This American Life iPhone App. Best $3.00 You'll Ever Spend!

Yes, the title says it all. Today facebook brought to my attention a 3 dollar This American Life app for the iPhone. Anybody with an iPhone, this is the best $3 you'll ever spend! For those of you without an iPhone, this alone is reason enough to buy one.

You can stream any episode EVER for free, it's got a sweet search function so you can find old episodes you loved, but can't remember the name of, you can email episodes to your friends... It's just awesome. Click on this link and before you know it you'll be rockin' the best app the iTunes Store has ever offered!

Chocolate Ice Cream I Can Get Behind

So, I've never been a huge chocolate fan. Sure, chocolate is good, but I'd rather go with vanilla if I have a choice. This week I was introduced to a chocolate ice cream that deserves some level of credit for making me have to think a little harder when trying to decide which is better. I don't know what Dove puts in their Unconditional Chocolate ice cream that makes it so delicious, but it has to be something that's on this list:

SKIM MILK, CREAM, SUGAR, SEMISWEET CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, COCOA BUTTER, MILKFAT, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS), MILK CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, SKIM MILK, CHOCOLATE, LACTOSE, MILKFAT, SOY LECITHIN, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR), CORN SYRUP, COCOA POWDER PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, COCONUT OIL, LESS THAN 1.5% - CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, MILK, PALM OIL, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, CAROB BEAN GUM, CARRAGEENAN, CORN STARCH, NATURAL FLAVOR.

Good work Dove.

Incredibly Accurate Product Name

I want to put in a plug for 5-hour ENERGY. I decided a little chemical help wouldn't be amiss in attempting to stay up all night and all day for work and I can't drink an entire Red Bull without feeling sick to my stomach.

I drank the 5-hour ENERGY (lime flavored... I don't recommend this flavor) at approximately 11:30pm on August 25th. I was instantly alert (most likely because of the awful taste in my mouth) and began the long night at the Workers Compensation Fund Building performing concrete testing. I finished at around 3:45am, August 26th and returned to the office. I had about 15 minutes of paper work to do and then began working on some other projects that needed attention. I'm charging along feeling great until exactly 4:34 when I start slowing down REAL fast. That little bottle of spunk kept me going for their promised 5 hours of energy and I felt that I couldn't ask any more of it then that.

True to 5-hours advertising, I didn't have the shakes while I was coming off my charge, but it definitely felt like 4:34 in the morning. If you're ever in need of exactly 5 hours of energy and not a minute more, then you definitely need to check out this product.

On a side note: I'm not really familiar with my Vitamins and their functions, but apparently in those two awful ounces of liquid I received 2000% of my daily value Vitamin B6 and 8333.33(repeating of course)% of my daily value of Vitamin B12. Vitamin's are good for you, right?

iPhone Betrayal!

Tell me. What can you notice that is different between these two phones?

Answers:

One of them is 3G[S], the other is 3G.

One of them is white, the other is black.

One of them is a 32GB model, the other is a 16GB model.

One of them is the symbol of betrayal... You win this round Rich Patterson...

Top 15 Albums of 2007

It's time for Johnny's 15 Albums of 2007! This is an impressive list.... 2007 really pulled through in the music department. Check out these great hits! (again, in alphabetical order)

1. Armchair Apocrypha, by Andrew Bird	2. Autumn of the Seraphs, by Pinback
3. Boxer, by The National	4. The Broken String, by Bishop Allen
5. Cassadaga, by Bright Eyes	6. Cease to Begin, by Band of Horses
7. Chase This Light, by Jimmy Eat World	8. Dan In Real Life, Original Soundtrack
9. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, by Spoon	10. In Rainbows, by Radiohead
11. Loney, Noir, by Loney, Dear	12. Neon Bible, by The Arcade Fire
13. Under The Black Light, by Rilo Kiley	14. We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank, by Modest Mouse
15. Wincing The Night Away, by The Shins

Can you believe that list?! 2007 blew my mind right out of my skull!

This song has popped up in three different "Genius" playlists on my ipod this week. I think it's trying to tell me something... Well, Johnny's ipod... I got the message. You rock as much as 2007 did... Andrew Bird - Skin Is, My

P.S. The link to the song is for a live version, but it's still amazing.

Top 15 Albums of 2006

I think the world needs to know what albums I feel were the best releases in 2006. Later I will post 2007 and 2008, but we should start small. I've ordered them alphebetically because it was too difficult to order them in any other fashion.

1. Black Holes & Revelations, by Muse

2. The Crane Wife, by The Decemberists

3. Dog Problems, by The Format

4. Dying To Say This To You, by The Sounds

5. The Eraser, by Thom Yorke

6. Everything All The Time, by Band of Horses

7. First Impressions Of Earth, by The Strokes

8. A Lesson In Crime, by Tokyo Police Club

9. Light Grenades, by Incubus

10. Nighttiming, by Coconut Records

11. Sam's Town, by The Killers

12. Stadium Arcadium, by The Red Hot Chili Peppers

13. Stranger Than Fiction, Original Soundtrack

14. Under The Iron Sea, by Keane

15. We, The Vehicles, by Maritime

It's possible that I've forgotten some essential 2006 albums, but I think this is a pretty solid list. Feel free to leave your thoughts, suggestions, or complaints.

Music in 2006 was great and all, but you really need to check out this tune from 2009. You won't regret it!

Phoenix - Lisztomania