Joke?

Who said anything about a joke?

Wow Danny

If the only way to get Danny to write something is by jumping on my brother's jokes...then fine.

You heard it here first folks!

In his own words...

"I am going to propose to my girlfriend."

You naughty naughty boy!

Jumping on the Naughty and Nice list...

I can't believe N8 actually posted something...amazing. Well I like the naughty and nice list idea. Here is my version so far...

Nice...The new Wu-Tang album

Naughty...Getting snow in inches, not feet.

Nice...The new Lupe Fiasco album

Naughty...Steroids

Nice...Skiing powder

Naughty...Getting caught skiing powder out of bounds by ski patrol

Nice...No Country for Old Men (Great movie)

Naughty...Having ski patrol clip my pass (if it happens again then patrol takes my pass for 2 weeks)

Nice...Using my new deep frier

Naughty...My brother saying I am going to propose to my girlfriend

Nice...Being able to shave off my mustache because Movember is over

Exciting Times

I am really excited for this Christmas season. Stefan has got to propose to his wonderful, lovely, intelligent girlfriend this December. I just know its gonna happen and I am sooooooo excited.

Way to go Stefan!!!

Naughty and Nice

Naughty - Clay Bennett

Nice - Kevin Garnett as a Celtic

Naughty - Patriots being unbeaten and the Dolphins being winless

Nice - If the Dolphins can win against the Pats in a couple of weeks

Naughty - Writers strike

Nice - No new TV means a chance to catch up on movies, reading, anything else

Naughty - My son's dirty diapers

Nice - My son singing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" in his spider outfit

Naughty - American Idol

Nice - The Black Keys

Naughty - Celine Dion

Nice - the National

No Subject Necessary

Follow The Lights

When the four of us talked about starting this blog we had the idea of giving our opinions about movies and music. Well so far that hasn't happened, until now. I am offering up my first CD review.

I have been a big fan of Ryan Adams for a while now. I always enjoyed his music but didn't really get into until I started listening to Whiskeytown, which he was the lead singer of. I really became a fan with his mix of rock and country influences. After Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams made 5 albums each with different influences and styles. When he joined up with The Cardinals on the album Cold Roses he really went back to the music that he had with Whiskeytown.

His most recent effort with The Cardinals, Follow The Lights, is an EP with only seven songs. Three of them are new while the other three are live studio versions of other previously released songs and one cover. They are seven great songs. The overall feel of the album is very mellow with just good easy music. "My Love For You Is Real" has already become one of my favorite songs that he has ever done, great guitar work and the two minutes at the end of just music with no singing is a perfect finish to the song. On "Follow The Lights", Ryan Adams and The Cardinals redo their song "If I am a Stranger" by stripping it down, playing it much simpler and slower. It gives the song an almost eerie feel. This version brings a whole new meaning to the lyrics. The one cover on the EP is a very interesting. Ryan Adams has already done a cover of Oasis, "Wonderwall". Noel Gallagher once said, "I never got my head round this song until I went to see and hear Ryan Adams play, and he did an amazing cover of it." This time around Ryan Adams does a cover of Alice in Chains, "Down In A Hole". I am pretty sceptical of people doing covers of bands that have such a unique sound as they did. I was quite surprised though with how it was done. Ryan Adams avoided the pitfall of trying to imitate Layne Stanley's voice, which is a great thing, as no one will ever sound like him again. This cover sounds in between the way Alice In Chains played it on their album and how they played it for their MTV unplugged show. A very cool cover. I wonder what Layne Stanley would have thought of this version. I have only talked about 3 of the songs but the other 4 are also very good. This truly is a great CD.

For this CD review I will use the scale of snow conditions as it is the beginning of the ski season here in Steamboat.

No snow...Bare Spots...Groomer Day...Champagne Powder

I give this CD...Champagne Powder

The Stefan

Two of the greatest pictures ever...

I was looking up the new Punisher movie and I saw that some guy named T.J. Storm is going to be in it. He has been inducted into the Martial Arts Hall of Fame, I think that he got voted in for doing kick*ss poses like this with birds. Maybe he got voted in though for taking sweet pictures like this half naked one, oh wait he is half naked in both of them.

Josh Brown hit...

This is a hilarious video. I don't know if it really is a hit, but Josh Brown at least brought Hester down. It does have to be one of the funniest reactions/celebration ever.

