Adam Says: Dashboard/Kingdom/Superman

For the last five days I have been packing up my things and preparing to leave my old job... oddly enough this is a really good time for me... not that my old job was awful... but my old job was not what I needed. While doing this packing I came across a copy of the Dashboard Confessional Unplugged CD, and because all of my other music has already migrated back to my lair I have had nothing else to listen to but Dashboard... I was going to put up some long reflective post about Dashboard being the soundtrack of some of my worse break ups (ironic or just pathetic) and so there had been this sad meaning placed upon them, but now I am reversing the curse so to speak and they are becoming the sound track to sweet parting and new beginnings... that was until I saw The Kingdom on Saturday. Now I must post my unadulterated adulation for The Kingdom in all its boom boom bang bang glory! But wait... just as I sat down to revel in the glow of my Kingdom experience I had the distinct pleasure of getting to see this...

needless to say The Kingdom takes a back seat to superman(aka Dwight "man child" Howard)... but still the Kingdom rocks...

Adam and Jeremy Say: This List Should Get You Caught Up

The Richmond branch has been wasting way too much time with work and has not been spending enough time roaming the World Wide Web looking for nuggets to give you kiddies... we are sorry and plan to make it up to you with this numbered list of things you should care about.

1. The Office = Funny.

2. Doggy Birthday parties may sound like F-U-N, but a large group of adults standing around and watching a twelve pound dog eat a peanut butter cake is probably the scariest commentary I could ever make on our culture.

3. I bought the new Dashboard Confessional album (The Shade of Poison Trees)... you should as well.

4. I know Halloween has passed but this Christopher Walken mask is still the coolest thing ever.

5. The first "Best Albums of 2007" list has been made, and we do not approve.

6. Cake is coming to Richmond December 9... you may have to pawn your Wii to pay for the $30 tickets, but it will be sooo worth it... trust us.

7. I am stoked about the new Batman movie and this website is one of two reasons why (the other is Christian Bale of course.)

8. These are the best Christian albums ever? We think not... in fact that is really just obnoxious.

9. Turn the clocks back this weekend... just a friendly public service announcement.

10. Medieval Total War is like crack, but with out the paranoia and loss of appetite.

That should fix you up for now... later I may post about Children's Health Care or the Hypocrisy of Radical Right Wing Radio Host...

Adam Says: Further Seems Forever and Jesus Christ Superstar

If you spent any or all of your college career from 1999 to 2006 you probably cried last year when Further Seems Forever announced they were disbanding. The band that defined "emo" for me was finally going to let it go (Hope the boys from Fall Out Boy are taking notes.) Well color me excited when Further Seems Forever released a CD/DVD set last week, "The Final Curtain", with all sorts of great acoustic tracks and b-sides, some that even feature original singer Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Conffesional fame, and a video of FSF final show. A way cool disc worth checking out...

With the excitement about a final Further Seems Forever album I had the opportunity to do some memory lane wandering and a little Internet surfing (which led me to find the amazing FSF concert photo from 1999 that you see above), and I came across a great bio of FSF on Wikipedia that actually has a pretty good rundown of the multiple FSF lead singers, and did you ever wonder what happened to the man who would be Chris Carrabba? Jason Gleason got married to Bella Gleason of Element 101 "fame" and they started a group called Action Reaction. They have an album out and you may check it out if you wish, but it does not come with the Adam and Jeremy stamp of approval as "The Final Curtain" does.

Oh and since it is the day after Easter.... I give you the top 12 Jesus' in entrainment history... as presented by http://www.ew.com/... I still don't think you can beat The Caviezel, but I may be biased... yeah I one look at this list and you suddenly realize why we are all under the misconception that Jesus was a slightly feminine white man... sad... I mean the dude cleared out an entire temple court with his bare hands and an whip; lets see Chuck Norris do that!