veganboyjosh

The list, revisitied.

2009-10-08T05:57:00.000-07:00

So, I've been thinking about my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days that I posted over a year ago. I still can't believe it was August of 2008 when I last posted to this blog.

Some of the easier tasks I did early on as I was still very motivated to get them done right after creating the list. Others just happened by chance.

When I asked Dalyn how I could become a better writer, she said "Write." There was a whole conversation that followed, but that's the first step. So here I am writing.

I also got asked recently by a local blogger if I'd like to write for his blog. While I really do have a lot on my plate to be taking on new projects, the thought that someone out there wants me to put words together and post them for the world to see for his project sort of blows my mind. And my ego a little bit, I'll admit.

So, in the interest of bettering my writing, keeping people up to date, and getting number 23 over with, here's the first in what I hope will be at least 30 posts in a row.

Of course, when I last posted, I didn't even know about this guy, so looking back at my list, some of the things seem a little superficial or selfish. I know that if I made a new list today, it would look completely different.

boulder bikes

2008-08-16T11:18:00.000-07:00

i've started blogging about bikes in and around boulder.

i've got a ton of ideas of what to put on there, what it'll look like (i promise it won't be grey text on black for too much longer...), where it'll go, and all that.

i've found it's easier to post bike stuff than personal stuff...even though a lot of times there's enough overlap that they're the same things. i guess if it involves bicycles, then it's easier for me to believe that someone else might be interested.

i'm pretty sure i can post at least one thing per day for 30 days about bikes in boulder. that might be the first thing on my list to go away. i'm not sure how i feel about that.

i did find my car paperwork, i need to take care of that, as well. one of these (next 980 something) days...

another list.

2008-08-06T22:00:00.000-07:00

the goal:

create a list of 1000 hit 80's songs.
1. compile those songs on an actual playlist.
2. stop worrying about finding more 80's songs.

the rules:
1. song must have been released between 1/1/80 and 12/31/89.
2. it doesn't matter if the song charted, just that it's an awesome song.

this list is totally a work in progress. i got some friends to help with this list, so some of the songs and artists don't match up. also, some of the songs don't fit rule number 2.
i posted the list and started the project on myspace, and solicited suggestions from friends. the bottom of the list is out of alphabetical order, and there's some doubles. i'll get those taken care of. not including tv shows, i think the total number right now is around 680.
i'd like to get the list into a spreadsheet, so i can sort them easier, and keep the list a little more organized. once i hit 1000 songs, i'll start figuring out which songs i already have, and which i don't, and start hunting those i don't...

10,000 Maniacs Trouble Me
A Flock of Seagulls I Ran
A Ha Take on Me
Abba Take a Chance on Me
ABC Be Near Me
AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long
Adam and the Ant Goody Two Shoes
Aerosmith/Run DMC Walk This Way
After The Fire Der Kommisar
Al B Sure Night And Day

Alice Cooper Poison
Alphaville Big In Japan
Animotion Obsession
Ashford & Simpson Solid
Asia Heat of the Moment
Bad English When I See You Smile
Banarama Venus
Banarama Cruel Summer
Bangles Walk like an egyptian
Beach Boys Kokomo

Beastie Boys Fight for Your Right
Belinda Carlisle Heaven Is A place On Earth
Belinda Carlisle Mad About You
Belle Stars Iko Iko
Berlin
Berlin Take My Breath Away
Bertie Higgins Key Largo
Bette Midler Wind Beneath My Wings
Big Country In A Big Country
Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes I've had the Time Of My Life

Billy Idol White Wedding
Billy Idol Mony Mony
Billy Joel Uptown Girl
Billy Joel We Didn't Start The Fire
Billy Ocean When the Going Gets Tough
Billy Ocean Caribbean Queen
Billy Squire The Stroke
Blondie Call Me
Blondie The Tide is High
Blondie Heart of Glass

Blondie Dreamin'
Blondie Rip her to shreds
Blondie Rapture
Blondie One way or another
Bob Marley Could You Be Loved
Bobby Brown My Perogative
Bobby McFerrin Don't Worry Be Happy
Bon Jovi Bad Medicine
Bonnie Tyler Total Eclipse of the Heart
Bonnie Tyler Holding Out For A Hero

Boomtown Rats I Don't Like Mondays
Boston Amanda
Bow Wow Wow I want Candy
Boys Don't Cry I Wanna Be A Cowboy
Breakfast Club Right On Track
Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA
Bryan Adams Run To You
Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star
Cameo Word Up
Chaka Chan I Feel for You

Cheap Trick I Want You to Want Me
Cheap Trick The Flame
Cher If I could Turn Back Time
Cher and Peter Cetera After All
Chicago Hard Habit to Break
Chris Deburgh Lady In Red
Christopher Cross Arthur's Theme
Christopher Cross Sailing
Cinderella Don't Know what You Got Til its gone
Club Nouveau Lean On Me

Commodores Night Shift
Concrete Blonde Joey
Cory Hart Sunglasses at Night
Cracker Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)
Crowded House Don't Dream It's Over
Culture Club Karma Chameleon
Culture Club Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
Culture Club I'll Tumble 4 Ya
Cutting Crew I Just Died IN Your Arms Tonight
Cyndi Lauper Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Cyndi Lauper All Through the Night
Cyndi Lauper Hole in My Heart
Cyndi Lauper I Drove All Night
Cyndi Lauper Money Changes Everything
Cyndi Lauper She Bop
Cyndi Lauper Time After Time
Cyndi Lauper The Goonies Are Good Enough
Dan Hartman I Can Dream About You
Danny Wilson Mary's Prayer
David Bowie Lets Dance

David Bowie Modern Love
David Bowie China Girl
David Lee Roth California Girls
Dazz Band Let It Whip
De La Soul Me Myself and I
Dead or Alive You Spin Me Round
DeBarge Rhythm of the Night
Debbie Gibson Electric Youth
Def Leppard Pour Some Sugar On Me
Deniece Williams Let's Hear it For the Boys

---100---

Depeche Mode Just Can't Get Enough
Dexy's Midnight Runners Come On Eileen
Diana Ross Upside Down
Dino I Like It
Dinosaur Jr Just Like Heaven
Dire Straights Walk of life
Dire Straights Money For Nothing
Dolly Parton 9 to 5
Don Henley All She Want To is Dance
Don Henley Boys Of Summer

Donna Summer She works hard for the money
Doobie Brothers The Doctor
Double The Captain of Her Heart
Dream Academy Life in A Northern Town
Duran Duran Girls on Film
Duran Duran Hungry Like the Wolf
Duran Duran Rio
E.U . Da Butt
Earth, Wind and Fire Let's Groove
EBN/OZN AEIOU Sometimes Y

Echo & the Bunnymen The Killing Moon
Eddie Murphy Party All The Time
Eddie Rabbit I love a rainy night
Eddy Grant Electric Avenue
Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians What I Am
El Debarge Who's Johnny
ELO Xanadu
Elton John Candle In The Wind
Elvis Costello Veronica
Enya Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)

Erasure A Little Respect
Eric Carmen Hungry Eyes
Escape Club Wild Wild West
Europe Final Countdown
Eurythmics Sweet Dreams
Expose Come Go With Me
Expose What You Don't Know
Faith No More We Care A Lot
Falco Amadeus
Fat Boys and The Beach Boys Wipeout

