Today marked the death of my favorite radio station. Denver's 630 KHOW used to boast "a veriety of talk radio", but now their slogan might as well be "when Rush isn't on, tune to us". Here's the rundown. The Old KHOW: Peter Boyles - This guy knows what he is talking about, but is often boaring. Dr. Laura - I'm a closet Dr. Laura fan. Don't judge me...please. Tom Martino - Jackass, but good for his cause Redmond and Newman - Military-Savy Right-Leaning Bob Newman pairs with Denver's Liberal Hipster, Scott Redmond to make for a great show Phil Hendrie - Genious, although he should stay more comedy than politics Coast to Coast - Worthless Black Magic show, although the Philadelphia Project show was cool No now for the New KHOW Line-up: Peter Boyles - Still a good guy Tom Martino - Still a Jackass. No one wants to hear that voive early in the morning Bill O'Riley - Name speaks for itself Bob Newman - The Conservative half of the former duo, who when by himself turns into an ultra-conservative asshole, he used to fill in for Mike Rosen Caplis and Silverman - Conservative Attourney Dan Caplis goes head to head with Kobe Bryant Consultant: the super-annoying, weak, slight-left leaning Craig Silverman Dr. Laura - No one wants to learn about morals in prime time. Thats when we watch women jump across semi's in their bathing suits on Fear Factor and lisen to 1/2 hour of sex jokes on Friends re-runs. Coast to Coast - Still worthless So why did Clear Channel do this? 1) It's Clear Channel, so thats obvious and 2)KTLK 760am is now on the air out of Boulder broadcasting Air America Radio, and how dare they keep on personalities that lean left when they have a whole station dedicated to the left (less Phil Hendrie). Denver wouldn't be able to handle more than one station that had a liberal guy on, we'd probably implode, or move to Texas or start buying ketchup or something. Note that KTLK is Clear Channel's "fairness token" that they can now hold in the air when anyone accuses them of favoring one side. The "UPN" of radio, really. So, not to make this post long, I'll just say that I'm glad Air America is finally in Denver (760), and so long to 630 which is now another worthless drone radio station. Congradulations. Oh, and a new mp3 of the week.
I recently bought 3 EP's by Ben Folds. You can order then on attackedbyplastic.com. I have been quite impressed by all three and would highly recommend them to anyone who like any of Folds' work. The fascinating thing about them, is that he put them all out on his own label (attacked by plastic) and they are not sold in stores. You can only ge them on the site. I think I'm a big fan of this, because of all the crap that artists say they have to put up with from their labels. I think I would be fine ordering all my music from known artists from their websites instead of best buy, especially if it was at the same price or less. What do you think, would you be upset or pleased if your favorite artists sold their music exclusively on their own websites? Thats right /mark readers, I'm asking you a question. It's not a very good question, but at least I'm posting, right? So on the newest Folds' release, "SUPER D", there is a joke printed on the CD itself thats pretty funny. It's as follows:
-=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "It's mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack; not rationality."
Last night, after weeks of putting it off, I finally formatted my computer at home. I also deleted any and all easily accessale shortcuts to start up Internet Explorer, and will use Firefox at home exclusively. Funny thing is you can't delete Internet Explorer because you need it for Windows Update for security updates. Its sort of a catch 22 of security isn't it? It actually feels really good to have a clean, fresh instal of Windows. I don't have any programs installed, but that also means that I dont have any crappy worthless programs installed either. I think I will try to reformat about once a year from now on just to keep things tidy. Also, good news for GMail users. Google put out a system tray notification utility for new emails that come in (as well as for outgoing mailto: links). Yes, its actually Google who put this tool out. Now if they had make this a month ago, I wouldn't have had to format, but at least its here now. I should also mention I like Yahoo!'s LAUNCHcast service so much, I'm actually paying for it now, but you can try it for free (800 songs per month max). -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "Perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove."
I was just visiting some political websites, and I found it funny the predominant images on the front page of each website. www.johnkerry.com 
www.georgewbush.com 
And don't worry Laura, thats kind of how I feel too. Have you seen this commercial? Laura looks like George just used the c-word as a term of endearment. I couldn't help but take that screenshot of it. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy, who goes home alone."
