to Tide us over

I feel like I’ve had an excess of bloggable thoughts over the past (any length of time) and have not had the time and/or motivation and/or mindset to post.
That’s okay, I guess. I usually write down the idea somewhere (recently in my fancy new pocket sized Moleskine notebooks from Amanda ). But after awhile, I don’t have such intense feelings about whatever it is I wrote in that notebook, and feel less inclined to blog about it.
Those thoughts will make it here eventually. Hopefully this ridiculously cute photo of Amanda and I will tide you over (thanks to Amanda for the picture):

We took this at school on Amanda's last day in the states before leaving for the semester

Filed under: Uncategorized , Amanda, blogging, procrastination, spring 2009

This is probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever blogged about.

That title is not even kidding.  I doubt I have ever blogged about something so silly.  Since I’ve been home, however, I have now seen this McDonald’s commercial several times.  It’s not really very distinctive, but I can’t determine it’s tone.  Is it joking? Half-joking? Ironic? Completely serious?

It may just be trying to appeal to the sort of audience that listens to T-Pain, Chris Brown, etc.  However, the commercial has just enough goofy moments to make me think they wanted to make a catchy song and be sort of “wink wink” about the whole goofiness of much modern R & B.

Anyway, I seriously can’t tell.  Here’s the video:

I can’t tell if it’s kidding or straight-faced.  Either way, it should’ve had more Auto-Tune to be more “current” or “relevant”.

Oh, one more thing:

Every time that I blog about something trivial and goofy, I worry everyone will think that I’ve been spending a lot of my time focusing on things that are trivial and goofy lately.  Not the case (obviously, you know that; I’m just paranoid or something).  I just happened to be at the computer when that commercial came on and I decided it would be ridiculous and fun to post about it.

Favorite albums of 2008 coming soon?  I think so.

Filed under: Uncategorized , Auto-Tune, blogging, Chris Brown, commercials, Irony, McDonald's, Music, oops now I have a "McDonald's" tag :(, R & B, T-Pain

Assorted Thoughts

I think that it takes some heightened level of contentness and relaxation to allow your iPod to play continually on shuffle.  I’m almost there – I still skip a lot of songs, but at least I’m better than I previously was about saying, “I’m sick of randomness, I just want to listen to a coherent album rather than a parade of songs.”

Is it creepy to find and/or read the blogs of acquaintances who are not necessarily in the “friend zone”?  A lot of people @ TU blog, and I happen to RSS subscribe to many of them.  Many of these people are my friends, but some are only acquaintances (aka we’re facebook friends, ha).  I suppose that by blogging, you implicitly agree that these sorts of things are okay.  I know that I am okay with it and even would welcome feedback from such friends/acquaintances.

This is sort of a procrastinatory blog – I’m working on a paper rough draft.

This morning, Amanda described the pastor’s trousers as “emergent pants”.

If you live reasonably close to Indianapolis, you should go to the Indiana Repertory Theatre’s performance of “A Christmas Carol” sometime this Christmas season.  It’s well done and unique; I’ve seen it twice this decade and loved it both times.  Oh, and there’s plenty of tasty places to eat in downtown Indy after the show, too.

Because Woot! is awesome, Amanda and I will each be receiving a Hue HD webcam ($100 value, purchased for $20 each) at some point during the coming week.  This will make communication immeasurably easier while she’s in Ireland this spring (ps – I’m jealous of her). [note:  Hue HD's website seems to be down right now]

Friends often enforce the idea that I have a broad vocabulary, but sometimes, I surprise myself with my inability to spell/use the right homonym.

“Christmas Time is Here (Instrumental)” by the Vince Guaraldi Trio off of the Peanuts Christmas Special album just came on during shuffle; I almost forgot to skip it.  By the way, if you own 1 Christmas CD, that should be it.

I want to write a memoir, even if no one would read it or find it interesting.

This is the sound of Dauthan ending this post before he gets around to saying too much.

Filed under: Uncategorized , allusions, blog, blog meta commentary, blogging, Christmas, college, emergent pants, facebook, friends, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Indianapolis, iPod, Music, my memoir, procrastinating, rando, shuffle, TU, webcam, Woot!