Somewhat Manly Nerd

You know how I mentioned sometimes I just repost stuff I saw on NeoGAF? This is another one of those times.

I just did this workout myself a few minutes ago, it’s pretty good.

Via Consumerist via Digg via Imageshack via some random user on that website.

I think we can all agree that Pepsi’s newest logo is a piece of shit. Coca-Cola crushed it 124 years ago. Badass.

Sometimes I am just morally obligated to immediately re-post shit I see on NeoGAF. This is one of those times.

I’d link to the original article or its site of origin on the internet, but I have no idea where it’s from.

Kyuss – Molten Universe

I post an instrumental Kyuss song because I know of at least one person who does not care for John Garcia’s vocals. I think they’re perfect for a band that’s basically the heavier, more raw predecessor to Queens of the Stone Age, but that’s me. Nonetheless, any fan of hard rock owes it to themselves to at least check out Blues for the Red Sun and Welcome to Sky Valley, the two albums that most encapsulates Kyuss’s sound. Oh how I would’ve loved to have been over on the West Coast in the early nineties, what with the bands popping up in Seattle and California. I don’t know how anyone could object to a concert featuring massive riffs.

Man vs. Alcohol

I swear to God, I should trademark that title. What male between 18-35 wouldn’t want to watch that? There’s already Man vs. Wild and Man v. Food, why not pit Man against his most hilarity-inducing foe? Now, I’ve seen Man vs. Wild, and while it was fun to watch, we all know it’s bullshit. Man v. Food I haven’t seen with my own eyes, but I imagine it’s just some guy (or collection of people) who goes around the world eating different foods, right? (Wikipedia confirms this assumption.) Ok, I’ll admit that’s not a bad idea, so why not extend it to alcohol? Why not have some guy go around the world and drink all types of beer and vodka and whiskey and sake and whatever else is created around the world to get people drunk? I nominate myself, of course.

Let’s think about this seriously. You could fill this show with trips to Ireland, to Japan, to Germany — just for starters. You could even send the person to different college campuses in the U.S., and display the different drinking games that go on at each one. Just in my personal experience, I’ve seen a massive variety of things go on at different universities when alcohol is involved. You could teach people how to blow a fireball. You could show how beer pong is played at various colleges. You could contrast the most rundown frat houses to the most preppy. You could try to find the hottest drunken mud wrestling fights. You could compare pub trivia at bars across the country, or even other countries, if they have it. There’s a lot of potential here. I guess the E! channel already has a bunch of shit that approximates such a show, but fuck that, this shit would be on the Spike channel and would subsequently be displayed on bar televisions across the country at 1 AM. Or maybe I’m just incorrectly basing that on one bar.

I don’t think there’s much more elaboration I could provide when it comes to such a television program. Shit would just happen. People would get into fights, vomit across tabletops, and go into comas from too much 151. I wonder what type of insurance such a show would necessitate. Maybe I’d just sign some contract saying that I understand the risk that I’m taking when I pound fifteen cups of sake and then attempt to karaoke. It’s what Japanese businessmen do every night, why couldn’t I handle it? Someone get me the number to Spike, please.

Unfortunately, they’d just steal my idea and replace me with a hot chick and call it Wild On 2. I guess the television viewers would be happy, though.

Mark Buehrle threw a perfect game today, only the 18th in baseball history. It also happened to be the second no-hitter of his career. Buehrle managed to do this without once hitting 90 on the radar gun. That’s out-Madduxing Greg Maddux. Most impressive. He did get some help from Dewayne Wise, though. The dude saved the shutout, no-hitter, and perfect game all at once. In the 9th inning. Fucking wow.

The catch is at the end of this YouTube vid, courtesy of With Leather:

Buehrle seems to be one of those “very good” guys that has never quite been on the top of the sport, but somehow he has amassed 133 wins by the age of 30. The fact that he can dominate with such mediocre stuff bodes well for his future, and makes him a candidate for 300 wins. But such company wouldn’t be as exclusive as the perfect game club, or even the multiple no-hitters club. And there’s only six guys in BOTH the perfect game club and multiple no-hitters club. The other five are in — or will be in, in Randy Johnson’s case — the Hall of Fame.

So, Johan Santana, you need to throw a no-hitter, for fuck’s sake. The Mets have played 7576 games without one — a team that has had Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, Dwight Gooden, and David Cone. Things might have turned out differently if they held onto Ryan a little longer. The saddest thing is that I can see Oliver Perez throwing a no-hitter sometime over the course of his contract. The catch would be that he’d walk seven guys, there would be three errors, and the Mets would lose. That be would extremely fitting, don’t you think?

The New York Mets have just lost their three-game series with the Washington Nationals, a team with a 28-66 record. The Mets offense only managed seven runs over the three games — this against the worst pitching staff in baseball. This is what happens when you start corner outfielders with career OPS+’s of 90 and 79 (Jeff Francoeur and Cory Sullivan). This is what happens when your GM sits on his hands for as long as possible, seemingly giving up on the season — and rightfully so — but then declares today that the Mets are buyers. I guess they are, since Francoeur is actually making more than Ryan Church.

I know I declared this Mets season dead two weeks ago, so I shouldn’t torture myself by turning into SNY nightly, but I can’t help myself. I want to see if Francoeur can continue to fool people into thinking he’s valuable. I want to see if David Wright can learn how to hit home runs again, or at least get his K rate back down to his normal level. I want to watch Oliver Perez walk guys around the bases first-hand, so I can gloat about how right I was with regards to his contract. I want Daniel Murphy to show some semblance of power, if only to raise his trade value. And of course, I want to witness Johan Santana attempt to carry the team on his back, and subsequently lose his shit when the rest of his team totally sucks.

Each night I am greeted with new examples of futility. Mike Pelfrey may have thrown seven innings of three-run ball, but unfortunately, his team only supplied him with one run and four hits. And one of those runs given up by Pelfrey was a result of Francoeur ducking from a fly ball caught in the lights. There was nothing else tonight particularly egregious, it was just total listlessness.

This organization is a fucking disaster from top to bottom. The owners get pulled in by Ponzi schemes; the GM doesn’t seem to have any sort of plan for when exactly he wants to win with this team; and the VP of Player Development is taking his shirt off, calling AA players pussies, and challenging them to fights. Holy shit.

I don’t even know who to credit for this. I saw it on NeoGAF, but I very much doubt the person who posted it created it. So I’m just going to post it.

Muse – United States of Eurasia (+ Collateral Damage)

So 1:18 is pretty ridiculous. And then what starts at 3:20 seems to be a bad attempt at an a cappella section. I thought “Knights of Cydonia” would be as far as Muse would go when it comes to aping Queen. And then that piano coda is just a Chopin piece. I like the song well enough, but an original piano part would be nice, rather than just ripping  a classical piece of music — no matter how great said classical piece is. They are definitely getting progressively more ridiculous, though, that’s for sure. I can’t imagine how all over the map the last three tracks — which apparently comprise one song — will be on the new album.

I don’t think I’ve posted on here that The Resistance will be released September 14th. The tracklist, courtesy of Wikipedia:

1. “Uprising”
2. “Resistance”
3. “Undisclosed Desires”
4. “United States of Eurasia/Collateral Damage”
5. “Guiding Light”
6. “Unnatural Selection”
7. “MK Ultra”
8. “I Belong to You/Mon CÅ“ur S’ouvre à ta Voix”
9. “Exogenesis: Symphony Part I (Overture)”
10. “Exogenesis: Symphony Part II (Cross Pollination)”
11. “Exogenesis: Symphony Part III (Redemption)”

Needless to say, I’m looking forward to it.