A 2-1 loss to Liverpool (let's just pour salt in the wounds now, shall we?), and you get the feeling that the wheels have come off Chelsea's title challenge. Granted, we're still in lovely position to earn a Champions League spot next year (not to mention poised to make a run in this year's competition). And i did say at the beginning of the season that it was foolish to expect this expensively assembled squad to win everything in its first year out of the gate. But with £110 million spent, having topped the table in late November after defeating Manchester United and won our Champions League group with two famous victories over Lazio, you just expected it all to continue. Funny how defeats sting so much more now that i'm accustomed to Chelsea being one of the "elite".

At least Arsenal drew.

V and i were watching Old School on Cinemax the other night. We saw it in the theater and thought it was hilarious, but the humor seems dimmed after seeing it on cable a few times. Anyhow, during the pledge kidnapping scene they play Metallica's "Master of Puppets", a tape i used to listen to a bunch in high school. After the movie ended, i sauntered over to the computer and commenced to retrieve a bunch of headbanging stuff from my formative years. Like the aforementioned Metallica album as well as Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, and ... And Justice For All, Megadeth's Peace Sells ... But Who's Buying? and Rust In Peace, and Anthrax's Among The Living and Persistence Of Time. In addition, i finally got around to checking out Slayer (albeit 12 years late), picking up Reign In Blood, South Of Heaven, and Seasons In The Abyss.

Listening to Anthrax's "In My World" reminded me how in high school i printed out a big banner that i hung on my ceiling, bearing the opening quote:

They're gonna put me in jail?
Man, I'm already in jail.
Don't they know that my life's just one big cell?

I remember my mom joking with me about how horrible my life was. Looking back, it was a pretty silly thing to do. Good song though. I'm a bit paranoid about banging my head too much in my office.