While this site will soon be home to a sprawling and mythic saga (stay tuned!), its hero’s journey can be followed right now on Twitter.
Check it out!—http://explore.twitter.com/EnemyOfPeanuts.
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Month: April 2009
First glimpse…
It’ll all make sense in time…but for now…here’s a man who knows his enemy, even if the world doesn’t.
How ’bout them… Claves!?
Though I may be funky and have a whole lotta soul, I am also a white boy with little rhythmic skill—for evidence, please see the bass guitar gathering dust in my closet that I more-or-less failed at due to my inability to keep time and distinguish up beats from the down ones. Perhaps its my own shortcoming that leads to my absolute love of bass lines and any and all sorts of percussion. To be able to just go to town on the drums, or whatever item you have handy like Blue Man Group or Stomp!…(sigh) It’d be like living the dream.
A particular favorite of mine in the percussion department is a little instrument called the clave.
Their sticks made of hardwood that make a rad hollow sound when hit together.
Billy Joel’s “Don’t Ask Me Why” is a great example of some fantastic clave usage. Head to the 1:08 mark for a close up and pay attention again at 3:05, right over Mr. Joel’s shoulder.
You can’t hear the clave’s full awesome power in this concert video (check out the song on The Essential Billy Joel for more, but that should whet your appetite for more wood banging…you know what I mean! Claves!
Brutal Combat
Challenged by my long-time amigo and former roommate Jon-Erik, I have entered the realm of a super simple and super fun online flash game: My Brute.
Here’s the basics:
Head to http://mybrute.com/, or accept an invite to fight me (PizzaPartyMan) by clicking here.
Then you enter a name, get a cool little warrior generated for you (which you can customize a bit) and then enter the arena. You don’t do any of the actual fighting, but you get to watch these crazy little battles play out—like cockfighting, but not tasteless, illegal or real.
The more you fight and the more people you recruit (Seriously…fight me now and be recruited to my dojo!) the more experience, items and moves you get.
It’s a jolly ol’ time and is played with the click of a single button—click “Fight!” and just sit back and watch a tiny, minute-long battle of epic proportions—so, why not try it out?!
I am the enemy of peanuts!
¡Hola internet dwellers!
I’m Jim Gibbons and this is a ludicrous blog of mine.
If you’re savvy to the interwebs, you may have seen my job blog over at The Loudest Monkey on WizardUniverse.com, or if you’re of a nostalgic and outdoorsy disposition, you may have come across a labor of love called Nothing More American—my summer camp memoir.
While both blogs are absolutely fabulous (seriously, check them out!), neither allowed me the proper venue to post all the abstract and random flights of fancy I’d like to share. And so, I deliver you Enemy of Peanuts!
While this would be a great way to wow potential readers with a grand mission statement, I haven’t got one. Essentially, this blog will be my own public bulletin board where I’ll post doodles, mini reviews of old comics, why I’m now just finally watching “Doctor Who” and what’s fantastic about it, thoughts on video games and who knows what else?! Either way, it should be fun—so, stick around!