Turkey Dinner with Phil.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone. Seriously. Happy Turkey Day.

Here's the list of what I am thankful for this year:

- This year not being as bad as the last.
- The friends that will still talk to me.
- Ohio being Democratic.
- Sam Craighead becoming my internet friend. He really understands me and if you give him a chance he'll understand you too.
- That all of my friends- even ones that won't really talk to me- seem to be doing well. (As a side: please make sure that Aaron Lange is something resembling OK.)
- Chris Lutsko has a job and lives with Bumbiques.
- The Cleveland Cinemateque
- Dan Watson.
- All of my fellow NDAers, I miss you guys so much (i'm looking at you fern,bobby,carter,wags, and kevin!).
- Living in Cleveland with my brothers and family and friends again.
- Awesomezone
- Rock and Roll
-Seanzilla
-Doom Metal
- The fact that I lived to see the fucked up Michael Richards thing.
- YTMND
- NINTENDO 64!!!
- Ghostbusters
-The Lemonheads
-B.lavalleys care packages.
- Kevin Kurgis.
-Lebron James

Ok. what are YOU thankful for????

Why I am not your Problem.

I recently received a nasty email from a fan that read (verbatim):

dear verticalphl,

I am so angry with you that you didn't come to my birthday party for my 10th birthday. It would have made it a much better birthday because I found out that my ferrett died and that my father is gay. I hate you.

sincerely,
Craig C. Nelson
New Haven, Connecticut


You can imagine my shock when I found this in my mailbox Monday afternoon. Anyhow, I have a message for young Craig and everyone else who would like to blame me for their dead ferrett, bad birthday, and gay father:
Disappointment is the act of unreasonable expectations leaving the body.

Sunday Music Video Shakedown

Rick Astley's 80's dance hit is ANYTHING but PG:




I've always had trouble turning away opiates, but this one is the hardest to kick:



Make no mistake about it, there is absolutely nothing cool about The Smithereens:



Good populist working class anthem from a sorely missed legend:



Yup, I still know evey Bad Religion song before 1999 by heart and I'd bet 10 dollars that all of you know this one:



Favorite dfa release of the year and a band that makes great videos to boot: