Blue is not my color

We had fun playing magic tonight. That's what happens when you have an Eric McLain there.

I bought God of War. It is engaging. It's a lot more fun than Devil May Cry 3, I can tell you that right now.

This weekend I finished all of my MC 101 projects. I have to take a test online tomorrow. I have to finish my Bibliography project for EN140 tomorrow as well. I also rented From Hell from Kent library. It's pretty good so far. I'm not suprised.

I went to 9 o'clock mass today and I was literally surrounded by the parents of people I went to school with. Mrs. Glosemeyer was sitting in the same pew as I, two pews ahead of us were the Medlins, the Lages two in front of them, the Buherles three in front of them, the VanGennips and the Enderles were in across the aisle, the Wittenborns and Wencewics (I have no idea how that's supposed to be spelled) were also there too. It was an impressive gathering of people whose children I used to know 4 years ago.

October. Oh Me. Oh My.

I haven't posted for like 2 weeks! It's crazy.

Well it's October, my favorite month of the year. The month of hoody sweatshirts and Halloween (2 of my all time favorite things). I feel like I'm really behind on my Halloween game. I have a lot of work to do, and only 3 weeks to do it.

I got my ticket to the Decemberist concert. Yippee!

So what have I done since last I posted?

I saw some movies.
1. Black Dhalia (liked it)
2. The New World (liked it)
3. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (liked it)
4. The Warriors (liked it)

I played Devil May Cry 3. (It was hard)
I kicked everyone's ass but Spants (as usual) in a magic tourney. I technically didn't play Kevin, but he stole my side board which is counts as an automatic loss for him.

ANNOUNCEMENT:
Work is going to suck tomorrow. Adam isn't going to be there and neither is Pat. If the new girl shows up today, she'll probably be there tomorrow, but still.... Jay better stay or we better not have any mail or both. Also Pat is gone all next week and Wednesday is Adam's last day. But we are off on Monday.

Accoustic Head Wizard

The office is on at 7:30 now so I'll never catch it live, ever. I don't know if I just want to tape every episode, or torrent it or just not watch it till it's over than torrent it. The 3rd season started tonight. The first episode was very good. There was a lot of stuff happening in that 21 minutes of show so it felt pretty rushed. I'm stoked for this season. I need to find a game to play. I'm going to watch a movie now.

Things you need to know

Here are some things you need to know.

1. I cleaned my room tonight. I just got done in fact. It's hard for me to clean my room without completely rearranging it. I just need some change every now and then. Some new features in my newly cleaned/rearranged room inclued:
i. Organzied DVD/Music/Game Shelves
ii. Finally sorted through those laundry baskets sitting in my room
iii. For the first time ever I have a bedside lamp! WOOT!

2. I haven't shaved for more than a week and it's gross/uncomfortable.

3. I shouldn't have eaten at burger king tonight.

4. I wrote a commercial for my EN140 class. I think it's kind of funny, but I have to memorize a lot of lines becuase we're supposed to perform it live in front of the class.

5. The fight scene in the middle of The Last of the Mohicans is one of my favorite battle scenes of all time. It's a skirmish between a raiding party of Huron and a retreating battalion of British troops and it is a great scene. The Last of the Mohicans is the first part of my fall trilogy of awesome. TLOTM sometime in early to mid September, The Patriot in mid to late September and Sleep Hollow at any point in October. All three are set in New England between the years 1750 and 1799 and though they are not particularly seasonal, they are my quinticential autumn films. I think this connection stems from the fact that in school, anytime I learned about or talked about this particular time period it was during fall.

That is all.

Still not cleaning my room.

I watched the Matador last night. It was good. Pierce Brosnan was hysterical.

Here's a list of some of my favorite things.

1. The Complete Series of Arrested Development
2. The second season of the American Office
3. My Cat
4. My dark blue jeans

I bought Rise of Nations. It's a good game, but it doesn't hold my interest because I've played it before because it is Age of Empires. It's a prettier, better Age of Empires, but it is exactly the same game.

What's happening this week... not much. I might be doing a trivia night with my uncle Roger on Saturday. Sunday is the big 50th anniversary party for the Diocese of Springfield Cape.... it should be exciting.

I'm going to take a nap now.

So it's September now

I went to the fair tonight with Jimmy, or did I go with Jimmy to the fair tonight, English majors, help me out. It was neat. The arena building wasn't open and the livestock wasn't there. It was still pretty neat.

Work was too easy last week. We pretty much kicked ass every single day. This week, however, work is going to suck incredibly hard since Pat is gone tuesday-thursday.

I had a good idea for the Halloween Game this year. I think it's going to happen. We'll see.

I have my first test tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it. It's online and it should be lots of fun.

L'office

I just watched the last episode of the second season of the American Office. I felt that the writers sort of rushed things, and I felt they didn't earn all the sort of plot turns that happened, certainly not the ending. The worst part was Jim's revelation to Pam that happens not 10 seconds after Pam's fiance leaves the parking lot. I like the American office, but they are much better at the comedy than they are at the serious parts. The last scene of the second season is particularly shocking.

Work sucked again today.

The Best Free Scrapbooking Class Ever

The new place that work moved to sucks. It's loud and small and it sucks.

I bought Arrested Development Season 3. It was well worth the $20 I spent on it.
I also bought "Z" by My Morning Jacket. It's ok.

It turns out that song I kept hearing on the radio that I really like is by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. I'm going to have to do some research now.

I'm an American aquarium drinker

Wilco is playing in Springfield on a tuesday in early October. I wouldn't mind going to see them. In fact I would very much like to go see them. Springfield is like a five hour drive though. It's also on a tuesday. I probably won't go, but I'd like to.

This week has been really long/sucky. A lot of early mornings. A lot of moving. It kind of blows. Saturday is going to suck a lot. The company that is supposed to move the big machine is supposed to start at 730. They are moving it using the big truck that Jay rented to move all the stuff. They aren't going to be done till like noon at the earliest. Which means we aren't going to start moving stuff till then. It's going to blow.

I was going to start running again this week, but the lots of work/school starting prevented me.
Anyway, I have homework to do so I gots to go.


OH YEAH!

Tomorrow is my dad's birthday. He'll be 49. I need to get him a present.

School Starts tomorrow

I have my IRL class tomorrow. My online looks like it will be fun. It's a lot of forums and stuff. I should be going to sleep right now (because my class is at 8 am), but I'm not even remotely tired.

I need a new game to play. Guild Wars is ok, but I need an RTS. I'm playing X-2 right now, or I would be if I could skip the opening cut-scene. Paine is the most Japanese looking character ever to be in a Final Fantasy game.

Ok what else. CMS moves on Saturday, so I'll be going in early every day this week to pack stuff. It kind of blows. I don't mind the moving. But the packing is not cool.

Did you know that Ben got his learner's permit? Cause he did. I don't know if I told you, the internet, but Ben got his permit last thursday.

Ok I'm going to try to get tired real quick.

We'll build our walls, aluminum.

So I get this e-mail this morning from Pete with a link to download a file. This particular file, or more precisely collection of files happened to be a certain album from a certain rock group that certainly isnt available for purchase, and won't be for another month and a half. The album in question is amazing. I've been listening to it all day. I should stop before I get tired of it.

I'm registered for a class. I'm hoping to double the number of classes I'm in by the end of the week. We'll see what happens.

What should I do this weekend? This weekend is the last weekend of summer vacation so I feel I should do something special.

Ballaz do it on the court.

Da Ballaz (the dodgeball team that I play on) got second place at the tournee. This isn't so great an accomplishment considering that the tournament had a grand total of 5 teams, one less than the last one I played in. It was kind of sad. I didn't play much in any of the important games as we had more than enough people on our team, and I was definately the worst player. It was still fun.

I finally watched Running Scared. I purchased last week along with 16 Blocks and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is the best of the bunch. Running Scared is very good though. I don't think I'll ever watch it again, but I'm proud to have it in my collection. Paul Walker is very good in it. I know. It's shocking. Scandalous even.

So August is almost half-way over, which means September is fast approaching, which in turn means that October isn't too far away. So now is the time that I need to start preliminary planning on the Halloween game, if I'm going to do one this year. I'm still sort of undecided about it. I have no idea what to do about it. I don't even know if I can get enough people to play. I don't think I can top last year's game. I try to think about putting on a game and it doesn't excite me at all. It seems sort of daunting. I don't know. It's still summer. We'll see how I feel after the fair (the unofficial start of Autumn).

Ted Leo rox.

His name is Leather McWhip

This has been a really long week.

Friday: Work
Saturday: Dodgeball
Sunday: ???

That's my weekend folks.

In other news... there really is no other news. That's about all I have to say for now. I will hopefully post the dodgeball results Saturday.

My skin is white as parchment

Last night I played in the poutiest game of ultimate frisbee ever played. I was on Layne's team and she was displeased with the throwing-off style of play. I understand why she doesn't like playing throw-off (because she just wants to run around a lot), but people like me who are completely out of shape enjoy the respite that the walk back after a touchdown affords us. J-long's team was mostly upset by the fact that we don't play by official rules. We allow three steps, which Jonathan always takes out of spite, and we don't play slaps. The three steps are pretty much just for touchdowns but the no slaps rule just seems more fair. It doesn't affect the game too much, plus I feel that our group isn't good enough to play slaps. There wasn't a lot of fun being had, especially by Josiah, who I accidentally slide tackled while trying to intercept the frisbee. I pretty much felt like a complete d-bag after that happened.

