1. I make things happen.

If you remember, one of my previous posts concisely defined an immediate goal of mine: buy a royal blue pair of Supra Vaiders.  I have achieved this goal.  How?  Inginuity and devotion to meeting my goals.

HIGH FIVE YA’LL!

2. I like reading but MAN, audiobooks really are the shit!  I drive a lot and have recently been “enjoying” the ridiculous and horrible story or Victor Hermarn.  How about I provide you with some background information:

I was at a business meeting in February with an intriguing possible client.  We ended our meeting discussing books; I had noticed an Ayn Rand book (Possibly “We the Living”, I’m not sure, all I know is I had not read it yet).  I proceeded to discuss how Rand’s “The Fountainhead” had recently made a serious impact on my outlook on my life and the way I conducted my business (if you haven’t read this book, which I’m told is pretty much just a shorter version of “Atlas Shrugged” (no offense meant with that comment), you seriously should consider it).  The client told me that the book “Coming Out of the Ice” by Victor Herman had a similar effect on him.

“Coming out of the Ice” is not, as has been overwhelmingly suggested recently, about an arctic animal dealing with the emotional and physical struggles associated with admitting homosexuality.  Rather, the book is an amazingly raw retelling of the terrifying life experiences of Victor Herman and how he survived hell on earth for over three decades in  Soviet Prisons, Gulags and  even being exiled in the Siberian North while still maintaining some essence of humanity.

Following the meeting I purchased the audiobook on Amazon.com.  Currently I’m 71 tracks deep into the 84 track audiobook and it has lived up to the reputation relayed to me.  I highly recommend it to everyone…so much so that I have posted a free link to the files below.  Please check it, it’ll make you think and even though tons of it is depressing, it’s surprisingly motivating and reaffirmed my faith in the ability of man to embrace his most instinctive animalistic nature while still maintaining a conscious mind.

http://www.scottladue.com/gift5.zip

3. How many of you have ever seen the sketch comedy show “The Whitest Kids You Know”?

I have taken on the challenge of exposing this show and maintaining it’s credibility in light of upcoming events that may ruin their reputaiton.  “The Whitest Kids You Know” was originally on IFC, which was odd because it’s not an independent film, it’s fucking hilarious, and it’s horribly inappropriate.  After the first or second season (Check Wikipedia for the facts, I don’t know them off-hand), the show was knocked off AMC and picked up on Fuse.

SHIT IS HILARIOUS.

It’s like “In Living Color” (not to be confused with the band “Color Me Bad” who appeared in Season 2, Episode 26 of Beverly Hills 90210) except it pushes the FCC like a Sumo wrestler, more so than even Family Guy.

These guys are treading Thin Ice (like that awesome game: “Take the tweaser in your hand and take a marble from the stand, You’re on Thin Ice! You’re on this Ice!).  Releasing this movie  looks to undo three seasons of sketch comedy genius.

The Whitest Kids You Know are behind that HORRIBLE looking movie title “Miss March”.  This is really scary to me…possibly a huge! HUGE! HUGE! sellout moment; BUT I just can’t give up on the guys who made this sketch:

Dude, that is seriously funny.  AND THIS? THIS IS GENIUS! (it’s a short video, just watch it)

ANYWAYS, I’m probably going to see this movie even though looks like it will take approximately 3 years off of my life due to the depression and self-hate it will spur.  I recommend you think about it as well, these people are funny, it’s bound to be decent…right?

4. I came across this site while browsing the wonderful design site FFFFOUND! recently (upon further thought it was actually Threadless.com, but FFFFOUND! is hot and why remove the opportunity for you to check out a wonderful site, right?) and it’s REALLY worth looking into.

The Patrick O’Brien Foundation is a foundation founded by Patrick O’Brien (What a revelation!) to help fund his documentary titled “Everything Will Be Okay”.

Patrick is a New York/New Jersey based creative battling Lou Gerhig’s Disease.  He has a wife, loving family and a newborn baby, as well as a nervous system that refuses to listen to his will.  He has decided to meet the disease head on and film a documentary showing the progression of his disease and how it is continually effecting his life.  This subject matter is depressing and not happy but is WORTH ACKNOWLEDGING and important.  We can’t ignore the horrible effects of disease or the fact that we are could possibly be unlucky enough to come down with this or some other  disease at any point.

Patrick is requesting donations to help fund his film.  I have already pledged $100 and I request that anyone with a heart and any financial flexibility (even if it’s $1) takes the time to at least read over the site and honestly think about making a donation…would you rather have those two Starbucks Venti Mocha Latte’s over helping out his cause? I view it as a donation to someone doing what I HOPE I would have the balls to do if I was faced with this amazingly daunting challenge.

Additionally, to my friends with blogs that people actually read, please consider posting some info about this cause if you support it.  The Press Kit can be downloaded by clicking here; it is also found on the site.

