Imagine my surprise... the new Nintendo Channel is actually pretty neat! It ranks a lot of games and gives geeky stats about them, you can download DS demos and it has videos of most wii, ds and most importantly, virtual console games. now i dont have to guess what the hell crazy japanese VC games are... i can watch a video of them.

very cool... although the download is MASSIVE.

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i didnt remember her until recently, but as a kid, i had the hots for the female Pinbot.

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we watched 'Teeth' tonight. its everything you'd expect a movie about vagina dentada to be. that is to say... pretty decent.

we finished Battlestar Season Three the other day... yawn. worst. ending song thingy. ever.

the whole season was a MAJOR letdown. season two had me enamoured, and in love, with the series after a rocky start. the honeymoon is over. i guess i can start into season four now. OH! i need to add Razor to my netflix LIKE NOW...

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we finished Oz Season Five tonight. man... the ending to that was sad, but kinda perfect. Augustus has a knock out final word and the closing shot is a stunner. cant wait to dig into season six... to finish out the series.

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did i mention we watched 'Bull Durham' the other night. it was a bit of a letdown too... i think i was expecting Caddyshack, but with more heart. instead i got porkys for adults. it was ok.

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cd updated

The Weepies - Hideaway
The Kooks - Konk

talk about your bad album titles.

and i got Dov's record... i forget the name or his last name... i'll write it down soon.

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i'm in love. more later. much later.

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my back is still dead.

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i'm rambling because i'm trying to remember what i wanted to write about in the first place... wtf was it? justin reminded me of something... but now i'm at a loss... the new Interpol unofficial video is pretty neat... 'Rest My Chemistry' is probably my favorite song from LP3, so it has that going for it.

in a strange twist of fate... my top 2 most anticipated games are both released this week.

GTA IV (duh.)

and

EchoChrome!!!

yup... its hitting PSN today for just ten bones in both PSP and PS3 flavors. i think i'll go for the PSP version. hot damn!

i stumbled through the japanese demo and loved it. i'm sure to get to the fourth level and pull my hair out though.

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also... looks like we're doing two podcasts today. or something.

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and!

cd update

Lyrics Born - Whatever dumb title his new album has
David Crowder Band* - Remememedy Deluxe Edition

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my back was pretty jacked today, so i came home early. watched 'before the devil knows you're dead'. it's good. better in some aspects than i expected and worse in some others. the story is good and its a pleasure to look at (and not just the naked parts), but the acting was... bonkers. i wasnt feeling it. worth a look though. really, the story is great.

i wont spoil it as much as the trailer does, but two brothers rob a jewelry store... their parents jewelry store. the heist goes bad...

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an mfing spider was just crawling on my ear! how did it even get up there?

hell... now i feel them all over myself. ugh.

So we saw 'Expelled' tonight. But I'm not going to talk about it, you'll just have to listen to the next episode of the SuperCandid Podcast for details! Not that anyone gives a sh!t.

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Also, I sold Brawl. They gave me $30. That's about $8 more than I expected.

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GTAFTW!!!!

So our trip was fun, but busy... blah blah... everyone writes this kind of stuff, so I'm just going to nail down some highlights before I forget them.

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I finished two books:

Preacher Collection 1 (if that counts)
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

and I started the first Constantine collection.
Also, we listened to the audiobook for 'The Ruins'... There were no ruins actually visited in the book... SPOILAR~!!!

Preacher is badass and I can't wait to read more.

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We went to Amoeba Records twice. I felt a lot of emotions while there. at first, i was pissed because i was (again) incredibly overwhelmed. then i started coming into my own, finding albums, having fun, etc. then i got pissed again because i was finding too much stuff and i had still just barely scratched the surface. i decided to stick mainly to the used and clearance sections just because if its still there and new, i can probably still find it somewhere else.

I passed on a damaged copy of 'Meat Bob' by Bobcat Goldthwait... although i really wanted it and nearly paid the $15 for it.

the haul was small... but also dirt cheap. i think i bought 5 sealed cds, and two of those were EPs... most of the stuff i got are things i've been wanting to hear, but didnt feel like paying full price for, or were so cheap i just wanted to try them. clearly, i hit the comedy section pretty hard as comedy records are hard to come by in ABQ.

here's the rundown.