In other news Cole Jenkins is still one of the coolest people I know. He came out to The Ballaz "dodgeball practice". Jimmy didn't show, so it was just me and Adam. Cole showed up, we called J-long and decided to play some sand volleyball instead. It was pretty righteous.

Ok I'm going to golf

The Slow Clap

I finished Strange and Norrell today. It was a good book. It took me two months to read it, but it was worth the time.

I just watched A Knight's Tale. That movie still rocks. It's kind of like an anti The Reckoning. Both films have Paul Bettany, but one of them sucks. Speaking of movies that have Heath Ledger in them, how about The Dark Knight! Heath Ledger as the Joker? AMAZING!

Ok what else... Been listening to a lot of Rogue Wave as of late. They're keen.

I think i'm going to Carbondale with Pete and Steve this weekend. I also have a secret mission I have to complete on Friday... well by friday. I suppose I could do it tomorrow. We'll see.... oh yes. We shall see.

Return to life online

I got a new network card today so I have the internet again. It's nice.

Hey listen to the Boy Least Likely To's cover of Faith, it is amazing.

http://www.theboyleastlikelyto.co.uk/playfaith.htm

So we didn't end up moving this weekend at work. We're now moving the last weekend of August.
You'd think I'd have something interesting to say after not being online for 2 weeks, but I don't. Sorry.

Washing Machine

I was at pitchfork today and saw 2 things that caught my eye. One was an excerpt from an interview with Rivers Cuomo. He's married now and has no intention of putting out another Weezer album. It's not so much as a breakup as it is a hiatus. It seems pretty amicable as Scott, Brian and Pat were all groomsmen at River's wedding.

Two: LOOK OUT KIDS. There's a TMBG tribute album coming out! In honor of the 20th anniversary of the album TMBG, barnone is releasing a tribute album featuring such luminous acts and TMBG fans as Frank Black, Okgo, Jason Trachtenburg, and Hotel Lights (Darren Jessee's {of BFF fame} band). Tribute albums tend to suck. This one might not.

Stu came to visit us at work on Tuesday. He is still unemployed. But he is a college graduate, so he's not only unemployed he's also thousands of dollars in debt. Stu's awesome though. If you or someone you know needs to employ someone with a degree in criminal justice, Stu is your man.

Castaways and Cutouts.

I should be listening to the Decemberists.
That's better.

Ok, so Pat is off this week so we'll be short handed every day! YAY! It also means I'll be metering all week. Yippee!

This weekend went by quicker than most. I think it's because I was always doing something. Friday we played a rousing game of Arkham Horror. We summoned Yig illegally, but completely kicked his ass. We could've won the game legally if Steve would learn how to roll dice. Saturday Pete, Steve, and I saw Pirates 2. It was really good. I enjoyed it immensely. I don't know if I'll see it 5 times in the theaters like I did the first one, but I'll probably see it again when Joe comes home, which happens on tuesday. Sunday was the prerelease. Matthew and I got shafted in the common/uncommon department so we got schooled. We had a total of 0 counter spells, one burn spell, and two removal spells. It was ballstastic. We frisbeed Sunday night. It was intense. We played by the throw-off rules, which made the game much more interesting, plus Marcus was there so there was a lot of running.

Yup. That's it.

Staying up later than I should...

I've decided that I'm going to cool it on the Stripes for a while. White Stripes, I love you but I don't want to burn out on you. I've already had three dreams in which Jack White hates me. These dreams are very troubling.

Fortunately I have plenty of other music to listen too. I listened to Cake Bake Betty's "Songs About Teeth" today. It was a good album. I'll probably listen to it again tonight. Guster's new album is growing on me. At first I was cold to it, but it's insidious. It sort of sneaks up on you. It's probably their most listenable album. The best tracks on Ganging up on the Sun aren't as good as the best tracks on Keep it Together or Lost and Gone Forever but there aren't any tracks on GUOS that are unlistenable.

Tomorrow is thursday. THURSDAY! COME ON!!!!! Work did not suck today as much as it could've.

I think Matthew and I are going to a magic tourney on Sunday. It should be lots o' fun. It will also last a really long time. These sort of things do. They usually last about 1-2 hours too long. But hey, I really like limited magic, even though I suck at it.

Well I've said all I have to say.

Dodgeball and Sunburns

I am not a good dodger. Not at all. I got pegged a lot. Katie Jenkins was on my dodgeball team. It was pretty cool seeing her again. Cole Jenkins was also there and he is still on my top five coolest people I know list.

We played some magic tonight. It was pretty intense. Jonanthan kept winning and kept being suprised/angered when everyone would attack him, and then he would win anyway.

I am sunburned like a fish.

Oh yeah. I saw Squid and the Whale. I didn't like it. It was not a very satisfying movie.

Tired.

Matt Buchheit, you magnificent/old bastard!

Matt Buchheit will be 23 in about half an hour.

Droib gave me his hated light fixture as a "birthday present". I don't really know where to put them. I could put them over the bed, but they are going to need some wiring done to them to make them usuable. I like to put them in front of the window, but I don't think that's doable cause there aren't any outlets over there. Hmmm....

That's all for this week's episode of Matt Essner's Decoration Chat. Join us next week, or you will pay.

What have I done since last I posted. I gave blood. Well technically I gave plasma and platelettes. There was some blood in there too I suppose. I bought Star Wars Battlefront 2. I played it. A lot. I worked. I ran. I haven't seen Superman Returns yet. I've heard it's good. I've also heard that they had to alter Brandon Routh's package because it was too distracting.

Ok, other things: Earthsea was good. Did I say that yet? It was. The Spiderman 3 trailer is sort of underwhelming. Futurama, Venture Brothers, Home Movies and the Office are all enjoyable. Crash was ok. Everyone else seemed really down on it. It wasn't an amazing film but it had some really good performances. My new Green/Black deck will eat your children and you will thank it for the kindness. This is the latest I've stayed up all week. It is 11:45 pm.

I'm supposed to play in a Dodgeball Tournament this weekend. Saturday, specifically. Adam from work is one of the organizers and Jimmy and I are supposed to be on his team. I have a feeling Jimmy won't show up though. I don't know why, but I get that feeling. Maybe he's a little too old to play dodgeball with people in their early 20's. He's in his late 20's for god's sake! Come on! (with club sauce)

Ten minutes till Matt Buchhet's birthday. I don't want to see tomorrow for 7 hours or so. I'm going to sleep.

DVD's of some importance

Apparently News Radio season 4 came out on DVD this week.
Some other upcoming DVD's of TV shows that I'm stoked about:

July 11: Reno 911 Season 3 (finally)
July 18: Adventures of Brisco County Jr AND Jack of All Trades (I'm prolly not going to buy these, but I'll enjoy them when Ben does)
August 29: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT SEASON THREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Tick (animated) and Tale Spin (which are two of the handful of cartoons I watched as a kid that I would probably still enjoy now, the others include, but are not limited to, Eek the Cat/Terrible Thunder Lizards, and Animaniacs)
September 26: My Name is Earl (apparently they shot a DVD exclusive episode for this release)

I didn't notice a release date for The Office: Season 2, but I still need to pick up the first season.

Tribute to my friends that were born today:

The Big Guy

There was a man named Spants
Who lacked the skill to dance
till he bought some new socks
and some music that rocks
and put on some bellbottom pants

Once Upon a time there were two boys named Pete and Steve. They lived in a place called Cairo Illinois with their parents, Mary-Helen and Pete and Steve's Dad. Things were going great until the Necromancer showed up. That guys is a total D-bag. Anyway some crazy shit happened after he showed up, but I'm not going to tell you about it, except to say that this was some of the crazy-awsome-est shit to ever happen, ever, I am going to tell you about Fringle Skipplehop's really boring trip to the store. He went to the store. He bought some tic-tacs and a cup of store-brand vanilla yogurt. By the time he got to Pete and Steve's house everyone had left to go to the crypt of eternal suffering, which was also really awesome. Anyway, Fringle watched "The Animal" on comedy central. Later he would tell people he watched it because "there was nothing else on" but really there was plenty of other stuff on. I think there was a Bond marathon on A&E or something. That would've been hella better than "The Animal". So Pete and Steve went to college and became doctors and lawyers and had a bunch of babies with two totally smoking hot chicks who were also lawyers and doctors. It was a pretty crazy day. The End

Because of the shoes.

I've never started a Blog title with a B, until now.

Not much has happened lately, which is why I haven't been posting much. Yesterday I had to get a new tire for my car. This is the fourth tire I've replaced on my car since I've had it, so they're all fairly new. I'm almost done with the first Earthsea novel. I was going to finish it last night, but I fell asleep at a ridiculously early 10 pm. I think I'd miss staying up late more if my friends did stuff on weeknights, but we really don't. Everyone works in the morning now, except for Matthew and Jonathon, well Matthew does sometimes, but it's the other part of morning. The part I don't see anymore.

Guster's new album comes out today. I've listened to it a couple of more times. It's an ok album, just not what I was expecting.

I didn't go for a run this morning cause it's too hot. I think I'm going to have to start running at night.

Trick implies that we have a playful relationship

So Jay comes up to me and says, "Well it turns out we're not going to move until July." Tentatively scheduled for July 22, 2006, the CMS move is going to be an event to remember.

My jogging experiment is going really well. The key is that I sort of do it spontaneously, so that I'm unable to come up with an excuse not to.

I've gone out to eat entirely too much this week.

Ok, I'm going to take a shower.

This post is about Me.

