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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
11:51 pm	going to austin... When my friends bought tickets to see Screeching Weasel's 1 show in Austin awhile back, they asked me if I wanted to go. I said no, because tho I love their old stuff (first 2 albums and Punkhouse 7"ep) their later stuff (tho some good songs here and there) I don't care as much about. Also Jughead wasn't going to be with them, so it's not a definitive line-up, and lastly, they wanted to stay and watch the Riverdales (Ben Weasel's other, more Ramones-esque band) the next night. It's funny- I actually introduced these friends to Screeching Waesel a long time ago, then didn't really foolow them when they left punk and picked up pop punk. My friends kept following them, and are into everything they did. So thyey all bought tickets to Emo's on Friday (and Saturday for the Riverdales) and hotel rooms. Well, one of them backed out, so they asked me if I wanted to go for free, with a free hotel room. I was still kind of up in the air, but thinking that would be pretty cool. Then I found out that Magrudergrind, Unholy Grave, and PLF are playing inside Emo's the same night that the Riverdales are playing outside. So I'm going. It should be cool (esp since I'm not driving!). In other news, the new Witch hunt album is totally channeling Husker Du. It kind of surprised me. I almost got into a fight with an old man today because I was running a little late for work, and accidently bumped the side of his giant truck with my car door. There was no dent or mark, but he freaked out. He kept yelling at me. If I didn't have my name tag on, and be about to walk into my job, it might have gotten ugly. We're training several new people at work. Most of them are pretty cool. That's about all I have to say right now... (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
4:33 am	part 2: the bad Yesterday at work I started coughing and couldn't quit. It was weird and embarrassing. I hadn't been coughing at all, no sore throat or anything, but suddenly it was like something caught in my throat and I started coughing and couldn't stop for like 4 or 5 minutes. People were staring at me, and becoming uncomfortable. That sucked. I judge how the year is going to go (for me) not from New Years Day to New Years Day, but from my birthday to my birthday. If the past couple of weeks since my birthday are any indication, this isn't going to be that great of a year. The Texas Frightmare Convention was great (to see how great, read my last entry- if you want to see some pictures go here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/tfw/pool/), but starting Sunday things were already going bad. I didn't get enough sleep (I usually don't, but it was bothering me more than usual), and felt sick. The elevators were screwed up, and only one was working (and it didn't work well), so they were very crowded and slow (and check out was at noon). We left the hotel at about 5:30 PM, and were going to get something to eat at Extreme Pizza (there used to be one here but they closed down). I had a google map printed out, and it said to take a "spur" off the highway (a spur is an offshoot from the freeway- an exit you usually don't have to slow down as much for) so I was paying attention to landmarks so I could figure out how to get back to the freeway, and by the time I noticed that it wasn't a spur, but an extremely sharp turnpike (possibly the sharpest turn I've ever seen off a freeway) it was too late. It had been raining all weekend and my reflexes were slow from being extra tired and sleepy, so I slid into the guard rail at about 65 mph. I actually hit the end of the rail right at my driver's side front tire, which spun the car all the way around and slammed the other side into another guard rail. I remember hitting my head on the driver's side window, but not much else. Oddly enough, we weren't really hurt at all (my shoulder started hurting a while later where it hit the window, and still hurts some, but nothing too bad). We had only gone about 10 miles from the hotel. So, stuck 300 miles from home on the side of the freeway on a Sunday night. An 18 wheeler with a nice lady trucker stopped and called the police, and a cop showed up and made a report and called a wrecker driver. He towed my car to an auto shop that the local Saturn dealership uses, which luckily enough had a hotel right beside it. It was a cheap-ass hotel, 69 bucks a night (after taxes), but I actually liked the room better than the expensive hotel we had stayed in all weekend. It had a much better air conditioner, kitchen, and more tv channels (we also found a red bra under the mattress). But the phones sucked (I had to use a credit card to call out, and spent about 60 bucks on it). We laid on the floor in front of the air conditioner and slept. The next day I called my insurance company, and because my insurance had renewed the day before (the day of the wreck), they couldn't pull it up. They said they would call me back when it pulled up. The guy at the shop said that they would almost assuredly total it out. We had to book another night in the hotel because they couldn't pull my insurance up that day. I also missed doing the radio show that morning, and it was the 4th anniversary show (the first episode was on my birthday 2005). So that reeeaaally sucked. And the station decided to pre-empt overnight shows for the next 2 weeks, so I haven't gotten to do my show since. Not until a week from tonight. It sucks being stuck that far from home having no idea what was going to happen, no internet so I couldn't look up how much they might give me if they totalled it (I still owed around $10,000.00 on it!). There was a movie theater within walking distance from the hotel, so I thought we'd go see X-Men Origins: Wolverine (even though it looked pretty bad) to take my mind off things, but it turned out to be a dollar theater, so we saw Taken instead. I had heard from a lot of people that it was really good, but I was kind of underwhelmed. It was decent- better acted and slightly better plot than most action movies (tho it still had that stupid thing I hate where 25 people with machine guns can't shoot the hero, and he picks them all off with a pistol and a knife) but not really my kind of movie I guess. Tuesday brought the info that they did indeed total out my car, but I had rental car pay on my insurance, so we got to go home. They gave me a PT Cruiser and it was only 2 bucks a day above how much my insurance pays, so that was good. We went back to the first hotel and ate the buffet one last time, and came home. On the way home, a red car got on my ass, and I had always heard that police always pull over the last car if several are speeding, and that red cars are more likely to get pulled over, so I sped up and started making good time (I was quite ready to get home). Well, a highway patrolman went right around the red car and pulled me over about 200 miles from home, and I got a ticket. Just what I needed 2 days after a wreck. I was quite worn out, physically and emotionally when we finally got home, but had to go to work the next day plus find a new car before my insurance company decided to take the rental one away from me. I knew I had it until Saturday, so I got someone to cover one of my shifts and went looking for a new car. Oddly enough, the one I found that I could afford was exactly like the one I had just wrecked (color and everything), but one year older. It was also about $2000.00 less than I still owed on the one I wrecked. Speaking of, after the insurance company paid for it (the one I wrecked that they totalled), I'd still owe $500.00. Luckily, I found out that I had got gap insurance that will pay that. Additionally, I also found out that I had done so good with my payments on the car I had