The damnedest thing happened to me the other night. After I ate my Lean Cuisine, My friend Diane wanted me to come with her down the street to Texas Road House (where my roommates work) to give this girl her Cd's back who works there. We got to the Roadhouse, and you will never guess who was sitting in section 211 of the restaurant. It was the stars of the up and coming summer hit 'The Surfer King', Randy Wayne and Ben Ziff. I shit you not. *The* Surfer King was at my roommates restaurant. My friend Mindy (the one who was getting her Cd's back) was their server, and she pointed them out to me. She says, "Hey mark, you know that movie their filming at Water World?" I say, "You must mean The Surfer King, the story of a young man, forced to leave his home and his friends, not to mention the love of his life, surfing, who moves to Colorado and is given a job at Water World where he has to defeat the current surfing champion in the employee Olympics in order to gain the respect of his co-workers, himself, and most importantly, the new love of his life? Yeah, I know that one." She told me that the stars of the movie were in her section. It was funny because she said they were being snobby. One of them ordered a salad, then when he got it he said "Ew, there's eggs on this? I can't eat this." and sent it back. And tried to order plain broccoli, which they don't have, they only serve a vegetable medley. Point of the story is that I saw the Surfer King, and it was great. On their way out of the restaurant, Di yelled "I love you, Surfer King", but I don't think they heard.
Mark's diet in the past 40 hours: -.5 bananas (broken into 2 helpings) -1 cup of cinnamon applesauce -1.5 bottles Gatorade -2 slices white bread Anyone else sick? I think I'll be better by tomorrow. I hope so because the thought of eating seems so good, but then when I eat a piece of bread, I get full and nauseous. stupid body.
Something very strange happened to me two nights ago. In the middle of the night, Weston came into my room and fell asleep on my bed, even though I was in it. Upon discussing his motives last night, Weston suddenly recalled virtually the entire dream. It went something like this. Weston woke up in the middle of the night to presumably get a drink of water. Please take note that he was sober when this happened. After attending his thirst, he was terrified at what he caught a glimpse of inside the microwave. It was, in fact, a gremlin. Ignoring what history, experience, and what Warner Bros. Entertainment has taught us, Weston was not sure what to do in such a situation. He knew he had to do something fast, so he did what we all would have done. He drank a bottle of Pure Lemon Extract. The potency would be sure to kill the gremlin. Please note the ingredients of McCormick's Pure Lemon Extract: Alcohol (84%) , Water , and Oil of Lemon. (In case your not getting this, he actually did drink our lemon extract, we found the empty bottle in the trash last night). Well folks, he did it. He killed that gremlin thanks to the lemon extract. Thanks to the lemon extract, he also immediately vomited into the kitchen sink. Upon returning to his room, he saw that a notebook of mine was left in his room. Obviously it was very important that he get it back to me at 4:15 in the morning, so he brought it into my room and set it down perfectly on my chair, at which point I woke up. He came and laid down next to me after just having saved his own life, and most likely, the lives of all of us that night. When I asked what he was doing, he assured me that they told him to stay with me and that I would be glad he did. I'm not sure if I believed him or if it was just 4:15 in the morning, but I just fell asleep. I woke up later, about 6:30 and went to the bathroom, in which I didn't really need to go that bad and clumsily stumbled across Weston on my way back to bed. He woke up. He asked me why he was there, and I explained that they told him he had to. He said, "you could of told me to get out, you idiot," or something to that effect. And thats how we were all saved from the gremlin thanks to Weston's heroic and lemony adventures. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "I believe one fella come from Arkansas."
Deb, one of my bosses, IM'ed me today. She lives in Canada. 
I have been happily anticipating writer/director/actor Zach Braff's Garden State for sometime now. Yesterday I get a phone call at night and it's my sister in San Francisco, fresh back from Costa Rica. She informs me that she is on her way to seeing the movie. Now, granted, she can appreciate a good flick when she sees one, but I've been waiting for this movie and wanting to see it so bad for so long. It doesn't seem right. But then I realize its not her fault. It is in fact Denver's fault. It's Denver's fault because Denver is not a select city. Garden State opened in Select cities on Friday. This, of course means Boston, New York, Philadelphia, D.C., Chicago, LA, and San Francisco. Now hold on a second, Philadelphia? What the hell is that? C'mon, the "Keystone State" is a select city and Denver isn't? Nothin against Philly, but seriously, what do the have? A cracked bell? (Which by the way, no one would give a rats ass about if it weren't cracked.) A famous shaved meat sandwich? Denver is twice the city Philly is, and as such deserves to be a part of these illustrious "selected cities". Didn't Ben Franklin live in Philadelphia? See... you don't know because it doesn't matter. What does matter is that Denver needs to get movies sooner, so I'm not out of the loop.
 
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