I e-mailed Dr. Hill. Did I already tell you that? He hasn't e-mailed back yet.

Today I went on a tour of the old seminary/future river campus. It brought back some memories. My uncle Kevin came down for the tour because he went to school there (it was a seminary high school when it closed in 79, he went to school there frm 76 till 79). Two other St. Vincent Seminary alums were there, Fr. Charlie and Mr. Koehler. After the high school closed down it was the vocation center for the vincentians in the Springfield/Cape diocese. I'm not sure what that means, but part of it's function as a vocation center allowed it to be used as a TV studio for a local access Catholic TV program that my mother produced and hosted. It was during the period that I spent a lot of time there. I don't remember much of that period mostly because it was 16-17 years ago, but the memories I do have are vivid.

My running experiment is going well.

I can't think of anything interesting to say, goodnight.

I'm not going to write about how tired I am

We played Arkham Horror tonight. We totally illegally summoned the elder god, and totally sort of kicked his ass.

What am I going to do this weekend? I have no idea. It's sort of nice, not having any sort of obligations. Next week starts the CMS moving process. I'm going to get a lot of hours. Yippee.

I should buy some shorts this weekend. That's what I'll do.

OH! I e-mailed Dr. Hill. He hasn't e-mailed me back yet, but it's only been a couple of days. I'll prolly wait a week or so, then I'll seek out another means of class applying.

Ok. That's all.

In the Time of Chimpanzees, I was.

A Monkey.


So Guster is streaming their album for free at Rhapsody.com. I'm glad I listened to it there instead of buying it. Guster really wants to be famous. They want to be Matchbox 20 famous. They want 13 year old girls to mob them when they go to buy laundry detergent, or pick up a couple of shirts at American Eagle. Ganging Up on the Sun is their desperate cry for mainstream attention and it's not very good. Well it might be good, but I don't like it. It's not what I want to hear when I listen to Guster. It's one thing to evolve as musicians, but this album is not a change for the better. This album is a marginalization of a mediocre band that used to have a great sound. I was hoping that under the guidance of Joe, Guster would change into something great but alas greatness is not what's in the cards for the Gusters. Adam is hardly on the album at all. Ryan's lyrics are just getting cheesier and more cliche. There are a couple of brightspots on the album. There are about 5 songs that don't suck on the album. I don't remember all of them, but I'm sure that you will figure it out, if you choose to listen to the album.

Beck is cool.

Sweeps Week Part 4: A Mysterious Ending

Previously on "Matt Essner: Philosopher in training"

Ernest: Are you sure this is the right key?
Hamilton: I'm pretty sure. Is it not working?
Ernest: It doesn't appear to be working.
Hamilton: Oh, no. That's not the right key, use the one with the round head.
Ernest: Oh, ok. There it goes. *opens the door* Here we are. Did Beverly call yet?
Hamilton: No. He doesn't get off work till 9 anyway. We've probably got an hour or so to kill. Wanna play some tennis?
Ernest: Sure *They sit down on the couch*
Hamilton: *Handing Ernest a controller* Did you see what Lucas was doing last night?
Ernest: No, but I heard about it. I'm suprised he could hold it that long.
Hamilton: Yeah. The sad thing is that he probably spent a ridiculous amount of time practicing that at home.
Ernest: Yeah. Hey, I'm going to get a soda, you want one?
Hamilton: No. I'm fine.
Ernest: Ok, you set the game up, I'll be right back.
Hamilton: You want to do one on one or team.
Ernest: *sitting down* Let's do one on one.
Hamilton: Cool.
*they sit relatively silently and play tennis for an hour*
Ernest: It's after nine. He should be done by now.
Hamilton: Yeah. I think I'm going to call him. *he pulls out his phone, dials* It's ringing. Beverly, what's going on...cool...Yeah, me and Ern are over here.... your place.... ok, cool. Alright, man. See you then. He's on his way here. He just had to stop by the store to pick something up.
Ernest: What did he have to get?
Hamilton: I don't know.
DUHN DUHN DAAAAAA


So, here it is, the last day of sweeps week. It's been quite an adventure hasn't it. I mean, I've been on the edge of my seat since day 1. Biting my nails. Holding my breath. Layering the kickstand.

I had two meals of pizza today. Carbondale with Pete and Steve rocked. Carbondale is pretty cool. They have a bitching game store, a bitching comic store, and a highly decent record store. Beat that Cape Girardeau.
Our kitchen is functional again.
Buchheit and I walked home from downtown. It took about an hour, but it was time well spent. Honestly it didn't feel like it took an hour. It was very nice outside. It was a very pleasant evening.
Ok this week I'm going to sign up for classes. Our, at the very least, talk to an adviser. That's my goal.

I feel like I should rant about something. Hmm... ok. I thought of something. People spend too much money on bottled water. There it is. That's it. Well I think I'm going to go to bed now. Yup, just going to hit the sack, catch some Z's.

Sweeps Week Part 3: A mysterious Guest

I watched Jarhead. It's good. I liked it. Work sucked the last two nights, but you knew that because it's the begining of the month. You guys are so smart.

Ok, since it's sweeps week I have a special guest blogger. You might remember him from Back to the Future, as Lorraine's little brother Milton (and if you don't just pipe down and show some fucking respect, this guy is a hell of a lot more famous than any of you will ever be) Jason Hervey!

Hello. I'm Jason Hervey. Today I bought some new laundry detergent. The store brand was giving me a rash or something... at least I think it was the detergent. I don't know. I got some new detergent, and hopefully that will make the rash go away. Let's see, Stacie's coming in from Dallas tomorrow. I'm going to meet her kids. The thing about Stacie is that, I mean the sex is amazing, totally off the charts, but you know, she has all this baggage. She's got two kids (you wouldn't know it from looking at her though, damn) and she's always going on about what a jerk her ex is. It's usually meant as a compliment but seriously... get over it. She's always like "Oh, you brought me soup, Todd would never bring me soup," or "Todd never helped with the dishes" or "Todd never brought me to orgasm". I get it. I'm better than Todd. I'm better than most guys. I'm not bragging. I just stating a fact. I am a great catch. So that leads me to my question. Do I stick with Stacie, or try to find someone with a little less history. I don't know... whatever I do, I'll decide after this weekend. Never break up with someone in front of their kids. It's just a shitty thing to do. Alright, I have to go walk Kody. Peace.


Wow. That was incredibly lame. I thought he was going to say something cool. Or at least mildly entertaining. That sucked. Oh well. There's always tomorrow, or IS there? You'll just have to stay tuned and find out!


(Way to go Matt, you got them hooked with that last line. There's no one anyway could resist checking in tomorrow to see if you've posted again. "I Know.")

Sweeps Week Part 2: A mysterious disease

Go to Youtube.com and type in "oozinator", it's worth it.

Work was pretty easy yesterday. They ran out of money so there will be a little extra mail tonight.

I really enjoy my morning route. I also enjoy my cat, a glass of doctor pepper, and "Broken Boy Soldiers".

I got these Tic-Tacs at walgreens, they weren't very good, so I coated them with poison and gave them to Matthew. He seems to like them ok.

Let's see, what else. Oh yeah. I have fucking amnesia.

Maybe I should write the title after I blog, so the title is related to what I write about...

So the thing about this morning route is that I get home from work an hour or so before I would normally get out of bed. This leaves me with more time than I know what to do with. I think I'll watch a movie this morning. I still haven't watched Jarhead.

Work is going to suck tonight. It's the day after a holiday AND the end of the month. Yup. Screwed-town, population CMS.

My blog is so boring. That's it. I've decided that this week is sweeps week.

I killed a guy yesterday. I think I killed him. I hit him pretty hard in the back of the head with a baseball bat, and he wasn't moving when I left. Let me add that this "guy" was really an alien disguised as a guy, so it's not like I killed a person. But I think it's also important to note that this "alien" was on a mission of peace trying to unite his planet and ours, which would usher in an era of incredible prosperity for both planets, and bring technologies unimagined to the people of earth. I would also like to say, in my defense, that this alien was a total D-bag, and everyone at the Galactic Symposium for Peace and Unity knew it, I just did something about it. I'm pretty sure that the Phlum are going to cover for me though. They were hosting the gathering, and they're usually pretty good about keeping these sort of incidents on the down-low. If not, then earth and everyone on it is probably going to be destroyed by the Aigan Death Fleet. And if they do, I'll totally understand. It's not personal. They're just doing their job, which is to enforce the rules of the galaxy. And there are rules about killing amabassadors on missions of peace during a peaceful trade negotiation, the operative one in this case being, "don't kill them". So yeah... I guess we'll see how this one plays out.

I'm not really digging Empire at War.

Autobiographical Nonsense.

I think I overuse elipses (... , ... , ... , ...). It is my single flaw.

So me and Bucket (or Buchheit and I for those of you that enjoy formality {or Sir Matthew Haberdasher Buchheit and Myself, Captain Zany Mc Sweatertan for those of you that enjoy opiates}) went downtown tonight to listen to Renick's band.

Firstly, observations on the band. Although they songs were pretty good, they were quite formulaic: sing the verse, sing the chorus, jam for about 3 minutes, slow down, end song. They playedevery song this way. EVERY SONG. They played "Me and Julio down by the school yard". It was not as good as the original.

Secondly, observations on the evening:

1. Matt Buchheit is a good person to hang out with.
2. I saw a lot of people from highschool including but not limited to: Liesl Schoenberger, Matt Pobst, Nathan Legrand, Jen B, Jen Van G, Lara Slaten, and Jacob Roth.
3. Jacob Roth looks a lot like Kevin Smith, but Nathan Legrand looks exactly like Jason Lee as Banky Edwards.
4. If I liked beer, I'd probably like dark beer. Of the ones I tried tonight, I definately liked the darker.