just wrecked that I didn't need a co-signer on this one (like I did that one), and I got a pretty good finance rate- 7.9%. I had to borrow some money to come up with a down payment, but my payments are less than $200.00, which is good since my insurance is probably going to go up. The next several days I had to find lots of different information and forms to keep taking back to them, but now I just have one last thing to do before the car is mine. While all that was going on, the insurance company told me I had to have the rental car back by Monday, and that I had to return it to the place I had gotten it from (in Dallas)! If I returned it to another one, it would be a $240.00 additional charge. So, I had to bother my Mom to follow me 300 miles back to Dallas (Irving to be exact) on her day off (which also happened to be Mother's Day) to drop the car off and then bring me home. I would like to comment right here that between Huntsville and Dallas, there are only 3 kinds of radio stations: country, Christian, and Latino. There was a pretty good restaurant called Sam's in Fairfield, with a bar-b-que buffet and really good chocolate merangue pie that we stopped at. Some where in there (Thursday) we went and saw Star Trek (they were showing it at 10:30 instead of midnight- kinda weird). It was pretty good, but I was expecting it to be REALLY good, like I'd be blown away, so I guess I was expecting too much. They seemed to be trying too hard to make young Kirk into a stereotypical rebel. I can see the meeting that the filmakers had in my head: "These kids today, they aren't going to like this. This was a show their parents liked. We have to make it appeal to them!". So we have Kirk listening to the Beastie Boys in the 23rd century (that'd be kind of like someone jamming to Lawrence Welk right now and it being cool). And the Kobayashi Maru test was a bit of a disappointment. I'm not sure what I expected, but it didn't live up to the years of people wondering what happened after it was mentioned in The Wrath of Khan (I think I just expected it to be more clever). Other than that, tho, it was pretty good. Even the Trek-hating Krystal liked it. She, however, hated Wolverine (and she's the big Wolverine and X-Men fan). We did finally go see it, and it was cheesy and ridiculous like I thought it would be, but I was expecting it so it didn't really disappoint me. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It just seemed really rushed- if they had taken a bit more time, and developed the story a little more, it could have been pretty good. The director obviously was out of his league- he is not a comic fan or action movie director, and so he made a lot of mistakes (he even had the over-cliched scene where something blows up in the background while the main character is walking away from it in slow motion, pretending not to notice). I liked the X-Men movies a lot (especially 2), but this was bad. I just called my car's lein holder and the insurance company check still has not made it to them (they supposedly paid it last Thursday). Work has been average (other than the coughing incident). The cats are all doing well. Add Starlog to the list of magazines that have folded that I read (along with Dragon and Metal Maniacs). I can remember reading Starlog when I was a little kid- it's been around forever (at least for me)! I picked up the new Get Fuzzy book and finished it. Good as always. I rented a movie called Burrowers, kind of a horror western. It was pretty good, but I just couldn't get into it much- I think I just wasn't in the mood, I guess. It was about these creatures that paralyse people and bury them alive to eat later. Had a fairly downbeat, NOTLD-type ending. Last week the owner of the company was suppose to come to our store, so there was lots of anxiety and fretting and staying late, but he never showed up. That man is unreliable. Then on Saturday night I couldn't get people out at close. It was full! We close at 11 PM, and didn't get everyone out until after 11:30! The4y just wouldn't leave. I made 3 announcements, plus walked around telling people we were closed. Also went and saw Angels & Demons at midnight Thursday night. I liked the book a little better than The Da Vinci Code, and hoped they didn't screw up the movie as much as they did that one. Well, the movie is ridiculous- completely preposterous, but if you relax and go with it, it's an ok, entertaining ride. I read the book around 5 years ago, so I don't remember it as well. I've been writing this in a couple of different settings- it's been over 24 hours since I started it. So I guess it's time to finally wrap it up and get to work on other things! There's a horror convention coming to Houston on October called Crypticon that I hope will be good. That's worth looking forward to. That and Drag Me To Hell. It's good to have things to look forward to... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
11:00 pm	horrorfest part 1 (the good part) Well, it's been quite a few days. Just got home from going to Dallas (which I've never liked much- I love Austin, San Antonio's cool, and of course I live in Houston which is also cool, but Dallas I just don't like the vibe) for the Texas Frightmare Convention. Started out great, then went to shit. Yup. Let me tell you about it all... Left around noon on Thursday and made good time. Ran into some traffic, but got to the hotel and checked in (at the Sheraton, a pretty nice hotel. We were on the 9th floor, and you had to use your key card to make the elevator work. It had a pretty cool restaurant named Ashely's that had a different buffet every day. The Tex Mex one on Saturday was the best. But I digress...) then left for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre screening with Tobe Hooper, Marilyn Burns, and Teri McMinn. Google totally screwed up the directions, but we made it just in time. I'm too young to have seen TCM on the big screen when it first came out, but I did get to see a midnight showing of it in the late '90s, and it's definitely a 'see on the big screen' movie. What a great movie. Afterwards the guests answered questions from the audience. Didn't really learn much that I didn't already know- a couple of little things. Tobe told how he made some of the music (some of the first experimental/ industrial noise type stuff I ever heard). That was pretty cool. Friday we set up the table early, then went back to the room and slept awhile. Got back to the table by 5 PM (when they let early ticket holders in). I walked around a bit and looked at the booths. One had a lonely looking guy at it who turned out to be Mal Arnold (who played Fuad Ramses in Bloodfeast) who was hawking his new movie Midnight Drive-In. He was pretty cool. We talked a little while, then I moved on. I was really excited to see Dick Miller (who's been in everything from It Conquered the World to Rock and Roll High School to Gremlins to (my favorite) Tales From the Crypt- Demon Night). I don't really care that much about celebrities- I appreciate a lot of their work, but I don't get the worship. I don't collect autographs or anything like that, but I did go up to him (which not many people did- I don't think a lot of people know who he is) and told him I really enjoyed his work. He shook my hand and thanked me. He seemed very nice. One person who was extremely nice and friendly was Caroline Williams (who played Stretch in Texas Chainsaw Massacre II). She started talking to me just from me walking by her booth and looking over at her. I was kind of expecting the celebrities to be more aloof or something, but mostly they weren't. The horror punk band Calabrese had a booth, and I talked to them a little bit. I told them I do a punk radio show, and they didn't seem interested, but later on while I was minding the table, one of them came up and gave me 2 cds to play. I went to