...you could not love me now..."

I'm back in Hermosa Beach (home)...well for two days . On Wednesday, I go to what I hope will be my future college, Pepperdine (most beautiful campus in the U.S., one of the best schools, great location), to attend the Marv Dunphy Pepperdine volleyball camp. Dunphy has been the volleyball coach at Pepperdine for 20 something years, led the Waves to 4 NCAA national wins, and to 10 finals overall. He also led the 1988 Men's USA Olympic volleyball team to a gold medal. Anyways, he'll be there, maybe I'll meet him. Maybe the Stanford coach told him to check out my skills (if you don't recall, I was pointed out to the USC coach, our club owner, by the head men's coach from Stanford). That would be tight. my point is, i won't be here for 4 1/2 days (unless my iPod Touch magically appears so I can take it, or i'm allowed to take my computer), so try not to miss me . But know that I'm here vv

Now that's an awesome college !

Anyhow, they

They've also uploaded pictures from Junior Olympics to a website, so here's a few of me (please comment on my mad hops and/or badass hair :lol. The pics are good and i played well that game, but the team as a whole still had a bad game, and lost by a good bit

texstarphotostore.com Go to Boys Junior Olympic Championships, go to U14, page 4, and the one that says: SCVC Red, NOT just SCVC, and that's all of our pictures. You know my hair, so you now which one I am. Please look at Slide_40030, my best picture, showing off my 30" vertical, or in this case, 33" running leap, and getting my head above the net. Well, it was above when my jump peaked half a second later.

I haven't done a political note in a while, but things are looking oretty good for me right now. Obama is projected (based on an average of the natio's top pollsters like Gallup and Rasmussen) to win the popular vote by about 5%, not a bad lead. It was at 9% for a while, but that was because of a faulty survey in which he had a 20+% lead. As soon as that went away, it was back to about 5%.

Also, the Electoral College projections done by them, estimate a 322-216 electoral votes victory for Obama, including any states who's polls are close, though most polls that are close have McCain with a slight lead, meaning Obama has the chance to steal states from McCain, while McCain has less to steal (but Obama's states tend to have more votes, so it evens out). Excluding toss-ups, it's 255-163 Obama, with 120 toss ups. I think it will be a hell of a lot closer than that, but I'm stil fairly confident that Obama will win.

Obama has been leading a much better General Election campaign than McCain. According to polls, Obama has turned Ohio (average +4% lead), Michigan (average +7% lead), and Virginia (close, average 1% lead) from red to blue, and among a few other steals, gotten Florida polls down from McCain +8% to McCain +2%. Everything looking good for us Obama Dems. All you Republicans can kiss my a$$. In fact, here's a point:

http://freedomlovingrepublicans.com/

After all this debating over the greatest bands ever, defending myself to a rambling Shadow who was starting to drink, re-writing endless things because they got cut off, I feel like i'm gonna have arthritis in five of my fingers . It's a little old. Time to go back to good old fashioned personal biased lists.

MY TEN FAVORITE* MUSICIANS

*Decided partly by talent and versatility, but largely by whether or not I enjoy their music

1. Johnny Greenwood (after watching the Glastonbury 2003 video, no one can debunk him from here, he plays more than 10 instruments very well and is a brilliant composer and great with electronics in the music, hence Greenwood=God)

2. Jimi Hendrix (if you ask me for an explanation of his awesomeness I will shoot you)

3. Billy Corgan (a picture from when he was actually a god)

4. Thom Yorke (Wow, another Radiohead member, who didn't see that coming . Yorke is not only an exceptional songwriter, lyricist, vocalist, and a pretty good guitarist, but also one of the best personalities in all of music)

5. Chris Cornell (best rock singer of all time, tied with Freddie Mercury, great songwriter (not lyricist), and he writes some good riffs and plays the guitar well, but just the singing is all that really qualifies him)

6. Eddie Vedder (one of the best lyricists of rock, distinguishable and amazing vocalist, and a fairly god rythym guitarist, I also named him my hero, and therefore basically my idol because he's so awesome)

7. Kurt Cobain (while not the best vocalist, and not a mind blowing guitarist, he had his own very influential playing and singing ****, and was very consistent with his chops and had a distinguishable voice, plus he was one of the best songwriters in history)

8. Rivers Cuomo (as Shadow pointed out not long ago, proved that geeks could rock, which is a pretty huge accomplishment that led to the in

carnation of many bands. And when he writes good lyrics, he writes GOOD lyrics too)