Fine Young Cannibals She Drives Me Crazy
Fleetwood Mac Little Lies
Foreigner I Want To Know What Love Is
Frank Zappa Valley Girl
Frankie Goes To Hollywood Relax
Fresh Prince Parents Just Don't Understand
Fun Boy Three Our Lips are Sealed
Gary Numan Cars
General Public Tenderness
Genesis Land of Confusion

Genesis Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
George Harrison I've Got My Mind Set On You
George Michael Faith
Georgia Satellites Keep Your Hands To Yourself
Glass Tiger Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone
Glen Frey The Heat Is On
Go Go's We got The Beat
Go West King Of Wishful Thinking
Godley & Crème Cry
Golden Earring Radar Love

Grandmaster Flash White Lines
Grateful Dead Touch of Grey
Great White Once Bitten Twice Shy
Greg Kihn Band Jeopardy
Guns & Roses Sweet Child of Mine
Guns & Roses Paradise City
Guns & Roses Welcome to the Jungle
Haircut One Hundred Love Plus One
Hall & Oates Private Eyes
Harold Faltermeyer Axel F

Heart What About Love
Herbie Hancock Rock It
Honeydrippers Sea Of Love
Howard Jones No One is to Blame
Huey Lewis & The News The Power of Love
Huey Lewis & The News Heart Of Rock And Roll
Human League Don't You Want Me?
Human League I'm Only Human
Icehouse Electric Blue
Iggy pop Real Wild Child

Indigo Girls Closer to Fine
Information Society What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)
INXS Need You Tonight
Irene Cara Fame
Irene Cara Flashdance
J. Geils Band Centerfold
J. Geils Band Freeze Frame
James Brown Living in America
Jane Wiedlin Rush Hour
Janet Jackson Control

Jeff Healy Band Angel Eyes
Jermaine Stewart We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off
Joan Jett Bad Reputation
Joan Jett I Love Rock and Roll
Jody Watley Looking For A New Love
Joe Jackson Is She Really Going Out With Him
John Cougar Jack and Diane
John Fogerty Centerfield
John Parr St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)
John Waite Missing You

---200---

Johnny Hates Jazz Shattered Dreams
Journey Open Arms
Juice Newton Queen Of Hearts
Julian Lennon Too Late for Goodbyes
Kajogoogoo Too Shy
Kate Bush Running Up That Hill
Katrina & the Waves Walking on Sunshine
Kenny Loggins Footloose
Kim Carnes Bette Davis Eyes
Kim Carnes Bette Davis Eyes

Kim Wilde Kids in America
Klymaxx I miss you
Kool & the Gang Get Down On it
Kool & the Gang Celebration
Kylie Minogue The Locomotion
Laura Branigan Gloria
Lavert Cassanova
Level 42 Something About You
Limahl The Neverending Story
Limahl Never Ending Story

Lionel Richie All Night Long
Lipps Inc Funkytown
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam Head to Toe
Lita Ford Kiss Me Deadly
Living Colour Cult Of Personality
LL Cool J I Need Love
Los Lobos La Bamba
Love And Rockets So Alive
Loverboy Heaven In Your Eyes
M Pop Muzik

M.A.R.R.S . Pump Up The Volume
Madness Baggy Trousers
Madness Our House
Madonna Holiday
Madonna Like A Virgin
Martika Toy Soldiers
Marvin Gaye Sexual Healing
Matthew Wilder Break My Stride
Men at Work Down Under
Men at Work Who Can it be Now
Men Without Hats Safety Dance

Metallica One
Miami Sound Machine The Conga
Michael Jackson Thriller
Michael Penn No Myth
Michael Sembello Maniac
Midnight Oil Beds Are Burning
Midnight Oil Blue Sky Mine
Midnight Oil Sometimes
Mike & The Mechanics All I Need Is A Miracle
Milli Vanilli Girl You Know It's True
Missing Persons Walking In L.A.

Modern English I Melt With You
Motley Crue Girls Girls Girls
Mr. Mister Broken Wings
Murray Head One Night in Bangcock
Musical Youth Pass The Dutchie
Naked Eyes Always Something There To Remind Me
Natalie Cole Pink Cadillac
Neil Diamond America
Nelson After the Rain
Nena 99 Red Balloons
Neneh Cherry Buffalo Stance

New Kids on the Block Please Don't Go Girl
New Kids on the Block Hanging Tough
New Order Blue Monday
New Order Bizarre Love Triangle
Night Ranger Sister Christian
Nu Shooz I can't Wait
O.M.D If You Leave
Oakridge Boys Elvira
Oingo Boingo Weird Science
Olivia Newton John Physical

Ollie and Jerry Breakin' There's No Stopping Us
Orange Juice Jones The Rain
Pat Benatar Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Pat Benatar Invinceable
Pat Benatar Love is a Battlefield
Pat Benatar We Belong
Pat Benatar Shadows of the Night
Patrick Swayze She's Like the Wind
Paul Hardcastle 19
Paul McCartney Spies Like Us
Paul Simon Call Me Al

Paul Young Every time you go away
Paula Abdul Straight Up
Pebbles Girlfriend
Pet Shop Boys West End Girls
Peter Cetera Glory of Love
Peter Cetera and Amy Grant Next Time I Fall in Love
Peter Gabriel In Your Eyes
Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer
Peter Schilling Major Tom
Phil Collins In the Air Tonight

Pointer Sisters I'm So excited
Poison Nothing But A Good Time
Pretenders Back on the chain gang
Pretenders Don't Get Me Wrong
Pretty Poison Catch Me (I'm Falling)
Prince Rasberry Beret
Prince When Doves Cry
Prince You Got the Look
Prince 1999
Prince Purple Rain

---300---

Psychedelic Furs Pretty In Pink
Public Images Limited This Is Not A Love Song
Queen Another One Bites The Dust
Queen and David Bowie Under Pressure
Quiet Riot Cum on Feel the Noize
R.E.M Stand
Ratt Round and Round
Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters
Ready For The World Oh Sheila
Red Hot Chili Peppers Higher Ground

Re-Flex The Politics Of Dancing
REO Speedwagon Can't Fight This Feeling
Rick Astley Never Gonna Give You Up
Rick Astley Together Forever
Rick Springfield Jesse's Girl
Rob Base Joy and Pain
Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock It Takes Two
Robbie Neville C'est La Vie
Robert Palmer Addicted to Love
Rockwell Somebody Watching Me

Rod Stewart Downtown Train
Romeo Void Never Say Never
Roxette Dangerous
Roxette The Look
Roxette Joyride
Roxy Music Avalon
Rupert Holmes Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
Sade Smooth Operator
Salt N Pepa Push It
Samantha Fox Naughty Girls

Sammy Hagar I Can't Drive 55
Scandal feat. Patty Smith The Warrior
Shannon Let the Music Play
Sheena Easton Morning Train
Sheila E The Glamorous Life
Simple Minds Don't You Forget About Me
Simply Red If You Don't Know Be Now
Siouxsie & The Banshees Kiss Them For Me]
Skid Row 18 and Life
Skid Row I Remember You
Sly Foxx Let's Go All The Way

