Badgering me actually works

So I'm hanging with my friends Mary, Meghan, and Nicole, and Nicole is talking about how she is going to Madison for Halloween tomorrow. Then I start talking about how I'm going in a few weeks(possibly) to go see subtle. And now a half hour later, Mary Meghan, and I have decided to go to Madison as well. I can get to see Julie, who actually throughout the summer told me to goto Madison, because it is like the largest party ever. And I always said if I had people to go with, and split the gas, I'd do it. And here I am. Wow. $25 to get to Madison isn't that bad at all, and it is a rare chance and the type of random idea that I love. So yeah, just thought I'd let ya know.

TWIMMWAKUMM: SEPOMBDWDM

This week is TWIMMWAKUMM: Special Edition Post On My Birth Day With Downloadable Music. I have all the music to be put into the station and am currently ripping them all so I can have them and so I can make a mix of defining tracks off of each album.

**EDIT**
Okay, so I started this on tuesday and have not been able to find a place to host a 48kB file without taking an hour to upload. So, until I can get it uploaded, here is the rest of the original post.

Here is the track listing (there isn't a specific order to it):
Artist - Album - Track
Annuals - Such Fun - Springtime
The Noises 10 - The Hammer, the Anvil, the Stirrup - Lay This Armor Down
Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads - Never Miss a Beat
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul -
of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping - Gallery Piece
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Cardinology - Magick
Roster McCabe - The Rythm/The Elements - The Traveller
Ray La Montague - Gossip in the Grain - Sarah
Lake Street Dive - Promises, Promises - The Panhandling Song
Diet Kong - Coma Motor Inn - Lines and Lines
Frances - All The While -
The Mighty Orq - To the Bone - Rainy Day
FM Belfast - Made in Iceland - Lotus

More info on each track, artist:

Annuals - Such Fun - Springtime
This band kept reminding me of weezer, but then would stop it immediatley, it was very annoying. So I don't know exactly what to call it or what to say about it. It sounded like ben folds(thanks meghan for that) but with guitars, and some very rocking guitars at that.

The Noises 10 - The Hammer, the Anvil, the Stirrup - Lay This Armor Down
This band sounds a lot like the local band the alarmists, and so I kinda like it. I dunno.

Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads - Never Miss a Beat
This is an album I liked a lot, but for a somewhat different reason than usual. The music isn't the greatest in the world, but it brings me back to sophmore year when I went to a Weezer concert with my brother, and kaiser chiefs opened. It was actually a birthday present, so hey look at that, four years later, here I am. But anyways, this CD is very much like the Kaiser Chiefs first CD, Employment, but it is a little more calm. They are a lot more like blur this time around, which i also like. So if you enjoy blur or their first CD, try this one out.

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul -
This is probably the first actual CD of Oasis that I've heard. I've only really heard Wonderwall, Champange Super Nova and Sex in the Bushes. So for me, I'd day this album was a little more rocking and louder than their other stuff.

of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping - Gallery Piece
I've heard of the band many times, but never really heard them. I think that this CD might be the wrong one to start listening to for the band, it's kinda really weird. the whole album is almost all about sex or some related topic. The songs are good and if you look past the lyrical content, it's all good.

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Cardinology - Magick
I'm not too familiar with Ryan Adams, so I don't have much to say about this one.

Roster McCabe - The Rythm/The Elements - The Traveller
I love this band. So much. I first went to see them with some friends from morris and it was such a great experience. The band is 6 people that know how to jam. Each song they played felt like they played the song and then kinda improvised over it again. It was great. The style is like reggae mixed with jazz. I highly recommend this band live, you can find some shows recorded live and they are pretty good as well. And this song is just my favorite, the guitar is soo good!

Ray La Montague - Gossip in the Grain - Sarah
An interesting guy, but I liked it.

Lake Street Dive - Promises, Promises - The Panhandling Song
A jazz oriented band that just kinda knows how to make good music.

Diet Kong - Coma Motor Inn - Lines and Lines
Kinda strange music at times, but good.

Frances - All The While - Cousin
Kinda one of those indie bands. Not bad, not anything too new.

The Mighty Orq - To the Bone - Rainy Day
The cover of this album is somewhat misleading. In fact, the picture of the band and their names are also misleading. Overall, I'd say I wasn't expecting this type of music from this band. They play kinda grungey blues, but the song that is on this mix is a little different from the rest of the album.

