There is something to be said about german engineering, as my new Volkswagen Passat has just about everything you would ever need in a car and more. It’s a great balance of luxury and sport providing me with a smooth ride on top of its 200 hp turbocharged engine. Some of my favorite features include: a slot in the drivers side door jam for hidden umbrella storage, automatic wipers and light, front and rear parking sensors, a little hook in the trunk to hold groceries and the key fob that you use to start the car as well as unlock it.

Music

Flight Of The Conchords - This record actually came in just the other day and I’m glad they decided to put it out on vinyl. They are probably the best 2 man novelty band since Tenacious D. If you haven’t seen the TV show, you need to.

Conor Oberst - I’d heard about Connor touring around under his own name and playing a new set of songs, but i didn’t see this coming, he is putting out a new solo record on a label other than the creek. Here’s to hoping we see some M. Ward appear on the new record.

Blogs

How Not To Modify Your Mercury Cougar - I lost about two hours of my life looking at photos and comments of a guy who filled the back seat of his Cougar with logitech computer speakers and rigged it to his car stereo.

Tattoos For Bloggers @ Gorilla Sushi - What did we do for fun before photoshop? Gorilla Sushi has a collection of disturbing blogging tattoos.

The Tiger Beat - Anyone who knows me at all knows that BlogCatalog is pretty much my life. I work on/off from 8AM-2AM everyday talking to the community and fixing the place up. Some have called it a ’sickness.’ There are tons of BlogCatalog related things that i have wanted to share over the past few months, but could never find the right place to do so. The Tiger Beat is my answer to that, it’s an inside look at what is going on in and around BlogCatalog.

Other

Trapped in an Elevator - The New Yorker has a video and story of a man who was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours. A great read.

Music

About a month ago i won a box of old records from a seller on Ebay. Sadly, the seller’s mother died around the end of the auction and it wasn’t until last week that he was able to ship out my records. When the paper box of records arrived today i was a bit surprised to see what 99 cents can get you on ebay. All in all my record collection is now 7 LPs and 18 78s heavier. The lot of records turned out to be quite diverse, i think it was the Star Wars album that made all the waiting worth it:

Blogs

MrBaconpants.com - I found this blog through the BlogCatalog Social Search about a week back. I must say that I am surprised with the quality and consistency that this guy can blog about bacon. Anyone up for a late night bacon run? hit up my cell!

Jake and Amir - I briefly found Jake and Amir through one of the gawker blogs a while back, but have spent the last few weeks trying to remember their names. Alas, my brother came to the rescue; The things he chooses to remember baffles me.

Pictionary from Amir on Vimeo.

Movies

Sarah Marshall - My New favorite website. Enough Said.

Fanboys - Star Wars + Kristen Bell = My new all-time favorite movie!

Other

The Manchester Transfer - If you understand this shirt than you are okay by me. back and forth.

SOBcon - It seems I’ll be attending SOBcon 2008 in Chicago come May. Not really sure what it’s all about but to my disappointment SOB does not stand for what you think it does.

Music

Neva Dinova - Clouds - keeping with the theme of long overdue, Neva Dinova’s new album is no doubt going to be amazing just a few more weeks until it’s release

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Think I Wanna Die - I have been listening to this album almost non-stop the last few weeks.

Blogs

My First BC Interview? - In a strange turn of events I received an IM the other evening asking to be intereviewed. Why someone would want to interview me is beyond me, but i did my best to be interesting. You be the judge.

Antony Berkman - Tony’s love of widgets has finally inspired him to start a blog to put them on.

Skulls and Bacon - Any blog dealing with Bacon is a blog I want to read.

Movies

Pineapple Express - For some reason i am really looking forward to Apatow’s new movie Pineapple Express. Maybe it’s the theme song by Huey Lewis.

Step Brothers - Is it me or are Will Ferrell’s movies getting worse and worse. Either way I want to see this movie

So i move forward in finding a new format for the wrath. Album reviews? Music news? Technology? Social Media? Who knows. If you have any suggestions as to what you would like to see in the new wrath, please leave a comment.

