Car on Fire!

This is what is left of my car after it caught on fire this morning. I'm fine as it was a gradual thing and not an explosion.
What happened was: I was driving along and the car died. I couldn't get it started again, so had to push it into the center of the highway. I called Jen, and sat and waited. I noticed some smoke, but I had just had the car worked on twice for two separate fluid leaks, which were dripping onto the exhaust, and the mechanic said that it might take a few days for what was still on the exhaust to burn off. So I didn't think much of it. Then another motorist stopped and said that the grass had caught fire, and i noticed stat a lot more smoke was coming from under the hood. I then decided to call 911. While on the phone with them, a passing cop noticed and stopped. They called the fire department, and for a while until the FD showed up, we just sat there and watched it burn. It got worse and worse, and by the time the firemen showed up, there were 8-10 foot flames and a hell of a lot of smoke. They shut down both sides of the highway because my car was taking up one side, and all the smoke was blocking the other.
The fire moved into the cab, an they had to bust out a window to spray down the inside.
Eventually, they got it under control. A wrecker came and hauled it off, and my father in law, who lives about a mile away from where this all happened, gave me a ride to work.
So everything is fine. The wrecker is going to buy it off me to part out the back end, and I can probably get a new car with my tax return.

So there you have it.

-Jason.

Stolen from Facebook

Here is my list of what I believe to be the 40 (or so) best and/or most important (to me) albums of all time (and sometimes why).
(I'll TRY to do this in chronological order, not the order that they were important to me. I don't know why.)
1977 The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
1979 Joy Divison - Unknown Pleasures
1984 Repo Man - Soundtrack (this movie/soundtrack pushed me into my fascination with punk)1985 Weird Al Yankovic - Dare to be Stupid (The first album I ever bought, and the first concert I ever went to.)
1986 The Beastie Boys - License to Ill
1986 Firehose - Ragin', Full On
1987 The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
1987 Love and Rockets - Earth Sun Moon (I was the only skater in my middle school with a L&R sticker on my board)
1987 The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
1988 The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
1989 The Vandals - When in Rome/Peace Thru Vandalism
1989 Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (I wore out a cassette and a CD of this album.)
1989 The Cure - Disintigration (I'm pretty sure this was playing when I lost my virginity :P)1988-1995 Everything Wax Trax/Nettwerk/TVT put out (All Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Pigface...*)
1988 Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (reissue)
1990 Peter Murphy - Deep
1990 MC 900 Foot Jesus - Hell with the Lid Off
1990 My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions of a Knife
1992 Morphine - Good (I met Mark Sandman about 3 weeks before he died while working a festival.)
1992 Tom Waits - Bone Machine
1993 Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
1994 Portishead - Dummy (Memories of drawing comics in St. Marks with Tony Leonard and the crew.)
1994 Blur - Parklife
1994 Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within
1995 PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
1995 Radiohead - The Bends
1995 Pulp - Different Class
1996 Luna - Penthouse (Luna was one of the first things that Jennifer and I realized we had in common)
1996 16 Horsepower - Sackcloth and Ashes (Other than the Psychedelic Zombies and Foreskin 500, this was one of the few Denver bands I followed.)
1996 Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
1997 Radiohead - OK Computer1997 Stereolab - Dots and Loops
1997 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
1998 Belle And Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
1999 Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret(This album will always remind me of Heather O. and Pandora Jewelry)
1999 Rushmore - Soundtrack
2000 Modest Mouse - Building Nothing out of Something
2000 The Black Heart Procession - 3
2001 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
2001 Gorillaz - Gorillaz (Where pop music and comics meet)
2002 Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights(They picked up where Joy Division left off, albeit 20 years later.)
2002 Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
2006 The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2007 Kings of Loen - Because of the Times2007 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2008 The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing


*After Filth Pig came out, I totally lost interest with both Ministry and the Genre as a whole.

Overheard on the police scanner:

"Black male, mid twenties, wearing a red jersey. He's on crack, standing on the corner exposing his penis to the cars driving by. Apparently, his girlfriend didn't like that, and she's now chasing him down the street with a baseball bat."

Discuss.