The Blue Album

Weezer came out with their self-titled Blue Album on May 10, 1994. It had gone platinum by the commencement of 1995. The world was introduced to Weezer by their "Undone-The Sweater Song" video and, more popularly, their "Buddy Holly" music video featuring footage from Happy Days.

I got these books for Christmas that display piano chords and guitar tabs of the first five albums that Weezer produced. My brother was exceptionally jealous and took it upon himself to learn how to play the entire Blue Album. So, I get serenaded with that often. Well, he was playing "Surf Wax America" and I thought that it sounded really cool. I mean, I've always liked that song (it was my favorite for awhile there) but for some reason it sounded just really cool to play. I finished my session of Madden and went up to look at the book. My fingers aren't as fluent as his, but I could pluck out the tune. So, since then, I've just been thinking a lot about how extremely great that album is. I was just going to say something small on Facebook, but I decided that this was better than nothing on my blog.

The first song of Weezer's first album is just great. I mean, I'm sure that all four members of the band got called Jonas plenty of times after the album's release, but it's a great way to start a musical career.

I guess that I mainly wanted to talk about other songs.

"Say It Ain't So". A song about Rivers' relationship with his father and stepfather. His dad left his family when Rivers was young and his mother remarried to Steven. Apparently both his dad and Steven always had beer in the fridge. And were constantly drinking. Rivers was just watching TV and wrestling with his brother when Steven started another beer. Rivers felt that he couldn't confront Steven about this for fear of damaging their relationship even further. Then Rivers writes a letter to his dad telling him how Steven reminds him so much of him (his dad). It's an amazing song and a great insight into how Rivers grew up.

"Surf Wax America". An absoulutely fantastic intro and awesome instrumental throughout. One of Rivers' biggest influences was the Beach Boys and particularly Brian Wilson. So, he wrote his own surfing song. It's not so much the lyrics of this one that I like, it's the music. It's just so simple, yet so beautiful sounding.

This album is just amazing. It's easily one of the greatest albums of any genre of all time. It's really hard to not like this album, unless you just hate guitars and drums and awesome vocals.

NBA All-Star Weekend

So, nobody cares about Friday night.I had a mostly enjoyable Friday night. Treated myself to a Chipotle burrito and all was well until some idiots showed up.

Saturday I went to the All-Star Practice and didn't take a camera. It was cool just to see them all there and stuff but the MC was a complete retard and made me not want All-Star Weekend to ever come back. But the Jam Session was all geared towards children and crap. I did get within like 10 feet of Yao Ming. That was pretty awesome. That man is quite large. I didn't get to watch All-Star Saturday Night (always and forever my favorite) because of the idiots at MY house.

I didn't watch much of the actual All-Star Game.

But, I have since been able to watch all of Saturday Night. After it was all ruined for me. Dwight Howard did possibly the worst dunk that he could've to end the night. Nate Robinson actually deserved this one. He clearly robbed and stole from Andre Iguadola in 2006. It was a great Saturday Night that turned into Monday Morning for me.

I guess I just wanna say that my perfect weekend was ruined because some of my family absolutely HATES me. Like, Mark is good company. He doesn't bother or destroy anything. But, I just wanted to watch the festivities in a quiet, restful place.

Superbowl XLIII

I, of course, picked the Cardinals to win the Superbowl as soon as I knew that they would be in the playoffs. My mother is my proof for that. I did start to let doubt creep in when the Steelers beat the Ravens; however, I still stayed true though.

So, 27-23. If the refs hadn't called two extremely unfair personal fouls on the Cardinals in the third quarter, it's 24-23 with 35 seconds left and two timeouts. A very different ballgame. But, I've gotten sick of blaming the officiating since I used to do it for the Suns all the time.

The bottom line is that the Cardinals defense just didn't get the job done. The defensive line couldn't grab the 7 they chasing. The secondary couldn't do anything right. They bit on every little fake that the Steelers put out there. The offense did something that no one else has been able to do. They put up two touchdowns in the fourth quarter against the best defense in the NFL. The offense put the defense in position to cement a win by forcing either a three and out or a turnover on downs. But they couldn't stop the Steelers. Even when the Cardinals have 8 DBs in there, they still give up a huge play to Santonio Holmes.

One thing that I will never understand is why Ben Roethlisberger threw the ball to a guy in the corner of the endzone in triple coverage. Hats off to the Steelers on that play. A perfect throw and a perfect catch.

But, no matter how you look at it, Kurt Warner threw an incomplete pass on that last play. There should have been a review. The Cardinals had already won two challenges and the review should've been granted to them as a reward for obviously bad officiating earlier.

It's just sad that in this great country, the United States of America, the greatest country on earth, it takes a terrorist attack for an Arizona team to be granted due process of law and given the chance to win a championship.