Well, this is it. Honestly, we didn't think we'd make it to the end of the year. This blog sort of started as a joke. Really, genius? Sarcastic, italicized voice! Hey, i missed you dude! Really? Yeah man. How's it been? Oh, well. Ok I guess. My sciatica acts up once in a while but no it's no big deal. How are the kids? Well, you know the older one is always bullying the other one and the girl is headed for the ivy leagues. Wow. That's fantastic. Yeah, I guess. Wait, weren't you in the middle of something? Huh? Yeah, you know, the whole we-can't-believe-we're-still-around-writing-this-blog speech. Ohhh.... that. Well? What? Aren't you going to continue? Yeah, sure. Thanks, sarcastic, italicized voice! Whatever, you can go **** yourself. You're the best.
Now where were we... ah yes. We didn't even think this blog would last past April 2011...but somehow it did and you all helped us make that happen. It's your fault. What did I tell you about blaming our readers? Not to do it? Yes. Whatever. *sigh* This blog entry seems to be a man at war against himself. How appropriate since MFUJ is essentially a story about an artist at war with himself. The Id versus the super ego, earthly desires versus one's conscience, art versus commerce, denim and leather versus spandex and hairspray... it's all there., we think. It's a much deeper more interesting story than we cna convey with our words here. But if we can't convey that the story is good by writing it, does that mean the story has been awful this whole time?
Let's go down memory lane as we celebrate blog # 55:
1) Our first entry started off by insulting the audience (hmm sounds familiar), then reintroduced Brick as a blog hero. we then had an awkward passage comparing our blog to achieving multiple orgasms, or something like that. Hmm? were we not supposed to say orgasms? Was that too edgy? Too late now.
2) Our next blog talked about endings, beginnings and had some fake movie trailer in it. I also mentioned my novel (which I'm currently editing) but no one cared so we only mentioned it a few more times later.
3) For our third entry we did a short story based on true-ish events about the soul draining nature of working as a salesman. it had something to do with pyramid schemes, Radiohead and the Soft Parade.
4) This was a hypocritical jab at the NY Times for having a typo on there website. See what I did their? Haha. We crack ourselves up.
5) A generic Shadow haiku, back when he still did those. Oh and Metallica Live in Moscow '91. \m/
6) Tigerman's first "To My Future First Wife". Who knew it would have three sequels? Maybe we did.
7) A story entry that had the band members begin there job hunt by working on their resumes. Hilarity and hijinks ensued.
8) Tigerman's Resume. Is anybody hiring? He really needs a job. Just take a look at his skill set... never mind. Just give him the job!
9) A Placeholder blog that had a conversation between Brick and Slate. Bonus Points for Personal Jesus being used as the end of blog song. Last blog of March, our first month blogging as MFUJSF.
10) Part two of the Long and winding road to adulthood... I wonder why we stopped that subplot? More advice on finding a job by someone who has never had one and building tensions between the band members that would lead up to the midseason finale.
11) Another short story, based on a dream. it stank. We made up for it with Bowie's (arguably best) song, Moonage Daydream.
12) Slate attempt at writing an op-ed that took on mandatory school lunches. Welcome to my nightmare indeed.
13) Shadow wrote a haiku about a world leader who stole a pen while being filmed for television. Jane's Addiction performed an appropriately titled song. Good Times.
14) MFUJ still made music? Apparently they did. I should have known... Also something about a stolen Poland Spring (product placement).
15) A plot based entry between Brick and Shadow about the guitarist's growing dissatisfaction/depression. Cue Soundgarden.
16) Brick's past is revealed. or re-revealed, depending on how much you knew. Awesome 70's Scorpions song was featured
17) The Second "To My Future First Wife". Two more of these. Sweet song.
18) Slate's flashback episode. More Soundgarden? Why not?
19) MFUJ record without instruments and Leadbelly kicked ass.
20) The first of a two-parter leading up to the reintroduction of G Mod, series Villain/Manager. Classical music used to maximize pretentiousness.
22) The Midseason finale: Enter G Mod. Questions were answered. Answers were questioned. We took a month off to finish the novel.
23) We return with a whimper and a joke about cheesy songs. We begged for ratings and our readership swelled like a...cigar, which is just a cigar.
24) A melodramatic entry about Brick being depressed about his book. Awesome Killing Joke song.
25) The Third "To My Future First Wife". We were just as surprised as you that he chose a Dio0-era Sabbath song.
