November Rain.

Thoughts for the day…

1.  Greetings and salutations, people.  Thanks for coming aboard (the boat).  Let’s turn and burn.
2. One sentence per hook.  That’s it.
3. I think everyone who hates basketball is stupid, doesn’t understand it, or can’t play it.
4. I know that New Orleans is one of the best cities of all time.
5. Watch the first quarter for show, watch the fourth quarter for winning, and watch the middle to see who who Kerr puts in with his FOUR Warriors.
6. This is me explaining to a party crowd that I can play any single song by ear.
7. Bad pic.  
8. Seriously, come out with me and watch me drain 8-10 from the free throw line or 7-10 from three point range.  THAT is bball.
9. So, when I check out in May for a month, I have decided I will put together a $200 puzzle with 50% shit you can Google and 50% of knowing me.  It will be fun.
10. There will be prizes tonight, but only for selected people.
11. I had three hours to kill today and I couldn’t decide whose text to hang out with.
12. (that is sarcastic-I get one friend text per week tops).
13. I cleaned underneath my bathroom sink, but my “I want brunch” wife ruined my “let’s clean EVERYTHING today.”
14. Joe, congrats on your engagement.  You will get a prize.  But, unfortunately, you don’t READ the thing you invented (this) and therefore will miss out.  Maybe Marty will tell you.
15. Aside from my wife wanting brunch every weekend morning, I am on a workout BINGE.  At my rate, I will be as large and badass as my brother by 2026.
16. Dude pulls trucks, holds strong man competitions, and flips tires during lunch breaks.
17. He can beat up everyone on this earth except for maybe The Mountain.
18. Yes, Rudy, he could destroy you also.
19. So, when I BET on Wisco, they lose with points, and when I forget to bet on them, they win by 11.  Got it.
20. I am holding a Daytona 500 party next week if anyone wants to attend.  All appetizers will be on the left as you walk in.
21. I was 12 under after 9 today and ended up 14 under.  I blew it.  Dammit.  11 under the next game.
22. Does anyone else besides me and Vince know that Anthony Davis was a PG in high school before he grew a foot?
23. Growing.  Expanding.  I added chipotle ranch to my same old pasta salad for this week.  I am NUTS.
24. Corrine Olympios.  My bet.  Bachelor (you obviously don’t read ESPN Mag).
25. I hate John Calipari.  But him getting the back of Mark Fox (UGA coach) kind of made me like him…for like 30 seconds.
26. Bell’s Hopslam.  My new favorite beer of all time.  Dibs, Peter King.  I know you do the whole coffee and beer thing.  Sorry.
27. You learn something everyday.  We all know that Frozen Matter has a bar in their cooler (and if you don’t then you are an idiot).  They actually bring out drinks with your ice cream if you are nice even when Retro is not open.
28. I am HONORED to play a song on piano for Drew’s wedding (doesn’t read this-cue tree and forest).
29. I pretended to not laugh as much as I wanted to when Lindsey watched Schumer at the Apollo the other night.  Amy Schumer is such a badass.
30. This piano intro at the NBA ASG is INCREDIBLE.
31. If I say the word “chappelle” and “barn,” are you hip enough to know what I am saying.  Read the Undefeated on Sunday, slackers.
32. Jimmer had 73 in a game last night.  Let’s just get him in the NBA and watch ratings SOAR.
33. I was going to put a bunch of pics in this blog, but I didn’t do much this weekend, and I am about to jump off the couch for the first quarter of the ASG.  Not like I won’t have shit to say tomorrow.
34. I had “sriracha horseradish cream” today.  If you added “chipotle” to that description, I might have never left.
35. I try to ignore “Lindsey’s cat,” but the little girl just LOVES #twocatmark.
36. If you have seen the fight of the DIII player in bball, then you agree he should never play organized bball ever again.
37. I would go to the D-Bar again.
38. Ummmm.  Not bad picks for All Star stuff, aye?  Calling Gordon and Robinson makes me a guy…who should write a sports blog.
39. My wife called me in the bedroom last night RIGHT before the heat of the best horror movie of the last 40 years.  The Conjuring.
40. Haven’t seen it?  I hate you as much as people who don’t get bball.
41. Go see it.  Stop reading.  NOW.
42. (Waiting).
43. So, now we have just people who HAVE seen The Conjuring.  Moving on…
44. Baldwin.  17 times.  Him doing Trump is incredible.  I am so glad he realized he was funny and stopped doing Jack Ryan movies and such.
45. (over some people’s head Googling stuff…)
46. I think you can make ANY joke about Nick Nolte and coke and it will be funny.
47. No idea how many songs of Ed Sheeran I had listened to until listening to last week’s SNL last night.
48. When my wife wants fast food, I am as fast as Carl Lewis.
49. The Cheetos commercial from last week was EPIC.
50. When the HELL does The Voice start again…love that show.
51. Actually, just love Adam, Blake, and looking ta the female judges.
52. Bunch of three pointers to start this thing…need some McGrady throw off the backboard shit.
53. I might go see The Cure For Wellness on the FIRST night of release.
54. That McCarthy chick is one funny chick.
55. Did I miss the memo when all big guys participated in the NBA skills competition?  #porzingis
56. I realize that I have not been keeping to a one sentence minimum.  I don’t care.  Get your OWN blog.
57. This is my cat watching the ASG with me.  
58. I am #twocatmark I can do whatever I want.
59. Aaron Gordon must have been high.  Listen, you either do a NON under the legs drone dunk or grab that shit from the drone and crash the thing, and get a 50.
60. Did we not learn ANYTHING from Nate Robinson’s 50 attempts?
61. I wonder how long Steph Curry stayed at the gym shooting half court attempts last night.
62. I would like to thank UVA basketball for looking so bad that I got to watch TWO of the three ASG events last night.
63. We have no offense.
64. If you are about to ask me what “ASG” means, then proceed in reading another blog.  Geez.
65. The blog template thing is still very much alive.  I will release it before I head to meet Jason Bourne in May (think about it…lol).
66. Roy Williams pronounces Perrantes wrong if you haven’t noticed.  He is from Compton.  He is a senior.
67. Gordon Hayward was a Butler nerd junior year in high school.  He has increased his scoring average for 6 straight years if you care.  Tell your friends.
68. It is 43-39 with 2 minutes left in the 1st quarter-lol.
69. Westbrook just threw an alley oop to Durant that was DIRTY.
70. “Dirty” is my ultimate compliment.
71. I can’t wait to show you the pic.  My wife bought me the most DOPE workout sneaks for VDay I have ever even seen or heard about.  I can’t show them to you yet because they run short.  Had to send them back for a 15 size.
72. After loading 21 new workout songs, I have noticed I play the following the most.  Sixx AM Suffocate.  Sixx AM.  Prayer for the Damned.  Korn.  Take Me.  Three Days Grace.  Human.  Three Days Grace.  Fallen Angel.  Skillet.  I Want To Live.  Nonpoint.  Widowmaker.  More to come.  I am watching the ASG.
73. So, I went to Great Clips and explained exactly HOW I don’t like my fade to be up to the top of my head, she said she would note it, and then proceeded to do exactly what I asked her not to do.  Amazing.  Splitting the atom.
74. I went to church today.  Lindsey saw someone she knew.  I am proud to know that I go to one of the FEW churches in all of Denver who accept gays.  Stupid other religions…get real.
75. I decided the other night that I only need to pick ONE bracket this year for the first time in five years.  No need to think UVA can win it.
76. Prizes.
77. To my most loyal readers that I can tell…
78. Marty.  What is one plus one?  Monk on the line…no time limit.  Actually.  midnight.  Got to have rules.
79. Greg.  What is two plus two?  Monk on the line…no time limit. Actually.  Midnight.  Got to have rules.
80. Ralph (guy who I am pretty sure has never read my blog).  Who is the political theorist that I got an A+ on a paper in college because I disgreed with him in a 15 page paper with a 45 page addendum?  $20.  Midnight.
81. Joe G.  Midnight.  $10.  Three people I frame this blog on.  Actually, that is a tough one.  $20.
82. Let’s do someone random.  Dave Rathbun.  What socks did I just purchase last week with Hoban that I am wearing tomorrow morning?  Midnight.
83. Theme?  I once went to a party and was asked to play November Rain by GNR.  We woke up the next day and bodies were all over the floor.  I was asked to play the song once again and I replied I had never played that song ever.  I couldn’t play it.  I couldn’t learn it that morning.  If you think that music is not in your subconscious, then call me and I will give you 15 more examples.
84. I played it because I just felt it…sounds cheesy…I know.
85. I played Beethoven through my subconscious.  Just saying.  And Chopin.
86. Damn I was so good…
87. I got kicked out of a music school…how many people have THAT on their resume?  I was kicking the shit out of piano players who didn’t played sports and practiced six hours a day…sad.  Sorry, you losers.
88. My mother had to go talk down the new music teacher who took me on after I kicked out of the Wilmington Music School.
89. Moonlight…
90. “Give me the most ass composer who wrote shit that he thought no one could play…”
91. Franz Liszt.  Hungarian Rhapsodies…
92. If you want to lobby for my GNR partner in Denver this year, good luck, I probably will say no, and I WILL be there.
93. That’s it for today.  Hope you enjoyed or at least enjoyed.  Will I blog tomorrow?  That is a CLOWN question, bro.  Onward and upward, bro.  Peace.