FAN UP

The facade is over. I don't think we should be allowed to talk about how we're the best fans in the world anymore. We're not. At all.

You know how I know? I went to the game last night. It was game 4 of the first round, the Jazz were down three games to none and on the brink of elimination. That's when those so called "fans" need to step up. They didn't. Tip off was at 6 PM, which is a little early, but the game was nationally televised on TNT and they had to fit two west coast games in last night. So it was a little earlier than the usual 7 PM start, but that's of little matter.

It's a playoff game and when tickets went on sale last week for games three and four, lower bowl seats were around $140 a piece. I bought a lower bowl seat yesterday afternoon for $40. Season ticket holders were having a hard time GIVING these seats away.

I've said some harsh things about the Jazz (CJ Miles and Raja Bell in particular) this year, but that's because I love the team and want to see them succeed. I made it a point to be at the game and in my seats for the opening tip-off and I was. I couldn't say the same for most of the rest of Energy Solutions Arena, though.

Best fans in the league.

I took this picture with 7:10 left in the first quarter. How pathetic does that look? The arena is barely 1/2 full, if that. About midway through the second quarter, the place was a little more full but still not at capacity. The game went on and the Jazz kept it close for a bit, but then towards the end of the third quarter, the Spurs went on a run and before anyone knew it, we were down by 20. A few people grabbed their stuff and headed for the exits.

Then things started happening. DeMare Carroll started playing hard (and pretty much gave them a spark they needed), Favors, Millsap and Jefferson all got back into it and suddenly, we were on a little bit of a run and just as quickly as we got behind big, we were right back within 4. Less than a minute left and only down by 4. It's still a long ways away from winning the 4 straight games we needed to advance, but at least it looked like we might not get swept and embarrassed completely.

The problem was, that a lot of people were gone already and more people were leaving every second. There was a long delay while the refs looked at a replay that would give the Jazz the ball back for a chance to pull within two. While that was going on, more and more people were leaving. The jazz got the ball back, but immediately squandered the opportunity and Manu Ginobili hit a wide open, fast break layup to put the Spurs back up by six with 18 seconds left.

That's when the whole building emptied out. With 18 seconds left.

You're telling me that we're the best fans in the world and we love this team and all that but we can't sit in our seats for 18 more seconds? Are you kidding me?

When time ran out and we'd been swept out of the playoffs we weren't even supposed to be in, against a team that is probably the heavy favorite to win the NBA title, some fans started booing. They were booing their own team, for the second time in as many games (because that happened at the end of game 3, too).

Best fans in the world? Please.

You can't bother to show up on time or stay for an entire playoff game. Stop kidding yourselves.

RANDOM JAZZ NOTES

• Raja Bell is pissed because he didn't play the entire postseason and barely played at all the second half of the year. Raja Bell also thinks he's still the same great player he was the last time he was on the Jazz and the first few years he was in Phoenix. He's not. He also said he was willing to do whatever the Jazz organization asked of him and be professional about it. Corbin basically asked him to sit on the bench and not do anything. Then any time Bell was asked about it, he complained and said he didn't want to play for the Jazz anymore but in the same breath said he wouldn't ask for a trade, but kept heavily insisting on it. Really glad we gave him that 3 year contract. I bet we can get a lot for him in the offseason.
• The CJ Miles era (hopefully) ended last night. He said this morning that Corbin did a poor job communicating with him and he never knew what was expected of him this year. I don't play professional basketball, so I can't exactly speak for the coach, but my guess would be that pretty much all that was expected of CJ Miles was to play hard, not take dumb shots, actually play defense and maybe try to live up to some of that "potential" we've been hearing about for the past six years. Since he did none of that, Corbin put in people (like Alec Burks and DeMare Carroll) that did the things they were supposed to do—probably without having to be specifically instructed to do so like Miles apparently needed.
• I love Paul Millsap, but I hate that he's fantastic for about 2.5 quarters and totally replaceable for the other quarter and a half. With the way Favors played during the playoffs and the 15 million Jefferson is owed next year, Millsap will either have to learn a few new moves and shift to small forward (where he'll have to play like/guard Melo and LeBron) or he'll be gone when the season starts. I love him to death, but I can't decide which is a better option.
• I have no idea what we're supposed to do with Devin Harris. Neither does Devin Harris.
• I'm afraid that Gordon Hayward is becoming the new CJ Miles. I hope that's not the case, but the evidence is there—one or two great games followed by one or two really, really bad ones.
• DeMare Carroll said that the Jazz are picking up his option for next season. I'm totally okay with this.
• I hated the idea of Jamaal Tinsley on the team, but now I really like it. I think he'd be great to have as the number two PG. But that also means I'm okay with getting rid of Earl Watson, which I think I am.
• Josh Howard is in the same boat as Devin Harris.
• Enes Kanter and Alec Burks will be really good. I just hope they're both still on this team when that time comes.
• Corbin also said that Sloan has had enough time off that he'll reach out and see if he wants to be involved with the Jazz in some capacity. I say we give him Kevin O'Connor's job. Unless Vinny Del Negro or Scott Brooks gets fired after next round and Sloan takes either of those jobs. Because then I'll be a full fledged Clippers or Thunder fan.

