tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57926602011-04-21T17:09:40.034-04:00Come here periodically to get the skinny on what is happening in my corner of the midwest.Mikenoreply@blogger.comBlogger841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1160695799730871062006-10-12T19:29:00.000-04:002006-10-12T19:30:00.176-04:00

Not much else to say.I laughed. Sorry, but I did. Maybe it that whole logic and reason thing that I stick so firmly to.

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A lot has happened since my last post. So much so, that I don't think it really even makes sense to try and describe it. Instead you get humor in the form of audio. Try getting this out of your head after you listen to it.Mmmmm....Gravy

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Rock Originally uploaded by szumlins. Yeah, it has been a while since I've updated this thing. Quite a bit has happened since my last post.Things that have happened of note:1) I quit my job at A&F and became a partner in a high end video sales outfit2) Lori more or less has officially called it quits (more on this later)3) We got a puppy (RSS picture feed)4) I added yet another

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Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1140488523940713582006-02-20T21:02:00.000-05:002006-02-20T21:22:03.990-05:00

Alright, so I haven't posted in quite a while because I've just been so damn busy. Work has been running me ragged and it seems like when I am at home I'm just sleeping and getting ready to go back. But that has nothing to do with the nitty gritty of this entry. No no no. The meat, as it were, is that during my busy work schedule, I flew out to the bay area to hit MacWorld SF '06. While

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IMG_3786 Originally uploaded by szumlins. Well, I was bored yesterday and swung into Music Go Round and picked up a new guitar on an impluse buy. Why? Because it was cheap. Too cheap to pass up. Like $72 out the door cheap. And it is a hollow body with three microphonic pickups. It actually sounds and plays damn good and I'm pretty sure it was brand new. I've never heard of the

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Google Maps Detroit Originally uploaded by szumlins. Well, they finally released it for Mac, and god damn is it cool. If you haven't picked up your copy of Google Earth yet, go do it. You can grab it here.http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2005/12/4764/Since the last time I played with it, I noticed that they have added 3D buildings to Detroit. They haven't done Columbus yet, but

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1130854240234223532005-11-01T09:03:00.000-05:002005-11-01T09:10:40.246-05:00

Not much new, just busy at work. I made this picture the other day and thought it was cool, so I'll share it with you (click to see full size). I took the original shot myself while in Brooklyn and then played with it a bit.

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Sammit posted this over on his, I thought I'd try it.1. Go into your blog archives.2. Find your 23rd post.3. Post the fifth sentence or close to it.4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions."Oh well, time to start all over again."I'm not sure if it is spooky coincidence or some sort of crazy omen that everything should be changing soon. Maybe I'm just reading

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1127922757795481302005-09-28T11:49:00.000-04:002005-09-28T11:52:37.803-04:00

Since I've been on this internet nerd kick lately, and since I'm also all about message boards, I thought I would create one to simply serve no purpose other than to give everyone I know a place to post random crap about themselves, talk, and otherwise waste time while they should be working.http://www.thetoj.com/board/index.phpRegister and start it up. Blogs are good for personal insight,

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1126186869658508492005-09-08T09:37:00.000-04:002005-09-08T09:41:09.663-04:00

So now it is time for you to move on to the next phase of full on intergeekery. That's right, it is MySpace time. For those of you who don't know, MySpace is a site devoted to linking people/bands together through a six-degrees-of-seperation-like interface. You make friends, you find people, etc. Really, it is nice because of the prescense of bands, some good, some bad. Last night while I

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1125580747062983332005-09-01T09:16:00.000-04:002005-09-01T09:19:07.066-04:00

Somewhat brutal how you test this stuff, but man...this could be huge. Click here to read about super miceI'm interested to see where they go with this.

