Thoughts on Break

College students rejoice, it is Christmas break. Go home see your family and all your friends. I have officially made it through my first semester of college. Looking at my grades it seems like a pretty successful semester; but don't judge a book by it's cover! I managed to destroy my beautiful flat screen, short circuit my girlfriend of three years (Macbook) with Emergen-C and let's not forget the whole broken back thing. Luckily my back is healing perfectly, I won't need surgery, and I should get my brace off upon my return to wonderful Madison, Wisconsin. The next month of video games and minimal social interaction should really fly by...

On a positive note it is freaking Christmas, and I freaking love freaking Christmas. I love Christmas decorations and I love Christmas music. I love everything about Christmas. I wish that I could give people their presents right now. It drives me crazy waiting to see them get all excited for their gifts.

Another good thing is Dunkin Doughnuts. Since my mom has been in Wisconsin, and my grandma doesn't eat a whole lot; there was not a whole lot of food at the house when we got back. This meant Dunkin two mornings in a row. I think that Culvers and Dunkin Doughnuts should form some kind of alliance. Dunkin opens up stores inside of Madison Culvers and then Culvers comes to New Jersey. That would mean bout 5 Culvers every block. New Jersey really runs on Dunkin.

Shit I thought I was going to more to say here....
I was gonna bitch about not having friends in New Jersey and stuff but I ain't even mad bro. I get to be a lazy ass for a month, I probably gonna enjoy it quite a lot. So have a Happy Holidays Everyone.

My neck hurts so you get no song....
Deal

-KGM

Thoughts on That New Computer

I am going to keep this short.
Sorry.
So I have a new computer. I built it myself (myself of course being my friend Alex). He happens to be a genius, and I happen to suck at craning my neck and using a tiny screw driver. Either way, my computer is fucking badass. That is all you can really say about it. Might post some pics later.

Otherwise doing the finals grind. Finals being my last CS program. I am an Othello pro. In other news, my History of Science final is a 5 page essay. A student can earn extra credit on the essay if they write the whole thing in latin. I read that and was like "Wtf Mate?"

Seriously,
who can write a 5 page essay on the influence of institutions over scientific thought in latin? Thinking about writing it and then dropping it into Google translator. As a joke of course.
That is just ridiculous.

Cheers,
-KGM

Thoughts on Gunther (To lazy for umlaou... however it is spelled)

So I had completely forgotten about the true hilariousness that is Gunther and the Sunshine Girls. For those that do not know what I am talking about, cease reading immediately and look up "The Ding Dong Song" on Youtube. It is a little bit inappropriate, but considering the title it could be a lot worse.
So now I am just going to wait for you to watch it.
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Now you know what I am talking about. I found myself watching a bunch of Gunther videos and frankly; I was laughing my little butt off. In my laughter I was reminded of the past. A past that was among many things had a lot more laughter. Now it seems like I am going to go off on some whiny tangent about how much life sucks. Actually I am pretty much going to talk about squirrels. I hope you are at least a tad bit confused at this point. So anyways, back in the day (the day being 6th grade/7th Grade) my friends and I had some interesting tastes in music. Now you are saying "Yah, So who didn't at that age?" I would agree, between the AC/DC and Linkin Park arose something else. We basically had a collection of what I could only call "humor" songs. While they varied in subject matter, the large majority of them were recreations of songs to the tune of squirrels. The best example I can offer was the song "Girls" by the Beastie Boys. We had never heard of the Beastie Boys, and our version was called "Squirrels". It was sung at a very high pitch. To this day I do not know how we maintained our sanity listening to those stupid songs over and over again, but damn-it were they funny at the time.

At this age people do not do stuff like that. I think it is kind of a bummer. Some people find themselves too mature for such things. In fact I have had someone call me out for making a low brow and less than unique joke. They made sure to flex the point that they were far to mature for such a brand of humor. Do people like that know they are full of shit? or are they just in denial? These are truely the things I spend my days pondering. Back to the point of all of this. Rewatching the Gunther videos brought back a bit of my childhood. In no means do I want to be a child again; however I think someone who is truly mature will never go about asserting it to other people. So I guess I will ask you:

Who is more mature
A person who makes a "that's what she said joke"?
or
A person who chastises the other person about said joke, asserts their maturity, and then later on rudely interrupts a professor and a lecture hall full of people. Gossiping with their neighbor and slamming their desk up?


Look I made it an angry rant there at the end.
Throughout the course of this I had three different songs picked out: Gunther, then "Squirrels" and then Intergalactic Planetary. But, I now I am going to chose a different one.
"Oh what's that?"
"Yah I did choose another Coheed and Cambria song"
"Yes I know this is the third one"
"No I don't care."



-KGM

Thoughts on

Seriously, ten points to Writer's Block. I honestly love staring at this little blinking line, so thank you very much for allowing me to do so for quite some time now. Honestly though I have been stumped for three days now. Things have been very quite, been all by myself while my mom is Florida, having horrible flashbacks of actual college life were you have to take of yourself. Some things I have rediscovered. First off, I can still make some pretty good Mexican food (Steak nachos were pretty bomb).
Secondly, I am still incapable of preparing any kind of food with out cutting my fingers at least once. I was so careful with the knife, chopped all the meat and vegetables flawlessly. Just to have my cut-less run ruined by the stupid sharp edge on the can of beans. It felt like I was the boss at some department store, and I had to set the "Days without an Accident" back to zero because some dumbass tripped on his own shoelaces. Third; still instinctively use duct-tape as bandage for said injury. Felt good to cook again though, even if I did a shit job.

Holy shit this is completely unrelated, but Badgers are going to the Rose Bowl. This pleases me greatly. Not really much to say about that topic. I ended up watching the game while laying on the floor. Good friend brought his projector over and we propped it up to display on the ceiling, whereby avoiding that cramp like feeling I get in my neck (Like the one I have now). This set-up also worked great for working on my last computer science program! Yes they already assigned another one and I am so ecstatic about it.

Anyways, only like two real weeks of school left before break. Back to the Jerzy, I am honestly pretty excited about getting some Dunkin' Doughnuts Iced Coffee. Also probably some free Dominoes Cinna-Sticks (I got the hook-ups) and seeing the Target crew. This concludes my list of things I am excited for about Christmas break in New Jersey. Hopefully there is not a "Snowpocalypse" as the snow storm last Christmas was later named.

Damn...
I got nothing.
Here is your song and stuff.
I will hopefully write better tommorow
But I am not making promises
So I guess this is it for now
Word Pyramid
Pretty cool
Bye



-KGM

Thoughts on The Grammy's and Being A Failure

For some reason I put being a failure as the second part of the title, but as it turns out, it is the first thing I talk about. Talk about being a failure at organizing. Another thing I found out I failed at? Early celebration. Yes I know this all sounds convoluted, just wait for it. So the Computer Science program here at UW does not exactly grade things "quickly". I get it, I really do. The programs do probably take awhile to grade and there are a lot of 302 students. Normally I would not really care, but in this certain situation, it felt like a slap in the face. Today I got my grade back for the Ant Colony Optimization Program. (Yes it was exactly as exciting as it sounds). Ants and tunnels, pretty boring stuff. I worked pretty damn hard on it. Looking back at my notes from the assignment, they looks like the scribblings of a paranoid schizophrenic. Well, I was not all that impressed with my grade. I wont go into numbers, but let's just say one little mistake propagated into a lot of points marked off. I felt really confident about it when I turned it in. I was so confident and happy about being done with it that I grabbed my friends and went out for some celebratory Parkour, and well the rest is history (THAT IS HOW I BROKE MY BACK). In other words I probably should have waited to see my grade before celebrating. My not have spent my Halloween weekend in the Hospital.