And with that, we'll see you next year.

Also, I've still got a few LONG LIVE SLOAN shirts left in case you still wanted to get in on that.

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HALF-ASSED REVIEW - APRIL

Remember when I wrote that I had a bunch of posts written and stored up? That way I could save time, and write when I had the chance and still be able to post something each day?

Well, I got too comfortable with that and just started relying on the stuff I'd already written. Also, I re-watched THE WIRE. I was just going to do an episode a day and stretch it out for a while, but I forgot how good it is and ended up burning through all five seasons pretty quickly at a pace of two or three a day.

Also, I saw a whole bunch of movies in April and thought I'd let you know what I think. I'm sure you're all dying to know.

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN - I really like both Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor, but I don't care at all about fishing. There wasn't anything inherently wrong with this movie, because Blunt and McGregor were both great in it, but it was just really, really boring. Also, I've never been in a movie theater as cold as this one in my entire life. Most theaters are always a little cold, I think, but this one was like it didn't have a roof on it and there was a draft the entire time. I couldn't get comfortable. That lessened my enjoyment of the movie, because I'm a 70 year old woman.

THIN ICE - Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin and Billy Crudup had a little Coen Brothers-esque thing going for them. It wasn't great, but I was intrigued once things started moving along. The third act kicked in and it seemed like things were really going to ramp up and we'd start seeing some payoffs. Then the projector broke and the house lights came on. The lady at the Broadway came in and said it would be ten minutes before they could get things back up and running. Ten minutes later, she came back and said it would be more like an hour. We all decided that was too long, so we were all given a free pass to come back another day and went home. That following Friday, when all the new movies came out, THIN ICE was gone. I never saw how it ended, and while I'm not incredibly heartbroken, I'm still a little curious. I probably won't ever go out of my way to catch the end of it, but hopefully someday it'll pop up on HBO one night and I'll be able to finish it. Now if that's not a glowing review, I don't know what is.

CABIN IN THE WOODS - I've written before about how I'm always weary of movies that take forever to actually get made, how there has to be something wrong with them for it to languish in development hell for so long before finally getting underway. I'm usually right, too. So the fact that CABIN IN THE WOODS was written, shot, edited and finished nearly three years ago and has been sitting on the shelf collecting dust was a real red flag. So I went in skeptical.

As it turns out, there were a number of factors in why CABIN IN THE WOODS was so delayed. First, was the financial problems of the studio that originally produced it, MGM. Second, and more understandable than the confusion of the MGM fiasco, was the fact that no one was really sure how to market it. Third, once it had been put off for that long, what was another few months to give it a little extra push. Joss Whedon, the guy that wrote and produced CABIN IN THE WOODS and one of its stars, Chris Hemsworth, have another little movie opening at the beginning of May called THE AVENGERS. Why not put it out close to that and ride some extra publicity since those two are already going to be on the press path. Smart move.

I don't want to say too much about CABIN IN THE WOODS, because the less you know, the better. I will say this though. I loved it. However, if you don't have a sense of humor and a little bit of smarts, you probably won't. It's definitely a movie that you have to "get" and there were a few people that didn't that ended up hating it. I am not one of them. It was fantastic.

