Matthew&#8217;s Weblog

Hometown Buffet!!!

November 6, 2009 by Catasphere

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Our bands show is tomorrow. Nervous is an understatement. The Whiskey a GoGo, tomorrow at 7:00 PM. Crazy, eh? It’s our first show too. You should come out. Anywho, I should probably update this more, but who gives a fuck. I’m in that “Fuck you all” mood. Bye.

Packed up for the gig tomorrow. Wish I could just leave it all behind.

October 29, 2009 by Catasphere

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My Top 20 Albums

October 20, 2009 by Catasphere

This came about because of Francisco Duran’s blog post of his top 10 albums, and then urging others to post theirs. This was a toughy, because I never really thought of my favorite artists too much, let alone albums. So I did you one better, my favorite 20 albums. Damn Straight.

My Top 20 Albums:

Bleach – Nirvana (Anyone who knows me, knows I’m a Nirvana FREAK.)
Evil Empire – Rage Against The Machine
MTV Unplugged – Alice In Chains
Audioslave – Audioslave (Their debut album.)
Damaged – Black Flag
Last Splash – The Breeders
A Rush Of Blood To The Head – Coldplay
My Own Prison – Creed (Yes, I’m a Creed fan. Fuck you too.)
Illiteracy Will Prevail – Fecal Matter (TAKE THAT INDIE!!!!)
At Folsom Prison – Johnny Cash
Meat Puppets II – Meat Puppets
Houdini – Melvins
Piece Of Cake – Mudhoney
Straight Out Of Compton – N.W.A.
Neil Young’s Greatest Hits – Neil Young (I know, I had to choose the greatest hits album.)
On Avery Island – Neutral Milk Hotel
One Day As A Lion – One Day As A Lion
Trompe Le Monde – The Pixies
In Rainbows – Radiohead (I would choose all of Radiohead’s albums, their completely amazing, but I like In Rainbows the best.)
Core – Stone Temple Pilots

On a side note, this aren’t in EXACT order of my favorite to least favorite. That’s too hard. Take it as a whole.

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Some Competition, Maybe? Verizon V.S AT&T/Apple

October 18, 2009 by Catasphere

Today Verizon revealed a little teaser site, confirming the rumor floating around of a new Verizon phone that’s going to compete with the iPhone. Or try to compete with the iPhone, I should say. I gotta say, though, that there’s a lot of things about the iPhone that piss me off. The battery, for one. Verizon’s teaser site starts of with slides of phrases mocking Apple’s infamous trend of starting product names with “i” and adding them to the things that the iPhone can’t do. It’s a lot of slides, then. It then goes through this crazy action movie-like transition onto the main page where you can sign up for the newletter, and there’s more slides of the Droid’s features.

I personally can’t wait for this phone. The slides are saying stuff like “High Speed, High Res, 10,000+ Apps,” etc. If it lives up to the hype, The Jesus Phone will finally have some competition, maybe urging Apple to actually start making the iPhone better. I’d also probably switch to Verizon, seeing as how their network is 40 million times better than AT&T’s network. If I was Apple, I’d be shitting my pants right now.

Ain’t It A Shame To Beat Your Wife On A Sunday, Ain’t It A Shame

October 17, 2009 by Catasphere

Geez, how time passes by. It feels like just yesterday, I wrote a blog post. In reality it has been about a week or so. Not a lot of new stuff going on, just practicing for our bands gig. I’ve been debating a name change, maybe you guys have any ideas? Right now it’s Sellout, but I’m thinking Reverie, which means daydreaming. I really like Reverie, makes us sound less hardcore than Sellout.

Anywho, Otherinbox is AMAZING. I just signed up for the service, and I’m blown away. Otherinbox is an e-mail service, of course, but has this revolutionary new idea. Basically, what you do is create a username, and then that username becomes your email address, for example mine is @catasphere.otherinbox.com (or @catasphere.oib.com). So all I have to do now, when I need my email address to sign up for something, I make up a new email address for that specific site, for example if I’m signing up for newsletter updates for Daring Fireball, I set my email as DaringFireball@catasphere.otherinbox.com OR DaringFireball@catasphere.oib.com. So I have a new email for every service. One of the first thoughts that came to my mind was, “What if someone finds out my username, then uses it and I get a hell-load of spam?!” Well, you can then just use Otherinbox’s blocking service which lets you block out a certain email from contacting your account. AWESOME. There’s so much more that’s in this service, so if your interested go to http://www.otherinbox.com.

A Couple of Things About This Blog & Life

October 7, 2009 by Catasphere

This blog is going to go in multiple directions, matching up with my personality and interests. Sometimes I can be a moody over thinker, other times I’m in total GEEK mode, and sometimes… Well I honestly don’t know. I just though I should let people who read this know that this blog is me in a nutshell, so don’t expect topics to stay in one direction.

Now, onto my post. Life. It’s going ok at this moment in time. School isn’t too hard, music is going fairly well, relationships with family, friends, my girlfriend, all perfectly okay. I hate it all. It accounts for 80-90% of my boredom, and overall blandness. Not that I’ll destroy something because of it, but I’m just saying.
School is such a drag man. Seriously, I hate teachers. They think as if they’re so much better than us, as if they know so much more, and that they have every right to punish us, and that we have to listen. For example, those kids that go into shy mode when a teacher yells at them or something, and just obeys whatever she says. Fuck that, what right do they have? How is it that if we talk back, we get sent to the principle and whatnot? This school system is so fucked, from the inside out. Everywhere from financially, to.. well everything. It’s so true, what people say about the founders of this country. They were all fucking prudes. I hate how everything in the world is influences by religion.

Love is another thing bounced around. It’s funny, because the word is thought of to mean the one person you were meant for, and all that jazz. I think it’s all bullshit. I can almost guarantee that if you lived in a different city, you’d find “true love” there. By this, I mean that love is.. expandable. There no one person that’s meant for you, you can find someone in every city that is exactly like you, and you’ll love them. It’s hard to explain, but some of you might understand my twisted logic.

Fuck man.. I’m mad for some reason. Hehe, anyways, that’s the end of this post. Follow me on the twitters. (@Catasphere)

IM Clients?

October 6, 2009 by Catasphere

This is just a quick post, in regards to IM clients. I’m currently using Trillian, which is sort of.. bleh. I don’t like it much, and Digsby is complete bullshit. Anybody out there know of any good alternatives to all-in-one IM clients?

Btw, My last post suffered some serious formatting errors. Sorry about that, I can’t correct it now, because I’d have to individually go into each blog that I have to edit it.

P.S. I have a little YouTube channel dedicated to half-assed reviews and quick looks to tech shit. Check it out if your into that sort of thing. http://www.youtube.com/user/iphoneappsftw.