Segway....

That great moment when you find out your professor is on my oxycodeine than you are.....

Grammys.
I heard Skrillex is going to be nominated for Best Artist. Now don't get me wrong, I like me some Skrillex. But I think Best Artist is kind of a stretch. Supposedly Bon Iver is also getting nominated for Best Album (These are all rumors from Reddit's Ugly Sister Tumblr at this point). I get what the "Grammy People" are trying to do. I mean it is probably a good thing that they are expanding to all genres of music. And yet I can't help but to get a bad taste in my mouth about the whole thing. I am just worried that they will take it too far. I was content with the way things were. The Grammy's did their thing with their music, and I did my thing. At the risk of sounding like an incredibly douchey hipster, I will say that I would rather not have all my favorite bands performing at the Grammys. In the end I guess it just goes to show that I just don't listen to obscure enough bands. Moral of the story... I failed again.

Here is not a very obscure band, but a badass song.




-KGM

ps- My scouces tell me the nominations were announced on TV, but I like my joke so I am going to keep it that way. I am going to hide this down here in case anyone wants to call me wrong.

Thoughts on The Loss Of A Dear Friend

I am currently wearing a PMT brand cervical section neck brace. It's job is to support my neck while my blown C6 vertebrae rebuilds itself. It is also ridiculously annoying and restricts me from looking left or right. I figured out that this limitation on my peripheral vision is the cause for my new found butterfingers. I drop everything these days. I did not think much of this until yesterday morning. There I was, drinking my Emergen-C, making sure I got a billion percent of my daily value of vitamin C and every other vitamin and mineral known to man. When all of a sudden, said cup of vitamin juice blend flies out of my hand and spills alllll over the table. Now if you know me very well at all, you would know that breakfast goes hand in hand with some morning internet time.

Flash back to 3 years ago, Christmas time. There my whole family was sitting in our living room. My parents had huge grins on their faces that morning. As my mother would later recount the great feeling she had of actually pulling of a Christmas surprise. Northwest Airlines offered their employee's an awesome deal on Mac-book Laptops. I was over joyed. I had always wanted a laptop. I used that laptop so much. Whether it was writing papers or wasting time on YouTube, I was on this thing constantly. Through the Florida and New Jersey times, it was on of my only friends. But it was a great friend. She even excelled here in Madison. I got her a new battery and installed Linux on her, which she worked wonders with. She let me do all my computer science homework in the comfort of my own dorm room, avoiding the crappy CS labs. She was especially helpful recently, because I am not able to look down and a sheet of paper to write on.

As you probably guessed the Emergen-C spilled all over my beautiful laptop..... I flipped it upside down almost instantly. Pulled the battery out and yelled for my mom to get the hair dryer.... It was a horrific experience. She is currently sitting in a bag filled with rice, in hopes that the moisture will be sucked out and she will be revived. I am writing to you from my mothers laptop.... Crowded desktop and Internet Explorer.....
Pray to the computer gods for me......

I am pretty sure I have posted a Cranberries song before. I am also pretty sure I don't care. This is literally the only song that fits right now....



-KGM

Thoughts on Hurrr Durrrr Herp Derp derrr

Goddamn...
Computer science is one of the most frusturating thing on this planet. At first it's easy. The lines flow from my fingers like Leslie Nelson in Scary Movie.
(blog check list: clever movie reference CHECK)

After writing comes the finger crossing and the running. This step requires a lot less work, and a lot more hope. Not surprisingly the hope is always in vain. It never works the first time, and I don't think it should. But let me tell you when you stare at the same 10 lines of code for 2 hours until realizing that you have a > (greater than) instead of a < (less than), it sucks.
(blog check list: complain about something sucking CHECK)

Seen we are in the computer vein I wanted to talk about Grooveshark. I had obviously heard of Grooveshark, but it was a month or so ago that I discovered its true beauty and power. I mean it fills the spectacular void left by my inability to acquire music while on the University networks. I am actually very proud of my self, resisting that good old convert youtube to mp3 button. (by the way if you don't have that add-on you should get it,awesome). Grooveshark gives me almost every song I could ever need to listen too, granted I don't actually have them; but still. Another great thing about Grooveshark is that it allows me to artificially inflate my musical repertoire. I always felt like being "hip" to all those new, underground indie bands on the radar this week was just too difficult. It is way too time consuming to be that "music kid". I put up a decent effort, when I get the chance, but Grooveshark really helps. Grooveshark - "Helping you seem like a bigger hipster than you actually are since March 2006"
(blog check list: talk about hipsters and stuff CHECK)
(Also I looked up that March 2006 on Wikipedia....citing sources like a boss)

Well what is left.... rant or politics....
I chose you Rant-A-Chu...
This one is on country music, more or less. I am not talking like willie nelson country, not Johnny Cash country. Nay the rant is directed at this new Country. This sexy-tractor bullshit. Some kid posted a video on our UW-Madison class facebook page. To a song called red-solo cup. By Toby Keith. Now I am familiar with several Toby Keith songs. One in particular is called "Beer for My Horses". Now any actual Red-Blooded American ranch who needed his horses to work hard for him is probably not pumping his horses full of beer. Granted it is used as an old time cure for horses that do not sweat enough, I doubt Old Toby knew that. Keyword there being old... goddamn. This red solo cup video is ridiculous, the guy is walking around a college rager. He is 50 years old. What is he doing at a college age party. In the song he states (originally in a more rhythmical manner) that anyone who prefers to drink beer out of glass over a red solo cup does not have a pair of testicles. Last I checked sasparilla didn't come in a red solo cup.
(blog check list: rant CHECK)

I could go on for days about new country music and how I despise it. But to each their own I suppose!
Here... enjoy it...



-KGM

Thoughts on Holy Broken Spine Batman!!

First:

 IT'S ALIVE

Second:
Alright guys... I know I messed up bad this time. It has been at least a month... I am genuinely sorry for failing this hard. In my defense I did fracture 3 vertebrae and partially collapse both of my lungs, in an "accident". I guess what it really comes down to is in those Parkour movies where it says "Do no try this at Home, These are professionals." In the past warnings like this feel in the same category as "Read All instructions before use." But alas I vaulted over a railing by ol' Steenbock Library and here I am a month later, in a neck and body brace blogging from my temporary home in Eagle Heights. The Family Housing area for UW. On a positive note at least I didn't end up in Family Housing because I went to Vegas and accidentally got married right? <----- see that, I am learning to do the whole glass half full thing!

I know it's a few days late but still.....