THE RAID: REDEMPTION - This movie has been getting a lot of attention on the festival circuit this year and with good reason. It. Was. Awesome. ( I write really well-crafted, thought-provoking reviews here, don't I?) Action packed from beginning to end, it had heart to go along with it. It also had plot points you could telegraph from a mile away, but still. When I was younger, I never cared much for martial arts movies, but they've gotten better and more inventive over the years and I've come around. This might not make its way on to my year end, best-of list, but it won't be too far removed from it either.

JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME - The Duplass Brothers have turned mumblecore into an art form. Granted, I'm the guy that doesn't "get" a lot of art forms, so to me, mumblecore is just another bullshit genre that I don't much care about. Having said that, JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME was a step above their last movie, CYRUS. Both movies have casts that I loved, but this time around they signed up Jason Segel and Ed Helms. Both of those guys are great comedic actors, and it seems like this time, Mark and Jay Duplass just kind of left them alone. In CYRUS, it seemed like they tried too hard to subdue John C. Reilly and Jonah Hill which didn't really work. Here, they just let it ride and they got a more enjoyable movie out of it.

LOCKOUT - I didn't really want to see this, but I really wanted to see it. Luc Besson has had his hands in some terrible, terrible movies over the past few years, but I'm always hoping for another TAKEN. Haven't gotten it yet. Guy Pearce is too good of an actor for this and for some reason, everything in the space prison that he and Maggie Grace are stuck on is made of thin aluminum that can be torn apart with bare hands. Also, it's 2079 and technology is super advanced, but they're still working with guns that need to be reloaded and no one has any inkling of how to hit a target. Also, the thin metal walls that can be ripped apart with hands? Totally not susceptible to bullets. They just bounce off. It was bad. And not bad in an entertaining way, either. Just plain bad.

ADVENTURES IN SPACE

This is Jake Jackson. Or at least I think it is. It might be. It probably is.

Stay tuned.

ON PREQUELS

PROMETHEUS is at the top of the list for movies I want to see this year. I've read a couple of things today that make me more excited and this quote from co-writer Damon Lindelof is one of them.

“The thing about a prequel is, as fascinating as it may to watch Anakin turn to the dark side of the Force, there’s an inevitability to it. You know when you go in the prequel can only cover A to Y and then Z is gonna be the preexisting material. You can’t end it in an exciting or surprising way. You can only end it in the inevitable way. When I went to go see The Thing prequel, for example, I’m assuming this movie is going to be the sequence of events that led up to a dog being infected by the Thing and then being chased by a helicopter across the frozen tundra — because I know then what happens next because I saw The Thing. And that’s exactly what it was. On a certain level, you’re satisfied because if you’re calling a movie a prequel, that’s what you’re expecting. On another level, you sort of walk out going, 'Boy I wish there was a little bit more room for me to not exactly know what I was walking into.' In my opinion, in order to define Prometheus as a prequel, Is it set in the Alien universe? If you just watch the teaser trailer, and you see how the word Prometheus reveals itself or look at the production design, you don’t need me to tell you anything. So then the next question is: Is it a prequel to Alien? To that, I can’t really answer the question because my definition of prequel, the A-to-Y definition, I hope it’s not. I hope that this movie can be surprising. The ending of this movie; the sequel to Prometheus is not Alien. The sequel to Prometheus, if it does well and people like it, would be another movie that goes off in its own direction, that runs tangential to Alien.”

This gives me more hope than it probably should, but I just have extremely high hopes here.

CAINE'S ARCADE

Sometimes you browse the Internet and you find things that just upset you. Other times, but far less often, you find something that just makes your day.

This is the latter.


Caine's Arcade from Nirvan Mullick on Vimeo.

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Ian Mackaye has been punk as fuck for half a century and counting.

IT WAS A GOOD DAY

Finally, someone has gotten to the bottom of a mystery that's been haunting popular culture for twenty years.

We now know the exact date of Ice Cube's "good day."

This is what the Internet was invented for. So thank you for that, Al Gore.

Of course, someone actually asked Ice Cube about this and ruined the fun because he was forced to give an actual answer, but still. I'm glad someone took the time to get this done.

