Junior Prom

Miami Vice is my favorite vice, but only barely. It was a close one. Vicegrips came in second, though they are handy...in a pinch.

I started in on Miami Vice as a child, when the program was a weekly show on television. I have now realized, no adult in their right mind should ever have allowed me to watch that show. It's about pimps, and drug dealers, and murder and suchnot. I'm not sure they could have come up with a much better title for the show. Unless it took place in Louisville. Then they probably would have called it Louisville Vice.

Overall, I appreciate Miami Vice for starting me in on the genuine vice of watching edgy television. I still have a taste for it to this day, and I think it's at least in part due to my parents' poor judgment and the hot-pink sexiness of Miami Vice.

Komodo Dragon

I bitez yer leg fer to give ya a infeckshun!

I've never seen the Badlands, and they're pretty close by. At least, I think within helicopter distance. And they'd be totally awesome to see from the sky. It would also be cool to go up to Duluth and beyond up the north shore of Lake Superior. Or really, just flying a helicopter around downtown Minneapolis would be great. So, as it turns out, the fantasy scenario of my friend having a helicopter at all is more intriguing than where I'd travel for a weekend. We've got a freaking helicopter! It doesn't matter where we go! We'll be the coolest kids at school.

FIRST AVENUE is pretty great, though I have to admit: I haven't been to an amazingly large amount of music shows. I've enjoyed First Ave. on several occasions, as it's the biggest of the non-stadium rock clubs in town. Most major bands that are much of anything in the past 20 years have played First Avenue. My personal favorite concert there was watching Bad Religion in October of 2007. It was so dense with people, and so high-energy. It's the best concert I've been to so far.

I stopped because it was the first in an overwhelming stack of 12 books we were supposed to read during the summer before AP English in high school. Silly Mr. Soley. Summer reading? For class? No, that will not do.

I will probably finish this book someday on my own. In fact...just added it to my *someday* reading list. There. Are you happy, Mr. Soley? I still got a 3 on the AP test (minimum required to get college credit from it) and I didn't read any of the novels, and only half-understood the poetry. Good thing I had some pizazz to offer in the writing department. If only I had pizzas to offer as well, I might have bumped that score up even farther.

Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin

Just obscure enough to make what you want of the lyrics; just awesome enough to want to learn every part on the guitar; just long enough to be too long for radio.