a screening of the movie Laid To Rest at 10 PM, which was pretty good. A slasher film, but done well. Afterwards the director and some of the actors were hanging out, and I told him I really liked the movie. I realized that Johnathon Schaech was there, and told him I liked the movie, and really liked The Doom Generation (which he was also in). I forgot he was in Quarantine, which I also liked pretty well. Saturday was my birthday, so I actually bought a lot of stuff- I bought Mal Arnold's new movie I mentioned earlier, a TCM soundtrack, a Frankenstein's monster mouse pad, Godzilla t-shirt, and a very cheesy looking movie called Pot Zombies for 5 bucks, and a couple of other things. Several more celebrities showed up, and a few more booths opened. They had a booth that sold carnivorous plants, and one that sold pictures of people (girls, mostly) made up to look like they had been killed violently. This booth also made people up at the convention, and would photograph you like you were in a morgue (with a tag around your neck and sheet and stuff- I saw one couple have this done). I met the bass played for World Burns To Death who runs a booth selling horror movie t-shirts and some other stuff. The woman who had a booth behind ours was very friendly- she makes leather accessories. Her name is Little One, and she seemingly knows most of the celebrities. She evidently does a lot of conventions. She talked to us a lot throughout the convention (I guess she talked to everyone a lot- she was very talkative). One thing I noticed about this convention is how friendly everyone is. I've been to Anime and comic conventions before, but no one is as nice and friendly as they were at this horror convention. It was good. When I was walking through the exhibition room, I ran into someone who was quickly coming around a corner. He said "My bad dude-you ok?" tho I actually almost knocked him down. It turned out to be Jason Mewes, who was coming out from behind his table to pose for a picture with someone. I actually missed the Dick Miller retrospective, but saw the Black Sunday screening. Barbara Steele was supposed to make it to the screening to answer questions, but she didn't. Out of all the celebrities, she's the only one who seemed kind of aloof. I hadn't seen Black Sunday in ages, so it was cool to see it on the big(ger) screen. Then I went to the buffet, where Tyler Mayne asked me how the food was. I told him it was ok, but all you can eat so that makes it better. He agreed, but was particularly concerned with how good the London Broil was (it was better than I thought it would be). When I went back to the room Rob Zombie's Halloween was playing on tv, which I thought was kind of ironic. I ventured back out and watched the iMurders screening. It was ok- a bit convoluted and needed to be a little better edited, but decent. Afterward there was a question and answer session with the director and some of the actors (including William Forsythe, who was pretty funny). I asked them how it was working with Tony Todd (he was in the movie but not there) because I heard he was a prick, but they said he was very awesome to work with and funny. Something strange happened earlier that day while I was watching the table- two young girls came by, one who's birthday was the day before (I don't know many people who's birthdays are close to mine). We were talking about that, and the other girl was very quite, but suddenly she told me "I like your eyes!" out of the blue. I think that's all she said the whole time. I saw her later wearing a face mask that said 'cunt' on it. I've had people say they like my eyes before (they're probably my best feature, but that's not saying much), but I say it was weird this time because the next day, while I was eating lunch, Fairuza Balk was the next table over, and she kept looking at me like she knew me or something. When she got finished and got up to leave, she said "I like your eyes" to me. That's a really weird coincidence. I wonder if people thought I was wearing special contacts or something? Sunday began with the elevators being screwed up. There was a tornado and terrible weather the day before, plus evidently a ton of drunken foolishness, and something between the two put down all of the elevators but one, which automatically stopped at every floor (remember I was on floor 9). Barbara Steele got in the elevator at one point, and when she heard another guy on it talking about how one of the elevators got stuck between floors for 45 minutes the night before (at like 4 am), her eyes got huge and she got off at the next floor. When I made it to the dealer room, Alice Cooper was coming out. A little kid ran up to him and growled, and he said "Hey boy" then growled back. I went to the Jason Mewes Q and A (barely missed the Linda Blair one), but didn't ask any questions. Someone asked him if he felt typecast by his Jay character from Kevin Smith movies, and after he answered that another person asked him almost the same question. He made fun of the guy, who was pretty goofy. He said he's kind of starting to get away from the Jay typecast a little bit. Finally it was time to tear it all down at 5. Most everyone said that this convention wasn't as successful, because of the swine flu fear and the bad weather on Saturday (usually the biggest day), but we didn't do bad. I have to go to work, so I'll tell the rest of the story (the bad part) later... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
2:28 pm	So, in the midst of all this swine flu bruhaha, just remember: fear is the mindkiller. Haha- good ole news media. The terrorists, immigrants, pedofiles, socialists, and the swine flu are all coming to get you. Be scared. Leaving for Dallas for the big Horror Convention Thursday. This one: http://www.texasfrightmareweekend.com/lifetype/ Get to watch the original TCM with Tobe Hooper and Marilyn Burns. Gonna be cool. I've been doing some music reviews for No Funeral online 'zine- the cool thing is that they post an upload link to every album we review (if available). So far only Hatebreed have asked to have their link taken down. Go check it out here: http://no-funeral-zine.blogspot.com/ Gotta go- tons of stuff to do. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 21st, 2009
2:20 pm	Why do I keep buying Fangoria? It's really expensive, and not much to it. Why don't I just read it in the store? Rue Morgue is so much better. But I think it's just habit. You know, I used to buy like over 20 magazines a month? All these different horror and sci-fi/ fantasy and music magazines. Psychotronic, Cinefantastique, Cult Movies, Midnight Marquee, Cinescape, Film Threat, Scarlet Street, a ton of Famous Monsters of Filmland rip-offs and gore/ exploitation rags. Most of them have gone under, tho. I just heard that Metal Maniacs is ceasing publication. Dragon went under last year (I think). Never thought that would happen. I have all these back issues- I don't know why I keep them. Some I do, but most aren't anything special- all about what's coming out at the time. I guess they're kinda cool as a time capsule. But what's left now? Phantom of the Movies Videoscope is still going, somehow. I think that Starlog will be around after all the others fall. I don't ever get Starlog, tho. Sci-Fi Entertainment has the Sci-Fi Channel's money behind it. Wizard's mags (with Toyfare and Anime Insider) are still going, but I don't like the new Wizard format- it's too lean and pop culture/ not much substance for me now, probably to appeal more to overstimulation generation's tastes. Too many lists and short articles, not enough good writing. Toyfare and Anime Insider are still good, tho. At least Maximumrocknroll is still around. I hope they never go under. My fav music magazine (and not just because I used to write for them). Probably my second most fav music mag is Decibel. And Terrorizer is good, but when it comes to music mags, the fanzines are the way to go. But the fanzine scene appears to be close to dead. I used to buy (and put out) soooo many 'zines, of all kinds (mine were called Hatefilled, Godvomit (both mostly music 'zines), Brain Snot (which reviewed other underground 'zines and horror books), and Chunk Blower (horror movie reviews and commentary)). I guess because nobody buys 'zines anymore. It's all about/ because of the internet, baby. I still miss the old 'zine days, tho. Haha- "Shut up, ya old bastard!". Ok, fine. Well, to me Watchmen was quite awesome. Better than The Dark Knight- much better. Been waiting 15 years for that stupid movie to be made, and here it is. At least it lived up to what I was expecting. The (few) changes didn't bother me, and it really came to life on screen. I want to go see it again. Also saw The Uninvited which I liked pretty good. It's a remake of a Korean film called A Tale of Two Sisters (a more appropriate title I'd say) which I haven't seen. But this one had a lot of mood and atmosphere and sinister mystery, and I didn't quite get where it was going like I do most movies. Saw a preview for a remake of The Last House On the Left, which looks quite pretty and not filthy and sleazy/ decadent like it should (and it looks like at least one character who died in the original lives in this one). They should have brought in Eli Roth to do the remake- I bet he'd do it right. This just looks too safe and clean. I'm sure there'll be gore and stuff, but it's just not going to be filthy enough- like looking at pretty pictures perfectly cinematographied (haha- is that a word) with the prop department and set decorators having it all set up perfectly. When talking about making the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, members of the cast mentioned how between takes they had to run to the windows of the house and vomit because of how the set smelled, 'decorated' as it was by carcasses and things they found in the Texas countryside. I wonder if those thin, pretty girls in the Last House On the Left remake had to vomit because of the set decorations? Well, I'll get off that shit, too. Maybe I'm just onery because I've been sick as hell. I even had to go to a doctor. Those of you who know me know I don't do that. Nope. Noooo doctors. But off I went. Evidently, I had bronchitis and an extremely bad upper respiratory infection. Well, I still do. I always heard about people getting those and being sick for like a month and not being able to get rid of it, and wondered why. Well, I've been dealing with thius one since Wed the 11th. I kept going to work and ignoring it, and getting sicker and sicker until finally I went to the doctor this week and he gave me a shot and antibiotics. I also couldn't go to work (well, I went one day) which sucks. Well, it sucks that I couldn't go but also couldn't do anything cool. It's hard to describe, but it's like all of your energy and will is being sucked into this dark void in your chest. Then you cough and it's like someone is drawing a rusty metal bow across your vocal chords and throat muscles. The music that comes out is not that good. It also feels like someone has filled your lungs with gunk. I kept picturing them like a honeycomb full of honey, but instead of honey they were full of yellow infected gunk. I also had to have someone else do my radio show for me one night, which is very annoying. He does a good enough job (I usually have the same guy do it, and I do his when he can't), but I like to do my own show, you know? But anyway. Oh, yeah, I also got some rats. Someone let them go in my store, some stupid kid thought it would be funny I guess. So I caught them and brought them home. There's 2 of them. I'm not keeping them (I have 4 cats), but they're staying here until I find a place for them, which I'm going to try to give them to Petco first. When you put them in the bath tub and squirt them with water, they hop up and down. Well, about time to go, but I almost forgot to mention that I really liked Midnight Meat Train a lot! I wanted to go see it in the theater sooo bad, but I didn't find it until it had went to the dollar movie on the other side of Houston, and couldn't make it. But it came out on dvd and I got it and liked it a lot. Once more a movie with a lot of atmosphere, style, and mystery. A decent amount of gore (I can always take more, haha), I really wish I could have seen it in the theater- it would have been a lot better. But still, I recommend it. Good stuff. OK, I best be off, now- things to do, pills to take, etc. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
4:00 am	You aren't as funny as you think you are. I can almost guarantee it. I know I'm not. But since I know that, I'm ahead of a lot of people, who think they are quite hilarious. Let me give you an example. Every day that I work register, at least once a day (usually more), when something doesn't scan correctly, the customer thinks it's quite funny to say "That means it's free, right?". I don't remember if I ever thought this was funny or clever (I would doubt it), however I'm so sick of hearing it now that I imagine stabbing people in the eye when they say it. I've talked to some of my fellow employees, and they are with me on this. This is just one thing among many, but it's the first one that comes to mind. I just went and saw the Friday the 13th remake midnight showing. I wasn't really excited or anything for it, however I felt like going to a movie. I was actually trying to decide between Push and The Uninvited (neither of which I was all that excited about either) when I found out they were doing a midnight showing, so we decided to stay. I'm not as much on the 'all remakes suck' bandwagon as most people I know, because most of the ones I've seen haven't sucked (with the exception of the festering pile of infected pig offal that was Black Christmas), they've just been underwhelming and fairly pointless. Generally studios would do better to re-release the originals to theaters with updated sound, etc. (like they did with Alien and The Exorcist awhile back). But the remake train rolls on, and some of them are fairly decent (really, I haven't watched a lot of them, but of the ones I saw most weren't horrible). Now Friday the 13th to me isn't as classic or important as, say, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (which the same director who remade that also did this), and this really isn't a remake, since nothing that happens in the original Friday the 13th happens in this one except for in the very first scene. Really, you could kind of consider this just another Friday the 13th sequel, which is what I pretty much did. You can tell it's the same team that remade Chainsaw, because it has the same feel, the same beats; the kinda bad pacing and stagy sets. It has a lot more nudity, tho, as expected in the post-Hostel horror movie era (tho oddly enough not really more gore than a lot of the mid-period Friday sequels), and the characters are very Judd Aptow movie-esque. It starts off fairly awkwardly with 2 prologues, the second featuring a group of people who I found a lot more likeable and interesting than the main group (with the exception of the Asian guy) that's in the rest of the movie (even tho one is wearing a Fear t-shirt). We establish some slightly worse than average 'bad horror movie dialogue' (not as bad as The Devils Rejects, but worse than the usual 'bad horror movie dialogue'), then get to the killin. The kills are mostly decent (tho as I mentioned before not as gory as expected), but really nothing special. Jason doesn't act quite like the old Jason- he's not as animalistic. More calculated and human. Overall the movie was as entetaining as most average slashers- it didn't suck; it just wasn't that great. Maybe worth hitting at the dollar