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1125100778048128372005-08-26T19:56:00.000-04:002005-08-26T19:59:38.053-04:00

First off, click here to take a little Harvard survey on basic morality. It isn't a stupid test and does not tell you what kind of person you are. It does however bring up an interesting discussion on ends v. means in situations involving life and death.I started having this conversation on one of my message boards but I honestly think I'll get more intelligent debate/discussion about it here.

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1124719951558561292005-08-22T10:04:00.000-04:002005-08-22T10:12:31.566-04:00

The last few weeks have been pretty busy. Not a whole lot of interesting things going on, and those that were interesting are too in depth and boring to those not in the circle to even car about. Instead, I'm gonna post a few links that I hit this morning.Anyone else worried about this?Lake GatorCloningThat last one scares me only because someone will eventually want to clone a person. The

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1122927630234897882005-08-01T16:19:00.000-04:002005-08-01T16:20:30.240-04:00

I know I haven't done a news story in a while, and I figured this one was too good to pass up.Run for it!

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1122259615997471592005-07-24T22:43:00.000-04:002005-07-24T22:47:40.063-04:00

Well, one more couple down. Congrats to Dave and Annie as they venture onward into yada yada yada.Free Guiness was key, money, tits, sweet, rad...ummm....cool....beer-tastic.......you get the idea.Since almost everyone was there, I won't go into the details. Partially because you were there, partially because I really have to poo. I did want to make a post though so everyone could see the

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1121048584535004082005-07-10T22:19:00.000-04:002005-07-10T22:23:04.543-04:00

After going out and testing some various automobiles yesterday, we did exactly what we planned not to do. We bought one. Here is the run-down on the cars we looked at before deciding and the pics of the one we did get. Sad thing is that it isn't my car. But its a shitload better than the Cabri-uh-oh.Chrysler 300M - Comfortable, quick, nice...but white. Yes, that was the deciding factor for

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1119981711332089032005-06-28T13:59:00.000-04:002005-06-28T14:02:05.583-04:00

Well, yesterday morning at about 10:00 a.m., Melissa's little red convertible met its demise. We are thinking that a tie rod on the passenger side snapped while driving, pulled it into a ditch, onto a culvert, across the street, through the air upside down twice, and finally through a fence.Of course, I wouldn't be making light of the situation if she weren't ok. I even have a picture of her

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1118596577310041632005-06-12T13:14:00.000-04:002005-06-12T20:30:59.210-04:00

The LORI CD Release show rocked uncontrollably until the fateful final minutes of Dangerous Rocket (the last song in the set) when I did a complete rock and roll twirl and my baby got the brunt of it. See below for the carnage.I'm not sure how much it will cost to bring it back from the rock afterlife, but my hopes and prayers are with whichever luthier I drop it off at.Also, I don't know what

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1116860230192351852005-05-23T10:55:00.000-04:002005-05-23T10:57:10.200-04:00

Well, I went home this weekend to stand up for Loc and Heidi's wedding. I had a ton of fun and it was good seeing everyone again. I know this isn't much of a post, I'll try to get another one in later today actually. I did want to get the pictures up for everyone to see though. If anyone wants full quality pics of any of these, just e-mail me and I'll get them to you somehow. Enjoy.Wedding

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And you all need to go read it.Click here to read about poo!

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Well, I will finally be back in Michigan this weekend. We'll be hitting town late Friday night and staying through until later on Sunday. Saturday night should be a gala get together at a watering hole somewhere (or at least a BBQ and a case).I haven't posted in quite a while, I'm hoping this abysmal little blurb will urge others into updating their blogs. I started this thing (well, not

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1110539682889346182005-03-11T05:52:00.000-05:002005-03-11T06:15:25.846-05:00

What does that mean? That means you can stop bitching about me not posting enough. Now you can look at pictures and maybe even save one as your desktop. When you are done you can look up into the starry night and say, "sweet good god damn, I miss Mike and Melissa and how fucking completely awesome and rad they are". And then you can pop on the Lori EP in your CD/MP3 player and sleep a

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Yeah, I know its been like a month, but I've been busy. So busy that I can't even remember what the hell it is that I have actually been doing. Oh well. At least I have a months worth of useless internet links for you all to waste the rest of your day on. I'm pretty sure I've been working and playing guitar and working on cars a lot. But thats all I ever do. Oh yeah, and I modded my Xbox...