From Murk Avenue

CLUE 1: 
“went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS”

Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988

CLUE 2: 
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993

CLUE 3:
"The Lakers beat the Super Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6, 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23, 1993 where the Lakers beat the Super Sonics:

Nov 11 1988 114-103
Nov 30 1988 110-106
Apr 4 1989 115-97
Apr 23 1989 121-117
Jan 17 1990 100-90
Feb 28 1990 112-107
Mar 25 1990 116-94
Apr 17 1990 102-101
Jan 18 1991 105-96
Mar 24 1991 113-96
Apr 21 1991 103-100
Jan 20 1992 116-110

CLUE 4: 
Dates of Laker wins over SuperSonics where it was a clear day with no Smog:
Nov 30 1988
Apr 4 1989
Jan 18 1991
Jan 20 1992

CLUE 5: 
“Got a beep from Kim, and she can fuck all night”

Beepers weren’t adopted by mobile phone companies until the 1990s. Dates left where mobile beepers were availible to public:
Jan 18 1991
Jan 20 1992

CLUE 6: 
Ice Cube starred in the film “Boyz in the Hood” that released late Summer of 1991, but was being filmed mid/late 1990 to early 1991. Ice Cube was busy/on set filming the movie Jan 18 1991, too busy to be lounging around the streets with no plans.

Ladies and Gentlemen...

The ONLY day where: Yo MTV Raps was on air, it was a clear and smogless day, beepers were commercially sold, the Lakers beat the SuperSonics and Ice Cube had no events to attend was…

JANUARY 20 1992
National Good Day Day

-Donovan

MY FRIENDS OVER YOU - BLOOM IN SATURATION

I know very, very little about fashion and I know absolutely nothing about makeup. Neither of those things speak to me the way they do to others and it usually sounds like someone mumbling gibberish in a foreign language when I overhear a conversation about it.

What I do know a bit about is passion. I love when someone has a passion for something and puts all their heart and soul into it. I may not be able to relate to the exact thing they're referring to, but I love that they get so into it. It makes me happy.

That's how my friend Stephanie feels about both makeup and fashion. She has a passion for it that is almost unparalleled.  We met when I started working at Happy Sumo back in 2006 and we immediately hit it off talking about movies, comic books and other stuff. What mostly struck me was her knowledge of comics, though. As silly as it sounds, when a girl knows about comics, reads them and can actually carry on a conversation about them, they immediately become one of my favorite people.  Stephanie is no exception. She uprooted her life in Salt Lake City last year and moved away to Arizona and sounds like she's doing okay for herself.

Before she left, when she was working the MAC counter at Nordstrom, she started a blog. It took her a little while to figure out what she wanted to do with it, but once she did, it turned into a fantastic mix of tutorials, tips and everything else you could want from a fashion blog.

She also knows a thing or two about baking and is an excellent photographer which make her blog a lot of fun to search through even if you're not all about her primary influence. And I won't lie, it doesn't hurt that she's pretty easy on the eyes, either.

So, ladies, do yourself a favor and head over to her blog, Bloom in Saturation, and pick up a few tips from a professional. And gentlemen, just head over and look around. Maybe you'll find a gift for your GF's birthday or you might even learn a few things about your wardrobe from a female perspective.

Just don't ask me for her phone number. Not gonna happen.

B L O O M  IN  S A T U R A T I O N

WEDNESDAY WARRIOR

I used to have a problem. It wasn't a bad problem to have because I loved it. Still do, but the older I get the more I realize that it is a bit of a hassle.

Comic books.

I love them. They're fun, exciting, oftentimes brilliant and many other things. They're also horrible. Horrible in the fact that they take up so much room. I was housesitting for my parents a few weeks ago, walked down to the basement and it all came back to me. There they were, 27 boxes full of comics stacked off to the side against a wall. Most of them in order, but a few boxes that had yet to be organized.

I made the decision that it was time for some of them to go. I don't plan on giving up on comics all together, but I'm making the switch to reading more digitally and buying more collected editions. I'll still hit the comic shop every wednesday, but my weekly buy pile is down from $30 (which it was when I started) to about $10. And that's on a big week. I've stepped away from the big superhero stuff because of too many tie-ins, events, crossovers and what not to buying a lot more creator-owned stuff. No real reason than it's gotten to the point where I want to read what a writer has to say with their own creation as opposed to using Thor or Green Lantern.

The occasional superhero book still works its way into my hold every so often, so I'm not condemning the genre or anything, it's just that I'm bored with what's going on in them. There's always the chance that something will catch my interest and I'll be back in at any point, but hopefully by then the big two of Marvel and DC will have figured out a better system for digital, because as it stands now, buying a book on my iPad costs the same as buying a physical copy in the store, and if that's the case, I'd rather support the guys at Dr. Volt's and Black Cat rather than ComiXology.

