Monday, April 21, 2003
I just wanna add that Hockey is the Greatest sport ever. If no one is watching you need to watch the playoffs. The games are soo intense right now and its not even close to predictable. theres gonna be 3 I repeat 3 game 7's all played tommorrow, I'm gonna be nuts with the channel changing. I have no idea how the coverage is gonna be done i know espn and espn2 have the rights but thats only 2 channels. Maybe one game will be early.
In honor of it, here are the Top 10 sporting events I have watched (big event or the way it was watched). this one can be very good if everyone participates and does it. different events different time periods technically, and we all watch different things too.
Honorable Mentions:
- Tyson vs. Lewis: First fight I've actually ever seen
- NCAA Golf Singles Championship 1996 - Watching 2 kids battle it out. Tiger Woods was one of them, he was supposedly this kid who was gonna tear it up once he went pro.
- 1995 Indy 500 - Scott Goodyear crosses the finish line first but they say he passed the pace car on a caution lap even though everything showed a green light. He did obviously pass the pace car. I still wonder why he was so anxious to take off and why no one followed his lead. He was given 14th place after he lost his appeal.
- 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. - People finally have proof of something that was obvious to me since I watched ice skating. It's rigged.
-NCAA Football 2002 LSU vs Kentucky, last play of game with Kentucky fans on field and LSU wins with a miracle.
- Not an official sanctioned sport but, 1998, WWF King of the Ring. Hell in a Cell match Mankind vs. Undertaker. Undertaker practically kills Mankind literally by throwing him right off the cage. Then while being taken out on a stretcher, no one knows how he does, but Mankind (Mick Foley) actually gets up, and climbs back up the cage and then during a choke slam the cage gives way and Mick Foley goes through and hits the mat and its one of the most disturbing things ever. His body looks like its broken into pieces, he somehow actually finshes the match by being slammed into thumb tacks. All I remember were those sights and listening to Jim Ross scream, get the paramedics down here really, this is real, he really is hurt, and then after the fall through the cage, "stop the match stop the match he's going to die if we don't stop this insanity." No one including mick Foley himself knows how he didn't die, and cannot attribute his continuing on to anything but adrenaline. Its mostly known for those 2 falls and because theres a shot of Mick, bloody face and all and it looks like he's smiling. Later on Mick said he wasn't smiling, he was using his tounge to feel a hole in the top of his mouth and that the white thing in his nose was actualy a tooth that went through his lip and into his nose.
- MLB All Star Game 2002 - A Tie.... a Tie!!!!!! Can something like this actually happen.
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10. NCAA College Hockey Championship 1999. In OT a player whose name I can't remember actually goes behind the net, picks up the puck with his stick and throws it into the net from behind winning the game. Best hockey goal I have ever seen.
9. Superbowl XXXIV - Jan. 30, 2000 - Tennessee vs. St. Louis - 1st Time I've seen a Superbowl down to every last play I finally saw a playoff football game that was actually exciting and not a boring blow-out.
8. 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillhamer- A lot of things happened that year that were awesome including me learning the name Picabo Street. But its mostly known for the Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan incident. I don't specifically remember any of that stuff, but I remember Tonya Harding being a spoiled brat and saying she was gonna be the first woman to do a triple axle in competition. When it came time to do it she only did like a single lutz or something and then immediately went over to the judges table to show them her skate was supposedly messed up or some excuse, the judges never found anything really wrong, but gave her the benefit of the doubt, in her re-run she still didn't do the triple.
7. September 6, 1995 - Cal Ripken plays his 2131st game breaking Lou Gherig's Consecutive games record.
6. World Series 1989 Oakland vs. San Fransisco- On October 17, 1989 at 5:04 P.M., a major earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area, just before a World Series baseball game was scheduled to begin in Candlestick Park. Millions of people witnessed the earthquake on TV, anytime I remember this, 2 things directly come to mind, the announcer going, I think we're having an earthquake, and seeing that picture of the double interstate bridge collapsed onto itself.
