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Reason's why S.Vincent will most likely be single forever....

1) The 2 month salary I would be spending on your engagment ring is 2500 dollars. Your mother and friends would cry out of despair at the sight of it, instead of happiness.

2) I have more spiders in my house than cookies, candy, cakes, pastries, and chocolate combined. Number of spiders: 20 give or take, number of combined desserts: 0

3) my legs look better than yours, the jealousy will kill you

4) I am prone to random appearence changes for the worse and then refuse to change even though I don't like it either. Such as mustaches, long ugly hair, excessive tan-ness.

5) I will never care about my current vehicle so long as it runs.

6) I only floss once a week.

7) I wake up very early in the morning (5AM) and make lots of noise

8) I hate vacations lasting longer than 2 days.

9) I hate large parties, dance clubs, drinking games

10) my hair is disappearing at a rapid pace.

11) I will most likely tell you that you look fat, even if you don't

12) You will care about things like image, emotions, family, friends, money and your job. I will not

13) I have a picture of a baby skelleton as my computer background.

14) You will cry or be upset about something important and I will laugh at you........every time.

This post written while listening to: TV on the Radio "Wolf like Me"

Frankencox

"Our other coxswain wasn’t experienced enough, so we took dead coxswain body parts from the 1892 olympics, sewed em together, and hooked it to the Cox-Box battery and made this one! We call it FrankenCox!"

Let me light up the sky

Many athletes want to be musicians. Many musicians want to be actors. Many actors want to be athletes. And everyone wants to be an athlete, musician or an actor except those who already are, who just wish that they could be treated like everybody else. It's Monday people, so there's no better time to let your head spin you unconscious and hope you're revived by the time Friday rolls around
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Gym Rule: No counting your reps outloud. Heavens to betsy people. If you can't count reps silently, then you shouldn't count them at all. You should just do reps and reps till you literally die. That way I can concentrate on my own silent rep count and use the equipment that you were previously using incorrectly anyway.
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YFYB update: I am going to actually link some youtube video's to the footer section of "This post written while listening to". Previously, I linked the section to amazon.com where you could buy the album and listen to some song samples. This way you get to hear the entire song and see a cool video or two. Feel free to keep on ignoring this section. Without further ado.......

This post written while listening to: Goldfrapp "ooh la la". Its a little girly-techno, but something about the heavy bass electronics make it cool. Plus, shes pretty hot.

S.Vincent Life Update

I read a lot of blogs; this you know. There are so many entertaining formats to read depending on the strength of the writer. Most people use their blog as their "what I did today/this week" log of events. If you are a consistent reader of YFYB, you know that my daily events include the same "not interesting to anyone but me" events. Wakeup, row, eat bland food, work, nap for an hour, lift weights/hate on people, row again, eat bland food, watch tv, sleep. Not exactly white knuckle excitement for you to read about. Most people have enough self delusion to think that a recording of their day would be a hit reality show, but I am quite positive that mine is not given that the few people who have had a backstage pass to the life of S.Vincent have walked away shaking their head in confusion, decideding that doodling large spirals on a legal pad would be a more exciting experience. So YFYB is written by me for people like me, who have a little time to kill and whose attention migrates towards the distraction from daily responsibilities rather than the focus on them. (Just like it says in the title!) Therefore, most of my posts are opinions/observations on what I see in daily wanderings around PoVegas or see on TV, not what I am actually doing.

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However, sometimes I have interesting things happen to me, or should I say, the world does interesting things to me. For one, I have a new position to undertake this year, which is exciting. I am looking forward to a new approach to coaching, and am confident/happy to try something new. I am also coming up on the racing season for myself personally, and I hope to have a much more focused effort this year than last year. So far, this has been on target, and I just need to put enough hands in people faces once the school year starts and the schedule gets a little more hectic.

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Fear not constant readers, who hung tough through last years September to November YFYB blackout period in which no posting got done, I am committed this time to getting posts about all the randomness that is S.Vincent squeezing his brain like a sponge and seeing what soapy thoughts land on the pavement.