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1105631866977941342005-01-13T10:46:00.000-05:002005-01-13T10:57:46.976-05:00

I'm tired. I've been tired for a month now. I can't figure it out. Even with a good night's sleep I still wake up destroyed the next day. New Years was a lot of fun. It was pretty chill, but we had a good turnout. The Random Johnson show was cool and we got to lay down a few more tracks for the fellas in the Rock Barn. I want to do a remix of the songs and see if I can clean them up a

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1104165884075702352004-12-27T11:27:00.000-05:002004-12-27T11:44:44.076-05:00

So, Christmas as over and I finally have a free minute to post again. Luckily, I didn't have to work the week between Xmas and New Years. Instead, I'm sitting on my parents couch reading various news stories and watching The View. Why? Because its on and I don't have the remote. I got a pretty good haul this year from the fat guy with the red hat. A hefty wad of cash, some good nerd gear,

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Well everyone, I got back on Sunday from a whirlwind national tour with work. I stayed at swanky hotels, got to meet rock bands, chilled in a hot tub on Huntington Beach, and spent $3500 in the process. More about that later. First, I wanted to find out who all was coming down for New Years. So far I have the Random Johnson posse, Heidi, and Nutz. I know more of you bastards are coming, you

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That's right, its happening again. This year we have added an extra day to the festivities with a Lori/Random Johnson rock show on Thursday night. Take the day off, come have fun in good old C-Bus.

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I just wanted to take the time to say I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while. I'll probably post more later. But for now, just sorry.

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I don't normally write angry posts on here. I rant every now and then, but at the end of the day I'm normally a pretty happy kid. Today I wasn't a happy kid, and it wasn't for the direct and obvious reasons you would think. The more I talked to people today about election outcome, the more I found didn't even go to the polls because "I don't care who is president, they both suck". Great.

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Go vote! Last week I got calls from the following people. Rudy Giuliani Arnie Kirsten Dunst Laura Bush I'm popular.

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Okay, if anyone didn't see Ashlee Simpson on SNL last Saturday, I'd highly recommend googling for it because it is hilarious. As Stewart Copeland said this morning at the conference I'm at, "You are a singer right? Sing something? You have to have heard the song before, right? I guess I'm old fashioned when it comes to being a musician". California is great so far. The conference has had some

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1098224858848002782004-10-19T18:21:00.000-04:002004-10-20T10:54:32.386-04:00

Man, I've been neglecting blogdom again. For some reason I have just not had any energy whatsoever to put into it. Here are a few quick updates. Lori played a show on Saturday. It was a blast. It was also the first show that I had a microphone in front of me. That's right, I'm singing. Not well, mind you, but singing none the less. The Honda runs! It burns more fuel than an angry Saudi,

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1096484770660068372004-09-29T14:46:00.000-04:002004-09-29T15:06:10.660-04:00

It has definitely been a while since I last posted anything of value, so I'll try and get some of that in here today. I'd like to start by saying I actually could be loading up systems for deployment, but instead I have decided to incriminate myself on the web and use my work computer to do it. Yes, thats the kind of day it is. Primarily I'm upset because of the staunch ignorance of some

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1095445095109434392004-09-17T14:01:00.000-04:002004-09-17T14:18:15.110-04:00

I don't have enough brain power to post, so all you get are a bunch of links. This not only fills out the rest of your day, but does indicate that I am indeed still alive. Enjoy. Why IE for windows sucks Banning stuff that shouldn't be banned Video Game P0rn. Finally a reality! Feng Shui Mobo? WHAT DID YOU SAY MAGGOT!? Clerks returns There is a time and place... Tiki Mac Oddly fitting in the