Hanging around with my "peers" makes me very self concious. I was very over shod. I think Buchheit and I were the only guys there wearing shoes. Sandals defiantely were the order of the day.

Seeing bands play makes me wish I was better at playing guitar. I feel like I'm actually getting better, but I'm probably not. I need to practice more.

Still, it was a pretty fun night.

Beulah, Bishop Allen, The Islands, Danielson all rock pretty hard. The Raconteurs are ok.

I'm so tired

I went to see X-3 at midnight last night. I'm not sure about it yet. I'm definately going to see it again.

This week has been CRAZY! We got a new guy at work, Adam, after Mark quit. I didn't like Mark. I don't miss him. I do miss Stu. Both because he was really good at what he did, and when he was there we got done by 8 every night, and because he was just a really cool guy. He had a great laugh. Adam has a really bad fake laugh. I do too. I've been doing a morning route, which means that I'm pretty much back to old man hours during the week. I'm pretty much in bed by 10, 11 at the latest. I don't mind so much, cause most of my other friends have similar restrictive work schedules.

So as I said, I saw x-3 at midnight, I got home at like 230. I went to sleep at like 3, I woke up at 730. I have some napping to do.

The Pirate King

I won five bucks at poker last night. Jimmy won the first game, I won the second. I took Stu out both games, but the hand I won it on was quite amazing. I was up like three hundred on Jimmy. He goes all in (which is like 200) after the flop. I have a 5, 7 suited and am looking for a straight or a flush, but I follow him in anyway without much on the board. A five and an seven end up coming out which leaves me sitting pretty with two small pair, much to Jimmy and his pocket aces chagrin.
I got the complete series of The Lone Gunmen for my birthday, from Ben. For those who don't remember, The Lone Gunmen was a spin-off series of the X-files that focused on this group of guys and their whistle-blowing independent newspaper. It's really not as good as I remember it being when it aired on fox 6 or 7 years ago, but the pilot episode features a 737 being hijacked by "terrorists" and almost being flown into the World Trade Center in New York. That was kind of spooky.

The Da Vinci Code opens this weekend. I heard it sucks. I might go see it if I got nothing better to do.

Reflections on being elderly.

So I've been 22 for a day or so now. It doesn't feel any different from being 21. It's slightly different from being 20, but the differences are sublte enough to be negligible. I didn't really do much for my birthday. I had lunch with my family, hung out at Danny's for a bit, then went to work, came home, ate supper, played some Warcraft three for a bit, then went to bed. I tried to make it an early night cause I had to get up early this morning to do a morning route at work. I really have rather low expectations for my birthday. I'm not 13 anymore, so it's pretty much up to me to make my birthday whatever I want it to be. Turning 22 a week or so after I would've graduated from college, had I been trying hard sort of puts this getting older business into a harsher light. Kind of makes me realize that I've got 2 more years (at least) of college ahead of me. My goal now is to graduate by the time Pete, Steve and Josh do. Barring that, graduating before Katie, Lauren and Ali.

Holy crap it's thursday. Today is Stu's last day. We're supposed to play poker tonight after work to celebrate his departure. Real poker, for money, not rubber bands. I'm pretty stoked, even though i'm going to lose. I always lose. Stu is just too damn lucky and Jimmy is too damn good. Oh well, maybe with actual money on the line people will play more cautiously allowing me and my "Always Bluff" strategy to win the day.

This is a story about a boy named Sue.

I'm thinking about changing the name of this blog to Alan Weber:Ok Guy. I don't know... I'm thinking about it....


So I had this mp3 downloading service for a while. When I upgraded Winamp they gave me 50 free downloads. I got this live Johnny Cash album. It's pretty cool. He bleeps out his cuss words.

I saw Capote last night. It was ok. Phillip Seymour Hoffman was amazing, but he always is. The movie was actually pretty dull. It felt like it was building up to something but it never payed off. I was expecting a lot more from this film. Capote was one of my 3 for 25. The other 2 were Jarhead and Harry Potter 4. I'm pretty sure I like it. It does some stuff really well. It does some stuff rather poorly. Three's probably my favorite. It was a tough three to pick though. My alternates were Walk the Line, History of Violence and probably Elizabethtown... maybe something else. Yeah.. Hollywood video rocks. I've probably got 4 Bond movies there.

I need a new game. I've played the hell out of B for M E. I really kind of feel like playing a console game but my PS2 is still being a communist. I should have Bucket and Droid do what they did to Matthew's to mine. I haven't seen droibus for like a week. I wonder if he's grown another appendage or contracted some horrible disease or got a really bitchin tatt. This is a really wordy post. If'd I post more often I probably wouldn't have this problem.

Sleepytown

I slept till 10:30 this morning.

This week has been going by really slowly. I have done some stuff this week though. I bought "I am trying to break your heart", the movie about Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. I made a new magic deck. I went to see MI:3. I've eaten some trail mix....


This weekend is mother's day. I don't know what to get my mom. I'm sure I'll think of something.

Return of the Slumber Pants

Ben's hours got cut back at the radio station. He's now working Saturdays. I don't know why they didn't just fire him. I feel bad for Ben, but hopefully he'll be able to find something that's a little more his style. Benjamin J. Essner isn't really a "Pure Country" kind of guy.

I'm also looking for another job, but more of the "in addition to the one I have" sort. I really should have been working two jobs this whole semester away from school, but if I start in on the "should-have's" there are ones far more relevant than that.

I did entertain thoughts of going to Bonnaroo, but they were thouroughly dashed upon the rocks of impossibility, crashing against the shore of Implausibalia, on the Sea of Probably Not Going to Happen when Jay announced that Saturday, June 17 would be the day Commercial Mail Services would be moving. This event is not only a rare chance to get some extra hours it's also (yippee!) mandatory for all employees!

And Kenny Rogers as himself...

I was slightly dissapointed with the Giants last night. I kind of wished they would've just played the older stuff. I mean Istanbul is amazing live, but Dr. Worm, New York City, Fingertips, Alphabet of Nations all songs I don't need to hear live anymore. They played some songs from their podcasts. Those were pretty fun, but the stuff they played from their new album that they aren't promoting and that isn't released yet was sort of boring. Even the one that they did with the Dust Brothers... kind of not amazing. Their banter was top notch... it was also Flans's birthday. Overall I'd give it a 7 out of 10.

I finished watching Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin. It was pretty cool. I reccomend any Michael Palin travel series that you can get your hands on. They are vastly entertaining.

Professional Poker Player

I was paid to play poker again tonight. It was looking like it was going to be hella early too... then the machine stopped working, except it didn't start working tonight. We just sat around and played cards for an hour.

The Giants tomorrow! Booooooo Yahhhhhhh. Dig it. I'm too tired to write more. I'm so lame/tired.

Unrelated Title

I got payed to play poker for an hour tonight. The printer for the machine stopped working correctly so Jimmy had to restart it, a process which takes anywhere from 20 to 45 minutes. We played some poker. I lost. Twice. Sentences. Without. Verbs.

I caught part "Beyond the Sea" after work tonight. My dad was watching it when I came home. My love for Kevin Spacey not withstanding, I thought this movie wasn't very good. It was more of a showcase of Mr. Spacey's considerable vocal/acting abilities. It was pretty weak compared to some of the other recent bio-pics about dead musicians.

So I got some free songs from e-music when I upgraded Winamp. I used 10 of them to download "Funeral" by Arcade Fire. What the Hell were we thinking me, Pete and Steve? This album pretty much rocks. I blame our collectively tepid reaction to a Mr. Sufjan Stevens, who's gentle pop masterpiece "Come on Feel The Illinoise" shut our minds to the sometimes gritty sounds of the Arcade Fire.

I'm torrenting some Big Train. I'm torrenting Michael Palin's first travel documentary. It's a very exciting time.

Two Movies

I watched 2 movies this weekend. I watched Life As A House on Saturday. It's not very good. Kevin Kline kicks ass in the movie. Hayden Christensen plays Anakin Skywalker circa Attack of the Clones with more swearing and drug abuse. Jena Malone is...well... she's in the movie.

I also saw Brick. Brick will kick your ass. It's amazing. See this movie. It's a murder mystery starring Joseph Gordon Levitt, TV's Tommy from Third Rock From the Sun.

I'm going to see the Giants on Saturday. Yippee!

Revenge of the Sith

I just watched Episode 3 again... it'd been a while. It's not as good as any of the originals, but still the best of the prequels.

Here's a trivia question for you....

Who's older: Ian McDiarmad or Harrison Ford? That's right, Harrison Ford. Han Solo is 2 years older than Emperor Palpatine. That's movie magic for you.

Speaking of Magic, Matthew should be getting his new decks built tomorrow, which means we'll be playing some hardcore constructed. Huzzah. I've tinkered with some of my old decks. I tried to make a new one, but I couldn't make it work. Anyway... Magic... Hells yeah.

Another Post About "Spaced"

The torrent of Spaced I dled is apparently ripped from the super special edition DVD release. There's this bitching documentary included. I've decided that I will see Mission Impossible 3 and the only reason I will be seeing it is because of Mr. Simon Pegg. Other than that though, there aren't any movies coming out that I want to see until X-men 3 and then after that nothing till Pirates 2. Oh well.

