Monday, April 12, 2010
Hello
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Taco Bell Box.
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Saturday, January 2, 2010
Hey Check Out My Band

The local music scene in my hometown of Youngstown, Ohio is really terrible now. It used to be good. I started playing guitar about 10 years ago and I just remember thinking it was the coolest thing and someday wanting to get famous playing in a rock band. My favorite bands when I started playing were bands like Nirvana, Green Day, Blink 182, Incubus, Metallica, Deftones and Linkin Park just to name a few When I started High School most of my time was spent playing my guitar, buying CDs, and attending local concerts. It was really great going to local concerts. They were always packed. It was around this time I started getting away from pop punk bands like Green Day and Blink-182 and getting into heavier indie bands like Poison the Well and Norma Jean. When I went to these shows I noticed that the kids weren't decked out in designer clothes and peircings. Kids were just having a good time, no one seemed to care what they were wearing. Everybody was just having a good time and was their to enjoy the music. It was always real fun to get real hurt in a mosh pit or circle pit and get picked up you when you fell by the nice kids also enjoying it. Somewhere around when I was in 10th grade the scene started getting shitty. Kids started getting really out of control with what they were wearing. Concerts became less about the music and more of an event to show off bands' shirts you bought, torn up jeans, tattoos, and peircings. It became an event for kinds to be seen at and look "cool". Kids who didn't even know how to play instruments started bands that were awful and overshadowed good bands that deserved the attention. It really stopped being fun to go to shows. It was also at this time that it seemed like everyone in attendance started smoking and could only talk about leaving the concert to attend a party to get drunk and high. It was also around this time that MySpace came out and in my opinion "ruined music forever". On paper the concept of MySpace is good, you know let anyone post their music to be heard all over the world, but in the end it causes more harm than good. First, it takes a lot of the hard work out of being a band. You can start a MySpace page and send out an unlimited number of friend requests for people to check out your band. It usually doesn't even matter how good your band is, if you do this you will (or at least you did when MySpace first started) get many fans instantly. I used to hear about bands starting out going through hard times and playing to empty places. While it doesn't sound that great at first, it becomes a positive thing in the long run because it is a big learning experience for the band and creates a stronger bond with the members. When you playing to nobody in an empty space in really makes you question your own ability and motives. Therefor it would strengthen you and make you work harder. MySpace kind of took that part of being a band out. So what we were left with was a bunch of kids or couldn't play being overly supported by their friends and MySpace friends. This made them unaware of how bad they actually were because of their instant overwhelming support. So there was no motivation for them to get better because in their own minds and their "fans" minds the were already great. That brings up another question. What ever happened to constructive criticism? It seems now a days no matter what you do musically the response is either overwhelming positive or overwhelmingly negative. Anytime I write a song or play a show I'm never satisfied. I always think it sucked or it could have been better. I'm not saying that being that way is the perfect or correct way to be but it is certainly better than being cocky and being satisfied with everything you do. Sometimes you need someone to tell you that you suck or you need to get better. It just seems that because of sites like MySpace and Itunes it is basically impossible to strive for an actual career in music. They have polluted music so much that it's so hard to even find a good band because you have to shift through so much shit. It seems like most music these days is more concerned about appearance than what they are actually playing. Nobody seems to go to to concerts and if they do its usually people so polluted that they could care less at what they are listening to, because of this many of our local venues have had to close. I spend a lot of time and I used to spend more time trying to find great music and my new favorite band. Anytime I found something great, I always knew that there was another band or artist out there that would blow them away and it was my job to find them. It seems these days kids listen to what they think they are supposed to and what they are expected to and they give it right there. I feel that any music you listen to that you think is great, keep looking because you can always find something better. Anyway I made this post in hope you can check out my band. We have a MySpace which I knpw seems odd because I just spent a lot of time trashing them, but I'm afraid I don't know any other way to let my band's existence be known. So I'm afraid it's all I got. I feel that I'm at a good place musically now I don't write music to suit a style or appearance. I just do whatever it is I want to do and I hope that I can play it to some people who hopefully enjoy it. So please check out my band. I can't necessarily tell you that we are great or even good. If you don't like I can't in all honesty tell you that you are wrong, but I can tell you that we aren't playing anything we don't want to play and we a being very real and being ourselves when we do it. Anyway if you read all this thanks. I just felt like venting and at the very least having some of my thoughts organized in something other than my brain. My band's site is www.myspace.com/fatandersonjam
Here's some pics......





later...
Friday, January 1, 2010
Christmas 2009!!!

Sorry for the lack of updates for the estimated 3 people who read this. I have been extremely busy with school, work, and my band that I basically forgot I started a blog, but I hope to change that and start posting on a regular basis. If not for people to read then just for me to have organized information to complete my memoirs or for a movie of my life where I will be played by Kobe Bryant.
Anyway.......Christmas is over. It's always real depressing for me the few days after Christmas heading into the New Year. It really starts to sink in that I'm going to have start doing normal stuff again like not being fat.
Anyways I felt like posting the stuff I got so check yo self.
These gifts where from a friend who I let stay at my house for a bit. As you can see I received "Are You Kidding Me" which is a book of fun facts. Did you know it is healthy to eat dirt? Or that it is possible for a woman to give birth to twins from two different fathers? That means you can not only have a black baby, but a black baby and an Asian baby, or even a green baby. The possibilityes are endless. You'll also notice the book "A Ring for the King" a book following the Cavs attempt to win a championship with Shaq and lastly an Office Calendar. I never use calendars but The Office is one of my favorite shows so that should count for something.
but my mom claims she thought it was a John McClain figure. I tried to find the website she bought it from to trade it for a John McClane figure but they seem to have gone out of business sometime between Dec.8 and Dec. 26 or there is some underground black market operation that gives "Hartigan" Bruce Willis figures when really you want "John McClane" Bruce Willis figures. Yeah, that's it. I actually bought a new Xbox 360 Headset with a gift card I received from my grandfather, because my old one broke. Probably because of the epic trash talked I spewed into it. I also received a George Foreman Grill from my mom. I got one for Christmas like 10 years ago and loved it but I let my grandfather borrow it and I haven't seen it since. Well actually I saw it on his counter one day and reminded him it was mine but then he started talking about old guy stuff. My grandpa owns a George Foreman grill.
Several Punisher Books: Good Stuff. I always enjoy watching the Punisher kill some fools and these are no exception.
Watchman: Finally picked this one up. I got it the day after Christmas. I heard there is a lot of wiener in it.
Scalped: I read it. Not sure I get what all the fuss is about.
Batman: Battle for the Cowl, I Kill Giants, and The Preacher: I haven't read them yet but I hear good things. I can't wait till I have to go to the bathroom.
It's weird. I've always collected comic books, but I never read them. I was always afraid of damaging them.
I also got Michael Ian Black: My Custom Van. A book where Michael writes essays as Billie Joel not wanting to play "Piano Man" at a party and as Abraham Lincoln after he was shot.
I got some some cds. Nick Swarson: Seriously Who Farted?, Louis C.K.: All Chewed Up, David Cross: It's Not Funny, The Fall of Troy: In the Unlikely Event, and Poison the Well: The Tropic. All good stuff. I especially like Nick Swardson's joke about being an ice skater and skating to the center of the rink to spin and start peeing.
Some miscellaneous stuff A Beatles T-Shirt, a Simpsons puzzle, a guitar cable, some guitar picks, and last but not least Ghostbuster Ectoplasm Energy Drink.
That brings my novelty energy drink collection to 6.
Well that's it. Hope you had a good Christmas.
later...
Monday, September 7, 2009
Insane Clown Posse: The Best There Is, Was, and Ever Will Be.

The Insane Clown Posse formed on the streets of Brooklyn in the late 1960's with founding members Lief Garret (Violent K) and Joe Kerr (Faggy Peanuts) during a backyard renaissance fair. The two met through a mutual friend that Faggy Peanuts's brother was doing at the time. See Faggy Peanuts loved show tunes and was looking for a partner to perform with since his early days of stand up comedy. So this mutual friend introduced the two and history was forever changed. The 2 immediately hit it off and had sex with each other. When they were done they began to discuss recording some music. That's when Violent K said the words the forever rocked the music industry "No.........Let's paint our faces like gay clowns and have sex with each other". It was then agreed, no music would be recorded on this day, instead there would be rounds and rounds of gay clown sex. Once the smoke cleared from the smoke machine Faggy Peanuts hooked up, the duo started laying down some tracks. The duo's musical chemistry was immediately noticed and the two began to have sex with each other. After demoing several tracks the group decided it was time to begin work on their debut album and have sex with each other again. The album would be called "The Carnival of Carnage" do to Violent K's obsession and love for carnival corn dogs. The album was a smash hit selling over 100 Billion albums in it's first day and the video for their single "Smells like Teen Spirit" getting significant airtime on VH1. The band was finally a success, so the duo had sex with each other.

After the smoked cleared from the fog machine that the Insane Clown Posse hooked up over the world, the band was bigger than ever and had a loyal fan base known to them as "Juggalos" which is the french word for the phrase "Butt Olympians". It was during this time ICP became known for their intense stage show. The band at the time would fill fire extinguishers with the soda known as Faygo and spray it in the bathrooms. Many concert goers would be unaware of this and would slip and fall as a result of the bathroom floors being wet. Some concert goers even complained of the floors being quite sticky.
Many successful years went by as the band continued to sell a million zillion records and have sex with each other, but that's when things took a dark turn. It was around this time that the band ate a lot of chocolate. Violent K became very fat and very pregnant with the group's first child. All the sex and chocolate had finally caught up to them and the group was put on indefinite hiatus until Violent K could poop again. It was at this time that group member Faggy Peanuts fell into a deep depression. Things weren't all bad in ICP land though because it was at this time that Faggy Peanuts wrote his number 1 solo single "With Arms Wide Open" upon the news that Violent K was pregnant with his child but it was at this time Faggy Peanuts began to battle an addiction to boobies. After years of being pregnant Violent K's baby exploded and the group was back together, but things again took a turn for the worse yet again when Faggy Peanuts revealed to Violent K that he was addicted to boobies. Violent K was heartbroken because he felt this went against the group's homosexual image. Faggy Peanuts agreed and the duo had sex with each other and the group was now stronger than ever.

I hope you enjoyed my brief accurate history of the musical group the Insane Clown Posse. If you have questions about the Insane Clown Posse please comment below or send me an e-mail at andysunglass286@hotmail.com
...later
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Andy Marte: The Best There Ever Was

Andy Marte is the greatest of all time. It is believed by some that Marte is the reincarnation of both Babe Ruth and Willie Mays (despite Mays not being dead). There are many questions surrounding Marte's birth and when he was conceived but a more accurate question would be "When was he conceived of by man'?". Mankind has had Gods throughout history to help explain away things that can't be understood or that appear to be miraculous. So with that being said, is Marte a physical reality or is he myth conceived by man. He is in fact real, birthed on the sands of ancient Greece as a half-God, half man hybrid. Andy Marte A.K.A "Noodles" was first introduced to baseball at the tender age of zero years old. Many men died at this particular exchange of base and ball and Marte's pure power was realized. Marte soon began is rapid climb into the MLB. Marte was traded to the Cleveland Indians from the Boston Red Sox due to the Red Sox's fear of his overwhelming power and him embarassing the other players because of his pure skill. Marte soon began his streak of consecutive MVP winning seasons starting with his career high 5 home runs in 2006. He continued his winning ways by slugging 3 long bombs in 2008 with a batting average of 1 million. Marte is currently unmarried, because no women can handle is "seed".