Soft Cell Tainted Love
Soul II Soul Back To Life
Spandau Ballet True
Squeeze Hourglass
Stacy Q Two of Hearts
Starship Nothing's gonna stop us now
Starship We Built This City
Status Quo What you're Proposing
Steve Miller Band Abracadabra
Steve Perry Oh Sherrie
Steve Winwood Higher Love

Stevie Wonder I just Called to Say I love you
Sting If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free
Stray Cats Stray Cats Strut
Styx Mr. Roboto
Supertramp It's Raining Again
Surface Shower Me With Your Love
Survivor Eye of The Tiger
Suzanne Vega Luka
Swing Out Sister Break Out
Taco Puttin on the Ritz

Talking Heads Burning Down the House
Taylor Dane Tell it to my Heart
Taylor Dane With Every Beat Of My Heart
Tears For Fears Shout
Tears For Fears Seeds of Love
Technotronic Pump Up The Jam
Terence Trent d'Arby Wishing Well
The B-52's Roam
The Bangles Manic Monday
The Cars Drive

The Cars Good Times Roll
The Cars Just What I Needed
The Cars My Best Friend's Girl
The Cars You Might Think
The Cars Shake it up
The Church Under The Milky Way
The Clash Rock the Casbah
The Cult Firewoman
The Cure Loves Song
The Fabulous Thunderbirds Tuff Enuff

The Fixx One Thing Leads to Another
The Icicle Works Bird Fly (Whisper To A Scream)
The Jam Going Undergound
The Jam In the City
The Jets Crush On You
The Kinks Come Dancing
The Moody Blues Your Wildest Dreams
The Motels Only The Lonely
The Nails 88 Lines About 44 Women
The Outfield Voices of Babylon

The Outfield - your love
The Pixies Wave of Mutilation
The Plimsouls A Million Miles Away
The Pogues Sally MacLennane
The Police Every Breath You Take
The Police Don't Stand so Close to me
The Power Station Get It On (Bang A Gong)
The Power Station Some Like It Hot
The Ramones I Wanna be Sedated
The Romantics What I Like About You

---400---

The Scorpions Rock You Like A Hurricane
The Smithereens A Girl Like You
The Smiths How Soon Is Now?
The Specials Ghost Town
The Sugarcubes Birthday
The System Don't Disturb This Groove
The Tubes She's A Beauty
The Vapors Turning Japanese
The Waitresses I Know What Boys Like
The weather Girls Its Raining Men

Thomas Dolby She Blinded Me With Science
Thompson Twins Hold Me Now
Tiffany I Think We're Alone Now
Til Tuesday Voices Carry
Timbuk3 Future so Bright I Gotta Wear Shades
Timex Social Club Rumors
Tina Tuner What's Love Got To Do with It
Todd Rundgren Bang The Drum All Day
Tom Petty Free Falling
Tommy Tutone 867-5309

Tone Loc Wild Thing
Tone Loc Funky Cold Medina
Toni Basil Mickey
Toto Rosanna
T'Pau Heart and Soul
Tracy Chapman Fast Car
Trio Da Da Da
U2 With or Without you
U2 Desire
U2 Sunday Bloody Sunday
UB40 Red Wine

Ultravox Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
Unchain My Heart Joe Cocker
USA for Africa We Are The World
Van Halen Jump
Vanity Nasty Girl
Violent Femmes Blister In The Sun
Wall Of Voodoo Mexican Radio
Wang Chung Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Warrant Heaven
Was Not Was Walk the Dinosaur
Weird Al Yankovic Eat It

Wham! Wake Me up Before you Go Go
When In Rome The Promise
Whispers Rock Steady
White Lion When The Children Cry
Whitesnake Here I Go Again
Whitney Houston I Wanna Dance with somebody
Whitney Houston Greatest Love Of All
Will To Power Dreamin
Winger Headed ForA Heartbreak
XTC Cryin

XTC Dear God
Yaz Situation
Yello Oh Yeah
Yes Owner of a Lonely Heart
Young MC Bust A Move
ZZ Tops Legs
Kenny Loggins-Danger Zone
Kenny Loggins-I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)
Michael Jackson Beat It
Michael Jackson Billie Jean-

Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal-
Michael Jackson Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'-
Michael Jackson PYT-
Mike Wilson/Ann Reno- Almost Paradise-
Van Halen Jump
Faith No More Epic
Madonna Lucky Star
Madonna Borderline
Madonna Like A Virgin

Madonna Material Girl
Madonna Crazy for you
Madonna Into the Groove
Madonna Live to tell
Madonna Open your heart
Madonna la isla bonita
Madonna express yourself
Madonna cherish
Glenn Frey Smuggler's Blues
Glenn Frey The Heat is on

Geto Boys Mind is Playing Tricks on me
Bell Biv Devoe Poison
Alice Cooper Poison
Joy Division Love Will Tear us Apart
Escape Club Wild Wild West
Survivor Eye of the Tiger
Madonna Like A Prayer
Eddy Grany Electric Avenue
Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford If I Close My Eyes Forever
They Might Be Giants Birdhouse in Your Soul

They Might Be Giants Istanbul
Yello Oh Yeah
Siouxsie an the Banshees Peekaboo
The Bangles Hazy Shade of Winter
The Bangles Manic Monday
The Moody Blues Your Wildest Dreams
The Romantics What I Like About You
Whitesnake Here I Go Again
Motley Crue - : Wild side,
Motley Crue -Dr Feelgood,

--500--

Motley Crue -Home Sweet Home,
Motley Crue -Smokin in the Boys Room
Def Lepard - : Photograph,
Def Lepard - Rock of Ages,
Def Lepard - Hysteria,
Def Lepard - Animal
Poison : Cry Tough,
Poison - I Want Action,
Poison - Every Rose has its Thorn,
Poison - Fallen Angel

Dramarama- Anything, Anything
R.E.M - It's the End of the World as we know it
Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
Siouxie and the Banshee's - Peek-a-Boo
Violent Femmes -Add It Up
Violent Femmes - Kiss Off
Men at Work - Overkill
Air Supply - Love out of nothin at all
janet jackson - nasty
reo speedwagon - take it on the run

abc - poison arrow
abba - dancing queen
alphaville - forever young
billy idol - dancing with myself
billy joel - allentown
bruce springsteen - born to run
bruce springsteen - dancing in the dark
bryan adams - summer of '69
corey hart - never surrender
debbie gibson - only in my dreams

depeche mode - enjoy the silence
digital underground - humpty dance
dj jazzy jeff and the fresh prince - parents just don't understand
duran duran - notorious
duran duran - the reflex
the fixx - one thing leads to another
go-go's - vacation
hall & oates - out of touch
human league - (keep feeling) fascination
jesus and mary chain - just like honey

journey - don't stop believin'
journey - any way you want it
journey - separate ways
josie cotton - johnny are you queer?
simply red,
wilson phillips,
ll cool j,
en vogue,
billy vera - if i could just hold you again
boy meets girl - waiting for a star to fall

dokken - dream warriors
micheal sembello - maniac
nucleus - jam on it
terence trent d'arby - wishing well
the dream academy - life in a northern town
the gleaming spires - are you ready for the sex girls?
pebbles - girlfriend
winger - seventeen
L'Trimm Cars With the Boom
MC Hammer "Can't Touch This"

