# 255

1. The Empire Strikes Back (Country Teasers) *2*
2. Varieties Of Religious Experience (Old Time Relijun)
3. Maniac On The Floor (Doomsday:1999) *26*

# 254

1. A Single History (Unwound) *2*
2. Demo 'EP' (The Distraction) *9*

# 253

1. Dreamt for Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain (Sparklehorse)
2. Moon (Robert Pollard)
3. Live At The Casbah 11/14/2004 (Smoke & Smoke)

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone got that one little thing they wanted........ my father sure did.

Ummm, A & A part 2 (and 3)

Rematch?

Germany: PBK
Japan: Brian

USA: Josh
UK: Josh
Russia: Josh

Advantage? Josh.

Brian and I believed we could do it, we thought we could make Josh struggle. We were wrong. We played two games today because Josh destroyed us in game 1. Nothing to say about it...... good game JBH.



(Notice Brian's disgust)

Game 2....... things went a little more normal. Huge build up in Europe, Germany even managed to balance out Africa. Russia on the other hand was a monster. After pulling in what seemed to be 40 IPC's a turn Russia forced Germany to be aggressive and make the first move. Germany could not match the balanced spending of Russia. Men and tanks, men and tanks.



Japan did what it could but the Allies were able to keep Japan from having that huge turn it needed....... closer to the capital of Russia. PBK thinks he and Brian need to try again. It's been almost 15 years of your dominence Horton.

more things that scare PBK....

I'm on vacation.

I decided to take it easy today and watch some TV. Where's the harm in that, right? I was flipping through the listings and oh my god, this had to be a joke. The Discovery Channel was doing a show on the Giant Squid? My first thought was that it would be about some super cool scientist who was exploring new ways of ridding the planet of the Giant Squid. Come on, I mean you've seen these things, right? Crazy eyes, razor sharp beaks, and rotating hook like suckers..... they're like something out of a sci fi movie. Oh no, this scientist (who was from New Zealand) was looking into catching Giant Squid larva and raising them in captivity.

I know what you might be thinking, this guy has to be insane.

I was wondering why the Discovery Channel would do a story on a mad scientist. Usually they do stories on interesting scientists looking to do something to better the world. It is crazy doctors like this that make the best villians in the Spiderman sequels. We are dealing with a madman.

Raise a baby Giant Squid into adulthood? Wow, I'm floored. I watched the hour long episode in fear. It did end on a sad note for the doctor but for me it opened my eyes. As hard as it was for the doctor to catch the larva in the wild it was even harder to keep them alive in captivity. Phew? The doctor then swore that it was only a matter of time until he will be able to achieve his life long goal of raising his own squid. Don't we all know why he would want to do this?

World domination.

See, first you raise the squid, then you make thousands of robot squid (see the diagram below that I stole from the internet). This picture was way too easy to find.



When I was younger I was afraid to walk alone in the dark for fear of Gene Simmons in full Kiss gear grabbing me and taking me away from my family. I'm not kidding. Now as an adult my fear of walking alone in the dark has been replaced by the giant eyes and sharp beak of the Giant Squid. I see it like a gang of sea stinking street punks just looking for their next piece of prey.

# 252

1. A Senile Animal (Melvins)
2. Black Monk Time (The Monks)

# 251

1. Love Suffers Long (Smoke & Smoke) *2*
2. Pentagram Ring 'Single' (Chavez) *3*

Ahhh, Chavez.

my dreams of fantasy football greatness have been crushed...... again

What does an 11-2 record and the top spot get me in the playoffs? Beat..... yet again my team loses in the first week of the playoffs. PBK feels like he has pissed away 13 weeks of his life. I should get out, maybe travel more. Maybe I shouldn't do any of that and just start playing D & D. I just need to get over this cold that's keeping me down.

We'll get'em next year Brandon Jacobs.

Oh and BTW, I have all of this new music to listen to and no time to listen to it. I'm misserable...... really, I am.

Send PBK X-mas gifts so he will feel better. In a perfect world there would be a Jafco catelog and a DVD copy of Secret of Magic Island. Oh, and a signed portriat of Jacqueline Summers.

# 250

1. Love Suffers Long (Smoke & Smoke)

# 249

1. Racist Unicorn (Doomsday:1999) *35*

A & A...

The teams.....

