Tonight marks the start of the tour of concerts and festivals that I have planned for this year. I think there is a pretty good line-up already.
Tonight, at Nutty's North in Sioux Falls, Saving Abel is playing. Opening for them tonight is Pop Evil, Monty Are 1, and Taddy Porter. This should be a pretty good concert. If anyone wants to go, the tickets are very reasonably priced too.
Also, at the end of July, Dave Matthews Band is headlining The 10K Lakes Festival. They play on Saturday night along with the hundreds of other bands playing that couple of days. Now, I am not sure if this is going to work or not, but I'm hoping it will. DMB is playing on Saturday night and there is a concert in Brookings on Sunday night. Staind, Shinedown, Halestorm, and Chevelle. I would like to go to this one too, but that may be a lot for one weekend, we'll see.
Other Concerts that are on the radar but not confirmed yet would include Journey in Sioux Falls on July 19th, and you can't forget about Alice Cooper and Big and Rich at the Sioux Empire Fair. Then you can't forget Aerosmith, Saving Abel, Hinder, The Guess Who, Buckcherry, Tesla and a few other good ones out at Sturgis this year.
All-in-all, that looks like a good summer to me. Let's see how many I actually get to.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Washing Trailers Is Not Fun
I really hate washing out trailers. It's not a fun thing to do. Climb back 53 feet into the back of the trailer with the pressure washer and start spraying until everything starts flying. You get completely soaked and covered in everything that was in the trailer.
Today was not a fun day. We had to spray out a trailer that kept leaking crap out of the walls as soon as we would spray it out. I sprayed and squeegeed the trailer out for almost 2 hours before the guy from Tennessee was happy.
Which leads me into another great story. This guy from Tennessee pulls his truck into to get the trailer washed. I don't know what made him harder to understand, the fact that he had such a heavy accent or that he didn't have any teeth. So not only can I not understand this guy, I can't understand him for the 2 hours that I'm spraying out his trailer and he's trying to talk to me and tell me what to do.... Awesome.
But I guess this is what I'm getting paid to do, so I better do it with a smile. I tried, but it was hard... Oh well. Better luck next time.
Today was not a fun day. We had to spray out a trailer that kept leaking crap out of the walls as soon as we would spray it out. I sprayed and squeegeed the trailer out for almost 2 hours before the guy from Tennessee was happy.
Which leads me into another great story. This guy from Tennessee pulls his truck into to get the trailer washed. I don't know what made him harder to understand, the fact that he had such a heavy accent or that he didn't have any teeth. So not only can I not understand this guy, I can't understand him for the 2 hours that I'm spraying out his trailer and he's trying to talk to me and tell me what to do.... Awesome.
But I guess this is what I'm getting paid to do, so I better do it with a smile. I tried, but it was hard... Oh well. Better luck next time.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Transformers 2: Almost Perfect in the Eyes of Devon
I went to see the fabled "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" the other day. I was ready for this movie to absolutely suck no matter what anyone says about it. The first one was pretty good and I figured there was no way for these guys to make another one that was anywhere near being called good.
First thing I noticed, it got a little bit long for me. It could have ended about a half hour sooner and I would have been fine with it. I don't need hours and hours of a movie to make me happy.
The next thing that I didn't really like about the movie was the amount of swearing it had. I do not remember the first movie having this much swearing in it. I thought that was a really stupid move on their part. You don't need swearing in a movie to make it good or cool. I felt like I was being vocally assaulted by a group of middle school boys that just heard a new swear word from a video on the internet and think they are cool for using it. It was a little bit much for me.
Another thing that I really didn't care for was I thought they were trying to be way to funny in parts that didn't need it. Like who were those two mentally retarded Autobots that they decided to put in the movie? Those two were definitely not necessary and I could have done without them. And how about when the giant, construction bot is climbing the pyramid and we get a nice gander at his 'wrecking balls'? That was also a quick little shot I didn't need to see.
One of the other things that kind of bugged me was Sam's roommate Leo....There's not much else to say than the fact that he bugged me. Sorry.
How about those action packed battles though. They were awesome right? Except for the fact that they were so cluttered, everything was moving so fast and the camera was shaking so bad that you couldn't tell what was going on. I think that's why everyone is so in awe about how awesome the battle scenes are, because obviously if you can't tell what's going on, it must be amazing. Just take my advice, watch the movie again and see if you can actually tell what is going on in during the battle scenes. Is that his leg or his head?