1. I am thankful that I can walk.
2. I am thankful that UW hooked me up with a sweet apartment
3. I am thankful for having my own room and shower, and mom's cooking again
4. I am thankful that my friends have not completely forgotten about me
5. I am thankful that I am recovering, and finally have enough energy to type and study and listen to music
6. "you get the point" for my rediscovery of Citizen Cope, it's been a while man....
7. "" for my sweet new Monitor/TV replacement and hopefully soon new computer
8."" even partially handicapped I am still doing well in school
9."" that I might get my neck-brace off before Christmas

Look at me being all not cynical, I am damn proud of my new found mindset. Maybe the next hospitalization can rid me of my sarcasm...

Here is your tune... Thanks for reading!



-KGM

Thoughts on The Occupy Movement

I don't have a lot to say. It's late and I have been doing homework all night.
I just want anyone happens upon this post to watch this.



If you can watch this and not feel concern about the state of our country I worry for you. It is not up to one group of people to have all the answers, to have all the solutions to all of our problems. That is exactly the problem with the way things are right now. No one group will ever have the perfect cure for our ailments. The only way to solve the problems is to first acknowledge that they exist. Then we must come together, make compromises. The Occupy movement is a step in the right direction. If you find yourself in disagreement with some of "their" ideas, or opinions. Remember that they are not a political party or a lobbyist. They are people, just like you. They have all their own ideas about what is wrong with this great country and are just trying to voice said ideas in whatever way they can. I hope that you can feel some kinship with them, for at the very least, you are both human beings, and you are both fed up with the way things are going. I love you all. My heart goes out to everyone with enough brass to Occupy. To all of you who have felt the harsh backlash of the law, just remember this: You know in your heart that you did no wrong. These police officers and prosecutors make a mockery of the Constitution they claim to uphold. You have embraced the freedoms given to you by the Constitution, and you do honor to it with your protests.

-Kyle Griffith McChesney

Ye Old 180th Post....

Kind of hard to believe that this is the 180th time I have sat here staring at this stupid blinking bar thinking of something to write. School was been occupying so much of my time, I feel like everyone has probably given up reading this old rag. Life is just so much better here in Wisconsin. New Jersey was a dark chapter in my life, I really needed this to get my thoughts out. Man, there were days when writing in this blog was the most human interaction I had. Must say I am pretty glad that has changed.  I really bums me out that I no longer have time to write as much as I would like.
I have been trying to stay as up to date as possible on this whole Occupy "Revolution". I don't know what to think anymore. There is a lot of criticism directed at these guys, mostly directed and their often muddeled and sometimes conflicting. I just wish people had the ability to see through that. Dissenting minds always have the capacity to find fault with the people they disagree with. Look for the positives in the situation. At least people are doing something about IT. No one can deny that this country has been declining in almost all conceivable facets. Props to all of you occupiers for at least doing something about it.

In closing. They are a leaderless group. A gather of many different people from all walks of life. They might agree on somethings. They might disagree on other things. The fact that is important; they are there. They have been there for over two weeks. The ideas and opinions of 20 somethings fresh out of college are just as important as the views of everyone else.

-Kyle Griffith McChesney

Thoughts on Changing the Banner

So I know that the banner on top of my blog says "posts at least once daily", but I am thinking that this is going to need a serious change. I don't know if it is because of laziness or business, but I am having a hard time keeping up with the whole daily post thing. It is felling like a weekly thing these days. I think the blow is softened by the fact that I actually have interesting things to write about in these weekly posts, instead of the pointless rambles of the past. Ok no more business.

I am talking about that weird feeling. I have been in this place for about one month. Not a very long stretch of time, and it feels like eternity. Making those real serious life long friends apparently. I had to have a discussion about the ethics of Biofuel, and it's affects on farming. I had an unfair disadvantage because all the kids who disagreed with me lived on farms. Not fair!

Wisconsin is a pretty different place. One night a few of us were hanging out in the "dormitory" discussing our musical interests. In a room full of ten people I loudly announced: "Who here likes Mac Dre?" I stood before a room full of blank stares and one: "What is a Mac Dre?". That was mind boggeling to me. I mean I am not a huge fan of Mac Dre, but seriously? It's Mac Dre.....

I feel like my History of Science class is making me a less intelligent person, and a more intelligent person simultaneously. The whole idea of the class is to pull ourselves out of the knowledge base of 2011 and immerse ourselves in the "science" of the ancients. So basically I'm an ace when it comes to ancient cosmology and natural philosophy. But if someone asked me about the solar system as we know it; I would quickly make a fool of myself. The whole concentric circles of the celestial realm idea doesn't really hold up so well.

I have a new found respect for BMX biking. BMX biker's always seemed to me like the biggest tools ever. Riding a bike is something everyone knows how to do. They don't help their cause by being (for the most part) rude assholes. All that changed when I met Dean Larson. Kid is a straight up badass. He is pretty much my 3rd roommate. He is a BMX biker, and gave me the rare opportunity to make a fool of my self on a BMX bike. That shit is not easy... Deanasuar makes it look easy though.

It is so awesome to have a whole new group of people to share all your the funny youtube videos and inside jokes with. I dropped a serous awesome bomb with Turtle Man. The rebel call ("YEEE YEEE") was a big hit with the Turner house gang. I am still working on Trailer Park Boys, I guess it is an acquired taste.

In closing, I hereby dedicate this blog post to the people in Wall Street. If you don't know what I am talking about, google Occupy Wall street. The big "media" has done it's best to keep the coverage to a minimum. Not saying I agree with them, but mad "props" to them for protesting for what they believe in.

-KGM

Thoughts the Horde

For those of you faithful readers, you have been here since the New Jersey era A.K.A. the Dark Ages; you should all know how much a I hated my life. I was pretty damn depressed, I will be honest. But ever since I got to Madison, life has been awesome. No complaints. But today, I had a brief reminder of that sorrow and despair. It is a long story so hold on.

It started slowly, and orange headband here, a Nerf gun there. Soon enough we figured it all out. Books were thrown in the air and bikes were ridden to Target. Humans vs Zombies, campus wide Tag slash nerfgun war. You start as human, wear an orange band around your arm. If zombies tag you, then you become a zombie.

Last night Dushan and I hunted. We killed 16 zombies, setting ambushes and sneaking around the bushes. Peer joy.

Today...I was tagged.
I am lost.

I don't have a reason to carry on anymore.



-KGM

Thoughts on Cold Air and Cold Milk

It is getting cold up here in Wisconsin. Not that good old try Montana cold, it is like moist New Jersey cold all over again. To be horribly clique, the cold that chills you to the bone. I am pretty damn excited for the snow to come though. Cannot wait to go ice skating on the lake. It will be a great break from philosophizing with Plato about "What Is?". History Of Scientific Thought is a ridiculous class, reading all this ancient Greek "natural science" is just incredible. These guys knew literally nothing about what we consider modern science, and yet they had in-depth explanations about almost everything. It is a breath of fresh air to think about the world from a completely new and different view point. It is also damn hard to read all of it and not let my opinions and thoughts be poisoned by modern knowledge. The word is "modernist", or having a modernist view point. Seriously though, we spent a whole discussion talking about the question: "What is?" Next week we will be getting into: "How do we know what we know." We take so much for granted in this day and age, while Plato and the gang devoted their lives to figuring out the most basic of all ideas. Go college learning and stuff!