Russia: Josh
Germany: PBK
England: Jimmy
Japan: Brian
US: Chris

Ok, just to start... the Axis is a real underdog here. The Horton's are tough to go up against.



Round 1: Germany hits everything and loses nothing from it's airforce. Japan also has some rolls going for it. The US boats are sunk and the UK has no naval presence. Highlight of this round? The US purcheses four rolls for production and hits one. WOW! US gets "Jet Power."



Round 2: Everything that could go wrong for the Axis happens. Planes are hit by transports the whole round. Germany and Japan really suffer. The Allies go crazy with production facilities. India and French Indo Burma are going to are going to have a battle royal.



Round 3: The decline of Germany continues. Aggresive moves into Russia are stopped. Japan also loses ground in Asia. A single UK submarine patrols the waters and refuses to die. The US begins to build up its airforce and tranports are making moves into Africa and Western Europe.



Round 4: Huge battle in India and French Indo Burma. The UK loses everything and Japan now has three facilities. The Axis is still going to fall but has made the game very interesting.

It all could have continued but some of us had to leave, it was getting very late. The Allies again dominated but the Axis made it tough at times.

Poe.....

Ok. Poe.

Ummm, I guess she had two hit songs about 10 years ago? Am I right on this? The local station plays both of them all of the time.

"Johny, angry Johnny"

Why? Some things come out and can become so dated so quick. This would be one of them. I have three facts about "Vickie" and her relationship with Poe.

*Vickie has seen Poe live.

*Vickie owns the Poe cd.

*Even Vickie is getting sick of hearing Poe on the radio.

I don't like Poe.

-pbk

Anthony Kiedes....

Again, no music today. Instead I will post things from the radio on the ride home. I can't play anything, Jamie (wait, she doesn't want her name used... umm.... Vickie, she is now Vickie) just wants to hear the radio. So it seems that the local alternative radio station is the flavor of choice. She's bummed, her favorite 80's station just went under. Anyways...... the same bands are on all of the time. I'm not using this to be critical. What I am going to do is point out things I don't like.

I don't like Anthony Kiedes.

He sings, he sings like a drunk baby. Blah, blu, blah, blu, blugh. If PBK was to lay on his couch and sing out loud it would sound much like Anthony Kiedes.

He does have his hair and better abs. Vickie wanted me to point that out.

Blugh. I miss my Ipod.

!

I got nothing today. I tried but nothing.

# 248

1. American Water (Silver Jews) *2*
2. A Manual Dexterity: Sountrack Volume 1 (Omar Rodriguez-Lopez) *2*
3. Gatefold (Orchid) *15*

# 247

1. A South Bronx Story (ESG) *2*
2. Exciter (Depeche Mode) *2*
3. Back In The USA (MC5) *2*
4. Keep It Like A Secret (Built To Spill) *2*
5. Another Desert, Another Sea (Three Mile Pilot) *2*
6. Racist Unicorn (Doomsday:1999) *34*
7. Itunes Live Session 'EP' (Interpol) *3*

# 246

1. Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (Devo) *2*
2. Bad Reputation (Joan Jett) *2*
3. Satan Is Real Again [Or Feeling Good About Bad Thoughts] (Country Teasers) *2*
4. Boys Don't Cry (The Cure) *2*
5. Head Wound City 'EP' (Head Wound City) *2*
6. Plague Soundscapes (The Locust) *4*
7. S/T 7" (Jokers Wild) *2*
8. Complete Discocrappy 'Disk 1' (Charles Bronson) *2*
9. Surrounded By Thieves (High On Fire) *2*

# 245

1. Young Machetes (The Blood Brothers) *2*
2. S/T (Blur) *2*
3. The Transformed Man (William Shatner) *2*
4. The Blow Up 'Disk 1' (Television) *2*
5. The Blow Up 'Disk 2' (Television) *2*
6. Interstate 8 'EP' (Modest Mouse) *2*
7. Neu! 75 (Neu!)
8. Demo 'EP' (The Distraction) *8*
10. The Kingdom Of Heaven Must Be Taken By Storm (Entrance) *2*
11. Ex Models Split 7" (Holy Molar) *4*
12. De Stijl (The White Stripes)

# 244

1. Neu! 2 (Neu!)
2. Lust For Life (Iggy Pop) *2*
3. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (Neutral Milk Hotel) *2*
4. Racist Unicorn (Doomsday:1999) *34*
5. Some Girls Wander By Mistake (Sisters Of Mercy) *2*

# 243

1. S/T (Kalas)
2. Neu! 1 (Neu!)
3. Cell Scape (Melt Banana)
4. The Cold Death Of Island Raiders (Ohsees)

things that scare PBK....

