heads up.

hate to harp on about john mayer but he just released very big news.

the latest album, "battle studies," will be released on november 17, with the first single to be released ahead of that.

HOLLER.

-jon

tell 'em that it's.....

i'd like to state first and foremost that as a nation, we should move on from michael jackson's death. yes he was a pop icon, but the guy hadn't released anything really good since '87's "bad." his talent was not taken from us "too soon," as is always said when a celebrity dies. he wasn't murdered, there is no conspiracy, we don't need to hear any interviews with his personal chef. he was just an old dude who had some health problems and had a heart attack. move on, mass media.

that being said, i want to bring attention to this performance of "human nature" from the mj tribute show. say what you will about john mayer, the dude is such a versatile musician. love that guitar tone.

-jon

you don't know jack!

i tend to exaggerate often in my daily speech. two of my most common embellishments are that something is "the best" or "the worst." and since i work at a video store, these are mostly used in reference to movies, tv shows, or actors. i used to think that the office (us) was probably my favorite show on tv, and then i discovered arrested development. really absorbing arrested, and seeing the office's last two seasons of unfunny episodes, led me to replace the office with arrested development as the reigning favorite television show of mine.

it's nearly time to pass the torch, arrested. i just finished watching the third season of 30 rock for the second time and my goodness. what an incredibly funny show. i can honestly (and without any exaggeration) say that it is, by far, the funniest show on television right now. there isn't any show that even comes close to touching 30 rock. this blog wasn't going to be about 30 rock however, so all i do want to say about it is that to me, it seems so similar to arrested development, so if you've seen one but not the other, please go watch the other. they're both outstanding shows.

i wanted to bring attention to jack mcbrayer, the actor who plays kenneth ellen parcell on 30 rock. i recently saw him late night with jimmy fallon about a month ago, and then again on the tonight show a couple weeks ago. he is very funny in person, and even better, very much like his character on 30 rock. here he is on jimmy fallon.

i find him really funny. and he's just one of the many funny characters on 30 rock. so watch it.

-jon

p.s. jimmy fallon uses the word insane too often to describe things.

Jon's 101th Blog Post Spectacular!

i just realized that i inadvertently missed my big 100th blog post by posting a joke about inter-species relations. oh well.

so i've actually written 100 blogs. that's a pretty cool achievement for me, especially considering some of them were pretty substantial. others obviously were pretty dumb (see last post) but i'm decently proud of myself for keeping up with this for as long as i have. it's a great feeling to write something and then put it out for anybody to stumble across. a good outlet. so thanks for reading. i don't plan on quitting anytime soon.

as is hopefully noticeable to the avid reader of my blog, i've changed the look up a bit. this template is called rounders. don't know why. i've seen some other blogs that are designed in very cool ways (awesome picture karlie), but i have no idea how to church this thing up other than changing background colors. oh well.

i'm also confused about font and almost more importantly, spacing of lines. i kind of feel like the blogspot service isn't the most user friendly when it comes to organization.

but that's what i intend on figuring out as i continue to blog. here's to hoping you'll stick around while i learn how to space all my lines evenly. that would be awesome.

-jon

quick joke.

funniest actual joke i've heard in a long time, from conan's monologue, wednesday, july 29th:

"in south carolina, a man has been arrested for the second time for having sex with a horse.

... apparently this guy just couldn't take 'neigh' for an answer."

-jon

turns out my cellular telephone was a lemon.

i've had quite an important last couple of weeks. among other things, i got a new cell phone with a new number. i'll have the old one for the next few days so if you want my new number just text the old one.

and maybe once i've got time to process everything else, i'll write a bit about it. we'll see.

-jon