...later
Sunday, August 9, 2009
My Brother and Me: A Retrospective on the Greatest Show Ever Created by Human Beings on Planet Earth
The show's main characters were two brothers named Alfie and Dee-Dee Parker, hence the title "My Brother and Me". I wonder who the title is referring to, like is Alfie going "Yeah, it's my brother and me or is it Dee-Dee. This show must take place before they started their board game empire.
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Milton "Goo" Berry A.K.A "The Gooster" or "The Goomeister"(Jimmy Lee Newman Jr): Goo is Alfie's main man or as he likes to say his "ACE". Goo is a real Eddie Haskell like motherfucker. He likes to make fun of Dee Dee and his friends but when an adult is around he quickly changes his tune. Unlike Alfie, Goo made the basketball team despite the coach thinking his name is "Glue". Goo says the coach calls him that because of his defense because " he can stick anyone out there". Goo also really wants to have sex with Alfie and Dee Dee's sister "Melanie" whom he describes as being fine. He once suffered amnesia after getting hit in the face with a basketball and briefly thought Melanie's friend Dionne was the "fine" one but he hit his head on a table and quickly saw the error of his ways. Goo once imagined that he had his own drink entitled "Goo Punch" complete with it's own theme song.

Melanie: "Oh Goo you are all that"
Goo: " I am ain't I and so is my Goo Punch"
Goo: "Come on everybody, Goooooooooo Punch, Alright now!!, Goooooooo Punch Hey!!!!






Settings
Every episode usually showed the characters hanging out in the Parker's house, mostly their living room, the boys' bedroom, and the kitchen. The show also commonly featured the characters in the school cafeteria, playground, gymnasium, or the front entrance. The characters also frequented the comic book store. Each episode usually contained one unique set piece for the episode, such as Goo's bathroom.
I always thought the Comic Book store the characters went to was incredible. The store had a fucking snack bar in it that served chili dogs! There was always a bunch of badass comics and stuff in the background. It also had an arcade. I remember watching the show wanting to create a comic book store just like it for 11 year olds to hang out.
Interior Monologues
The show extensively used interior monologues. Almost every episode featured the character's "thoughts," usually overreacted responses to something another character said. This was especially prevalent in scenes revolving around the boys' father , who frequently told painfully boring stories about his brother, the kids' uncle Lawrence, and forced the kids to endure his favorite dish, Mumbo-jumbo gumbo.
Celebrity Cameos
In the first episode of the show, Charlotte Hornets all-star Kendall Gill made a guest appearance. The young shooting guard came to the comic book store to impart wisdom to the children. It was here that Alfie famously remarked "Oh my God, it's Kendall Gill!" Similarly, on the episode, "Robin Hood Play", George Jung is seen briefly in the audience wearing a t-shirt saying, "Howdy doo, kids! Remember, Just Say No!"
The show also featured former Orlando Magic small forward Dennis Scott as a coach. In the episode Basketball Tryouts, he serves as the coach who picks the final teams for the juniors and seniors.
Final Thoughts
Overall this is the best show ever created. It was just canceled because kids in 1994 were racists. The only character who went on to have a good career was the actress who played the character Dionne (Amanda Diva) she was the host of MTV2's Sucka Free Countdown and can be found on many VH1 programs. The guy who played Alfie became a rapper named "ShowBizzness" he likes to smoke weed and was shot 7 times a few years ago and made a full recovery. Dee Dee is a student athlete star catcher in College. The mother unfortunately died of cancer and the dad usually plays someone working at Lowes or enjoying a sandwich in a commercial. Not much is known about the other actors, but I heard Goo worked at a Pizza Hut in California.
The show has never been released on DVD and probably never will, but you can find poor quality fan made bootleg DVDs online. I have one so if you don't have any luck finding one I can maybe get you some episodes.
My Brother and Me
1994-1994 R.I.P
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