The prerelease is tomorrow. I'm pretty stoked. Magic Tournaments are a lot of fun, if a tad lenghty.

I'm watching Episode 4 of series one right now. No grown man can cry like Simon Pegg. Nick Frost probably has the third best mustache in television history.

Space Cowboy

I just got done watching "Spaced". All of it. It's a brilliant show. If you like Shaun of the Dead but you thought it wasn't geeky enough, you'll like Spaced. There's also an episode that features a B&S song. That was a pretty cool moment.

I was going to do stuff last night, but Spaced got in the way. I still plan to clean up Ben's room while he's gone. Dad and I are going to do something to the kitchen. Sunday is the Prerelease. Yup.

There's a new guy at work. It's gonna suck without Stu.

Red Pants Day

Today is Red Pants Day.

I just finished watching Return of the Jedi. I watched New Hope and Empire last week. Jedi is by far the weakest of the original trilogy. You can definately tell that the person who made Jedi was very much responsible for the Prequels. I would also say that Jedi benefits most from the DVD upgrades... well if you ignore the whole "Jedi Rocks" musical number, which is not only incredibly lame, but poorly rendered and completely out of place. Jedi also features Harrison Ford's weakest performance in the trilogy. Empire is still amazing. It's by far the best of the original trilogy. And A New Hope... well it might just be my favorite movie of all time. It's so good.

Ben and Mom are going to California tomorrow to see Joe. I hope they have a good time.

What else... did I mention that it's Red Pants Day?

Happy Easter Everybody!

Today is Easter Sunday. It's probably the hottest Easter Sunday in recent memory too. It's only 7 in the morning and it's already 60-something degrees outside. It's only going to get warmer.

My PS2 isn't working anymore. It'll play DVD's but it won't play games. It's sort of frustrating cause I just borrowed Kingdom Hearts 2 from Matthew, and I'm was just about done with the nearly 5 hours of prologue before the game actually starts. I'm just a little irritated about it.

Anyway to help you all celebrate the holiday here is a picture of Colin Meloy being awesome. I think you'll find it extremely appropriate.

It's so Damn Hot.

I saw a commerical for a cooking show that is going to be on NBC. They were playing the song "You're so Damn Hot" in the background, but they were omitting the word damn. It was amusing.

I wasn't going to say anything cause I think it might jinx it, but my gameboy has been running for like 11 hours on one set of batteries. God love GBA. It's a hell of a system.

I was just checking out the Hot Fuz video diaries and completely forgot I was blogging. Anyway. Work is pretty easy this week. The Triduum is coming up and I think I'm going to stay in Cape for Easter. That's about it... for now.

I'm stoked cause tomorrow I start listening to Jesus Christ Superstar. I sort of don't listen to it outside of the Triduum pretty much becauseI listen to it nonstop the three days before Easter.

Anyway I'm going to go to sleep cause I'm not Matthew and I don't gain any sort of satisfaction from being tired.

Yay The Shins

I really like Chutes too Narrow.

I'm drinking tea now. Earl Grey. Hot. With honey. I can't yet tell the difference between Earl Grey and English Breakfast yet, but one day I will and on that day you and everyone you know will begin a long and lenghty rue.

At work last night we were talking about movies. I used the term "Black People Movies" to describe "Phat Girlz". Then we started talking about whether or not there are "White People Movies" and listing examples of such films. All and all work blew chunks.

The Life of a British Country Vet

James is all like "Oh Helen, I've got a little something for you," and then Helen is like "Oh James, you're wonderful." Then Tristian comes in and is like "I am so drunk. Hey James, I'm going to kiss your wife." Siegfried bursts in on the scene and says, "Ladies, ladies, ladies! I have a very well stocked liquor cabinet. SHABAM! Hey James, I'm going to kiss your wife!" Then every once in a while everyone is like "That Hitler... he's a real jerk." Then all the farmers are like "Got sick cow. Over by meadow. I don't use articles. James, gonna kiss your wife." Uh-oh, James is about to drop the hammer on this one farmer who was talking smack.

The most impressive thing about All Creatures Great and Small is the fact that the actors actually stick their hands up cows asses. They actually birth cows. They actually fall down in pig slop. You don't see those punks on the OC delivering cow babies. Those CSI blokes don't go around wallowing in pig shit.

The level I'm currently playing in Pharaoh has lasted two hours so far. I'm building a medium pyramid. Two hours of gameplay and it's 51% finished. You do the math.

Yesterday I lost a friend

Reeves died yesterday. RJ was my mom's friend Gina's service dog. He suffered a stroke sometime early Saturday afternoon and was put down sometime around 3pm. Gina and RJ lived with us for about a year. RJ didn't like storms, he didn't like thunder. When it would storm during the night Reeves would come upstairs (much to Mac's dismay) and wake me up, we would go downstairs and watch Monty Python until one of us fell asleep. RJ was diagnosed with a brain tumor last fall. The fact that he lived this long was some what of a suprise. Reeves was the best dog I have ever met and he will be missed.

Some Ominous News

Well kids, I'm pregnant. I don't know how this happened... well that's not true. I'm fairly well versed in methods of procreation. Anyway I'm in my second month. The baby is due in December. Actually it's due on Christmas day. So I guess what all of you are wondering is who's the father. Well there is only one man that could be the father of my child, and that is Matt Buchheit. I haven't told him yet, but I plan to do it a in a very private and careful way; skywriting.

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.

My cat's throwup is the same color as my bedroom carpet

I think the subject pretty much says it all. Lent starts in a couple of days. YIPPEE!

Don't Tell Anyone!

March starts in three days... give or take. March means Lent. Lent is my favorite liturgical season.

I think today I will do something. Last night Bob and I watched War of the Worlds. It was ok. It wasn't a thinking movie to be sure. The red cross just called me. They want my blood.

I think I'm going to take a nap. I'll actually post something tonight... Just you wait!

Important announcement.

Patrick Stewart has something he'd like to say to you.

In other news...

I'm really coming around on the new Guster stuff. I've listened to their new tracks on Myspace. They're pretty good. Too bad I have to wait till June to get their new album, "Ganging up on the Sun". Yeah they're out touring right now... on the coasts. DAMN YOU THE GUSTER!!!!

So I watched Mirror Mask tonight. It was the awesome. Neil Gaiman owns you. He leased you back to yourself when it wrote Ananzi Boyz, but as soon as Books of Magic: THE MOVIE (or whateve project he releases next) comes out, he will go back to owning you and pimping your unworthy ass out to any and all persons he sees fit to pimp you to. Speaking of Neil, I'm re-reading American Gods. Here's some casting choices I would make If I were casting the American Gods mini-series that would be the most amazing thing ever:

Shadow: Nathan Fillion (Seriously. Fillion is amazing)

Odin: William Morgan Sheppard (Who is William Morgan Sheppard you ask. Well I'll tell you. I'll tell you. His performance in Star Trek VI is the most memorable to me, even though he's only in two scenes. He plays the Warden at Rura Pente. Ok, I just IMDBed him. He was also in Gettysburg. Wow! He was in Gargoyles as... get this... ODIN! Shabam. HOLY CRAP!!! He's also the dad of the guy that played Badger on Firefly. This guy has to play Odin.)

Jaquel: Michael Dorn (I don't need to justify this pick)

Mad Sweeny: Tony Curran (He's in 13th Warrior. He's also a badass. He's also in Underworld Evolution)

Ibis: Andre Braugher (Thomas from Glory, but more importantly Frank Pembleton from Homicide)

Mr. Nancy: Robert Guillaume (Seems like a Natural choice. I think he would bring considerable charm to the role)

If I think of more I'll probably let you know, the Internet.

Speed Trials

I used to name my posts after whatever song I was listening to when I wrote it. I'm glad I stopped doing that, but thst song, Speed Trials by Elliott Smith, has been in my head all weekend. I don't think I'm a shallow person... I'm biased though... anyway... Elliott Smith was not an attractive man. That is my opinion.

Sorry... I got distracted by Allmusic.com. It's a good sight to get very general information about a particular artist or group. It says Brian Doherty is still in They Might Be Giants. It's pretty vintage.

Ok. I"m going to sleep.

Valentine's Day

I enjoy holidays. I think they are fun. There are however several fake holidays. Cheif among them is Valentine's Day. I don't know... maybe it isn't completely fake. It's sort of good in theory. But I think it's sort of become too mandatory? People shouldn't get mad or depressed about or becuase of Valentine's Day. Labor Day is also pretty bogus.

I watched the last 4 episodes of Arrested Development today. It's sad. It's like losing a friend. A friend that you only see once a week, and then only half an hour. But a friend that you have vivid and infinitely replayable memories of. And the friend isn't as much lost as it was murdered, murdered by the Fox Broadcasting company, which in a grand bit of irony is that which gave birth to it in the first place. Anyway Arrested Development was amazing. It is amazing. Buy the DVD's. I did. Twice.

Hey, is tomorrow Pancake Day? I don't know. I have heard that it is, but there is little evidence to back it up. Hmmm.

My Crazy Weekend

My weekend was anything but crazy. This weekend was so mundane, so tame that I'm going to sigh, right now.

*Sigh* I need a hug *sigh*
That was my impression of people on instant messengers. I'm pretty sure, at one point in my life, I actually did type that on ICQ. Yup, I too was that lame.

I do actually feel bad for doing jack-nothing this weekend. I'm sort of ridiculous like that. I did watch some movies that I'd seen a bunch of times before. I watched the Negotiator and Star Trek6
Here's what I don't understand. The original cast of Star Trek wasn't that great on TV, but their movies are awesome. The Next Gen cast was great on TV but their movies are kind of weak. WTF?

