So, my car's been in the shop for the last four (!?) days and i'm getting a little antsy. I wouldn't recommend fixing a car through insurance if at all possible. Especially for something as trivial as door locks. My car could have been fixed a week and half ago if I would have taken it where I wanted to. But, I took it to state farm's recommended shop and am in turn getting milked. In the meantime I am dring a little rental chevy aveo. And i do mean little, it's about the size of my thumb. The wheelbase is the same as my wingspan. And it wasn't exactly easy to get. Have you tried to rent a car without having a reservation? They treated me like I was applying for citizenship after just arriving from the moon. They needed three pieces of I.D., my place of employment, my mother's maiden name and a partridge in a pear tree. I couldn't come up with the last thing but promised a little somethin' somethin' when I returned. I'll give them somethin', alright!

In music news, three big discs are coming out this week:

Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
Tool - 10,000 days
the previously mentioned Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

The early reviews for PJ and Tool are nothing special. Since it seems that Tool has not progressed in any way since Aenima in '96, I'm with my man BBBoris (www.bigbadboris.com) in believing I am better off without them. Although, i might still check it out. All three of these albums can be found, in their entirety, at the bittorrent site www.seedler.org. I'm likely going to hell anyway, so why not go out with guns blazing.

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It turns out Paul Wall, he of the $30,000 grills, is teaming up with the transplants to record a new album under the name 'expensive tastes'. Well, it couldn't be worse than the last transplants album especially since Paul Wall can rap and the 'plants token white rapper, well, can't.

In conclusion, I got my tax check this week. If you don't see me around for awhile it's because I've already left for Vegas to begin a long bender. There'll only be a four or five words in my vocabulary for the next week or so: poker, strippers, blow and skeet skeet (this one's for you CVO).

GO OILERS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!