Whoa

We saw Saw (...) last night. Holy fuck. That movie disturbed the crap out of me. It was a really good movie. It was a very unique role for Cary Elwes, and I think he did a great job. Go see it.

I'm getting really dissapointed with HBO. There's never anything on...and I have 9 HBOs. Sure, there's the Sopranos, Six Feet Under and Da Ali G Show, but as far as movies go, there isn't really much worth watching. And they aren't even playing any horror movies on Halloween...what the fuck? HBO is overrated.

The History Channel is airing a lot of good specials in regards to ghosts, myths, and other such scary things. Rock.

Da Cheated

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Playing Hooky

I'm staying home from work tonight, cause I feel like crap. Truly. I'm not just saying that to get out of work. I got car sick today...when I was driving. That's never happened to me before. So I'm chillin' tonight.

For those of you that don't know, I have Tivo. I love it. The only thing I don't like so far is the Tivo suggestions, it's a good idea, and it may not be working well for me because I haven't rated enough shows, but it's being funky. First, it keeps recording the same shows over and over. Spongebob is an example. Second, it seems to think that I love Nickelodeon (sp?) cartoons, since it's recorded every single cartoon on that station. This is probably my fault, since I watch ATHF, Sealab, Simpsons and Home Movies religiously. Thirdly, there's no way to tell it to not record things. Family Guy is an example. It's one of my favorite shows, but I own the DVDs and have seen each one a million times, so I would rather it look for other things to record. The weirdest thing that's in done by far happened yesterday. It recorded a nightly news broadcast show from the Arabic station. I don't know exactly what shows that I've rated/Tivo-ed to warrent this suggestion...apparently an unhealthy obssession with Seinfeld gives me a procleavity (is that the right word?) to enjoy foreign news shows. Go figure.

And the Thunder Rolls

We're in the middle of a major thunder storm. The windows are rattling, for god's sake. Orion and I are freaked the fuck out.

Tasting with a Grudge

We had a tasting of the food we're going to have for the wedding. In two words, fucking fantastic. We are enlisting the services of Park Avenue Catering for the wedding, and it seems like it was a good choice. The food we tried started off with a pretty basic salad, with scallions, radish and feta cheese with red wine vinaigrette. Very good. Our two dishes are going to be Chicken Feta (chicken topped with feta cheese, lemon-shallot buerre blanc, scalions, olives and tomatoes) and Roast Leg of Lamb with an awesome fucking sauce. Sides are asparagus with white truffle oil, roasted garlic mashed potatoes with asiago cheese (awesome) and cheese filled tortellini milanese. I loved everything, even the asparagus. The only thing thgat sucked was that we had the tasting at 10 in the morning. My stomach wasn't too happy about having lamb that early, but I still loved it.

That night we went to see the Grudge. It was really freaky, but a good portion of the scares were very predictable. But it was very well made, and I'm glad that the same guy who directed the Japanese version directed this one. One thing bothered me though, but it was more about the audience than anything. Warning: Semi-spoiler ahead (although it's nothing too big). In the opening scene a character commits suicide by jumping from his 5th floor apartment window. The audience laughed. Now, the scene wasn't done all cheesy like, and there was nothing funny going on, so this struck me kind of odd. I couldn't decide if the audience's laughter said something about our society, or if it was nervous laughter because they were expecting to get the bejeebers scared out of them. Either way, it caught me off guard. (I wasn't the only one. Some other dude said outloud, "Why are you laughing?). So, yeah, good movie, albiet predictable.

Grease Monkey

I take certain things in life for granted. One of them is the fact that when I get in my car, my car will start. Well, today, it didn't. I'll kill the suspense by telling you that my battery died (Batty the Battery: 1998-2004). But at first I was freaked out that it was my alternator, because I didn't leave my lights on or anything, and at that point, it hadn't occurred to me that it was a 6 year old battery. The bad thing was that I live somewhat in the middle of nowhere, with no auto parts store within walking distance, so I had to call Steph to come jump my car so I could drive to one. Then of course I had to change the battery in the parking lot. This caused me to not be able to go to my first job. It did, on the bright side, allow me to watch an episode of Sealab 2021. That was pretty much it for my day.

Oh yeah. And I got shit on at work. And I mean that literally.

If you haven't seen Jon Stewart's appearance on Crossfire, you've got to check it out.

No Shame

Okay. Wal-Mart really has gone too far. A new Wal-Mart is being built in Teotihuacan, in the shadows of 2000 year old pyramids. What the fuck? As if that isn't enough a new Wal-Mart was just built in Hawaii....on top of an ancient burial ground. These people really have no shame and could give a fuck about anything that doesn't have to do with money. Thanks to the Daily Show for this tidbit.

Sleepy Time

I think that sleeping in your car to catch up on your sleep is greatly underrated. I've gained around two extra hours of sleep this week from napping when I get to work or school earlier. It's awesome. You all should try it.

Matt, Steph, Katya and I are planning on having a Lord of the Rings marathon. We're going to watch all three movies in a row. While drinking an insane amount of alcohol. We're going to call the event "Lord of the Beers." You wish you were us.

Sleepy Time

I think that sleeping in your car to catch up on your sleep is greatly underrated. I've gained around two extra hours of sleep this week from napping when I get to work or school earlier. It's awesome. You all should try it.

Matt, Steph, Katya and I are planning on having a Lord of the Rings marathon. We're going to watch all three movies in a row. While drinking an insane amount of alcohol. We're going to call the event "Lord of the Beers." You wish you were us.

Smelly Cat

I peed on my cat. Now, before you call PETA on me, let me explain. I'm in the bathroom, minding my own business while doing my business (number 1 only), when Orion decided to jump up on the toilet rim to see what I was doing. Every thing was going fine until he decided he needed a closer look, and stuck his head right into my pee. Needless to say, he got freaked out and hid under the bed, and it took me a couple of minutes to get him out and clean him off. my cat is dumb.

One Foot in Front of the Other

We went to see Bright Eyes the other night. I was a good show, but probably my least favorite of the times I've seen him. He played with M Ward and Jim James of My Morning Jacket, and it was set up so they played togethehr a lot (including an interesting version of 'You Were Always on My Mind'), so Conor actually only played about five of his own songs, so it kind of sucked in that regard. He did play about 4 new songs, which was very cool. I do wish that he would stop bringing Mike Mogis along, however. Mike, you're a great producer and have done a great job with the Saddle Creek bands, but for God's sake, enough with the steel guitar!. It seems like they're forcing the instrument into every song, using it for the sake of using it instead of using it because it adds to the song. It was a fun night though, and I think Steph was grateful to get out and spend some time with friends (Larissa and Elle came along).

We got a new TV a week ago. It's nice. 27" flat screen. So much better than the crappy 19" we had. We're watching Ringu on it right now :)

Target Dog

We just got back from spending the last two days in Davis. We just hung out mostly, which was fine with me cause I worked 6 days in a row and was tired. It was really good to see Alissa, Eric, Kristian and Bob. Uh...yeah...I'm distracted...more later.

Conspiracy Theory

Does anybody else find it strange that gas prices have gone up drastically since the debate last Thursday? I admit, gas prices were slowly going up beforehand, but they've skyrocketed after the fact. Maybe I'm trying to hard...

This one's for you Matt.

This is a test. This is only a test.

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I finally took the time to figure out how to post pics. This is our kitten Orion. This is when we first got him, when he was 3 months. He's much bigger now (even though he's only two months older). So, yeah...I don't live in the dark ages anymore.