movie. I've bought a lot of metal cds lately, most recently the new Napalm Death ("Time waits For No Slave"). The only ND cds I've bought since Barney's been singing for them has been the covers ones ("Leaders Not Followers"). I really like the old grindcore stuff, and think they should have changed their name since no one from the first 3 line-ups is still in the band (and only 1 person from the 4th line-up!) and they sound completely different. I've been bitching about that for over a decade, now, so I decided to check out what their new stuff is like (mainly since I've heard some stuff off their last 2 albums and they're pretty good). I have to say it's pretty good. I've never liked Barney's vocals (another reason I've resisted later Napalm), so fortunately on this new one they're kind of distorted and don't sound as much like he usually does. I also got the new Extreme Noise Terror, which is really good grind, and the new Cannibal Corpse, which I like a bit better than the last one. The new Bastard Noise is really good. I've ordered the new Thyrfing, but haven't gotten it yet. Dropdead is playing tomorrow night, and I have to work, which sucks. I like them a lot. Oh, well. I see that Lux Interior died. Another iconic figure down. I was never a big Cramps fan, but I acknowledge their importance and they had some songs I liked ok. Guess I'd better be off to bed, now. It's almost 5 AM. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
4:09 am	So January is already almost over. Doesn't seem right. Time sure flies sometimes. Well, I went to full-time up front management last Aug, a little because I need more money, but mainly because I needed insurance and you have to be full time to get insurance. I also kind of wanted a change from the position I had been working for so long, but insurance was the main reason. I like working up front, even having to deal with a lot of stress and pricks. You have to have a lot of patience and problem solving skills to do it, and many of the other managers don't have these. Most of the people tell me that I'm their favorite manager. I assume they aren't just saying that, but who knows. Anyway, even though I like the job most of the time, I've had to give up a lot to do it- a lot of sleep and free time. Between the 2 jobs and the radio shows, I had no time for anything; so I took off this semester from KTRU- I'll probably go back in the winter semester. I already miss it, but something had to go for a bit, and I just spent a bunch of money on a bass guitar and 300 watt amp, because I want to get some music projects that have been foundering off the ground. I hate it because I have so many ideas, and I forget them. This bothers me to no end. I try to write stuff down sometimes, but I know I've forgotten a ton of stuff I wish I hadn't. Anyway, I very much miss the free time I used to have. I never get to do anything anymore. I've worked every Friday night and most Saturday nights for almost 6 months. I've missed a lot of movies I wish I had gotten to go see; countless live shows. The website is way behind. I never get to read much anymore (tho I have been working on the new Stephen King short story collection Just After Sunset, which wasn't that great at first, but then I got to a story called N, which I liked a lot). It's annoying. And here's the topper: I didn't get the insurance last Aug when I went to full time, because they have open enrollment in January and June, and I needed to use the money for some other stuff at the time, so I figured January is just a few months away. Well, come January (this month) they've changed their policy- they just instated insurance for part time associates and now their open enrollment is January, and full time associates can only enroll in June. Yeah sometimes shit drives you crazy. I also had to send home one of my employees last week because she had lice, so I hope I didn't get infested (or anyone else we work with). I did get to go see Repo! The Genetic Opera last Saturday night at #'s, which was pretty cool. Who knew Bill Mosely could sing.? Yeah I know he did Cornbugs, but he mostly kind of talked through that. Nivek Ogre used this kinda goofy Italian (I think) accent, so you couldn't tell it was him (he definitely doesn't sound like he did in Skinny Puppy, or Ohgr even). The dude from Buffy did really good- I like his 'evil' Repo Man vocals. And Paris Hilton and Sarah Brightman, well, I never thought I'd go see a Paris Hilton movie, but here I did. At least her face fell off. Sarah was all gothed out with fake eyeballs. It was cool. Some of the songs weren't so great (tho most were decent), but I really liked one song that the Graverobber sang about the vials and the drug that he extracts from dead people and sells to junkies (like Paris Hilton- "So Amber Sweet is addicted to the knife. Addicted to the knife? Addicted to the knife..." etc. and so on- I don't remember all the lyrics, but that song was cool). I need to find the soundtrack. I also watched In Bruges yesterday, which was also pretty good. I had heard it was really good, kind of a comedy/ drama. Really good cinematography. I rented Saw V but haven't watched it yet. Probably right after I finish this. Well, maybe right now... I'm out. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
5:41 pm	So, I hang out on the Rifftrax blog a lot (http://blog.rifftrax.com/). I don't go to that many places on the internet, and most of the ones I do go to are music related (no not downloading but informational); however you can often find me making snarky comments on the Rifftrax one. Their brand of irreverent humor and pop culture absurdities appeals to me. I recently discovered that another KPFT dj, Jeffrey Thames, also goes there. He does the Sound Awake show that comes on during the day on Tuesdays (he plays lots of indie rock, Brit pop, and '80s edge-of-the-mainstream stuff). He calls himself 'The King of Grief' (which made me start calling myself the 'King of Giving Grief' on occasion). Anyway, Kevin Murphy (one of the bloggers) posted a blog comparing Neil Gaiman to Leonard Cohen, and Jeffrey added a comment that said "Gaiman…rhymes (more or less) with Diamond. Rethink about it." (Neil Gaiman = Neil Diamond, ho ho) (at this point I should mention that Most people don't realize that it's pronounced 'Gay-man', and tho I always correct them they never believe me). So someone else, calling themselves 'Neil Gaiman' corrected him. Jeffrey replied back that he didn't believe him, because "I work at a used bookstore. Some of my fellow employees are comic and sci-fi fiends. They say it rhymes with Diamond. I know better than to argue with comic/sci-fi fiend used bookstore employees, especially if I can’t escape them for eight hours." 'Neil Gaiman' replied "Well, there’s an FAQ on my website, www.neilgaiman.com, that says how it’s pronounced. And people who work in SF and Comic stores always know everything, but they are mostly wrong.". It went on a few more posts, then someone else pointed out that Neil Gaiman mentioned this blog in his own journal at his personal website (http://www.neilgaiman.com/). So I went to it, and sure enough he does! So it was actually Neil Gaiman that Jeffrey was arguing with about how to pronounce his own name. In the words of Daffy Duck- "That's rich, I'll say!". hahaha. And I have to say that I can't wait for Coraline- it looks awesome!! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 26th, 2008
