Ah crap!

Thanks to Pickle-- here is my offer and request to you. Heaven help me.

Lucky you! The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It'll be done this year. {might be a little while}
4. You will have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or maybe even some creation I haven't even invented yet (but Heaven knows it will most likely be totally fabulous and creative... :). I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must re-post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me!

* *Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!* *

Music & Bees

So some friends and I were at Applebee's the other day and we had a delightful conversation about music. The topic was then and is now, if you had to refer only one album for any given artist or group what would that album be. Let's proceed!

Radiohead - OK Computer
Led Zeppelin - III
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Muse - Absolution
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Sufjan Stevens - Come On, Feel the Illinois
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Weezer - Blue Album
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Vince Guaraldi - Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
Otis Redding - Pain in My Heart
Coldplay - Parachutes
Tripping Daisy - I Am An Elastic Firecracker
Pearl Jam - Ten
John Mayer - Continuum
Beck - Guero
Incubus - Morning View
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Beatles - White Album
G. Love & the Special Sauce - G. Love & the Special Sauce
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
Toadies - Rubberneck
M. Ward - Post War
Don Williams - I Believe In You
Damien Rice - O
Audioslave - Audioslave
Depeche Mode - Ultra
The Cardigans - First Band on the Moon
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlantism
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics

That's it for now...

Always taking...

So there is a saying about me amongst my group of friends, and it goes a little something like this, "Always taking, always breaking, never giving back!" Normally I would deny such an accusation but today I am coming clean. In fact I have embraced this, my calling in life, which led me to appropriately nickname myself - something most people would frown upon but with the accurateness of the name most agree to it - Calamity Zak.
The following is a list of things that I have broken, messed up, or guided to a misfortune.

The blinds at the old Thomas house.
The light fixture in the basement of the old Thomas house.
The entire swing set at the Thomas house; though I was only one of many that helped in that process.
A picture frame at the old Thomas house. (So far I haven't broken anything at the new Thomas house. Though I did spill pop on the couch after Norm warned me that I would.)
Blake's Hobot book; ripped in half.
Joe's entire Han Solo trilogy bit the dust.
I have had in my possession Pickle's 3rd season of Arrested Development for about 2 years now.
I had Ali's August Rush for a year and didn't watch it once.
I once rented a movie on Blake's Hollywood account and never returned it thus charging his account $50. (It's ok, he broke two of my golf clubs.)
Pickle's sunroof. (Actually I still deny that one but she is still adamant that I did break it.)
An external drive at work.
My own heart - Ahhhh that is so gay.
The clutch on my mom's Escort.
Mark's Impala
Mark's Intrepid
A nice mattress. Norm probably didn't help by parking his van on it.
4 low E strings on my bass in a row, which is not an easy thing to do. I'm still baffled.
Bryce's Huffy. Blake helped with that one.
Bryce's CD player. Left it on the roof of my car.
A light fixture at Granger Elementary. I have a scar to prove that I paid for that one.
I once drained the transmission fluid on my car thinking it was the oil.
Two door handles on my car.
My iPod. I think that was just fate.
And I once cut off the wrong end of a door I was trying to shorten. Now there is a two inch gap at the top of door.

At the moment I can't think of anything else that I have broken or "done wrong" but I'm sure many of you who read this can and will probably bring it to my attention and that is a-ok. Maybe I'll add it unto the list. Just don't be to mean about because in my fragile state I couldn't handle the rudeness.