Yep

So i haven't posted in a while. I have no excuses. Here's a video of JJ. Not much going on, just wanted to post a video so you all can see him!



Hope everyone has a nice weekend. We are going to the pumpkin patch (again) this weekend!

Fits and Starts - Random Rant

It seems like just when I get a good head of steam going on this blog I get pulled in a million different directions, or get really busy, and stop making entries. Here's the rub, it's not a tremendous amount of work to post; it just goes to the back of the queue and thus isn't something I get around to during the course of the day. I need to work on that. I always say that.

So, now that I am posting again, at least for the short term, allow me to start with a picture of angry baby: see above.

(Note: this next part, for some reason, got chopped and I had to retype this part...it was much better before since it was stream of consciousness. Maybe Disney has access to my blog and deleted it...that will make more sense as you read)

The Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus suck. I mean really suck. What do kids see/hear in these folks? Musically they are the equivalent of tone deaf monkeys. I get the marketing aspect of it all. I mean I get it. Disney has done a good job with them AND the High School Musical groups, aside from the naked Internet pictures of Vanessa Hudgens. Oops. Anyway, if there is anything I can do, any way to avoid it, JJ and any future children will only listen to good music, or at least not awful "designer bleach" music like the crap Disney pumps and pimps out. It's not good music on any level. Have you ever heard it live? Well I have (research for this post) and it's worse. Plus the main Jonas person looks like a girl. Am I wrong?

JJ is going to listen to real music, as long as there is no profanity. Now you are probably saying "but Ben, that's irresponsible. what about the suggestive lyrics that will corrupt his impressionable mind". To that I respond NUTS. I can't understand half the lyrics of the songs I listen to and even when I do I can't make heads or tails about what they are talking about. It took me many years to figure out what "Afternoon Delight" was about...I might be special because that one couldn't have been more clear. Anyway, if he starts putting the pieces together, that's another story...we will cross that bridge when we come to it.

So now JJ (angry: right >) goes to sleep to the smooth tones of his baby iPod chalked full of Jack Johnson, The Shins, Death Cab for Cutie. Donovan Frankenreiter, G-Love, Alison Krauss, Dave Matthews and other mellow night time tunes. While most of that can't be considered GREAT music, it's WORLDS better than the Jonas crap. When he's in the car he gets steady dose of The Beatles, The Jam, Weezer and The Raconteurs. I literally just rattled off what's in the CD player now. See, the kid already has good taste in music.

Before I sign off wanted to update on the kid...he's 16 pounds, still sleeping, has a thing with grabbing his parents by the face and pulling them close, doesn't like to be held if the person holding him is sitting down UNLESS there is a bottle in his mouth and is quite shy but also laughs like crazy. He gets more interesting every day.

In closing, this post took 10 minutes which really leads me to question why I can't set aside 10 minutes every day or every other day to post? Maybe I need to set a time in my calender as a reminder? Either way, I am trying.

NOTE: I would like to apologize for getting quite angry about the Jonas Brothers and Hannah Cyrus.