5. X-Games 2001 - Most insane X-Games ever, In Bike Dirt, 1st ever double backflip by some British kid, in the same competitionryan Nyquist pulls some of the most insane tricks ever but falls on one of them, Inline Vert Competition 1st Double Backflip ever flawlessly and poetic looking by Taïg Khris. Matt Lindenmuth goes through hellish torment trying it because he was the first and wanted to make sure everyone knew he could do it after 7 tries he finally ends up on 2 feet but its not the prittiest landing in fact some wonder if he still would have kept going had he not slid up the 2nd wall after it, Note: the next year in 2002 Lindenmuth attempts a triple backflip and not only almost kills himself trying, but knocks himself out when he hits his head on the ramp while spinning backwards, Back to 2001 this is the year Bob Burnquist pulls what some consider the almost perfect run. He pulls like 7 consecutive tricks that could be considered for a best trick competition flawlessly and even does some in switch (backwards). In skateboard doubles, Burnquist and his girlfriend are pretty much made to not compete by a bunch of scared boys who complained about them being boy and girl. Then in the best trick competition there is real huge controversy and coverup, it was never aired on TV fully because of the controversy that happened. A skater was skating with a anti-espn slogan on his shirt, then a few seconds after time was up in competiton he pulled what was easily the winning trick, but judges try and tell him it was done after time, but they allowed another skater to do a trick after time, eventually they give the guy the award but never clearly show his shirt in short clips on TV and also never say what the controversy was on TV and never show the competition, just the skaters doing the tricks. I only found out about all this from news reports on the web.
4. Indy 500 - Al Unser Jr. and Scott Goodyear (who started in 33rd position, also known as last) have the closest Finish EVER. The difference between first and second was .043 of a second -- the closest in Indianapolis 500 history. I still love Scott Goodyear. Unfortunately Scott Goodyear has a lot of bad stories about the Indy 500, like the one in my Honorable Mentions and also in 1997 when he finshed .570 of a second behind Arie Luyendyk.
3. Wold Cup Soccer in the Summer 2002 - While taking summer classes at USM in a dorm room by myself. Games were every night, the 1st at 12am 2nd one at 6am. I watch almost every game usually getting some McDonalds Sausage biscuits as soon as breakfast starts at McDees. I also get Arabi diner to put games on the 2nd TV and Brett coins the term Joe Korea when refering to Korea's goalie, some of these nights were after Robinsons gigs. I watch final game at Brett's house: Me, Dana, and Brett in all, everyone falls asleep but me dosing off during halftime then waking up for most of 2nd half, when the game finally finishes I basically pass out.
2. Superbowl XXXVI Feb. 3, 2002 - The Patriots not only beat but convincingly beat the supposed Invincible St. Louis Rams shutting up all the stupid people (sports analysts worldwide to almost all my friends) in the world who say that no one can beat the Rams (example from Todd Patton: picking the playoffs is easy, any team can beat any team at any time except for the Rams they are just better than everyone) It also shows everyone in the NFL how to beat them and kills a supposed dynasty team that never was and shows everyone that Kurt Warner is stupid.
1. 5/4/00 Sophmore Year @ LSU - Staying up with Jared till 6am!!!!! watching a 5 overtimes Playoff (conference semifinal) game between Philadelphia and Pittsburg. Game was soo long that they had to order pizza after the 4th overtime for the players cause they were hungry.
You guys should definitly try to do this one too.
Quote of the Moment Being: "It makes you forget which team has One-Third the payroll of the other" - Darren Pang on the Minnesota vs Colorado game tonight
Allen Wedge 4/21/2003 10:58:00 PM
I forgot to give you the tire air thingy, remind me of that. Anyway, recording songs is always a joy, except when your RA tells you to turn the guitar am down hehe, however it was 10pm so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. I'm not sure exactly what i'm gonna submit for the Split. I've finished up Teddy Ruxpin and Stay the Same, but the other songs are a mystery. I can finish up some other demos with new vocals or I could record new songs with my electric but it may sound odd.
By the way Dana i know what you mean about the truck. Mine gets hit all the time. I nbever had to pay that much though. The one time it was really really bad at LSU, the entire back end was messed up, my bumber had a 45 degree angle in it. My dad and I took the back end of the truck apart and fixed it ourselves, it was a bitch but it was free, took like 3 hours though. If you look at the right side of the bumper and that section you can still see some of the bending and dents from the bumper being shoved into the bed.