Next weekend is trivia night. I have to work. Putting trivia night on a friday was a shitty thing to do.

I cleaned half of my room today

The side of the room my computer is on is clean. My bed and everything around it remains untidied.

So the Grammys were last night. They are kind of ridiculous. Green Day won another grammy for an album they put out in 2004 so did U2. I really don't understand the cutoff dates for these things. Kanye West didn't win a Grammy again, which is apparently some sort of travesty. Gwen Stefani was nominated for some of the worst music I've ever heard. I don't really know anything about the grammys. I do know that the bands I like are only allowed in the "Alternative" category. The White Stripes won best Alternative Album, beating out The Arcade Fire, Beck, Death Cab for Cutie and Franz Ferdinand. I wonder what makes Cold Play's newest album a rock album and Franz Ferdinand's new album alternative? Do the bands decide that they want to be a rock band or alternative? I haven't heard Cold Play's new album, but I'm pretty sure "You Could Have it So much Better" rocks the shit out of it. So here's my Grammy acceptance speech.

"I would like to thank everyone who made this award possible... but I'm not going to. No, right now I'm speaking to all of you that tried to stop me from getting this award. All the other nominees and everyone who voted for them, I know who you are. I can see most of you from where I'm standing right now. You motherfuckers better watch your backs. Now that I've got this *hoist up the Grammy* no one, I mean NO ONE can stop me. Your betrayals will not go unpunished. *throw down smoke bomb, escape in the confusion, say hi to Paul McCartney, maybe get his autograph*

In the quiet meantime...

Work has settled down a lot. Twice this week have we been done by 8. This makes me feel even less productive. I need to find another job or something.

Last weekend was fairly productive for me. I purchased and read Ultimates 2, not realizing I was missing out on Ultimates 1 part 2, but I think I caught up fairly well. Ultimates is amazing. At first I was dismissive of it. I thought it was name dropping to be cool or hip, but it's not. It's real. Instead of making up fake movie stars fake presidents, Ultimates is set in the real world. It's a great read. Unfortunately this is happening: http://www.ultimateavengers.com/ It's pretty much assuredly horrible.

I also picked up Tarkio: Omnibus. It's really listenable. Most of the tracks are pretty un-noteworthy, but there are a couple of standouts.

tikibartv.com is pretty cool. Lala is unbelievable. Check it out.

Backlash

I'm thinking about changing the name of the blog to "Matt Essner: Person who talks a lot about sleeping"

I fell asleep somewhere between 4:30 and 5:00 this morning. I woke up about 9:45. Sunday is the only day of the week that I have to get up early (well early-ish)

I played magic last night with Spants and Bucket. I destroyed them utterly and completely. They had nothing that could deal with my onslaught. I brought it every game, with every deck. I am some sort of constructed magic god. At least that's how I remember it. I have to go to mass now.

Hey... come on... Phil?

Winter is back in town...sort of

Well it's finally happened. The people in charge of the weather realized that it was actually February not late March, so it's actually kind of cold outside. I just want some snow before spring starts. I got a sled for christmas. I want to use it.

I got an abusrd amount of sleep last night. I'm not going to tell you how much, but let's just say more than 10 hours but less than 12. I don't know what's wrong with me. I think I might be turning into a layabout. It's almost twelve and I haven't set foot downstairs. I have chores to do. I need to clean rooms of my house.

So it turns out that I owe Southeast Missouri State University some money. A fairly sizeable portion of money, at least to me. Monday I'm going to go talk to them and set up some sort of payment schedule. I don't like owing people money.

The super bowl is tomorrow. I'm thinking about watching it. I kind of like watching football.

That's it for now.

I just posted this on Mathew's Blog

Apparently people are getting warnings in WOW for trying to start Gay Guilds and have same sex marriages. Matthew (getmeoutofthis.net) has a couple of links to articles about it on his blog.

It's difficult for me to get indigent about this kind of stuff because:
1. I'm a Catholic, straight white male that's an American citizen and not a minor, I'm about as unopressed as a person can get.
2. It's a fucking video game.

Anyway I posted this as a comment to one of Matthew's posts talking about the issue.

"I'm sort of torn on this whole issue.
Part of me sympathizes with Blizzard's position to cover their ass. But who are they covering it from? Who are they protecting by enforcing this policy? Newbs?
I also think that people who get married in video games are retarded. Their plight of not being able to fake marry their fake people in a fake world does little to stir any pity. Why can't they just play the fucking game.
Then again, it's not just a game it's sort of a social club. So if people want to socialize with like minded people while they enjoy a common interest why stop them. WOW's player base is fairly diverse. So just because all the people are playing WOW doesn't mean they have common interests. Guilds allow one to have a group of people to play with that caters to their particular play style.
We should also consider the other offensive material that Blizzard doesn't censor. Namely the bludgeoning/hacking/burning/etc of charcters NPC and PC to death that occurs constantly in the game. Why is it that violence is so tolerated whereas homosexuality and what have you is so offensive?
Well I would say because violence is a fairly natural occurrence. Violence, like it or not is part of human/animal nature. It is easy for people to accept violence. They see it all the time. People feel violent impulses. People see violence as a very real part of life.
Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans is not, however a fairly natural occurence, not that these things don't occur naturally, but they are not a part of everyone's nature. Some people see homosexuality, bisexuality, transexuality as abberant. Since the majority of the human population is heterosexual, they probably see other methods gender/sexual orientation as foriegn/unnatural. Other orientations aren't real to them therefore, they find it difficult to accept/emphasize with them.
Now I would imagine that this sort of mentality will change as our generation gets older and our parents's generation starts dying off, as we tend to be more accepting of these sort of things than our preceding generations but until then, you can always turn off general chat.
Anyway the point is Blizzard is totally in the wrong here, but since it's their game, they can do whatever the hell they want. I mean, did you read the license agreement? Yeah. Neither did I. It could've said anything. But WOW is still a great game and people who have more active social life's in MMO's then in real life are tards (Unless they live in a lighthouse or something then it's ok)."

Hey , it's not January anymore

I just woke up about 10 minutes ago. I went to bed about 12.30. I have been sleeping a whole lot this week. I don't really know why. I think it's because I might be getting sick, but seriously, I've slept for over 30 hours this week. I need to start doing stuff in the mornings. This is ridiculous.

So I've gotten into constructed magic again. It's lots of fun. I reccommend it.

Ok, I have to go take Ben to work. I'll try to be more dilligent about posting.

Charlie Mars vs Carrot Top

I need to buy some CDR's

Since I'm not taking classes this semester I have this feeling of uselessness. I didn't have it last week cause I worked like some sort of beast that works a lot. This week it's been pretty tame at work, so I haven't been going in till 230, which is nice, but I end up just sitting home until work. I need to find some way to occupy my time, and it's not that I don't have things to do, I just choose to not do them. I should write. I should practice guitar. I should clean the house. I have been running a couple of times a week, which is nice. I need to do it more often, but I'd rather consistently do it sporadically than do it religiously for a week than quit for a month than try to start again.

Spants isn't taking classes either but he's usually at work when I'm not at work and I'm usually at work when he's not at work. It's a fun little game we play.

I think I'm going to take a break from podcasts today. I don't know why, but I think listening to my mp3 player at work is hurting my neck.

Also in the sort of good news category I'm being fairly good about my soda abstinence. I'm pretty much only drinking it on weekends, and then only at restraunts and only if the have the D.P. so... you know... small steps and all that.

I also need to read more. I suppose that's all for now.

Last Week I worked like a madman

I'm not taking classes this semester. I'm probably going to take a class or two in the summer, and in the spring I'll be back to full time student.

I bought my first Dylan album. Blonde on Blonde. It's pretty good. When I think of Bob Dylan, it's the kind of songs on Blonde on Blonde. I'll be purchasing another Dylan album soon.

So I'm trying out podcasts now. There are a lot of podcasts. I'm looking for music podcasts and the trouble I'm having is finding consistently updated casts. Speaking of podcasts, we did a Crappyasst last night. It was terrible. Listen at your own risk. The problem with having 7 people podcasting is that everyone tries to talk at the same time and you just get a jumbled mess. I haven't listened to it yet, but when we were recording it... it was just bad.

Anyway. I'm going to nap before work.

Remember This

Hey Matt you need to remember these things...

Isobel Campbell is putting out an album. It comes out in March.
Boy Least Likely To is going to be in Chicago March 28. That's a Tuesday....balls.

Anyway. I just thought you should know.

24 hours in Aurora

This weekend I went to Aurora Missouri for my aunt Mary's 50 birthday party. I was shocked that a person could drive west for five hours, and still be in Missouri. Anyway the party was a lot of fun and the weekend did nothing but cement the notion that my family rocks. The Essner's are just great people, I recommend you get to know some if presented the oppurtunity. (It's important to note that not all people with the last name Essner are real Essners. Some are fake. The differences are subtle, but extremely important. Most non-Essner's can't tell the difference between genuine and faux Essner's. Don't be fooled. When in doubt ask them if they've ever been to New Hamburg. If they say no, you know that they are false. If they say yes... well you're still not in the clear.)

My aunt Mary is a nun of the School Sisters of Notre Dame variety (SSND) and she is the pastoral associate of a couple of parishes in the Springfield part of the Springfield/Cape diocese. She is also a cheat. Don't ever play pictionary with her. You will lose and you won't know why.

