As of now, I am only buying clothes from eBay. seriously. have you checked that shit out? they have 06 designs for like a quarter of the price that they sell for in stores and fashion sites. some of it is probably knocked off or whatever, but fuck it....ask me no questions, i will tell you no lies. been a while since i picked up any new stuff - the stores are so expensive and i resent paying extra just so they can put cool soundsystems and plasma screens in the store. i'm a guy, i'm only in there for like five minutes anyway.

can we talk for a second about the new fall out boy video? i saw it for the first time a month or two ago online, and it's now on mainstream tv here in the uk. the full thing is just over 6 minutes, you can check it out here. i know they wanted to push some boundaries, but i just don't think they made it. it's a few too many ideas (most of which seem to have been borrowed from mediocre vampire flicks) shoe-horned less-than-glamorously into a video that seems incongruous to the song itself. i hate it when people spout opinions without backing it up so i'll give some examples.....the music is cut in and out of the video seemingly as an afterthought when it comes in for the final time, you can hardly hear it behind the fight scene sound effects...the wire effects look cheap and half-assed...the plotline is introduced with a 40-second vocal intro, but it peters out with a whimper at the end. don't get me wrong, i am a big fan of fob, and they normally seem to set themselves pretty high standards, but i think they took it a little too far this time. what the hell do i know? have i sold millions of records? no.

ok, that concludes todays random rant, it's saturday night and i am glad to be in. going out is over-rated.

max x