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1093532419189920322004-08-26T10:45:00.000-04:002004-08-26T11:00:19.190-04:00

Thursday morning and instead of being on a plane to hang out with Fallout Boy and record their show I'm at work making a blog post. Sucks when your travel gets pulled on you. So instead, I'm gonna call up travel and try and book my flight to San Jose for the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference. Hopefully Melissa will be able to come too and we'll get to hang out with Kate. In other news, I'm now a

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1092928040229236692004-08-19T11:07:00.000-04:002004-08-19T11:08:45.493-04:00

forbidden Originally uploaded by szumlins. Nike doesn't like you, and neither does their webserver.

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Its been a while since I've updated this thing yet again. Quite a bit has happened since then. For starters, we recorded 5 new tracks while in the studio in Dallas. We spent two days in Audio Dallas with Paul Osbourne tracking and rough mixing. Paul is a killer engineer and he really gave us an opportunity to feel like rock stars. Willie Nelson recorded Red Headed Stranger at the same studio

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1091717234016051962004-08-05T10:38:00.000-04:002004-08-05T10:47:14.016-04:00

Tonight Lori leaves for Dallas! It should be a good time, we are playing with some fun bands and everything is shooting from the hip it seems like. We may even get into a studio while we are down there to get some basic tracks down for the full length. In other news, Melissa and I went and checked out Farenheit 9/11 last night. I thought it was a pretty good flick. Some of it was a bit

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1091289499734177662004-07-31T11:57:00.000-04:002004-07-31T11:58:19.736-04:00

This one was too good to wait for a well thought out and articulate post... http://www.theparisnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=14114

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1091026747656863102004-07-28T10:46:00.000-04:002004-07-28T10:59:07.656-04:00

I figured I'd throw up a quick post since I haven't made an entry in a while. Last week I went out and visited our office in SOHO. I had a blast while I was there. I got a chance to check out Hello Nurse and then hung out with the singer (Mike Garcia) at a little bar in Tribeca. We had a great time playing shuffleboard until a drunken liberal arts college dropout started arguing with a

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1089987654941575842004-07-16T10:20:00.000-04:002004-07-16T10:20:54.940-04:00

What does this lovely friday bring? Lori rock-o-plex this weekend at Skully's, Lori in print (very nice article in the Columbus Alive paper), and the prospect of some of the local areas music big-wigs being at our show tonight. I'm getting geeked. We are also potentially firing off two more songs tonight at the show. It should be a blast. Rumors of a full length are in the mix. On the car

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1089224576125413962004-07-07T13:54:00.000-04:002004-07-07T15:15:13.890-04:00

Today's post is less of a "whats going on" and more of a collection of links and information to humor, inform, appal, and appease all those many proud folk that visit my blog. Without further a-do: Priests like little boys We knew, but we didn't know Cameron Diaz the S&M superstar (WMP Movie) And you thought terrorists were scary, try baptists BF:1942 for Mac DC for Mac Interesting framing Tell

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I'm married! Who'd a thought? The wedding was a blast, and I'm pretty sure everyone there had a good time (including myself and the bride). At about midnight, the formal extravaganza turned into a back yard bbq, including people thrown into pools, bartenders making out with guests, and cake fights with leftover wedding cake. Its a good thing I left when I did, I would have handed some people

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1087330118197502952004-06-15T16:05:00.000-04:002004-06-15T16:08:38.196-04:00

Only 4 days to go! I'll being seeing most if not all of you on Saturday for the wedding. It should be a great time. Last night I got some free tickets to see The Darkness. They rocked my balls off. It was just a super fun show, and I recommend anyone out there to go check them out if they are in town. The Wildhearts opened for them, and they were a whole lot of fun too. Its always a good

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1086659246998813592004-06-07T21:46:00.000-04:002004-06-07T21:47:26.996-04:00

3 Posts in a day!? What the hell is going on. I'm bored, thats what. Enjoy the new redesigned blog. If you don't like it...well...screw you.

