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By admin on
12/29/2008 2:06 PM
- run more (made easier thanks to aw and the running shoes she bought me)
- mix the va recordings in the next couple of weeks
- something i resolved to do last year
- something else i resolved to do last year
- do another dtb podcast
- buy a 12-string guitar
- sell the house
- finish the christmas '07 album
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By coacher on
12/26/2008 3:38 PM
blog-nation,
i trust all had a merry christmas. i did.
you all already know about my chocolate lab and laser range finder (which will work for me while i'm hunting or golfing). HOWEVER, jenny beered me some sweet wool, columbia camo pants. they will be very warm. along with that, a -40 degree sleeping bag. i know we are in a recession, sorry to rub it in like i am a new york yankee or something.
anyway, jenny and i are headed to south dakota for some camping, snowboarding, and many other great activities with the tuckers (bryan and holly). thanks to gary wilson, i have some snowboarding pants and goggles. thanks to fs and bradley t for the use of snowboards. if i snowboard anything like i wakeboard, the borrowed boards will be safe. if i snowboard like i wakeboard, then gary may get his pants back with the yikas worn out in them. i will do my best.
i will answer what many people have been asking us about our trip. YES! yes we will be in a tent camping in south dakota in late december. now that you know, don't be jealous. i hope officer tucker is carrying her pistol in case big animals approach our tent. if not, i have full confidence that my wife can fight off any animal with her bare hands and smokin' hot good looks. keep in mind, she did run a marathon in alaska. we are safe.
also, my first semester of shepherd school is finished. i will let you know my grades when they come out (unless they suck).
happy new year e'rybody.
my new years resolution is: in 2009 i will fight tooth and nail to see to it that the admin and admin's wife will get their 2007 album out.
that is all,
coacher
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By fswalker on
12/18/2008 8:16 PM
well shan and i were at pro bass last night, finishing up some christmas shopping (shan's turkey call got waterlogged and now it only attracts buzzards), and we stopped just before we left to look at a few of the 1,000s of animal heads hanging on the wall. a nice fellow comes up to me (i'm sure he saw me and figured, "this guy must be a big-game hunter") and says something to the effect of "man these are huge aren't they." i reply "yep they are". then he starts on his deer stories - "yep i had one a couple years ago that was an 11-pointer that doesn't even compare to these, and that thing was 250-lbs. and that wasn't even field dressed! i reply "really? man!" (in my head i'm thinking "i have no idea what that means, but he's pumped so it's good). then he says - "did you see the one over there with the velvet still on it?" I say "nope, where at? (in my head i'm thinking "what in the world does that mean?"). he says "that thing must have been young to have that much velvet on it." I say "yep it must have been" (in my mind I'm thinking "I hope this guy doesn't ask me one thing about hunting). for all you non-hunters, velvet is this mossy looking stuff on the deer's rack. looks pretty disgusting. so we look at a few more bucks and we go our separate ways. nice guy.
point of the story is that huntin' really brings people together. and i have a feeling that if it would've been stevie and i there at the pro bass, we would have been with that guy for 30 mins telling big-game huntin' stories.
to finish the blog off, i need to warn everyone:
the way we watch tv is changing. Beginning sometime in Feb, your old tube tv won't work. There are 3 things we can do about it:
1. buy a $40 thing that will make your old tube tv work
2.you can buy these HD wraparounds shades. these make everything HD (so i assume they'll make an old tube tv hd). This is your best bet as they are uber-hip and fashionable. www.hdwraparounds.com/ver18/index.asp
3. or we could do like the old days and have a sit-down protest with chains and all the rest. we can't let The Man tell us what kind of TVs we can watch - the next thing you know, they'll stop making laserdiscs for our laserdisc players
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By coacher on
12/17/2008 8:03 AM
i heard my inner andy talking to me and he said loud and clearly....blog me!!
so i will.
i am going to get personal with this blog, so if you have no response, i understand.
jenny and i are learning alot of new things being newlyweds as i am sure all of the other newlyweds are learning as they go as well. i will now give you an example of something that jenny has learned. (this is where it gets personal). you see, when i go to the bathroom (#1), i frequently get what i call the "pee-chills". i am sure there are many different words for this, but it happens nonetheless. i think that my wife thinks i am crazy, however, the visual evidence of the goosebumps on my arm can not be denied. NOW, i am not going to ask any of you (guys) if this happens to you, BUT.......
i warned you!
on a different note. i am about to blow your mind!
go check out steepandcheap.com
go check out whiskeymalitia.com
happy holy days to you all
i am
coacher
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By admin on
12/15/2008 10:58 AM
not done yet, but here ya go...
