Sunday shifts at the bookstore are kind of nice, because they're usually very uneventful (save for an afternoon rush of bookworms and people dragging in their yard sale leftovers for us to rummage through). Aside from dealing with the... Read More
i have the dead milkmen's best of... Death Rides A Pale Cow. it's damn good
and X actually has two movies... X:The Unheard Music is a documentary type thing intercut with live performances...and then there's just a live dvd that i haven't seen yet. Exene is my hero. i want to be her daughter
and better than chocolate was really good. it sort of dragged a little but a cute lil' love story. i saw the trailor for it when i went to see Blairwitch Project in jr. high.
It's that time again: long post time! Luckily, my computer-challenged mind finally understands how to use spoilers, so for the sake of making my blog posts more eye-friendly, I'm going to spoiler individual paragraphs by subject. So if you're reading this and don't give a shit about what I think about "blank blank", you can save yourself the effort of scrolling past half a screen... Read More
the meet up was fun, now that you've come out and met us the hard part is over. i love belle & sebastian by the way, glad to hear the new one is good, i haven't heard it yet
In other news: I had a pretty fucked up dream last night.
When I usually have a bad dream (which isn't often), they tend to have a carnival-esque atmosphere. They look like they were filmed by David Lynch after a night of heavy "better living through chemistry". This makes them pretty easy to dismiss. The dream I had last night, though, was like cinema verite:... Read More
that is a seriously creepy dream. now i have to tell you my own little dream story - but it's not really mine. my wife has crazy dreams, but she can remember them ALL in pretty exacting detail. plus she can actually direct her dreams.
In spite of myself, I'm starting to develop a fondness for R.E.M.
My listening habits over the last week have been dominated mostly by early Roxy Music (in particular their first record and "Country Life"), Wire, and Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures". In the middle of all this 1970's arty goodness, R.E.M. has managed to sneak in ninja style into my ear-drums. I used to outright... Read More
I too miss college for its intellectual smackdowns and buildups, but more than anything I miss that one motherfucker in every discussion section who was just bright enough to get everything wrong, and thereby drew me into debate. Then the prof would laugh and settle us down. At night I'd drink beer and push my musical tastes on my friends. Good times.
Tonight: yet another movie review, since nothing has happened in the last few days to my life that would be interesting enough to write about.
THE DEPARTED
I had mixed feelings going into this one. For starters, there was the fact that its a remake. While I haven't seen Infernal Affairs (I did order a copy a week ago, though, so I should be posting... Read More
I seriously want to see The Departed. We didn't get to it last weekend, and this weekend I got a cold like a punk so we spent most of the weekend on the couch. But it's totally on my list. In fact, there are quite a few fine flicks coming out.
Work: slow today, and I am slowly getting bogged down in sci-fi hardcovers that need to get shelved. Most of them are published by Baen Books, a company whose work I find immensely unappealing, but that is neither here nor there. The Breton tattoo is healing quite nicely and has yet to start itching, which is a nice change of pace from my last tattoo,... Read More
"There is a good reason why I'm grinding my face into this carpet. No, really, perfectly good reasons. Stop looking at me like that!"
I didn't have a chance to say this at the time, as I was laid out behind the buy counter on our store's rough carpeted floor, my back stiff as a board. I should have said it, but I didn't. A... Read More
Nothing to report about the last few days. There was nothing of significance to break the cycle of work-eat-sleep-read-watch-listen-work-etc-etc that is my life at the moment. Thankfully, Saturday was a bit more eventful. For absolutely no practical reason, I'm going to talk about these events in reverse order (from evening to early morning).
This evening: my room-mate Grant is back at his parent's house, dogsitting... Read More
*Long Post Alert! Batten Down The Hatches! Run For Your Lives!*
Saints be praised, pass the malt liquor around, and may every politician that isn't Mark Foley kiss the next baby they see! For my computer, ladies and gents, is now virus free. Thanks to Eric's search and destroy suggestions, my computer has reverted to its former self. I haven't posted in the last couple... Read More
When are you coming over? I have the chilies and the papaya!!!
I worked in a used bookstore and this guy would come in, ask us what we bought so we'd tell him some authors. next day he'd come back with them. well one was a signed book by Jim Harrison that I saw at another used bookstore a few blocks away so i called the cops. I tried to stall him but he got away...on his bike!!!! Well, we never saw him after that!!! Dickass!!!!
It's funny and sad that the only stereotype I had about Arizona was the whole methlabcentral thing... is it really as bad as you make it sound? Your tweaker stories are hilarious, so it's not entirely a bad thing either.
If at some point in the last 24 hours, if you heard a blood-curdling war cry emanating from the American Southwest, that was the sound of me screaming at my computer. To be more exact, I was screaming at the spyware and viruses that had infected my computer and started fucking with my Internet Explorer. I spent much of Saturday morning running anti-viral program after... Read More
I bet a dozen people have already said this, but you should really stop using Internet Explorer. Have you given Firefox or Opera a try? It won't help with what's already on your computer, but it's at least a little bit of protection against new stuff.
I spent part of my afternoon rummaging through my bookshelves, looking for money. I'm pretty broke right now, and rent is on the horizon, so I'm forced to resort to pulling a chunk of texts out of my beloved shelves. Fortunately, the vast majority of the titles I've pulled are books that, quite frankly, I'll probably never get around to reading. I hate to part... Read More
and X actually has two movies... X:The Unheard Music is a documentary type thing intercut with live performances...and then there's just a live dvd that i haven't seen yet. Exene is my hero. i want to be her daughter
and better than chocolate was really good. it sort of dragged a little but a cute lil' love story. i saw the trailor for it when i went to see Blairwitch Project in jr. high.