Also go drinking milk straight out of the bottle. I waited so long to be free from my oppressive parents, making me use a glass to drink my milk.

This is one of those, I have seen this song live and it makes it so much more awesome moments.

Maps - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs


-KGM

Thoughts on Organizing

I organized all day today. It felt a lot better than I think it should make someone feel. I laid out all my hats and shoes in rows, and color coordinated them. I was honestly a tad bit worried about how good it felt to be so organized. I am sure my mother would be very proud of me though. I think what happened was I sat on my futon all day and did homework while the Madison IronMan Triathlon was going on right outside my window. I felt like such a lazy slob... Also took a bike ride over to picnic point and the community gardens. What a surprise, it was all so beautiful. I saw a huge Red-Tailed Hawk and a little Cardinal. This place has everything. I feel like my blog has made a decisive switch from bitching about New Jersey to talking about how much I freaking love Wisconsin. I have fallen in love with Madison, Wisconsin, deeply in love. As a side not I had to watch a video lecture on ethics! stupid stupid stuff. These little situations they talk about never happen in real life, and the "rules" they set from the scare medicine situation and the rest never work in real life. I HATE IT!

REPOST OF CLOUD CULT HAHAHA DEAL WITH IT!



-KGM

Goddamn I am Slacking

So much as been going on this past week. This guy played Amazing Grace on his BAG PIPES!!! earlier and I threw down with the other "hipster" kid on bands that "you have probably never heard of." So before I got here my mom gave this pretty serious talk about intelligence. She basically said that I was going to a school full of really smart people. She had been a very intelligent person, top of the class in her high school, and had not dealt so well with being around everyone who was just as smart or smarter than her. While I have yet to encounter this phenomena, mostly because I could care less if people are smarter than me. But imagine the same idea, only with music. Then times it by 1000x. This kid dragged my ass through every conceivable musical genre and listed off 100s of bands that I had never heard off. My hipster ego was quite battered. They said college was about getting out of your comfort zone and I was very uncomfortable with this kid knowing all of my super random bands and what not. I mean come on! On another note, my History of Science class is freaking incredible. I sat in a 90 min lecture while the professor was just dropping knowledge bombs left and right. I could not be happier with the University of Wisconsin. I will do my best to not skip like a week of posts.

As for the music, this one goes out to the kid in my house who brought his bagpipes to college. You sir, are a total badass.



-KGM

Thoughts on Doing Same Changes Around Here

As you might have noticed this whole one past a day thing has been failing pretty hard. I guess you have a lot less free time when in College than when you live in a retirement community in New Jersey. So long story short I probably will not be getting around to the daily posts.
Onward!
Turner Kronshage House (my dorm) got second place in the KroCS Olympic games. I, along with most of the house, did our darnedest to win. It was a 2 day event, with several games yesterday and then a scavenger hunt today. We owned all our games yesterday, which basically amounted to taking one scavenger picture. I am rambling about this but I honestly rode my bike around the entirety of Madison, Wisconsin taking pictures in front of important buildings and landmarks. I went there, I was willing to look like a total tourist fool, for the sake of Turner house. The house that did not even show up for Ultimate Frisbee, Jeopardy or the relay race did more scavenging so they won. I was pissed. Otherwise college is going swimmingly, I have good friend and am getting into the routine. I talk like I am in college but we have honestly only had one day of classes. It is a lot of fun now, but pretty soon I will defiantly be buckling down and doing some serious work. Gonna be a long road too that PH.D, but we will make it. HIV better watch out!


HAHAHAHAHAAH

-KGM

Thoughts on That Moment

Somewhere between seeing the Microbial Sciences building and watching your football team wreck shit on ESPN I had a little moment of realization. I had been told by many advisers, professors, alumni and students about how UW is the greatest college in the world. I defiantly placed it pretty high before this, but today I realized what they were talking about. This place is so incredible. I have not even been to one class yet. Long boarding and biking all over the place, swimming in the lake, it is all so much fun. The view in Lakeshore is spectacular. It is going to be an incredible year. That is all.



-KGM

Swimming in Dat Lake

Jumped in Lake Mendota in the pitch black and pouring lake, with like 20 people from the dorm. It was quite the bonding moment. Community involvement, friendship building, all that orientation freshman type stuff. I felt pretty proud since I led the charge in getting people to come. Apparently people are very afraid of pneumonia around here, got some strange looks from people. I must say though, UW is so damn awesome. It is going to be a damn good year.


-KGM

Moving In

I move in tomorrow bright and early. I am damn tired and this internet sucks. Sorry. Awesomeness to come tomorrow though, I promise.

-KGM

Thoughts on That Thing People Do.

I wanted to start this off by saying "Today is the day that I finally leave for Wisconsin." We are leaving around 12:30 tonight and driving to Pennsylvania to catch a flight to Detroit. The problem is that technically today is not the day, because we are going to leave after 12, which would be the next day. This brings us to a slight issue. I absolutely cannot stand when you are talking to someone at it is like 12 or 1 am, and you mention something about tomorrow and they are all "no stupid, that's today see because it is after midnight." I really hate that. So in order to avoid hearing that, I shall sacrifice the good sounding into I have for this.

Tomorrow is the day that I finally leave for Wisconsin. You have dragged this on long enough New Jersey. No more Earthquakes, no more hurricanes. I am leaving! and I don't intend on coming back for quite sometime. I am so damn excited. It is hilarious, my mom expects me to "get a few hours of sleep before we go". Silly mom, that's what coffee and adrenaline are for. I am not quite sure if our hotel has Internet, and it might take a day or too for our dorm room wifi to get working. I will do my best to keep posting. Have a goodnight everyone!



-KGM

Travel Plans Postponed

Departing postponed. Gonna sit this thing out. Bring it on Irene, bring it on.



-KGM

Getting Real.

All packed, Hurricane stress-ville. Who knows when I will get to Madison. This shall lighten the mood.

-KGM

Thoughts on My Favorite Comedy

My absolute all time 100% favorite comedy is Grandma's Boy. I am not going to go in-depth with this one, but if you have not sampled this Cinematic masterpiece, get to it. But I had an awesome realization today, in the middle of one of those insane, foaming at the mouth, kind of YouTube Dubstep rampages. I remembered the part where Cain goes into J.P's office. (JP is the insane crazy boss who talks in the robot voice, wears trench-coats ect ect) Anyways Cain enters JP's office and super loud techno is playing. Cain comments that he does not like techno.
"You would if you had robot ears."
dubstep. I love you. I think I have robot ears.
In lighter news there is going to be a hurricane c-blocking my airplanes to Madison. Mother Nature I am disappoint. Earthquakes and Hurricanes, the end is NEIGH!