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1086657495586257892004-06-07T21:17:00.000-04:002004-06-07T21:18:15.586-04:00

For those of you that actually read my blog (all 4 of your) and know what an RSS feed is (all 2 of you), point your favorite RSS reader at the following. http://szumlins.blogspot.com/atom.xml XML, y0!

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1086630448752553242004-06-07T13:47:00.000-04:002004-06-07T13:53:56.690-04:00

Its getting closer...only 12 days until wearing the ring. I'm honestly not very nervous about the whole thing, but it'll be good to have it all over with. Who would have thought getting all that crap together would be so stressful. Loc, good luck man... Yesterday Melissa and I went to Lowe's to pick up a new stove since ours is a complete piece of trash. While we were there, we were helped

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1085167674513498262004-05-21T15:27:00.000-04:002004-05-21T15:27:54.513-04:00

Oh yeah, be on the lookout for a live version of Fifth Round on the Lori website.Right now I am listening to:Man In Black from the album The Essential Johnny Cash (2) by Johnny Cash

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1085167302792455662004-05-21T15:21:00.000-04:002004-05-21T15:21:42.793-04:00

Right now I have this nagging feeling I should be doing something else, but since I have no new voicemails, no new e-mails, and nothing on my white board of things to do I am writing in my BLOG.I found a pretty kick ass site if you like cars and have a giant monitor. Check out this site for all your supercar and concept desktop pictures.Maybe the reason today is going so slow is because I really

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1084815298718996292004-05-17T13:34:00.000-04:002004-05-17T13:34:58.716-04:00

In the seventies there was this guy that made a water powered car....Far be it from me to be a conspiracy theorist, and I'll say honestly that I don't have the marbles to actually watch the video, but today I found this while browsing around. When you really break it down, it may not be the most solid argument...but I found myself thinking this exact same thing last week.Completely unrelated,

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1084548490757527032004-05-14T11:28:00.000-04:002004-05-14T11:28:10.756-04:00

Friday at workIts 11:30 and so far I haven't done too much. Here are some fun links to keep you busy for the dayhttp://www.rice-girl.com/nuke/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=getit&lid=15http://www.keenmacpubs.com/home.htmCome see Lori tonight!

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1084299686152189042004-05-11T14:21:00.000-04:002004-05-11T14:21:26.153-04:00

New blog client, a lori show, and a turbo kitTake Me Down from the album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Dawn To Dusk by Smashing PumpkinsFirst off, I figured I'd tell everyone about the new blogging client I found. It is calledecto and it seems pretty slick. It crashes on certain things and still needs work, but I'm digging it. Hopefully it will make more frequent updates possible on

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1080754022388121712004-03-31T12:22:00.000-05:002004-03-31T12:29:39.296-05:00

Hey everyone, today the new Hollister site went live and Lori is featured all over the Huntington Beach area. Go check it out. I also played a few of the acoustic guitar tracks from the site as well. Also, if you haven't ordered your EP yet, go do it. I'll be back home this weekend and will be heading down to the Hayloft to check out Pothole on Friday night. You should come too if you are in

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New Lori demos! Last weekend we went in and recorded the rough tracks for four tunes in various states. Let it be known, they are raw, so don't go thinking these are a finished product by any means. Here ya go: Captain Caffiene Fifth Round Grandstand Where Is My Mind I'll be back up in Michigan this coming weekend, gimme a call.

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Don't let government be our parents....Sign me!

