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Chris Barrus
These sites are the best that you will find on the internet. You should visit them frequently. Early Influences/Frequent Visits
Big Dark Cloud Dot Com
These folks could have sued me at one time or another during this site's development. Reward them for not prosecuting me for "sampling" their source codes while I was trying to learn how to write my own. Actual google.com searches that resulted in visits to this site:
Xannex
The Worst Of James
May 2001
Miss an update? Can't get enough of my insightful commentary? Have no fear. I save everything I put up. Even the stupid stuff I wish I'd have deleted long ago. |
September 30 - What were you
thinking?  Email : : Post a Comment: : Gift Shop September 26 - Boats,
Beaches, Bars, and Ballads Email : : Post a Comment: : Gift Shop September 21 - Where are
you? Email : : Post a Comment: : Gift Shop September 20 - Stop the room
- I wanna get off! It's Saturday, so if you're in Sacramento, you know where you need to be. If you're not, well, I'll just say GO NOLES!. Email : : Post a Comment: : Gift Shop September 17 -
Ouch! But the surf's up... Email : : Post a Comment: : Gift Shop September 12 - Movin' On
Up For giggles and grins, I checked again, expecting a huge disappointment. After all, I had dropped to as low as the 3-million level last winter, and I've done very little since then. But out of 3.3 billion pages (which is approximately how many Google sorts through), my newest Alexa ranking is... 1,157,662 I'm in the top 5%. Weird. Plus, there are about 7 billion other sites that Google doesn't reference because they're not trafficked often enough. So out of the approximately 10 billion pages online, I rank in the upper 1%. Don't you people have better things to do? Then again, it is kinda funny to think that an idiot like me can sit here in my boxer briefs with absolutely no knowledge of programming or design, and rank alongside folks who've spent serious bucks on the marketing departments that spend countless hours toiling over their websites... So in the spirit of "less is more", I'm taking a few days off from the internet. Since the ratio of work to results around here is obviously inverted, I'll expect lots of accolades and back-patting next time I check the message board. Go post something over there about how much I rule, will ya? Oh yeah... A few very eloquent reviews: The Kiss Symphony dvd is cool. The new Iron Maiden cd is cool. See ya next time! Email : : Post a Comment: : Gift Shop September 11 - Born In The
USA Take some time to reflect on what's truly important. Don't let your boss, your crazy neighbor, or that idiot in front of you who won't speed through the yellow light bring you down. In the blink of an eye, your world can change, and none of those things will seem important anymore. Cut out ALL of the bullshit in your life and remember what really matters. Bombing people who screw with us back to the Stone Age. Of course I'm kidding... In all seriousness, I ask that every one of my readers take a minute to send an email to someone they haven't heard from in a while. Put aside whatever reason you stopped talking, and just say hello. Tell a joke. Share a memory. Just get back in touch. You never know when you won't be able to do so again. Email : : Post a Comment: : Gift Shop September 10 -
Multi-shirking... Email : : Post a Comment: : Gift Shop September 9 - Stuff To
Do
Email : : Post a Comment: : Gift Shop September 8 - If they only
knew... A certain band saw their pictures in my In Concert gallery. They wrote to me and asked if I'd take some more of them. I laughed my ass off, because it's no secret that I don't even own a camera. Hell, I don't even use name-brand disposable cameras anymore. Out of the dozens of pics that are up over there, I can maybe name 2 or 3 that could qualify as "good". The rest are strictly posted for fun and amusement, for my friends who don't live locally and don't have the opportunities that I do to see most of these bands play so often. So it was quite a surprise to hear any kind of positive feedback regarding my "photography". Also, a certain local idiot who's been writing a fairly useless and low-tech website for the past 2 years or so, who has no training or qualifications in the area whatsoever, is considering throwing his hat in the ring for a website producing job. Only one catch - it's in a ritsy part of the world, and his warped sense of humor would have to be seriously muted. But hey, it could mean (as the kids say) PHAT BANK. As long as I'm making fun of old rock magazines, I came across this old Photoshop I did. Those of you who used to read Hit Parader magazine might get a kick out of it. I call this one, "Every Letter Ever Sent In To Hit Parader's Letters To The Editor Column In the 80s, With The Editor's Brilliant And Witty Response Immediately Following"  Email : : Post a Comment: : Gift Shop September 7 - Poverty Sucks,
But Not For Me. My result:
And I still rent a small apartment in a crappy neighborhood, and have to check the bathroom every hour at work to see if anyone missed the bowl. Who'd have known it was such a lucrative profession? Sweet. I'm the world's eccentric bazillionaire next door. I'm gonna go build a big fence around my place to keep all of you undesirables off of my lawn now. But first, I've got to round up some change so I can grab a bite from Taco Bell... But y'know, for being in the top 1% of the world's financially elite, you'd think I'd be able to afford something better... I'll have to try to find a nice wife with a job too... We could make it into the top .682% next year! And mom said my education was going to waste... Email : : Post a Comment: : Gift Shop September 6 - Half(assed)
Time!
But I hear you asking... "James... How on earth can an 80s metal nerd like you expect to be taken seriously commenting on football too?" Which brings me to an idea conceived during one of those random phone conversations starting with "Wouldn't it be cool if..."  The (insert city here) Demons! Think about it... How cool would it be to go to a football game at Simmons Arena? Or to watch the Demonette Cheerleaders, the Goddesses of Thunder? Just the halftime entertainment alone would be worth the price of admission. Plus, you'd always be sure to find plenty of Demons' paraphernalia in the gift shops. I even found a few pics for the first game program... 
The Demons instill fear in their opponents by showing their empty pockets 
The first dress rehearsal of the Goddesses of Thunder, the Demonette Cheerleading squad  Clemson has "Death Valley", The University of Florida has "The Swamp"... The Demons have "THE MALL!" I've also been working on some projects I can't really mention here. But let's just say that if they pan out, I will be a very happy person. Email : : Post a Comment: : Gift Shop September 5 -
Naaaaahhhhh. So not only is the summer theme sticking around until I finally feel sufficiently motivated enough to change it, but I'm actually raising a middle finger directly at the changing seasons. So count on even MORE tropical designs. Old Man Winter can piss off. Plus, I don't do very much site work during the summers, so sticking my head in the sand and refusing to acknowledge winter means I don't have to do anything here. Email : : Post a Comment: : Gift Shop September 4 - Summer's
Over. But on the good side, that means I'll update more often... Whiny baby rants and general angst make for easy subject matter and great reading. Email : : Post a Comment: : Gift Shop |
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