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Pop Goes What?

Matt — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:59:23 +0000

So by now I’ve started to realize that my girlfriend is totally responsible for at least half of my current music tastes. So the other day she came over and told me about this mix cd called ‘Pop Goes Punk Volume 2′. So I checked it out, and it’s totally rad!

Basically the idea of this CD is a bunch of metal, punk, hardcore bands that cover pop songs by various artists. Oh yeah and it’s hard rock covers!

My 3 favorite songs from the album would have to be:

‘Apologize’ covered by Silverstien.
‘Smooth’ covered by Escape the Fate.
‘When I Grow Up’ covered by Mayday Parade.

The metal band ‘August Burns Red’ covered ‘Baby one more time’, which was also an excellent cover, and very death metal!

Overall it’s agreat CD and I highly recomend it to everyone!

I Want a Car.

Matt — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:39:49 +0000

So I’ve decided that I need / want a car. With the economy the way it is currently, car dealers are pretty much throwing cars away with great deals, so I’ve started looking around and researching different cars and models that I might dig.

From all my obsessive research, it pretty much comes down to 2 different cars: The Honda Fit, or the Toyota Matrix.

I know it’s a tough decision. Both cars are great and have awesome features and selling points. Let me outline a few:

Toyota Matrix
The 2009 Toyota Matrix is a great big small car, if that makes sense! I love the body shape/style and the interior is gorgeous. I find that the Matrix would be slightly more expensive to get the same or similar features as the 09 Honda Fit Sport model.

The Matrix has a great interior layout. For example, the automatic shifter is located in the middle console, near the bottom for easy acces without having to look down and take your precious eyes off the road. I like that. Also the dashboard meters are sexy! Great display brightness both in day and night conditions!

Honda Fit Sport
THe 09 Honda Fit Sport is a wicked car also. It’s a little more ‘compact’ than the Matrix, but in my opinion has some better internal and external features for around the same price as the Matrix.

Starting with the external. The Fit Sport has 16inch alloy wheels, an exhaust tip, and is very very very fuel efficient!

Interior. Inside the Fit is where it get really cool. They have this patented thing called ‘Magic Seat’ where the rear seats can be both folded down flat and also fold up for make room for tall objects like plants, bikes, etc!

Also the Fit has a built in USB audio connector, so you can plug in your iPhone or iPod and have it play music through USB as well as charge it! Awesome.

Summary
I can’t decide.

Tastes Like Chaos

Matt — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:08:14 +0000

So I haven’t blogged in forever! I guess school is to blame. Anyhow, I thought I’d let you all know that this Wednesday April 8, 2009 I will be joining my girlfriend in going to the 2009 Rockstar Taste of Chaos Tour. This is going to be a fun night and there are some pretty sweet bands playing also!

Bands are: Thursday, Bring Me The Horizon, Four Years Strong, Pierce the Vail, and Cancer Bats.

The show is @ The Kool Haus in Downtown Toronto, which is a nice venue, I’ve seen the band Underoath there!

I’ll also do a ‘post-show’ review of the bands I like and don’t like

Bodybuilding

Matt — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:59:32 +0000

I don’t know why I haven’t blogged about this earlier, but two weeks ago, I started bodybuilding again. I’m training with my friend Jon, who’s been doing this for over 2 years. I’m feeling pretty good so far, no injuries or sickness yet. My main goal is to build muscle mass, but at the same time I have a little layer of flubber that needs to go! I’ll put up regular updates. The other major thing is that I’ve totally changed my diet, to a high protien, fairly high carb intake, which is a pain to stick at.