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What? Two posts in a week? Whats going on here? Since my last post I have lost all my Viacom channels, and then got them back today. Thats nice...I got a free pay-per-view movie for missing South Park last night. Tonight Lori gets together for a dress rehearsal run through and then off to Little Brother's to see Guided By Voices. Gotta love having the hook ups and getting into sold out

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I think I'm managing to do this blog thing about once a month now. Hey, its better than nothing, right? Since our last encounter I spent a rip-roaring weekend in Vegas which included getting stranded in the airport due to rain in fog in the frickin' desert. Oh yeah, and it was warmer back in Ohio that weekend than in Las Vegas...maybe it was an omen. Regardless, it was a lot of fun (even

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1077058488992632262004-02-17T17:50:00.000-05:002004-02-17T17:57:19.373-05:00

Lorirocks.com went live today! Everyone check it out, join the e-mail list, and sign the guest book. We plan on keeping a frequently updated site, so check back for the latest and greatest. This weekend brought a couple of fun new toys. On Friday, Melissa and I went and bought a 65" Mitsubishi HDTV. We watched Finding Nemo, it was amazing. On Sunday, we were trying to figure out what to do

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Today is National 40 oz. Day! Everyone get your respective alcohols and do what the site says...this holiday requires your involvement!

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Time to answer some questions and stuff...yeah..stuff. Lori got its name because our guitar player's name is Lori. When we were all first playing together, she had written about 75% of the songs, none of which had names yet, so we called the songs "Lori's new one" or "Lori Came Through" or "Lori's funky tune". Since we were saying Lori so much, someone (I don't remember who) said "Why don't we

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Dammit! I just had like a page worth of BLOG to post for and my dumb ass hit cmd-W instead of return. Yup, that closes the window. Crap. Oh well, time to start all over again. Since my last post quite a bit has happened. I'll give a quick list: I bought a truck, we are going to Vegas, the EP is almost done, Mel quit her job, and I got a Street Fighter arcade machine. Lets hit on these one

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Ho ho ho, its Christmas Eve and I figured I'd send a big happy holidays out to everyone that reads this little hole on the web. I just checked out Bad Santa, and it was a humorous flick. Definately worth a watch. Melissa's Mom is in town until the day after Christmas, and my parents will be coming down that day to hang out for a couple. Its nice to have the family come and hang out for a

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Its been a while since I posted last, but that is primarily because I've been doing a whole lot of nothing lately. Last Saturday was the Holiday party at work. It was actually a lot of fun, free beer, free shrimp, and a pretty good band. They were a rap cover group, but they did everything live with instruments (no loops or samples or DJ at all). They actually sounded better than a lot of

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okay, so it has been a while since the last post. I'll try to make this a good one. Thanksgiving weekend was a lot of fun. Melissa and I spent all day cooking food and then we decorated the tree. It was nice to just relax and have a good time. The tree really helps out the mood of the house too. Here are some pictures from the day (and yes, that is sparkling grape juice in my glass, I don't

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This weekend brought more rock than you can shake a stick at. Workbook Studios was amazing. We got five songs tracked in about nine hours and for the most part I'm happy with the results. Here are links to all of the songs. These are rough mixes, so they have no mixing/mastering done other than straight out of the board to two-track. Let me know what you think. Accelerator Magic Daredevil

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I talked to Loc today. Its raining outside. How's that for an update?

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This weekend we are going down to Workbook Studios to try tracking some stuff. Its a "hands off" approach to recording that I don't think I've ever tried in my life, but it lets us let loose a little more and just rock. Its an experiment more than anything, but you'll all hear whats going on next week. Melissa headed back to MI for the next couple days, so if any of you guys back there want

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We spent some time in the rock barn last night recutting Daredevil Lover. It still needs some mixing and is pretty raw, but its better than the one we did last week. You can download it here.