Sarah Shannon - City Morning Song
Starlight Mints - Drowaton
Interpol - Live EP
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
IllLit - Insound tour EP
ELYK Records Comp
Judd and Maggie - Subjects
Greg Behrendt is Uncool
Love Arcade
Athlete - Beyond the Neighborhood
James Kochalka Superstar - Spread your Evil Wings and Fly
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
Mark Gross - Meet Mark Gross
Neil Hamburger - Raw Hamburger
Robert Kelly - Just the Tip
Kate Nash - Made of Bricks
Luaka Bop - The Sound of Sound Comp
We Are Standard - 3.000V - 40.000W
Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers
+/- - Let's Build a Fire
+/- - +/-
The Guggenheim Grotto - ... Waltzing Alone
K-Os - Joyful Rebellion
K-Os - Collected
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Livin' in the City
Duran Duran - Thank You (Import)
Jamie Kennedy and Stu Stone - Blowin' Up
The Subways - Young for Eternity
Everclear - Welcome to the Drama Club
The Maccabees - Colour It In
The Naked Trucker and T-Bones - Live at the Troubadour
Fountains of Wayne - Out of State Plates
Suburban Kids with Biblical Names - #3
Creeper Lagoon - Take Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday
Hovercraft - Experiment Below
Isobel Campbell - Milkwhite Sheets
Spoon - Don't You Evah EP
REM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi (Special Edition)

I thought that last one was a collection of 7" es... but its the cd with a cool box and a giant book.

I think that's about it... besides stuff that Fotini wanted. Kate Nash is hers as well as some Chieftans stuff. I also got a couple copies of Surrogate and some other gifts. All that for about $200 i guess. so... around $4-5 each?

Last time I seemed to favor Astralwerks records... this time Minty Fresh was the repeat offender.

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We spent a lot of time with Ted, his wife Becca, and their daughter Riley... and their friends a bit too.

Here's a photo of Ted's house:


The Mickey toilet paper was a little unsettling, i mean... wiping with a pillar of your childhood is unusual (insert NKOTB joke here).

Still, we had a good time... lots of Catan and they gave us a ton of information about Disneyland. So much so that I actually ate TWO meals in the Disney park where I didn't feel totally ripped off. The other meals were ripoffs though, and Cafe Uva was so much of a ripoff that it neglects any perceived savings from the two reasonably priced meals.

I saw the Cafe Uva menu posted and fries were $6, a cheesesteak was $9, and after days of having insane prices drilled into my brains, these actually seemed like a 'good deal'. what we received was FIVE french fries. thats right... FIVE. they were like steak fries, but still. FIVE. and the cheesesteak. take an Olive Garden Breadstick, cut it in half and throw one onion slice and a slice of roast beef on it. there's your $9. I AM NO EXAGGERATING. It was literally the size of an OG breadstick.

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we went to church with the Ted's as well. They go to church in a punkrawk venue. it was black as night and the only lights were christmas lights strung across the ceiling. during the service they turned on some chinese lamps. it was very hip. i'm surprised i didnt fall asleep. it was the perfect setting for an indie show. the church was cool though, and the people nice. the pastor wore jeans and welcomed us. word.

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we did two days in Disneyland. open to close.

I wore a hole in my insoles. we both need wheelchairs now because our legs dont work. but it was great. a real disney animator taught us how to draw Tigger.

The Bugs Life 3D show thingy is just about the best thing in both parks. i loved the hell out of it. even though they did spray RAID all over us in the audience.

The Muppet 3D thing SUCKED. The preshow was 10 times better than the actual show. You know how the Muppets are famous and have lots of big characters. Kermit, Piggy, Fonzie, etc? well, they decided that all those beloved characters are bullsh!t and instead most of the show revolves around 'The Spirit of 3D'... an annoying CGI bug thing that flies around. it looks like something Pixar would have made 25 years ago as a tech demo. its not even made of FELT. nice.

I've never seen Bugs Life or Monsters Inc... or a ton of other films apparently... but the Monsters Inc ride is pretty great too.

The Jungle Adventure ride thing is still the best thing in the Disneyland park.

