Remember when the Simpsons was funny?

Whoa! It's been a whole week since I blogged! What have I done since then?

My dad and I put the starter back in my car so that's good.

HOLY CRAP! Iron and Wine was just in an M&M commercial!

I played a lot of Battle for Middle Earth. Watched a lot of News Radio. Read some H.P. Lovecraft. Worked a bit. Watched some All Creatures Great and Small. Cleaned my room. That's about it.

The Real Deal!

News Radio is amazing. That is all.


My favorite pants broke today. I'm very sad about that.

Happy Birthday Benjamin James

Ben is 23 today, and will continue to be 23 for a year or so.

Last night I had this awesome dream. I dreamt that it was 2002, I was still in high school, and the Decemberists came to play at Notre Dame. Apparently Pete, Steve and I still had our memories of the intervening years because we knew that they wouldn't be playing any songs from Picaresque because that album wouldn't be coming out for another 3 years. Also, at one point during the concert, Nate Query came up and told us to be quiet because we were cheering so loud.

Later that day...

Back in comtemporary time, I was hanging out at St. Vincent's, where Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix happened to be filming. I was just walking around the set when I saw none other than Grant Medlin! He was an extra in the movie. I went to go talk to him and ended up in the scene, which was disrupted by a bunch of toddler wizards that shot arrows at the extras, and killed quite a few. I was able to dodge the arrows and knock one of the baby mages out. Then I took him to Madam Pomfrey.

I think I'm going to do my taxes today. Maybe tommorrow. Definately this week.

HEY! It's spring break!

Easy like Sunday Morning

Yesterday was pretty spiffy. I started it off baking with my grandmother, which is always fun, then we had a big St. Patrick's Day lunch, which was delicious, then there was a bit of lazing about, which involved some reading of Lovecraft, which was followed up by a jaunt to Matthew's where the beating of the Dungeons and Dragons arcade game ensued, this lead to a couple of games of magic, one that I won quite badly, the other one I lost quite decidedly, which took me to the party at Jessica A's house. The party was quite delightful, as was the rousing game of capture the flag, which my team won.

Me and the major could become close friends...

I just back from a bikeride. I rode the bike trail. It's good to know that, as out of shape as I am, I can still do a ten mile bike ride with no sort of preparation.

I did stuff this weekend. Nothing amazingly interesting, but stuff I needed to do. Hopefully this positive momentum of doing things I need to do will continue for awhile. We'll see.

Just a little note about work last week. Jimmy A, Stu S and Matt E are the ubershit of Bad-Assia (not to be confused with Bad-Asia).

Constant Gardener is a decent flick. It's the kind of movie that's good once. Layer Cake is a good movie. Colm Meaney could eat your children and you'd thank him for it.

That is all.

Let me tell you a little something about Battle For Middle Earth II

It's pretty good.


Bob is working on a novel. I've been reading his chapter synopses/outline. His version of the creation story is excellent.

I hope it is not cold today. That is all I'm going to say.

I say Night Watch. It was pretty intense/Russian. I recommend it.

In other news: The Red Cross is after my blood. So anxious are they to recieve my blood that they called me to schedule an appointment. The manner in which they did this was both polite and extremely presumptuous. They were like "Hi this is the red cross, we really appreciate people who give blood. Everytime someone gives blood they save thousands of lives. What time can you come in to give blood?"
I don't mind giving blood, but come on.

Ok well I gots to take Ben to work. PEESE!

Oh lately it's so quiet...

I spent the weekend in St. Louis. It was, as usual, decapitatingly awesome. (Hey English speakers, try using "decapitating" as a adverb more often, just to spice thing up) I went up to help Brian move and stayed up there to hang out with Pete and Steve. I pretty much say the same thing in every blogpost after I spend the weekend in St. Louis, but I'm going to reiterate it yet again. Some of my fondest memories of my time thus far on this lovely little planet of ours involve the brothers Wissinger. Their awesomeness never ceases to astound me. I am lucky to count them as friends. Although, ironically, whenever I refer to "my friends", the collective, I'm rarely refering to them. Like when I say "My friends are such g-bags, especially Matthew," or "None of my friends like Neutral Milk Hotel," I'm not including Pete and Steve in the collective designation "my friends".

Ok. Well I'm going to bed, or something like it.

Stu is not a Rapist, nor is he really named Stu

Stu's frat house got vandalized. It was in the paper.

Neil Gaiman told me that News Radio Season 3 came out on DVD. I already knew that, but it's good to know that Neil knows. He is such a badass. If I ever met Neil Gaiman in person I would probably just explode.

Ok, go on IMDB and look up "My Little Pony" and click on the most recent My Little Pony release. It should be from 2006. What the F!?

Ok, go back to sleep.

Movietime

IMDB mentioned that Premiere magazine had mad a list of the worst Best Picture Winning films of all time. Chicago and Oliver were on the list, as was American Beauty. That's right, THAT American Beauty. So I high tailed it over to Premiere's website just to see what sort of magazine I was dealing with. Much to my utter and complete unsuprise, Premiere is a shitty magazine.

My car is still sick. I'm going to put a new starter on there and see if that helps. I hope it does.

I don't know what I'm doing this weekend yet. I think I might be going to St. Louis. I want to. I don't know what's going to happen.

Work was fun today. Work was long today.