I Believe It's Time for Me to Fly!

Sorry, guys. I've been busy at work the last two days finishing things up before my vacation. I leave early tomorrow (today if you're reading this on Wednesday) and need to get to bed to squeeze in 4 hours of sleep.

I'll be in F-L-A for a week, and will try to post from there. I'm also going to try my damnedest to play my quiz, but if I don't, it'll be a golden opportunity for some of you to catch up on points! ;-)

Until I can write something more, here's a question: what cheesy band sang the title to this post?

Friday Kid Blogging

He's crawling! CBK Jr. is crawling, and the terror has begun. He makes a B-line for the dog food whenever he can see it, and zips away to grab something he shouldn't whenever Lovely Wife turns her back for a second. Under my supervision he grabbed the dog's water dish and poured water all over himself and the floor. Obviously, I need some practice.

LW got some video of some of his earliest crawling, but I haven't uploaded it, and it also only shows him from behind. I'll get something up soon.

Today, though, the focus is on The Bear and his last soccer game (which was a couple weeks ago). Here he is breaking away from the pack and scoring one of his goals. Keep your eye on the redhead in the back.



You can see his teammates standing around, but he never stops moving. When we were watching the last US World Cup game he said, "Come on! They're not even trying!" because they weren't running around everywhere like he does. We had to explain that it's a big field, and people play in certain positions so they don't have to run all the time.

I'm also going to give the answer to the last remaining movie quotes here:

4. Why are you shaking me off?
I want to give him the heat and announce my presence with authority.
and
Strikeouts are boring. Besides that, they're fascist. These are from "Bull Durham". E McPan correctly "deductivized" the answer.

6. Well you got it all wrong. Muddy Waters invented 'lectricity. This one's from "Crossroads" starring Ralph Macchio as a virtuoso guitar player. It's NOT the Britney Spears film vehicle of the same name (which was apparently written by the creator of "Grey's Anatomy"). I love this movie! It's been years since I've seen it. Must rent it soon.

iPod: "Guyute" by Phish, "So. Central Rain" by R.E.M., "In Between" by Josh Rouse, "Mistake Pageant" by Idlewild, and "Seether" by Veruca Salt.

Bummer!

I just stayed home to watch the US soccer team lose to Ghana. Yeah, they were victimized by more bad officiating, but they didn't play well enough to win. The goal they scored was awesome, and they had some more chances, but it wasn't enough. And what the hell was wrong with Landon Donovan? Shoot the ball sometimes, Lan! Sheesh!

Well, I guess I'm rooting for England now, and it would be cool to see Ghana continue to do well. Another four year wait for the US.

iPod: "Spider in my Room" by Barenaked Ladies (weird song).

Movie Quote Meme

I'm at a total loss for content, and saw this done over at The Bawdy Cloister and The Neutral Zone Trap, and thought it was pretty cool. Here are the instructions:

A. Pick 11 of your favorite movies.
B. Then pick one of your favorite quotes from each movie.
C. Post the quotes on your blog.
D. Have commenters guess what the movie is.
E. Either strike out the quote once it has been correctly identified or place the guesser’s user name directly after the quote.
F. Extra points for knowing the actor or character’s name (or other distinguishing characteristics)

The following are some of my favorite quotes, but not necessarily from my favorite movies. I realized that my favorite movies don't have super funny or memorable quotes. But there are a bunch of silly/cheesy movies that do! Good luck, and make sure you check out RT's and McPan's entries, as there are plenty left to get.

1. Why can't you say you like my hat? Why can't you say you like my suit? I've earned it! From "Far and Away", answered correctly by Lulu (and known by Vegetable Medley).

2. I am an FBI agent! From "Point Break", answered correctly by Lulu (and known by Vegetable Medley).

3. My God! Suicide? Why?
Does this answer your question? From "Heathers", answered correctly by Lulu.

4. Why are you shaking me off?
I want to give him the heat and announce my presence with authority. I thought that people would get this one quickly. Here's another from the same film:

Strikeouts are boring. Besides that, they're fascist.

5. Let's just take a step back. No, I was wrong. I'm sorry, take a step forward. Now, take a step back. Step forward. Back. And then we're cha-cha-ing! From "Real Genius", correctly answered by Bliss (and apparently known by Vegetable Medley).

