The Terrible Twos

In honor of our 2nd year doing the Southpaw Cove blog we decided on a little re-design. The posts have been few and far between since June but we're going to be more diligent in getting more content up here in the future.

Remember to Forget

This morning, I went to log into my work e-mail account, only to realize that I had forgotten what my password was. I realize it's Monday and I didn't sleep much last night, but I knew the damn thing on Friday. What further concerns me is that any time I am prompted to change my password, I just go up a digit from the current one. For example, if my previous password were sparkles12, my new one would be sparkles13. (Rest assured, my password is not sparkles13... anymore).

This lapse of memory got me to thinking: Do I forget things because I subconsciously want to? For instance, I really don't want to be at work today. Nothing good awaits me in my inbox. Is my mind trying to protect me from something undesirable? Or am I just losing it?

To take it a step further, there are things I would like to forget that I can't. Or so I believe. If my theory of the subconscious acting as a gatekeeper holds water, couldn't the opposite also be true?

As much on the surface level I'd like to forget certain things, maybe my subconscious is overruling me. Maybe it wants me to remember those things. And only when I've reached a level of resolution (or at the very least, comprehension), will it allow me to cast if off.

My final thought (before I forget) is that when those things are allowed to pass through and it no longer follows you around, they are recalled much differently when you summon them back. Most times, the memory is smoothed of its jagged edges... the image gets Disney-fied.

In the song 'Time,' Tom Waits says this better than me (of course):

And they all pretend they're orphans and their memory's like a train

You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away

And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget

That history puts a saint in every dream

We often remember things the way that we want to, not the way they really were. We revise. The darkness gets bathed in sunlight and the villain becomes a saint.

Even if it's much harder to carry some stuff around with you, I think it's better to hold onto some of the things we would rather not.

Like your email password.

My least favorite day of the year

No need to write up a new one

Leaving the festival. Surprisingly I only saw one sitar all day.

I think this is going to be my last band of the night. Susu is on. Not overly impressed but the drummer is actually really good

The lead singer is now throwing off a Conor Oberst vibe. They have a female singer which wins me over a little. They should use her more

I think I'm seeing The Boy Bathing at Bar Matchless. They're decent although the lead singer is giving off a hint of douchey-ness. It might just be his hair

Studio B is a sweet venue. A nerd rock band is coming on next I think. We're not sticking around. Going to check someplace else out

Boo to the Heineken open bar. Stopped giving free beer with 40 minutes left. It said 5-8pm. Apparantly they only had 150 beers to give away. I don't see how that's our problem.

Heineken Open Bar...my group makes up more than half the population

Just saw Anamanaguchi. I would classify them as video game rock. Checked to see if the baseball game was on...not surprisingly soccer was instead

At Spike Hill checking out 8 NYC bands You Need To Hear showcase. Brooklyn is a cool scene. I should have done more shit like this in my 20s.

Just got to Brooklyn. Got our badges and right away we were directed to free Heineken. This is promising.

Northside Festival

I'm headed to Brooklyn today for the Northside Festival. There is only a handful of bands that I've ever heard of but I'm using this as an opportunity to go check out some live music and also as an excuse to go check out the area. I've only been to McCarren Park pool over there so it gives me a chance to explore it.

Once again I'll give mobile blogging a shot.

Star Trek?

I never wanted to give Star Trek a chance. Growing up as a Star Wars guy I felt there was a stigma attached to being a Trekkie. I wanted to no part of it and in no way did I ever imagine myself sitting in a movie theater waiting for a Star Trek movie to begin.

Funny what a film maker I trust and a kick ass trailer will do. J.J. Abrams could remake the First Wives Club and I'd at least entertain the thought of seeing it.

Being that I don't have any Star Trek fans in my group of friends, the only Star Trek knowledge I had going in is what has seeped into popular culture. And honestly, I think that enhanced my enjoyment of the experience. I didn't have myself or anyone else saying how the originals were better or I wasn't looking for references to "old" Star Trek-isms. The only part it probably hurt was during a scene like where the Enterprise comes in to view for the first time. The reveal shot was amazing looking and everything but emotionally it didn't do anything for me since I've only been invested in the Enterprise for about ten minutes at that point.

The good:
-I'll go as far as to say that the cast was awesome. The only thing that I've ever seen Chris Pine in was some movie where he was unlucky and Lindsey Lohan was lucky and they kiss for some reason and wouldn't you know it...their luck changes. So kudos to him for being able to reverse my opinion on him. I can't give too much credit to anyone casting for casting Zachary Quinto as Spock. It had to be the most obvious casting choice in Hollywood history (maybe outside Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison). And all the others: Simon Pegg, John Cho, Zoe Saldana etc were all more than serviceable.

-For actually including Leonard Nimoy in the movie in a way that worked. It didn't come off as pandering to old school Trekkies. Forcing him in the movie for the sake of having him in the movie could have backfired massively

The bad:
-Not a great villain. Eric Bana was fine with what he had to do but as an overall villain, for a big movie, I would have liked something more.

Overall I really enjoyed it. It was a fun two hours and I'd definitely continue on with some sequels. Was it enough for me to go back and start watching Season 1 of Star Trek or the first Star Trek movie? Absolutely not, I'm happy starting from here.

Live long and-----

I'm not quite there...yet.

Jon and Kate plus Eight. Yeah...I'm actually writing about this

In the midst of what would be a multiple day hangover from my bachelor party, my fiance was watching a Jon and Kate Plus Eight marathon and I was powerless to stop it.

I was aware of the allegations of Jon "stepping out" on Kate and their marital problems and had seen a few episodes here and there but not enough to pass judgement. But I have now.

I took a few psycholgy courses in college so I'm more than qualified to identify what went wrong with them.

When the show first started they thought it was a nice and interesting way to document their kids growing up while getting them material things and free vacations. I'm completely on board with that reasoning. I can't imagine how much money it costs to take a family that size on vacations and they are going to need a ton of bank to put all of them through college later.

Surprisingly, the show became popular and Kate changed gears from having the show be a means to document their kids growing up into a springboard to become a media mogul. Now Jon doesn't work anymore to stay home with the kids while Kate is off travelling to do talk shows and book tours. That coupled with Kate always putting him down and interrupting him during interviews, it's not a surprise that they are on the outs.

Now if you don't mind I have go prepare my next blog post which will be about guns, beer and sports.

Could I have gotten a better game!

Thank god it was such a good game. It gave me my 2nd wind and enabled me to finish off my 17 and a half straight hours of drinking.

It's very weird to actually be at my own bachelor party. Fenway Park is beautiful. I don't use that word often, but it's what a baseball stadium should be

I tried to do the punching bag video game. I f'd up and now my fingers are bleeding. I've made a huge mistake

o an end