drinking

Today's BSOW, which I'm like 85% sure I've done before but am too lazy to check, is "Your Hand In Mine" by Explosions in the Sky. For two, very good reasons.

1) It is Frakking Awesome.

2) It is the beginning of "FNL" here in the Mind of a ditriech.

Ok. Let me explain the latter point.

I have a bunch of weird rules, traditions and shit that I do because I'm not normal. Like at all. Most of them revolve around football, predominately Ohio State football now.^sd. One of these traditions, that I'm pretty sure no one knew of before like now^sd2 is FNL.

It's simple enough really, Basically, starting with the first Friday of August (i.e. today) I watch FNL every Friday until the collegiate football season is over if at all humanely possible. This is, actually, quite normal for me so far. The insane part started about 2 or 3 years ago when I decided that just watching the movie wasn't enough. I had to make a drinking game out of it. This too, isn't all that odd. The worst part is that I made a drinking fantasy game.

That I play by myself.

For like 16 weeks.

Well, technically 15. The first week is like a preseason to get me used to drinking Miller Lite again.

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At home that is^sd4

But yeah, in case you were wondering the rules go like this:

Points are only counted during the 30 minutes pregame before you are watching FNL^sd3, during the movie itself and for an hour after, but only if a) you don't immediately watch something else and b) you play at least three songs from the sdtk while drinking.

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I know

Continuing: each 12 oz can/bottle of Miller Lite is 5 points.

Each 12 oz can/bottle of Miller High Life is worth 4.5 points

Each 12 oz can/bottle of MGD is worth 4 points

Each 12 oz can of The Beast is worth 3.5 points.

For each 24 oz you drink, you add 1 point to the score. For each 40 oz, 2 points. For each 22 oz, add 0.8 points.

Highest point total after The Game wins. Low man has to buy the high man a beer.

It's fun. I'll be updating throughout the year via twitter.

Explosions in the Sky
Your Hand in Mine
The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place/Friday Night Lights sdtk

ditriech: should i bring tang? 14:40
zero dutch: No 14:40
ditriech: buzzkill. 14:50
zero dutch: Weirdo 14:51

ditriech:  Also, I'm about to get a Growler of beer. Stay tuned   14:27
zerodutch: And I'm stuck at my boss's place working. I hate you. 14:29
ditriech: I just finished a Growler in 20 minutes. Now a rhino hero 15:22
zerodutch: Hate hate hate 15:23 

The first time I heard this song, I was drunk^sd1. In fact, I was drunk and at my favorite bar (so far) in the DC area. The coworker I was with went over to the jukebox and said, "This is the music I used to listen to when I was in high school just high out of my mind^sd2." He told me the name of it (as-no kidding- a large portion of the bar sang along with the song) but I didn't remember it. This was like May of last year. I knew it was Pink Floyd and that's about it. About a week or two later I downloaded every Pink Floyd song I could, trying to play the songs and hopefully remember what it was. No joy.

About a month ago, I was at work (at a different job) and another (much younger than the previous) coworker had this song on his iPod. And I was able to download it^sd3, and fall in love with the song all over again.

Anyhoo, I think DFW said it best^sd4:

This had been one of Hal's deepest and most pregnant abstractions, one he'd come up with once while getting secretly high in the Pump Room. That we're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that he goes around feeling like he misses somebody he's never even met? Without the univer­salizing abstraction, the feeling would make no sense.

Missing someone or something is a feeling that is universally understood. We have all missed things at various points in our lives. Hell, that's what nostalgia is: missing something that happened in the past. And this song normally makes me feel nostalgic. Makes me think of times that I've had in the past. The joy and laughter. The pain and the tears.

This song is dedicated to the college football season. Hurry the fuck up will you?

I mean, seriously.

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here

'Ruit still correlates with vomiting, bankruptcy, shame, and sudden, violent bleeding from the skull. ... but not herpies!

For the record.

And for extra points.

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Another stellar pick from the Random Number generator.  With no "off" games on the board this week, it can't do too badly. But I'd like to point out that it picked PSU, OSU, and Michigan. I gotta respect an algorithm based on atmospheric noise that picks the hometown favorites.  And that also has a soft spot in its digital heart for hating on Minnesota. Despite its successes in the last two weeks, the RNG played it safe this week and predicted that the enimitable ditriech. Full predictions after the jump.

"Where there's a will" via Bizzo

According to Bizzo, he's outside Lebanon, IN. I, of course, asked him to play Beirut. As it was almost a necessity. And he sent this.

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sd1: Truncating the Dutchman

I hate almost everything CNN does. They've got more people watching the wires and more cameras on the ground than anyone, and once they have the image or the lede they consistently do the shittiest, most half-asked job covering it.

Say, here. In this encouraging piece of news.

But I can forget, if not forgive, the "air the controversy" bullshit cable news always falls back on when it feels like doing no research and taking no stance. Because the fact that this statement is out there makes me happy.

Also, Georgia signed.

This ain't a sewn outfit homes, homes is about it

This is one of those sad situations where 95% of all grownups agree, and yet we do the opposite. "21" combines some our worst fantasies. We take a real fact of life (young people are reckless), and pretend we can control it with symbolic action and voodo responsibility.

Voodo as in, the month after this law gets changed a 19 year old will die. Just like every other month. But now everyone will feel bad, like their allowing the law to change somehow caused it. Which feelings will be milked by monomaniacs, and given free coverage on CNN.

Unlike now, when 19 year olds die, no one will go on the record saying how, no one that age is told or can be expected to seek help when too drunk, and jurors and soldiers are legal children. But Candy can sleep well at night, and dream that she re-writes human nature with every letter to Congress.

The fantasy can't end soon enough.

[Hopefully] Bizzo is gone from the DC metro area.

Highlights from his visit include [In completely random order]:

Singing the Ballad of Serenity
Playing massive amounts of Beirut
“Eve”
Seeing Mack
Sobriety never really settling in
Barbecuing at 0900
Texting Griz and asking if he was a god^sd1.
Saying “shiny" and "gorram it" out loud.