I don't have anything else to say right now, so goodnight.

A conversation between two Matt Essners.

What did you do today?
"I undecorated the Christmas stuff. It was mucho depressingo."
Is that Spanish?
"Could be...."
Have you signed up for classes yet?
"No."
Are you going to?
"I should."
Yes. You should sign up for classes.
"I need to e-mail Dr. Hill."
You should do that tonight.
"I will."
You should also contact Mr. Dufek.
"I agree."
Ok. Well I think I'm going to go play some Half Life 2.
"Me too."
Cool.

I laughed a lot today.

I rearranged my room today... what do you think? I think I like it. I still haven't cleaned off my bed... I will though.

I also saw Munich today. It was terriffic. Eric Bana is a super hero. So is Geoffrey Rush. Get used to it.
HEY! V for Vendetta is a good book. I read it today/yesterday. I'm pretty cool like that. So I went approximately 32 hours without eating, and you know what? I wasn't too hungry when I did eat again. Go figure. I need to drink some water like a mad fiend though. Hold on a second, I'm going to get some water.

Mmm... tasty.

Things I did not do today:
1. Drive a car
2. Take a nap
3. Exercise (theirs a shocker!)

Things I did do today: (I suppose it's important to note that today means January 7)
1. Clean my room
2. Clean the Bathroom
3. Cleaned the Patio
4. Bought Half-Life 2
5. Went to see Munich
6. Finished V for Vendetta
7. Spent $90 (Holy crap... did I really? Yes. Yes you did. Damn)

Tomorrow I will play magic.

It's been a ridiculous amount of time since I've posted...

Since I last posted I've seen...
1. Love Actually; It's a pretty good flick. Bill Nighy is amazing.
2. Walk the Line: I really liked this movie.
3. Extras: It was good to see Ricky Gervais play a likeable character. The girl who plays Maggie is terriffic.

I go to work in 45 minutes. Yippee.

I have to take Battlefront back today. It's a great game. I might buy it when the price drops.

I'll try to post something more interesting when I get back from work, in about 10 hours. Right now I'm just too not interesting to say something of any sort of worth.

The Goods....

Here's a list of things I got for Christmas.

DVD Player from Droib and Bucket
Hat, Gloves and Sled from my Godparents
Best Buy Gift Certificate from my cousin Ashley
Shaun of the Dead, Matrix Reloaded, and MP3 Player from my parents
Some interesting boxer shorts from joe
Stardust from Ben
Some magic and Pirate Boosters from terrence

That's all I can think of right now... it seems like there was more...
Anyway Christmas was great this year. Terrence was home and it wasn't too crazy.

I hope you all had similarly pleasant Christmas's.

Dirty Laundry With Rufus Wainwright

I had this dream last night. My father and I went to go see this play starring a certain R. Wainwright. The play was horrible but it ended with a Rufus song. The play took place at old Notre Dame. There were like 8 people there, one of which was David Kiblinger. We stayed after the play to talk to Rufus. We were nice to him, but he was rude to us. Later Rufus came over to my house to do laundry. He was nice when he was at my house. But he was rude after his shitty play. Go figure.

Christmas is coming up. I need to get presents for my brothers.

I'm listening to the Christmas podcast. I recommend it. I speak with a couple of amazing accents.
http://www.crappyasst.com
Dig it.

Why I didn't like King Kong.

Um... there are some spoilers ahead, or something.

The movie opens with the Great Depression... or maybe it's just a depression. People are living in shacks by the zoo, wading through muddy make-shift streets and alleys, standing in soup lines, stealing food, going to Vaudeville shows! HEY It's a fun time at the old Vaudeville theater! People are dancing, having a good time then BAM! Depression again. Vaudeville's closed. Naomi Watts and her amazing CGI juggling are out of a job, and her friend an elderly gentleman actor desides to move back Chicago, did he I mention he was sort of a father figure? Cause he is... trust us! (us meaning the screenwriters) Yup, life pretty much sucks for Ann Darrow. She can't get a job as a serious actor and has no choice but to work at a burlesque. She can't catch a break.

Enter Carl Denham, played by Jack Black. Is he comic relief? Is he a horrible person that exploits people for his own personal gain? Is he a visionary filmaker who refuses to give up on his dream? YOU DECIDE! We certainly won't tell, we'll just leave it in a sort of awkward middle ground. Carl picks up Ann and takes her aboard his ship leaving for skull island, where he's filming his latest picture.

On the boat we meet Jack Driscoll, played by Adrien Brody. Ann happens to be a fan of Driscoll, who is the screen writer for the movie Denham is making and a playwright of some note. There are some sparks between Driscoll and Ann. They kiss, then the movie is over. Well technically there are two more hours of monkey fighting left after the kiss but that's about it.

The last 2 hours of the movie... maybe even more than that are devoted to character development for Kong. I suppose Phillipa and Pete thought, well since he can't talk, there is no way people will understand that Kong is to be pitied unless we spend TWO HOURS MAKING HIM THE MOST PITIFUL CREATURE IN CINEMA HISTORY! Kong's life sucks. We get it. Aren't there other characters in this story that we could learning about, maybe see grow? "No no," say the screenwriters, " don't you see Kong HELPED Ann, he's a good guy. See, he's not a monster. He's just tortured relentlessly by the creatures of the island, and revered by the Skull island natives for some inexplicable reason... No no... you don't understand... he doesn't want to hurt people... he just wants his friend back! He's a kind creature at heart. It's not his fault that he was gassed and put onstage and exploited then goaded into a rage by the blinding flashes of camera bulbs... don't you see? Kong is the victim here!" REALLY!? You think?!

The thing that really bothers me about this film is the fact that I can't put my finger on why I don't like this movie. The 3 hour running time was a bit much... but I thought that Peter Jackson would make good use of that time. Make a better Kong story. Maybe tell parts of the story that the original left out. I don't know. The one thing that suprised me about this movie is how much I liked Adrien Brody. I really like him in this movie. I thought he was terrific. Naomi Watts was good. She did a lot of screaming. Jack Black was... I didn't like Jack Black in this movie. Why would you cast Jack Black in this movie. His performance was inconsistant... he was good at the parts where he was supposed to be funny... well not really. I don't know. This movie puzzles me.

Jiggity

What is probably the last ever new episode of Monster House was shown last night. It was a pitiful ending to what was a great television show. The show started with a story from Mr. Regis Philbin. The story had something to do with Dean Martin and a steak that was eaten by a dog. Anyway, Regis was congratulating Monster House for renovating the house they fixed up for this particular episode. I think he refered to it as a rest home... maybe he didn't, but he certainly made it seem like Steve and the crew were doing some sort of service project. It turns out that the house they fixed up was that of a former upper class hollywood family, that wasn't upper class any more. They were upper middle class, or maybe just middle upper middle class, but the point is Monster House fixed up the back yard and pool house, that's right a Pool House, of this Mansion for some 75 year old guy, who's dad interviewed Marilyn Monroe on the radio or something... I was insulted. Then the reveal, which will go down in history as the worst reveal ever, was seasoned with "look-alikes" of old movie stars. I put look-alikes in quotes because none of them really looked anything like the celebrity they were supposed to look like. Anyway it was cheesy and forced, and the guy who was supposed to be a young Ronal Reagan just stood on the diving board looking like a jack ass the entire time.

I just watched The Polar Express. It's ok. Some of the people I work with really want to see it. I kind of wanted to see it. I just rented it because my mother was with me at Hastings and she wanted to see it. Hey, those three sentences I wrote are dynamite. Read them out loud a couple times and you will see my literary brilliance. I am a master of words. Don't forget the true meaning of Christmas; Santa. And some presents. But seriously: Santa Claus.

Good jorb

I did nothing today. That is not entirely accurate. I went to mass, came home, played some spellforce, took a nap, bought Ian James a Christmas present, ate at Buckner's with my friends, played celebrity, podcasted. I did nothing constructive today. That's why I like working so much. When I work, I feel like I'm doing something. When I don't work, I feel like I'm wasting time.

Recently I've been thinking about societal concessions and unwritten rules. I tend to not question the written rules, like the ones that ban killing and stealing and stuff, but there's other rules... things that we sort of just take for granted, things like customs and manners. Like saying hello to people you pass that you don't know. Saying God Bless you when people sneeze. Stuff like that. I don't know what I think about that stuff, I've just been more aware of it recently.

There is something inherently dissapointing about Christmas Presents. There is no such thing as the perfect Christmas present. A wrapped one is as close as it gets. A wrapped present could be anything. It could be just what you always wanted, but never thought to ask for. An opened present is finite and flawed. I have my cousin Ian's name for my mom's family's gift exchange. His mom said he wanted some sort of X-Men transformer, so I bought him an X-men transformer. It looks pretty cool on the box, but the toy itself is less than pristine. It's not that I got a defective product, it's just that toy itself is sort of lackluster. I don't know what I'm trying to say here. I love Christmas, I love giving presents.

Um... school is over next week, officially.
Yup

Watching the Simpsons, thinking of food...

Man I'm hungry.

This weekend we, the Essner's, are painting our front room and just generally making it more liveable...livable... I don't know how to spell that word... We're also putting up our Christmas tree.
My goal this weekend is to get as many Christmas presents as possible... get as in purchase not receive...

Someone is trying to sell the second season of the Golden Girls for $40. I just saw an advertisement for it on television. What is this world coming to?

I know I've been tooting this horn a lot lately (tooting...tee hee) but seriously... Arrested Development is, by far, the best television show ever. It continues to make me laugh. Even when I watch episodes I've seen over and over again.