4:41 am	Going into the new year, there is something that we all need to agree to stop- in Matt Groening's Life In Hell comics, at the beginning of the year each year they have common phrases and sayings that need to stop, and I am going to copy them right now because I have one that really bugs me which I see written (and to a lesser extent, spoken) quite a bit. It happens when people are talking about something, and want to compare something to it unfavorably, and say "(fill in the blank)", anyone?". Like say you are talking about The Spirit, which seems to be heading towards being one of the worst movies ever made (I haven't seen it, but every review and everything I've heard about it from anyone borders on a hatred once reserved for Nazi rallys and child molesters and it might just destroy the current comic book movie popularity momentum (Batman and Robin, anyone?))- see how annoying that is? A variation on it is "Can you say "(fill in the blank)"?" which is equally annoying. So lets at least agree to do it less frequently, because it's been around a long time and doesn't seem to be dying down much at all. Pretty please? I don't ever seem to have any free time anymore. I'm always working. This means I am tired more often when I do have free time, which sucks. I do like my job a lot better now that I'm working up front. I don't mind working with people. Really, there aren't many jerks, or at least if they are they aren't very vocal about it, so I don't know they are jerks, which is fine. I thought there would be a lot more. Oh, there are some, but really they amuse me more than anything. One thing that has always amused me is righteous indignation. When people are high on righteous indignation, they will make complete jackasses of themselves (more than any other time) and it's very comical. People get upset over the most ridiculous things. If they could just stay calm and explain their problem, and listen to the possible solutions, and still stay calm even if they don't like the solutions (and maybe suggest some of their own solutions, hopefully rational) everything usually works out fine. But people get emotional, and that's usually when it gets funny. I had a guy who used to work there (as a manager no less) come running into the office yelling "Call the cops!". I thought we were getting robbed or something. When I asked him why, he told me that he and another guy had gotten into a verbal dispute out in the parking lot (I found out later because the other guy had went to Taco Bell and hadn't asked him if he wanted anything) and the other guy had pushed him down. I told him he should call the cops himself, and he said he had to calm down first, and ran back outside. I put all the money up I was counting and went outside to make sure they weren't pounding on each other, and he had left. Our usual group of various customers and freeloaders and misfits (who I mostly actually like) plus some other people were hanging out, and I asked them if anyone had pushed him down. At this point I realized that I was asking a bunch of (mostly) grown people if they had pushed another grown man (in his 30s) down. They were all very sure that they hadn't pushed him down, at which point I found myself having to tell these (mostly) grown people "Please don't push anybody down". I am mostly able to keep my composure even when people are emotional and/ or unreasonable, but there is a prejudice in me that I am actually kind of ashamed of, but I can't seem to shake. I believe I might have mentioned it before, but unpleasant women in their 40's and early 50's who think they know everything but usually have very little actual life experience and can't see beyond their little worlds really drive me crazy (and I had this prejudice WAYYY before Sarah Palin came along). They are usually kind of trollish looking, and always have lots of complaints, but as they rattle on and their eyes drill into your skull you realize that no matter what trivial thing they are complaining about, what they actually mean to say is "I hate you. I hate you, I hate myself, and I hate humanity. Make me feel important for a minute before I have to go home and take a sedative to deal with my life". But as I said, most people (more than you would think) are fairly reasonable and tho a bit lazy and ignorant, not stupid. I guess the main thing that I wish about the few who are true assholes is that they weren't liars- they always say they aren't going to come back or they're going to start going to our competitors, but they never do. They always come back. But enough bitching. It was Christmas today (well technically it isn't anymore, but I haven't really gone to bed yet (I say 'really' because I tried to, but layed there a long time and couldn't sleep). I hope everyone got lotsa great gifts. I get 2 calenders (a dragon one and an art one with fantasy girls or something (it's kinda hard to describe, but the girls are drawn (not photos) and wearing medieval type outfits); the MST3K box set vol. 3 (there's only 2 left I don't have, now); Batman- The Dark Knight dvd; a Cthulu graphic novel; a horror movie called Don't open 'Till Christmas (which I didn't get to watch yet); a Hellboy magnet; and an Interpunk gift certificate (which I know one thing I'm getting with it is Flipper's Gone Fishin'- they just re-issued all of Flipper's out of print records on cd, which is awesome!). I also got some money, which is always welcome. My Mom had surgery last Friday and no one wanted to cook, so we all went to the Golden Coral for Christmas dinner, which is always fun (I kept singing "Iiiii'm dreeeeaaaaming, of a whiiite trash Christmaaaaaassss..."). If you don't know what the Golden Coral is, it's a buffet full of various extremely greasy foods (lots of meats- pot roast, fried chicken, meat loaf, and today turkey and ham) and serum cholesterol that would probably kill you if you ate there evry day for very long (they have vergetables too, but they're very greasy, and even have fried corn on the cob. Nom nom nom). I actually like to see all those other people and families all out together eating Christmas dinner and having a good time. It makes me happy. I was going to go see The Spirit tonight, just because I had to see if it was as bad as everyone seems to say, but didn't make it in time. Oh, well. I guess I'm going to wrap this up now, and try to get to sleep. Work today... (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 14th, 2008
8:37 pm	singing sphincters... Remember- if you go to heaven, look at the assholes you'll have to spend an eternity with: (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
1:08 am	I grew up on Famous Monsters of Filmland, and Forrest was always way ahead of his time in everything from entertainment to human rights. At least he lived a long life- go watch a classic horror film in his name today! Sci-fi's grand old man, Forrest J Ackerman, dies By JOHN ROGERS – 10 hours ago LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forrest J Ackerman, the sometime actor, literary agent, magazine editor and full-time bon vivant who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term "sci-fi," has died. He was 92. Ackerman died Thursday of heart failure at his Los Angeles home, said Kevin Burns, head of Prometheus Entertainment and a trustee of Ackerman's estate. Although only marginally known to readers of mainstream literature, Ackerman was legendary in science-fiction circles as the founding editor of the pulp magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland. He was also the owner of a huge private collection of science-fiction movie and literary memorabilia that for years filled every nook and cranny of a hillside mansion overlooking Los Angeles. "He became the Pied Piper, the spiritual leader, of everything science fiction, fantasy and horror," Burns said Friday. Every Saturday morning that he was home, Ackerman would open up the house to anyone who wanted to view his treasures. He sold some pieces and gave others away when he moved to a smaller house in 2002, but he continued to let people visit him every Saturday for as long as his health permitted. "My wife used to say, 'How can you let strangers into our home?' But what's the point of having a collection like this if you can't let people enjoy