The Enchanted Tiki Room was the only 'neglected' attraction we went too. everything in disneyland is PERFECT. clean and trimmed and everything.... really amazingly perfect... except the Tiki Room. damn near everything in there is dusty as hell. half the robots have broken parts. its a room full of birds and singing flowers and stuff. even the walls sing. everything sings. its really great and a big time capsule for what disneyland started as. there are more robots in that one room than on most of the other rides period. that said... many of the birds had half broken beaks, or one eye worked and the other was lazy. its a shame... but i'd imagine its not that big of a draw anymore anyway.

next time, we're paying for a tour guide. no contest. its $50 or something, but you get lunch so thats like a $300 savings right there.

the freaking submarines were always broken or buried under lines.

the longest wait we had was probably about 25 minutes... and it was for the lamest ride ever.... Storybook Land. you sit in a boat and look at miniatures for 3 minutes. i thought it was another robot ride. the second longest wait was for the Casey Jr train... 20 minutes. its identical to the Storybook Land ride except its on land and not sea... i wish i had known they were identical.

The Snow White ride.... WTF? its like... here's all the bad stuff that went down... snow white is done-skis, the dwarves are boned, prince charming is AWOL... RIDE'S OVER KIDS! HOP OUT! it doesnt even wrap up... it was funny how bad that ride was.

Pirates was excellent. i was never a huge fan, it was always ok, but its really good. i mean, you've got ships shooting over your head, and water splashing everywhere... it was awesome.

i'm not going to describe everything... but we loved our time in the magic kingdom. if you go, check the galleries out... we saw a Jane Seymour original!

we also watched a ton of movies. we did pretty much every attraction in both parks that wasnt a crazyass roller coaster. thats a ton. no matter how boring it looked, we did it. and nothing was really THAT bad.

I'll post photos soon.

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mick bought a freaking '08 BMW... gotdamn man! its nice. his new place is pretty nice too... he's still the same old mick... and dani is the same old dani. we stayed there for 2 days but our schedules were pretty opposite.

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we saw a big ass dead seal on the beach. its face was all bashed in, but the rest looked ok. must have it a boat blade. weird seeing something that big, that close, that dead.

hung out with my uncle and met his girlfriend. shes 60 and very nice. also checked out the maritime museum... they have the second largest collection of bone ship models. that is to say, models of ships made out of bones. prisoners in the 1700's made them out of their food leftovers. they were REALLY nice too. we saw some maps that Whistler did. before he did his mom. he got fired for drawing on the maps. very cool. my uncle has at least 5 models in that museum... they were really nice.

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everyone knows how much i hate my Kia, and some of you will remember that the last time i tried to drive to LA my gotdamned KIA broke down two hours outside of ABQ on my way there and i spent my two week vacation in my room with my gamecube feeling sorry for myself.

our rental car was a Kia Sephia.

it got amazing gas milage. i mean... in the 40mpg range. i'm very pleased.

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i saw Tommy Lee in California Adventure with an incredibly hot blonde girl. it was him though. tats and bad haircut and all.

we didnt go to the free Flight of the Conchords concert, but i did see them driving by Amoeba as we walked in.

as previously mentioned, we saw Norm MacDonald doing standup and he was wonderful. it was a great surprise. we met my friend Jason and he said there was a good comedy club near our hotel in Tempe. he called to see who was performing and we just lucked out! we sat in the balcony, front center. great seats.

there were two hecklers in the crowd... and no joke, they were literally sitting right next to us on both sides. the comics reamed them though and they pretty much shut up after the first comic.

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we listened to several podcasts, Random X, Penny Arcade, CAG Foreplay, Leo LaPorte, Hijinks Ensue, SModcast... and about 6 hours of the Stern show... most of which involved Arties departure and comeback. nothing like bear porn and ejaculate eating for sustenance talk to start a vacation right.


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We also watched 'Juno' today.

I was torn because part of me wanted to really like it because everyone does and everyone told me that I would love it. For those same reasons, I wanted to hate it. I wasn't interested in watching it before because it looked like a pretentious hipster movie. I think I liked it better when it was called 'Ghost World' like 10 years ago.... but it was ok. It's the kind of movie that people who haven't seen 'Ghost World' or the like would probably find hip. It was kind of like a Wes Anderson movie, but without the heart. It probably sounds like I hated it, but I didn't. It was just... there. and exactly what i thought it would be. a movie that thinks its more clever than it actually is, but it had some zingers in it as well. JK Simmons and Michael Cera were excellent. Her stepmom was really good too.