All-in-all, I thought it was a lot better than it was going to be. Good second try Michael. Maybe the third time will be the charm and it will be perfect. But until it is, I'm going to keep pointing out the flaws.
First thing I noticed, it got a little bit long for me. It could have ended about a half hour sooner and I would have been fine with it. I don't need hours and hours of a movie to make me happy.
The next thing that I didn't really like about the movie was the amount of swearing it had. I do not remember the first movie having this much swearing in it. I thought that was a really stupid move on their part. You don't need swearing in a movie to make it good or cool. I felt like I was being vocally assaulted by a group of middle school boys that just heard a new swear word from a video on the internet and think they are cool for using it. It was a little bit much for me.
Another thing that I really didn't care for was I thought they were trying to be way to funny in parts that didn't need it. Like who were those two mentally retarded Autobots that they decided to put in the movie? Those two were definitely not necessary and I could have done without them. And how about when the giant, construction bot is climbing the pyramid and we get a nice gander at his 'wrecking balls'? That was also a quick little shot I didn't need to see.
One of the other things that kind of bugged me was Sam's roommate Leo....There's not much else to say than the fact that he bugged me. Sorry.
How about those action packed battles though. They were awesome right? Except for the fact that they were so cluttered, everything was moving so fast and the camera was shaking so bad that you couldn't tell what was going on. I think that's why everyone is so in awe about how awesome the battle scenes are, because obviously if you can't tell what's going on, it must be amazing. Just take my advice, watch the movie again and see if you can actually tell what is going on in during the battle scenes. Is that his leg or his head?
All-in-all, I thought it was a lot better than it was going to be. Good second try Michael. Maybe the third time will be the charm and it will be perfect. But until it is, I'm going to keep pointing out the flaws.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Two Thumbs 'Up'?
I think when there is so much hype for a movie that everyone has seen it and everyone knows what its about, I start to form an opinion already. For some reason, it seems like no matter if people really like it or people really hate it, if its a big movie, I tend to pick the opposite opinion than everyone else.
So right off the bat, I didn't like 'Up' because everyone else did like it. It's also a Disney movie which makes me less likely to like the movie because I'm not a seven years old anymore. So 'Up' already had a couple of strikes against it before I walked into the theater.
I just want to say up front, I thought the movie was very illogical, irrational and highly improbable. Let's start with the easy one, Carl floated his house away with baloons....really? If that was anywhere near possible, somebody probably would have done it by now. But sadly, it isn't possible, don't try it. And especially don't try to steer it with the curtains....
Then there's the dogs with the talking collars and the crazy bird that is similar to the Road Runner but is faster and can teleport.... I'm not going to go on though, you've seen the movie, you know how out there it is.
But alas, I am onto my second year of college and probably just can't appreciate the masterpiece of a children's movie that this is. I guess when you look at Disney's greatest classics, there isn't much more sense. The Jungle Book, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Shrek, the list goes on. So all in all, it's another great, off the wall, crazy Disney movie.
Make sure you check out my website, DevonSchreiner.com, and Kevin Loker and I's new podcast, HeyTalkTo.Me.
So right off the bat, I didn't like 'Up' because everyone else did like it. It's also a Disney movie which makes me less likely to like the movie because I'm not a seven years old anymore. So 'Up' already had a couple of strikes against it before I walked into the theater.
I just want to say up front, I thought the movie was very illogical, irrational and highly improbable. Let's start with the easy one, Carl floated his house away with baloons....really? If that was anywhere near possible, somebody probably would have done it by now. But sadly, it isn't possible, don't try it. And especially don't try to steer it with the curtains....
Then there's the dogs with the talking collars and the crazy bird that is similar to the Road Runner but is faster and can teleport.... I'm not going to go on though, you've seen the movie, you know how out there it is.
But alas, I am onto my second year of college and probably just can't appreciate the masterpiece of a children's movie that this is. I guess when you look at Disney's greatest classics, there isn't much more sense. The Jungle Book, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Shrek, the list goes on. So all in all, it's another great, off the wall, crazy Disney movie.
Make sure you check out my website, DevonSchreiner.com, and Kevin Loker and I's new podcast, HeyTalkTo.Me.
Underage Drinking (and Kevin and I's HeyTalkTo.Me Podcast)
So, Kevin Loker and I have started up a new weekly podcast called HeyTalkTo.Me.
