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I’m leaving for Wisconsin just as soon as I can pack my stuff and burn some CDs that Megan wanted. Specifically, I’m going here, which on what must be a 1970s era satellite looks like this, and speaking of satellites 36 years ago last wednesday was the first time we went here (32+ years ago was the last time btw). Anyway, that’s about it. I’ll see everybody when I get back. And hey, if you read my site, can you leave a comment on this post? I wanna know who my real friends are (just kidding ).

Those of you who are fans of Family Guy will hopefully get the joke in the title by the end of this quick post. Recently Crystal posted a blog entry asking what her readers wanted to do with their bodies when they died. I of course accepted the challenge and left a comment. I liked what I wrote so I’m going to repost part of it here:

Seriously: I’d like to donate my non-brain organs and then give my brain to neurologists so that they can figure out how the brain works. I’d like some part of me to be buried, simply because I want a tombstone that my descendants can visit, even if they never met me.

Rediculously: My hope is that the neurologists can reverse engineer my mind and transfer my consciousness into a cyborg. My skeleton will be reassembled into a frightening pose and placed in a natural history museum next to a sign that will read “Here we see B. Turkelsapiens stalking his prey. Note the bipedal stance, 3D vision, and serrated teeth up to 12 inches long. He appears to have had an ‘egg tooth’ on the side of his head at one point.” They may have added some parts of a T. Rex skeleton in for effect. Standing next to the exhibit I will laugh mechanically at how weak my organic body was and in a fit of irony trip and fall onto the gigantic tooth, impaling myself. Before my hydrogen power cell explodes I will utter the word “Rosebud” which nobody gets because A. Nobody in the future has seen Citizen Kane and B. Sleds are no longer around due to global warming.

If you don’t get the joke in the title, in one episode Peter gets banned from the video rental place for recording over their tapes. It cuts to a couple watching Citizen Kane, and right after the guy says “Rosebud” and dies, you see Peter appear on their screen and yell something like “It was his sled! The sled, from when he was younger, it was named Rosebud! There! I just saved you two long, boobless hours!”

No, this isn’t about my trip to the Key West, but a few notes about the concert I went to last Thursday at the Newport. Reel Big Fish was there, Jeff, Roshan, Andrew, and I all went to see them (although Jeff went with his “other friends”). I’ve been a fan of theirs since high school, and whenever my friends and I are in a position to listen to music (parties, road trips, etc.), you can bet the RBF will be brought out.

As for the opening bands, they kinda sucked. First up was Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer. I liked them alright, but all of my friends thought they sucked. I thought they kinda sounded like how I imagine No Doubt sounded before they figured out how to get everything together. And when I say No Doubt I’m referring to their good songs. Not the crappy ones. (What the hell way “Hey Baby”?) If I see anything from Zolof in a year or two I think it’ll be better. As a side note, they need to change their name. At first I thought there was an advertisement for an antidepressant hanging above the stage.

Next up was Punchline. We all agree, they sucked.

Third was El Pus. I can’t say I cared for them, but they weren’t horrible. Cool name, and good logo too. They covered “Billy Jean” and it was pretty good.

Then came the main attraction. I thought Reel Big Fish performed well all around. The horns were great, the guitar was great and I had a good time. I don’t know what else to say. I was able to sneak in my camera and take some videos. They’re low res so it shouldn’t be too bad to download- unless you’re on *shudder* dialup. Sorry about the cut-off intros to the songs.

• Video 1
• Video 2

Also, I’m still working on the site. These wordpress themes are tricky to edit and still look good.

In a fit of sillyness, I instant messaged Megan with the following, and I thought I’d share:

how’s Key West? Hurricane-y? I thought so. That’s what happens when I leave and the vacuum created by the departure of my awesomeness (my “sphere of influence”, if you will) angers God so much that he sends a storm of epic proportions into my wake. But the joke is on Him! My power will surely weaken the storm so much by the time it reaches Ohio it will be nothing but a spring rain! Well, my power and the fact that the land surrounding Ohio is in fact made of land and not sea water 80 degrees or above!

Alright, alright, I’m getting to the pictures thing. I swear. First, I updated wordpress. But now, of course since I skipped on a few upgrades prior, my layout doesn’t work anymore. So I’m stuck with the default- which is much better than mine, anyway. But I need to make the site my own again, and add a place for pictures and stuff, so I’ve got to learn wordpress’ cool theme system before I get working on the pictures. Once the site changes into something, well, less good-looking then you’ll know my theme is done and I’m working on the pictures. Which will be cool. I’m going to look into storing the pictures in the database- something I’ve never tried before but should be cool.

So enjoy the beautiful site before I screw it up.