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:: 2007 26 March :: 6.53pm
:: Music: The sound of my students sighing at their multiple-choice exams

D-Town hosts NCAA Tourneys
So, it appears that Ford Field will be getting some March Maddness-related attention in the next couple of years. In 2008, they will host one of the regional finals, and the following year they will host the Final Four. Here are the particulars:

Regionals: Friday and Sunday, March 28 and 30, 2008
Midwest Regional
Ford Field
Detroit, Michigan
Host: University of Detroit Mercy

Final Four: Saturday and Monday, April 4 and 6, 2009
Ford Field
Detroit, Michigan
Host: University of Detroit-Mercy

So, it would appear that the city didn't totally muck up its Super Bowl hosting duties. I hear it's a very impressive facility. Don't know when I'll ever make it there, but I'd like to one of these days.

:: 2007 27 February :: 6.41pm
:: Music: The Wallflowers - Into the Mystic

Best of 2006 Lists
These might be a little late, but I just saw a few of the Oscar noms in the past week, so I wanted to make a complete list:

Top 10 Films
1. Children of Men
2. The Departed
3. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
4. An Inconvenient Truth
5. Little Miss Sunshine
6. The Prestige
7. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
8. Silent Hill
9. The Queen
10. United 93

Top 10 CDs
1. Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins � Rabbit Fur Coat
2. Dixie Chicks � Taking the Long Way
3. Regina Spektor � Begin To Hope
4. Nellie McKay � Pretty Little Head
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs � Show Your Bones
6. Snow Patrol � Eyes Open
7. Bob Dylan � Modern Times
8. Foo Fighters � Skin and Bones
9. Badly Drawn Boy � Born in the U.K.
10. Eels � Live at Town Hall: With Strings

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:: 2007 20 February :: 8.05pm

ooh an anonymous crush, how exciting!

andy, this is why i am certain this is a good idea... i'm about as giddy as a seventh-grader!

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:: 2007 19 February :: 8.24pm

Get your own CrushTag!

:: 2007 11 February :: 5.12pm

1500!!
So I hit 1500 enteries on my giant movie list. That means that over the years, I've watched somewhere in the ball park of 1500 films. The milestone entry? Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston's The Break-Up that we rented yesterday. Fairly solid flick... tough to watch at times, but I can't fault a film for attempting to be realistic and anti-Hollywood for once. A pleasant surprise to say the least.

So at 2 hours a pop, that means, give or take, I've spent 3000 hours watching new films. Can I have a degree or something to show for that?

:: 2007 9 February :: 12.22pm
:: Mood: accomplished
:: Music: R.E.M. - Lotus

"let it be hewn into your mind."
63 hours, 12 minutes later The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is officially a thing of the past. Very impressive game.

That is all.

:: 2007 7 February :: 10.37am
:: Music: A Perfect Circle - Imagine

New Modest Mouse
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
is set for release on March 20
with a full world tour to follow.

Tracklisting Announced
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

"March Into the Sea"
"Dashboard"
"Fire It Up"
"Florida"
"Parting of the Sensory"
"Missed the Boat"
"We've Got Everything"
"Fly Trapped in a Jar"
"Education"
"Little Motel"
"Steam Engenius"
"Spitting Venom"
"People As Places As People"
"Invisible"

Album Artwork Revealed

:: 2007 20 January :: 7.02pm

Keeping a journal is starting to be scary.

It's weird who still keeps tabs on my life.

:: 2007 10 January :: 7.45pm

Life's like an hourglass, glued to the table.
If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me.

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:: 2007 6 January :: 11.35pm

I guess there's got to be a break in the monotony, but Jesus, when it rains how it pours.
It could be ten, but then again, I can't remember half an hour since a quarter to four.
Throw on your clothes, the second side of Surfer Rosa, and you leave me with my jaw on the floor.
Just when you think you're in control,
just when you think you've got a hold,
just when you get on a roll,
here it goes, here it goes, here it goes again.
Oh, here it goes again.
I should have known,
should have known,
should have known again,
but here it goes again.
Oh, here it goes again.
It starts out easy, something simple, something sleazy, something inching past the edge of the reserve.
Now through lines of the cheap venetian blinds your car is pulling off of the curb.
Just when you think you're in control,
just when you think you've got a hold,
just when you get on a roll,
here it goes, here it goes, here it goes again.
Oh, here it goes again.
I should have known, should have known,
should have known again,
but here it goes again.
Oh, here it goes.
Oh, here it goes.
Oh, here it goes again.

Oh, here it goes again.
Oh oh
Oh, here it goes.
Yeah, oh here it goes again.
Hey hey
Oh, here it goes.
All right!
I guess there's got to be a break in the monotony, but Jesus, when it rains how it pours.
Throw on your clothes, the second side of Surfer Rosa, and you leave me, yeah, you leave me.
Oh, here it goes, here it goes, here it goes again.
Oh here it goes again.
I should have known, should have known,
should have known again,
but here it goes again.
Oh, here it goes, here it goes.
Oh here it goes again.
I should have known, should have known,
but here it goes again.
Oh here it, Oh here it, Oh here it, Oh here it, Oh here it goes
I should have, I should have, I should have, I should have, I should have known
Oh, here it goes, here it goes, here it goes again.
Oh here it goes again.
Oh, here it goes again.

:: 2007 1 January :: 3.27pm

Just to clarify for those who have questioned, I am not pregnant.

And the term "preggers" drives me absolutely nuts.

:: 2006 30 December :: 3.35pm

i am posting this because it brings back happy memories.

:: 2006 30 December :: 3.32pm

Life just potentially got a lot more complicated (in a good way... I think).

I suppose that's just the way things go, eh?

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