ball retriever and the tape got put on the internet. little while later people started edited the films and adding special effects and whatnot. so for quite some time now he’s been all over the internet. turns out, he’s suing. apparently he’s now in all sorts of therapy to counteract all the teasing and whatnot coming from his highschool classmates. funny thing is, after seeing those videos, i’d buy the kid lunch, not pick on him. apparently there’s a petition to get him in the next star wars flick, and a few websites have raised money to buy him stuff. fact is, most of the people seeing these videos of the kids are geeks. they themselves are going to websites and downloading videos. it’s too bad many don’t understand that we’ve all danced in front of the mirror, or pretneded to be a jedi or something like it at some point. i can recall just a week or so ago head banging with my guitar not even plugged in, jammin’ out to some living sacrifice. well, here’s hoping the kid turns out ok.

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