Rich Hoey

He’s better at it than me. We’re gonna create some together shit soon. It’s going to be our top accomplishment. Please get excited about this stuff, we made need your support to make some dreams come true. Thanks everyone.

joepending:

thedailywhat:

PSA of the Day: CollegeHumor has teamed up with the cast of Community, er, I mean the students of Greendale, to ask for your help in saving Community. I mean Greendale.

Think about it: Would you really want to go on living in a world without Greendale?

I mean Community. 

Awesome.

A Year of Things in Review 2011: My Favorite Things

#19 Pop-Punks Not Dead Tour

For as long as I’ve been listening to music, I’ve been listening to pop-punk. sure, there was a brief time in late middle school to early high school where I pretended I hated it and instead dove into cooler sub-cultures of music like ska and orgcore stuff, which I still do dig, but it was unfair to bail on pop-punk. (Basically listen to what the fuck you want, and fuck anyone who says different) This tour was basically the culmination of my musical tastes and my growth as a person. New Found Glory was headlining. New Found Glory. There were one of my top bands when I was a kid, like way younger, these dudes are why I’m into pop-punk, the bassist has a Taylor Swift tattoo, NFG is pop-punk, and what do they do with that power? They put together a kick ass tour complete with some friends and the best bands fucking doing it right now.

This Time Next Year.

Man Overboard.

THE WONDER YEARS.

Set Your Goals.

NEW FOUND GLORY.

Every band on here rules, if you’re not listening to them, really consider checking them out. Hard working dudes who love what they do and it shows.

The most important band to me on here though, is obviously The Wonder Years. If New Found Glory got me into Pop-Punk when I was a kid, The wonder Years are keeping me around the scene now. Seeing the two of these bands share a stage was just an incredible experience, it reminded me of everything I’ve ever loved about going to shows and why I keep coming back. It reminded why I rushed my British literature paper that was due at 8am the next day. When I was on the floor shouting along non-stop, the outside world didn’t matter at all. The positivity, the brotherhood in that place was unreal. I left covered in bruises and i lost a contact, my head was pounding, I was probably sick, but it didn’t even matter.

This show taught me that I’ve grown a lot older, but I’ll refuse growing up until I absolutely have to. Thanks New Found Glory. You guys have always been tehre through music, you’re fucking New Found Glory, this tour was your gift to us, and it was well received. Pop Punk Isn’t Dead.

And Soupy? Of The Wonder Years? You get me.

Final Verdict: Probably the best tour front to back of 2011, if I wasn’t in school I probably would have followed a few dates with my brother. One of my favorite parts not related to music was when the girl I ended up hanging out with during New Found Glory’s set told me what their encore was going to be because she’d read it on tumblr earlier that day. She was spot on.

Score: I caught this tour on the Buffalo date at the Town Ballroom, quickly becoming one of my absolute favorite venues, teh floor is just big enough to allow people to throw down but there are also areas to stand and chill by the bar. Space for everyone. Also in Buffalo, every band that comes in to play a show makes a reference to our sports teams.  

10 Angry Twenty-Somethings Complaing That New Found Glory Sold Out After “Nothing Gold Can Stay” Which They Own On Vinyl Out Of 10

Guys, just buy me this.

A Year of Things in Review: Things That Sucked

#20(ish): Allen Gregory

I watch a lot of television. When  say a lot, I fucking mean it. TV is a pretty essential part to my life. As such a fan of TV who watches as much as I do, I often find myself devouring shows and running out of things to watch, at this point I go “Boy, am I glad that new shows are made every goddamn season! I’ll never run out!” and i try out some new shows. I’ll also point out my love of animation. animated films, shows, all of it. (Not Family Guy.) I’m pretty much excited about it. Hell, I’ll even let you in on the fact that I’m a fan of Jonah Hill, I love him in some movies, I tolerate him in some, I like him. He’s likeable.

This fucking show isn’t. At all. 

