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.