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By missy on
12/10/2008 12:46 PM
Admin and I rarely make it to the theater to see a movie (although, I highly suggest going to The Moxie located in downtown Springfield). Therefore, we rent movies and watch them at home - it saves on the cost of a babysitter, high priced tickets, popcorn, buncha crunch, and cokes. The only problem is, it usually takes us several attempts to get through the movies we rent (we're now old and fall asleep before they're over). We're terrible at returning them - we just "bought" our first redbox flick and still haven't actually watched the movie! Well, last night, we thought we'd try "Then She Found Me", and we watched the whole thing... start to finish! This stars Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler and Matthew Broderick. As you can see, this is a "can't go wrong" cast. The movie was excellent! I won't tell you too much, but it's about a 39 year old New York City school teacher (and no, the fact that it takes place in NY is not the only reason I enjoyed this movie, although, it certainly was part of it) who longs to be pregnant with her "own" child. Okay, that probably doesn't really entice you to see it, but trust me, it is good! Helen Hunt stars in it, co-produces, co-writes, and directs. If I can somehow squeeze it in, I'm going to try to watch it again today!
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By caleb cox on
12/10/2008 6:27 AM
- A twenty something slacker gets dumped by his girlfriend for having no direction in life. He calls in sick to work to try and win back the girl of his 'dreams'. Because our hero gets away with everything, a fellow co-worker skips out as well to catch him red handed. Ive had this idea since '99.
- This is my Big Chill idea. A tragic death happens in a very close circle of friends. Thoughts are reflected on how this person impacted his friends. Trust me it sounds better in my head. This is my atempt at drama.
Sorry, but this computer is super slow at work. More to come.
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By caleb cox on
12/1/2008 7:38 PM
Time to get serious, and I'm already behind! 31 and I still don't know what I want to do with my life. The future is still bright with nothing holding me back, so that is still a plus. The hard cold truth is that I do not know if filmmaking is my calling. I know I don't want end up wasting time with film school only to work on movies for the rest of my life, I want to be an artist not just some union 9 to 5er.
Time to get creative and start writing something before my window of opportunity closes for good. My goal right now is to show this person something so I can at least hear 'good job, your heading in the right direction' or 'don't quit your day job'. The latter is a goal because I believe I’ve never finished anything in my life, it seems everything with me is either half way done or never done. So here it goes, screenplay ideas (all lame), but you got to start somewhere because your first ideas surely can't be your best?
- A Metal band that was big in the 80's that fought monsters on the side, reunite 25 years later to face an evil that's been dormant for years, until now! (Might as well get the lamest one out of the way first. This idea came to me after a week of playing Guitar Hero and watching Ghostbusters 2.)
- A hit man that's also a boogeyman (somewhere between Michael Myers and Jason). I love movies that cross and mix genres together and I love mobster movies and slasher flicks. Thought of this idea when I saw Hero and the Terror, which was lame but cool Chuck Norris lame.
I got better ones, just ask Sam or Andrew.
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By caleb cox on
11/28/2008 10:42 PM
I went to the new Moxie Wednesday night and it was AWESOME!!! I will miss the old location, but the new theater is bigger and better than ever! I plan on going back this weekend to catch that New York film.
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By coacher on
11/20/2008 1:19 PM
in shepherd school, one of the questions they ask is "are you willing to go to jail for refusing to marry a gay couple?" i think they ask this b/c that consequence (jail) may not be as far as we think around the corner. then, today i read this article. it may have no relation to this topic at all, but maybe it does....
http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/GemmaMeyer.html
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By jonny on
11/19/2008 12:45 PM
I have officially boycotted Campbell 16 Cinema! I was complaining just the other day that they have raised their prices, and mentioned that I don't see the need to go there anymore now that the new theater has opened downtown and I can walk to it. I even made the comment that I doubt I go there again anytime soon. The thought that I wouldn't be going to Campbell 16 very often was simply an issue of convenience. Why drive to a movie when I can now walk to a movie? But things changed today! Oh,did things change! Now, not only am I not going there because there is a closer theater... I am boycotting it! I am not going there on purpose! Here is why...
So, I was riding down campbell with Admin today on our way to pick up some delicious Chipotle and my eyes wandered out the passenger side window and what do I see? A gigantic mural of galloping horses painted down the whole street facing wall of the theater! It's is this hideous painting of horses that makes me think I should be in some podunk town in Oklahoma wearing spurs, smoking a marlboro and complaining about how the coyotes keep gettin' my chickens. 1) I don't like horses in general. 2) I'm afraid of horses. 3) I don't find horses to be majestic, beautiful, pretty or any of the other words that people use to describe horses. 4)Horses are powerful beasts that can mame and injure people. 5)What in the world do horses galloping have to do with a movie theater or with Springfield?
I would understand the point of the mural if I were able to gaze out my window and see wild horses grazing in the lush Springfield greenery......but I can't. We do not have a wild stallion population here...so why would they paint that?
Campbell 16 crossed a line by painting that junk on their walls...the only way they are going to change my mind about this boycott is if I find out that the painting was part of some "make a wish foundation" wish-come-true thing for some person who's only dream was to paint a huge horse on a wall!
So long Campbell 16...."wild horses" couldn't drag me back!
* The only stipulation to all this is that my boycott won't actually begin until after I use my two free Campbell 16 movie passes that I got when I had to leave a movie early. But oh I swear....once I use them...I'm done. And when I use them you can bet I am not going to purchase any concessions while I am there and the $15.00 I usually spend playing Dance-Dance-Revolution? You can be dang sure that it's staying in my moonwalking, running man doing pocket!
Hello College Station 14, meet your new Daddy!
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By coacher on
11/17/2008 8:11 AM
yello,
i am not wishing thanksgiving away, as it is my favorite holiday of the year, however i must talk a little bit about christmas. it will be my first christmas as a married man and because i don't want to embarrass my wife, i will not go into detail about christmas morning. what i will discuss is christmas presents.
i was thinking i could get her a jose feliciano christmas album. she likes to travel and he is mexican, so....
i was also thinking about getting her some camo gear so she could join me in the woods, then i realized that if we got in the woods together with no-one else around, well....
so instead of those two gifts (which i very well could revisit at a later date) i figured going to south dakota for some snowboarding and other recreation would be best. not to mention, we get to go with the tuckers!!!
NEW SUBJECT:
no kidding, a rogersville 7th grade football player who started on 1st team defense and 1st team offense became very confused this season. he went to his coach and with great concern asked "coach, if both of those teams need to be on the field at the same time, do you have someone to fill one of my spots?" the coach replied, "now ________, when do you think that might happen?" then _______ replied, "well, i don't know, but i was just letting you know."
NEW SUBJECT
i wish you would all go watch 'expelled'. i will leave the reviews for COX. what i will say is this...
they interviewed some of the smartest scientists in the world (so they say). some of the stuff that was coming out of the scientist brains made me think. this is what i think. if the scientists said the exact same things, but in a slow southern draw, as if they lived in alabama or kentucky, instead of thier little snippy british accents, they would be cursed for fools. people would think they were the dumbest people alive. one crazy looking guy with a foriegn accent was asked, "were did life come from?", and he says, "well, it may have come in on the backs of crystals." of course. AND b/c he was a scientist with a foriegn accent, he must me right. ANYWAY, the movie was not a big push for creationists and that is why i liked it. it raises a legitamate question about educational freedom. see for yourselves.
ok,
it looks like that is plenty for this serving of blog.
that is all,
i am
coacher
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