 The main characters are assholes, which can work (like in Always Sunny), but it doesn’t here, they come off as annoying and horrible and legitimately upsetting.  Allen Gregory himself is some like 8 year old kid, who’s a total prick and is horribly to literally everyone. Except his principal, who is an 80 year old woman, who he speaks of having sex with. Sex. Dude is ,maybe , 10 years old. That just makes no sense.

Th plot is just bad. He’s going to school so his dad can, do something, I think money’s involved. His dad also married a male underwear model, who is made to do nothing, and just be handsome but is actually the only decent person in the family, and all he is is shunned. I think that’s a joke. fuck it. So anyway, he goes to school, and assumes he’s great but he isn’t, at all. And just douches around being condescending and such, and basically does that for 22 minutes. He has a sister, nother joke is treating her like shit. This show has humor by the fucking barrel.

The thing about this show though, is that it’s actually worse than that, as in the show is worse than the sum of its parts. which should be impossible, but this show shines when the pressure to out do what should be awful, and make it even awful-er. 

I made it two episodes in. That’s all I could do. Starting the 3rd literally, physically hurt me. I had low expectations for a Fox animated series, and those were way too fucking high.

Verdict: Don’t watch this. Your soul will hurt.

Final Score: I did not laugh once. Not in two damn episodes. I smiled ONCE when the hamster commercial for that car came on. I love that shit. I feel I can’t give a score based strictly on that, but I’m going to.

0 Laughs (at all) out of 10 Dancing Hamster Commercials For That One Car

I really thought I had a shot a “Douchiest Profile Pic” this year.

joepending:

Patent Pending’s official music video premiere: “Douchebag!”

From the new full-length album “Second Family” (Please repost!)

A Year of Things in Review 2011: My Favorite Things

#20 (or something along those lines): NBA Jam: On Fire Edition

NBA Jam is basically the encompassing of everything I understand about basketball. I know almost nothing about basketball. When I was a kid my babysitters son, who was my friends as well sometimes things work out, owned a Sega Genesis. He had a lot of games (probably, I don’t really know). We I only really played two of them, Vectorman and NBA Jam:Tournament Edition. NBA Jam is the single greatest sports video game franchise ever thought up by mere mortals. It has the greatest announcer, the most insane characters. This game series even made the incredibly important contribution to modern pop culture by, almost singlehandedly, introducing the phrase BOOMSHAKALAKA into our collective vernacular. When the series was rebooted by EA sports in 2010, it was awesome. This new version is (I’m assuming) BETTER THAN THAT ONE WAS. It has features like, blue fire achieved through your extreme prowess and skill of delivering alley-oops, and better online. Most importantly. SHAQ was a guest announcer on a very small part of this game. Fucking Shaq. Shaquille O’ Neal. One of my top 10 Basketball players of all time (Note: My top 10 basketball players list isn’t based on stats, or championships, or really anything on the actual basketball court in the real world)

Verdict: This game is fucking incredible. If you don’t have it, get it. It’s only like 15$ to download. If you’re not willing to spend that to change your goddamned life for the better, we can’t be friends. Also, if you don’t like NBA Jam, we can’t be friends. This is very important to me.

Final Score: “He’s got the hot hand..”

“He’s heating up..”

“He’s ON FIRE”

“KNOCK KNOCK. Who’s there? BOOMSHAKALA’S THERE BUDDY!” 

10 Shaquille O’ Neal “Clever” Nicknames out of 10

December means the year is basically over. December is like the Saturday of the year. Sure, it’s a lot of fun but after it you have to start all over, basically. The days of the week metaphor is also inherently flawed. Fuck.

Anyway, since the year is basically over, that means it’s time for lists of the years best albums, movies, books, people, etc. I think those are bullshit.

What I’m going to do instead is make of list of my favorite things of this year. Anything is fair game.

There’s gonna be like.. 20 things. Or something around there.Whatever, it’s my list.

Arrested Development 2: Greendale

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Wait, where’s Community?!

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Delicious.

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Fake Anything Is Readying An Ad Campaign For All Of Your Inside Jokes

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Dope.

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Who needs a crew neck to stay warm this winter? #comingsoon #11/25/11