9. Stephen Malkmus (brilliant songwriter, king of grungy guitar)

10. John Frusciante (as I've pointed out, Red Hot Chili Peppers, while still up there onmy favorite bands, don't have the same appeal as they used to. But Frusciante proves time and time again that he's one of the last guitar gods. On multiple occassions, he had solos on the last album that saved songs from being flat out bad, and made them decent, and made the few good songs great)

Five who barely missed: Kevin Shields, Dave Grohl, Mike McCready, Black Francis, and God (Eric Clapton) (yeah, I only have one Cream album and a few from "Wheels of Fire" but the guy's just one of the two best guitarists ever and a very good songwriter)

That's all for the Dee Report. Goodnight/morning/afternoon/evening every one!!!!

...my heart out..." Easy song, legendary album, awesome band, done deal.

I'm blogging from somehwere you don't know that's not my house, but I'm staying at a friend of my dad's house, which is freaking huge. The backyard looks like a public park!!! Best part? The guy's an awesome cook, so I get gourmet meals for breakfast and Dinner, that taste better than most restaurants. He had a couple over and I helped prepare the appetizers (I made two dishes completely by myself which turned out delicious, so I was the Sous Chef. I made an Italian dish of a plate decorated with tomatoes, topped with basil, and a slice of cheese on top (I didn't eat it ), which looked fancy, and I wrapped pickled watermelon rinds in bacon, then we cooked them, which was my second favorite thing next to the chocolate souffle he made. I actually ate a salad and enjoyed shrimp for the first time (yeah, I never eat salad, and dislike shrimp). Verdict? Cooking's pretty fun actually, but eating is better, and both ut together is even better because everything tastes better when you made it or stole it.

I'm going on an insane music...binge, I guess, at 3:00 in the morning. I'm listening to "Siamese Dream" (legendary album) right now, then "Badmotorfinger", and then "In Rainbows" until I pass out of exhaustion at 5 in the morning), and get three hours of sleep, but it'll be worth it, trust me. "Siamese Dream" is as bada$$ as always, and I haven't listened to "BMF" in a while. i was listening to "In Rainbows" yesterday, but had to do something after "Weird Fishes". I'm more and more excited for the impending Radiohead concert. I was worried because that thing the Large Hadron Collider (which I"ll discuss in my next blog because it's awesome and could lead to time travel) had a 1 in 50 million chance of destroying the Earh, which is assuming that what makes the chance is even plausible (which I believe it not to be now), and it's activated in two weeks, so I didn't want the world to end before I saw Radiohead, but I found out that the LHC won't reach full power and cause particle collisions for two months after, so it's safe.

Anyways, the main reason for the blog: The Dark Knight. Wow . I knew it would be good, but not THAT good. I hate to tell you Elmis, but Heath Ledger put Jack Nicholson's Joker performance to shame. Best movie villain of all time. Heath definitely didn't want to die, but this was THE performance to be remembered by. Dark, convincing, realistic, disturbing, terrifying, and awe-inspiring. They've given the Best Actor to a dead person once before, in 1976, and I hope Heath gets what he deserves. Without further ado, the review.

THE DARK KNIGHT

(Best movie poster ever for me)

As I said when I reviewed Iron Man, I'm not a big fan of superhero movies. But I know when a movie wows me, and this was an exceptional example of it. Remarkably entertaining, flawlessly acted, brilliant plot, and of course, I need top point out the joker here. Heath Ledger had without a doubt, one of the darkest, most twisted performances in the history of filmmaking. Completely flawless, best acting I've seen in a while, even as good as Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men, maybe better. He'll be immortalized by this role, and undoubtedly remembered as one of the all time greats.

Now on to the plot. It had all the action, tricks, and edge-of-seat wearing action scenes, in other words entertainment from a movie like Iron Man, and the brilliant plot structure of the famous movies like the aforementioned NCFOM, inckuding I deep well shown lesson, making what can't be called anything other than a perfect plot. The lightness of a superhero movie, with the intensity of a well performed drama, nothing better could have ever been done here.

Everyone was a great actor in this movie. The performances were brilliant, and although Heath Ledger stole the show with his magnificent portrayal of the joker, Christian bale maintained his role in history as the best Batman, and another marvelous performance was Aaron Eckhart. His grief in the wake of the explosion as Harvey Dent, was so real, and once he turned into *SPOILER*highlight from A to B, ATwo FaceB, he became an incredibly demented and crazed character who embodied the lesson within the plot, that there is evil and insanity within everyone.