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A new vehicle will also be in the future. Eddie the Explorer is the automobile equivalent of a 45 year old Tara Reid. Lots of surgery is holding her togethor, and she can't go anywhere without guzzling 2 gallons of gasoline. I will miss him though, unlike Tara Reid. He is a big enough P.O.S that I never felt ashamed in keeping him unwashed, or punching him through red lights and rough terrain without thoughts of his safety, but to date, I have never had to worry much about him starting up or dying on me. I would park him in perrilous situations, and dared people to hit me. Tune ups were never much on my mind after a certain point either. Eddie was like an old pair of sneakers to me. In old sneakers, you never have to worry about going out in the rain, or stomping through some mud, sliding into 1st base, or kicking stones in old sneakers, and there is a easy security to knowing that. With so many things to watch over and maintain on a daily basis, it's nice to have something that requires no second thoughts as to the consequences. That was Eddie to me, I will miss him, but in order to keep him a positive memory, I have to send him on before he becomes a negative one.

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So there you go sports fans, a little biographical update on whats going on lately. At this rate of change, I'll get back to you in 2010 when enough changes have happened to me to fill another 200 word post.

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This post written while listening to: Stellastarr* "Harmonies for the Haunted"

Haters Inc.

My diminutive training partner and I are an unstoppable force. We are determined, courageous, outgoing, fierce, intense, and persevering athletes who will stop at nothing.........to make fun of you. Sure, we also work our bodies harder than anyone we have met, but that's so boring. Working our physiques is the big picture in front of us, we can't help but see where we are going with that. Making fun of you is the mustard on the turkey sandwich that is our training. Without the turkey sandwich, we would have no reason to be at the gym, but its also not fun eating a turkey sandwich without a little zesty mustard now, is it? There was a section of dialogue in one of S.Vincents 150+ favorite movies, High Fidelity, that applies to our situation in a round-about sort of way.

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enlightened friend: "now, why would you sell this record to me, and not him"
record store guys: "because you're not a geek Lewis"
Enlightened friend: "you guys are snobs man"
record store guys: "no we're not"
enlightened friend: "yeah you are, you're elitists. You feel like the un-appreciated scholars, so you shit on people who know less than you."
record store guys: "nahh"
enlightened friend: "which is everybody"
record store guys: "yeah"
enlightened friend: "just sayin"

Do we feel bad about it? Yeah........well.......she does anyway. She has more moral fiber than I do. The only fiber I have is in my delicious Muesli cereal. I just see it as the cost of doing business in Haters Inc. Feel free to submit better ideas of what to talk about besides A) ourselves B) stupid people.

Gym Rule: Besides the fact that I had to wear flip flops the other night because I forgot my sneakers completely, it is definitly a gym rule that no beach wear is allowed. I have plenty of stock in the proper gym-wear attire fund, that I can get away with one mistake. But for those of you who are unsure of the difference between sand and sun and rubber mats and flourescent lighting, there is no bathing suits, tank tops on guys, sunglasses (I've seen it, and no, not on me) flip flops, large hats, seashell necklaces (soooooo 1995), or Vans allowed.

Gym Rule: Keep your genitals off the sink. It's gross and quite disturbing to see a grown man shaving his face or washing his hands at the sink, stark naked. This also goes for using the urinal stark naked. Rule of thumb is, you should never spend more than 2 mins stark naked unless you are actually in the shower. If you can provide ANY reason why you should be doing any of these things stark naked instead of with a simple towel around your waist. Feel free to try, but till then, you are as sick and twisted as the heroine addict that pees in front of my office.

Gym Rule: The Locker Room TV is to remain on sports programming at all time Maybe I am crazy,, I consider the gym a building of athletic endeavors. It just makes sense to me. Therefore, if you even dream about turning the TV in the locker rpom from sports programming to one of your shitty politics screaming heads talk shows or financial nerd debates, you better make sure you don't do it in my presence cause the TV will be turned back instantly, and a very dirty look will be cast in your idiot direction. C-SPAN/FoxNews is for your nerd kingdom, I have enough stress without listening to that overblown crap blaring in my ears while I am enjoying myself for 1 hour a day.

