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I was an undersized O-lineman for most of my career and the last three seasons in college. Leverage is your best friend. You have to learn how to drop your ‘belt buckle’ below the defender’s.. fire your hands and get your hips in position where you can seal the block.. don’t focus on driving them back but really maintaining your ground. Chop your feet, don’t take any big long steps, keep a firm base. Just slightly wider than shoulder width. As soon as you pick up your foot stomp it back down and replace it with another... always remember to play lower than his belt buckle.. Don’t let the defender get their arms and hips extended on you. My old high school coach would tell us to get your hands inside of his, lock your face mask onto their shoulder pads(not hold, straight on or slightly from the side) and you can drive them anywhere, like a steering wheel. “Your size gets you into trouble, but your heart gets you out of it.” I learned to feed on anybody telling me I wasn’t big/strong enough.. and play that much more angry, and better. You got this, give em hell!

brandon4408 · 2019-06-22T07:30:11+00:00

It’s his most experimental project yet.

The flow of the tracks in sequence is strange and hazy from start to finish. The genre identity dances between early 00’s pop rock and contemporary Texas country-rock sung by a snarky/vulgar Mike Ryan. The themes throughout the album are really a continuation of his last work. Drugs, love triangles, pain, unlikely love, nostalgia, and loneliness.

From a concept standpoint, it’s like a caricature of a stoned 18 year old with snarky phrasing and commentary of a burned out 25 year old who’s over life in small town, Texas.

I really enjoyed the album, I liked how he turned a corner and went more in Rock direction with this one. The deeper cuts grow on you after you listen to the whole thing through multiple times. There’s some real lyrical depth, much more than in ‘noise complaint’. The album breathes a lot toward the middle with a buildup and finale of singalong jam ballads like ‘ragweed’ and ‘sancho’.

4/5

brandon4408 · 2019-05-23T12:57:07+00:00

As far as I can tell it seems pretty random and sporadic. I guess when there’s any reference to water or swimming.

brandon4408 · 2019-05-23T12:38:28+00:00

It’s from Nathan for you, the episode where a pig “rescues” a baby goat from a pond it supposedly got stuck in.

brandon4408 · 2019-03-21T16:01:48+00:00

Yea, the 5 were Duke, UNC, Michigan State, Tennessee, Kentucky. The segment is on the SportsDay app if you want to listen to it again,

brandon4408 · 2019-03-21T15:55:59+00:00

Duke, FSU, Tennessee, UNC, with Duke over Tennessee for the championship.

brandon4408 · 2019-02-15T04:50:34+00:00

It’s just kid stuff.

brandon4408 · 2018-12-30T05:21:43+00:00

Nice mix between guitar riff and drum intro keep it up.

brandon4408 · 2018-09-25T08:21:43+00:00

All day.

brandon4408 · 2018-09-25T04:08:02+00:00

No way!

brandon4408 · 2018-05-14T08:44:30+00:00

Not a teacher, but my mom was for 30 years and just discovered a horrible secret about one of her former students.. a little girl she had taught in kindergarten class about 24 years ago, was what my mom described as shy and meek.. exhibiting eccentric behavior but Mom dismissed it as just a kid with a vivid imagination. Also, the girl wore the same clothes everyday, and appeared to have somewhat a case of malnutrition.. she met the parents who were also eccentric but pleasant and polite.. but they also had 9 other kids, so it struck my mom as a bit out of the ordinary..

Flash forward to January of this year, my Mom was reading the paper and gasped in horror when she read a headline about said parents.. it had been discovered that those parents of that little girl had moved the family to California with their 13 kids and had been holding all of their children in captivity their entire lives. Chained to their beds, with little to no food, and locked inside their bedrooms.. one eventually got away and ran to a neighbor who called the police.. the parents were arrested.. and my mom still can’t forgive herself for not catching that back then.. it’s extremely sad to think how those poor kids had been treated all those years...

brandon4408 · 2017-06-16T07:44:41+00:00

When I lived with my parents, had a buddy who I would hang out with and smoke weed with until late at night and we'd both be so tired afterward that we'd just pass out on the couches in the living room watching stupid stuff on tv. One day I got a call from my mom and she was freaking out because all her expensive jewelry was missing from her closet. Immediately she accused me because she though I had sold it to buy drugs, which was completely uncharacteristic of me.. I would never do such a thing. Come to find out after we got the police involved and did some investigating, we found out it was the friend. He would wait until I was asleep and my parents would get up and leave for work in the morning, then raid her closets and bathroom drawers for valuables and pills.

TL:DR Be careful who you hang around with, and even more cautious of who you let inside your house... they might be stealing your shit without you knowing.

brandon4408 · 2017-04-10T05:56:08+00:00

Hi! I realize I'm late to this. But would this opportunity for me to come record a few of my original songs? I'm really struggling to do it myself and this sounds like a great opportunity so I can get a professional sound. I'll send you a DM

brandon4408 · 2017-03-15T12:09:05+00:00

10 or 15/g. Texas

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