6. Well you got it all wrong. Muddy Waters invented 'lectricity. Vegetable Medley, I'm counting on you to get this one! Do you have any guesses?

7. I mean, if I went 'round, sayin' I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away! From"Monty Python and The Holy Grail", spoken by Michael Palin as a peasant. Correctly answered by E. McPan, Omega (although he referenced the wrong number), TGIC, and ACW. I love this whole scene, but couldn't put it all here without it being very obvious.

8. Well, when I see five weirdos dressed in togas, stabbing a man in the middle of the park in front of a full view of 100 people, I shoot the bastards! That's my policy! From "The Naked Gun" by Lt. Frank Drebin. Correctly answered by E. McPan and TGIC.

9. Hey, no shit it's my ass! I got a big problem down here. Shut it down! Shut it down, now! From "Die Hard", correctly answered by Graculus.

10. Oh, I get it. It's very clever.
Thank you.
How's that working out for you?
What?
Being clever? From "Fight Club", an exchange between "Jack" (played by Edward Norton) and Tyler Durden on an airplane. Correctly answered by Omega and ACW.

11. There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours. From "The Princess Bride", correctly answered by The Rowdy Theologian.

And the "Evil Genius Award" goes to Lulu, who emailed me with 9.5 correct answers (she knew #5 was a MP movie, but not the title). She's a freak.

The "You're No Fun Award" goes to Scarlet for dissing this game as "random, out of context things". This from a woman who rigs her own quizzes with questions from Sweet Valley books. ;-)

Good work, Everyone!

They're probably not very challenging. Leave your answers in the comments. I'll post correct answers and their owners next to the quote.

I'm a Big Quitter

I'm off the diet. I ended it yesterday afternoon, about a day earlier than I had planned. I just got too sick if it and the way I was feeling. I probably wasn't drinking enough lemonade the last three days. Going to a Father's Day brunch and not being able to eat some of my favorite foods didn't help, either. I ended it in the afternoon with a glass of orange juice, then a couple pieces of fruit. Later I had a banana and snacked on some popcorn Lovely Wife got me. For dinner I had vegetable soup and more fruit, and it was YUMMY! Later in the night I had more popcorn. Probably a little too much. Man, did I miss food! Weight lost: 8 pounds. I weighed in at 178 this morning. Now it's up to me to maintain and lose with good eating and exercise. I'll probably try running on Wednesday morning this week.

Another contributing factor was that I came REALLY close to ending it on Saturday night. The local NBC affiliate decided NOT to show Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals and showed a Real Salt Lake MLS game instead! I was so fucking pissed! I left a scathing comment on their website, including anti-Mormon Church rhetoric and the F-bomb (the station is owned by the LDS Church) and I wrote two blog posts about it. My damn computer at home sucks, though, and Internet Explorer crashed both times I wrote the posts, and I was too pissed to do it again. I still can't believe the station did that. Really fucking ridiculous. I watched the game stats update online, and was so mad I just wanted to eat a bunch of bad stuff. They're showing tonight's Game 7 (I should hope so!) and I'll be there to watch it. I think I'm rooting for Carolina, even though I've really enjoyed watching Edmonton this postseason.

Last night LW and I checked out the Da Vinci Code/ Amazing Race rip-off show "Treasure Hunters" on NBC. It's pretty good. The best thing about it, though, was that I had a KICK ASS treasure hunting dream last night because of the show! In it I was in a large group trying to figure out clues and race to cool places. At one point I was ostracized from the group for being snobby and snotty, but then I pled my case to them and everything was cleared up. Later LeBron James (who was apparently on my team) bad mouthed me, so I jumped him from behind, pinned him and shoved his face in the ground while giving him a talking to. I told him that I knew he was going to kick my ass afterward, and that I would feel as defeated and embarrassed as he was with me on top of him, and that maybe after that we could get past things and get along. But then, after we got up, I kicked HIS ass! It was weird! Then I went away, and he came to find me and we made up. After that I remember I got some big clues for my team, but then the damn alarm clock went off. Why can't those dreams start at 1 am and last 6 hours?!?!? Motherfucker!

iPod: "Kitchenware and Candybars" by Stone Temple Pilots, "These Apples (live) by Barenaked Ladies, "M.I.A." by Foo Fighters, "Star" by Belly, and "Man, It's So Loud in Here" by They Might Be Giants.

Friday Kid Blogging

Not much to talk about, just some cute pics.

Here's CBK Jr. eating a baby biscuit.


Actually, he's sucking it and rubbing the spit/crumb mixture all over his head.

And here are the boys at the pool earlier this week.


Diet progress: Feeling good today. Weight was down an additional pound this morning. Didn't walk last night, but did 140 crunches/leg lifts.

iPod: "Work" and "Firestarter" by Jimmy Eat World.

Couple o' things

Diet Progress: Weight down about 2.5 pounds from yesterday, 4.5 total. Feeling okay, a bit hungry but it's about time for "lunch". Did 60 pushups last night. I may walk 3 miles with Lovely Wife tonight. I'm thinking that I'll only do this through the weekend. That should be good enough.

Last night was a challenge because I went to a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese, and was surrounded by pizza. It looked and smelled really good, but by all accounts it didn't taste that good. The cake was pretty bad, too, apparently. All I had was water and by the time we left I was pretty damn hungry. I went almost 4 hours without a drink of lemonade.

Speaking of last night, what a hockey game! I DVRed the game. At about 9, when recording was supposed to stop, I asked Lovely Wife to turn on the TV and see if it went to overtime. Thanks goodness I did. She recorded that, too, but before I could sit down to watch the game, our Canadian neighbor came over and kind of ruined it for me after Edmonton scored. I still watched the whole game, though. Great game, great finish! I'll be very interested to see how NBC does in the ratings on these broadcasts.

Turns out the movie that was being filmed right next to our office building is a major picture starring some real stars. The name of the film is Dark Matter, and stars Val Kilmer and Meryl Streep! I didn't see either of them, though. My boss was trying to leave the building and got stopped in the lobby. They were filming right outside on the sidewalk and wouldn't let him leave. I'll definitely have to see the flick now and see if that footage made it to the final cut.

iPod: "The Shadow" by Tanya Donelly, "Roll the Bones (live)" by Rush, and "Song for the Deaf" by Queens of the Stone Age.

Come out, come out, whoever you are!

I'm an adult. I can take criticism in the blogosphere (not as well from my wife). If you want to criticize something I'm doing, that's fine. I welcome the free exchange of ideas here. I won't take it personally. So, if you leave a comment that's less than laudatory, please don't do it anonymously. I'm not going to hold anything against you. Plus, I'm going to find out who left it, anyway. ;-)

To answer your concerns: I am SO not a fad diet person. I learned about this from my New-Agey mother in law, who has done it a few times. Like I said, I don't really buy the "cleansing your body of all ills" properties of the diet. I just like to get a little obsessive sometimes to counteract my lack of discipline. I'm all for eating less and getting regular exercise. That's what I was doing before this diet, just not enough to lose more weight. I'm only doing this diet to get to a good base weight before I travel to Florida and get exposed to tons of food paid for by someone else. After that I plan on eating and exercising to maintain my weight below 180, trim the fat, and build some studly muscle. And because Lovely Wife won't be getting pregnant again (and I won't gain sympathy weight with her) I feel I can do it.

As for the healthiness of this diet, maybe it's not so great, but I've done it twice with no adverse effects. I probably should do the salt water flushes to get rid of the gunk in my system, but I can't get the stuff down. It stems from a practical joke my friends played on me in college. While I was away from the table in the dining hall, they saturated my glass of water with salt. I took a big swig and nearly puked. To this day, it's hard for me to drink plain water without it (psychosomatically) tasting a bit salty. Since I'm not concerned with the organic qualities of the diet, maybe I'll just take a pill laxative, or some of that orange Metamucil stuff. Where's Colon Blow when you need it?



Diet Progress: Day 2 of The Diet is one of the toughest. I woke up this morning and was pretty hungry. I've had two cups and am doing pretty well. Weight was down 2 pounds this morning from yesterday. Did 100 crunches last night and that went well.

Lovely Wife and I enjoy NBC's "Last Comic Standing", but the casting for the finalists this year is a total farce. They put in about 5 or 6 unfunny people (and the others aren't really the funniest) just for the personality clashes that will arise from cohabitation. Disgraceful. Lose the premise of finding the funniest person if all you want is catfighting in a house. You can call the show "Catfight" or something.