it?" an exuberant Ackerman told The Associated Press as he conducted a spirited tour of the mansion on his 85th birthday. His collection once included more than 50,000 books, thousands of science-fiction magazines and such items as Bela Lugosi's cape from the 1931 film "Dracula." His greatest achievement, however, was likely discovering Bradbury, author of the literary classics "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles." Ackerman had placed a flyer in a Los Angeles bookstore for a science-fiction club he was founding and a teenage Bradbury showed up. Later, Ackerman gave Bradbury the money to start his own science-fiction magazine, Futuria Fantasia, and paid the author's way to New York for an authors meeting that Bradbury said helped launch his career. "I hadn't published yet, and I met a lot of these people who encouraged me and helped me get my career started, and that was all because of Forry Ackerman," the author told the AP in 2005. Later, as a literary agent, Ackerman represented Bradbury, Isaac Asimov and numerous other science-fiction writers. He said the term "sci-fi" came to him in 1954 when he was listening to a car radio and heard an announcer mention the word "hi-fi." "My dear wife said, 'Forget it, Forry, it will never catch on,'" he recalled. Soon he was using it in Famous Monsters of Filmland, the magazine he helped found in 1958 and edited for 25 years. Ackerman himself appeared in numerous films over the years, usually in bit parts. His credits include "Queen of Blood," "Dracula vs. Frankenstein," "Amazon Women on the Moon," "Vampirella," "Transylvania Twist," "The Howling" and the Michael Jackson "Thriller" video. More recently, he appeared in 2007's "The Dead Undead" and 2006's "The Boneyard Collection." Ackerman returned briefly to Famous Monsters of Filmland in the 1990s, but he quickly fell out with the publisher over creative differences. He sued and was awarded a judgment of more than $375,000. Forrest James Ackerman was born in Los Angeles on Nov. 24, 1916. He fell in love with science-fiction, he once said, when he was 9 years old and saw a magazine called Amazing Stories. He would hold onto that publication for the rest of his life. Ackerman, who had no children, was preceded in death by his wife, Wendayne. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
12:50 pm	So, I've seen a few reviews of the upcoming Metallica cd, all which say it's worse than maggot-infested pig offal, but these are my two favorites: "I'm going to download this album just so I can delete it" and simply "Metallica is dead". haha. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
2:48 am	So, the Star Wars: Clone Wars movie looks like it could be one of the worst movies of the decade, so I am preparing for it by watching other bad sequels- I just watched Lost Boys: The Tribe (which was baaaad), and I also have Starship Troopers III ready to watch. Then tomorrow, it'll be time for the big one. Can the Star Wars saga sink any further? I bet it can... By the way, today is Bela Lugosi and Glen Strange's birthdays. What a perfect way to celebrate them... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 21st, 2008
6:43 am	So it's time to eat crow. I saw The Dark Knight yesterday, and it was really good. I liked it a lot better than Batman Begins (which I liked pretty good). I still like Batman Returns the best, but I think it's just because that movie has such atmosphere- it's almost like a modern fairy tale or something. Anyway, Heath Ledger does great as the Joker. He wasn't nightmare enducing or horrifying or any of that hogwash you've read so many people write, but he was very good. If he gets an Academy Award nomination, it will only be because he died; not because he doesn't deserve one, but because the academy doesn't really recognize superhero movies as worthy works of art. Stupid academy. I ended up wanting him to be a little more chaotic, a little more nihilistic, but he did well. I didn't like the Batsuit in this one that much, but that's a minor quibble. There was a Watchmen trailor before it, which looks really good. I'm looking forward to that. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
6:46 pm	Today as I was walking through a parking lot, I (along with a few other people) was nearly wiped out by a girl speeding through the lot text messaging on her cell phone. She didn't even look up! I read that vehicular accidents have steadily gone up since 1980, and paticularly have gone up an enormous amount in the last 10 years (evidently in the '80s is when people began to really start rushing around, focusing on careers and 'making it big', etc., therefore driving faster and doing things like eating when they're driving. Now in the past 10 years is when cell phones have become extremely prevelant, which explains some of the recent high level of accidents). I still don't have a cell phone, but I suspect that soon one of those over zealous cell phone jockeys at the booths in the mall will leap out and glue one to my hand, setting me up with a payment plan and free weekend minutes and I can become one of the herd of zombified cancer-headed people shuffling along with a blank stare talking loudly into a cell phone about their goiter for everyone else in the resteraunt to hear. I can't wait. So, it appears that along with being the only one without a cell phone, I'm also the only one who is not completely blown away by Heath Ledger's scenes as the Joker (that I've seen so far, anyway). Now, mind you that once I see him in the context of the movie, I might love it to death; but as it stands now, I'm not convinced. He looks really cute in the make-up, like a colorful, more cutesy version of The Crow- very far from terrifying. And that fake Christian Slater-esque nerd voice he's using- it's not working for me. I've seen so many people (mostly critics and entertainment personalities) talk about how chilling his performance is, and how creepy and scary. Now I've been hearing regular people- people I know and work with, saying the same thing. But I just don't see it- are they just buying into the hype (which people are wont to do), or have I just been so desensitized to horror and creepiness that it doesn't effect me anymore? Maybe I'm the crazy one. I don't know. But I'm still looking forward to the movie. I didn't like the look of the lion from the first Chronicles of Narnia movie, or The Hulk from The Incredible Hulk on the commercials, but they didn't bother me at all in the movies, so maybe this'll be the same way. Hellboy II: The Golden Army was pretty good. I was a little underwhelmed by Hellboy, but I really liked some of the characters. In this one, I liked the story and the characters (tho it still wasn't phenominal). I'm making a change at my job- after working so long in the receiving/ inventory department, I've decided that I want to do something else. So I'm going to try being a front end manager for awhile. It might drive me insane, but I might like it. You never know. I guess I'll find out- I should start doing it next week or so. I had to take my cat Chim (the one in nin picture) to the vet to get his annual allergy shot. He seems a lot happier. The other cats are doing well. Charlie has gained so much weight, we had to put him on a diet, which is hard to do with 4 cats. I haven't been to any shows in awhile- I really wanted to go to the No Talk/ Sex Vid show last Wednesday, or the Deceased/ Hypo Christians show last Friday, but didn't make it to either. I don't find shows as fun as I used to. I'm definitely planning to go to Danzig in October, tho. I missed him last time around, and I'm not going to miss this one. I might go to Creature Feature, too. Not too much else going on. I'm going to a big horror festival in Dallas in October- looking forward to that. Favorite time of the year coming up! That's all... (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 13th, 2008
