Thoughts During the Oscars
That’s it. I had some other thoughts, but whatever. I still can’t believe that Lord of the Rings was THAT great a movie. *shrugs*
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It might even embarass me.
Tee hee.
I guess I did a better job of drinking last night than I did last weekend. I only got plastered after three gin and tonics. Woo hoo! Anyhow, it was a great way to celebrate feralboy‘s birthday. He told me that it was the drunkest he’s gotten in 10 years. I’m tending to think that he’s full of shit, but if it’s true then I’m honored. Tee hee.
My aunt from Dallas is in town for a week, so I have to get prepared. Whenever she comes, she always gets into a huge argument with someone in my family. I want to start a pool to see who it will be. Whatever.
Your Vote Counts!!!
Go to GayPornBlog.com and vote for who has the cutest mayor. Your choices are Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, CA and Jason West of New Platz, NY. You’ll have to guess which one I voted for. 🙂
The Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Train.
The fucking strike is over!!!! After a painful five months, I can go back to shopping at whatever supermarket strikes my fancy.
After giving my whole-hearted support to the workers at the beginning of the strike, I started losing my patience after about the second month. At some point a compromise should have been agreed to or what not. But it kept dragging on and on and on without any sign of resolution.
This just goes to show that we should have a universal single-payer non-profit medical coverage in this country. England, Canada, Australia and even Iraq has this system in place. Why can’t this country do the same?
Anyhow, that’s it for now. It looks like I’m going to be stuck in spreadsheet hell today. If someone wants to assassinate me, please do. Anything to get out of doing spreadsheets.
[edit: I corrected the titles of the songs for the new Blonde Redhead album. The ones that were initially leaked were incorrect. But damn this is a great album.]
Where To Begin
Last night at around 3am, I woke to the sounds of clicking from my DSL modem. I figured it was doing one of its updates and needed to reconnect. I looked over to my alarm clock as saw blinking 12:00. Fuck. So I turned on my light and reset my clock. Just as I was getting ready to enter my wake-up time, the electricity goes off again.
I decided to wait until the electricity came back on again. The next thing I know, it’s 6:15 and the electricity still hadn’t come on. Bah! So I decide to get ready for work and all. Thankfully our hot water heater is gas powered. When I got in my car, I heard on the radio that all of San Pedro lost power because of a busted distributer thingee. Great.
So now I’m dead tired. Fifteen minutes of sleep DOES make a difference. Well that and me restricting my caffeine intake. Ugh.
Anyhow, happy birthday to feralboy!!!!!!! We’re going to go out drinking tomorrow night. I’ve been appointed “cruise director”. Choo choo!!!
Ok. If you need me, I’ll be sleeping underneath my desk. G’night.
Edit: One more thing. Get Fuzzy Rules!
Bah Fuck It
On a more personal note:
This story I’ve been trying to get out by a March 1st deadline isn’t going to happen by that day. I’m still working on it, and it’s going well. Many of you don’t know this, but I cannot write in front of a computer. I have to scratch everything out on paper, edit it, transcribe it and make the final edits on the computer. Yes I’m old school that way, but fuck you. I still don’t have a cell phone.
To give you a brief outline:
That’s it. Y’all can all jack off to what you think it all entails. I’d be interested to hear what some of you might come up with. Um. I think I will get some sleep now, but the raindrops are quite distracting.
Passion of Me
What did I learn today? If you cross Mel Gibson, he’ll want your “intestines on a stick”. Um. I think that last sentence was filled with puns. I just can’t identify them at the moment.
Ever the news source, LA Weekly did three pieces focused on Mad Mel’s movie. Let me just interject before I get into what I’m going to say, Liz Phair’s last album warranted FOUR reviews from them. Read into that what you will.
Anyhow, of the three pieces, I think this one by John Powers best captures the madness of what is going on around the film. One sentence in this article gives the best indictment of Americans as I’ve ever read:
More and more, Americans address huge social issues not on news shows, op-ed pages or the campaign trail, but through popular culture.
[interjection: I have this annoying habit of going on and on about things without once stating my opinion on the subject at hand. Look at this entire post. I’ll correct it right now.]
All of this goes to show that I should be god. In 2000 years, I want people to make a stupid little movie about me and have loads and loads of controversy. Is it selfish? Yes. But apparently so was Jesus (cuz he gives bad blowjobs, but that’s another thing entirely). That’s all I have to say about that.
Uno más All of this talk about gay marriage and it being a detriment to hetero marriages is getting me mad. Like I said in a comment to travvvv‘s post, if they were scared about us fags, they would raise the terror level to orange. So fuck them. I hope all of their kids become queer, get AIDS and bleed into the family’s breakfast cereal.
Grey Matter
It looks like DJ Danger Mouse’s remix album is stirring quite a bit of controversy. For those of you who don’t know, Mouse decided to remix Jay-Z’s Black Album with the Beatle’s White Album. I heard about this around the holidays and told myself I should check it out.
This week, EMI Records, the owners of the Beatle’s catalogue (or something like that) issued cease-and-desist order to Mouse causing all sorts of hoopla. Naturally this piqued my interest again, so I downloaded the album last night.
Overall it’s pretty good. There are some tracks where things seem forced, but for the most part it flows well. There is nothing schizophrenic about the tracks. Actually Jay-Z’s work is more prominent which is to be expected since it is a Jay-Z remix album. The track that stands out the most (after about 3 listens) is “Justify My Thug”.
It makes me wonder what would happen if there was a remix album of this caliber in the rock world. For example, what would happen if Xiu Xiu’s Fabulous Muscles was mixed with Madonna’s Immaculate Collection? Something like that. 🙂
Sad Observations
There are more, but I don’t feel like sharing anymore.