In conclusion, show yourselves, please. I won't bite.

iPod: "Futures" by Jimmy Eat World, "Death's Alright With Me" by The Dead Milkmen, "The Wild Wild Sea" by Sting, "Mistake" by Athenaeum, "They Might Be Giants" by They Might Be Giants, "All Hail Me" by Veruca Salt, and "The Other Way" by Weezer.

A River Runs Through Me

When all you ingest is water and lemonade, you sure have to pee a whole bunch! I've been three times already today at work, and I've been holding it in so I don't have to keep making the long walk down the hall so often. The diet is going well so far. On my way into work I walked by a vacant restaurant that was being used by a film crew for catering (They're filming something in the building right next door). There were tables of food spread out, and a catering truck parked next to it. But I strode on by, not tempted at all. The hardest thing so far has been hearing the rustling of my boss' lunch bag at noon. I wasn't hungry, but the Pavlovian stimulus made me eager to eat my own lunch. So I had another cup o' lemonade at 12:30. Yum!

And thanks for your concern about oral yeast infections. While I may not totally buy that this diet cleanses the body of "toxins", I'm convinced that it doesn't harm you at all. I'm looking to do at least 10 days. But I've got a kids birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese on Wednesday and a Father's Day breakfast on Sunday to attend that will certainly test my will power. I'm keeping my fingers, and legs, crossed.

iPod: "Velouria" by Weezer, "Something in the Way" by Nirvana, "Foot Down" by Michael Penn, and "Burden in my Hand" by Soundgarden.

Frustratingly Fun

When all the blogs are read, the emails checked, and the latest Lost Experience Clue studied, what's a Professional Time Waster to do? The answer, of course, is play Dungeon Escape!

There's no real brain required for this game, but a lot of patience. You either need a quick hand (and a real mouse, not a touchpad), or to memorize patterns. The only way to memorize the patterns, though, is to play it over and over and keep dying. Addictive, repeat playing is built right in.

Enjoy!

iPod: Ironically it's "Maze" by Phish.

175 Here I Come!

That's the weight I'm trying to reach. So far I've bottomed out at about 184, but my discipline has been lax, to put it mildly. No more! Tonight I'm starting the non-cleansing version of the Lemonade Diet. The non-cleansing part means I'm leaving cayenne pepper out, and won't be drinking laxative tea or salt water. I don't give a shit about the toxins in my system, it's the fat that I want to leave. The diet makes your tongue turn white. I'll have to post a picture of it.

I've done it twice and lost a bunch of weight with it. The first time I also ran a couple times, but that was a big mistake. I'm planning on doing a few push ups or crunches each night this time while on the diet. I hope that doesn't wear me out like the running did.

Lovely Wife and I have abandoned the weight loss contest, but I'd like to reach my goal weight anyway. I could get there without the diet, I'm sure, but not before going to Florida at the end of the month. Also, since I haven't run in over a month, weight loss has been stagnant and this will jumpstart things. I really want to get back to running, and will try to run in Florida. Hopefully my calf issue won't resurface.

It's so great to be able to watch hockey again! On network TV, to boot. The game on Saturday was great, especially when the crowd was chanting "Bullshit!" in unison to protest a no-goal call. Tonight I hope Edmonton evens the series (I'm rooting for a seventh game), but I'll have to miss some of it for the premiere of Hell's Kitchen on Fox. That's what summer is good for, trashy reality TV.

iPod: "Stand" by R.E.M., "Kissy Windmill Print" by Braid, "Mexican Cousin" by Phish, "Still" by Geddy Lee, "Back Porch" by The Presidents of the United States of America, and "Brittle" by Straitjacket Fits.

Friday Kid (and Ugly Tie) Blogging

The Bear is a great Big Brother, and loves CBK Jr. a lot, but he just can't seem to stop bugging the crap out of the baby. He shoves his face into the baby's face a lot and just pesters him, thinking it's fun. Well, The Bear got some payback on Monday night. We went to a park for an outdoor showing of Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (which I liked even better the second time I saw it) and The Bear was laying on a blanket. Some people nearby us had kids, and one of their little sons came over to watch the movie with The Bear. He was in his late 2s or early 3s, and was very fascinated with The Bear. He laid down right next to The Bear, blocking his view of the movie. Whenever The Bear tried to move to be able to see, the other kid moved right in front of his face. Then he started touching The Bear's face and playing with his mouth. It was hilarious to us, and The Bear took it pretty well (didn't slug the kid), but it couldn't have been a more perfect lesson for him on how he treats his little brother. In the car ride home we talked about it, and Lovely Wife told him about karma: how the things people do can come back and happen to them, good or bad. After that, The Bear started talking about the "Caramel Monster", who will come and get you if you do bad things. We think he was just being silly and actually understood the point we were making, but who knows. It was pretty damn funny.

