Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Division Champs!

That's all I've got to say, for now...

Thursday, April 13, 2006

I'm on Survivor!

Not really.

But I had a dream last night that I was. I was on this season's. I don't think all the characters were there, but Terry, Danielle & Courtney were.

And it didn't take place in Panama. It took place in my 7th grade english classroom. No idea how that happened.

But anyway, we were the final four, which was nice, because I didn't know if I could do that good! And somehow Terry & I had guaranteed ourselves being the Final Two (we even high-fived). So basically the dream was us figuring out if we wanted to get rid of Courtney or Danielle first.

I don't know who we ended up getting rid of first, but if I ever do get on Survivor, I hope it's in a more exotic location than Toms River Intermediate East!

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

I Know I'm Not Alone

Warning: Anti-War topics at hand.

I just got done watching the Michael Franti documentary I Know I'm Not Alone, and I have to say, I'm impressed. I knew the movie would be moving, as it has a touchy subject, but I didn't expect it to be so good.

For those who don't know, Michael Franti is the lead singer of a band named Spearhead, a band who classifies themselves as "political, hip-hop, jam." Quite a mouthful. They're also just a plain great band, and put on arguably the best live show I've ever seen.

In the summer of 2004, Franti and about 10 friends went on a two-week trek thru the streets of Baghdad, Israel, and the Gaza Strip. Just him, them, his guitar & a camera. He interviewed people. Victims of bombings. Soldiers. Widows. Children. Restaurant owners. Taxi Drivers. Israelis. Palastenians. Pro-American folk. Anti-Americans. And he got their views on what's going on with the world.

The end result was this 90 minute documentary. Franti is an admitted outspoken liberal, and this movie does nothing to hide that. But if you don't like that, and are able to just put that aside for 90 minutes, you'll see there is more to the movie than just anti-war propaganda. There is a bunch of good messages hidden in there. And if you're liberal, well then, you should have no problem convincing yourself to check this movie out.

And for all his anti-war sentiment that he has shown, Franti actually does a good job putting that to the back, and just listening to every side of it. And it effects him. In the end, he says "I'm neither for America, Iraq, Israel nor Palastein. I'm for peace, and whichever country takes the first step towards reaching it." Whether left or right, I think that's what everyone wants.

Oh yea, and there are like 8 new spearhead songs on the soundtrack, which is also a huge added benefit for watching this movie!

Monday, April 10, 2006

The Beatles

Went to this new Sushi Bar in Brick today. Delicious.

Met one of the owners, John is his English name. That's easy. I was there with my Uncle. He's also John. He was working the Sushi Bar itself (where we sat). Love Sushi.

Then I met one of his three partners. His American name is Ringo. Isn't that funny, I thought to myself.

I then found out the other two owners go by Paul & George. Apparently to make things easier on themselves, and everyone they work with, as well as all their patrons, they just adopted the four Beatles names.

Not only is that absolutely hysterical, it's pure genius. Who's going to forget the Fab Four?

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Shark Mix Eight...

...coming real soon!

Looks like it's going to be thirteen tracks, and just about 73 minutes.

Dave Matthews Band, Todd Martin, & Matisyahu are the only repeats from the previous 7 Shark Mixes.

10 new bands, woohoo!

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Change in format

thesharkey.com will now be a normal blog, as opposed to the sports blog that it attempted to be in the last 6 months.

2400 hits in 6 months, I can't complain with that. Roughly 100 hits a week. I guess I was doing something right.

But I just don't have the time, or motivation/interest, in writing some new glittering article/entry on a sporting event 3 or 4 times a week. I don't have that much info on sports, either.

So, with that said, my sports writing abilities have been transferred to ColdAsWeiss, my buddies website, which is 97 times better than thesharkey.com (except for the fact that it is philadelphia-sports obsessed. I'll try to bring some NY flavor to the table.

My first article over there went up this morning, and has already had over 75 hits. Clearly I'll get read a lot more over there than over here.

So this now becomes someplace for me to bitch & moan about everyday life, and that becomes my sports-haven (I'll probably contribute 3-5 articles a month).

For those worried about the future of the SCS, don't worry, that's not going anywhere. Haven't even talked to Jason (who runs the site) about what will happen to it, but it will either be over there, or over here. Wherever it is, those of you who were into it last year will obviously get preference on voting over new readers at CAW.

Sharkey out.