I think its funny that someone who calls themselves 'Diablo Cody' and names their lead 'Juno MacGuff' takes the time to make fun of the name 'Madison' in the script.

Also. no one says 'Swear to Blog' or whatever the hell. no one. really. except the 13 year old girls who saw Juno and say it now.

a lot of people said i would like it because i talk just like the characters in the film. apparently i'm a bigger asshole/douchebag/tard than i thought.

i didnt think i needed to say it, but when i write things like 'SPOILARZ!' and 'omg lollerz! and the like... thats not ME, thats me making fun of people who say those words. i'm fueling the fire i guess, and for that i'm sorry. its like if i were 19 and wearing a phil collins t-shirt. word?

(i do say 'word' and 'dig' sans irony however.)

anyway... if you havent seen it... rent 'Rushmore'.

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Watched 'The Brave One'. it sucked, but the ending was ok.

Poll #1171266
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Round Final.

This is the last round or whatever. These are the final three from an initial twenty-four women.

I still can't believe Jenny Lewis made it this far.

Anyway, expect more crappy polls in the future, though no longer daily, and definitely more random.

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Watched 'Sweeney Todd' tonight. Not bad... especially for a musical. Not all that great though either. I liked it well enough I guess.

The top 100 best selling games of the last 12 months, ranked by sales.

command and conquer 3 sold more than THE ORANGE BOX???

David. I blame you.

and CoD4 sold more than Halo 3. Microsoft spent a billion billion dollarz on Halo 3, and 2 months later CoD4 dethroned it. hilarious. after playing Halo 3 the other day after months away from it, i'm not surprised one bit.

much of the list is full of CRAP, but thats not surprising given the success of the Wii and its massive catalog of budget shovelware and non-gamers buying said garbage.

i'm actually kinda surprised that Puzzle Quest didnt make a showing considering its ease of use and multi-platform-ishness. and did i miss WoW? i didnt see it on there.

NFS:Prostreet sold a sh!tton of copies. I gave up on that series after the 'Hot Pursuit 2' followup sucked... like 10 years ago.

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Jon and I talked a lot of BSG today. And mostly disagreed. Surprisingly, we had the same exact feeling about 'There Will Be Blood'.

and i dont think i ever told him, but we also had the same feeling about 'No Country for Old Men'. The stuff at the beginning in the desert was my favorite part too. i was on the edge of my seat the whole time.

that brings up another point... in my brain. The Coen Brothers really are fantastic filmmakers. They NAILED comedy with 'The Big Lebowski' (a film that many many people hated, and as such caused me to lose my faith in mankind.) even 'Oh Brother!' was really freaking funny. And 'Raising Arizona' is an across the map favorite. They do the thriller genre over and over with ease. They had the weird, frenchish, larger than life 'Hudsucker Proxy'. They do fast talking dialog (Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Oh Brother!), they do films that might be just as good without the sound on (No Country, Blood Simple). and however they influenced 'Bad Santa'... it was funny, crude and emotional all at once. they even were allowed to dick around with 'Man who wasn't there' and still make an entertaining film.

The consensus (among mens magazine writers... *cough*...) seems to be, you can be a fanboy, thats ok, but pick your obsessions and stick with them. be bold and unabashed. i love the coen brothers and i dont think anyone could talk me out of that.

My back is better... just a bit sore.

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We watched 'Miller's Crossing' and some more BSG last night. I think out of everything we watched, i fell asleep during every single item. every episode and movie we watched. i just always fall asleep when sitting down and not talking anymore. So yeah, it was hard to keep up with all the double crossings and triple crossings on 'Miller's Crossing'. Fotini was awake the whole time and even she couldn't keep up.

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CD Update of the past week or so...

Liam Finn - I'll Be Lightning
BTO - Greatest Hits or something
POD - When Angels and Serpents Sleep or Dance or something
The Breeders - Mountain Battles

I threw my back out (though not while humping your mom, contrary to popular belief.)