If not that, you ought to see the bottom of my truck or the grill, and some other spots. When I was a sophmore, I was going to a boat race in Lafayette, and at some point on the interstate right after Baton rouge, A paint can came flying out of the truck in front of me. not only did the can hit my truck but it also busted open and white paint covered my truck. I had to pull off the interstate because my entire winshield was covered in white paint, while also sticking my head out the window. the guy just kept driving like nothing happened. I hope one day karma gets back to him. Anyway, I had to hurry as fast as I could to the next exit, and use whatever cleaner I could buy at the gas station and get as much of it off my truck before it dried. I ended up tarnishing the paint job (truck was only a year old) cause the cleaner isn't made for use on car paint jobs to clean of paint spille don it, duh, no one expects this to happen. I still have the dent in the front of the truck, my hood is still tarnished when you look at it though I wax the hell out of it to try and make it look better, I'm still missing paint where it hit me, and if you ever really look at my truck you can still find white paint everywhere, the tailgait is actually speckled with white paint, the bottom of the doors and side panels look like i permanently have mud splattered on them but its actually paint, and everytime I work on my truck I go under it and the entire underside of my truck is white!!! because of all this I eventualy decided to not pay to get my truck fixed up until I graduate because about every other week i geta a new scratch from a acar door or from someone peeling ou in the rock parking lot and having the rocks hit my truck.
I guess the point is, no matter how hard you try to keep things up, stuff always seems to happen. Anyone else got some car stories like these?
Allen Wedge 4/21/2003 06:35:00 PM
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
So i'm sitting here at my computer, tired and have a huge head ache and I start to wonder, these head aches are getting really bad, I wonder if this is what its like to have a hang over. Then I think of the word weenie and everything changes. Yeah so anyway I was up till 4am making a presentation, I'll put some of it up someone where soon so you guys can see my Mello Yello advertisement. I was kinda bored about to go to see a speaker in 30 min and figured why not make another top 10 list.
Top 10 Stupidest Things People have said During Group work (-college only- during meetings or presentations):
10. I can't meet from (insert huge amount of time here)
9. Dude, you're good you should like build web pages.
8. So you can do all that stuff, right?
7. You know who in our class is really fine? (You would be amazed how many times this one happens)
6. I can't really come up with any good ideas.
5. Dude, look at that girls ass, she is fiiiiiine. Eww not her though, but man I would sure love to get in those pants, I'd be all like Yee Haw. (exposition may be necessary, we were in a a classroom full of people, the comment come completely out of no where and the girl may have been only 4 feet away and he was talking aloud and pointing)
4. I like your ideas [referring to entire group] but I think mine is better so lets do mine.
3. I can meet anytime after 1. (Me: ok well I get out of class at 1:30) No No, I mean after 1 am, I go to The Hog about 1 am so we can meet there.
2. Sorry I was late I had: (insert reallly crappy excuse)
1. Dude, I will pay you if you give me a good evaluation.
Like the good guy I am I didn"t take the money I think I even made reference to it in a robinsons diary; then again I also didn't give a good evaluation.
Quote of the moment: "Ice House Beer, so strong; its guaranteed to make you sleep with your sister" - Someone's 'Ice House' slogan in today's presentations
Allen Wedge 4/15/2003 06:18:00 PM
Monday, April 14, 2003
A day late sp to make up for it i went top 15 with an honorable mention for every PCB/Misunderstood Adlib Ryan and I ever made while I was in the band and we kept forgetting lyrics. First here are some honorable Mentions:
“.............................“ - Mike P. (The Robinsons - 4 track swing)
“Shoot... Damn... my hot tub, My hot tub broke on me again” – Mike G. (Interstate 12 – Spoiled Little Rich Boy)
"Think abut how it used to be and think about your misery,
think about all the times we shared and think about how you never cared,
its been so long since I saw your face, been so long since someone else could take your place,
I should be sad but I’m not." - Mike P. (The Robinsons - think About)
Now, Here are my Top 15 lyrics by local musicians:
15. josie - j o s i e
josie - my hot louisiana girl !!!
Mike G. (Mike TV - Josie)
14. And I’m barefoot standing on the corner singing the blues,
as you walk by you catch my eye and I can’t keep my eye off your shoes.
Mike P. (Park Bench - Shoes)
13. I took myself outside for a walk in the park and I barked at all the trees
and the sleeves and every little green thing I saw there
…. Leaves….
