Sunday, December 30, 2007


i made my yearly update to livejournal. so what?

i'm very happy with myself in a way. since i've been on vacation, i've read two books, and began a third.

the best gift i got this christmas, "twin peaks definitive gold box edition," and it's so awesome.

it has both the american and european pilot episodes, the saturday night live bits, and this great lynch retrospective in a los angeles bar with some of the old cast, among many other features not on the other two dvd releases.

not much else to report on. i did want to break my copy of, "halo 3," in half.

i played through chapter seven right up until i had to face off with the citadel, when the game gliched, and i had to begin all over. twenty some minutes gone. and i'm playing it on heroic no less. fucking game...

Friday, December 28, 2007

leather wings.


i've been on vacation since a week ago today, which would've been friday, the 21st of december in the year of our lord, and only now, right now, am i enjoying myself somewhat...

"this will destroy you," a band i love dearly, has a new album coming out in '08, and they've been giving away copies of it at their shows, and i managed to nab one, and it's so breath-taking, it brings salt to the eyes.

i was pretty apprehensive about watching the bbc version of, "the office," even though i had heard it was funnier than the one i love very much here in the states, but having tracked through the first six episodes of the first season, i can honestly say, i do enjoy the bbc version a hell of a lot more than ours...

what's fascinating to me is the dialect used in england. shit, cock, and other words we consider vulgar here, and used freely there. there version of vulgarity is words like wanker, or piss. piss to them is like what fuck is to us. i'm intrigued by that in so many ways.

now, here's the part where it was hard at first for me to swallow the show as a whole.

the first episode, is as literal a translation as you can get, almost word for word, to what the first episode of the us version is. but, the us version took it from them, but seeing as how i saw the us version first, it makes it all the more odd for me.

everything that we have on ours, is there in different wording and fashion. the characters are similar, for instance, their jim and pam, is dawn and tim, and i honestly adore dawn and tim more. because the characters are so endearing and sweet, and painstakingly honest with one another.

what i like about this version more than anything, is it lasted for two seasons and a two part christmas special, and then it ended. they finalized the story, and ended it, where as, as it often is in the U.S., milked as much as possible until the strike happened. i think that's why i disliked season four so much. because it probably could have ended at three with that sweet moment where jim and pam finally hook up, roll credits.

another thing i find interesting with the bbc version, is david brent and gareth keenan, the british version of michael scott and dwight schrute, have a sweet, childlike friendship.

they're both sort of buffoons, but they get each other, where as michael scott is constantly insulting dwight and looking down on him.

i'm not saying our version doesn't work, because i fell in love with it long before i eve saw the bbc version, i'm just saying, it pales in comparison and doesn't hold a candle to the bbc version. ricky gervais is a true genius.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

the christmas posting.


merry christmas.

i've been on vacation since friday afternoon, and already i'm bored out of my skull. i want to go back to work. how sick is that?

i would be writing more, but i don't have much to say. my time is vested in the dvd's i got for gifts, and the serious amount of time i'm putting into, "halo 3."

so, until the swing of the new year rolls in, i leave you with a sage francis video...

Sunday, December 16, 2007

the last man on earth.


i guess in it's own way, it's been an eventful week, work wise and whatnot.

friday night, as soon as we got ready to venture into our cars, it began to rain heaven down on earth. it's was wet, and i had to get to f.y.e.... soaked to the bone.

i got in and out, with the new potter flick in toe, along with the two disc of, "silence of the lambs," for five dollars, new no less. i have a thing about passing up dirt cheap movies that are essential to one's collection.

being it was friday, it was payday, and all that ever means anymore really, is paid today, broke today. i had to pay off the lee memorial bill, and luckily i got rent from bob, because with that bill and the power bill, i was broke again. living paycheck to paycheck is no way for anyone to live, yet, it's all i seem to do.

the rent, which normally would go into savings to try and build a savings up, went to groceries.

and some fun.

bob and i went to see, "i am legend," yesterday, and while i enjoyed the film, i don't feel the urge to get into it too much. some of the cgi could have been better, and the ending was a bit lame, but overall, not a bad film. i'm sure, "alvin and the chipmunks," is worse.

bob and i went to eat at, "lion's choice," and it was my first time, and, oh man, talk about delicious roast beef.

afterwards, we went shopping for christmas stuff. i mainly went to get my mom some stuff, and that was that.

came home, took a nap, did some laundry, and beat, "call of duty 4: modern warfare," which is easily the best game i've played on 360 since, "bioshock."

graphics, controls, story... the only flaw the game has is it took me like four to five hours to beat. not very long, but really fucking good.


"In your last hour stand
You’ll notice the one that you had loved in dreams is here among the others
Chase it’s you I want but if I can’t have her
Then why should I spend any more time in a world that’s going to end pretty soon?
I need you now more than I ever did
I’ll hand myself over for you
This comlinks lost its frequency and I feel that we’re coming home short
Here take me instead I’d rather not see her off alone..."


-coheed and cambria.

Sunday, December 09, 2007


there are few instances where i want to own a music dvd. very few...

that being said, after seeing the trailer for this, and following the music of, "sigur ros," for the past few years, i can safely say that if my family sends me money for christmas, i will drop it on this dvd...



it's part documentary, along with various shows of the icelandic band, playing in the most remote, outdoor areas around iceland, and it just looks breathtaking, visually, and musically, i can guarantee, it will deliver. watch the trailer for yourselves.



i almost never try to get anyone into music. very few occasions i have attempted, buct, "sigur ros," is one of those bands i just wish people would take the time to listen to. they don't have one bad album.

Thursday, December 06, 2007

i miss eminem.


i do miss marshal mathers making music.

i don't know why i'm blogging minutes before i go out the door to work, but i thought i'd share a few things real quick.

my new favorite sandwich, is two pieces of hot toast, with two thick slices off of a block of kraft mild cheddar cheese, with a little bit of mayo. it's gooey, tasty, and quick to make. i've been eating them left and right.

"saint's row," is not a bad game i've determined, but a frustrating one.

having to constantly do repetitive side quests to earn enough respect to advance the story mode of the game is irritating. it reminds me much of, "spiderman 2," on xbox, and how after a mere two hours of playing it, i took it back to eb games, and demanded a swap for something of equal value.

xbox live arcade put up a slew of my favorite games to download from the old xbox, with three biggies.

-psychonauts.
-fable.
-indigo prophecy.

"indigo prophecy," was the most shocking to see on the list, because it's such a rare gem that no one really got into or wasn't promoted right, but to this day remains in my top five all time favorite games. it's an incredible mind thriller to play through.

"psychonauts," is another rare gem that i actually started to replay recently. so strange.

and now, i must depart for work.

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