This is it!

More NFL Players I Hate

Good on you Danny! You wrote something, amazing.

So I decided to expand my writings about players I dislike (hate). This time I decided to write about Neil Rackers. I really should like him since he is a kicker. Unfortunately there is something about him that I just can't stand. Everytime I see him I get angry. Everytime he makes another one of his damn kicks, I get angry. I also should like him because I like the Cardinals. I know, I know, I shouldn't like them because they are in the same division as the Hawks but I can't help it. The Cardinals are fun to watch, I like Fitzgerald, Boldin, The Edge, and even Leinart. If they weren't in the NFC West I would root for them. One thing that really brings down the Cardinals for me though, is Rackers. He just sucks b*lls, and yes, that is a technical term.

Bloggin on our blog

So, I haven't been very good about blogging lately. And by lately, I mean always. And by always, I mean the last few months since this blog started. Anyhoo, I going to make a concerted effort to post at least once a month. Since Stefan and Tanner seem have the football picks thing covered and Nate has the numbers as writing thing locked down, I need to come up with something else I can contribute. Maybe I should blog about politics. Nobody seems to be doing that.

No, on second thought, that sounds like a lot of work. If anyone wants to know what semi-qualified people who write blogs think about politics, they should check out The Blog Report. Or, if you prefer your political dialog aural and visual at the same time, take a look at Bloggingheads.tv.

I think I'll just write about television commercials. So here's a start: I really like those Messin' with Sasquatch commercials for Jack Links Beef Jerky. Those commercials, much like Nick Cannon, are hilarious.

Last post missing...

So I wrote a post about 4 days ago that somehow got deleted or maybe I didn't post it...either way it got lost. Here is a part of what I wrote. The post was about different NFL players that I hate.

I will just list one of them here.

Jerramy Stevens: I hate him for many different reasons. Besides that fact that he sucks, I hate that he talked so much sh*t before the Super Bowl, only to not ever catch the ball (one of those catches would have been a touchdown). Here is a list of some other reasons I hate him.

On June 2, 1998, Stevens was arrested on charges of second-degree assault armed with a deadly weapon and fourth-degree assault. According to a police report, Stevens and a friend engaged in a fight with a 17-year-old and witnesses said Stevens stomped on the man's face. Stevens agreed to a plea deal of a charge of misdemeanor assault.
On July 10, 1998, Stevens tested positive for marijuana and served a day in jail.
on July 27, 2000, Stevens arrested for investigation of sexual assault but was never charged and released from jail after prosecutors determined they wouldn't be able to charge Stevens in the required 72-hours after his arrest.
On May 4, 2001, Stevens was cited for reckless driving and hit and run after crashing into a nursing home Northgate, Washington. Stevens pleaded guilty to hit-and-run and causing property damage and was sentenced to 240 hours of community service.
On April 3, 2003, Stevens was stopped by Medina, Washington police and was charged with reckless driving and driving while intoxicated. He pleaded guilty to reckless driving and was fined $1,000 and was sentenced to two days in jail because the judge ruled Stevens violated his probation from the hit-and-run case.
On March 13, 2007, Stevens was arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is facing DUI and marijuana possession charges.
On March 20, 2007 the Seattle Times report that multiple complaints were raised against Stevens by other residents in his condominium complex. The complaints include, vomit on their doors, used condoms on the back porch, loud parties at all hours of the night, and various noise complaints.

Two Months into the Blog

So the blog has now been up for 2 months. Amazing! I think that I have definitely written the most. I'm not sure how much my writing really counts since almost all of my posts have been football picks, but it is still the most. Tanner has written the second most amount, which isn't very much. Danny I would say is in third place, he has only written one post but at least it used words unlike Nate who has only made one post that was in the binary system (hmmm). Quite a start. Hopefully things will pick up. Maybe not.

On a side note, I am taking part in an even called Movember. It is a fundraiser to raise awareness of prostate cancer. Movember is where you grow a mustache for the month of November. So far it is coming in really gross like. It has a title. It is called "Yeah I've Nude on Film, So What?" Gross. Sponsor me.