26) Packagegate. A joke about a congressman who got in trouble for posting pictures of his, amazon delivery... And the thinly veiled metaphors of KISS.
27) A lengthy entry about g Mod changing things up and stirring up trouble. The future of the band is in jeopardy as Brick contemplates leaving. Faith No More save the day.
28) Making Music is easy as the band releases un released songs. One of our most popular entries.
29) A very Slate entry. Yeah, it was all about Young Lust. The last entry for June.
30) Plot driven episode about how the cover of Hey Hey, My My was recorded. brick was all :( and Slate was all :P. We were all o_0 when Brick had a heart attack in the shower. Take that, Showtime!
31) A journey through Brick's melancholy prison of the mind. Would he survive? Well, keep reading. see that's drama.
32) We apologized for the dark turn of events but didn't change the plot. And there was an epic Neil Young Jam.
33) MFUJ turns 4 years old and no one cared. Surprise, surprise.
34) We announced our plans to return to the internet video game. Not a game, just a video. A webisode. "Don't think about all those things you feel, just be glad to be here". Wish we could have followed that advice, FC Kahuna. Cute lady singer, btw. Our last July entry. Not a particularly productive month or moth.
35) The Webisode debuts and continues to gain views to this day. The Boys are back, indeed.
36) A letter from G Mod about MUJ being downgraded to MFU+. A smart political joke that fell on deaf eyes. Blind ears. Whatever.
37) More about Brick's depression and a depressing Smiths song (redundant?) T_T
38) Shadow's history is taken out of the shadows. Ughh... Play some Bonzo already.
39) G Mod gets arrested at a supermarket. The band is defiant in it's desire to release a second webisode. By band, we mean G Mod.
40) Our first of two "Serious" blog entries. We tried to write about depression and creativity. it ended up being trite. Oh well. Good John Lennon Song.
41) A light hearted short story about brick and a lady-thief. Only three people read it. Take it away, Chicago.
42) Brick finally confronts the source of his emo-ness and wakes up a rejuvenated badass. Would it last though?
43) Brick goes all super saiyan in his newfound confidence. No more DBZ references, I'm begging you! But his power level was over 9000! *Facepalm*
44) Our longest original short story to date (a Twilight Zone tribute) about a scary ice cream truck? Or was it all about a fear of success? Who knows?
45) State of the blog report. It was strong. Ironically no one read it.
46) We were serious about that second webisode. It just took a long time to get serious and film it. Oh, and I ain't no ******* son of a *****!
47) Our second serious entry tried to be sincere about our memories of 9/11. It wasn't a good entry.
48) The only way we could follow up such a sad entry was with our most ridiculous recurring entry, the fourth "To My Future First Wife". It was surprisingly popular.
49) An episode that summarized the growing power struggles within the band now that Brick had regained his mojo. Placeholder.
50) What was supposed to be the big season finale and premiere was hijacked by Brick when he released a cover medley by himself and stole his own band's thunder. Although it's questionable that he stole their thunder since no one read this entry.
51) Brick taunts G Mod and Slate as tensions grow and no second webisode has aired yet. There was trouble in the air but no one knew what was going to happen. Would the band implode or would someone else ruin it?
52) Our most popular entry thus far. The premiere of the epic second webisode.
53) Our second most popular entry. The times they were a changing as Brick released a song about Occupy Wall Street and the band's HQ became occupied by a group of protesters lead by a bear in a Che Guevara t shirt. This was effectively a season finale even though we've released a few entries after this.
54) Our Christmas entry. We did a bob Dylan cover song. Huh? We missed an entry by Shadow about the third webisode? Oh. Well whatever. We're up to the present already, who cares.
55) New Year's Eve Entry. We do an awkward argument at the beginning before trying to justify our blog as art until inevtiably doing an netry-by-entry commentary track. Hey wait a minute... This was this last entry.
Well thanks for indulging us. We now want to share our end of the year cover song(s). Last year we covered "I Woke Up in Love this Morning" by the Partridge family (another avian based band). This year we covered Tiger Man by Elvis (where has this song been all our lives?) and Meet Me in the Bottom by Howlin' Wolf.
Happy New Year everybody! We'll see you in 2012 with the third MFUJSF webisode, an epic duet with an awesome female singer/songwriter and the coming apocalypse (I'm kidding, I think).
Really optimistic, huh? Peace and love to you all.