I have been waiting to see this episode of Buck Rogers for 25 years. It used to scare the living hell out of me....... I mean it really, really scared me. I think I still have bad dreams from this (that and an old episode of Star Trek but I don't need to get started on that).........

"While searching another planet, Buck and Twiki locate the remaining survivors of a colonization attempt. Most of the colony members had left years earlier because of an unknown plague. Two of the survivors, a young widow named Syra and her son Delph, stayed behind to run their farm. While there, they are continually attacked by a horned creature named Pangor, yet Syra refuses Buck's invitation to leave, which Buck cannot understand. Before he can convince them to abandon the planet, Buck is stricken by the plague, which begins to transform him into a creature known as a "Satyr"."

I woke up to a half day marathon of Buck Rogers this morning. Oh, and it wasn't so scary this time around. It was very funny, that's for sure.

# 242

1. Heart & Soul 'Disk 1' (Joy Division) *3*
2. Follow The Flock, Step In *hit 'EP' (The Locust) *2*
3. Shame Fantasy II (Pink & Brown) *3*
4. Whenever You See Fit 'EP' (Modest Mouse & 764-Hero) *2*
5. Rock And Roll Over (Kiss) *2*
6. Helpless (Triumph Of Lethargy Skinned Alive To Death) *2*
7. XO (Elliott Smith) *3*
8. Demo 'EP' (The Distraction) *7*
9. *Language Lesson*

# 241

1. Grande Rock (Hellacopters) *2*
2. We Are Electrocution (Le Shok) *4*
3. S/T (C Average) *3*
4. BBC Session (The Fall)
5. True Stories (Talking Heads) *2*
6. More (Pink Floyd) *2*
7. *Language Lesson*
8. The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strnen (The Mekons) *2*

# 240

1. Shady Lane 'EP' (Pavement) *2*
2. Master And Everyone (Bonnie Prince Billy) *2*
3. Jane From Occupied Europe (Swell Maps)
4. Shut Up You Fucking Baby 'Disk 2' (David Cross)
5. Everybody Out... Shark In The Water 'EP' (FM Bats) *2*
6. Live At The Casbah 1/25/04 (Gogogoairheart) *3*
7. Fever To Tell (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah's) *3*
8. S/T 'EP' (Interpol) *16*

# 239

1. Young Machetes (The Blood Brothers)
2. Head Wound City 'EP' (Head Wound City)
3. A Trip To Marineville (Swell Maps)
4. Shut Up You Fucking Baby 'Disk 1' (David Cross)
5. Wild Love (Smog) *2*
6. Demo 'EP' (The Distraction) *6*
7. *Language Lesson*
8. There's Nothing Wrong With Love (Built To Spill) *2*
9. Jenny And The Ess Dog 'EP' (Steve Malkmus)

Warning! Potato Bar in full effect.....

I had to take time to write this.......

I smell salsa, chili, onions, cheese, and Lil' Smokies? Maybe my nose has been through too many potlucks. It seems every time there is one all I smell is Lil' Smokies.

my Halloween movie...

# 238

1. Demo 'EP' (The Distraction) *4*
2. S/T (Danzig) *3*
3. Maniac On The Floor (Doomsday:1999) *25*
4. Dracula 'Soundtrack' (Philip Glass) *2*
5. Demo 'EP' (The Distraction) *5*
6. Dear Sir (Cat Power) *2*
7. Make-Up After Dark (Make-Up) *2*
8. Vainly Clutching At Phantom Limbs (Elf Power) *2*
9. Bryter Layter (Nick Drake) *2*
10. Diver Down (Van Halen) *2*
11. It Still Moves (My Morning Jacket) *2*

# 237

1. Demo 'EP' (The Distraction) *2*
2. Prayers On Fire (The Birthday Party) *2*
3. Ride The Fader (Chavez) *5*
4. Pentagram Ring 'Single' (Chavez) *2*
5. In Through The Out Door (Led Zeppelin) *2*
6. 1969: Live Volume 2 (Velvet Underground) *2*
7. Lift Your Skinny Fists To Heaven... 'Disk 1' (Godspeed You Black Emperor) *2*
8. Demo 'EP' (The Distraction) *3*
9. Twelve Imaginary Inches (The Stitches) *3*
10. Fight Test 'EP' (Flaming Lips) *2*