-KGM

ALMOST FORGOT

GUYS, that was close, I almost forgot. Thank goodness crisis averted. I found my childhood best friend on facebook. It has been awesome to reconnect with someone I was friends with when I was literally one year old maybe younger. Other than that I had one of those awesome this bands older unknown stuff is way better than the new popular stuff. I am such a pretentious tool. So even if it is an artist repost, I give you some super old school Aesop Rock. Please enjoy.




-KGM

Thoughts on Sucking

Looking back a few posts I realized that I suck. Totally messed up embedding that video and y'all missed out on the best song ever. Its all fixed SO GO BACK AND LISTEN TO IT. I had a pretty uneventful day, bought a new rain coat for school, this was supposed to be a list but that is really all I accomplished. I am pretty much just in limbo until I leave, very excited though. Did I mention that there was an earthquake? 5.8 magnitude centered in Virginia. Not the first one I have felt in my life but I was unaware that the east coast had such things. With all the roads and strip malls out here I kinda forgot that there was like earth and rock below my feet. Although out here its mostly sand. Anyways that was pretty exciting since I immediately figured that it was not an earthquake but the start of an alien invasion. Snapped up real quick and ran outside...I tend to freak out pretty easy when it comes to stuff like that. But at least I'll be ready when it does happen.





-KGM

Thoughts on Feeling

This guys got feeling and soul and stuff. Good tunes



-KGM

Thoughts on Failure

Just my luck. Makes plans to go out and do something, not be a lazy slob. Was signed up to go sea kayaking with the Cattis Island Parks and Rec people. 3 hours of fresh air, exercise and nature. Of course a huge thunder storm rolls in and cancels the whole show. Sometimes I really don't plan on playing xbox all day, it just happens. Honest! I got like one more week in New Jersey and then I be out!!!!!!!!!

Video is a tad on the racy side, Fore Warning!!


-KGM`

Thoughts on Dat Shuffle Board

So after living here for months now, and making several jokes about shuffle board, my mother, father, visiting friend and I actually played shuffleboard tonight. That game is so damn awesome. It also helped that I was super freaking good at it. There are a rare few "sports" that I feel I am skilled at, but shuffle board is now at the top of the list. Moral of the story is that shuffle board rocks my socks off.
This song is completely irrelevant, but also completely badass. Has been my ring tone for over a year now. Never gets old....



-KGM

p.s. You're in my dreams.

Thoughts on Uninvited Guests in My iTunes

Someone let me know if I am the only one that this happens to, but every once in a while I have a song pop up in my itunes that is completely random. I have no idea where it came from, and the artist and song title are always a complete mystery. So tonight, I am here to share with you one such song. The song is called Horror at Camp Jellyjam. It was oft scared the crap out of me on those long nights driving with your ipod on shuffle. It is a pretty creepy song, but I must say it has grown on me a tad bit. Hope you all enjoy.



-KGM

Thoughts on I am getting desperate

I am really getting desperate here guys. I really regret this one, but I don't know where else to turn. I'm sorry, I know you are all going to be really disappointed in me, and doubt my "hipster cred". Whatever, I don't even care.



-KGM

Thoughts on AirShow

I saw the Thunder Birds today. Air force F-16 demonstration team. At Atlantic City, I had to be careful and keep myself from signing up for the Air Force. I want to fly fighter jets so freaking bad.



-KGM

Thoughts on Counting Down Dem Days

Got like 14 days left in this wonderful place. Guys I cannot wait. UWISC here I come!

Little FF7 inspired dub for yah.


-KGM

Thoughts on Shitty Crispin Suggestion

Shitty Crispin song suggestion.



-KGM

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-kgm

Thoughts on Being Snobby About Music

So it has always been the running joke with a few of my more hipster friends, mainly Twitter, that the less people to have heard about a band is directly correlated to how cool said band is. I have seen some extreme examples of this, like one time I was given some Cd's by a friend, before giving them up he made me swear to not tell other people about the band or let them listen to it. Pretty ridiculous in my opinion, but honestly I think a lot of people out there truly believe that if a band is popular they must suck. This whole thing came up on the UW facebook group, I had to chime in to defend Skrillex because I don't care how popular that boy is, he is freaking beast. Anyways I sorta met this kid who is an incoming UW freshman who makes some dubstep, mash-up, remixes ect ect. I came to an amazing conclusion that I could earn serious fucking hipster cred by using on of his songs in my blog. So yah...
Today's song is by this guy, you have probably never heard of him...he is pretty obscure... For real though show him some love, he has some sick remixes and he is a UWisc student, meaning he has to be a super genius badass. Also show the new URL some love, and tell your friends and stuff. Pictures from Virginia trip be up tomorrow night I swear on my monkeys grave.

DJ Britt - Fish don't Fry in the Kitchen.
Check this boy out! DJ Britt on Soundcloud

DJ BRITT - Fish Don't Fry In The Kitchen by DJ BRITT


-KGM

NEW URL

Last night or technically morning, I was hit with a freight train idea. I realized that the URL for my blog was incredibly annoying and lengthy. For the sake of brevity...I SHALL RENAME IT. Hopefully to www.kgmtol.blogspot.com
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On the off chance that this URL is unavailable. I do not know what to call it. So EVERYBODY READ THIS!!
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Thoughts on That Family Time, Also that Edgar Allen Poe

I saw Edgar Allen Poe's dorm room at UVA (university of Virginia) today. They make it out to be a big deal there, even though he was not even enrolled for a whole semester. It was weird being at a different college though, I was all hostile and spirited. Made a point to wear my UW shirt and stuff. UW must be that fucking cool if I have school spirit. Also hung out with family a bunch this weekend...which was cool because it was relatives I have rarely seen. We had a good time, my Virginia relatives are super cool. I have pictures from UVA and the Lowrey Caverns, I will get after those tomorrow or something. My insightful moment of the day occurred when I began to drive a car with New Jersey plates through Virginia, using a Montana drives licence, all while wearing a Wisconsin T-Shirt. That is my life. Otherwise I continue to descend into the depths of dubstep addiction ....wompwompwomp...




-KGM

Thoughts

-KGM

hotel internet is bad

Hotel Internet is bad. Greetings from Virginia.
Have pictures from Caverns. They are cool, you can see them in probably a week. Since I am so lazy. Also I met a family from Madtown, WI in a restaurant today. Epic Win.

-KGM

Thoughts on Mt. Misery

So Yah...sorry about missing yesterday, I had a busy day. After I finished my last day at Target, I met up with Target friends to go bowling. Pretty normal activity I know, nothing to exciting. Then my friend Mark (he is kind of crazy) gets the idea that we should go and explore this crazy, old, abandoned Factory out in the middle of no-where. On our way to the "middle of nowhere" we settled on just driving around by the factory, as to avoid getting in trouble (or getting eaten by the New Jersey Devil). We ended up driving on some sketchy dirt trails in the middle of the pine barrens. Moral of the story, New Jersey forests are inexplicably creepier than Montana ones and I am glad we were in my car. It was pretty fun to drive some sketchy dirt roads again, like the good 'ol days in Montana. Driving through the woods was the perfect opportunity to listen to this new band I had just found (via proxy recommendation from my cousin through my mother). The "genre" is called (by some) witchhouse. It is just like creepy slow electronic beats and stuff. It added a very nice touch to the already creepy place. Anyyywhooo sorry for slacking last night, enjoy this White Ring song, I have to go wash the mud of the car and buy a new headlight bulb.