Because everyone has been anticipating this movie so much, I don't want to give anything away, but I'll inform you that it is without a doubt the single greatest superhero movie of all time. It's my new favorite movie of the year, along with WALL-E still though because the two films are too different to compare when they're both so great.

Score: 100/100 (one of my five favorite movies of all time easily) If you don't see The Dark Knight, you're missing something huge.

I've decided that in order for me to ever watch another movie, I need to see The godfather, so I will in a few weeks.

This was my only reason to blog today, so I'll blog more tomorrow.

...your car to work, I'll take my board..."

Okay, no bullsh!t about what's happening in my life, I'm cutting right to the chase.

THE RETALIATION

The 5 Greatest Rock* Music Artists of Each Decade

*Rock music only, no other genres included, except for alternative, metal, and variations of traditional rock

'60s:

1. The Beatles

2. The Beach Boys

3. Rolling Stones

4. The Velvet Underground

5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience

'70s:

1. Led Zeppelin

2. The Who

3. Pink Floyd

4. The Clash

5. David Bowie

'80s:

1. Michael Jackson

2. Bruce Springsteen

3. The Pixies

4. Madonna (unfortunately)

5. U2

Now here's where you should actuaally start paying attention. The last three were very hasty.

'90s:

1. Radiohead

2. Nirvana (as much as I like Pearl Jam, they wouldn't have been famous if it weren't for Nirvana)

3. Pavement

4. Pearl Jam

5. My Bloody Valentine

'00s:

1. Radiohead

2. The White Stripes

3. The Strokes

4. Arcade Fire (I checked them out recently, and i loved what I heard)

5. Queens of the Stone Age

These lists were not only made quickly, but at 1 o'clock in the morning, so some order may be screwed up. I promise I was not biased, I didn't omit Guns 'n Roses for revenge, and I did the best I could at 1 in the mornning, when I'm going to be woken up at 7. I used the effect of popularity very little, and focused on influence, innovation, social effects, talent, and lastability of the music. Popularity and sales were considered, but less.

If you need to criticize, make it constructive, and keep in mind that if you say "_____ should have been on there!!!" they may very well have been in the top ten but not top five.

...will one day take control and fade out again..."

I demand you look at my last blog because so few of you bothered to. I can tell a lot of people are busy with Summer and are on a lot less, but if you stumble by, check my last blog because I actually put a lot of thought into the list.

Tomorrow, I have to go spend time with my Dad, and do boring sh!t every day. We have to visit my uncle, aunt, and cousins, who, like most kids who are around 7-9, overestimate the power they have on me, try to make me do something, try to hurt me, and when I hit them, they cry, I get yelled at, sh!t goes down. I'm really good with kids who are like 6 years old and under, and I'm good with older kids if I saw them a lot when they were little, but kids over that are just impossible to deal with when you only see them so often. One time they both got smacked two days in a row, in sorta self-defense, and guess who got yelled at?

Time with my dad might be fun though. I might be able to convince him to head down to Six Flags so I can go on X2 at Magic Mountain (I loved the original X, and I've heard that the new one is even better). Roller coasters are one of the interests I share with my dad. We actually share a few interests, music, politics, South Park, movies, etc.. But we usually like the opposite things, like I like '90s and undergroundish music while he likes everything, but likes stuff like opera and jazz (he's really open minded though, which is good, he likes Radiohead, Pearl Jam, and all my other favorites), and i'm a pretty liberal Democrat, while he's a moderate Republican, we rarely love he same South Park episode, and usually we disagree on movies, except when they truly suck (I actually usually like the more artsy and "great" films more than him sometimes). I don't know where the hell this is going, but whatever.

Next week, the day after I get back from being with my dad, I go to the Marv Dunphy volleyball camp at Pepperdine (which is still the college I want to go to), which is supposed to be really fun. So I won't be on that week.

With the net raising 8" in volleyball next year, I'm working hard to increase my vertical jump. I had a great program that gets you huge vert increases, guaranteed 6" in two months (or money back plus $100 extra), but the computer it was on had to be rebooted, so we have to go through a big ordeal to register it again. I bought these things called Jump Soles, which are pretty much just really high quality platform training shoes. They work really nicely, and I think, the Jump Soles plus the program can give me the 8" to render the net raise meaningless, and give me the boost I need to break my goal of 40" (I'm at 33" right now running, 30" standing). I'm hoping for the best. All that plus the volleyball training should get me a good spot on the team next year, for club and high school.