Must have slept on it wrong because it hurt as soon as i woke up. i can stand up, and after 6 tylenol and nearly 9 hours on a heating pad, i can sit down too. i can lounge decently. its just the moving thats rough.

so i broke my streak of perfect attendance.

i usually wrench my back out about twice a year.

anyway... it did give me time to watch:

- three episodes of BSG season three
- There Will Be Blood
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

and i played some CoD4, Flatout and Viva Pinata Party Animals.

Time for more laying around!

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EDIT

I keep forgetting to mention this... there were a lot of New Mexican ties to big films in 2007/2008. The main character in 'There Will Be Blood' gets his start in New Mexico, and SIlver City is referenced later in the film.

'Transformers' was shot here in New Mexico, as was 'No Country for Old Men'. It was weird seeing places I've traveled to/past daily as a backdrop for a horrible crime in the latter film.

Also, '3:10 to Yuma' was shot here. It snowed like crazy when they were shooting, but the script called for a drought. The filmmakers had to pay to remove the snow from the town, and trucked in dirt to cover it. If you look in the background during the final part of the film, you can see snow blanketing the entire landscape except in the small town.

You Have to Burn the Rope

Go. Burn rope. Now.

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Yesterday I watched 'Wristcutters: A Love Story'. it reminded me A LOT of 'Dead Like Me'. good movie... did i already mention all this?

I'm still trying to figure out what genre both WALS and DLM belong to... supernatural? it's not really sci-fi, not really horror or romance or comedy... all of them?

Today I watched 'Shakes the Clown'. It had like 50 famous people in it, before they were famous. It's the only starring role I've seen Tom Kenny in (unless Spongebob counts), it also had Adam Sandler, Kathy Griffin and that fat Paul comedian guy who i can never remember his name. I actually wish it had more Bobcat Goldthwait.

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Did the podcast with Jon today, got lunch, played some Rock Band and Sonic and the Stupid Rings (that theme music DOES SUCKS HARDZ_), went to dinner with my old man, and now i'm BEAT and have work in like 8 hours. Time for bed! I'll upload the podcast tomorrow.

Poll #1164429
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Act II

Let the whittling away begin.

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Happy Birthday April!

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Watched 'Enchanted' tonight. If I were female and age 11 or 41, it'd be badass. At age 27 and male, it was ok, but did not live up to the hype. The ending especially was terrible, and the princess is supposed to be hotter than the sloppy seconds. No doy.

I'm sick. and emotional. I feel like i'm getting the flu, but i'm not quite there yet. i was supposed to go with fo to her parents house tonight, but i'm just so ... gross.

instead, i watched 'American Gangster' uncut. it was just shy of 3 hours, but never dragged or wore out it's welcome. pretty good movie overall. i can see it sitting alongside Goodfellas and Casino and the like in the echelon of great gangster films. most of it is fictional, but its still a lot of fun, entertaining and interesting. its a rare film where you're pulling for both parties to win.

it really made me miss Bobby Womack. I used to listen to his records all the time about 10 years ago... its been several years since i've played any of them though...

cd update!

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Let Go

WOO!

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we went to 'I Scream for Ice Cream' tonight... this little ice cream place in town... its awesome! its all packed with kids stuff and the owner is really nice and funny. great place. jon and nicole were trying to convince David to go see 'Teeth' with them tonight. he didnt know anything about it, and that was the best part. ultimately, he decided against it, so i called him and spoiled the plot on the way home. (its about a chick with teeth in her vajay... its a horror movie... should she get raped on purpose to take out rapists? or not? i dunno!)

the main character is a christian girl, so david said we should do a podcast about it. he said we could get a dentist to come on, and get Justin to talk about the moral decisions in the film... at this point i thought he said 'molars in the film' and i thought that was really funny... moral makes more sense... but molars makes sense too! So justin, if you want to rap about vaginal molars, hit me up.

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i played a whole lot of 'FlatOut' today on the 360. GREAT GAME. after falling in love with the trailers for the first game several years ago, and then falling out of love with it once i played the demo (floating cars much?), I'm thrilled to see that they finally nailed it and made a really fun game. with great gaming comes great difficulty though... this game is HARD. especially the ragdoll minigames. you have to find zen just to get a bronze medal in any event. i kick ass at the destruction derbys, but thats about it. i cant get the last few bomb runs, or the time trial-ish events down. its getting TOUGH. but its very addictive. the last time i was this in love with a driving game was Burnout 3.

it's been a while. usually i get tired of drifting around, but this game just keeps pushing you...

