Yes. I am 25. Yes I am a child of the 90’s. I believe, and have believed for some time that these are to be watched in no particular order prior to the opening of any presents. The purpose of holiday movies is to remind you of family and transport you to a simpler time. Hence i may appear as an 8 year old.

Home Alone 1 and 2
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Santa Clause
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer (on VHS w/ commercials)
A Garfield Christmas
Jingle All The Way - Family Arnold at his best.
Frosty the Snowman (on VHS w/ commercials)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Elf
Scrooged
Nightmare Before Christmas
Ernest Saves Christmas (feel free to substitute with any other Ernest movie if need be.)
A Charlie Brown Christmas

A Christmas Story - Undeniably Unbeatably the Definitive Christmas Movie.

Merry Christmas everyone, may you find comfort in lifes worst times and rise above them with grace.

Ps. Yes i will be posting again.

So it’s my new browser. Functionally its a lot like firefox. It’s fast. It’s slick, and totaly usable. It’s still in beta, but it’s looking like a pretty solid release. No plugins yet, but i can deal. It was very nice to my FF and imported everything i needed quick. I don’t need to theme it, it looks pretty nice, and the “about:” tricks are neat. Some of them i may even use. IRL yo. The task manager is awesome. Hiding Bookmarks is awesome. 

Download Chrome. 

holy shit this is going to be hilllllarious.

wooooo

Back Burner

So in our fight to get off comcast services, we’ve made another step to getting completely to free IPTV.

Downgraded to the basic $12 package and threw my new $265 refurb dell tower behind the flat screen and am using the following:

Netflix Watch Now (yea totally worth it.)
VLC + 1 TB NAS w/ movies and media on it
Itunes (vid podcasts / rentals)
Hulu / My Media Player
Joost (getting better!)
Veoh (still awesome)
Babelgum (mehhh)
Miro (still playing with it)
Moviesister.com + Movietvonline.com (dont download, watch)
TidalTV (meh)
Orb for remote viewing (absolute must)
Tight VNC for remote control via ipod touch
Slingbox

+ wireless keyboard / mouse = media happiness

It’s awesome. Yea, theres not a program that i have found yet that can aggregate all these programs, but its a really great alternative, i don’t miss cable at all.

I wish there were more plugins for XBMC so i could use that more. This is taking the place of the xbox right now.

There is a lot of programming out there, you don’t need your cable company, they need you.

I don’t like sports.

Yea, when i was younger, i played JV Soccer, Baseball, JV Basketball, but when i got into music i left that all behind. I think it taught me some important stuff, but whatever.

WHY AM I ADDICTED TO WATCHING THE OLYMPICS?

It’s not just because there’s nothing else on all night, cause i still haven’t watched Dr. horrible. It’s not because I’m bored cause there’s adult swim and 100+ other channels. Yea i also do a LOT of work at night too. It’s not that it makes me feel good about myself, because my torso sure as shit doesn’t look like Michael Phelps.

Yet somehow i found myself getting pumped over the women’s soccer match earlier this week and staying at work for an additional 50 mins to see the women’s volleyball team kick ass.

I guess i like seeing exceptional people do normal things exceptionally well.

The only thing i can think of is that there must be an underground olympics a la “Beerfest” that is cooler than what i am watching.

so i decided that i needed to hack my new phone the other day, its a RAZR v9 (04.C1 R263311_U_9C.13.37R3) for multiple reasons:

a) fuck you att, i am not a walking billboard
b) the default themes are crap
c) anything in the media-net-mall-whatever is even worse
d) i can’t be seen with a piece of equipment that is not modified in one way or another. that would be unacceptable. just unacceptable.

so luckily theres a huge community already developed around hacking moto devices and i gravitated towards modmymoto.com. They pretty much had everything i wanted. Here’s what i did.

I downloaded the following tools / file and basically followed this.

Seven 2.2a MP - Megapack for my version phone (Complete Firmware Replacement)
Moto Drivers - drivers needed
Flash & Backup 3 - to…flash…and…backup firmware
P2K_Commander - file manager and then some
RAZRv9 FB3 Profile - stuff you need for FB3 to see the v9

You put the phone in boot loader mode by starting with the phone off, then holding *, #, and the power button. It shows you the BL version and Firmware that is currently on the phone. If you want to transfer files or flash it, you change the usb connection mode to default to the data connection and plugin the usb cable to your phone and computer prior to turning it off. Fairly simple.

For some reason i was looking at stuff for the V3xx when i first started modding it. I was wondering why my flashes just rebooted the phone. heh. glad nothing bad happened.

So yea, just put the phone in BL mode, fire up B&F3 and load the v9 profile. Backup everything. Flash the file to the phone. Done. Use P2K Commander to look inside and add stuff (ringtones / pics)

Thats pretty much it, it was an interesting few hrs of learning. If i find anything really cool, i’ll put it up here.

Now i’m going to think about why i had to even go through this in the first place, and why cell phone companies make shitty themes.

This is a video my friend matt parra made for my band grindbox back when we were in high school.

one day i will be skinny again.

This is a listing of Webisodes i created with my last band, Lokata.

#1

#2

more vids and live vid after the break..

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Nothingface -Mega Twisted EVIL Raw Nu-metal for the masses.

If they can somehow capture the rawness and evil in “An audio guide to everyday atrocity” they may gain +5 listening status in my ipod. Word on the street is that they’re back with the lineup from violence (2000) and working on a new album. Some vids on their myspace.

Nothingface - Blue Skin (Live)

SICK OF ALL THE SHIT

You know what i’m talking about, thats right. NO MORE HELLYEAH.

Crossbreed - Electrocore with so much potential.

The coolest live show ever. Allow me to paint. Black lights, dudes wrapped in flashing fiber optic cords, glow in the dark contacts, keyboardists with grinders shooting sparks off the sides of their keyboards losing their minds in a sandstorm of confetti.

I accidentally stumbled on some old stuff of their on last.fm and ended up finding out that they not only released a full 7 song EP just a few yrs ago, but they also have 2 songs on their myspace that appear to be a sneak peak for a disc that was due in 07. Listen to End of Days, its a great song.

Crossbreed - Underlined

Flaw - “Watch me fall while i go down, i’m taking all you bastards to the ground with me dead or alive, all your fuckin whole life is systematic hype still means a bit much to me.”

I always dug this band. Despite the singer having a perpetual sadness in his voice. I guess they were five bolt main for a while, but now theyre on a digital label and ready to roll.

Flaw - Payback

TRUSTCompany - The band to bridge the emo-nu metal gap.

Yep, theyre back. From the looks of their myspace theyre doing a few shows here and there and they have 2 new songs on their myspace. Theyre pretty classic TC, lots of singing in that oh so familiar voice.

Check the new songs.

TRUSTCompany - Downfall

more to come…