It’s a good day for walking.
Michon (Misunderstood – Pepper)
12. If cooties get in the way then just don’t believe in cooties anyway.
Rusty (Rusty Spell - Cooties)
11. I found another girl for me and she looks so lovely and she tells me I am lovely too,
She knows what she wants to be and I know she loves me, I found another girl, how about you?
Mike P. (Park Bench - Another Girl)
10. I couldn’t pay attention in class cause I was staring at your ass
Michon (Poly-Cotton Blend – Staring)
9. Guess I won’t be seeing you around, sick and tired of this stupid town,
and I know and I know and I know how hard you try,
but I guess its time for one last dance and then our goodbyes, so don’t miss me when I’m gone.
Todd P (??? - ???)
8. Can I punch you? Really hard
You know I hate you. You tub of lard
Can I stab you? In your heart
You know I love you. But you broke my....
Mike G. (Interstate-12 – Asshole)
7. I believe in the 4 track sounds, that I make in my room and what those songs do for me.
Mike P. (Park Bench - I Believe)
6. Yeah, I'm funkin'. I'm funkin' around.
Hey, I'm junkin'. I'm junkin' to town.
I'm the funky chicken. I'm the funkytude.
I'm funkin' around. I'm playin' it lewd, I'm funkin' around.
Rusty ('nikcuS - I'm Funky)
5. right heres the pool but I ain’t jumpin in
cause I’m a rapper, I don’t know how to swim
Me & Deuce (Easy Cheese – Cribbage)
4. I just spilled my drink on the prom queen…. On purpose yeah.
Mike P. (The Robinsons - Prom Queen)
3. Maybe we can stay here under water, I’d be alone with your mother’s only daughter
Michon – (Poly-Cotton Blend -Heidi)
2. "She tells me all the time I really like the beach boys - yellow submarine,
She says I really like pet sounds this one is my favorite and turns on jan and dean"
- Mike P. (The Robinsons - She Like the Beatles)
1. fifteen (young ones) head to the shack
underage drinkers they’ll cut you some slack
eighteen well that’s paradise
when I was 16 I’d been there twice
Deuce & Me (Easy Cheese – Chalmette Pride)
Allen Wedge 4/14/2003 04:16:00 PM
Sunday, April 13, 2003
This top 10 list be a good idea. I have some ideas already but I'll sticvk with the indie/local song list for starters. Since I know how bad my songs suck I figure my songs are fair game but I will only pickl songs other people know about.
10. Slippery When Wet - Brett (Audiobook)
9. Cribbage - Deuce / Me (Easy Cheese)
8. Every Day of The Week - George (GFN / NH / Q57)
7. To The Girl In All My Songs - Mike G. (Mike TV)
6. Telephone - Mike P. (Park Bench)
5. Make Me Wanna Sing - Mike P. (Sally Stitches)
4. Work - Me / Ross (Misunderstood)
3. Pearl Jammin - Rusty - ('nikcuS)
2. Stagnant - Michon / Dave? (PCB)
1. Summer Girl - Mike P. (The Robinsons)
Honorable Mention: Sonic Records - Mike P. (The Robinsons), Foot In My Mouth (lesbian song) - Richard, Old School - Deuce (Easy Cheese), My Best Friend - Me / Deuce (Super The), She Likes The Beatles - Mike P. (Robinsons), That's Emo - Brett / Me (Audiobook)
Later tonight I'm gonna do a top ten list of best lyric (lines) by local artists.
Allen Wedge 4/13/2003 04:44:00 PM
Friday, April 11, 2003
Why not just do it here on this blog? This one doesn't have any "rules," so you can just do the Top 10's whenever you want and anyone who wants to discuss it can do it here, and it'd be less websites for us to constantly check. (Of course, that's just my opinion... If you want to start a new blog, do it...)
So, in honor of Ryan, here's my first Top 10...
Top 10 Songs written by local bands... I'm not considering any of my songs cause that's pretty gay...
