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JBox Fridays: New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

Ok, so it's not Friday...but I've been notified with the following warning from blogger:

WARNING

This blog has been locked by Blogger's spam-prevention robots. You will not be able to publish your posts, but you will be able to save them as drafts.

Save your post as a draft or click here for more about what's going on and how to get your blog unlocked.

what the hell? alright, so i clicked that convenient little link and found out that a spam blog is:

What Are Spam Blogs?

As with many powerful tools, blogging services can be both used and abused. The ease of creating and updating webpages with Blogger has made it particularly prone to a form of behavior known as link spamming. Blogs engaged in this behavior are called spam blogs, and can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site.


daaaaaaamnn...not only did they temporarily lock my blog, they insulted me at the same time! Oh well...here's this week's video anyway...yeah I know, it's a band repeat, but New Order had a knack for this kind of music!

JBox Fridays: Tainted Love - Soft Cell

AHHHHH!!! Large floating head in space!!! Seriously, while some of the previous videos have been pretty bad, this one goes the route of boring. I mean really boring...shoot, I'd rather they redid it with clips from the Coneheads movie just to make it better. If you don't know what i'm talking about, go check out that movie...it will all make sense...still, Soft Cell has a pretty catchy chorus in this song...

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My Awesome Friends - Part II

Jesse's 30th Birthday Party - Part 02 Set, originally uploaded by HandPuppet.


Why have a 30th birthday celebration when you can have 2? Well, as circumstances would have it, I had asked some peeps to hangout on Saturday night to celebrate my birthday. But some had already planned to do something for me on friday, as I mentioned in my previous post. So I got super lucky and in the end had an awesome weekend because of it. Above are some pics that Sung took for Saturday. Enjoy!

My Awesome Friends - Part I

I'm now officially not a 20something anymore. But if this past weekend is any indication, it doesn't matter. My friends came out in a way I never could have imagined. While my birthday did not officially start until midnight Sunday morning, some of my friends had other plans...check out Sung's recap of this past Friday on his blog:

Sung's Not-*that*-Unemployed Life (really)

JBox Fridays: The Human League - Don't You Want Me Baby

If you can make it through the whole video without joining in on the chorus, i'll be impressed. As far as the video goes, I'm still trying to figure out what was with the whole vampire look. hmmm...One more bit about the band, The Human League is still together! whoa! I'll have to go searching around to hear what their latest releases sound like. I can't imagine what they would sound like in a non 80's synthpop kinda way...

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Oh man, it's almost here...

Ok, so this isn't exactly the birthday I'd say I just can't wait for...Actually, I don't mind waiting at all! take your time! I was thinking about it recently...mainly to start the year off. I think I kind of went through a depressed phase thinking about all the personal goals I had setup for myself while growing up. For a while there, I felt pretty sad thinking I failed in some aspects.

Wasn't I supposed to be married with kids by now? Shouldn't I be some big shot in the corporate world? Shouldn't I be gearing up for the next "stage" of my life? Did I screw up somewhere? Did I make a right turn when it should have been left?

It's all BS though. The things I thought were "important milestones" are not things that should define me to this point. They're just things I thought I needed back when I was a kid. What the hell did I know, right? I've done so many things that I never dreamed I would do already and I still have a long life to go (hopefully).

and now for the cheesy bit...

I really do gush over the peeps in my life...my family is really close and even though I'm a good 1700 miles away from them, they have never ever made me feel distant. Anyone who has seen me around them can attest to how happy they make me. I have some pretty awesome friends both here in seattle and around the country too...shoot, they're my extended family...

Each year, I've been able to count on the fact that i'll meet new great people...learn more things at work...explore a little more of the world through my travels...shoot what the hell was I getting depressed about? bring on the big three zero and with that a new great year!