Speaking of CBK Jr., he's REALLY close to crawling, which we're very excited about because he's 9 and half months old and hasn't expressed any interest in mobility before last month. Now he's either learning the mechanics of crawling, or working on his pecs.



Anonymous Coworker, inspired by someone else, posted pics of his quite enviable Ugly Tie Collection. I've decided to do the same, with the help of Lovely Wife (who chose my ugliest). All but one of these ties were purchased by me to go with an awkward brown/green suit I have. The blue paisley-ish one probably came from my dad.


(Click for larger, more vividly ugly image.)






Unfortunately, I threw out some truly hideous ones a year or two ago, including a bright green one that inexplicably had what can only be described as profiles of heads with Colonial wigs on them. I wish I had that one right now.

Happy Weekend everyone!

iPod: "Swampland of Desire" by The Dead Milkmen, "Shatter" by Liz Phair, "Photograph" by Weezer, "La Villa Strangiato (live)" by Rush, "Quit" by Hey Mercedes, and "Live in a Hiding Place" by Idlewild.

Weird Coincidence

Blogger's being quite the obnoxious bitch lately. I meant to post this yesterday.

I was watching The Colbert Report on Tuesday night, and it had a segment called "Stephen's Sound Advice" wherein he gave comical advice to recent college graduates. One of his tips was about not going to Europe to backpack. The advice turned out to be a bitter rant about Stephen's own bad experience in Paris. He talked about reluctantly going to a disco called "Le Palace" and the bad things that ensued from that. When I was in high school, during Sophomore or Junior year, I went to France on a French club trip. We spent a couple days in Paris, and the last night we decided to sneak our under-age asses into a disco... called Le Palace! How do I remember the name? Because I'm the one who called the club from the hotel to confirm that girls got in free, because I knew how to ask it en Francais. Or at least well enough to be understood.

I know that Stephen's story was probably made up, but that makes it all the more coincidental!

I'm a dork, and I have nothing to write about. Sorry.

Now for today's thought. I was thinking about a particular Phish performance I saw on Letterman a while ago, and look what I found on YouTube!



Here's the link if it takes too damn long to load: "Birds of a Feather"

iPod: "Wattershed" by Foo Fighters, "Window Paine" by Smashing Pumpkins, "Cecilia" by Simon and Garfunkel, "Fast Enough for You" by Phish, and "W.M.A." by Pearl Jam.

Who to choose?!?!

1. I've admired The Oilers for their plucky play, and anyone who beats Detroit deserves adulation.

2. But the Hurricanes have never won The Cup, even in their past life as the Hartford Whalers. Rod Brind'Amour is this year's Dave Andreychuk.

3. But Edmonton's starting goalie is hurt, and their backup is from my alma mater.

4. But Glen Wesley, former Bruin extraordinaire, has a shot to win it, after being beaten by Edmonton before in the finals. A victory by him would be pretty sweet.

I can't choose. I hope it's a great series that goes 7 games.

iPod: "Blind" by Thanks to Gravity and "With or Without You" by U2.

She's Back!

It's not really news, but I got the go-ahead to link to Lulu's new blog! She took a break and came back with a new site, leaving the old one to grow moldy and fool stalkers. But you get the fresh linkage right here.

Lulu: Chispa

Go to her site and ask her why she hasn't drawn a picture of me. Apparently, she's rather artistic.

As for my weekend, it was relaxing. Didn't do much work because I mowed the lawn last Thursday. Even though there are a lot of things to do in the yard, you're tricked into a sense of landscaping complacency when the lawn looks nice. The Bear had his last soccer game of the year, and even though his team got spanked, he played really well. Now he gets to terrorize Lovely Wife for the summer.

iPod: I'm cleaning up iTunes, and Braid's "Movie Music: Vol. I" is playing on there right now.

Friday Kid Blogging - Graduation!

