Wife and I want a girlfriend. To share. That is all.

Dear baby aardvark,

You’re very cute, but your nose looks like a vagina. I’m sorry, but I really thought you should know.

Love,

Me.

[Yesterday] Me, to Wife: I’m going back to low carb (diet).

Wife: Oh, OK.

[Today] Wife makes pasta and bread for dinner.

Me: LOL SRSLY?

While searching for a Korean language lesson on shortwave radio on December 29, 1984, Pena was intrigued by an example of Tuvan throat-singing he heard on a Radio Moscow broadcast. Seven years later he found a Tuvan record at a local record store called Tuva: Voices From the Center of Asia, and listened to it “continuously”. Based on that record and extended experimentation, he was able to teach himself the vocal techniques called Khoomei, Sygyt and Kargyraa:
After playing the CD continuously for several months and driving many of my friends away by making weird noises while experimenting with my voice, I finally learned a few of the basic techniques of this fascinating group of vocal styles by remembering the styles of some of the blues greats of the past — especially Charlie Patton,Tommy McClennan, and Chester “Howlin’ Wolf” Burnett.
Pena also taught himself Tuvan. There were no Tuvan to English translation dictionaries, so Pena used two dictionaries: a Tuvan to Russian and Russian to English. He used a device called an Optacon to scan the pages and convert the printed words into tactile sensations he could read with his finger.
Pena attended a performance of Tuvan throat-singing at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco on February 6, 1993. He performed an impromptu Tuvan song in the kargyraa style, which impressed famous Tuvan throatsinger Kongar-ol Ondar. Ondar invited Pena to sing in the second international Khoomei Symposium in 1995 in Kyzyl,Tuva. Pena travelled to Tuva and was the first westerner to compete in the Symposium. He placed first in the Kargyraa contest and also won the “audience favorite” category.
Tuvans affectionately call him “Cher Shimjer” (Earthquake), because of the deepness of his voice. Pena said “My voice is lower than most Tuvans. They have a style that makes your voice lower. When I use that, there’s a slow song when I hit a note that’s four white keys from the left of the piano.”

Meandering between hardcore/punk sensibilities and country, Murder By Death make something that shouldn’t work seem effortless and seamless. Who Will Survive And What Will Be Left Of Them takes the idea of a concept album and strips away the prog rock ego-wanking usually associated with such an endeavor and replaces it with a gritty narration of the devil’s subjugation of an old west border town.

someone say a hail mary for this house,

bless the corners and burn the devil out.

This song really moved me yesterday. Junius is a great band. I fail at the whole NanoBloYerDad, although I think I might turn my hand to writing some short stories again.

we are afraid to embrace the change we are falling towards

we have to face our fear and pain then we will be reborn

we fall across the void

return the soul – reborn

My idea of a quiet night at home – Team Fortress 2, a Starbucks Doubleshot and basketball shorts. Unfortunately the combination of caffeine and Team Fortress 2 leads to a lot of yelling and swearing. So it’s really not all that quiet.

In lieu of anything substantial – because quite honestly, my life over the last few years has been overly substantial – here’s some videos of what I do for my current work out. Done by mostly hot women.

Kettle Bell Swings

Turkish Getups

Hack Squats (Sorry, no hot gal for this one)

Crush Curl (…or this one)

Clean and Press (her clean form sucks, but whatever)

Windmills (Apparently these people defy gravity and train on the walls. Shut up.)

Halo

Bent Over Rows

It’s been a long time, friends.