# 236

1. Demo 'EP' (The Distraction)
2. Demo (Nicki Rose) *3*
3. Gone Glimmering (Chavez) *2*
4. Berlin Radio 1971 (Kraftwerk) *2*
5. B Sides 458489 'Disk 2' (The Fall)
6. Racist Unicorn (Doomsday:1999) *33*
7. Lost Light (Old Time Relijun) *2*
8. S/T (Steve Malkmus) *2*

# 235

1. Kicking A Couple Around 'EP' (Smog) *2*
2. Rats! Sing! Sing! (Gogogoairheart) *4*
3. The Boy With The Arab Strap (Belle & Sebastian) *2*
4. Discography (Jenny Piccolo) *3*
5. *Language Lesson*
6. Split 'EP' (Sunshine) *2*

It's time to talk about sweatpants.....

I was grocery shopping last night when something caught my attention. Sweatpants on a Sunday? Christians would tell you that Sunday was the day of rest, well.... I would say some have turned that belief into reality in the grocery store. I was headed to the checkout counter when I caught wind of three or four different pairs of sweatpants. Some were on men and some were on women. Some guy in his checkered pants and slippers?

PBK hates sweatpants. Oh and let's include pajama pants in all of this.....

Here is why. Nothing says "I'm lazy as hell", like sweats. Home is for being lazy (and that's ok) but now people are taking their home and wearing it in public. Want to hear something even worse? I work with people that wear sweats to work every once and awhile. I'm talking like grey tops and matching bottoms. Ahh, it must feel so good to be so cozy.

I wonder if they could make these sweats to say PBK.

# 234

1. Who Made Who (AC/DC) *2*
2. Headcoats Down (Thee Headcoats) *2*
3. Playing The Angel (Depeche Mode) *3*
4. Younger, Louder, And Snottier (The Dead Boys) *2*
5. Moving Careful 'EP' (Hayden) *2*
6. Destroyer (Kiss) *2*
7. Berlin Radio 1971 (Kraftwerk)

# 233

1. Swing The Heartache (Bauhaus) *2*
2. Summer In Abandon (Pinback) *3*
3. Is There Anybody Out There? 'Disk 2' (Pink Floyd) *2*
4. Collection II (The Misfits) *2*
5. Rebel Yell 'Expanded' (Billy Idol) *2*

# 232

1. Split 7" (Le Shok/Ink & Dagger) *2*
2. II (Led Zeppelin) *2*
3. 154 (Wire) *2*
4. Peanut Butter And Jelly, Live At The Ginger Minge (Coachwhips) *2*
5. The DNA Will Have Its Say 'EP' (Some Girls) *6*
6. Misery Is A Butterfly (Blonde Redhead) *2*
7. B Sides 458489 'Disk 1' (The Fall)
8. Racist Unicorn (Doomsday:1999) *32*

# 231

1. Right Now (Pussy Galore) *2*
2. De-Loused In The Comatorium (Mars Volta) *2*
3. Life In A Bubble Can Be Beautiful (Red Stars Theory) *3*
4. Split 'EP' (Built To Spill/Caustic Resin) *2*
5. Heaven's Pregnant Teens (Some Girls) *12*

I also cheated and listened to "O! Brother" by The Fall about 10 times. Might just be the best song ever. No joke.

Saturday night.... (I know it isn't Halloween yet)

Seems all of my teachers played Ichabod and the Headless Horseman every Halloween. I was never one of those people that was raised on Disney films but this one sticks with me. Really good (even with all of the singing). That silly Ichabod and his crazy appetite.

# 230

1. 458489 A Sides (The Fall)
2. The Empire Strikes Back (Country Teasers)
3. Collision Time Revisited (Swell Maps)
4. *Language Lesson*
5. Over The Edge (Wipers) *2*
6. Racist Unicorn (Doomsday:1999) *31*
7. Is There Anybody Out There? 'Disk 1' (Pink Floyd) *2*
8. Head For The Shallow (Big Business) *3*

# 229

1. The Lonesome Crowded West (Modest Mouse) *2*
2. Finally The Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid 'Disk 1' (The Flaming Lips) *2*
3. Lend You A Hand (Tight Bro's From Way Back When) *3*
4. Tago Mago (CAN) *3*

Wednesday night.......

