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I got back from the roadtrip I went on a few days ago and have been trying to catch up with living since. The trip was a lot of driving (I put 4,000 miles on my car) but a lot of fun too. The journey included floods in Iowa, a trip to Ikea in Toronto, an amazing Bed and Breakfast in London, Ontario, quality family time, being hassled at the border upon returning to the states for no good reason, creepy Jesus shrines, lots of bbq and soul food, Graceland, great dj’ing by Darcie, a glimpse into the local music scene of Nashville and lots more.

So, with all of the driving we had to do, Darcie and I played a number of games to pass the time. One of my favorites though, involved simply spotting cars (American manufacturers seem to be best usually) and replacing the maker name with the word anal. So, instead of a Ford Explorer you get an Anal Explorer. Stupid, maybe. Hilarious, yes. Some of our favorites included the Town and Country, Venture, Dynasty and Avenger.

Anyway, if you’re curious about the trip at all I’ve posted some photos on my Flickr Account.

Over the weekend, my friends’ Kyle and Jaimie got married up in Estes Park. The whole event was beautiful and it was so much fun to hang out with everyone (and eat pizza rolls out of bucket at 1 in the morning). I learned an important lesson though… I’m old. I bought a suit about 2 years ago. I went through the whole fitting process and everything. That might say enough in and of itself, but it gets worse. I’ve only worn it once since I got it and didn’t really consider the idea of trying it on before the ceremony. When I was putting on the pants right before the wedding I very quickly realized they don’t fit anymore. I basically had to go through the whole night with my pants unbuttoned. Luckily the jacket covered up this fact, so hopefully I didn’t look completely ridiculous.

Anyway, I’m headed out on a road trip up to Canada this week, but when I get back I’m buying a bicycle and a gym membership.

The rumors and lies being egregiously spread during the election this year have been truly despicable. I would like to think any sane person would be appalled by so many recent comments motivated by racism, sexism and a lot of other ‘isms.’ I’ll openly admit I’m an Obama supporter, but I’d be just as offended by some of the stuff I’ve seen directed towards him the last few weeks regardless. From reading about “Terrorist Fist Jabs” to a Texas GOP Pin Saying: “If Obama Is President, Will We Still Call It The White House?” to Anti-christ claims, it makes me truly fearful of what ends people will go to so their candidate of choice will win.

God forbid people base their vote on a candidate’s actual stances on the myriad of issues in our country right now.

iConcertCal is a free iTunes plug-in that monitors your music library and generates a personalized calendar of upcoming concerts in your city. It is available for both Windows and Mac OS X and supports worldwide searches.

I just installed it and it is awesome. It runs within iTunes and its search is pretty expansive with shows ranging from Poison to my friend’s bands showing up for me. It also provides a calendar of upcoming releases from bands in your library. Anyway, I just found out Journey, Heart and Cheap Trick are playing in Denver on July 9th. I’ve got to go buy some tickets!

Go download iConcertCal

Update: Some people were asking about this, so I thought I’d clarify… Yes, you can sync this data with iCal.

My friend Matt sent me this yesterday. It might be old news, but I’ve never seent it. Pretty unbelievable though. This must have come out right before the name became unbelievably taboo.

Via Digg

My buddy Vin alerted me recently that he is having an art show at the Andenken Gallery in Denver soon. The opening is June 6, so if you’re in town I highly recommend checking it out. If you’re not familiar with Vin’s work, check out some pieces from his portfolio. Here’s what he said recently…

“I am in the studio working like a banshee preparing for my June 6th show at Andenken. I am in the process of completing 11 pieces for this show. All are lightboxes based on my experiences in different cities around the world. I will be showing with Mandy Ploegsma and Scott Lefavor. It’s gonna be an amazing show. I can’t tell you how good it is to be back at it. It’s been too long. Please attend this show if you can.”

Hope to see you there!

I’m on vacation right now so the following isn’t exactly relevant for me at the moment, but I thought I’d direct all those sitting in an office to the Work Friendly Browser. It basically skins any site you’d like to browse (like mine) into a Microsoft Word like view. When you check it out make sure to press the boss key. The result is priceless.

This idea reminds me of the “work safe mode” from listentoamovie.com. Anyone remember that site?

In between working on 4 freelance projects in the last week, 3 at my day job, moving (of sorts) and everything else that happens in my world on a regular basis I managed to get pretty sick this week. It was great timing. Because of all the craziness going on I couldn’t wait for the weekend to finally have a chance for some quality rest and relaxation. Anyway, since I’m just hanging out at my house tonight I thought I would give my response to an interesting little questionnaire I saw floating around some blogs a while ago about my iTunes library…

Total Length
» 11,969 songs, 28.2 days total time, 50.08 GB

First and Last Songs (by title)
» “À Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)” by Megadeth
» “*******” by Jets To Brazil

Shortest and Longest Songs
» “All” by The Descendents, 4 seconds
» “Cassandra Gemini” by The Mars Volta, 32:32

First and Last Albums (by title)
» “Abbey Road” by The Beatles
» “1984″ by Van Halen

First and Last Artist (by name)
» ABBA
» +/-

Top Five Most Played Songs
» “The King of Carrot Flowers Part One” by Neutral Milk Hotel (37)
» “Just Like Movie Stars” by Matt Sharp (36)
» “Back In Your Head” by Tegan and Sara (31)
» “The Good Life” by Weezer (31)
» “In the Garage” by Weezer (31)

Search for the following words. How many songs show up?
» Sex: 67
» Death: 76
» Love: 473
» You: 1,267
» Home: 116
» Boy: 354
» Girl: 131

First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle
» “Green Is Good” by Rival Schools (who are going to write a new record finally!!!)
» “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by The Who
» “Beam Me Up Denny” by Sicko
» “Bugs” by Shat
» “La La Love You” by The Pixies

What about your collection?

Yes it does.