I've been thinking about who some of my idols are, so I decided to list my top 5, like Shadow did once. Things like influence, talent, personality, and relating to me were taken into place.

MY 5 HEROES LIVING OR DEAD

5. Leonel Marshall

I don't know about his personality (which made me a little wary to put him on here) or if he's done anything for the world, but I know that when it comes to the court he's a God damn beast!!! He plays as a starting outside hitter (the position I played this year) for the Cuban international team, and is consistently ranked as one of the world's best. Most impressive to me, he has a 50" vertical!!!!! I'm a freak about vertical jumping, as I had the highest in my whole school, and will still have the highest in my grade in high school, and possibly in the grade after that, so naturally I'm psyched to find a volleyball player who has one of the world's highest jumps. Just watch this video, it confirms his beastlyhood.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cgGezkKE_DIs

4. Thom Yorke

I might place him a little higher if I hadn't forgotten about him at first, but there's a lot to say about Thom Yorke. He has a huge presence on stage. He's awkward, gawky, a tad crazy, funny, fun, and gets very involved with the audience. He's a very influential singer, and an incredible songwriter and lyricist. He's written some of the greatest music of our time, and Radiohead would never be complete without him. He's a hugely inspirational and driven musician, that tons of young aspiring rockers should ook up to.

3. Stephen Colbert

What can I say about good ol' Colbert? First off, he's a laugh riot. I can't go a minute without busting a gut while watching his famous Colbert Report, "The Colber(t) Repor(t)". But more importantly, he, along with Jon Stewart has gotten thousands of teens interested in current events and politics, including myself. His little joke of running for president (he actually did, and almost got accepted onto the ballot) garnered more looks among the new generation than most Clinton-Obama debates ever did. He actually is a great news source for everyone. He gives you the same facts as the news on CNN and Fox, but skips all the bullsh!t and gives you the facts, with a hilarious satrical twist. He is a somewhat confusing person, as he is a very strong Democrat in actuality, and he plays a hardcore bible-thumping Reoublican on his show, but that makes it all the better! If he were to get some experience, get into Congress or the Senate, I'll be yelling "Colbert 2016!!!" in eight years .

2. Jimi Hendrix

Everyone and their grandma knows about the legendary Hendrix. The southpaw form Seattle who grew out his hair, went to England, and rocked out, to become the world's greatest guitarist. Everyone always blabs about how a few people here and there have more technical skill than Hendrix, but he was so innovative, talented, and did have a sh!t load of technical skill. He seemed like a cool guy with a good snese of humor, and though I don't want to take drugs at any time, one friend like Hendrix off stage would be awesome to have! He was a player too. Got down every night. But forget all that stuff, he was the best guitarist ever, so R.I.P. jimi, go kiss the sky.

1. Eddie Vedder

Surprised? You should be a little. But if you think about it, there's no question. Not only is he a brilliant singer in one of the best bands of all time, and on top of his vocals a pretty good rythym guitarist too, but he has one hell of a personality. He's funny, engaging, personable, and caring. He's the kind of musician I'd want to hang out with. There are some who i'd take a lessons from, and some I would hang out with. Eddie's a hgn out one. He's a member of the Surfrider Foundation which is awesome for two reasons, he's helping out with the environment which is very polluted and needs help, and surfing is awesome. Catching a few waves with Eddie would be a pretty damn cool day, and then jamming out...of course that is something that only happend with a few people, but it's pretty awesome.

Honorable Mention: Kurt Cobain, Sean Rosenthal, Karch Kiraly, Johnny Greenwood,

...and a thief..." Easy, easy, and easy.

I've been mostly away from my computer for the last two days because I was hanigng out with a friend from 1st grade or something, who I see once a year. Our moms are good friends, so being chicks they juts talked the whole damn time and we just messed around, watched funny videos and sh!t, played a couple games, and used Garageband to make fukced up songs. Anyway, at about 1:00, one of us thought it would be a good idea to stand outside and piss of the patio (with people below us), I'm pretty sure it was his idea. There was a light on below us so we thought it would be funny for them just to be standing there and see piss streaming over their heads. My friend pu$$ied out and never did, and as I was about to, some guy next door went out on his patio and ate a sandwich for some reason, and a bunch of bikers went by, so no pln ever came to fruition , I kinda regret it, it might've been funny, but it seems like a pretty dumb idea to me .

