Great Moments in Failure: The Superbowl
February 4th, 2009 § 1 Comment
So, the Superbowl had a slew of “Fail” moments, more than any one blog post could possibly handle. Let’s begin:
Number 1. The most obvious failure was Kurt Warner and the Arizona Cardinals losing the game. They had a lead right at the end of the game thanks to an amazing performance by Larry Fitzgerald, but somehow the pressure of actually being able to win the game was too much for the Cardinals. When the Steeler’s offense came on to the field, it looked as if the Cardinals forgot they were playing American Football and instead thought they were playing a sport they were completely unfamiliar with [like Tiddlywinks or something like that]. An epic reception by Santonio Holmes won the Steelers the game, and earned Holmes the MVP award.
Cardinals = Fail.
2. The half-time show, starring the decaying Bruce Springsteen. His show, though I didn’t catch all of it, was odd. I felt like Springsteen didn’t belong in the Halftime show. Watch this video now: Crotch Fail : This is why “Classic Rock” stars, should stay in their genre…
Bruce Springsteen’s Crotch = Fail.
3. Something not a lot of people saw on the Superbowl, was porn. Yep, naked, dirty porno. The only people to see this were people who have ComCast television service and who live in the Arizona area. Apparently, right after Larry Fitzgerald scored the potentially game winning touchdown for the Cardinals, roughly 45 seconds of porn was sent to these customers. Now, this is hilarious and I think that it’s a total ploy for ratings because something “outrageous” has to happen during every Superbowl, but I’m mad that this was only in Arizona. Do you know how funny it would’ve been if 45 seconds of that guy’s package was sent all over the United States? My God…he’d be even richer, possibly the most famous male pornstar since Ron Jeremy.
Arizona TV Stations = No Fail.
The Superbowl this year…sort of was a let down. It was only interesting in the last 5 minutes of the last quarter. I almost stopped watching, but good thing I didn’t.
Cody
Getting Less Than You Pay For
February 2nd, 2009 § 2 Comments
So I received an email this morning from the president of Virginia Wesleyan announcing that next year [2009-2010] is going to be more expensive. My first response is too explicit to write in the confines of this blog, but let your mind wander.
Anyway, apparently the “Board of Trustees” which I am going to rename to the “Board of RichPowerDouchebags” has decided that Wesleyan isn’t quite expensive enough as it is, so they’ve 1up‘d all the students at VWC by raising the cost to the tune of an extra $2,000-3,000 a year.
The is my "Are You Friggin Serious" face.
So if you haven’t realized quite yet, I’m pissed/livid/irate/strongly-considering-transferring[even m0re]. Why would I want to pay even more money when I don’t quite feel like the money I’m paying already is worth it. I mean, we just now got a working library, or atleast a library worthy of being called one. Here is my reaction to the new library:
“Sweet! New library! Oh wait, when I walk in there aren’t any books? Oh…so I have to go somewhere else to get the books that my college should already have? Oh okay, well atleast I have Wi-Fi! Oh…I don’t have Wi-Fi? Well…where is my money going?”
Apparently it’s going to everything that I don’t participate in, which is just as well I guess. So…I very well may be leaving the halls of Virginia Wesleyan because this school is not going to break my bank before I even have a bank to bank in.
Well, this isn’t going to ruin my day.
Cody
A Fray-ed Perspective
February 1st, 2009 § Leave a Comment
So, despite having a front man who looks like the kid from the Bully video game [made by Rockstar Games..ironic...], the Fray is a great band. I mean, you’d have to be a good band to have your song be the anthem for such a phenomenal show as Grey’s Anatomy. 
All sarcastic humor aside, the Fray are legitmately a very talented band. And it’s Piano-Rock…which is apparently my new favorite genre of music. Their debut CD How To Save A Life, was really well put together for a band that not many people outside, of the Denver, Colorado area, had even heard of.
Their new single “You Found Me”, off of their new self-titled album, is really good. It’s almost uplifting if you want to go that far.
I’m trying to figure out if the song is about the lead singer’s search for God or some sort of higher power, or he is just masking what he really means [as most "artists" do]. I mean, the song is slightly ambiguous in it’s message. He could be referring to a woman who helped him in his life, a friend, a parent, it literally could be anyone. Or it could be about a spiritual search, that ended well [I believe].
I honestly don’t care how ambiguous the song is because that is the measure of a good piece of work. If people can’t come to agree on what you meant when you said something, they’ll talk about it for a long time, thus, you’ll be remembered for a long time. Although…I doubt the members of the Fray are shooting for that through this song.
Their new album comes out Tuesday, February 3. [TWO DAYS AWAY!]
More later.
Cody.