We had toiled with just goofing around on the radio before with this thing called "Our Perspective," but we wanted to try out something that, well, actually had a purpose.
What we're doing now with HeyTalkTo.Me is creating a dialogue about national trends and issues through the lens of local events. Our first show looked at the voter turnout at Mitchell's recent local election, and specifically, it looked at what motivates people in our town to come out to vote. We talked with Superintendent Joe Graves, got his opinion, and the part that I think is the most cool, we went out and talked to people on the street. As you may have guess from the name, our goal for HeyTalkTo.Me to be honest and casual.
For our next show, we want to focus on motives for and against underage drinking, specifically in Mitchell. As you may have read in The Daily Republic, Karen Allen recently helped out with a survey that gave statistics specifically on our community, and the numbers were pretty crazy. In addition, a recent study from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ranks South Dakota high up on the list of binge and underage drinking (and neighboring North Dakota ranked first).
We want to get Karen Allen's opinion on the matter, but we'd also like to get the opinion of underage kids in the community. And of course, this will all be anonymous. We're not looking for names, and we're not looking to report anyone, we just want some opinions.
If you have a minute or two, please take the time to respond to one of the question sets below, one of which is aimed at those who do or have drank underage, and the other aimed at those who haven't.
The questions are pretty open, so feel free to say as much or as little as you want, and please speak honestly.
Underage Drinking Set
1. What motivates you to drink?
2. Do you feel pressured to do so?
3. Why do you think some people choose not to drink?
Non-drinking Set
1. What motivates you not to drink?
2. Do you feel pressured not to?
3. Why do you think some people choose to drink?
Again, I stress that everything we'll be anonymous. We plan to read a few answers on the podcast, but no names or personal information will be given away.
Please send any responses to mail@heytalkto.me, and if you're interested, look for the podcast up on the website (www.heytalkto.me) towards the end of the week!
Thanks :)
Devon
We had toiled with just goofing around on the radio before with this thing called "Our Perspective," but we wanted to try out something that, well, actually had a purpose.
What we're doing now with HeyTalkTo.Me is creating a dialogue about national trends and issues through the lens of local events. Our first show looked at the voter turnout at Mitchell's recent local election, and specifically, it looked at what motivates people in our town to come out to vote. We talked with Superintendent Joe Graves, got his opinion, and the part that I think is the most cool, we went out and talked to people on the street. As you may have guess from the name, our goal for HeyTalkTo.Me to be honest and casual.
For our next show, we want to focus on motives for and against underage drinking, specifically in Mitchell. As you may have read in The Daily Republic, Karen Allen recently helped out with a survey that gave statistics specifically on our community, and the numbers were pretty crazy. In addition, a recent study from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ranks South Dakota high up on the list of binge and underage drinking (and neighboring North Dakota ranked first).
We want to get Karen Allen's opinion on the matter, but we'd also like to get the opinion of underage kids in the community. And of course, this will all be anonymous. We're not looking for names, and we're not looking to report anyone, we just want some opinions.
If you have a minute or two, please take the time to respond to one of the question sets below, one of which is aimed at those who do or have drank underage, and the other aimed at those who haven't.
The questions are pretty open, so feel free to say as much or as little as you want, and please speak honestly.
Underage Drinking Set
1. What motivates you to drink?
2. Do you feel pressured to do so?
3. Why do you think some people choose not to drink?
Non-drinking Set
1. What motivates you not to drink?
2. Do you feel pressured not to?
3. Why do you think some people choose to drink?
Again, I stress that everything we'll be anonymous. We plan to read a few answers on the podcast, but no names or personal information will be given away.
Please send any responses to mail@heytalkto.me, and if you're interested, look for the podcast up on the website (www.heytalkto.me) towards the end of the week!
Thanks :)
Devon
Monday, June 8, 2009
Winning The Lottery Would Suck
Congratulations to Neal Wanless for winning his 232.1 million dollars. He is one of the luckiest people in the world right now. I am definitely jealous. You can check out a local story from the Daily Republic here.
There are a couple things I am not jealous of though. When you actually look at it, Neal will only be taking away 88.5 million dollars from the 232.1 million that he 'won'. While 88.5 million is still an unimaginably enormous amount of money, it is only 38.1% of the original amount of money that he 'won'. What is that crap? You just won a lot of money! But we are even going to give you half of it! .....What?