Public Enemy "Bring the Noise"
2 Live Crew "Me So Horny"
NWA "Straight Outta Compton"
Biz Markie "Just A Friend"
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peek-a-Boo
theme from SMALL WONDER.
10,000 Maniacs - What's the Matter Here?
ABBA – Super Trouper
Aerosmith – Janie’s Got a Gun
B-52’s – Deadbeat Club

B-52’s – Loveshack
B-52’s – Roam
Beastie Boys – Brass Monkey
Beastie Boys – No Sleep til Brooklyn
Beastie Boys – Paul Revere
Beastie Boys – She’s Crafty
Belinda Carlisle – Circle in the Sand
Bon Jovi – Livin on a Prayer
Bonnie Raitt – Have a Heart
Book of Love – I Touch Roses

Book of Love – You Make Me Feel So Good
Camouflage – That Smiling Face
Camouflage – The Great Commandment
Chicago – You’re the Inspiration
Cindi Lauper – True Colors
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down
Rick James - Super Freak
The La's - There She Goes
The Cure - A Forest
The Primitives - Crash

Chris Isaak – Wicked Game
Devo – Whip It
Erasure – Chains of Love
Guns N’ Roses – Patience
INXS – New Sensation
Jane’s Addiction – Jane Says
Janet Jackson – Rhythm Nation
Janet Jackson – What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
The Cure – Just Like Heaven

--600--

Public Enemy – Fight the Power
Prince – Little Red Corvette
Prince – Kiss
Prince – 1999
R.E.M. – Radio Free Europe
The Cure – InBetween Days
Pet Shop Boys – What Have I Done To Deserve This?
Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind
LL Cool J – Goin Back to Cali
Men Without Hats – Pop Goes the World

Nine Inch Nails – Down In It
Nine Inch Nails – Head Like a Hole
Nine Inch Nails – Sin
Paula Abdul – Straight Up
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Knock Me Down
REM – Perfect Circle
REM – Superman
REM – The One I Love
Run DMC – It’s Tricky
Suzanne Vega – Left of Center

Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule the World
The Ocean Blue – Between Something and Nothing
The Police – Canary in a Coal Mine
The Smiths – Ask
The Smiths – Girlfriend in a Coma
The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
They Might Be Giants – Don’t Let’s Start
Tom Petty – I Won’t Back Down
U2 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
U2 – I Will Follow

U2 – Where the Streets Have No Name
Wham! – Careless Whisper
Yaz – Only You
Aztec Camera - Good Morning Britain (w/ Mick Jones)
Aztec Camera - Oblivion
B52's- Private Idaho,
B52's - Love Shack
The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter,
The Bangles - Eternal Flame
Big Audio Dynamite- The Bottom Line, E=MC2

Crowded House- Fall at Your Feet,
Crowded House- Something So Strong
The Dead Milkmen- Punk Rock Girl
The Dead Milkmen- Swordfish
The Dead Milkmen- Bitchin Camaro
Depeche Mode- Personal Jesus
Elvis Costello- Everyday I Write The Book
The Fixx - Stand or Fall,
The Fixx - Saved by Zero
The Go Go's - Our Lips are Sealed,

The Go Go's - Vacation
The Lightning Seeds- Pure
Lionel Richie & Diana Ross - Endless Love
The Romantics -Talking in your Sleep
Sinead O'Connor- I Want Your (Hands on Me)
The Smithereens- Blood & Roses
Split Enz- I Got You
Squeeze- Pulling Mussels (From the Shell), Tempted
Journey - Faithfully
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Whitesnake - Is This Love
Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love
Dokken - Into the Fire
Cinderella - Don't Know What You Got (Till Its Gone)
Scorpions - Still Lovin You
Richard Marx - Hold On to the Nights
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
Twisted Sister - "I Wanna Rock"
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take
ac/dc - that's the way i wanna rock n roll

dangerous toys - scared
faith no more - epic
ozzy osbourne - miracle man, crazy babies, breakin all the rules
jefferson starship - sara
sioux and the banshees - dear prudence
Queen- Radio Ga Ga
Bangles Hero Takes a Fall
Burning Sensations Belly of the Whale
English Beat Mirror in the Bathroom
Icicle Works Whisper to a Scream

--680---

Nick Lowe Cruel to be Kind
Real Life Send Me an Angel
Soft Cell Sex Dwarf
Squeeze Pulling Mussels from a Shell

Check out http://www.afn.org/~afn30091/80songs.html for missing songs
http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/best_billbord4.html

Theme from dallas
Theme from dynasty
Theme from knots landing
Theme from dukes of hazzard
Theme from growing pains
Theme from family ties
Theme from you can't do that on television
Theme from simon and simon
Theme from riptide
Theme from macguyver
Theme from knight rider
Theme from a-team
Theme from hunter
Theme from gi joe
Theme from transformers
Theme from kids incorporated
Theme from fraggle rock
Theme from the muppets
Theme from muppet babies
Theme from heathcliff
Theme from alvin and the chipmunks
Theme from denver the last dinosaur
Theme from charlie brown
Theme from he-man/masters of the universe
Theme from inspector gadget
Theme from the littles
Theme from smurfs
Theme from teenage mutant ninja turtles
Theme from 321 contact
Theme from the electric company
Theme from fat albert
Theme from the incredible hulk
Theme from M.A.S.K.
Theme from mr rogers neighborhood
Theme from pee wee's playhouse
Theme from reading rainbow
Theme from romper room
Theme from captain kangaroo
Theme from sesame street
Theme from land of the lost
Theme from wonder woman
Theme from square one
Theme from thundercats
Theme from Airwolf.

from boulder to north pole, alaska and some really simple math that's got me all tingly inside

2008-08-02T00:09:00.000-07:00

about a year and a half ago (some time in may 2007,) i bought a computer for my bike. it's a small little device that lives on the handlebars. there's a magnet that's connected to one wheel, and everytime the wheel turns a revolution, the computer counts it. the computer does the math and, based on the size of my wheels, i can see how fast i'm currently going, (as i type this, my current speed is a whopping 0 mph,) what my average speed is (my current average is 13.7 mph,) my top speed (to date it's around 42 mph, but lately, the top speed is around 38 mph,) a trip odometer (last time i reset it was when aspen was here, i've got about 180 miles since that reset,) and an overall odometer. this is where our story begins. (there's also a timer, which tells me how long i've been on the bike--in motion-- a>since the last trip reset as well as overall. these two features i rarely use for some reason.)
this morning, about 1/3 of a mile from work, my overall odometer passed 3,000 miles. 3,000 miles. three thousand miles. we moved to lafayette in february, and i remember fondly passing the 1,000 mile mark that week. that's about one thousand miles in 12 months, give or take--ok, just take-- three months. then, about 3 months later, the odometer turned over to 2,000 miles. in three months, i had done as much riding as the previous 9 months. now, 3 months later, i've done the same again.
i told thedalyn this exciting news, (what's the exciting news, you ask? that i rolled the odometer over to 3000 miles today. try to keep up, dear readers,) and her response was "we live farther away now." awesome. way to join in the excitement.