# 228

1. Koyaanisqatsi 'Soundtrack' (Philip Glass) *2*
2. The Many Faces Of Mental Illness (Festival Of The Dead Deer) *5*
3. S/T (The Catheters) *2*
4. Dirty Mind (Prince) *2*
5. The Wonderful And Frightening World Of... (The Fall) *2*
6. Racist Unicorn (Doomsday:1999) *30*

It seems I'm enjoying The Fall more and more.

# 227

1. Turn On The Bright Lights (Interpol) *3*
2. Monster Movie (CAN) *3*
3. S/T (Secret Square) *2*
4. Live 5/19/02 (Dead Low Tide) *2*
5. Hearts Increase 'EP' (The Green Circles) *3*
6. *Language Lesson*

# 226

1. March On Electric Children (The Blood Brothers) *3*
2. Scratch And Stitch (Melt Banana) *2*
3. Bats Out Of Harm (FM Bats) *3*
4. Stand Up (Jethro Tull) *2*
5. Papa M Sings 'EP' (Papa M) *2*

See you on Tuesday. PBK has said no to Monday's for awhile.

# 225

1. At Folsom Prison (Johnny Cash) *2*
2. Live In Baltimore (Entrance) *3*
3. Maniac On The Floor (Doomsday:1999) *24*
4. Now I Got Worry (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) *2*
5. Hollywood Mike Miranda Split 7" 'Bonus Tracks' (Hollywood Mike Miranda/Teen Cthulhu) *4*

# 224

1. Paper Bag 7" (Red Stars Theory) *2*
2. Grotesque 'Expanded' (The Fall) *2*
3. Rough Power (Iggy & The Stooges)
4. Heaven's Pregnant Teens (Some Girls) *11*

# 223

1. First And Last And Always (Sisters Of Mercy) *2*
2. S/T (Loose Fur) *3*
3. *Language Lesson*
4. Halfbird (Deerhoof) *2*

# 222

1. Slates 'Expanded' (The Fall) *2*
2. At War With The Mystics (The Flaming Lips) *3*
3. Ride The Blade (Teen Cthulhu) *8*
4. Overkill (Motorhead) *2*

Gotcha....

I can sing the theme song.

# 221

1. The Velvet Underground & Nico (The Velvet Underground) *2*
2. Chief Assassin To The Sinister (Three Mile Pilot) *3*
3. Self Titled LP (Karp) *3*

# 220

1. Moon Pix (Cat Power) *2*
2. Head For The Shallow (Big Business) *2*
3. Landed (CAN) *2*

# 219

1. Show Your Bones (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah's) *3*
2. Real Live Kill...Ripe From The Vine 7" (Gogogoairheart) *4*
3. More Or Less Live (Pinback) *2*
4. The Best Of O.M.D. (Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark) *3*
5. Discography (Jenny Piccolo) *2*
6. Live (Built To Spill) *2*
7. S/T 'EP' (Interpol) *15*

Blue in the Face...

Jamie fell asleep but I really enjoyed it. It had to have been about 10 years since I've seen it last. It is worth it just for the Lou Reed monologue.

# 218

1. Smoke Machine (Chocolate USA)
2. Discography (Jenny Piccolo)
3. Head For The Shallow (Big Business)
4. The Speed Of Cattle (Archers Of Loaf) *2*
5. Source Tags And Codes 'Partial Album' (And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead) *2*
6. All Jets Are Gonna Fly Today (Chocolate USA)

# 217

1. The Letting Go (Bonnie Prince Billy)
2. Between The Buttons (The Rolling Stones) *2*
3. A Broken Frame (Depeche Mode)
4. Opel (Syd Barrett) *2*

# 216

1. Sapporo 2/13/72 (Pink Floyd)
2. Figure 8 (Elliott Smith) *2*
3. Maniac On The Floor (Doomsday:1999) *23*
4. Freedom Of Choice (Devo) *2*

Sunshine Pizza Exchange...

PBK went back to the place where he had his 2nd grade birthday party to celebrate turning 30. I think the last time I was there was years ago with Bookworm. I did not hit the salad bar, I just stuck with the pizza.