Monthly Archives: December 2005

Gang Of Four — Return The Gift (2005)

Gang Of Four is one of the orig­i­nal pio­neers of the British punk rock scene in Leeds, Eng­land. Fea­tur­ing the orig­i­nal band mem­bers of singer Jon King, drum­mer Hugo, gui­tarist Andy Gill and bass gui­tarist Dave Allen, GoF returns with Return The Gift — a new re-imagined com­pi­la­tion com­prised of songs from the band’s ear­lier works.

31 December 2005 – 12:18 am | By Tan The Man | Posted in Entertainment | Tagged | Comments (0)

Almost A Happy New Year!

Just in case I for­got tomor­row night, I’m going to say it now. Happy New Year! 2006, here I come. Prob­a­bly my res­o­lu­tion will be to limit the spend­ing I do with my plas­tic. No more… er… less.

30 December 2005 – 6:57 pm | By Tan The Man | Posted in Everyday | Tagged | Comments (0)

Too Many Magazines

What I didn’t forsee in apply­ing for a few free mag­a­zine sub­scrip­tions a few years ago would be the ran­dom mag­a­zines that I would get regard­less of me say­ing yes or no to them. For every free ESPN and Game­pro mag­a­zine sub­scrip­tions, I received an Ebony, Women’s Home Jour­nal and many Chris­t­ian mag­a­zines. Score one for karma. Darn u!

28 December 2005 – 4:17 pm | By Tan The Man | Posted in Stuff | Tagged | Comments (0)

The Greenhornes — Sewed Souls (2005)

Heav­ily influ­enced by rock roy­al­ties like The Bea­t­les, The Byrds and The Doors, The Green­hornes strive to make rock sim­ple again. No flash, just down and dirty clas­sic rock. The lat­est album Sewed Souls is a com­pi­la­tion of tracks from all of The Green­hornes’ pre­vi­ous albums: Gun For You (1999), The Green­hornes (2001), Dual Mono (2002), East Grand Blues (2005). Any­one who missed the band’s pre­vi­ous works will do well to pick this up.

26 December 2005 – 7:46 pm | By Tan The Man | Posted in Entertainment | Tagged | Comments (0)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christ­mas to all you dorks and losers out there.

24 December 2005 – 9:14 pm | By Tan The Man | Posted in Everyday | Tagged | Comments (1)

King Kong Is Disappointing

It was billed as the film of the Christ­mas hol­i­days. Yes, I enjoyed it, but I left the the­ater with a feel­ing of dis­ap­point­ment as well. There was pretty cool effects, and almost non­stop action. But if the heart of King Kong is the rela­tion­ship between Kong and Dar­row, then I didn’t feel it. I felt it, but I think I needed more than what was shown. Oh and yes, it was a tad too long.

23 December 2005 – 11:33 pm | By Tan The Man | Posted in Hanging Out | Tagged | Comments (1)

Braces Come Off Soon

I’ve had braces for thir­teen years, three months, twenty days and this morn­ing. It’ll only be a cou­ple of months to go, and the only true wish that I’ve wished for myself will come true. I almost cried when my ortho­don­tist told me the good news…

21 December 2005 – 5:16 pm | By Tan The Man | Posted in Stuff | Tagged | Comments (0)