Dec 19

Facebook has recently connected me with one of the most important people in my life and I’m a better person for it

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Jun 23

One of my good friends mentioned listening to The Epoxies in a Facebook post today. Since Maura (not to be confused with The Other Maura) lieks the Epoxies, I thought I would lay down a little Portland Punk Rock history and talk about The Automatics.

The most direct connection between the Automatics and The Epoxies would be FM Static.  In a previous life, FM Static was known as Jesse Kimball, bass player extraordinaire for The Automatics, one of the better Pop-Punk acts to come out of the early to mid 90’s.

They seem to be somewhat overlooked, which is a shame as The Automatics turned out a lot of great suburban Punk Rock anthems that deserve to be heard.

To that end, enjoy some prime cuts from The Automatics:

The Automatics – Degenerate

The Automatics – Makin’ Out

The Automatics – Tokyo

The Automatics – Mommy is a Commie

The Automatics – No!

The Automatics – I Just Wanna Kill Myself

The Automatics – I Just Wanna Be With You

The Automatics – Don’t Come Between Us

The Automatics – Hate Your Generation

The Automatics – Lucky Girl

The Automatics – Punk Rock!

The Automatics – Will You Go With Me?

The Automatics – I Don’t Love You

If you can’t play the mp3 filesI have come up with a few ways for you to play the songs:

1. You can download and run an exe file that has all the songs and a small mp3 decoder wrapped together.  Just download and click to play.

2. Click play on this:

ZD YouTube FLV Player


May 2

So I get up this morning and ,ust have left my sanity in bed.  I wasn’t up for more than an hour before I used the following words in the forbidden order:

“you” “today” “chuck” “to” “cheese” “guys” “go” “to” “want” “do” “e”

When put in the forbidden order, this spells:

“Do you guys want to go to Check E. Cheese today?

I don’t know what the hell I was thinking.  A the words came out of my mouth I though, “No you fool, what are you doing?”

Anyway, we met our good friends and their kids there and the kids had a great time.

That place is just exhausting.


Apr 29

Totally loving English Pirate Facebook.

Thanks Tricia, you made my day!