George HW Bush
Kirk Douglas
Duke of Edinburgh
Adam West
Nancy Regan
Fidel Castro
Hugo Chavez
Abe Vigoda
Macaulay Culkin
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Dead Pool 2013 Website will be up later this week…
If losing to the Redskins in a must win - Sunday Night football game wasn’t bad enough… I had to also chase Amos around my apartment complex after giving me the slip on a drizzly/chilly night here in San Antonio.
Managed to catch him tho’…
Gato and Me
Had a number of chores to knock out around the apartment today and decided to dawn my Bettawreckonize t-shirt to complete my task list.
It’s so weird wearing a shirt that brings back so many incredible memories… I hope that in 10 or 20 years, there’s a way that all of us could get back together and have a Bettawreckonize camping weekend like we did in Indiana many, many years ago.
Bettawreckonize
Helped assemble my first ever Fisher-Price - baby, jungle jim thing today. Apparently my niece is required to spend some time on her stomach and back to help build neck muscles.
I don’t know how much of this is true, but she seemed to get a kick out of it tho’.
Fisher Price
Just noticed that my carryout food had some unexpected art on it… as you may have guessed this displeased me on a number of levels - but I’m cold and dead on the inside.
2012 Top 10 Albums of the Year: #1) Kendrick Lamar - “good kid, m.A.A.d city”
There’s something to be said about a rap artist that work as well as Kendrick above the snare beat. When I heard all the hype surround this album, I really looked forward to listening to it and dismissing it quickly. Much to my surprise, “good kid, m.A.A.d city” turned out to be the best album of the year.
2012 Top 10 Albums of the Year: #2) Frank Ocean - “channel ORANGE”
I don’t think I’m alone in saying that 2012 was an incredible year for R&B. Frank Ocean’s channel ORANGE has been celebrated as the album of the year by a number of critics and its completely deserved.
Its pound for pound one of the finest produced records of the year and I think it’s a record we will look back on in eight years and list is as one of the finest efforts in the past decade.
2012 Top 10 Albums of the Year: #3) Diiv - “Oshin”
Been struggling for some time to come up with something to describe Diiv’s(pronounced Dive) album “Oshin”.
The musical stylings (influences) are very evident if you give the record a spin… As dream pop records go, “Oshin” is an incredible record to slip on when its cold outside. It’s a very concentrated/rooted effort with unintelligible crooning that puts me in a familiar and tranquil place.
Perhaps it’s ranking is a little high for a Best Album of the Year listing, but in my opinion it’s a high water mark in a rather forgettable year for acts whom use a guitar for a catalyst.
Took a few belts off a bottle of SoCo this morning for breaky… alarming behavior for most, but I officially have the apartment back to myself - after hosting the rents for nearly a month.
The things one does for a newborn niece…
From: Me
To: Me
After finalizing all of my holiday purchases this year, I came in under my desired budget thanks largely in part to shopping smarter than I have in years past.
This allowed me to actually splurge on a few things I’ve been wanting to get throughout the year but hesitated to until I completed getting gifts for the family.
One of these said gifts was a collection of Hard Cover John Green novels.