Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!

Me, Chambers, Pat, Liam, Kyle, and Alex all went to Aussie Pink Floyd last night. It was insanely good. It was almost better than Roger Waters, and you couldn't really tell the difference between them and the real Pink Floyd, with some exceptions, but whatever.

They opened up with Shine on you Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V), the awesome 15 minute song from Wish you Were Here. From then on, it just got better. The next two were some of my favorites, Money, and Us and Them. Later on Sheep, Great Gig in the Sky, and some other hits. The lights were the best I have ever seen. They were crazy, Better than Waters and the Allman Brothers.

The Second Half was good too, Wish you Were here, Another Brick in the Wall (Part two), Time, and some other sweet ones. The encores were Hey You and the end song was Run like Hell. It was almost, almost, better than Roger. The greatest cover band of all time. A+.

Tenacious D

I went to go and see the Pick of Destiny with my dad last Saturday. It was not all it was cracked up to be. I thought it wasn't going to be that great, but I thought that it would be funny. It wasn't really either.

Michard's thoughts on Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny.

Wasn't that good. Let me just say that I'll give it a C+ right now. It had Jack Black in it so I thought it would be hilarious, but it wasn't that funny. They brought Meat Loaf and Dio in it, but it still wasn't that great. Every other word was fuck or cock. Yeah, not that cool. It's just sad, in a movie with Jack Black, I can't even remember 5 funny parts in the movie. And Alex brought up a good point when we were talking about Silvia, Jack Black is all about paying rent. In the PoD and in School of Rock. Thought I'd just share that. But back to the movie, I'd give it 3 or so stars.

Hendrix

Alright, I have a ton of homework so I am going to make this short and sweet. Today is the anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death. Probably the greatest guitar player ever, Hendrix literally revolutionized music and the way the wonderful instrument that is called a guitar is played. Many people try to take after this legend's style, but are unable to achieve it. Hat's off to Hendrix.

Arizona Part II

I'm back! After a long vacation in Arizona, I have finally come back to freezing New Hampshire.

AZ was awesome. It is totally different from NH. You cannot see a set of 10 consecutive trees there, instead there will be 100s of cacti. There are mountains literally everywhere you look. It's crazy.

Me, my mom and Erik flew into Tucson Friday night after around 8 or so hours of flying. We were picked up by my uncle Jeff and then drove to their mansion style home. It wasn't huge, but it was big. 3 bathroom 8 rooms, and best of all, a 60 inch HD Sony TV. It was wicked sweet. The whole TV was the size of my wingspan. Watching Ohio State Michigan was a blast.

The first couple of days, we just relaxed and got used to the time difference. It was weird, last Saturday, I went to bed at 9:00 there time (11:00 our time.) I went running with my Uncle Marty almost everyday and each time we went a different route. Every time we had to stop. The view was unreal. Wednesday we went mountain biking, and I ran into a cactus mountain biking with Erik and my two other uncles. I didn't have to get any needles pulled out, but Erik ran into one and had around 200 pulled out of just his hand. He had an extra 50 or so pulled out of his knee. Thursday, I did the turkey trot, a 5 K. My time was 23:30. Not that bad, around 7:40 miles.

On the way back, we stopped in Chicago. They have the best airport I've ever been to. They had two McDonald's there, around 3 cafes, more than half a dozen shops, it was awesome. My family stopped at Harry Carey's (who was the greatest Cubs announcer ever.) Food, great, although it was pricey. Then we got ice cream at Ben and Jerry's. It was sweet. (Pat, I didn't get a pin for you in AZ, but I got one for you in the airport in Chicago.)

It turned out to be the best vacation I've ever been on. Guys, we have to stop by Tucson on our road trip.

Arizona

Alright, I just want to tell everyone that I leave for Arizona tomorrow. That's right. A week without me, (Pat's probably really excited.) But, I'll bring all of you guys back some iced tea, and I'll try to get some pics up on my blog about the whole thing. I'm gonna run the Turkey Trot there which is an annual five mile race. I've been consistently running five miles everyday in training for this and have figured out that it's going to take me around 35 minutes. Not bad.
But this brings me to another point. Chambers is signing up for the Grand Canyon Backpacking Intersession at our school. All of us believe that one, he will not last an hour, and two, he's only doing this one because it's the most expensive one. Either way, he's not going to make it out alive....
Okay, I'll see you guys in a week! Except for W.
Peace.

Borat

Okay! I hopped on the band waggon. I now have a new tricked out blog. Even though it's pointless, since I'm not really going to be posting anymore.....oh well.
But more importantly, I saw Borat yesterday with the gang. Let me tell you, it was hilarious. I thought that it would be a little funnier, but it still was wicked good.
Michard's take on Borat:
This was a goodun. It was tons funnier than Taledaga Nights, the only other comedy I've seen this year. It was "Very nice." Sacha Cohen, (in Taledega, and also Da Ali G show) did well in this movie. The accent was near perfect. It fit the movie. I totally agree with the critics, who gave Borat four stars. I think it deserved four stars or more. I say go see it.
But there was some debate over this, was most of it staged, or was almost all of it unwritten and it just happened. Me, I think that most to all of the movie was staged. The Pamela Anderson scene had to be staged. And besides that, I think that the Running of the Jew, the end of the wrestling scene, and also the scene with gangsters were all staged and writen. I know that someone on the ride home, (either Lee or Patty, or Chambers,) said that they thought that the Pam scene was the only scene that had to be staged. But it doesn't really mater. The argument could go either way, and it was funny wether written or not. I give it at least a B+ or and A-.

Road Trip

I'm bored again in free period, so I'm blogging. But this tiem, it's actually important. Me and some others (Lee, Alex, Kyle, etc.) are going on a road trip next year to California. If anyone has anything they think we should bring, tell me. I already have a huge list but I need some other ideas