-KGM

One more day

-KGM

Thoughts on 16 Hours

I officially have 16 hours of work at Target left. Honestly kind of bummed. But I am more tired than bummed. I saw a clever bumper sticker but I forgot what it said. Moral of the story is I suck. At least the song is kind of related to the idea that I am almost done working.



-KGM

Thoughts on more 28 Days Later

God 28 Days later is such a good freaking movie. GO WATCH IT NOW!!



-KGM

Thoughts on Wonderful Musical Creations

Every once and a while I come across a piece of music that is just absolutely awesome. Sometimes it is just a great song, other times it is awesome for other, more obscure, reasons. For example, 28 Days Later theme dubstep version.  I don't feel bad about a short post tonight because this song is too incredible. My words would only tarnish its beauty.



-KGM

Thoughts on Looking at the Bright Side

Fried Oreos. An oreo cookie, covered in batter and deep fat fried. Powdered sugar. Heaven. I guess there are some good things about New Jersey after all. Seeing as how I only have one month left here, I have decided to start a New Jersey Bucket List, I know I am not dying anytime soon, it means before I leave Jersey. I have made a few friends here and want to try and enjoy myself a little before I leave. The list is not very long yet (just had the idea today, need to brainstorm. So far we have:
1. Lay on the beach at sunset / nighttime (bonus point for campfire but I think that's illegal)
2. See the cast of Jersey Shore in their natural habitat
3. Play mini-golf at the boardwalk

Pretty short and lame, but at least it is something to look forward too. On a more incredible note I only have six more days of work!!!!!!!

This is my new favorite kind of music...being chill.



-KGM

Cant tonight

sorry busy

MMM

I found some good new toons today. All really relaxing instrumental stuff. Here
That is all.


-KGM

One of those

Tired from working late.
I like to think that the are talking about New Jersey.



-KGM

Thoughts on Dem Old Days

So this little tune popped up on the ool' Shuffle all songs playlist. Must saw I was struck with a big of nostalgia. Also a lot of shame and regret. I was a huge dooshbag Freshman year of High School. I hate the studded belt and what not. Listening to Hawthorne Heights and sitting on the "Freak Bench" at my high school...hahaha. I remembered all this basically because I knew every word to this song. It is such a horrible song but yet it is soo good. I feel that way about a lot of my music. I like to find a reason to like most things, sort of like an adapted version of the whole "cup half full" idea. But I am not a "cup half full" person...I would say I am a "fuck that cup" person. Oh well...Goddnight!

Hawthorne Heights - Ohio is for Lovers (YAH ANOTHER REPOST ARTIST I DO NOT CARE)


-KGM

Thoughts on East Coast Thunder Storms

Thunder storms on the east coast are a big deal. My cousins who live in New Jersey take them very very seriously. They are basically petrified by them. They swear that it is a very dangerous to take a shower during a thunderstorm. Other hazards include going outside and talking a phones (there is something about wearing the right kind of shoes that makes phones okay but I am not positive on that). Compared to Montana thunderstorms, NJ thunder and lightening is pretty bad-ass. This storm has been rumbling for almost 3 hours, thousands of people in the surrounding area are without power. Apparently Lions Head Retirement Community has some super tough power lines, or I am just lucky. I spent about an hour sitting on a beach chair in the garage watching the storm. It was absolutely beautiful. I don't want to sound like a tool, but that is the Montanan in me, nature is beautiful...blah blah... I think more people in New Jersey should stop and appreciate this type of thing. Instead of hiding inside like a dog afraid of loud noises. Then again, this storm did take out several power lines and the last big thunderstorm annihilated this huge sign in a big strip mall. Maybe I am an idiot with a death wish. Just to be safe, I got my blogging done early, in case of power loss. I think I should make a habit of doing this earlier, it would appear I can actually write more than two quick sentences. I am sure ya'll appreciate that. Now for some music! We need to talk guys, this is going to be a pretty serious conversation. I know I have done my best to not post multiple songs by the same artist (I think one might have happened already) but I think I need to give this up. I have previously posted a HORSE the band song, but have been listening to this on repeat since last night. On repeat through my 8 hour work day mind you. It is freaking incredible. I love HORSE, and everything about them. I even knew the cousin of the original drummer, he was my neighborhood trouble making partner when I was a wee lad.
So here yah go, ANOTHER HORSE THE BAND SONG!!! This is one of those: "it burns, but a good burn" moments.

HORSE the Band - Shapeshift
p.s. The video is incredible. I don't always recommend watching the videos. But when I do it is because the are cool and artsy.



-KGM

HEY HEY HEY

Nothing to see here...Move Along!

Thoughts on A Social Life

So guys, I think I officially have a social life again. With the dinner last night, plus tonight (more on that later) and a sort of date tomorrow night, I think that qualifies as a social life. Anyways tonight I did something I have not done in far to long. Sat with a car full of bored teenagers looking for something to do. Driving through grave yards and creepy back roads. Trying to find a place to go bowling that was open late and eventually ending up sitting in a parking lot bullshitting. No matter what the State, sitting in a parking lot doing nothing is an activity that all teenagers partake in. I really like sitting in parking lots, don't quite no why. Moral of the story, I have friends again. Success!

Still on a Dubstep kick, deal with it.


-KGM

Thoughts on People Outside of Work

I fucking love all my coworkers. They are hilarious outside of work. My first social outing in New Jersey was a complete success. I am tired, but I have to glorious days off and I can actually put sometime into the old blog.

Fashion Zombies - Aquabats. Yes watch the video cause it is incredible.


-KGM

Thoughts on Murder She Wrote

I used to live in Celebration, FL. It was a small little Disney town on the cusp of Disney World. After I moved to New Jersey there was like a double murder suicide thing that happened in Celebration. It was a shocking thing for the small town and pretty unusual. Now I live in Brick, New Jersey, specifically Lions Head. Lions head is a retirement community for people 55 and up. A large majority of the people are in the 80's / 90's. So my aunt heard on the news, then called my grandma, and she told me that some guy was arrested in Lions Head for supposedly killing his step-dad. The guy who was arrested was in his 50's and the man who was killed was in his 90's. The guy was arrested at his home, like a block away from mine. What the hell man...Why do murders always occur where I live. It is starting to creep me out.

On a cooler note, I am addicted to Dubstep again. getting really nitty gritty with it.


-KGM

Thoughts on HP

I am so mad. Why is it not real???? Pisses me off.
Crispin's song suggestion of the month? I dunno.




-KGM

Thoughts on Old Cartoons

I used to watch this show all the freaking time when I was a kid. Now thanks to the internet I can watch them all again. I love the internet so freaking much. It is incredible. This song is freaking tits as well. I listen to it while I drive to work. I wish my car was made of gundanium alloy...:(



-KGM

Thoughts on New Shopping Carts

Target got new shopping carts. They are less than well designed. Today was like Tokyo Drift except with shopping carts. Did I mention the 105 degree weather.