10. krober@lsu.edu - Allen - PCB
9. Don't Mess With Texas - Mike G. - Mike TV
8. Every Day of the Week - George - Good For Nothing
7. Transformers - Michon? - PCB
6. Wish You (Stolen Book) - Todd - I-12/Park Bench
5. Glasses Song - Allen - Super The
4. Goodbye - George - Nothing Heroic
3. Stagnant - Michon/Dave? - PCB
2. Old School - Ryan/Allen? - Easy Cheese
1. TRL - Mike G. - Mike TV
Honorable Mention: Indiana (Mike TV), Emo Song (Audiobook), December 25 (Mike TV), Jibba Jabba (Easy Cheese), On My Own (Super The)
I know I got some titles wrong and I wasn't 100% sure of some writers. But there you go.
Mike 4/11/2003 06:17:00 PM
Thursday, April 10, 2003
BOOYA!!! Bet yall didn't think you'd be seeing me up in dis biatch again huh? I know I'm a rockstar now, and all, but I figure I gotta keep it real for you homies. Ok, I'm just dumb. But aren't we all? Yes we are. I'm looking for new ringers for my phone right now, and I'm really hungry. I think I might hit it up with some pizza tonight, cause I really don't feel like eating cafeteria food. I'm sick of Hattiesburg, and I'm ready for this school year to end! Just a few more weeks, then I'll be home for good! Ladies (Ryan Arena) here I come. I think this is the most activity this blog has gotten in quite some time, and I, like Deuce, also wonder what happened to Master Higgins and Ryan. I've re-invited them BOTH! They just don't know what Life in da Parish is all about that's all. Sally Stitches is officially starting a bobble head collection I guess, so I'm gonna be on constant patrol for cool, cheap booble heads. I mean damn, we got some really good ones... 3 of which (Joey, Justin, and Jason) cost $5 dollars or less! We're total Bargin Busters! Yoda is telling me that it's time to quit typing, so I'm gonna listen to him to avoid getting my ass beat down by him. Peace Out!
Brett 4/10/2003 02:26:00 PM
In case you want to know how much cooler my Marketing Teacher is than any of yours. I just got back from the classroom cause we got out of class early. However I didn;t leave early and used the time to talk about things, for instance I just got back from discussing Ben Kweller vs. Radish. I think all I do with this dude is discuss punk rock, rock, indie music, music fests and how much new orleans and hattiesburg sucks. He went to Arknsas for college so we make comparisons among the 4 cities we know. B.R., N.O., Hattiesburg, and Arkansas. I'm trying to get him to come to shows but it's a trip for him, maybe eventually I can convince him, soon i'm gonna compile a CD of all the bands we know so he can hear our nonsese .... I mean music.
Anyway my teacher and your teacher were sitting by the fire, my teacher set your techer on fire cause your teacher sucks. Thats my new version of "sittin by the fire"
Allen Wedge 4/10/2003 12:11:00 PM
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
I read this thing like 3 times a day, mostly cause I have no life and I find things to do to get away from school work to continue procrastinating. Also about the name of this thing, I figure the qualification is to have lived in St. Bernard at one time or another and this is our way to stay intact with it. Today's little helper, The NHL playoffs started today and I'm probrably the only one watching or who knows who is even in it but wow we had some great games. It sucks I can't watch them all, damn basic cable.
I got an e-mail back from the Picayune today its posted on the Radish. I have a lot, a LOT of homework to do over the weekend. I'm trying to get out of it or finish early if not I'll be skipping coming home and the bachelor party. I also ordered 12 Sega Saturn Controllers on ebay. I won't need ben for gaming nights. not that I hate ben or anything but he seemed to stop talking to me and most of us recently. Either way I smell gaming night soon.
Ok Law and Order is coming on. Weenie.
Allen Wedge 4/09/2003 08:48:00 PM
Hey! I read it every day too. I just never know where to post anything, so I usually just end up posting on the Radish Board. Well, like I said on the SS guestbook, I'm not using my blog anymore. So, I'll use the SS diary for music stuff and this page for nonsense stuff.
I'd just like to say that today Mark Prior pitched the best game by a Cubs pitcher probably since Kerry Wood's 20K game. He only had 12 strikeouts and he gave up like 4 hits, but it was 30 degrees outside! He was blowing people away and getting groundball after groundball. I think maybe 5 balls got to the outfield. I have it on tape if anyone ever wants to watch it. Seriously. (Javier Vasquez actually had more strikeouts. I think he struck out 14 Cubs. But the Cubs won 3-0. It was a great game.)
Mike 4/09/2003 04:16:00 PM
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