My plan is to buy a lot of creator-owned books that need the support from actual shops, but that's not a great many. Occasionally, I'll double dip and buy single issues and the collected editions, provided they look as good as they can. CRIMINAL is the perfect example. I love reading the individual issues, but Brubaker and Phillips have made it a point to put out a collection that's just too awesome to pass up. More things like that, and I'll be buying a lot more hardcovers.

But I digress. This post is supposed to be about how I went through all my long and short boxes and catalogued every comic I own. The decision that I came to is that I'm trying to get rid of most of them. There are a few runs that I probably won't be able to part with because they're not collected as well as I'd like and I may want to re-read them someday (i.e. Geoff Johns' FLASH run). Other than a select few, pretty much everything is available.

And by 'available' I mean, I'm selling them. I can't just give these to you. That would be ridiculous. But if you're interested, hit the jump and check out the full list of what I've got. If there's anything of interest to you, drop me an email and we'll talk.

It's not the greatest collection ever, but it's pretty good. It's kept me entertained for the better part of ten years.

ONE DAY AS A LION

My mom used to know a guy that kept a lion as a pet. He lived up in the Midway/Heber/Park City area and he used to put it in the back of his pick-up truck and take it with him to the grocery store. I would have loved to see that.

He also had a huge farm with lots of hired hands helping him maintain it. Then something happened, he went crazy, started killing the workers and burying them on his land. I think he's still in prison. I can't remember his name or what happened to the lion. I watched a 20/20 special about him that my uncle had taped (VHS style), but I don't remember the details.

That's what I think about when I see these photos.

But this isn't him or his family. It's someone else that kept a lion as a pet, which would be amazing but completely and utterly stressful.

The rest of the photoset is here.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, COACH

Coach Sloan turns 70 today.

He's one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time and if Deron Williams hadn't been such a cry-baby and Greg Miller cared as much about running an NBA team as he does about car dealerships, prompt lunch meetings and Internet-bullying, he might still be around today.

But he's not. Coach Corbin (who I respect and think is doing a great job with a deeply flawed roster) took his place, but it's still strange to see him roaming the sidelines instead of the old guy with the silver hair and penchant for calling referees a "cocksucker".

When Sloan retired, I had these shirts printed up in his honor and I've still got a few of them left, so what better way to celebrate than by wearing a shirt of the man that made the Utah Jazz a relevant basketball program for so many years.

Long Live Sloan.

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MIXED

My friends have been on a Land Rover kick lately, buying up old ones for the winter while their motorcycles hibernate until the days it's nice enough to haul them out (which has been kind of a lot this "winter").

Brook's has a tape deck in it, so he asked if I had any old cassettes sitting around that he could borrow. Of course I did, because for some reason I can't seem to get rid of shit like that. Though they were all sitting in parents basement, that way I could still have them but not actually have to deal with them. Sorry Mom and Dad.

Anyway, I went up there a few weeks ago and grabbed the box that I could find. I know there's another one somewhere up there, because it's the box that has the original Rhythm and Rhymes (a story for another day) recordings. I just didn't have time to look for it.

I did find these gems though. There's a nice mixture of all the ones I made in high school when I'd take my Walkman to school, run the headphones up the back of my shirt and sit with my long hair over my ears to conceal the earbuds. That way I could listen to "The FAT Mix" (FAT WRECK CHORDS bands), Nirvana, Pearl Jam and AFI while we learned about geography. There are also the ones I made right after I got into buying records (none of which I have anymore) and actually wanted to listen to them without owning a record player. Luckily my parents had a humungous stereo with a turntable and dual cassette deck that made things a lot easier.

I used to be great at making mix tapes. I still am, but they lose a lot of their luster when they're done digitally. But since tapes are making a comeback (like all things that died for a reason), maybe I'll get back in to it. I've still got a closet full of CD's and stereo with a working tape player somewhere.

HOME VIDEO LIBRARY

YouTube might be the greatest invention of the Internet.

It's become something where embarrassing videos just seem to show up whether you want them to or not. I'm sure it's only a matter of time until the video of me pretending to be He-Man when I was three is posted or my first band, Renaldo and the Smoothies, covering "Day Tripper", "Polly" and "Wild Thing" when I was 15 surfaces online. Me singing, nonetheless. And yes, it's just as bad as it sounds.