This was on repeat for most of the day. Skrillex why did I just discover you?



-KGM

Thoughts on So I had some crazy ass dreams last night.

So I am in elementary school again, but apperentally I moved to Venice, or some make beleive place with rivers through a city. I cut class and meet up with two french super models (obviously). We then proceed to steal a Cigarette Race Boat and start burning up the waves all through the city. After a little bit of speed boat rampage, the authorities show up in a helecopter and follow us. I crash the boat into a building and escape onto the street. I run into Matt Wheat and we reminds me that Lunch period was almost over and that we have to run back to school. So we sprint through the streets of Venice, through the aftermath of the speedboat rampage and eventually make it back to school on time. Then I woke up.

So Sigmund Freud thought that you could analyze dreams and discover their meaning and what not...Good luck with that one brah!

I like this band, they are neat. I forgot how much I like them actually. Freshman year all the way!
Mindless Self Indulgence -



-KGM

Music that is all

-KGM

I am apologise in advance Thoughts on...What

So RB just gave a big middle finger (in the form of another awful song) to all the haters.
Haters Gonna Hate.




-KGM

Thoughts on DUMB (WITH FACTS!)

It's my break. I love watching the news, to see what is going on in the world. More importantly to see what bad stuff is going on (usually all news is bad, dramatic or exciting [not surprising, gotta entertain people these days]) Besides the end of News Corp, one down! five to go!. If you don't get that you should look at this link: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho39kncp_USFtjLwepvpbjJmBQyC9YblyBjREYvn7TXYPGlpmKcus8pYJ_7-w_s7gkybTZEeZfUazcrhv00isB3XflCz7qN4NnNMG_FthtcUOgBpseWSzRUvAoJeL7OF3iHR16JtUPsBRX/s1600/media2.png. See look I make facts into blog. Like citing sources, BOSS. Anyways onto the real topic. I was watching Nancy Grace, because it is an intelligent and unbiased show. Some co-host is standing by a memorial for Caylee Anthony and she says, and this is a direct quote, "Standing here out front of the memorial. This is probably the saddest place on earth right now." Like holy shit.

"A child dies every four seconds from HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty often before their fifth birthday. 15 children die every minute. Over 22,000 children die worldwide every single day. About 8 million children die every year.  (Source: UNICEF)"
http://cozay.com/


Yah I bet aids probably got acquitted on most of those. So stop making such big deal about one persons death, 1000s of people die everyday. The entire country of Mexico is being torn apart at the seams and the majority of the African continent is in bloody civil war. Yah Casey got off, get over it. Maybe a giant earthquake will destroy Florida and cause serious radiation leakage. She will be one of the casualties. Yah then justice will be done, and Caylee will be avenged.



-KGM

Thoughts on Reddit Love

Hey Reddit,
I know we haven't really know each other for that long, but I feel like we have really clicked. Your not like the other girls I have dated. My break up with StumbleUpon was really hard, but you were there to rebuild me. You always have so much interesting stuff to talk about with me. I have really loved all the time we have spent together (Yah I know we have been like attached at the hip over the last couple weeks). I am always impressed at the breath and depth of topics you are knowledgeable about. You literally have something to say about every single topic I can think of. You reward me for being creative and original. Your a great cartoonist, and always up to date on current events. So I guess I am writing this because I want you to know that I love you.

-KGM

Okay seriously Reddit is like the greatest website on the planet. There is literally a subreddit for every single possible thing you could want to read/post/talk about. God I have spent (read: not wasted) so much time on reddit and enjoyed every minute of it. So if you love the internet and have way to much free time/have no life. I would suggest you start reddit-ing. Might I suggest starting in /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu. Mindless and frankly pretty immature humor. The best kind.



-KGM (AGAIN)

More Anger

Nothing to say, just listen and enjoy.



-KGM

Thoughts on How I feel

All I can say after cashiering for 8 hours, on a Friday evening. Target in Brick New Jersey. At least it is not hate and anger right right??



I wanted to put up the cover by Echo and the Bunnyman (from the Lost Boys, AWESOME). But I already posted an EatB song. Must uphold the new artist every post.

-KGM

NEW YORK CRAPPY CELLPHONE PICTURE ADVENTURE

Hey it it time. I know have been slacking majorly but with the trip and Great Adventure and all the work I have been super exhausted and lazy. Here are the wonderful pictures from my trip to NYC to see The Bouncing Souls. It was an epic show, they are still pretty damn impressive for their age. I went to the 4th night of their show, they played every song they ever wrote over the span of 4 nights. Pretty epic.

Would not be pictures from a trip with out the obligatory picture of travel ticket. Am I right?

An awesome shot of me stage diving..err...leaping. Took me a while to get crowd surfed op though. Dropped on my back before hand. Sucked.

There they are. In all their badassery. The Gold Album cover in background.

This guy. Tim Barry. Absolute Badass-Champion of the World-Hero of America. You heard his stuff early. He got down off stage and walked through the crowd playing. Tuff.

Picture of the crowd. Not quite sure how I got it.

Moar Tim Barry. He was a single guy with an acoustic guitar. Opening with a bunch of hardcore metal/punk bands. Singing about Virgina and stuff. Awesome.

BS again. Notice the sick Pirate Flag.

My last trip included a Times Square Picture but it was nighttime. I think this does it better justice. P.S. I cannot stand Time Square. Talk about sign pollution.

Like the subway like represents like life right and how like life has many different stops along the way, but there are only so many tracks you can follow man.

LOOK AT THE GARBAGE.

I love the "order" that these pictures are in. Completely backwards.

Look a Street. Isn't it neat?

Bryan doing the bass thing. Looking like a badass pirate

So they had this clever thing where it was like a boxing match between whatever albums were being played that night. They had the girls walking out and everything. Even Rocky theme song at one point inbetweeen.

More of them girls.

This is it. The door to the Fox News studio. All the stupidity and ridiculousness. It all happens here.

Big sign with all the rules and regs for the Fox studio. Some funny stuff in there.

This one. I don't know if you can read it but it says that no one in the studio may make false or defamatory remarks while in the studio. Because that is their job.

Another wonderful institution.

A hilarious sign outside the IRS. It goes up by about $10,000 a second. The bottom number is "Your family's share" if it were split evenly I guess. Either way we are effed.

Apparently this is like a classic motorcycle or something. My dad was all "take a picture." Well dad this one is for you.

 

Bye Bye NYC. See yah again real soon.

-KGM

ON more day of lazy

At least get a song today Yah Yah. Good stuff here, real good stuff.



-KGM

I am so lazy...

I am so lazy, sorry.
This is all I have.

