Jun
21
2009
So to follow up on my previous post that explored the sexual exploits of a girl named Shorty, word from the radio says that she’s been spotted one again on the dance floor…
… and she’s wanted for arson this time! (O_O)
You don’t mess with the Shorty… it could be dangerous.
May
15
2009
The new Green Day album came out today.
It is awesome.
I think that Green Day has been the band that I’ve been listening to the longest. When I started to get into pop music in summer of 1996, it was mostly all about the Spice Girls. Then in fall of 96, I really got into the ska punk band Smash Mouth and in spring of ‘97, I bought the Green Day album Nimrod. I was in the 7th grade.
Spice Girls pretty much faded away after that. Smash Mouth’s follow up album sucked. But Green Day continued to stick around. I got into their back catalog in the 8th grade with Dookie and Insomniac. In the year 2000, when I was a sophomore in high school, their new album Warning rocked me out so much that I actually dyed my hair green for a few months. I even went to a Green Day concert that following summer. And their 2004 rock opera American Idiot was one of the only CDs I seriously dug when I was in college.
21st Century Breakdown is another rock opera, but it seems to be less like American Idiot and more along the styles of Warning, a good mixture of different genres and influences. It’s not the Green Day of the 90’s, that’s for sure. That Green Day’s died with Nimrod and will never come back. But I really enjoyed hearing the wide range of Warning return with this album, and I think that I enjoy it much more than American Idiot.
Do you know the enemy? Because I don’t think they do.
The political message in Breakdown is just as stupid and shallow as it was in Idiot. The band really does come out sounding like a bunch of liberal posers with no message other than, “hey, Bush sucks, let’s rebel!” It’s purely just jumping on the bandwagon, and I hope that the next opera can tell a story that doesn’t involve politics, because that’s clearly something that they don’t have a clue about. Why not do something like The Decemberist’s latest opera and tell the story of centaurs, witches, and scally wags, hmm?
But still, despite it’s message of political ignorance, Green Day still rocks. I love the new album, and I just bought tickets to see them in Madison Square Garden in July. My first concert in many years, I’m so excited! (^_^)
Apr
27
2009
So what’s the point of Scott VonSchilling.com?
Originally it came about shortly after I graduated from college, got a full-time job, and moved out of my house. My new job had me finally working with modern Web 2.0 technology and programming languages, so I wanted to use it to make my own unique and fancy homepage. Bought my namesake domain and programmed an aggregate of my twitter and flickr account.
But then a few months later, I turned my attention towards my anime blog, The Anime Almanac, and completely left my namesake domain alone. Around April of last year, I dug up my old PHP code to the original site and adapted it to Anime Almaanc the Live, a Twitter aggregate involving multiple accounts.
But after a year of working on the anime blog, I did a vanity search on me using Google and found that the only information it returns relating to me is about my work on the Anime Almanac. But writing about anime is not what I do for a living, it’s just my side project. I’m a software developer first and foremost, and so I ultimately need a professional homepage to show the world who Scott VonSchilling really is.
So away with the old aggregate site and up with the brand new Scott VonSchilling.com. But what should I put up on it? Just having a page with a bio, resume, and links would be too boring for a Web 2.0 being like myself. That is why you now see a new personal blog occupy this space.
Apr
14
2009
I think that I end up listening to the Philadelphia rap and r&b radio station more than any other station during my daily commute. It’s probably because it’s the station with the least amount of commercials during that time. But what sucks is that I hate rap and r&b, so I’m able to recite all the words to the latest Flo Rida, TI, or Lil Wayne joint without actually being a fan of them. By now, I have become well aware of Shorty and all of her sexy moves on the dance floor, since every damn artist on this station likes to talks about her.
But there is finally a song that’s been popping up lately that I love to death. Kid Cody’s Day N’ Night is just so mellow and catchy that I end up blasting it every time it comes on the radio.
It’s been getting pretty popular lately. Hopefully this leads more interesting rap and r&b music and less about Shorty.
Apr
12
2009
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