Football picks #6

So to start this off, both of my fantasy football teams are going to lose this week. Last week I went 9-5, which is a big improvement over last week. This brings the total record to 37-35, BAM! I am back to being over .500. Since I am now rolling, here are my picks for this week.
St.Louis (+3) over Cleveland
Chicago (-5) over Detroit
Indianapolis (-7) over Carolina
NY Giants (-9.5) over Miami
Tennessee (-7.5) over Oakland
Minnesota (+1) over Philadelphia
Pittsburgh (-3.5) over Cinncinati
NY Jets (-3) over Buffalo
San Diego (-9) over Houston
Tampa Bay (-4) over Jacksonville
New Orleans (-3) over San Francisco
New England (-16.5) over Washington
Denver (-3) over Green Bay

I tried to have a picture at the top but I couldn't get it to work, sorry.

Throwing Down the Gauntlet

OR: Is that a CHALLENGE!?!

Yes, it has been over a fortnight since I have posted. Yes, that is lame. Yes, I am sorry. But it is time for me to kick some ass and take some names. This week I will join Stefan’s little “football picks” game and prove that I am a superior being. Whoever wins this week’s pick ‘em also receives a delicious vagina cupcake from the Erotic Bakery down the street, paid for by the loser. Let the game begin.

Arizona (+8) over Washington – Kurt Warner will play.
Atlanta (+8) over New Orleans – Atlanta’s D will keep them close.
Baltimore (-3) over Buffalo – Baltimore’s D will outscore Buffalo’s O.
Minnesota (+9 ½) over Dallas – All hail Purple Jesus.
New England (-16 ½) over Miami – Ridiculous.
New York (-9) over San Francisco – In Trent Dilfer’s second year, coaches had him tested for color blindness because he threw so many interceptions
Tampa Bay (+2) over Detroit – Kitna is a T-Loc.
Tennessee (+1 ½) over Houston – Jeff Fisher is the most underrated coach in the league.
Oakland (-3) over Kansas City – I hate the Chiefs after watching Hard Knocks.
Cincinnati (-6) over NY Jets – How did the Jets make the playoffs last year?
Chicago (+5.5) over Philadelphia – Just a hunch.
Seattle (-8) over St. Louis – The Rams always play the Hawks tough, but I believe in the 12th man this week. I’ll set the over/under for Rams false starts at 5 ½.
Pittsburgh (-3.5) over Denver – Lock of the week.
Jacksonville (+3) over Indianapolis – Maurice Drew is starting to get going.

This means war, Stefan.

Football Picks #5

Once again I am the only person who has posted this week, actually for the last 3 weeks. That's cool, I'm sure everyone else is just busy. Good thing I don't have a life. Last week I went 6-7 (Ouch, again) That brings the overall record to 28-30. I think I should be a sports analysist, or I should work in Vegas. This is definitely one surprising season so far with teams that were supposed to be bad doing decently (Texans, Chiefs, Buccaneers, Browns). Then you have teams that are just sucking (Minnesota, New Orleans, Cincinnati). It is also a dangerous time to be a QB (Trent Green, Matt Lienart, Kurt Warner, Jack Delhomme). On the other hand let's here it for the QB that are playing at the age of like 60 (Testaverde, Favre, Frerotte, ok so he isn't as old as the rest but you get the point). So without further ado, here are my picks. I inhale deeply and cross my fingers...

Washington (-8) over Arizona
New Orleans (-8) over Atlanta (Leftwich will bring something different, but he won't change the result)

Baltimore (-3) over Buffalo (After that MNF game I am Bills fan. I like Edwards and Lynch, the Pac-10 combo, but they will lose)

Dallas (-9.5) over Minnesota

New England (-16.5) over Miami (How sweet would it be if Miami wins?)

NY Giants (-9) over San Francisco

Tampa Bay (+2) over Detroit

Houston (+1.5) over Tennessee

Kansas City (+3) over Oakland

Cincinnati (-6) over NY Jets

Chicago (+5.5) over Philadelphia

Seattle (-8) over St.Louis (Actually nervous about this one with how the Hawks have been playing, hopefully Alexander will get more than 20 yards)

Pittsburgh (-3.5) over Denver

Jacksonville (+3) over Indianapolis (This one is a stretch but it would also be sweet.)

Let's see what happens...

