Observations and what not

I spent this weekend with my girlfriend and her family. If you came across this blog somehow and don't know me personally I'll put it out there that I am white as white can be. My girlfriend, on the other hand, is Mexican and Salvadorian, she makes that clear every time I just say she's Mexican. Back to what I was getting at. I spent the entire weekend with my girlfriend and her family. Her dad loves soccer and watches all the games that come on, since they speak primarily Spanish in the house he watches the games in Spanish. While I was watching the game with her father I had no idea what the announcers were saying, what the names of the teams were or anything like that, I just knew that one team had white jerseys and the other team had blue, but since I have an understanding of the sport I still knew what was going on. I wasn't paying to much attention to the game but I was still in awe about this. I just found this to be a beautiful thing, the fact that language, culture, even races didn't matter it was just about the sporting and your team winning the game. I think this is the only, besides "Cops", you can watch in a language you don't know and still understand whats going on....but then again the audio on "Cops" is hilarious so id rather watch that in English.

Screw it, I'm doing a cd review on this post too.
This post I'm reviewing Trenches - The Tide Will Swallow Us Hole. Solid State Records released this cd around a year ago and i've listened to it off and on since I got. This band was formed by Haste the Days former vocalist Jimmy Ryan but don't let that fool you this is no screamo/metalcore band. This cd is more for fans Cult of Luna than Atreyu. This cd is heavy, but not in the Suicide Silence, Whitechapel style buligerent open breakdowns and ridiculous blast beats. This has melodic and ambient guitars that are tuned low enough to make it sound heavy even though the guitars are pretty on top of slow, heavy drums with vocal used more as an instrument than as a tool to keep the listener from realizing the song repeats itself. I hope to see this band around for a long while.