something else that struck me today, as i was riding in to work, watching the counter get closer and closer to 3 with 3 zeros behind it, is that 3,000 is not really all that different than 3,001 or 2,999. is mile number 24 any more special than mile number 3,564,852?. for some reason, we put some kind of mystical weight on "round" numbers. the only thing i could think of is that it's special because of it's place on a number line.
there was a time when odometers and counters and things were analog, with little wheels with printed numbers that turned with gears, etc, where the 10's wheel turned once for every ten rotations of the 1's wheel, the hundred's for every ten turns of the 10's wheel. when these types of odometers would get to a round number like 3,000, that one mile from 2,999 to 3,000 is pretty much like all the others, but as that ones wheel turns into place once more, it drags with it 3 other wheels this time, something that only happens every 1,000 revolution.
i can only imagine in 21 months, when the computer's "gears" roll over to 10,000 miles. will i be 10 times as excited? probably not. but it will be cool to see all those numbers roll over to zero as a new column is introduced.

i'm not sure what the point of all this is, other than maybe a poorly disguised way for me to brag to the world that i've ridden that bike the distance from lafayette, colorado to north pole, alaska in about 18 months. not that it would take me 18 months to do that if i was traveling to north pole alaska, since i'm averaging about 7.8 miles per day at this rate. if i was going to ride my bike to alaska, hopefully i'm going to put more miles behind me than 8 per day.

what have i learned in all those hours on my bike (233 hours and 51 minutes to be exact?

a new seat would be nice.

can't ride a bike wha???

2008-07-31T22:10:00.001-07:00

those of you who know me know that i teach _a bike class for kids. those of you who don't know me now know the same. most of what we cover in this class is mechanics. the kids actually earn a bike that they keep through the program. we also try to get in some riding skills if there's time at the end of the class.
today was the last class in the july session, so the kids finished up their bikes, safety checked them, and we went for a short ride. two of the students (sisters, as it turns out) weren't comfortable enough on two wheels without training wheels to be able to join the group ride, so i stayed with them and worked on some balance exercises. i even discovered a new and easy practice method for getting used to the pedals*.
i wish i had known earlier that they couldn't ride. i would have spent more of their class time working on balance and riding skills and less on things like how to replace and adjust a derailleur cable. these two kids were some of our best mechanics that we've seen. they had a sense of wanting to figure out challenges and bike parts that i haven't seen in too many of our students.
we had to replace some reflectors, and i asked why we put the red on the back of the bike, and the white one on the front. the younger sister figured out in about 3 seconds what the reason is. blew my socks off. i think there are adults in the bike shop who don't know why we do that. in fact, i know there are, as i've seen countless bikes with the wrong reflector on the wrong end of the bike. this girl is 9.
the girls' mother did bring up the fact that one of them still uses one training wheel at home, so perhaps i was being overly optimistic about their riding abilities. i guess the family's moved a fair bit in the last year or two, so the kids haven't had a regular place to ride, nor bikes to get used to. it's hard for me to understand a kid's world that doesn't include riding a bike. we moved around a lot when i was a kid, and one of the first things we did in our new destination was to go for bike rides and figure out the neighborhood.

i realized the other day that i can't remember a time in my life when i couldn't ride a bike. i have vague memories of my dad running behind me saying "you got it! you got it! keep going!" but i can't be sure i'm not just stealing that memory from some movie or tv show. i'm kind of glad that i can't remember not riding a bike. i don't know how i would handle a memory like that.

at the end of the class, after bikes were put into parents's cars, tools were put away, the floor swept, i turned around at one point, and there were these two girls. waiting to tell me thanks.
totally made my night. even if they didn't get up on two wheels earlier...

*2 exercises for learning to ride a bike:

1. "the seat scoot"

lower the seat so that the rider can sit comfortable on the bike with both feet flat on the ground. have the rider sit on the bike, as if they're going to ride it. the rider pushes with their feet along the ground, moving forward as if they're riding a bike with no pedals, like this:

start with small steps. the rider will get more comfortable with lifting her feet up, steering, braking, etc, and her steps will get longer. eventually, she'll be able to zip around, coasting with her feet up off the ground, only putting their feet down to avoid crashing.

2. "the pedal pusher"
this method works well for kids who have ridden a skateboard or scooter before. it's a little more advanced that the seat scoot, but kids learn in different ways, and if they're motivated to learn, then mixing up the lessons will help break the monotony, and encourage success.

have the rider stand over the bike as if he's about to go for a ride. hands on handlebars, feet on ground beside the bike. lift one foot up onto a pedal while keeping the other foot on the ground. the rider's weight will eventually be on the pedal, but the other foot is busy pushing off the ground. similar to a razor type scooter, or a skateboard. essentially, with one foot on the pedal, and the other pushing off the ground, the rider has turned their pedal bicycle into one of these:

for this method, the rider will be propelling himself forward, but his weight will be on the pedal, so he'll be standing up as he's pushing along. again, helps with the balance, steering, etc.

eventually, the foot that's on the pedal will swing back and forth slightly. as it moves forward, it's freewheeling. as it moves back, it will be engaging the chain, and is, for all intents and purposes, pedalling. it's an eay victory for the rider to be pedalling so easily, and the smile i got when i pointed out that she was actually pedalling made my night.

the list.

2008-07-30T23:11:00.000-07:00

The Mission:

Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).

Learn more at Day Zero.

and without further ado, here's my list of 101 things i want to do in 1001 days:

1. sell the car
2. get 100% out of debt

3. build a welded tallbike

4. go bike camping

5. do "100 miles on a tallbike" film

6. print and distribute "on your left"

7. have art in a show in an actual gallery

8. read the complete baroque cycle books

9. complete art project with amy, complete with custom die

10. lose 30 pounds

11. go to another country

12. help my parents finish their bathroom

13. sell 5 shirts with that many designs

~~14. season cast iron skillets~~

15. walk polly the dog once a day for 7 days in a row

16. clean up poop and mow lawn once a week

17. get a tattoo

18. read all the ender's books
19. read 5 books i own that i haven't read

20. get rid of 20 books i've read

21. make one recipe from 5 cookbooks for every one new cookbook i buy

22. make one recipe from every cookbook i own

23. blog once a day for one month

24. create and publish a cookzine

25. ~~put up pegboard~~ and organize the garage
26. ~~clean up desk~~
27. ~~put books on bookshelves in library~~
28. listen to all cassette tapes in milk crate, discard the old dead ones

29. rip cds, lps, and remaining tapes to mp3.

30. watch, rip, and discard video tapes

31. go on a picnic

32. help my parents to be vegan for 1 week.

33. balance my checkbook, use it, and keep it up to date for 1 month, including EVERY purchase and deposit

34. learn flash

35. create a short flash film/video 5-6 minutes long

36. create a flash game

37. get a "bingo" word in scrabble

38. play a game of chess long distance with someone

39. learn about and develop a training regimen for commuting to work by bike

40. ~~ride from home to work (11 miles) in 35 minutes.~~

41. frame anna's print, hang it in the house

42. freecycle, craigslist, donate, or ebay one thing per day for 60 days in a row.

43. cook dinner for thedalyn for 30 days in a row

44. do all the house chores (dishes, cleaning, laundry, trash, feed animals and clean animals' poop for 30 days in a row.

