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Videos: Ben Weasel: "Got My Number"

Contributed by BJR. Posted by Justin on Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 3:00 PM (EDT)

Ben Weasel has posted a video for "Got My Number." The track comes from These Ones Are Bitter. You can check the video out below.

Mr. Weasel recently starting working on the followup to his 2007 release.

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TheOneTrueBill (March 23, 2008)

I liked it, but you need to fix the HTML so that the link to the last news story doesn't pop up when you click the video.

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Cheesetits (March 23, 2008)

Anyone else have Smash Brothers Brawl? I want to play online with people I "know" that aren't just my brother.

By the way, continuing to be totally unrelated to the topic and my previous sentence, I'm going to be pissed that I didn't pick WSU to upset UNC. Because that will be a good game, as much as it pains this Husky to admit, I'll be pulling for the Cougs even if my bracket will be fucked.

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Oskorei (March 25, 2008)

dude you are retarded if you think anyone is beating Carolina this year...National champions this year baby! We look so good this year and Hansboro is a BEAST! and Lawson is finally starting to play up to his full potential just in time

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JerryCola (March 23, 2008)

Decent video, it can't top the Screeching Weasel - My Brain Hurts video though.

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sammy_sam_saminson (March 23, 2008)

absolutely agreed

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kman1224 (March 23, 2008)

glad you like my video haha. You should check out my other ones on my You Tube page.

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MisFit4Me (March 23, 2008)

Thought the song and video were pretty good.

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nocigar (March 23, 2008)

So, I'm sitting at the campus Lib studying for the general GRE test I have at 11 a.m tomorrow. Have any of you taken it, if so, were you able to use calculators?

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victim (March 23, 2008)

nope, no calculators. You don't really "need" one though. I took my exam on computer though and it sounds like yours might be pen and paper.

They say the math is easier on the GRE than the SAT. I don't recall specifically if thats true except that if you learn the "tricks" the GRE throws at you, it is pretty much a matter of doing the right steps by rote. I thought the verbal was more annoying because many times I think they throw subtleties of meaning out the window which produces really contrived questions.

Good luck, I didn't find the GRE terribly hard but I was downgraded on the essay question for writing communist propaganda. It amazes me that they promise the essay questions will be non-controversial then ask questions like:

What is your position on nuclear power

or

Evaluate the statement: You can o

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nocigar (March 23, 2008)

I'm positive that I am going to be taking the computer based one as well. I bought the prep book 08 addition and it has a lot of helpful steps in it. It just sucks, I haven't had a math course in 3 years and haven't had a course where i really needed to keep at math, so it's hard for me to remember a lot of the basic shit i was taught. my brother said that he didn't even have to write an essay; however, my sister in law told me that she had to. My problem will be the fact that you don't get much time for each question, i'm already horrible at math. anyways, thanks for the info.

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victim (March 23, 2008)

It sounds like you're in the social sciences or humanities or something similar. In that case I would punt the math unless you are sure the departments you want to go to will even care.

I know the claim is that everyone will have a good score in their area of focus so you gain "points" by excelling in the rest but..that only means much if you are up for fellowships or grants. My 1500 didn't do me any good in that department, but then I'm a major league asshole..

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nocigar (March 23, 2008)

haha. yeah, i am in the social sciences. the thing is, a few grad schools i'm going to apply to don't even require you to take the gre but i feel it's a good way to try and enhance my application. i figure i mine as well try to do good on the math, because i really see no easy way of studying for the vocab. there are seriously over 300 words in this prep book and a lot of them i have never even seen before. i think it would be too hard to try and sit here memorizing that bullshit- but i am going to try and do well on the comprehensive parts of test also. any tips for that portion? anyways, thanks for all the info i really appreciate it.

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victim (March 23, 2008)

Actually, my brother made flash cards for all the words in his GRE prep book, and actually wrote each word + synonym out 10x. He had the whole summer to do it but I found that it helped me by osmosis and I've always been pretty good at vocab and done it by "feel"

I personally think that if you read alot and are motivated to go look up any words that you encounter and don't know, thats a big edge. The other thing is, if you write alot -- maybe not just for school but other stuff, even reviews for Punknews might count, I find that oftentimes the perfect word I want is right there but I can't quite find it. So I go to the thesaurus -- not to come up with 50 cent words but to find what I was looking for in the first place. It works at least half the time and the other half I find a different word that I never would've otherwise used.

show rest of commentActually, my brother made flash cards for all the words in his GRE prep book, and actually wrote each word + synonym out 10x. He had the whole summer to do it but I found that it helped me by osmosis and I've always been pretty good at vocab and done it by "feel"

I personally think that if you read alot and are motivated to go look up any words that you encounter and don't know, thats a big edge. The other thing is, if you write alot -- maybe not just for school but other stuff, even reviews for Punknews might count, I find that oftentimes the perfect word I want is right there but I can't quite find it. So I go to the thesaurus -- not to come up with 50 cent words but to find what I was looking for in the first place. It works at least half the time and the other half I find a different word that I never would've otherwise used.

Between that I think it puts you on a pretty good footing vocab wise. The thing about the HARD reading comprehension questions is that they start using very sophisticated terminology to confuse you. This is one of the "tricks" I mentioned: you have to read the passage VERY carefully because the correct choice is always there, but it doesn't leap out at you, whereas the answer choices are designed to try to blow your mind and make you just mentally shrug and guess.

On the plus side, I can tell you that there are a shit ton of sample words I have no clue on, but I still managed an 800 SAT and 780 GRE in the verbal category. You can miss a couple questions and still get an 800 incidentally, I did.

As an aside, the method of looking up every word you don't know is the same exact method Malcolm X used in prison. In a way it simplifies things, because rather than inventing all sorts of pretensions everytime you don't understand a meaning, you go straight to the source.

On the math, my best advice is to be VERY VERY careful on the first questions as those will largely determine your score -- and you can get those right as they won't be super hard. After the first 10 or so, it really drops off in significance to your score uness you are trying to do better than 700 or so.

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nocigar (March 23, 2008)

Alright , thanks a ton! Again, I appreciate it..I gotta get goin now to finish this stuff up so I can get some sleep tonight. Have a good one!

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Windfall (March 23, 2008)

Hey, I'm 16, so I kinda missed the Weasel boat. What Screeching Weasel album should I start with?

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Silence (March 23, 2008)

Start with "My Brain Hurts" and "Anthem for a New Tomorrow." Those two albums are the best, in my opinion. Newer stuff ain't so good.

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victim (March 23, 2008)

Also Major Label Debut is really good.

I personally think that the early stuff -- s/t, Boogadacubed, Wiggle is all great too. Didn't like anything after that as well, including These Ones Are Biter

Just my opinion

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Nick_V (March 23, 2008)

All of the aforementioned albums are great - if you'd like a few songs to get you started, here's a list, along with their respective albums...

BoogadaBoogadaBoogada- Hey Suburbia, Dingbat, Stupid over you
My Brain Hurts - Guest List, Veronica Hates Me, The Science of Myth, What we Hate
Anthem for a New Tomorrow - I'm gonna strangle you, My own world, Peter Brady

It's all good stuff. My first Weasel album was "Bark like a Dog," which I also recommend.

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skott_applecore (March 23, 2008)

Start with My Brain Hurts, then Booogada, self titled, Wiggle and Kill the Musicians. The rest is pretty much shit.

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victim (March 23, 2008)

Oh yeah I forgot Kill The Musicians. At one time I felt that was their best album, although it varies for me.

Two songs that might not get mentioned that I particularly like are Racist Society and Radio Blast.

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facetofacereunion08 (March 24, 2008)

My brain hurts!

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facetofacereunion08 (March 24, 2008)

i dont understand people saying bagooda so early...i say start with my brain hurts first for sure...then "anthem" then "wiggle" then "how to make enemies"....then it would be good to make the transition into the very good bagooda

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awesomesnacks (March 24, 2008)

I started with Boogada and fell in love with it immediately.

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William_Jess (March 24, 2008)

Throb, Throb

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Someone (March 24, 2008)

Kill The Musicians. It's a compilation of older stuff, including a bunch of Ramones covers and it has a written history of the band included.

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manincognito (March 24, 2008)

really good song..ben's got a great voice..and awesome video..