Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Big Bro Dave...


Tomorrow is my brother Dave's Birthday.  Some of you know him; some of you don't.  Since I'll be celebrating with him & The Ettes, I wanted to post something.  It's starts back when I was a sophomore in high school.  That's when I started getting away from Tremonton & spending the weekend at his & Doug's house.  (I had to get away.)  My first real concert; he was there.  We saw The Ramones in August 1995.  He called in sick to work to go.  He's showed me how to listen to music.  I listen a lot keener than I did at a young age.  We've gone to a lot of shows together, all 3 Rocket from the Crypt shows, The Supersuckers,  The Night Marchers, the Donnas @ DV8 Basement (RIP) & many more.  He's been in a few bands: Surly, Tarn, The Protocol, The Switch, & Blackhole.  I'm sure to be missing a few.  I'm proud to say I've seen them all.  Every time I went to SLC, we'd end up at DI.  Doug, Chris, & he would look through records while I'd meander off.  I eventually got the bug & started collecting myself.  (Now, I've got 700 +.)  He's been through some ups & downs.  I've been through some ups & downs.  But we've been there for each other.  I can say I would be who I am with out him.  Cheers, Dave.  Happy Birthday.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Music of '08...

Here are five artist with new albums I dug...

The Night Marchers
See You in Magic



The Loved Ones
Build & Burn


The Ettes
Look at Life Again Soon


Teenage Bottlerocket
Warning Device


Rocket from the Crypt
All Systems Go, Vol. 3





Friday, January 2, 2009

52 Books in 52 Weeks...

One goal for '08 was to read 52 books for 52 weeks of the year.  How close did I come?  42-1/2.  
Here's the top 5 or so (no particular order):

Looking for Alaska
An Abundance of Katherines
Paper Towns
-by John Green
(Brilliant Young Adult Novels with a mysterious girl character, & the guy whose out to find them.)

Ranger's Apprentice Series:
The Ruins of Gorlan
The Burning Bridge
The Icebound Land
The Battle for Skandia (the 1/2)
-by John Flanagan
(Excellent Fantasy novels.  Follows the adventures of young Will, the Ranger's Apprentice...)

Spud-The Madness Continues...
- by John van de Ruit
(I've raved about Spud, the first of this series.  This, here, is the second.  Seriously, laugh out loud funny.  I busted a gut many times.  Rain Man is hilarious, but all of Spud's cohorts are a scream.  READ THESE!  Nuff said.)

The Wednesday Wars
-Gary D. Shimdt
(Magnificent book about growing up.)

Click
-Mult. Authors
(Ten Authors collaborate on one novel.  They each take a turn at writing from a different perspective.  Really put together nicely.)

There's many more, but these are some of my favs.  As you see there's a theme, Young Adult.  Maybe, I'm trying to escape back to those times & see it from a different perspective.  Maybe not.  I do know I'm trying to escape.  I don't know what from, but there's something...

PS...  One thing (many) I didn't like were the Twilight books.  Boo!  Sorry ladies.  (See earlier posts...)