Dream Out Loud by Justin Luey

Here is the first of a soon to be regular feature on my blog, where I feature songs that are stuck in my head and are worthy to be stuck in yours.

The first song I’m going to share is “Get Better” by Mates of States. Mates of State are a great two piece indie rock band from Lawrence, Kansas. “Get Better” is poppy but has great lyrics and it just buries itself in your head.

Here is the official video:

Here is a great live performance:

Lyrics:

Forget your politics for a while
Let the color schemes arrive

Come on board, it’s a curious site
Absorbing sound that’s never been right
Never ahead of, never behind it
Occasionally guarded, just keeps us surrounded
It’s luck

Everything’s gonna get lighter, even if it never gets better

I propose a less serious boat
Don’t mistake for a party of jokes
You are never ahead of, never behind us
Floating in circles, there’s more to remind them of less

Everything’s gonna get lighter, even if it never gets better

Forget your politics for a while
Let the color schemes arrive

Download the song from iTunes or Amazon and support the artist.

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I’m not a cook, in fact about 80% of my meals are either take out or in a restaurant.  When I do eat at home it’s either a hamburger, sandwich, or something I just have to heat up. I have no skill or ambitions in the kitchen.  I do however enjoy eating food, it’s a passion of mine. My taste in food is not every exotic, I basically live on hamburgers, subs, chicken wings, and cereal.  I like other things but not many other things.  My eating habits very much mirror my life philosophy of only doing things you love.  As a result of these eating habits I’ve found myself inventing meals. Inventing isn’t really the right word, I create food mashups. Just like the DJs producing music mashups I take two or more foods and mix them together. I will use this blog to share these mashups.

Mashup 1 - Buffalo Rice

I have made this exactly once, so it’s a work in progress. I basically took instant white rice and prepared it according to the box instructions. I then added Frank’s Red Hot ( I love Frank’s Red Hot, and it will be an ingredient 90% of my mashups) fresh ground pepper and oregano, and stirred it all together. This came to me in an instant, it wasn’t even thought about ahead of time and it’s a result of mixing a bunch of stuff I like together.  The result was very good, so if you like rice and Frank’s Red Hot give it try. If you have any of your own Frank’s Red Hot creations make sure to contact me or post a comment. 

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Last night I was playing some 2/4 Limit poker at the Seneca Casino in Niagara Falls, NY. Anyone who has ever played 2/4 limit at a casino knows that its not really poker at all. It’s often referred to as “no fold’em, hold’em”. So bad play is the rule not the exception, however, last night a man at the table took it up a notch. This guy not only played every hand but if he had any piece of the board (even bottom pair) he would raise and reraise. The craziest part is in the span of an hour, he rivered a 1- 3 outer about 10 times. The first few times it happened he heard some groins and saw some eye rolling, but by the time he did it the fifth or sixth time people were talking smack. In one of the hands where he hit a 2 on the river to turn his pocket deuces into a full house, a guy asked him “how can you still be in the hand with deuces with four over cards, a possible straight, possible flush, and possible full house on board?”. The guy just looked back with a puzzled look on this face. Then the other player said “you only have 2 outs at the most, and even those 2 outs could be no good, you’re probably drawing dead”. Of course the guy looked even more confused. The other player then went on to give him the odds and the percentages and that it was lead to the funniest and craziest thing I’ve ever heard at a poker table. The guy looked at the player who was explaining the math to him and said “how do you know that?” the guy said “its simple math”, then the guy asked “well,how do you know its right?” , the other player was amazed and “said because its math, its in every math text there is” and the crazy guy said “but who wrote the book?”. Not everyone at the table heard it but those of who did started howling and then it was shared with the rest of the table. This guy wasn’t joking, he believed that the odds in a poker game were just a theory made up by some guy who wrote a book. Like maybe odds are some just crazy idea made up by Stephen King or Charles Dickens. I played at the same table for about another 3 hours and the topic of conversation rarely moved from this idea. Luckily my hands held up a few times and I made $175 profit but that pales to the value of that conversation.

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