I think I brained my electricute because some fukced up game at the arcade was broken and was shocking me, and I had the gneius idea to keep grabbing it so it would shock me. It was a little painful, but gives me an idea for a prank if I'm ever at the hotel I was just at again. Oh well, that whole arcade was rigged to be free. Pretty cool. There was free air hockey (I'm the air hockey king, haven't lost since I was 9 years old or something, I actually saved up for two years and bought an air hockey table that my mom later brkoe by piling stuff on it like an idiot), but someone stole the puck, so there were no a$$ whoopings.

Last night, I decided that it I should pile on a few extra songs to my guitar arsenal. I've had a small obssession with acoustic Nirvana songs recently, so I learned "About a Girl", "Something In the Way", and most of "Dumb". I want to learn "Pennyroyal Tea" and figure out a way to play "Serve the Servants" acostically, but I can't learn just Nirvana songs, so I'm learning "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" by Radiohead.

In case you haven't realized, I'm blogging because it's 12:30 and I don't want to sleep. You probably noticed that I have nothing to talk about. So instead of talking, I'm going to spend the next fifteen minutes thinking really hard about my fifteen favorite songs, and for once not make a half baked top songs list...give me 15 mintues...

...exactly...12 mintues later...not quite 15 but close enough. I made the list. Surprising from the start.

MY TOP 15 SONGS (SUBJECT TO CHANGE VERY OFTEN)

1. "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead

2. "Say Hello To Heaven" by Temple of the Dog

3. "Yellow Ledbetter" by Pearl Jam

4. "For Martha" by The Smashing Pumpkins

5. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" by Radiohead

This is probably a temporary favorite and will move off the list soon, but it is a fantastic song.

6. "Pennyroyal Tea" by Nirvana

7. "We Die Young" by Alice in Chains

8. "Outshined" by Soundgarden

9. "Under the Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers

10. "Hey" by Pixies

11. "Surf Wax America" by Weezer

12. "Summer Babe" by Pavement

13. "Alive" by Pearl Jam

14. "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead

15. "Little Wing" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Yeah, this whole list will reassign itself in a few days, so don't think too much about it.

Oh and in case, Jacob, Shadow, or anyine else points out that there are two songs from "The Bends" and only one from "OK Computer", I have a statement to make.

The best from "The Bends" ("FPT") is slightly better than the best from "OK Computer" ("PA"), but the worst from "The Bends" ("High and Dry") is sh!t in comparison to the worst from "OK Computer" (...it doesn't have a worst...it has a bunch of amazing songs and a few good or okay songs, but no bad). That's why. "OK Computer" is more consistent to me.

Well, that's all for now.

...stealing bread from the mouths of decadence..." Off the best vocal album in history. Put two awesome singers together.

I got back from Junior Olympics last night. We had a pretty successful tournament. The first day, we were tired, and not at our tops, but I played really well and held us together. We got 3rd out of 4 teams in our pool, which was a pretty bad start. The next morning (after 6 hours of sleep), we got 1st in our pool of 3, which put us back in the running for a medal. Later that day,we had a pool of 4, with two extrmely difficult teams (SCVC 14QS, our club's taller team, and OCVC-14-1s, our rivals). We upset OCVC in 3 games, and had an incredibly close third game with anther team we'd never plyed (we won the first game, they won second, we won the third, which is usually to 15 win by 2, but ended up going to 22). We barely lost our other team, so we ended up with 2nd in our pool, which was enough to guarantee us a top 8 spot. The next day, we had the 2nd and 3rd seeds in the tournament, and a team that was seeded a little lower than us. We played like crap against the 2nd seed, who was Puerto Rican, but they were so good it wouldn't have made much difference. We played okay against the 3rd seed who we've played all year, 5 times, and beaten once. Our lats match, didn't make a difference if we won or lost, we would go to the same place. For this reason, our coach had me sit out due to a shoulder injury, so we ended up barely losing. I'm kinda pissed at myself because I would've been enough to nab a few extra points and win, but no big deal. We got 4th in that pool. On the last day, we were guaranteed at least 7th place, so once again, I sat out for the most part because my coach didn't want me to tear my shoulder and ruin my Summer. We barely lost to them, but finished 7th. Two of the teams above us were Puerto Rican, so we finished 5th in the United States. Out of 100s of teams in the country, that's damn good to me.

