remember back when abc used to do the fall cartoon preview special once a year during tgif? it’s kinda felt like that in grand rapids the past few days with this incredibly awesome weather. everyone knows it’s gonna get hot again, but for right now, it’s all sweaters and hoodies and just feelin’ good, ya know? it’s pretty damn great.
also, new 14 grand!
-srd
look, i love going to rocky’s on fridays. but sometimes you’re dancing to “1901″ by pheonix with some of your favorite people in the world and sometimes you get iced by someone YOU THOUGHT WAS YOUR FRIEND as you’re trying to leave after way too much jameson. thanks rebecca! also, tell your friend in the blue dress that we’re all in love with her. especially me.
new 14 grand!
-srd
it’s no secret i love romantic comedies, even bad ones. that’s not to say that the film in question here is bad. i’ve actually never seen it before. gasp! i know, i know.
still, new 14 grand!
-srd
jenn kriscunas challenged me today to two things: make an episode of 14 grand a day for the next month AND to see how many presidents each of us could name in ten minutes. i got to 33, she got 42; rutherford b. hayes and james buchanan tripped her up.
wait, i think i actually issued the president challenge.
new 14 grand!
-srd
rockford high school’s own mrs. williams-mars, aka star-mars, passed away on monday.
star-mars was my very first high school teacher and one of my absolute favorites. her class was the first to really challenge me and she always pushed me to do better work, especially when i got lazy and wanted to coast. i remember all the competing for the coveted “plus ones” she’d dole out for particularly insightful comments or questions. i remember leading the charge to resurrect the colorado trip with a bizzare gift of a coconut and her disappointment when i wasn’t picked to go. i remember her letting us hide out in her classroom during assemblies. i remember sean sarniak and i coordinating a barrage of circus peanuts on the last day of class. and i remember coming back to rhs during my freshman year at michigan to chat about the good ol’ days.
us nerds will miss you, star-mars.
-srd
on the way back from martha’s today, i had one dude tell me he liked the last episode of 14 grand (thanks aaron!) and another dude yell “faggot!” at me from a passing car. true story.
anyway, new episode!
-srd
14 grand is a new series of stupid videos i shoot in my apartment when i get bored. here’s the first one!
-srd
the av club’s tuesday feature undercover, the highlight of my tuesday mornings, has come to a close. and while you should check all of them out, here are my top five in order. i would embed them, but av club and wordpress are both being bitches about it.
Ted Leo And The Pharmacists cover Tears For Fears
Frightened Rabbit covers The Lemonheads
Motion City Soundtrack covers Pavement
-srd
it was awesome, thanks for asking!
-srd
i like pretty much everything about this little clip, especially the fact that all of the hits and muzzle flares were actual flowers shot against a blue screen and keyed in later. well done, sir.
-srd