45. pick 3 of my favorite recipes, learn them by heart, and teach them to 3 friends.

46. take a multi-vitamin for 7 days in a row

47. watch all of ebert's 102 great movies

48. learn all the major parts and systems of a bicycle in spanish

49. finish and collect my awesome list of 80's songs

50. become a paying member of community cycles

51. ~~plant a garden~~
52. cook a meal using only ingredients (spices not included) that i've grown from seeds
53. eat for 1 week using only ingredients that were grown within 100 miles from me, spices not included
54. make every recipe in 1 cookbook
55. learn a recipe from someone in my neighborhood that i've not previously met, and teach them a new one.
56. visit carl in north carolina
57. donate blood
58. mail carl's package.
59. work 8 hours in a row during a weekday without checking my personal email, websites i frequent, blogs, etc, note any difference in productivity.
60. take a ride on the cog railway
61. ~~ride my bike to record store in arvada~~
62. design and build a bike trailer
63. build dalyn a bike noguchi table
64. organize craft tools, materials, etc. discard/donate/freecycle what i haven't used in 12 months.
65. climb a 14er
66. give a slideshow
67. rank 75% of the songs on my ipod and itunes.
68. plan a monthly budget, and stick to it using cash and envelopes, dave ramsey style
69. join a csa
70. contribute to savings $5 for every item on this list completed.
71. contribute to savings $10 for every item on this list not completed.
72. ~~buy ipod for my dad.~~ fill it 25% with music i know he likes. fill it 25% with music i hope he'll like that i love.
73. find a vegan bed and breakfast in colorado, stay there with dalyn
74. ~~get a replacement driver's license~~

75. visit anna's grave
76. read for 1 hour a day for 7 days in a row
77. interview 3 non-immediate family members about what their life was like before i was born
78. cull my wardrobe to things i've worn in the last 12 months
79. brew a batch of root beer
80. make a painting for above the stairs
81. take a class on illustrator
82. send korbin a package of cool stuff
83. ~~upload photos of anna to picasa, share with family~~
84. put birthdays and anniversaries into google calender
85. get a physical
86. get my teeth checked
87. leave early for work with the express purpose of enjoying the sunrise at waneka lake. bring dalyn if she'll let me.
88. ride up to ncarr
89. bake cookies for a friend and give them anonymously
90. enter a contest
91. run the bolder boulder
92. ~~find, download, and listen to lectures online that interest me~~
93. visit the louisville historic museum
94. have 5 friends/families i don't talk to regularly over for dinner.
95. design, print, and distribute holiday cards for 08/09
96. buy birthday gifts for all my immediate family members in 1 year
97. file my 2007 taxes
98. take a day off work with nothing to do
99. watch dr who starting with the original season 1
100. pay for sarah to come visit colorado.
101. make new list

it's a lot to think about all at once. i'm glad i have 1001 days to do it in. making up the list was a several hours long project in and of itself, and i had to go to the internet to visit some other folks' lists to get ideas. there's a ton of people doing this thing, and it's interesting to read what other people put on their list.
i was thinking about just how much stuff i have on this list. it's a big damn list. some of the things (number 55, anyone?) are a little unnerving, and i'm not sure how i'll pull them off. if i didn't have to work, eat, sleep, spend time with dalyn, i wonder how long ticking all 100 of these things off would take. i'm starting the project on 7/31/08, and my end date is April 28, 2011. that seems like so far from now.
if i think back to 1001 days ago, and what i was doing then, it seems like so long ago. i was still running the babysitting business, delivering bread for the bakery. i'm not sure how this list would look different if the me from november, 2005 had written it. that's a really weird thing to think about...
one thing that did occur to me is that this will be a great list to go back to on weekends or evenings, when we're sitting around with nothing to do, and looking for something to entertain us. hopefully we won't burn out and lose interest once the fun/easy things are completed.

101 things in 1001 days

2008-07-30T19:49:00.000-07:00

yesterday thedalyn brought up an idea that she saw online. make a list of 101 things that you'd like to accomplish, and do those things within 1001 days of starting. this basically amounts to 3 years. or one thing on your list every 10 days. numerous people have done this already, and i'm guessing there's all kinds of books and planners and things to buy. of course, these things will help you make your list, and may help organize and prioritize the things on it, but it won't get them done. that's sort of the point of the list in the first place, i think.
anyway, i'm still compiling my list. i'll post it here as soon as it's done. number 23 on the list is blog for 30 days in a row. i created this blog ages ago, (just looked it up, and apparently i created it in 2005) with the hopes of actually doing some regular writing, keeping friends and family up to date with what's going on in my world, finding other like minded folks, etc. as you can tell from the fact that this is the first post, that never really happened. until now.
some of the things on the list are things that i would like to do repeatedly for a finite amount of time. (number 43 is cook dinner for 30 days in a row.) some are big, one time things. (number 1, sell the car.) some are things i will have to work towards, and eventually achieve (numbers 34 and 36, learn flash, and create a flash game.) some are things i'll need to do repeatedly, in the hopes of making them a habit (number 23, blog once a day for 30 days.)

thedalyn is waiting until august 1st to start her list, officially. i figured i'd get started now, so as not to let her get ahead. she's sneaky that way. actually, i've been trying to figure out a way to get this blog rolling, and waiting for an appropriate time/threshold/some defining moment that gets me writing. i tend to put big behavioral changes off until i have some big reason to change. you know, cos blogging is...um...this big behavioral change... i guess i just have delusions of grandeur, and want to make this a regular thing in the hopes of making my writing better, getting ideas onto paper, so to speak, and just plain old edification.

no more putting off. it's time for some edification.

hopefully i'll have the list finished soon, and will post it when i do.

josh.

My boyfriend’s pecker is too big for my mouth

2007-08-29T11:54:00.000-07:00

Virgins always hee-hawed at me and even fellows did in the federal toilet!
Well, now I smil at them, because I took M_E GA D IK
for 3 months and now my tool is indeed more than average.
pay forhttp://hlwcn.com/
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Union Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
be patentable.
April 6. The court will rule on
progressed through to the Super 8 stage, this game was

Comments:

So, Malone's pecker grew and he used it to score with some penguins in Eastern Europe? I didn't even know they grew penguins there. Kinky.

Posted by The Spectacle on Aug 30, 2007 10:55 AM
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the federal toilet sounds like a place i'd never pass muster. Or gas.

Posted by carl on Sep 26, 2007 2:04 PM
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2007-01-16T19:52:00.000-08:00

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Couldn't have said it better myself...

Posted by That lousy, no good, son of a... on Jan 17, 2007 7:24 PM
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"watcho mouff!!"