11:57 am	This morning I was awoken by a cat launching herself off my face. I'm not sure which one it was, but I never got back to sleep. Cats- hard to live with them sometimes, but you definitely can't live without them (or at least I can't). Yesterday I was awoken by a phantom itch. It started somewhere on my leg, but every time I thought I found it and would scratch, it moved. This was very frustrating. I think I eventually found it somewhere at the top of my neck. I wrote a Houston scene report for MaximumRockNRoll magazine. It's supposed to be in issue #303. I haven't written one in ages. I went and saw The Incredible Hulk tonight, and liked it ba lot better than I thought I would. I never saw Ang Lee's version, because it looked really bad, but this one was pretty good. Not as good as Iron Man or a few of the other top tier super hero movies, but still good. I like how now that Marvel has taken over making their films in-house, the Marvel universe is really coming alive. I was never a big Hulk fan, but I was a Marvel fan, and there were so many nods to other Marvel universe characters and titles, from Iron man to Captain America. there were also quite a few subtle Hulk comic book nods, from The Leader to Doc Samson (and a whole shitload of nods to the old tv show). I've seen a lot of movies lately. I mentioned how good Iron Man was. I really liked Speed Racer, too. I never liked the cartoon, but I liked how they created this incredibly stylish, over the top universe in the movie- it's the closest thing to a live action anime I've ever seen. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian was a bit disappointing. It was just missing something. It wasn't horrible, but just didn't have 'it'. I kept thinking "I don't remember any of this from the book!" (tho it's been a long time since I've read it). The first one was much better. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was also a little disappointing (tho I still liked it). I don't remember the others being quite that... silly. Tho once again I haven't watched them in awhile. I really loved the first one, and liked the others. This one seem just a tad unrealistic- I mean, I know they are all unrealistic, but this one seemed to stretch it just a teeny bit too far. Indy never seemed to get hurt, for one thing- he was like a superman. I remember in one of the other ones, he's in a fight and get hits in the kidney, and you can feel it. You can see the look of pain on his face. There really isn't any scenes like that in this one. And there's at least one special effect that looks horrible. But I still enjoyed it. Now there's still a ton of movies coming out I want to see. And movies are just too damn expensive! Next up will be The Happening. I've liked all of Shyamalan's movies to some extent, except Lady In the Water (and I've determined in retrospect that the only reason I didn't enjoy it is because I hadn't huffed any cleaning solvents before I went and saw it, as he obviously did while he was making it). I've been watching some new tv shows as well- "The IT Crowd" and "The Mighty Boosh". "The IT Crowd" is hilarious- I'd recommend checking it out if you like comedies. "The Mighty boosh" is hit or miss, but still has some brilliance in places and is pretty crazy over all (never boring). Everything is pretty much going the same as usual. The (not so) new kittys are doing well. Krystal is doing pretty well. She got a job at Michael's. One of my fav new cds is the new Septicflesh (Communion). It's freakin killer. And Alternative Tentacles finally issued Amebix's hopelessly out-of-print first 3 eps on cd (the studio nhad been holding onto the masters all this time for some reason, but finally released them). I've always liked Amebix (tho they are an aquired taste, but great metal punk). I've started podcasting my radio show (you can find it at http://deadthyme.libsyn.com). Well, it's late and I gotta take Krystal to work early, so I'd best be off... (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
9:50 pm	Blah! That's what I have to say right now. I need to get more on the ball, more proactive, more sensible. But you know, it's money problem time of the year- every year I say I'll save more during the year and arrive at this point in a better state, but never do. Some year I want to go to Sundance/ Slamdance/ No Dance, etc etc, which happens somewhere around this time in Utah. But not this year. I also just found out that Fangoria is having their "Weekend of Horrors" in Austin this year, so I probably could have went. Well, barring the money problems, but I didn't know in time. There is an anime convention in the Woodlands sometime soon I want to and probably will go to. And maybe Taste of the Town- I wnet last year, and tho expensive, that's always fun. I've been sick, tho, and missed some work this week, so that'll only make the money problems worse. And of course "Cloverfield" is this weekend, which I really wanna see- I know the monster isn't Great Cthulu, but I'm going to pretend it is, just to make it even more exciting. I'm on the (I think) sixth book in Terry Goodkind's "Sword of Truth" series ("Faith of the Fallen"), which I'm having trouble getting into- the others have been no problem. Maybe I'm just a little burnt out on the series. I took a little break because the new Wizard came in and I've been reading that. I've also been looking into this new program the government is doing where if you have a car 10 years old or older and trade it in, they'll give you $3000.00 towards getting a new car. That's freaking awesome! So hopefully that'll work out for me. And you know, why am I so honest? I always get tempted with this kind of thing when I'm having money problems: I was at Schlotski's (sp-?), and there was a new guy running the register who didn't speak much English. My bill cam out to $7.00 even- I gave him a 20 dollar bill, he gave me back 3 fives and 2 ones. I told him he gave me too much money, and he stared at me blankly. So I showed him how much he should have given me, and he fixed it. Being honest never seems to pay. Well, that's all I got for right now. The year is young... (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
5:35 pm	Well, I had to have my car towed home, and it's sitting in the drive way waiting for a repair shop to open tomorrow. Enough about that- I've already bitched enough in my last entry. I forgot to mention that I went and saw "Sweeny Todd", which was pretty good. The thing about musicals- I like them, if the songs are good. The songs in "Sweeny Todd" aren't so good (mostly), but I still liked it pretty well. The atmosphere is great. Evidently they cut Anthony Stewart Head's scenes (I saw an interview where he said he thought they were going to) so that kinda sucks (I like him), but no tragedy I suppose. For Christmas I got: a dragon calender, a "Stuff On My Cat" calender, "Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix" dvd, a "Silent Night, Bloody Night"/ "Christmas Evil" double dvd, "Ginger Snaps Back" dvd, the 4th, 5th, and 6th books in Terry Goodkind's "Sword of Truth" series (which I'm reading now), a Siamese cat statue, and money to put toward getting a new computer (which I desperately need). Today we went and ate at the Golden Corral (one of the only places open), which was ok- their food is never impressive, but it does sometimes give you irritable bowel syndrome. There was an unusually large amount of freakish looking people in there, lotsa white trash, and two different ones who were so large that their bellys hung out from under their shirts (not sure if they realized this or not). It was an experience. Not much else to say (except the cats keep knocking down the Christmas tree). I'm going to go watch some Christmas movies. Hope everyone had a good holiday... (Comment on this)