Childhood was awesome

Just coming out of my hiatus to say that listening to the soundtracks of computer games I played almost a decade ago is crazy nostalgic. All I played back in those days were real-time strategy games, and the 90's were a golden age for them (Age of Empires I and II, Starcraft, Dark Reign, Red Alert 2, etc.). And besides being outrageously addicting, they all also provided high-quality music to go along with the player's wanton slaughter of pixelated people. These were the tunes I had stuck in my head all day even before I started to listen to "actual" music. And now, after finding them again on Youtube, I can truly appreciate the work developers put into making the whole gaming experience something to remember.


This is my personal favorite...from Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. Shit is infectious. I guarantee that the beat will embed itself instantly into the deepest recesses of your minds.




Also, check out the EPIC soundtrack to Dark Reign, an underrated RTS from this era. All the songs are amazingly high-quality...it's like they were ripped straight out of the Star Trek/Wars/Gate movies.





There's also this fine number from Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2. I would give this bad boy a spin while pumping some iron.







Rock on, classic game soundtracks. Rock on.

RUDE Pants

A few years back, when I arrived to the new world which is college, I noticed a lot of girls wearing tights (leggings) (not yet RUDE pants) instead of sweat pants to the gym. At times, these women would wear the gym attire to, from, and in class, understandably so. The operative phrase here is gym attire.

The next year, it progressed into girls on campus wearing them with ballerina flats, canvas sneakers, and (gasp) heels. And so it began. The opening salvo had been fired in the make force-men-all-around-the-world-admire-your-figure crusade.

Well...fine, I am man. I like that. Go for it.

The trend/ malady was taken a further step still, with the girls on campus not only wearing said tights with Uggs (or knock off snow boots), but with shirts that stop at or above the waist. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, butts were indeed exposed. These girls quickly wised up to the fact they cannot simply wear any type of underwear with the pants, rapidly transitioning to having more thongs and seam-less underwear in their drawers. From that point forward, women's butts (arses, culos) were to be forever exposed.

The trend developed into a kind of style, sorta like the "girl uniform" of RUDE pants and shirt. No need to coordinate jean washes anymore. And, like many styles, this one expanded to the masses, so civilians (including black girls with ridiculously big arses) began to adopt the RUDE pants style.

Epidemic indeed.

I know you see it all around you. Butts everywhere, jiggling with reckless abandon, teasing everything down to the very core of my manhood. Regarding trends, however, be it musical or of fashion, saturation tends to kill them off, or at least dilute them a bit. The RUDE pants have since become ubiquitous, and it has come to a point where seeing them is a bit paralyzing. Trying to avert your attention from the thin piece of 34% polyester-42% acrylic-21% rayon-3% spandex cloth is mentally draining task really.

Not that I'm a butt connoisseur or anything, but I'm a man. It's what we do.

I'd just ask that the RUDE pants are worn in moderation, not as the essential part of a wardrobe.

I just told someone about this post while writing and she said, "Guilty! I haven't worn jeans in a year." She's not lying.

Oh, and thanks for the tongue-in-cheek, American Apparel.

I haven't come up with an acronym for them yet, so feel free to christen RUDE with one in the comments.

Rihanna - Rude Boy

This is nowhere near the oversexed beast I thought it would be, but it's a great clip nonetheless.

Still on the list, Rihanna comes thru with her sexy Caribbean parlance and speaks to me.

"If I don't feel it, I ain't fakin" <-- honesty is always the best policy. Some people can learn from her.

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SNOW DAY!

So I was skeptical, but my wish came true: a snow day in college! This doesn't happen very often. Apparently it hasn't happened at Penn since 2003. Anyway, there's like a million inches of snow...and counting. Fun stuff.

I saw the campus plow guy attempting looking like a sucka to move the snow out of the way and it reminds me of the classic Mr. Plow, from The Simpsons.

People are frolicking in the snow but it's a tad violent out there. I'll just keep blogging/ studying the proximate and ultimate causes of bird song. Thanks, Alcock.

WTF! Is that someone skiing down Locust Walk?!

Good times, man, good times.

The Origin of "That's What She Said"

Just so you know.

That's What She Said from Megan Mullally

LOL

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Spoon - Written in Reverse

I slept on this song at first, but it has definitely grown on me.



Sing that shit, Britt!

So...I should probably buy Transference now.

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