"jus' tawkin' 'bout '... ' "

Posted by hair club tapes on Jan 21, 2007 3:56 PM
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the future is spam

2006-12-31T20:36:00.000-08:00

josh says:
hey hott momma.
Sexxxy Sara says:
hey its u again sup sweety lol
josh says:
the robots have eaten my brain.
Sexxxy Sara says:
im going to start my show again now.. u wanna come watch?
josh says:
your dinner won't be ready until you fax me your toenail.
Sexxxy Sara says:
its gonna be really hot this time.. the 3 of us are giving one of our lucky members a hand job with oil lol.. its gonna get kinky
josh says:
the tractor in my bathtub sings me lullabies while i poop unicorns.
Sexxxy Sara says:
u didnt come see the show the other day did ya lol? theres 3 of us this time.. slumber party lol.
josh says:
sometimes, when it's dark outside, i like to eat fried chicken while sitting oiled up in my cousin's wading pool, while wearing water wings and a duck floaty. good times.
Sexxxy Sara says:
like i told u last time, since u have to be 18 (the law ) u gotta login with a credit card but i told u i would upgrade u so dont worry..ill look after it http://www.stupidmisspelledpornosite.com/cute
josh says:
you should do a show where you eat fried chicken in a children's wading pool, while wearing water wings and a duck floatie. the kids in my neighborhood all love it. or, they tell me they love it, before i'll untie them from the pipes in my basement.
Sexxxy Sara says:
u really should come watch babe.. but if u dont i wont be mad.. ill be back on msn on the weekend so we can chat then...ill give you my cell and maybe we can meet up and hang out or something
josh says:
yeah, we should totally hang out. do you like fried chicken? sometimes i like to throw fried chicken into my car's back seat, where i keep the cadavers. actually, i should go, i need to clean that shit out...it's starting to smell bad.
josh says:
maybe you can help me clean it out this weekend?
Sexxxy Sara says:
k now im definatley late lol... ill see ya in the chat room. im soo wet lol
Sexxxy Sara says:
Away Message: sorry, just in a webcam show right now, either leave a msg. or click the link to come watch http://www.stupidmisspelledpornwebsite.com/cute - ONLY if you're over 18
josh says:
you're gone?
Sexxxy Sara says:
Away Message: sorry, just in a webcam show right now, either leave a msg. or click the link to come watch http://www.stupidmisspelledpornwebsite.com/cute - ONLY if you're over 18
josh says:
no helping me with my cadaver smelling car?
Sexxxy Sara says:
Away Message: sorry, just in a webcam show right now, either leave a msg. or click the link to come watch http://www.stupidmisspelledpornwebsite.com/cute - ONLY if you're over 18

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You having too much fun with this...

Oh hell, no your not. And It's highly entertaining. Carry on!

Posted by That lousy, no good, son of a... on Jan 2, 2007 1:33 PM
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"she" says "lol" just enough times to make me question wether or not it's an actual person ...

this is the title of out next release=

"the tractor in my bathtub sings me lullabies while i poop unicorns"

Posted by hair club tapes on Jan 6, 2007 1:11 PM
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i had a great idea for a volume 3, and it worked perfectly, but unfortunately, it didn't translate into copy and pastability:

basically, i started the conversation with one of these bots by copy and pasting the first line from another chatbot, having some idea of what was coming.

it turned out, the chatbot i ended up with posted word for word the exact same thing i did, only seconds after i posted it. my responses were "her" responses before she could respond. it was pretty funny as it happened, but then when i went to post the result, it just looked like i had built the conversation from scratch.

if i ever feel creative/mischevious enough, i might expound on the pooping of the unicorns some more.

but hells, yes. that line=our record.

Posted by bionic vagina on Jan 6, 2007 5:54 PM
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i just requested a song be written about this sitiation at this site.... >

http://songstowearpantsto.com/

Posted by hair club tapes on Jan 7, 2007 1:53 PM
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Forgot to tell you how much your sick sense of humor with the chatbot cracked me up.

Posted by Soy Chicken on Feb 7, 2007 12:19 AM
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Dude, I could have sworn, I'm even getting emails that seem legit. If you chat more than once, wait, no, I got the same lines but it seemed to flow alot smoother than that, more real. The emails too man, were seriously convincing, oh well, I guess I'll meet up with some hot mystery chick some other day. I see the light now.

Posted by Jon C (Daddy) on Feb 15, 2007 11:09 PM
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yeah, the second time you chat them up, it's a little different, but not much. more lines like "oh, hey, i missed you the other day..." "how come you didn't see my show", and "that's ok, i forgive you. oooh, i'm late again! gotta go..."

Posted by bionic vagina on Feb 16, 2007 9:39 AM
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my name is (what?)

2005-07-15T00:46:00.000-07:00

this story has come up like 3 times in the last week, so i'm putting it here so's i'll feel like i don't have to tell it again for a while.

when we moved to louisiana, i was i the first grade. i seem to recall that it was in the middle of the school year, or towards the beginning of it. on my first day, the guidance counselor type person wasevaluating me to decide what level i was at in math, english, etc. she was sort of interviewing me, trying to find out this stuff. i distinctly remember her asking me some math questions involving apples and oranges and pac man. like if pacman likes apples and you have ten of them and he eats seven, how many will you have left? i remember thinking it was a trick question or something, cos pac man doesn't eat apples, he eats power pellets.
anyway, we're about to go to my new classroom and meet my teacher and classmates. this counselor lady reads my full name, joshua matthew brown, and asks if there's a shorter version i go by, like josh, or matthew, or matt...so without thinking, i answer 'matt'. i still dunno why. i think i just wanted to see what would happen. for the record, up to htis point i'd always gone by joshua. josh came later, but my parents still call me joshua. it used to bug me that they had a different, more formal name for me, but i've kinda realized that it seems like they have a special name reserved for their use only, and i like it.
so we get to class, and i'm introduced as matt. to me this is insane, cos my name's not matt, it's joshua. i find it more amusing than anything else. i felt like i had pulled one over on the teacher and students. of course, to them, there's nothing out of line. so they call me matt, and matthew.
everything's normal for awhile, and then parent/teacher conference night rolls around. my mom and dad go in, i can't remember if i was with them or not, i like to think that i was there, cos i sort of remember this happening. the teacher sat us all down, and informed my parents that (in the same evaluation that would follow me thru high school) "matthew does great in my class, but he's disruptive and is not fulfilling his potential..." my parents look at me and each other, and are like "matthew? our son's name is joshua."
so there i am in the middle of this, having not explained to my parents that i was going by matt at school, and joshua at home. they asked if i preferred matt, and if i wanted them to call me this. i felt like a deer in the headlights. i dind't know what they wanted me to say, so i capitulated, and said, "joshua is good. you can call me that." i remember feeling like i had to decide between my parents and my teachers. of course my parents took that one.
so the next week, all the teachers started calling me joshua, but none of the students knew who joshua was. they knew me as matt.
it kinda ironed itself out after a while, but it was kinda dicey for a minute there in that parent teacher conference.

