Destroy, or be Destroyer!

Hello all and welcome to the newest addition to my blog.  I must apologize for my one week hiatus and promise to make it up to all of you with this weeks latest post.  First business as usual...let's invite our newest members to the running crew: Uncle Mike, Mike (brother), Kenny (brother), Jamie (wife).  "Keep coming back it works."  I would also like to congratulate my cousin Duane on his recent baptism into the world of Midlake.  It feels right doesn't it.  In other news, last week (which is why I missed my blog) I attended my first ever NASCAR event at Kansas Speedway and I think that everyone should do it at least once.  The people watching is out of this world.  Let me fill you in with the rules of NASCAR events.  They are as follows:

Rule 1: Bring your own 14X14X14 cooler (FYI that size cooler can fit a 30 pack, 2 hoagies and a bag of chips)
Rule 2: You can come as go as you please
Rule 3: Bring your own food...kinda goes with rule 1
Rule 4: You don't have to wear a shirt! (and I am not sure that you have to wear pants either. Yes I'm serious Ryan Christensen)
Rule 5: People watch, because the people watching is better than the race!
Rule 6: FREE PARKING!

So as you can see, there is no reason to not go to a NASCAR event.  In fact, I think that it's something that everyone should experience at least once (I had a blast).

Now let's talk eyebrows.  This weeks IPA comes from Petaluma, CA and it is delicious.  Lagunitas Maximus IPA is everything the name says it is.  It has citrus, it has aroma, and best of all it has twice the hops folks.  It is the MAXIMUS!  They should change the name to Kangaroo IPA because it has so many hops!  I have had the Lagunitas IPA in the past, and as my sister-in-law Emily can attest, it is good!  So double the hops and the beer only gets better, and we are talking Maximus.  So by no surprise Dr. Steve Brule gives this IPA:

2 EYEBROWS UP!

Now lets get to the moment we have all been waiting for, the pick of the week.  Destroyer has been in my life for many years, and I just can't quit Dan Bejar.  The guy is from Vancouver and can rock your socks off.  Not only a member/lead singer of Destroyer, Dan Bejar shares his talents with the likes of New Pornographers and Swan Lake.  I must say the the best works of Dan Bejar are most appreciated when singing lead vocals for Destroyer.  All of his tracks are majestic journeys through poetic genius.  I prove this point by maybe the best lyric ever written in the song "Goddess of Drought,""I was looking good, on the day that you feel for the way I look."  Destroyer's catalog of music goes on for a lifetime.  Every time I play an album I fall in love with a new songs, and I could add 15 music videos to this blog to share.  But I won't.  That is your homework bloggers.  Tonight I will add one song from Destroyer's newest ablum Kaputt followed by my all time favorite off of Destroyer's Rubies.  First is Chinatown, which is the first song on Kaputt, but I just love it.  It sounds like Feist is featured in the song but it is actually Sibel Thrasher.  Before I go on I want to congratulate the Dallas Mavericks for just beating the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals!  I cannot express how pleased I am that Miami lost.  Congrats Dirk.  The second song is called "Painter in Your Pocket."  I love this song!  This is the song that turned me on to Destroyer, and like I said before, I could list 15 more videos on this blog but I don't want to bore you.  If you like these two song let me know and I will give you a list of songs you need to listen to.  For now...

Chinatown:

Painter in Your Pocket: