A Little Inspiration

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, It is between you and God;
It never was between you and them anyway.

Author Unknown

A whole WHAT thing?

"nother"
It's not a word, though people like to use it as one. They say, "Well, that's a whole 'nother thing!" or "I ate a whole 'nother piece." See, even my spell check doesn't like 'nother (hence the red underline). The phrase, I believe, you may be groping for is "another whole" as in "Well, that's another whole thing" or perhaps "Well, that's a whole other thing." End rant.

What word or phrase do YOU hate?

My money's on the bear

Animal face-off! Who would win in a fight between a bear and a shark?

My thoughts: Bears already like eating fish, so naturally it would go after the shark. The shark would try to bite the bear - where'er it can grab it - but the bear would grab said shark, heave it up on the bank, wait for it to die and then have brunch - with a slice of cantaloupe.

Various Hilarity

Over the past couple of months I've been bookmarking a bunch of interesting and/or hilarious things that I've been meaning to post to this blog.

Since I'm just now getting to it, consider this THE MOTHER LOAD. When you've got plenty of time, kick back and enjoy the following...

1.) Which instruments would the denizens of the Star Wars universe play and why? Here's a guess... http://alexplorer.net/guitar/text/guitar/wars.html

2.) Don't go to school stoned: http://weheartit.com/images/20090111012524.jpg

3.) Kittens Inspired By Kittens (a favorite of Kalli's...)



4.) I used to play this all the time at Luke Jacoby's house...



5.) The greatest video on all the internet. "Sweatin' like a farm animal, cool as a daisy." Classic!



6.) Have you ever been curious what happens when you mix Destiny's Child with a cat band? http://www.rathergood.com/independent_woman

7.) Musical Statistics - VERY funny if you're up on your pop song titles: http://www.just-whatever.com/2009/02/18/musical-statistics/

8.) Truer words were never spoken...

It's like trying to name the favorite of your children...

Lebowski fans out there: If you had to choose ONE line from the movie that you would say is your favorite, which one would it be?

So many to choose from, but for now I'm going with:

"Hey, careful, man, there's a beverage here!"

Runners up:
-"I'll be there, man" (as said to Marty)
-"Phone's ringing, Dude." + "I know, Donnie."

Lost Generation

Really want to know what's up?

While I'm trying to chime in on this blog when able, "micro-blogging" (through Twitter) is much more useful and ... well, easy.

I'm going to continue to add fun videos, big updates, pictures, etc to this site, but if you really want to know what I'm up to day-to-day, make sure you check out - or bookmark - my Twitter page (or subscribe to my 'tweets' if you're a Twitter user yourself).

www.twitter.com/trevorharden

Pizza Paste to Die For

So, I've discovered my new favorite pizza place. Apparently they're all over the South, but as the fam and I were spending Saturday leisurely strolling around Savannah, we stumbled into the Mellow Mushroom for lunch.

I've had a lot of pizza in my day, but this is stuff is amazing - bread-y dough and a tomato paste that has some wicked collection of herbs (one of which I can't figure out what it is, but is both odd and out-of-place and yet totally killer).

Plus they have DogfishHead's 60-min IPA, which just means... well, let's just say I'll/we'll be going back. A lot.

Flying Musicmen and Collections of Animals

So, I'm not as "with it" as I perhaps used to be, which is why I'm just NOW getting around to these cultural phenoms. Both of these acts have been out for quite some time but for whatever reason I haven't been hip to them until just recently.

ONE-

I love HBO's "Flight of the Conchords." The show follows a musical duo (orginally from New Zealand) as they attempt to take on New York City with their awesome, quirky novelty rock. Hilarious characters, brilliant musical numbers (there's usually 2-3 in each show) and outrageously dry humor (think "The Office" or "Napoleon Dynamite") and you've got FotC.

Here are a couple of my favorite musical moments from Season 1:

Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros


It's Business Time

TWO-

It's been quite some time since I've heard something that is totally unique, totally original. I've found just that in Animal Collective - the 3-4 piece avant-garde musical group with an enormous indy following. Their newest album "Merriweather Post Pavilion" is absolutely brilliant: amazing layers of sounds, unusual harmonies, catchy melodies, danceable African-like beats, repetitive trance-inducing parts - all with occasional hints of The Police, The Beach Boys and Paul Simon.

Make sure you watch the full thing long enough to get to the chorus - which comes in about 60% through and then again at the end:

Hmm...

As a major nerd Star Wars fan, this is either going to rock or be uber-lame. Judging from the trailer alone, I'd say: great premise, weak execution.

Getting the hands dirty

Screw bread machines... This is way more fun.

Best Book Review Ever?

You might have to click on it to read it full size...

Santa Needs a Bail-Out

Pretty darn funny... and timely...

The Secret Beauty of Their Hearts

Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed... I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.
[Christian mystic, Thomas Merton]

Bob!

Holy crap, we get Bob and Tom on tv in South Carolina! Score! (Haven't heard this in 6 months!)