Sorry about the preaching, just please read over the information and make your own decision.

Thanks for reading,

-Scott

That’s all.  Love it.

-Scott

So a friend of mine read my blog the other day…

Yeah, I’m awesome.

He read the post where I offered a download of my favorite album of 2008, but for some reason thought he was supposed to click the “Gift 1″ link in my sidebar.

My favorite album of 2008 is not 808’s and Heartbreaks.  It’s an alright album but not even close to College Dropout…the only Kanye album I truly love.  I offered it because I thought I was going to be a marketing genius and start writing a blog to the masses, advertise free shit in my facebook status, and get a bunch of my facebook friends (Facebook friend = Every person I’ve met over the last 9 years.  I’m one of those people who’ll except anyone’s friend request because I’m into looking at everyone pictures and keeping up on their lives…FRIEND ME IF YOU HAVEN’T YET).

I’ve learned friends, I’ve learned.  I don’t care what will appeal to everyone.  Instead, I will post what I like.  If you like it, you’re probably attractive, smart, witty and a generally great friend, lover and sibling; if you don’t, you’re probably better than me at baking (but if you’re good at cooking you’re probably the shit too, so that isn’t the best example).

Anyways, here’s another gift of shit that I like that you may too.  It’s electronic and hot.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THIS FILE, ROBERT (and others)

-Scott

Perez Hilton

Carl Winans

So Bold in the D

Oopsie Daisy

“The Best Page in the Universe”

You Should Have Seen This.com

I hope this makes you enjoy being alive.

-Scott

Captain Douchebag

This is Dan Hesse, the CEO of Sprint Nextel.  You may recognize him from the elitist ads that Sprint has saturated the market with.  They go something like this: “Hi, I’m a dick whose really rich and marveling at how amazing my product is.  It’s great, isn’t it?  I make phones and phones are amazing.  Look at how rich I am.  I know you’re going through a recession…but not me…see?  I’m wearing nice clothes, I’m shot in “classy” black and white and I am flanked everywhere I go by a soundtrack of classical music”.  I just want to punch him in his snyde mouth.

Here’s a sample:

If you haven’t relized yet this blog post doesn’t have a point; I’m just venting and hoping others who read this blog (there may be one or two people who read my blog, right….right, whatever, I read it) will react in the masses and post their hatred in replys to this blog post.

It feels good to just grab onto some hate and run with it, try it out!

-Scott

Anyone got a hook up?

-Scott

I was listening to some ridiculously awesome new music today and thought “Scott, you could TOTALLY write a blog post about this ridiculously great shit!”. So I did. Also, could someone please reply to this post and explain to me how to use punctuation to end a sentence within a parentheses and end the sentence outside of that parentheses as well; see previous statement for example, I don’t know if that is correct grammar and it will kill me to look like an idiot every time I post an internal monologue in quotes).

So this is an interactive reading adventure.  Please turn down your speakers or throw on your headphones if you’re at work or TURN YOUR SPEAKERS UP TO 11! if you’re alone (and if you are, you’ll ALWAYS be alone).  Click play on the song below and then delve into the top 10 video games of all time!

(OK, so Wordpress won’t let me upload the song so just hum and pretend you’re listening to it.  I give it to you at the end of the post anywayz)

(This is my personal top 10, debate as you will but since it’s my top 10 you’ll always be wrong when you debate it)

10: Fifa Series- Just a great sports game that is always fun.

9: The Legend of Zelda and Link’s Quest- I don’t even know what to say about this.  A bunch of other games in this season were awesome as well.

8: Mike Tyson’s Punch Out- This game was fun, hard and taught me at an early age about patterns.  This made me DOMINANT at video games. Also, think about the awesome music that plays when Mac trains with the fat dude on the bike.

7: Day of the Tentacle- Again, an early age game on my PC that was hard, which opened my eyes to problem solving games.

6: Guitar Hero 2- Just fucking awesome.

5: Halo 2- My first venture into Online gaming.  I haven’t looked back (Xbox Live gamertag: laduesco)

4: Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1, 2 and 3- It was an impulse buy in high school and helped cement me as a legend in Hubbard Hall because I was unbeatable.  This did wonders for my confidence (seriously…sad, I know).

3: Contra (NES)- Up – Up – Down – Down – Left – Right – Left – Right- B – A  – Select – Start

2: Final Fantasy VII- The most moving video game of all time, I actually teared up.

1: Madden Series- Enough said.

Now download THIS FILE and rock out to what would be the BEST video game soundtrack of all time.

-Scott

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WOW.

I don’t know how I feel about this.  The premise seems horribly disrespectable but while watching the show I don’t really feel bad, it seems like everyone is pretty much under control and the show doesn’t exploit the people.  I do believe my DVR will have a lot of these episodes ready to go.

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