That's fine, whatever, he is still a very lucky guy, now with a lot of money. I was reading this other article from the Daily Republic about how big lottery winners are isolated and their life will never be the same. It says that the winner has to become a different person, figure out how they are going to use and protect their money and find a way to stay in contact with their friends and other relationships they have. This doesn't sound like as much fun to me as just spending all that money however you want.
All in all, I think winning the lottery probably isn't as easy as it should be or seems. But I think, if given the chance, I would take that much money. If anyone has a lot of money that they just want to get rid of, it's to much of a burden for them, I will take it from you. Neal, if you don't want that burden on your shoulders, I would lift it from you and carry it myself. Let me know if ever need to get rid of it.
Also, make sure you check out the podcast if you haven't, we had a great interview with Superintendent Joe Graves about the local elections here in Mitchell. You can find that at HeyTalkTo.Me. Also look around either Thursday or Friday for another episode. Should be a good time.
There are a couple things I am not jealous of though. When you actually look at it, Neal will only be taking away 88.5 million dollars from the 232.1 million that he 'won'. While 88.5 million is still an unimaginably enormous amount of money, it is only 38.1% of the original amount of money that he 'won'. What is that crap? You just won a lot of money! But we are even going to give you half of it! .....What?
That's fine, whatever, he is still a very lucky guy, now with a lot of money. I was reading this other article from the Daily Republic about how big lottery winners are isolated and their life will never be the same. It says that the winner has to become a different person, figure out how they are going to use and protect their money and find a way to stay in contact with their friends and other relationships they have. This doesn't sound like as much fun to me as just spending all that money however you want.
All in all, I think winning the lottery probably isn't as easy as it should be or seems. But I think, if given the chance, I would take that much money. If anyone has a lot of money that they just want to get rid of, it's to much of a burden for them, I will take it from you. Neal, if you don't want that burden on your shoulders, I would lift it from you and carry it myself. Let me know if ever need to get rid of it.
Also, make sure you check out the podcast if you haven't, we had a great interview with Superintendent Joe Graves about the local elections here in Mitchell. You can find that at HeyTalkTo.Me. Also look around either Thursday or Friday for another episode. Should be a good time.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Farewell OP
So I know my last blog post was about Our Perspective being resurrected and how excited I was about recording again, but changes are under way.
After recording another episode of OP, Kevin and I decided that we wanted to change the format of the show up a little bit. We figured that not to many people really wanted to listen to what we have to say. What people really want to hear is themselves. We wanted to create a show that will allow people to get involved and hear what other people have to say about whatever we are talking about.
We decided that we couldn't keep the same name with this new format, so we are saying farewell to Our Perspective for now. The name that we came up with was HeyTalkTo.Me. There is a period right before the Me because in our domain, the .me is replacing the .com. Our new website address is http://HeyTalkTo.Me.
We are hoping that this show may go over a little bit better with some people and we hope to also give a different look at some important issues both close to home and farther away. This week we talked to some citizens of Mitchell about why they voted this week and we are going to talk to Dr. Joe Graves about his experience with local politics and elections.
You can also follow our podcast on Twitter by searching for HeyTalkToMe. We also have a facebook fan page and you can email us at Mail@HeyTalkTo.Me. Hopefully you listen to the show and enjoy it. Let us know what you think! Thanks!
After recording another episode of OP, Kevin and I decided that we wanted to change the format of the show up a little bit. We figured that not to many people really wanted to listen to what we have to say. What people really want to hear is themselves. We wanted to create a show that will allow people to get involved and hear what other people have to say about whatever we are talking about.
We decided that we couldn't keep the same name with this new format, so we are saying farewell to Our Perspective for now. The name that we came up with was HeyTalkTo.Me. There is a period right before the Me because in our domain, the .me is replacing the .com. Our new website address is http://HeyTalkTo.Me.
We are hoping that this show may go over a little bit better with some people and we hope to also give a different look at some important issues both close to home and farther away. This week we talked to some citizens of Mitchell about why they voted this week and we are going to talk to Dr. Joe Graves about his experience with local politics and elections.
You can also follow our podcast on Twitter by searching for HeyTalkToMe. We also have a facebook fan page and you can email us at Mail@HeyTalkTo.Me. Hopefully you listen to the show and enjoy it. Let us know what you think! Thanks!
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