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1. Bright Eyes - Cleanse Song
2. Dntel - Roll On (Ft. Jenny Lewis)
3. The Go Find - Over the Edge
4. Silverchair - All Across The World
5. Josh Pyke - Memories & Dust
6. The Slip - Airplane/Primitive
7. Voxtrot - Ghost
8. Limbeck - Let’s Talk About The Weather
9. Wilco - Hate It Here
10. Page France - Junkyard
11. Owen - A Fever
12. Jeremy Messersmith - Beautiful Children
13. Novi Split - Settled Down

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1. Rufus Wainwright - Vicious World
2. Last Days Of April - Two Ply Glass
3. Her Majesty - Cut me
4. Dear and the Headlights - I’m Bored, You’re Amorous
5. Love Of Everything - Talk For Hours
6. The Black Keys - The Lengths
7. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let’s Get Tired!
8. Willy Mason - If The Ocean Gets Rough
9. Limbeck - Your Story
10. Jeff London - Happening To Me
11. Now It’s Overhead - Wonderful Scar
12. The Wedding Present - Interstate 5

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1. Maria Taylor - A Good Start
2. Andrew Bird - Armchairs
3. Now It’s Overhead - Nothing in Our Way
4. Tokyo Police Club - Nature of the Experiment
5. Little Brazil - Packed
6. The Long Winters - Pushover
7. Bright Eyes - Endless Entertainment
8. Graves - Why Stay
9. The Envy Corps - Rooftop
10. The Go Find - 25 years
11. The Little Ones - Heavy Hearts Bridge
12. Super XX Man - Baby Song

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1. Super XX Man - I’m Alive Again
2. The Promise Ring - Things Just Getting Good
3. The Love of Everything - Nothing Left To Use
4. Kind of Like Spitting - You Got Served
5. Graves - Never Mind My Love
6. Novi Split - I’m Leaving
7. Cat Power - The Greatest
8. Explosions in the Sky - So Long, Lonesome
9. Whiskeytown - Everything I Do
10. Patrick Watson - The Great Escape
11. Fingers-Cut, Megamachine! - Mousetrap
12. Sparrow House - When I Am Gone
13. Jason Molina - Everything Should Try Again
14. Headlights - I Love, You Laugh

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1. M. Ward - Paul’s Song
2. Limbeck - Tonight, I’ll Be Staying Here With You
3. Old Canes - Both Falling Bright
4. Whiskeytown - Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
5. Drag The River - Dirty Lips
6. Apollo Sunshine - Sign On The Window
7. The Weakerthans - A New Name For Everything
8. Wilco - Someone Else’s Song
9. Rocky Votolato - 20 Degrees
10. Eef Barzelay - I Wasn’t Really Drunk
11. Songs: Ohia - Just Be Simple
12. The Elected - I Don’t Care

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Thanks to Josh for lending a hand with this one

This month’s projects include:

http://www.tradersvillage.com
http://www.everydaylocal.com
http://www.neonelectric.net
and an untitled Ruby On Rails project.

1. Patrick Watson - Giver
2. Damien Rice - The Animals Were Gone
3. The Shins - Sleeping Lessons
4. The Rocket Summer - So Far Away
5. Son, Ambulance - Seven Days
6. Hanalei - Thirteen
7. Zookeeper - I Live in the Mess You Are
8. The Frames - True
9. Bright Eyes - It’s Cool, We Can Still Be Friends
10. Rhet Miller - Come Around
11. Fingers-Cut, Megamachine! - Truce
12. Brandtson - Tapping The Vain
13. Damien Jurado - What Were The Chances

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Damien Jurado - Hoquiam
Park - La Amoureux

My computer was being a dick this morning and i had to restore it to factory settings. HP really did a good job at making the OS unusable and bloated. Unfortunately i am stuck with it until I can get a new XP key from school, which is conveniently, on September 7th. So until then i must withhold my full wrath from being unleashed upon this monstrosity of an operating system.

Of course i cant hold back my wrath until then so to curb my appetite today i nailed the bookstore by buying my books online, saving $60. Take THAT bookstore!

I am going to use this blog to display the victims of my wrath, for instance:

Here is where my car broke as a result of my wrath upon it.

It is probably in your best interest to stay on my good side or i may just break your CV shaft and post a picture of it on my blog.