Friday Tunes

You know the drill. No comment on Sampson yet, though you can probably imagine how I feel. On to the music:

1) Patience - Guns 'n' Roses
I wish Axl weren't out of his mind. These guys could have made a lot of great music for a very long time....

2) Cryin' - Aerosmith
Pretty standard late 80's - early 90's Aerosmith, and I'm perfectly okay with that. Most of my favorite songs by them are from this era.

3) Follow You Down - Gin Blossoms
Hadn't heard this song in years until it was on some 90's compilation infomercial a few months ago. Damn catchy song.

4) Ballroom Blitz - Sweet
Awesome drums, and pretty damn fun to play on Rock Band

5) Foolin' - Def Leppard
I was fortunate enough to catch Leppard and REO Speedwagon at Verizon over the summer, and while I went mainly to see REO, Leppard was beyond impressive. They sounded better than their albums, which considering how much time has gone buy since Pyromania, is really saying something. I can't wait to see them again this summer, if all goes well.

6) I'm Gonna Find Another You - John Mayer
A good friend of mine absolutely loves this album and eventually sent it to me and had me listen to it. I would not consider myself a Mayer fan, but this is a really good album on the whole.

7) What it Takes - Aerosmith
See what I said about the previous Aerosmith song, though I actually like this one quite a bit better.

8) Slide - The Goo Goo Dolls
My favorite song by them

9) Just the Same Way - Journey
This is off the Evolution album, a minor hit if memory serves. I still hear it on some classic rock stations from time to time.

10) Insane in the Membrane - Cypress Hill
They just don't make rap music like they used to....

Belated Tunes

I have plenty of excuses to offer for the lack of posting and forgetting of the tunes blog, but I don't feel like writing them, and odds are you don't feel like reading them. So, here are the tunes, late, and excuse free. The way this works is you put your preferred media player on random/shuffle and list the first ten songs played. I have a lot of film scores and stand up comedy on mine that I usually skip over, but outside of that, no cheating. If Air Supply pops up, then you list it.

1) Every Morning - The Crash Test Dummies
Not my favorite song by the CTD's, but a good song regardless. My eighth grade English teacher got me into the CTD's. If you've seen Dumb and Dumber (and I know you have), you've heard them, and probably liked them. I definitely recommend downloading anything you find by them, especially Peter Pumpkinhead, Afternoons and Coffeespoons, and Ghosts That Haunt Me.

2) Nothing But A Good Time - Poison
The prototypical hair band. Artistically, they may be borderline worthless, but they're fun to listen to. I briefly considered going to see them at Verizon this summer. Tickets were only ten bucks if memory serves, so I probably should have gone.

3) The Power of Love - Huey Lewis and News
Back to the Future. Huey Lewis. I heart the 80's.

4) Adam's Song - Blink 182
This album always takes me back to middle school. I didn't really care for Blink back then, but I've come to appreciate them more and more in recent years. That being said, Christ, this song is depressing.

5) Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys
Nothing really needs to be said about the Beach Boys, does it? If you don't like them, there is probably something wrong with you.

6) For the Longest Time - Billy Joel
Acapella + Billy Joel = good stuff

7) Keep on Rockin' Me - The Steve Miller Band
Steve Miller is a plagiarizing prick... But I like his music. One of the great sing along songs.

8) Surrender - Cheap Trick
I love Cheap Trick, but this song kinda wore itself out for me after being on Guitar Hero II. Great song, just needs a break.

9) Smokin' - Boston
Boston is arguably the best album ever made. This is my least favorite song on the album, and still one of my favorite songs ever.

10) New York Groove - Kiss
Not your standard Kiss affair in terms of sound. Great beat and rhythm guitar, and a very catchy chorus with lots of hooks.


I'm not sure when I'll post again. Soon hopefully. I gotta plug a talented friend of mine, get some thoughts up about the Big Ten this season (huge next ten days or so for the Hoosiers), and possibly a thought or two on the campaigns thus far. First though, I have to catch up on my rocks. I've fallen behind a bit in my classes, and the next week will probably be spent in lab trying to catch up.

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You'll have to excuse the lack of posting, as I'm currently dying from a Schadenfreude overdose. Thank you Mr. Manning.

The Origin of My Name

For the folks out there who know me as "Joey," the "Cincy" moniker was given to me by my petrology professor. I always have a Reds hat and/or sweatshirt on in class (or at least have thus far into the class), so he began referring to me as Cincinnati Justice. I liked it. My friends liked it. Therefore, I'm using it here. Not to mention there are some strange folks out here on the interwebs, and the less some of those folks know about me, the better.

Take it easy,
Cincy

P.S. I always say "take it easy" because it's one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands. It more or less replaced "bye" in my lexicon, so I figured it'd be a good way to end posts.

First Post

Creative title, no? After having several of the most important people in my live advise me that I should begin writing on a more regular basis, I decided to start up another blog. I retired my original (Dancin' Wookie, notice the lack of "The" and the "g"), a while ago, for various reasons. If you're reading this and supported me over there, thanks. You made it fun, and it still to this day boggles my mind that anybody would want to read my at times insane ramblings. You're good people, and I really appreciated your comments and discussions at the old site.

First, a little about myself: I'm a 20 year old geology student at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. I originally hail from Shelbyville, Indiana, a town of little importance to anybody not from the area. My parents divorced when I was five and I was raised most of the time my mother, who was single during most of said raising. I grew up loving dinosaurs, Batman, X-Men, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Star Trek and Star Wars, while introduced then, wouldn't become true loves (obsessions? Eh, it's a fine line in my experience) until later on. I became a sports fan watching Reggie Miller dismantle the Knicks year in and year out. My grandfather eventually turned me into a die hard Cincinnati Reds fan, and one of the more fanatical Hoosier basketball fans one will ever find.

I graduated high school in 2005 despite numerous health related set backs, and came to IU thinking I wanted to study biology. It took me two and half years to realize that I was wrong, and wanted to study geology, for numerous reasons which I'm sure I will get into at a later date. The point is, when it comes to academic/career concerns, I'm a lifelong scientist, and that always affects my rationale when writing/commentating.

Now, what should you, the loyal (and possibly nonexistent) reader expect from this particular blog out on the ol' tubes? Excellent question. I have no idea. I'll probably carry over some of the more popular things from Dancin' Wookie here, such as the Friday Tunes blog. You can expect commentary on sports that I care about (Hoosier basketball and football, Reds baseball, Pacer basketball, and Colts football), movies that I see or are excited to see, and the occasional political statement (I promise to keep them infrequent). You can also expect many long sentences with numerous parenthetical interruptions, as you've probably already noticed. Basically though, you'll see me: A foul mouthed geek with more than his fair share of issues. If nothing else, it should be entertaining in that 'train-wreck' kinda way.

Take it easy,
Cincy