Videos like that have a tendency to surface whether you want them to or not.

My friend Colin posted on Twitter one morning that he was listening to my old band Cherem, which sparked a conversation. He told me that some friends of his made a video for the song "I Hate George Bush" that we did with our MC friend Foekus back in 2003 and I immediately knew I needed to see it.

That song was never supposed to become as popular as it did. But that's the way things always work.

Foekus was at a show one night and after our set was done, people were asking for another song. Bill said that we'd play one more if he came up and rapped over it. We were a vegan straight edge band and he was a vegan straight edge MC, so it seemed like a good idea and maybe we'd have some fun with it. He came up, did some freestyle over the top of a track called "Playing Victim" that Bill didn't really like singing, and the place went crazy. We started getting asked to do it at every show after that, and we did, because it was fun.

When we went in to the studio to record a few months later, we came up with the idea to have Foekus record his part and Bill record his part and put out a 7" with both versions of the song (which we did) and then add the Foekus track as the secret song on the actual CD (which we also did).

We had no idea that people were going to respond so heavily to that song. We thought it was fun to do and were kind of taken aback when it gained steam, never intending for anyone outside of Salt Lake to hear it. But then we had a 7" and it was on our self-pressed CD that we were actually selling to people in other states and it kind of went from there. We ended up taking Foekus on tour with us a couple of times and he showed up at a few shows in California we played and people loved it.

Honestly, we thought that if anyone outside of SLC heard that track and didn't know that it was written/recorded/performed all in good fun, we'd be the laughing stock of hardcore.

As I was watching this video, I was laughing so hard I nearly cried. It's so ridiculous (both the song and the video), but I'm still so happy that we did it. I'm even happier that these two dudes that I don't know liked this song enough to make their own music video for it, that they took time out of their day to have as much fun with it as we did.

And that's what it was all about.

BADASS DUDES TALKING ABOUT BADASS STUFF

Back in the heyday of Grudge City Activities, Casey and I decided that we wanted to start a podcast. We had no real radio skills or equipment to do such a thing, but that's the beauty of podcasts—any idiot with a microphone and an internet connection can do one. We had both of those things, so we did.

We recruited Dan Fletcher to do it with us and soon after he moved away to NYC (where he still is) we brought in our buddy Sias aka Cuatro to take his place. We got a solid years worth of podcasts done before we all kind of got bored or busy. The GCA website slowed down a bunch after that too, so there wasn't much reason for us to keep on keeping on.

We still had all the equipment and Casey and I talked about starting another one up, but just never got around to it. I broke everything out for a SLCFF podcast around this time last year, but even that was short lived.

Then, somewhere around Thanksgiving of 2011, Richard (who had done one episode of the GCAcast with us) and Casey decided they were going to start a new one. They added me on as a "producer"and recruited Fernando for the first episode. My role was basically to set everything up, edit the thing and "check facts" as they spouted off ridiculous things one after another. My only stipulation for that was that Casey had to be in charge of the website and finding a place to host them. If I was going to do all the work of editing them, the least he could do was make sure people heard them.

He agreed and we recorded the first one the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. I had it edited within a week and sent it off to Casey.

About a month and half later, they wanted to record another one. I asked what happened to the first one and Casey told me he wanted to get a few in the can before he posted them so we could keep a regular schedule. Once we had a couple of them done, we'd start posting every couple of weeks. I edited that one together and had it done around the beginning of February.

Two weeks ago I posted the first one on my Soundcloud page. Yesterday I took it down and posted the second one.

Casey's been planning his wedding recently (well, he's been planning it in his head for 10-15 years, but now he actually has the proper requirements like a fiance) and that's taken up most of his time. Also, (and mostly) he just doesn't want to do it. He's compulsive and comes up with awesome ideas, but has very little followthrough. So I stepped up, created a bullshit Tumblr page for it and started posting them.

I doubt we'll ever get to an Episode 3, but the first two are available right now. Go check them out and give them a listen.

We came up with the simplest name possible: Bad Ass Dudes Talking About Bad Ass Stuff

Enjoy.

Episode 2 - Stream or Download - Soundcloud.com/trevorhale

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