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I saw the new QUAD G5 and it is super cool, although kinda pricey starting at $3299. I thought that it was kinda funny that the new MAC machines will be running Intel processors by next year and this Christmas the new Microsoft Xbox will running a triple core PowerPC processor.

If the new Xbox is basicly a super kick ass fast PC with a triple core processor and a video card on steroids costing $399, why am I paying $1200 for a computer?

Alanna and I went to the Nada Surf show last friday at Bimbos. They were great to see and very chatty with the audience. They missed sound check so the sound was a bit wacky. Sometimes the backing vocals were louder than the lead. Maybe I am picky.

Highlights would be Ira fucking up while telling a political joke. Matt catching someone yelling “Fuck Yeah” in middle of a song and then putting that into the lyrics for the rest of the song and Daniels wonderful ability to smoke and sing backups at the same time. Very rock n roll.

I hope to see them when they are back in town in March.

Althought Ira fucked up the joke at the SF concert it was almost funnier when he fucked it up.

President Bush is in the oval office with Condi Rice and Donald Rumsfeld.
Rice informs the president that 2 Brazillian people were killed in Iraq that day.
The president get an extremely agitated and worried look on his face. Rice and
Rumsfeld ask him what is wrong and he says:

How many is a brazillian?

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven. By day the hot sun fermented us; and we were dizzied by the beating wind. At night we were stained by dew, and shamed into pettiness by the innumerable silences of the stars. We were a self-centered army without parade or gesture, devoted to freedom, the second of man’s creeds, a purpose so ravenouse that it devoured all our strength, a hope so transcendent that our earlier ambitions faded in its glare.

As time went by our need to fight for the ideal increased to an unquestioning possession, riding with spur and rein over our doubts. Willy-nilly it became a faith. We had sold ourselves into its slavery, manacled ourselves together in its chain-gang, bowed ourselves to serve its holiness with our good and ill content. The mentality of ordinary human slaves is terrible – they have lost the world – and we had surrendered, not body alone, but soul to the over-mastering greed of victory. By our own act we were drained of morality, of volition, of responsibility, like dead leaves in the wind.

My band is having its first show this friday. We are pretty excited. As of now we have four shows lined up in the next couple of months. Now if we could only get off our asses and write and record some new stuff. Oh wait that is my job.

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

Theodore Roosevelt – 1918