Football Picks #4

Alright alright, nobody has written anything since my last post of picks, but here I go again. Last week I went 7-7 bringing my overall record to 22-23. I am really good at this picking thing.
Soooo here we go for this week!
Cincinnati (-3) over Kansas City
Houston (+6.5) over Jacksonville
Cleveland (-4.5) over Miami
Chicago (-5) over Minnesota
Philadelphia (-3.5) over NY Jets
Baltimore (-9.5) over St.Louis
Tennessee (+3) over Tampa Bay
Green Bay (-3) over Washington
Arizona (-5) over Carolina
New England (-6) over Dallas
San Diego (-10) over Oakland
Seattle (-6.5) over New Orleans
Atlanta (+3.5) over NY Giants

Bring It!!

Football Picks #3

Well my picks last week got blown out of the water.

Last week I went 5-9

That brings my overall record to 15-16...ouch

Here is my attempt at this week.

New Orleans (-3) over Carolina

Kansas City (+2.5) over Jacksonville

Detroit (+3.5) over Washington

Tennessee (+8) over Atlanta

Houston (+5.5) over Miami

Seattle (+6) over Pittsburgh

New England (-16.5) over Cleveland

Arizona (-3.5) over St. Louis

NY Giants (-3.5) over NY Jets

Indianapolis (-10) over Tampa Bay

Denver (-1) over San Diego

San Francisco (+3.5) over Baltimore

Green Bay (+3.5) over Chicago

Dallas (-10) over Buffalo

Hopefully this week goes better than last.

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Football Picks #2

So this time I decided to do my picks a little bit later in the week.

Miami (-4) over Oakland

Houston (-3) over Atlanta

Baltimore (-4.5) over Cleveland

Detroit (+3) over Chicago

Minnesota (+2) over Green Bay

Dallas (-13) over St. Louis

NY Jets (-3.5) over Buffalo

Carolina (-3) over Tampa Bay

Seattle (-2) over San Francisco

Pittsburgh (-6) over Arizona

San Diego (-12) over Kansas City

Indianapolis (-9.5) over Denver

NY Giants (+2.5) over Philadelphia

Cinncinati (+7.5) over New England

Record from last week 10-6

Overall record 10-6

Sorry I got a little link happy there.

Tanner, your girlfriend should not have gotten pulled from that game against Brazil.

Please, be responsible

OR 10 Signs You Have Had Too Much to Drink:


10. You totally think it's a great idea for your buddy to give you a boost into a second story window because he left his keys next to the Kahluha bottle.


9. You temporarily gain super-human eating abilities the likes of which are typically impossible without years of training. For Example: 15 hot dogs, or 10 Dick's cheeseburgers, or an entire gallon bag of Tim's Jalepeno potato chips...I could go on and on.


Corollary: You wake up in the middle of the night and your bedroom smells like deep-fried asshole.


8. You have a conversation with yourself that goes something like this: "No. You are NOT going to pee. You will wait until it is appropriate, or until you are entirely COMFORTABLE PEEING. Show some goddamn self-discipline."


Corollary: Or you just pee in an alley.


7. You have a heart-to-heart conversation with a friend with whom you have already had the same heart-to-heart conversation with 5 or more times.


6. You have the same heart to heart conversation, only this time with somebody whom you have just met.


5. At some point in the evening you refer to your breasts/balls/penis/vagina/ass as one of the following:


A: Itchy

B: Throbbing

C: Child-like

D: Sexy

E: Some or all of the above

4. You write a bunch of notes in the dark that you want to use in your blog about being wasted.


Corollary: And you can't read half of them the next day.


3. You and your blogging partner give each other crabs while a friend watches:








Corollary: Well, maybe not the whole crabs, but at least the claws and legs.







2. You coyly try to make out with your blogging partner's girlfriend:









Corollary: And she is completely disgusted.








1. Your friends spend half of the night explaining that you are actually a pretty cool guy.



T-Money

From Seattle to Steamboat Springs

So yesterday I drove back to Steamboat Springs, CO. I was originally going to stop in Utah or southern Idaho but I ended up just doing the 19 hour drive straight. I left Seattle at 5:45 am and got into Steamboat at 1:15 am. It was quite a long drive but I am glad I just got it over with instead of staying at a hotel somewhere. The last couple hours of the drive were spent hunched over the steering wheel looking out for deer. A few observations during the last part of the drive:


Deer are prey, why don't they run away when they see/hear a loud object coming at them with bright lights?