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Our press photo for Lori

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Its been a while, so here is the skinny on what's been going on lately. Saw the Matrix: Revolutions...not too bad, but not awesome. I'm pretty sure it would have been impossible for them to live up to the expectations that everyone set for it. No spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen it, but hit me on IM if you want to talk about it. Our band (Lori) just applied to play South By Southwest in

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1067370301906746532003-10-28T14:12:00.000-05:002003-10-28T14:45:00.846-05:00

Time for a real blog entry now that I'm sitting down. Somehow I got screwed out of getting into the "OS X in Enterprise" seminar (which people are laughing through the wall in and chanting something that sounds a little like "chug"). Instead I'm stuck in the Objective C primer, which I'm not all that interested in, which gives me a chance to post some thoughts: Lets start from the start and

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This going to be quick because I am really tired...I made it to California for the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference. I spent the last couple days doing fun things with Kate, but found out about an hour ago that the travel department at work booked me at the Hilton in the wrong town. Tomorrow morning I have to wake up extra early to get my ass on a train to make it to the conference and then call

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Here is a desktop from the weekend for the geekier of you out there:

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The cabin was a blast. It was a fun weekend of drunken debauchery. It was nice to get away from everything and just relax a little. Here are some pics from the weekend I hope to have some of the better video moments up eventually as well, but the pics will have to do for now.

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Why isn't it 5 o'clock yet. Taking off a friday really just kills thursday too because you know that its sort of like friday when you get into work thursday morning. I went and checked out Intolerable Cruelty with Melissa last night. It was actually a pretty good flick. Clooney's manerisms just seal it. I'd recommend it for a date flick or a parent flick. Probably not one to go watch with

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Mondays suck, we all know that. Mondays really suck after a weekend of pure rock and roll bliss. I spent most of the weekend working on a few tracks from my new band. I submit for all your approval/comments the following: Accelerator Magic Wild Waking Black Mona Lisa Smile Let me know what you all think of the tunes. These aren't final copies of any of this stuff, just scetches that could

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1065714136169923292003-10-09T11:42:00.000-04:002003-10-09T11:42:15.756-04:00

Okay, so it has been a while since I posted. I aplogize. It seems as though people actually DO read this thing. Consider me ashamed. Lori, sorry about the pig roast...I'm a dick. To make up for it, you'll have to come to Columbus some weekend on my tab. We'll have fun doing things like drinking and watching the Family Guy on DVD. Lately things have been pretty slow at work, but Melissa

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1064858704949292562003-09-29T14:02:00.000-04:002003-09-29T14:05:05.013-04:00

Last Saturday brought the annual pig roast at my parent's place. It was a good time, lots of pig and beer for all. The day started slow with some flag football, but ended strong with State v. Umich flip cup (we won), State v. Umich pool (we won), and all the drama that ensues. Sunday I woke up and helped clean up around the house, then drove back to Columbus. By the time I got back it was

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Quality news

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Here it is, 6 days since my last post. Life has been pretty slow down here in Ohio. I missed all last weekend's games due to the fact that my satellite provider doesn't give me networks (bastards), so no NFL, no College Football...but I do watch a whole lot of Discovery now. I pretty much spent the weekend fixing things around the house and cleaning up. You'd think that living in the house

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Well, I didn't make it to the game on Saturday. I'm somewhat glad because I know that it would have just brought me down. Instead, we went and drank some beer, played some mini-put, and drove go karts. On Sunday I had to move my pool table and some other stuff down to my house from my parents'. I ended up throwing out my back lifting the slate and it is finally getting better today. Those

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Well, here it is two years after and I still can't believe it...but enough of that, you'll get your fill on the news and papers today. Today is a pretty slow day since I took off work. I heard from Kate (I'll e-mail you later on) via e-mail today, which was cool. The morning consisted of waking up and going to Taco Bell for brunch, followed by a Home Depot. We might go to bed bath and beyond,

Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792660.post-1063208288930051982003-09-10T11:38:00.000-04:002003-09-10T11:38:08.876-04:00

Welcome to my little corner of blog hysteria... It seems that everyone and their mother now has one of these things, so being the vapid sheep I am, I decided to hop on the bandwagon. I'm not quite sure what I want to say, but I'll probably keep everyone updated on whats going on in my life (music, cars, house, job, etc). So here goes. Last night I went and saw Cheap Trick and Cake at

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