$20 at best buy... if you own a 360, you could do A LOT worse. even Forza 2 wasnt this much fun.

I watched 'The Squid and the Whale' and 'King of California' yesterday... both were good and neither was what i expected!

squid was depressing... but then ended on a high note, which i didnt expect. i liked the use of a steadycam mixed into the film. jeff daniels did a great job as a douche... everyone in the film was fairly annoying.

and california was the definition of quirky comedy. i'd go so far as to call it a black comedy. michael douglas plays a nut who thinks gold is buried below a costco and evan rachel wood plays his daughter... had a good ending and looked gorgeous on HDDVD. it was very feel-good-y, but had some surprises as well...

Poll #1160474
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And another...

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seedy update.

Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Showbread - Age of Reptiles
Secret & Whisper - Great White Whale

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When your boss calls in sick, that's a good day.

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watched 'Powerplay'!

MFing GD. i broke my itunes AGAIN. now i have to resort the whole thing.

no, wait. i'm going to cry. it locked my itunes folder, and i cant unlock it. so i cant add anything to it. so i cant add any music. well, i can, to another folder, but if i change itunes so i takes from that folder, it loses everything else (i already did that, and thats how i lost everything). so i'm just about to cry. wtf.

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watched 'Rashomon' today. good movie.

also finished Half-Life 2: Episode 2. good game.

Poll #1157099
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Round Four

another tough one! Skye is my favorite female singer ever... but damn, i dig Badu too.

i might have to do two weeks of preliminary battles, before the final 10. that makes more sense. i'm still down for suggestions though.

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maaaan... i'm being driven nuts. I worked on another episode of the Songs You Skipped Podcast (now on iTunes!), and got all my songs and background information nailed.  then the mic, or something, started freaking out.  i closed garageband, and when i tried it again, it sounded good... no distortion or echo.  so then i recorded again... and the distortion came back.  i restarted the computer, and again... it sounded fine, then went to pot.  then i noticed that ALL OF THE VOCALS i had recorded... many that were fine... were GONE.  wtf!?  i had three songs down.  gotdammit!  so yeah... i'm not up to doing it again, which sucks because i have some bang up songs this week!

sheeeeeeeesh.

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We watched 'I Am Legend' last night.  I really liked it.  besides the crappy CGI (which everyone seems to hate) it was pretty good.  and the Blu-Ray looks GREAT.  i dont get how so many of them look bad... Hitman and Spiderman were both awful, and there have been others (transporter?), but then Sopranos and this look really crisp... weird.

Poll #1155900
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Round Two

I must admit that I am SHOCKED in regards to the status of Round One. I figured the votes would be much more even... You guys are going by overall attraction right? Not just musical preference? If it were a music competition, Karen O would win hands down...

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Picked up a bunch of $10 Wii games today...  And by a bunch, I mean three.

Had fun playing some Spiderman with Matt.  Didn't have as much fun watching 'Into the Wild'.  It would have been more enjoyable if it were 7 hours shorter.

Did I mention we watched 3:10 to Yuma?  for posteritys sake, i need to make sure to make a note of that.

GOODNIGHT.

i neglected to mention that we watched the new '3:10 to Yuma' the other night. it was ok. i just don't get Russell Crowe... which is going to make 'American Gangster' difficult.

tonight we watched 'Mister Magorium's Magic Emporium'. it was ok. i liked pretty much everything about it except Mr. Magorium. he was like an idiot manchild. yes, i know thats his job, but it was just annoying. portman faked her way through the whole movie too... that was annoying, but shes nice to look at, so its forgiveable. the little kid was pretty decent and the emporium was pretty badass. the story was also kinda decent in that it focused on areas of life that most kids movies ignore.

we finished season four of 'Oz'...

and i played some more Half-Life 2 Episode 2. it got lost in the shuffle a few months back, but its still one of my favorites. half life 2 anyway. this had some really cool stuff in it. i'm just past the halfway mark i think.

i also upgraded to Leopard. ive had a few problems. my mighty mouse and lj client didnt agree with it, but overall the transition was smooth enough. i moved my dock to the bottom just to see the shinyness for a little while. i'm sure i'll boot it back to the side soon enough though.