YFYB update: I included a little e-mail subscription service on the fun section on the side. Its a real easy way to never miss a YFYB update. I know my thousands of subjects under the rule of my enlightened despot kingdom would appreciate that. They don't call me S.Vincent the Great for nothing ya know.

This Post written while listening to: Goldfrapp "Felt Mountain"

I know that you know that I know that you wanted to know; what my favorite movies are.

I have been working on a little list for the past couple of days of my favorite movies. I figured that the constant readers are bursting at the seams for insights into my cineamatic pallate. I started with a goal for a top 20 and figured I would write down 30 or so movies and then subtract 10 movies so I would be less likely to forget a top 20 candidate. However, the favorite movies started flowing and before I knew it, I had 50. Then, 100, then finally exhausted myself at 150+. You don't have to say anything, I can tell by the look on your avatar that you are impressed.

I don't pretend to be a film buff, I go by what has entertained/inspired/intrigued me the most. I also don't pretend that I have seen tons of movies. There are a bunch of "classic films" that I have not seen and thus could not rate. This is an honest list though, and I know it probably won't match yours. Films like Citizen Kane and Gone with the Wind, even though universally accepted as top 10 films, are not listed there on my list. I will not succomb to acadmic pressure ever! You hear me AFI!? NOT EVER!!!!! I also have certain things that I can like in movies, but I certainly have things that I refuse to like. Fake high school emotion/attitudes/situations make me sick. Party/drug movies don't tickle me either.

After the top 50, I got somewhat lazy. What this means is that for films say, number 51-60, are somewhere in that range, but I would consider moving anywhere up and down in that range. So on and so forth.

You may notice films on this list that you have not seen. In that case, S.Vincents top 150+ comes highly recommended. There is no fluff on here, I have seen each of these movies at least twice for a reason, so if you enjoy a bunch of the movies on here, chances are you will enjoy all of the movies on here. So print it out and bring it to Blockbuster or put them on your Netflix list. It's going to be quite a large post, but who doesn't love large posts? Feel free to scream with outrage on the comments section about your opinions on my list and where certain films should be ranked and which films are not on the list that you think should. Without further ado, homies.......

1.Forrest Gump
2.Rocky
3.Dances with Wolves
4.Silence of the Lambs
5.Braveheart
6.Leon (The Professional)
7.The Last of the Mohicans
8.The Usual Suspects
9.The Shawshank Redemption
10.The Godfather
11.Vision Quest
12.Without Limits
13.The Shining
14.Cast Away
15.Willie Wonka & Choc. (1978)
16.Gattaca
17.Great Expectations
18.A Few Good Men
19.Road to Perdition
20.Star Wars
21.Mission:Impossible
22.The Departed
23.Boogie Nights
24.Se7en
25.Pumping Iron
26.The Royal Tenenbaums
27.Unforgiven
28.The Fifth Element
29.Hoosiers
30.Field of Dreams
31.Big
32.Citizen Kane
33.The Deer Hunter
34.Tombstone
35.Rudy
36.Risky Business
37.True Romance
38.A Clockwork Orange
39.Ferris Buellers Day Off
40.Regarding Henry
41.One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
42.Psycho
43.Full Metal Jacket
44.When Harry Met Sally
45.High Fidelity
46.Die Hard
47.Back to the Future
48.Top Gun
49.Gone with the Wind
50.Clerks
51.The Godfather:Part2
52.Grosse Pointe Blank
53.Groundhog Day
54.Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
55.Rain Man
56.The Saint
57.Pan's Laberynth
58.Batman
59.Spiderman
60.Memphis Belle
61.Can't Hardly Wait
62.The Sandlot
63.Fargo
64.Garden State
65.Indiana Jones: Last Crusade
66.Blade Runner
67.The Blair Witch Project
68.The Omen (1971)
69.The Exorcist
70.Stand by Me
71.Lost in Translation
72.L.A. Confidential
73.2001: A Space Odyssey
74.Enter the Dragon
75.Reality Bites
76.Billy Madison
77.Jaws
78.Dirty Harry
79.The Sting
80.The Natural
81.Pee Wee's Big Adventure
82.That Thing You Do!
83.Fight Club
84.Patriot Games
85.Raiders of the Lost Arc
86.Edward Scissorhands
87.Predator
88.The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
89.Vertigo
90.V for Vendetta
91.Mission: Impossible 3
92.Robin Hood (1993)
93.Memento
94.The Boondock Saints
95.Pinnochio
96.Sliver
97.Rushmore
98.Open Range
99.Hackers
100.Primal Fear
101.Superman
102.Alien
103.Breaking Away
104.Invinceable
105.Murder in the First
106.The Terminator
107.Dumbo
108.Airborne
109.Lock, Stock, 2 Smoking Barrels
110.The Crow
111.Point Break
112.Road House
113.Wind
114.Event Horizon
115.The Cell
116.Gleaming the Cube
117.The Goonies
118.Toy Story
119.Anchorman
120.Mall Rats
121.Pump up the Volume
122.The Matrix
123.The Peanut Butter Solution
124.Snatch
125.The Punisher
126.Heathers
127.Presumed Innocent
128.First Blood
129.E.T.
130.Resevoir Dogs
131.Kill Bill
132.61*
133.12 Monkeys
134.Pulp Fiction
135.The Game
136.Single White Female
137.Fatal Attraction
138.Demolition Man
139.Red Dragon
140.A Christmas Story
141.North by Northwest
142.Taxi Driver
143.The Breakfast Club
144.Heat
145.Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
146.Casablanca
147.Romeo and Juliet (1999)
148.Dangerous Liasons
149.Zoolander
150.Let it Ride!
151.A Bronx Tale
152.Almost Famous
153.Desperado
154.Clear and Present Danger
155.Bourne Identity

