Browns QB “problems,” optimism as philosophy and Pompeii… While We’re Waiting
October 24, 2014Watch Aaron Craft singing Party in the USA… badly
October 24, 2014Craig and Dave Sterling (@dimoko) talk about everything from CDs and whether you need to keep them to sports talk radio commercials.
We also went through our Amazon order histories dating back as far as our first orders. Make sure you screen cap the oldest orders that make you look cool and lame.
Also, be a friend and make sure if you use the UBER code UBERWFNY if and when you use Uber for the first time. It will give you $20 off your first ride.
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Disappointing Amazon results:
Obviously late to the game, first purchase was 2006; a couple poker books.
Nothing embarrassing.
Also surprising, only 3 purchases in 2013.
First purchases were in 2001: Madden 2002 for N64 and the Not Another Teen Movie Soundtrack (which was a bunch of covers of 80’s songs by 90’s bands)
Two things:
1) Dodged a bullet. First Amazon purchase was in 2001, and it consisted of all of the back catalog for the band Grandaddy. Titles included: “Signal to Snow Ratio,” “Under The Western Freeway,” and “A Pretty Mess By This One Band”. Nothing super embarrassing, at least until my wife started using the same account (which, by my count, shouldn’t count against me).
2) Re: “You Can’t Stop the Bum Rush” by Len, I will cop to thinking “Steal My Sunshine” was a great song. I did not, however, ever listen to any other tracks on that CD. A similar experience was when I heard “September Already” by Blinker the Star, and was horrified to hear how atrocious the rest of the album was.
http://youtu.be/yyyoNwJpe5A
The song you’re thinking about (in the commercials) is Capital Cities’ “Safe and Sound.” When I first heard it I thought the synth trumpet was annoying too, but then I saw them in concert (opened for Katy Perry here in Tampa, maybe not up in Cleveland?) and found out a) the trumpet is real and b) they have some good songs (check out “Kangaroo Court” or “I Sold My Bed, But Not My Stereo”).
I didn’t buy a lot of music on Amazon back in the day, I used CDNow (until Amazon bought them in 2001). First purchase was (gasp, a book!) “Cryptonomicon” by Neal Stephenson in May 2000.