my "new" bike

2005-07-14T23:08:00.000-07:00

so, i have this place where i get bikes from. they're basically bikes that people have thrown away to be recycled as scrap metal. i've gotten kid's bikes, mountain bikes, road bikes, bmx bikes, a sweet ass old schwinn bike(think the little red bike most every 8 yr old got for christmas in 1965), and some weird ones, like a bmw olympic team frame, which is a mtn bike, but the frame folds in half. bizarre.
anyway in order to score the bikes for free, they have to be liberated at night, or when the place is closed, so that no employees will be around. it's sort of semi quasi legal to take stuff from this place, but prolly not a good idea to be seen doing it, nonetheless.
anyway, last night, i go to check it out. what to my wandering eyes does appear? a little kids bike. 12 inch wheels, pink girl's frame, and a rack on the back wheel. like for panniers or something. as if the 4 year old riding this is going on a cross country ride and needs saddlebags.
i'm wearing flipflops, by the way, and wasn't counting on actually getting in the dumpster, but i couldn't resist this pink perfect minibike. so i climbed in.
as i'm going for broke to liberate this sweet little bike, i spot some more bike parts. a 20" bmx wheel, with peg still attached. so i toss that out of the dumpster, into my pile of "scrap" metal to be liberated.
as i'm maneuvering closer to the wheel, i see a frame and fork. it's pretty beefy, and i guess(correctly) that it;'s a bmx frame. at the time, it was being suffocated by a discarded stove. i had to wrestle witht he stove while balanced on some other sort of scrap metal, which seemed to be solid enough for me to brace against while i manhandled this dead stove out of the way.
i finally get the schwinn "pro track 3" as it's known free from the clutches of the stove and the random chain link fence scraps, and it's complete. someone tossed it. keep in mind that at the time, i didn't know what kind of bike it was. i jus knew it was beefy as hell, solid, had some killer parts, 3 pc cranks, and had to be a hefty bmx frame, worth a little bit of climbing gear at least.
so, i looked and looked online, and finally found a picture of this bike, and a description and nailed it as the pro stock 3 that it is.
the good news? it's a 300 dollar bike.
the bad news which actually might turn out to be good news? it was recalled later in 1999, due to some faulty welds or something. so this means that while i can't sell it (morally most of all, i don't have the heart to sell a recalled product to some unaware schmoe, but prolly legally there's somethign wrong with that as well, especially since i now know about the recall.
i find out tomorrow if i can still exchange it for a new replacement one, as provided by the terms of the recall.
moral of the story? i may have gotten a new bike from the dumpster.

update #1: i called schwinn, and the recall occured prior to their having declared bankruptcy, so i'm sol as far as getting a replacement frame. the guy i spoke to was funny, cos i kept saying "so, i'm basically out of luck? i have a bike i can't sell, and can't ride?" and his response was "well, sir, i have to be very careful about my language here. the schwinn corporate response is that you should not ride that bike." and then i finally got him to say that if a bike shop checks out the welds, it's prolly ok, but "having said that, it in no way is an endorsement by schwinn that it's ok to ride the bike..." and that's how i left it.

update #2: early on in this adventure, i posted a message on a schwinn bmx forum looking for hte model name, any info on it, etc and got no helpful response. after having spoken to schwinn, i posted again about how i thought it was a pro stock 3, which had been recalled, (have you not been reading so far?) and that i'm out of luck. so after having posted that message, someone else posted with some new, better news. i don't have apro stock 3. i have a pro stock 1. which was a> not recalled. and b> almost 700 dollars new. holy crap! score. the person who posted(keep in mind the almost ocd like behavior of those who post in these types of forums, being able to discern the model name of a bike based on aserial number, an obscure description of some feature of the frame, etc...) said that the only olive and chrome and black model was the pro stock 1. so it's what i have. i'm so stoked.

too bad my lock is not worthy of a 700 dollar freebike.

now, to sell or not to sell? the pragmatic dumpster diver 28 1/2 year old in me says to sell it and buy some climbing gea---pay down some debt. the 14 year old bmx dork in me says to keep it, even tho i know i'm not capable/worthy of such a sweet ride.

we'll see. i may shop it around and see what i can get for it.

update over 3 years later:

turns out i ended up keeping the bike for awhile, and it just took up space in the garage. i posted it on craiglist, and tried to play up the bmx awesomeness of the bike. the only interest i got was from some guy who sounded super excited on the phone, and then came over and asked if it would be a good bike to ride to bars.
sold it for 100 bucks.
that was about 2 years ago. i completely forgot about this bike.

stupid phone

2005-07-10T23:07:00.000-07:00

i had a dream about her last night.
we were doing something we hadn't done.
it reminded me of the way people are reminded of other people.
then the phone woke me up.
it wasn't her.

trash and junk

2005-07-05T15:37:00.000-07:00

i have too many bikes. why is it that i keep bringing them home? i'mma try and take some of the trashed bikes back to the dump this weekend. we'll see.
i'm sure the roommates are tired of the pile pf wheels and random metal beside the house.
when i'm in the garage cutting apart/bolting together some new bike(s), and my housemates walk by, they can't help but sing the sanford and son theme. what are they trying to tell me?
you wouldn't believe the crap people throw away. yes you would. if you're reading this, i've prolly told you all about the turntables i liberated from the storage unit, the numerous bicycles rescued from the scrap metal recycle center(See above) and all the cases of bananas my dumpstering portland friends and i would bring home.

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yes i would believe what could be found in teh trash, be it bike parts, or human heart parts, as jcpenny is wont to rejoined: it's all inside. and now back to the heart parts bit.
josh is a great heart part picker upper and soother. give him a hug when you see him, especially if you are a girl, then give him three hard ones where you really sandwich him like a mother. show him who is cock of the walk in terms of hug thugs. and make him some chips, he'll provide the bodacious, salacious salsa. and before you're even aware of it you'll be on the phone with mom about the new grown ass man in your life. and not becasue he has a deluxe size pehtooty booty, he does, but becaseu you're already in the labour ward having the first of the millions of his babys you'll be happily mothering. in your mind.ok ladies.

another day. just like yesterday. prolly like tomorrow.

2005-01-27T09:04:00.000-08:00

i watched napolean dynamite last night. i feel stupider for having watched it. is that gonna be the "better off dead" for kids who graduate in 8 years? lord i hope not. i think it hit a little too close to home, in that i was about two social ladder steps away from (i hesitate to use the word "above") that kid.
i also watched cinemania, and that one made me feel better about myself. altho i could see myself in some of those people. not myself now, but myself if i had not chosen some of the things in my life that i have. not so much that i would turn into one of those people, but i remember the compulsive need when going to a show to purchase one of each piece of merch from whatever crappy band i had just seen.
and i played on the internet.

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i sent josh said movies. i feel less stupider knowing he's more informed about teh current generations ("gen y" aka the "entitlement generation") obsessions, keeps him in step with the kids, the spooky kooks, the hot topic pukes... although it's entirely unnessessary from a certain POV, yet from another it's mildy, mutedly fun to know where people who are the age we were ten years ago stand on crap. youth culture wise. i loved ND. it represents the late 80's/early 90's mentality i was exposed to living around rural hicks in michigan (you heard me right, MI. SO many hicks. bingo ringo.) the director of that movie is apparently my age and culled from his own life experences to create the characters and situations in the movie, things i related to instantly... so why does josh wonder if the current crop of mop tops will see ND as their "saint elmos fire"? "better off dead" wasn't a nostalgic movie at teh time it was made. and although it didnt overly rely on thses factors, it certainly featured all current (for then) actors, music, pop culture references and most importantly, slang. ND goes out of its way to be dated. which is easily when a film takes place in a rural setting where the cosmo trappings of worldly. ... ...

Posted by carl on Jul 9, 2005 12:31 PM
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....urbanites makes less of a mark on the cultural landscape of the people, thusly giving the i have lost track of what i was talking about. josh and i made a noise record together.

Posted by carl on Jul 9, 2005 12:36 PM
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