Why flash is the best thing since Super Nintendo.

Some of you may have read the topic of this post and thought "Wow, that sounds like an essay title."

You'd be right.

Others might have though something like this: "Dave is verbose and can never shut the hell up. I bet he is going to rant in essay form."

You'd be wrong.

For the first, and possibly only, time.

Ever.

I am just going to post a link for a flash game that proves why it is awesome. Because this is officially the greatest thing ever. And by greatest "thing" ever I include any "thing" that could possibly be a noun.

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/

Check it out.

Why Arcade Fire could take you in a fight.

As the title of this post implies, I am going to explain why Arcade Fire could take you in a fight:
-Their music is awesome.
-There are ten of them. Ten.

I am now going to focus on the latter point, although the size of the band really is significant as they get an extremely full sound from it, what with all of the instruments going at the same time. It's also cool how they do many of their lyrics. Most other bands bring in cheesy choirs that do backup vocals. Arcade Fire doesn't, and they don't have to because they have more than enough vocal chords (20 of them, all counted) to get the job done.

I was cruising around youtube a while ago (last night) looking at music videos and live performances from Arcade Fire. They look like just an amazing band live. The audiences really feed off the energy and get into it too. It's just so cool.

Next point: Justin Timberlake and other manufactured singers/popstars can officially kiss me on the part of my body I affectionately refer to as my "ass". Digitally enhanced post-puberty ex-mouskateers might get the ratings and the junior high girls but they are murder to quality music. I'm glad that Arcade Fire's new album is doing so well. This is good. I want them to be awesome. It means humanity is listening to musicians perform again rather than choosing the fruit of marketing departments armed with beautiful blond pop-stars.

Here is some Arcade Fire:



I think this is an okay performance - it takes about a minute for them to get into it. They have some even more intense performances where the energy is just through the roof and the audience is practically part of the show. It's great. I also like how their host gets the name of the band wrong at the end: "Thank you, Arcade Power."

Somewhere in the comments in youtube (which is a great resource if you are looking for a consistent supply of stupid) a person remarked that Arcade Fire sucked because they weren't as good as Oasis or U2. I think that if you are getting compared to Oasis and U2 that would be grounds for not sucking, but that's just how I view the world.

I'm cool too.

So my friend Graeme made a blog a while ago. That's no big deal to me. I honestly didn't care. I had a blog once. I had it first too. I was already past that. Blogs were very circa mid-2006 as far as I would concerned. People were saying that blogs were the new black or some other post-modern fashion cliches about them, but I didn't care. I had a blog before it was cool.

Or at least before Graeme. I don't even know if they are cool anymore.

But then all of a sudden I find out that Jake has a blog too. And then I realized that I should've cared more when Graeme got his blog. He was starting a culturally trend without me when I was already the cool indie-underground guy. You know, the sort of person who would've liked Blink 182 back in 1996 and then stopped thinking they were cool in 1999 when everyone else caught on. Yeah. I was that guy.

So make no mistake, I'm not missing this bus of cultural relevance. Oh no. I'm on board here people.

If anyone is wondering what the point of this post is you can keep that up. I will be asking myself that same thing. We should brain storm together. And maybe make out a bit.