FM Belfast - Made in Iceland - Lotus
This blew my mind and I had to share it. It's from this CD that was a mix of bands from Iceland and though we don't really put mixes into the station I gave it a listen and this is the first track. It is a cover of Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name Of. Just listen.

Yellow Eyes

So, I was in the campus cafe today, and I went to the bathroom and when I looked in the mirror, my eyes were yellowish. Like, a tint of yellow. I was kinda freaked out, so I went to WebMD and found that it is something that happens when your liver isn't happy. When you have hepatitis or mono. But then I thought to what I have been up to the last few days and it made more sense. Last Friday I hung out with friends and went to zombie prom and stuff and stayed up to 5. Then Saturday I hung out with more friends and drank an entire two liter of Shasta cola and a starbucks double shot energy drink. I also ate like 5 grilled cheese sandwiches, 4 cinnamon rolls, and in the morning ate two McGriddles (each 440 calories). Then I went to bed at 10 (on Sunday) and woke up at 3 something. Ate more and drank more cola till Monday morning at 8 when I went to bed for two hours. Then I woke up at 10:24 to goto calculus. I never really go unless I have to turn in homework or take a quiz, and I thought we had a quiz. So I get to class, sit down with just my pencil and guess what, no quiz that day. but we got out midterm exam back and it reminded me why I don't goto class, 95/100. So then I goto my second class and then do stuff, review music, play guitar hero until I have to go watch a movie for my English class. Then I eventually went to bed at 11:30 and woke up today at noon to get back to work, cutting stencils, reviewing music, and such.
So I am not overly surprised that my eyes were freaking yellow, although it is a little scary. But they are back to normal, according to Mary and Meghan at least (but they never actually believed my story).

Live concert archive

So I was browsing the Roster McCabe website and found this archive of their live shows. I was pretty excited with the 4 or 5 shows. But then I started digging around the site and found that they have an archive of band's shows with 60,000 items in it. So I browsed and there were some notable ones in there. Fugazi, Mountain Goats, and the Decemberists were some one I recognized. So, take a look at the list and see if your favorite bands have some live shows up.
Here's the link.

P.S. There are about 2,000 live grateful dead concerts on the site, talk about a touring band.

reword'd

Like Tasha did, I used what Julie wrote To write something about me. It wasn't as easy as I wanted.

"This year is" "active." "I like my" "active" "life." "I like my" "habits and tendencies" "this year." "The logic behind" "me" "is" "not" "all" "negative and" "lately" "I'd" "note" "that" "what" "truly upsets me" "is that" "things happen" "and" "my person" "is" "not" "responsive." "My cynicism" "is" "a side" "that" "is" "pressing." "It" "is" "me;" "a side" "that" "I" "know."

mARTin: kumm shirt

Okay, so this is my rough design for the new KUMM shirts. I would like as much feedback as possible, because at this point I dunno what to add/remove/change/if it's any good at all.

I gather no moss when I'm rolling like this

So I got like 10 minutes until my radio show, but I'm doing pretty well at pumping out these posts so here's another one.
Last week I had an internship interview with Thomson Reuters, the largest IT employer in the state and the largest bandwidth user in the 5 state area. It went pretty sweet, I think I did alright in talking and answering questions. So hopefully I can get an internship there for the summer, 9 to 5, 5 days a week of technology internship with pay, sounds good right. I figure if I don't like it, it's only a 3 month deal and I can drop it and never work in an office building again (yeah right).
But the best part of it was a question they asked me during the "so you think your a compsci major?" part. The question is this: How do you determine if an integer is odd or even?
I'll let your brain digest this one for one sentence.
So, the next day after the interview, I have my comp sci seminar with my co compsci peoples. After class I was walking in front of a few of them and heard one mention the interviews. So I slowed down and started chatting with them about it. This one guy mentioned how he didn't know the answers to the questions they asked and I was like, well, I felt alright about them. So they talk about the even or odd question and they go over what they said for it. The first kid's answer was: "I said I'd divide it by two, and if it's divisible by two, then it's even. But they asked how I knew if something is divisible by 2 or not, and I didn't know." So, the next kid chimes in: "Wouldn't it be something like checking if the last digit is a 0, 2, 4, 6, or an 8?" Well, those are both really inefficient ways of doing the problem, which is why I was smiling the whole time because in my interview I got the question and replied: "Well, I'd mod 2 it and see if the remainder is 1 or 0." Then one of the interviewers slammed his hand on the table and exclaimed "That's what I'm looking for!" It was great at the moment, bu now I have the suspicion that I was after a string of wrong answers, meaning I probably left an impression, which is a great thing to do in an interview.