My shoulder injury came from excessive hitting. In a game, a hitter usually gets set (the "setter" puts the ball in the air for a hitter to spike) about 7, maybe 10 times a game. I got set an average of 18 times a game. I wasn't wussing out either, I was swinging hard. I hit .500 (half of my hits were kills, meaning they got us a point), which is a very high kill percentage. Our coach said that I got our team where we were in the regular season and without me we wouldn't have gotten close to 7th, which obviously made my a little giddy. The director/owner of our club was walking with the coach form Stanford (the high level college that has a great vb team), and brought him to see us, and the Stanford coach said "Who's that kid with long blonde hair? He's really good!" That made my day when I found out he said that.

At the end of JOs, everyone always trades jerseys with each other. I traded both my jerseys, backpack, old warm-up jacket, and sweatshirt. In returnI got a shirt from the club St. Louis High Performance (who we tied, and kind of befriended), but the kid who gave me it either lied or didn't notice that he had his jersey (probably didn't notice because he's really nice), and we caught him with his jersey later, so I got to keep his shirt and his coach made him give me the jersey back. I traded my white jersey for a jersey from Torrimar (the 2nd seed Puerto Rican team, really cool guys) from last year (the best player on their team, possibly in the tournament), traded jackets with him, gave my crappy sweatshirt for another Torrimar player's shorts (he took them off in front of everyone, nothing but boxers underneath, yes, I cleaned them before wearing ), and traded backpacks with him. I traded my other jersey for a shirt-jersey from another Puerto Rican team, Naranjito in the other division, and that was it. Torrimar actually got ne jerseys this year, and I was disappointed that I couldn't get an old one, but one of them had his old jersey, so I was pretty excited. I really wanted the jersey from Torrimar that said "Sexy Boy" on the back, but maybe next year .

Very successful year for me. I wanted a medal, but I didn't expect it, and I kicked a$$, and stuck out on the team (so I've been told), and I was extremely recognized by older team's coaches. And finishing 7th overall, and 5th in the United States, that's great. Our other team got a Bronze medal (tied for 3rd), and were co-champions of the U.S. (along with the 3rd seed team we played). Torrimar got Silver, and the Puerto rican club consisting of a lot of jerks, Pitirres got Gold. One of Torrimar's players hit a spike out to lose, layed down and cried. The kid with "Sexy Boy" on his jersey threw a fit, but they cooled down. I was rooting for the all the way, but they lost. At least none of them freaked out while we were trading .

I'm proud of the fact that the team that finished the season ranked one above in Southern California (they were 3rd, we were 4th) was knocked into 13th place, solely by our upset. The 5th ranked team got 9th place. Last year, the #1 ranked team got 9th, and our best team did the same as us, so we're in the ranks of the top teams.

That was actually my last tournament on a 7'4" net. Next year, we move up to 8'. Doesn't make a difference to me though, I practice on an 8' all the time, and hit just as hard.

Anyway, not too much else to talk about. JOs were all I did for the last week. Some cool stuff happened in Salt Lake City. We went to a Mayan themed restaurant that was almost like a more dark "Casa Bonita" (actual restaurant, but most people know it through South Park), with cliff divers, that actually performed a show, and pretty good food. It was really fun. I honed my card counting skills and whooped everyone in blackjack. Oh, and someone stole my iPod Touch. That, it'll turn up in Delta Airlines' lost & found. I got sand in my phon recently, so I may just buy the new iPhone when demand goes down.

Because of my shoulder, which hurts like hell sometimes, I have to go to a Physical Therapy session tomorrow so I can get it healthy in time for some training at a camp and a program to increase my vertical jump so there isn't a difference between 7'4" and 8'.

I'll have more things of your interest soon, but for once, a few people will have to comment on the volleyball section! Muahahahaha!!!

Oh, right, and Obama's kicking McCain's a$$ in General Election polls (average 6 point spread) and Electoral Vote counts (winning by 70 in proections currently,as Obama has made Virginia close and taken back Michigan in polls. Obama's been running a great General Election campaign, much better than McCain's so far. Not out of bias, but he's gaining more votes than John, taking states from him in polls, and showing a little more substance and a little less flare than usual. John McCain still sounds like a retard when he gives speeches, and did that stupid speech up agaist the "green screen" that Stephen Colbert's been making fun of. Hilarious.