This weekend I need to see Narnia. I would also like to eat Domino's pizza, preferably deep dish... of the beef or bacon variety.

Ok, now I'm going to go to sleep or get something to eat... YOU DECIDE!!!

Christmas Shopping and Plastic Yoda

The title of this post has nothing to with the content. At least, I assume it won't, I haven't written it yet (it meaning the content, not the title). I haven't started my Christmas shopping yet. I'll prolly start on Saturday. Yeah. Saturday. Which reminds me... it reminds me of nothing.

Hey my cousin Nick Essner turns 30 years old this year. That's crazy. I flat out refuse to believe that any of my cousins is that old.

I have no idea what to get the people I have to get presents for. Well... I think I know what to get Ian james Wells. But other than that, I'm drawing a blank.

I'm tired. I'm going to sleep.

I bought some PJ's

Pants are awesome. For those of you not wearing pants now, congratulations.

Scholar bowl tournee tomorrow! I love reading at scholar bowl tournaments. It's so... nostalgic.
Speaking of nostalgia, today while I was driving my route I tried to name as many people from my high school graduating class as I could. I think I came up with about 60 people. Something like that. I was sort of impressed with how many I remembered. I was sort of dissapointed with myself for ones I didn't remember. Biggest moment of shame was Dustin Klipfel. I was in his class every year of grade school and he was like the 58 I remembered. I'm sorry Dustin. You're good people. Paul Tellow, you're also good people, you were number thirteenish, why haven't I seen you for 2 years?

Hey I need to wake up in 5 and a half hours.... Time to watch Arrested Development till I fall asleep!

I'm gonna be honest, I've been listening to a lot of Rufus today

I have no idea why. Rufus's stuff is just so listenable. Um... tomorrow is the first of the month. That means bad things for Commerical Mail services... namely mail and lots of it.

I've watched some of the first season of Arrested Development again. It's so good. The second season is good too, as is the third, but the first season is just ridiculously good. It saddens me that this show is likely to be cancelled. Who isn't watching it? Oh that's right, America.

I thought of an interesting concept for a game. I might propose it to Matthew as an activity for the annual Christmas get together. I rented a David Sedaris a Dave Barry book from the library. I can't really read Mr. Barry any more. I've been spoiled by more subtle humorists (D. Sedaris, Mike Nelson).

Ok. I'm off.

Greetings ladies, my name is Joseph and I just rolled into town.

I really want to play magic today.

So Thanksgiving was fun. I spent the whole day with the Wells's and it was relatively painless.

School is careening out of control and will soon be done for a while. I need to figure out what I'm going to do. I really don't want to go to semo anymore, or college in general really. I need to figure that out and convince my parents... yeah.

I bought Arrested Development Season 2 yesterday... TWICE! They were selling it for $16 a pop. I figure I'll give the second one to Jimmy at work for christmas. He digs the show. He's a cool guy. I also bought this game called spellforce. It's intruiging. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Me and the Bucket are gonna play some UT. Dig it.

Posting on a quiet tuesday afternoon.

I bought the first 2 seasons of News Radio. They are really good for being mid-nineties laugh track sit-coms, "they" meaning the first 2 seasons of News Radio. Of the 30 episodes 20 of them have commentary. I'm stoked. I'm a big commentary junkie.

ok in the news department... there is no news. I'm sorry. I'm a very boring person, not much happens to me.

In the sports department, there was no U-frisbee on Sunday. Bummer

um... I'm going to Stl tomorrow. Thursday I'ma going to Troy. Friday I'm coming home with ben. Hopefully at some point this weekend I'll meet up with Pete/Steve. That'd be coo.

I'm entirely too silly today. I'm sorry. Snoogans.

I just saw Goblet Of Fire

I need to see the movie again before I pass judgment on it but at first glance... it's pretty darn good... well goodish. I didn't like the amount of time they spent on the first task and the lack of time spent on the second task. But all in all, this movie is how a Harry Potter film should be. You can't cram all of a Harry Potter Book into 2 and a half hours, it would be foolish to try. The thing with book four, it's pretty obvious what needed to be in the movie, the tasks, the cup, the dance the end. This movie looked a lot different than it's predecessors. Lot's of interesting camera work, lots of fun spins and different kinds of shots. Lots of tight shots on faces... i don't know a lot about cinematography but I know I liked the cinematography of this film. I really liked how they shot this movie.

Anyway... what else have I done this week....
1. Purchased and beat Age of Empires 3
2. Watched Bewitched... it was ok.
Man... I haven't done anything worthwhile this week. I suck.

Ok I just cleaned the bathroom. It's almost 3am. I'm not tired so I decided to clean the bathroom... I'd have to do it tomorrow anyway. This is the worst post ever. Goodnight.

I'm listening to Pete and Steve's radio show... honest!

This weekend was awesome, as my weekends in St. Louis tend to be. I went to go see OKgo with my good friends peter and steven waslonger. Okgo rocked so hard. I was astounded. I like okgo a lot and I expected a good show, but they were amazing. The openers were mediocre... but you know... they were openers. The Giants always have good openers... except the one time when they didn't. Here's a list of Giants openers that rocked:
1. Tractenburg Slideshow Players
2. KORN MO
3. Atticus Fault
4. Okgo. nuff said.

Ones that didn't rock
1. Charlie Mars
2. Those two guys who opened for them the second time I saw them.

Holy Crap, I think Steve just made the VS warning call on the air. I hope he's ok.

Hey. I'm going to nap cause I'm playing fribee tonight.
Goo nigh

I just watched Cold Mountain, what did you do?

I don't watch movies like I used to. I mean that in every sense possible... well maybe not every sense. I don't watch movies in the volume that I used to. I used to watch 5 or six movies a week. Now I average about 1. I think I pay more attention when I watch movies now though. Anyway, I liked Cold Mountain. The cast was the stuff of legend. With the likes of Mr. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Brendan Gleeson, Jude Law, Donald Sutherland, and Jack White this film had a powerhouse of talent.

What else...um... gosh... I have nothing to say tonight.
I finished Neverwhere. It only took me two years to read it. I rule. I also don't have anything to read right now. That's ok. I suck at reading anyway. Mini-review of Neverwhere: Richard Mayhew is a better, more interesting Fat Charlie Nancy. Neverwhere is a great novel. The characters are interesting and fresh. Anansi Boyz still sucks balls, It's the worst book I've read this year. If you're a Neil Gaiman fan, don't bother. If you've never heard of Neil Gaiman, you'd probably like Inanzi Boys, cause you don't know any better.

PEACE

I'm no good to be around today.

I'm feeling contrary. I have this strange feeling that if I was around people, I know I would be an ass, so I'm avoiding human contact for the remainder of the day. Well except, I think I'm going to go to Hastings and maybe get something to eat, but other than that... Humans, stay away.

Hey, I saw an Underworld 2 preview when I went to see Doom (Yes, that doom). I want to see Underworld again. That's probably what I'm going to rent at Hastings.

I'm downloading the trial version of Flash right now. I have this delusion of making a web toon. I have a pretty good idea for the toon, I just don't have the means to bring it forth. So i'm going to try to learn flash, or some other animation program that is not $700. Either way, this web toon is something I think I can pull off, at least the writing part.

Ok, i'm off.

PS: It is too damn hot for November.

Also, my friend Layne needs a job, preferably in the food service industry, so if you can think of somewhere that wants to hire someone that is short, give Layne a call.

"In the Devil's Territory"; Sufjan Stevens

I don't like this convention for naming my blogposts. I'm not going to do it anymore.

I worked like a madman last week. To the tune of 38.7 hours. I used to get hours like that when I had a morning route. I'm a beast. I'm working tomorrow too. Here's the bummer. I don't work next friday, the 11. That means I don't get paid till Monday cause friday is normally payday.

Hey Matt, how did that history test you took today go? Well... I suppose it went ok. FOR AWESOME! But serioulsy I think I totally got a high C on this test I took today. Not bad for not reading the material or doing any sort of serious studying.

Hey Matt, what are you going to do after this semester. I have no idea. I'm sort of waiting to see what SEMO does to me. I'm guessing there will be some sort of acadmemic probation of something. If I stay, I'm definately swithing majors... maybe Mass Com? Maybe general studies? Who knows!?

I'm going to buy pants tomorrow. This is my solemn vow! At least three pairs of pants.
If this was a perfect world, tomorrow night, after dinner with the fam, me and the boys would get together, podcast, maybe watch a movie. Sunday I would work on that paper... *Ahem* and sunday night/afternoon, we would draft or something. I miss Magic.

"Pregnant For the Last Time", Colin Meloy

Wow, this song rocks.

Hey there. I'm not going to bitch about work, but it sucked.

I've had a couple of interesting ideas for stories the last couple days. One's a story I've been working on for a while. I need to write these things down. Ideas are shit. That's what Hemingway said. I have not done much this week. Sunday I went to St Louis to take Ben back. That was fun. I met up with Pete and Steve and we ate at a haunted Arby's (which was, haunted though it was, better than the one in Cape)
Halloween was, as usual, a bit of a letdown. I don't know what I expect from Halloween. Just something I suppose. I want it to be different from every other night. It wasn't... I had to work, for one thing... I didn't see any trick or treaters. The problem is that Halloween is too short. The actual Halloween-ness lasts from nightfall till about 9ish. Which is about 4-5 hours... depending. Halloween should be three nights long. That is my decree.

Ok. I don't know what else to say. Goodnight.