In response to Brian's post
I know I've missed a bunch, so help me out if you've been to a show with me that I've forgot to list here.

Weezer, Foo Fighters, No Doubt, Bush, Tonic, Goldfinger, Beck, Better Then Ezra, Cowboy Mouth, Matchbox 20, The Verve Pipe, Our Lady Peace, Sponge, Collective Soul, Gravity Kills, Polara, Flipp, Tripmaster Monkey, The Suburbs, Material Issue, Henry Rollins Band, Bloodhound Gang, The Ramones, Republica, Reverend Horton Heat, Gavin Rossdale, Five For Fighting, Linda Perry, Korn, They Might Be Giants, Muckaferguson, Semisonic, G Love and Special Sauce, Tenacious D, Jimmy Eat World, The Specials, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Missy Higgins, Journey, Joe Walsh, G.B. Leighton, Honey Dogs, Soul Coughing, Pearl Jam, Jewel, Rugburns, Sarah McLachlan, Dido, Tara McLean, The Shins, Viva la Voce, Built to Spill, Placebo, Mason Jennings, Astronaut Wife, Brenda Weiler, Blues Traveler, The Black Crowes, Old 97's, Indigo Girls, Rufus Wainwright, Bare Naked Ladies, Frank Black and the Catholics, Belle and Sebastian, Spearhead, Arrested Development, Smashing Pumpkins, New Pornographers, Boys 2 Men, Montell Jordan, Dashboard Confessional, Hieruspecs, Badly Drawn Boy, Duncan Shiek, Fastball, White Light Riot, Eels, Kasey Chambers, The Cardigans, Poe, The Push Kings, Dar Williams, Shawn Colvin, Dylan Hicks, Sound of Urchin, Ziggy Marley, Los Straitjackets, Garbage, The Violent Femmes, The Jayhawks, Voilant,  Psycho Billy Cadillac, Contraband, Chris O'Riley plays Radiohead, Train, Ben Kweller, The Watson Twins

Rory,
Well its M.L.K. Day and I can't help but think of the time you were asked to give the "I Have A Dream" speech for some elementary school kids and you knocked it out of the park.

That's all,
Jon

I was just thinking the other day about how after my family, the person I've lived with the most was Rory.  Between the U of M dorms and 2004 Como, Rory and I lived together for 8 years.  8 out of the 30 years of my existence I spent with Rory.  So I've seen both the good and the bad...and while I'll never fully understand the bad, the good times are something that I'll always cherish. 

 

Rory and I would spend many a night up until 4 in the morning playing Nintendo 64, drinking Mountain Dew and eating pizza.  I can't count how many Madden games we played over the years.  We'd spend many nights cruising around in the convertible.  I'd be driving and I'd make Rory yell things at unsuspecting pedestrians...most of which involved the fake dogs we had in the back seat.  Or we'd stay up late playing Stratomatic baseball or quizzing each other on random sports facts.  I loved these moments...but what I loved even more were the times we'd spend having "Rory talks."  I'm sure many of you have had a "Rory talk."  Rory talks with me were serious in nature and usually revolved around girls.  We would sit up all night and talk about if I should ask so and so out or what Rory thought of so and so.  And he'd come back with the same questions for me.  He was a person I always felt I could seriously open up to and I valued everything he said.  These Rory talks are what I will always look back at fondly and take such pride in the fact that I got to be a part of so many.

 

You know, I always thought in the back of my mind that this day would inevitably come and it doesn't make this any easier.

 

To quote the great Jim Morrison,

This is the end, Beautiful friend

This is the end, My only friend, the end

It hurts to set you free.

 

Rest in Peace.

 

Congratulations, Barack Obama, you're our 44th president. That is, if the Redskins rule holds true.

On Monday, the Washington Redskins lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 23-6. Since 1936, if the Redskins lost their last home game before Election Day, the party that lost the popular vote in the previous election wound up in the White House. If the Redskins won, the party that won the popular vote in the previous election won again.

(The popular vote distinction is important, given the 2004 results.)

Hogwash, you say? Heading into this election, the Redskins rule is 17 for 17.

This makes me very excited for the upcoming show at the Myth.

The #1 song in the country on the day I was born was "New Kid in Town" by The Eagles.
How perfect is that?  On top of that, there is a lyric in the song that reads "Johnny come lately, the new kid in town."

Contest: Go to this site to see what song was number one on your birthday and whoever leaves a comment with the best reason why the song represents you gets a prize of my choice.