The Bear is officially done with Kindergarten today, and he totally kicked ass in it! He's awesome at reading and getting really good at cursive writing! I didn't touch the stuff until third grade in my shabby public school, but his private school starts 'em pretty darn early on it. He's also great at math and learning to tell time. I better stop bragging now.

Not kid related at all: I realized I was slacking in my Fan Boy duties, so I went to the Threadless t-shirt site and downloaded all the songs that Bob Nanna wrote and recorded for the shirts. There are 37 of them. I'm a total geek, but what I've heard so far is great! These will be worth something some day! (won't they?)

The store itself is pretty cool. All their t-shirts are made from public submissions that get voted on. The designs aren't the usual played, smart-alecky/shocking jokes. They're punny, esoteric, and mostly artistic. While I find some designs even more inaccessible than The New Yorker cartoons (which I love), there's some good stuff there. Too bad they sell out of designs really quickly.

Also unrelated to kids, kind of: I had two really weird dreams last night. In one, Lovely Wife traveled overseas to go on a date with someone. She was mad at me because she thought she caught me in a lie when my iPod was mysteriously playing songs over again. She thought it meant I had some device that I used to cover my tracks and hide things from her. I think she hinted in the dream that she had slept with the person. I was devastated. The feeling was very real, and very scary. In the second dream, Lovely Wife took me to a doctor's office to get a vasectomy. Apparently, the doctor was doing them in his office, without anesthesia, right in front of everyone. It was bloody, and the guys were in obvious pain, grimacing and moaning. It seemed I was always the next one up, but I never got in the chair. I asked one guy how it was after he was done, and he said something like it hurt about 3/4 of a full nut shot, but not too bad. WTF?

iPod: "Christmas Card" by Jimmy Eat World, "25" by Veruca Salt, "Drive All Over Town" by Elliott Smith, "Niagara" by Braid, "Slave" by Weezer and "Feather Pluckin" by The Presidents of the United States of America.

That's Curious

My Mormon boss just left for the day. Early. I looked at the clock as he walked out the door, and it said "4:20."

Hmmmmmmm.......

At least I can stop pretending to work now.

iPod: "A Fond Farewell" by Elliott Smith.

Bully

I can't think of anything current to write, so I'm going back into the past. It's also an effort to draw my friend Jade out of her cyber silence. I'm not sure if she even reads the site anymore. I don't look too closely at my Sitemeter stats because 90% of my visitors are looking for Jill Wagner. Thanks to that bony, annoying car spokesmodel I have over 30,000 visits to the site. I wish it were 300 visits from people who want to read what I have to say and who play the Brain Squeeze instead, but what are you gonna do?

Anyway, I wasn't a total nerd/outcast growing up, but I was always on the periphery. I was nice, and probably a little meek. Luckily, the only time I was victimized by a bully was in 5th grade. He was a gruff, strong, inarticulate brute by the name of Stephen Thibeau. (I already Googled the name, so save yourself the futile effort of discovering something about my past.) He never beat me up, but he routinely intimidated me. My last name is an easy target for ridicule, and he came up with a really stupid nickname for me that, while it involved my last name, did so in a very non-obvious, non-clever way. It was more the way he said it that was effective. I can't really remember anything specific he did to me, like stealing my things or making me lick the floor, but there are a couple things I remember vividly about him:

1. In elementary school, probably 4th grade, all the kids in the grade released balloons with post cards attached to them. The post card had each child's name and the school's address so that whoever found the balloon could mail the post card back and indicate where the balloon had been found. Mine was never found, but Stephen's was sent back from the furthest location. I resented him for that a bit because I felt a dumb kid like him was unworthy of that honor. You can't expect mature thinking from a 4th grader.

2. He LOVED Michael Jackson. I mean idolized him. He sometimes wore a fedora hat to school like Michael's. He talked about how Michael was the best dancer in the world. His Jacko worship always confused me because he was such a surly bastard otherwise. Seriously, he was. You're all probably thinking that I was such a wimp that I was bullied by the local Michael Jackson impersonator, but really he was a tough, scary kid. Jade, back me up on this, please!

iPod: "Weekapaug Groove (live)" by Phish, "Stratford-on-Guy" by Liz Phair, "Message in a Bottle" by The Police, "Depression Day Dinner" by The Dead Milkmen, "Undone (The Sweater Song)" by Weezer, "Times Like These" by Foo Fighters and "Long Road" by Pearl Jam.