This post written while listening to: Andrew Bird "Armchair Apocrypha"

There's nothing safe about Canada

To some people, Canadian Geese are harmless. Sure there are lots of them, but so what, right? All they do is browse the fields for insects in the ground, pick them out along with lots of grass for fiber, then poop it out.

However, I doubt you thought that if Canadian Geese were 2000 times bigger, they would be picking humans off the ground, along with lots of trees and buildings for fiber and pooping US out! Well.........I have thought about it. And, I got my eye on you, Canada. You, and your little geese too.

This post written while listening to: Tegan and Sara "The Con"

Cindy does it, why don't you?

It's a sad day in the history of S.Vincent when he sees Cindy Crawford topless and he says "ho-hum, I wonder what's new on ESPN.com". However, with the explosion of papparazzi in the modern world, their digital cameras, and wireless connections to stream those images all over the world instantly; nude, drunk, disheveled, arrested, fighting celebrities is a surprisingly un-rare occurance. Probably doesn't help to improve us as a society either. But since I am certainly not a philosopher or a innovator for change and the internet is a place that is a little too small for me, I check in on http://www.thesuperficial.com/ at least 3 times a day to see the latest celebrity mishaps. I am addicted, I admit. Some people need crack, I need the superficial once a day. So, when a topless Cindy Crawford made an appearance, I was of course intrigued, but not exactly glued to my screen. I looked, was impressed with her mid 40's shape, and moved on to my next over-stimulated site. After all, this was not great footage, it was Cindy on her private boat catching some rays in what she thought was a private space. If Cindy was in WalMart trying on bra's without a dressing room, then maybe I am more shocked, but this was just another sad example of stalker-razzi getting too close for comfort.

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Then.........an e-mail from the Gryzzle. The Gryzzle probably gets less time for the superficial since he has no computer at home, and his office is a little less private than mine, but he asked me to look closer at the Crawford picture. Observe boobs more, he says? Well, I guess I could spare a few more seconds of my very precious internet time, says I. I opened Cindy's sunbathing picture one more time......and there it was, as plain as day! How could I miss such an eyesore? Time to pull out my "House of Style" little black book and give CeeCee a call about meeting up for afternoon spins.
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I won't spoil it for you. This picture is harmless, but most likely is not something you should open while your boss/manager/students are around.

LATE EDIT: okay perv's, I found a picture that is a little more desireable by my christian church sponsors that includes all the relevant info with none of the nudity, but if you still want the nudity, you can find it on that site.
http://thesuperficial.com/imagen.php?path=/2007/07/cindy-crawford-topless-candids-03.jpg