"New Jersey: Causing people to lose faith in Humanity since like 1776 or something."
 -KGM

Thoughts on Kingda Ka

Kingda ka means King of Caosters




I rode this twice today. Suffice to say I am pretty tired. Besides this twice I rode every other roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure. Back to work tomorrow. THEN I WILL POST NEW YORK PICTURES.
-KGM

Thoughts on

I got a Google+ invite thanks to Reddit. I am officially more Internet hip than you. It is basically like living in the Internet San Fransisco. Goodnight

-KGM

Thoughts on The Best Love/Hate Relationship I Have Ever Had

Wow...when you live in Brick Township, New Jersey and hop on a bus to a Bouncing Souls show in NYC, it is quite the shocker. I had a freaking blast. There were three opening acts which were all pretty good. One "band" consisted of one guy and an acoustic guitar. Not to disrespect the Bouncing Souls, cause the rocked. But I wanted to talk about Tim Barry I this post and then when I have time to upload all the pics I will delve into the awesomeness that is the Bouncing Souls. Anyways Tim Barry is a total champion. Guy walks on stage after a punk/hardcore band called Lost In Society. They were from Jersey and yah. Guy grabs the microphone and says something to the effect of "Gonna follow up the loud punk band with some guy singing fucking Kumbaya and stuff." After that he proceeded to play a mean guitar. Half way through his set he unplugs his guitar and jumps off the stage. Starts walking through the crowd hugging people and playing his song. He was laughing about coming from Richmond, Virgina up to crowded NYC. He complained about all the people, then said it was f**king exhilarating. At this point I love this guy, and then he goes "Who is from Jersey?? This song is about Jersey." Basically he made a song about what I complain about constantly. Made my freaking day. The show was just so awesome. So much anger and yet so much love, I no it sounds clique as hell, I love punk rock. I don't care if you define it differentially then me, or think the Bouncing Souls aren't punk or whatever. I think that my new definition of punk rock is angry people who just love each other. Nothing like a good mosh pit. Crowd surfing and stage diving. If you find me another thing that you can be at, get kicked clean in the face, and have an awesome time, I am all ears. Gonna eat some good pizza and pass out. Love you all.

Tim Barry - Avoiding Catatonic Surrender



-KGM

It rained a lot today. I got soaked, and my laptop keyboard is now broken. T˙e Ó key does not work, and t˙e spacing is all messed up. I drank about as muc˙ coffee as it did raining today. I feel like dying. Not blogging. See Yall later.

-KGM

Thoughts on The Bouncing Souls

Bouncing Souls. On Saturday, in NYC and then ay after that Six Flags Great Adventure. I am very excite. Just have to survive one more day in the desert wasteland that is Target parking lot. Seriously it was like a million and a half degrees plus humidity today. I almost died, could have cooked eggs on the sidewalk hot. Anywho I will be taking awesome pictures and stuff as usual. Otherwise it is early to bed early to rise push shopping carts all day and eat lots of french fries. Also, reddit has many comical casey anthony jokes to be found. No it is not to soon.

Broken Record - Bouncing Souls


-KGM

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Nine Inch Nails - Right Where It Belongs. I have seen them live, and it was epic.




-KGM

Thoughts on Hypocrites

Well, Casey Anthony was acquitted on all the murder/manslaughter/child abuse charges today. I defiantly saw this coming, and you can ask my aunt if you don't believe me. She is a former lawyer, who lives in Orlando. She had fairly strong opinions about the whole thing, like most people who followed the case. I think the average person  is pretty furious as to the outcome of the whole thing, I also don't think the average person is very informed on the case, laws, and the way something like a capital murder case goes. Two things bother me about the way the average person responds to stuff like this. Firstly, they are shocked that she was found not guilty. They have seen the news and seen the pictures of poor Caylee. They want justice for this little girl, and the only person who really could have done it was Casey. SO HOW COULD SHE BE NOT GUILTY. Reasonable doubt it a term I think every person in this country could use a quick lesson on. While they are at it, perhaps brush up on their Innocent Until Proven Guilty. People in this country are so quick to convict and sentence a person before they even set foot in a court room. Doing this is both idiotic and pretty anti-American. We have the one of the best justice systems in the world, so don't spit on it by jumping to conclusions. The mob of cries for the death of Casey Anthony has grown to massive proportions through out the whole trial. Nancy Grace and others like her simply feed the fire, perpetuating the idea that Casey is obviously guilty, and is also evil and must get the death penalty. I think there was defiantly reasonable doubt clearly shown in the evidence, but I don't think that was the only thing that pushed the jury to their decision. I believe that they were very aware of public opinion, which was "Give  Casey the chair, she did it no doubt about it." I think they did not want to go along with the mob on this one. So in a way all the death mongering probably helped Casey in the end. Nothing like dumbasses helping sink their own ship. But for god sakes, she has been found not guilty, so saying stuff like "God, I hope someone kills her, she deserves to die," is idiotic and hypocritical. You hate her because you think she killed someone, and you suggest her being killed out side of legal process would be good. What you get to judge who deserves to live or die but she does not? The death penalty has its place, but perpetuating murder is just moronic. Stop being so dumb please.

Also, another thing a really really hate is when I am listening to some serious death metal or something, and someone is like "Oh my god what is this emo crap, turn it off, so emo." Cradle of Filth is not emo... So this is to show you what "emo" music is.
Time Spent Driving - Rain on Sundays



-KGM

Thoughts on Fireworks

Fireworks, like everything else in America, are made in China. Sorry, cynicism is over. I love America. Happy 4th of July!



-KGM

Thoughts on Jersey Bore...NIGHTLIFE

Seaside Heights Boardwalk, 4th of July Weekend. Horrible place. There was rumor that Karma club was 18 and up, but it turned out to be false. The Jersey Shore cast were there but hiding in their house. New Jersey is horrible.



-KGM

Thoughts on The Jersey Bore

So I actually did something with my day off. Brother Ben is here from Washington so we had a good old fashioned New Jersey Day. Started of right with some Dunken Doughnuts, followed by a haircut and some discount shopping at Burlington Coat Factory. Then we packed up and headed to the supposedly wonderful Jersey Shore. Oh boy did I have a blast...Bumper to bumper traffic all the way there. Turns a 10 min drive into an hour + long drive. When we got there it was super crowded, even at the Brick Township beach. This surprised me since I thought all of Brick was retirement communities and yet I saw teenagers ect ect at the Brick Beach. I now just wonder whether they are real people or some kind of tourism/beach/robots... No way to know for sure, but I never see them around town so it is kinda weird. Anyways besides the crowds the water was not very appealing. I mean temperature wise it was great, but I guess an orgy had occurred recently and every single fish in the Atlantic ocean was in attendance. The water was full of fish eggs...not like the delicious ones on sushi. They were small clear balls of jelly with a blue sperm inside them. Imagine swimming in tapioca pudding, except the tapioca balls are fetuses. Things got pretty controversial when my mom asked me if I thought the eggs were technically alive. I declined to comment because it was my day off and I did not want to get into the whole fish abortion / pro-life debate. Either way, Jersey Shore kind of sucked...I am left with the question: was it really worth it to leave the house on my day off??


Misfits - We Are 138
ALSO FROM NEW JERSEY!!! Ben was fronting with a Misfits tee-shirt. Proceed to tell me he hadn't ever really listened to them. (30 seconds into Bullet) "Huh, this kinda sounds like Danzig..."
You are a Stupid


-KGM