Exact same question just take out deer and replace it with rabbits.


Apparently Baker City, Oregon is God's Country. Said so on a Subway sign. I was always told God's Country was the Tri-Cities, Washington. Sorry Tanner I guess you were mistaken.

This isn't really an observation but I am glad that I made it through Idaho without being propositioned by a "straight" Senator.

WNBA=Boring (I don't kow why that just came to mind)

The Stefan

Binary is the illest

100011011 10011101010110 1001

001010?
1011000001011100!
01000110100...


Ha ha ha ha!

Football Picks

So here are my picks for football this season. I would have started this before the season but I didn't think about it until last night. So here we go...

Baltimore (-8) over Arizona

St.Louis (+3.5) over Tampa Bay

NY Jets (-3) over Miami

New England (-16.5) over Buffalo

Kansas City (-2.5) over Minnesota

Indianapolis (-6) over Houston

San Diego (-4.5) over Greenbay

Detroit (+6.5) over Philadelphia

Seattle (-3) over Cincinnati

Denver (-3) over Jacksonville

Carolina (-4) over Atlanta

Oakland (-3) over Cleveland

Washington (-4) over NY Giants

Chicago (-3) over Dallas

Tennessee (+4.5) over New Orleans

Overall picks this year 0-0

Some people might say that I am making this picks too early in the week (Tanner) but whatever.

The Stefan

BLOG

Hi. This is Tanner. Welcome to our blog. Blog, as you know, is a combination of two words. The first word is bee, an insect known for making honey and stinging people. The second word is log, a large piece of wood made from a tree that has been chopped down. So think of this blog as a large piece of wood that can either provide you with sweet honey or sting you if you are ornery.
Each of the four people who blog on this blog has a distinct personality. Danny is clever (code for pretentious) Nathan is funny (code for not funny) and Stefan has great keyboard penmanship. I am the cute one. So sit back and read our blog. Or, if you are like me, lay uncomfortably on the floor because your wireless network doesn’t work and your ethernet cable is very short. Either way, read it. Frequently. I am not just blogging for my health. Blog.
Irony: blog, as a word, is more fun to say than to blog. I just said blog out loud three times in a row

One Two Three... Shut Up!

By now pretty much everybody who owns a television or knows someone who owns a television or walks by a store that sells televisions or isn't busy dying his beard in a cave on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border has seen the new iPod Nano video commercial. You know the one. A Nano is onscreen playing the music video for Feist's "One Two Three Four" and hands keep grabbing the Nanos, showing off all the pretty colors. It's a clever commercial for a cool new product. And it has a nice, catchy tune by a relatively unknown artist.

But here's the issue I see: while the commercial is probably helping Feist find a larger mainstream audience and selling some iPod Nanos to boot, it's ruining a perfectly good song. Since I hear that song at least once an hour whenever the television is on (and it's on quite a bit at my residence), I'm starting to get sick of it. In only a couple of weeks, I've gone from thinking "That One Two Three Four is a nice little ditty from a cute Canadian" to thinking "Damn, I hate this song, I wish the Seahawks were on TV here." This isn't the first time that a good song is so over-played that it becomes despicable. "Hey Yeah" comes to mind as another good example.

So my plea to Apple is simple: put some other song(s) in the Nano commercials. Make a couple of different versions of the ad. You could even be really crafty and play different songs during different shows to target the primary viewing audience (like playing the new Kanye during shows targeted at "suburban youth" and playing High School Music 2 during Monday Night Football). If Apple takes my advice, they could expose more "undiscovered" artists to the American viewing public and improve the effectiveness of their targeted marketing. Plus, I wouldn't have to suffer through several more weeks of "One Two Three Four" at every commercial break. Seems like an all-around winning suggestion.

Or I could just watch everything on Tivo.

The Danny

First entry

Welcome to the beginning of S.S.H.H. This is quite possibly the greatest, smartest, best looking, smartest, funniest, and smartest blog…ever. Four people, Tanner, Nathan, Danny and Stefan are writing this blog. We will explore the worlds of film, music, and social commentary of the world around us. The four of us each have our strengths and weaknesses. I don’t have any weaknesses, except bullets, but the other three do. So enjoy reading and laugh your ass off with us, not at us…one more weakness of mine, writing anything good.

The Stefan