random shit

tonight, the role of stodgy will be played by LBG
stodgy and any are brothers. some would even say twins. i don't see the resemblance, but i've known them both since 1774, back when they were nicknamed, Satans Sisters and it may be that i'm not seeing physical similarities any longer, but emotional and social differences instead. but knowing them this long, i know how they both play off each other and i know each of their weaknesses as they do for each other. any has a very addictive, immediate personality. it's very similar to mine in the sense that instant gratification plays a big role in our lives. this has come to surface in any's recent decision to purchase a motorcycle. he's set on a model and how he's going to pay for it. so basically, he's worked himself into a frenzy, recently like a horny 16 year old on minithins at the party of the year. he can't quit talking about it and reading about it and whatever else he does when he's thinking of the bike.

last night, any and i went to our local hooters for some wingys and crab and beer and had a ball. we had phenomenal service, good food and an overall great time. we proceeded to get home, do a shot or two, watch about 30 minutes of Dawn of the Dead and then played some battlefield 1942 until 2:30 this morning. the giddyness mixed with all that alcohold, beautiful women (and the effect that a rebel without a cause on a bike has towards said women) and video games had him convinced that it was necessary to not wait until january to purchase the scooter. he's now reasoned in a larger credit purchase with a lower down payment in cash, but has also committed to a shorter payoff time. so, he can take his riding class on the 20th and then find his bike and be done with it. this also allows for a little more riding time while the weather is nice. and since texas only gets cold in february, this should allow for ample time to ride.

so why the title? well, stodgy has always been good at taking advantage of any's good and addictive nature, so he'll get any worked up over the purchase of something, usually to be split out between the two of them and then at the last second, change his mind. this leaves any in a heightened, agitated state and he eventually gives in and just makes the purchase on his own. this was my role last night while the alcohol was kicking in and i just got him frenzied over getting the bike early. this decision may change though, once any has sobered up.

saw
caught the movie yesterday. i was quite pleased with it. i understand why it's getting the ratings that it is, but if you keep an open mind before going to see it, it's all worthwhile. the film also reinforces the fact that Danny Glover and Cary Elwes can't act worth shit.

what moron told them i knew what i was doing
work has me in atlanta this entire next week. i'm in the beta of a training class on how to make me a better analyst. myself, with maybe a dozen other business analysts will be enduring a week long training session on how to do our jobs. after 3 years, you'd think i'd have it down by now, but i guess someone thinks otherwise, so i'll be sitting in class learning how to write business requirements and use cases. i'm still not sure why I was chosen, but obviously, i've got someone in this company fooled.

this may also limit my posting abilities, so it may be a bit quiet around here from LBG for the next week.

other big happenings in the next week or two
- halo 2 is out on november 9 - i have my copy reserved and a handful of old console games to trade in for the rest of the cost. god bless bungie.
- all the front end parts for dobra are on the way. i've ordered and all parts have been shipped for my front end rebuild, so hopefully, by this time next week, dobra will have a brand new, fully chromed front end. and i will post pics.

roland emmerich, you fucker...

i just watched the day after tomorrow and to be honest, this could have, quite possibly, been one of the worst films i've ever sat through. i started it last night and fell asleep around 2/3 of the way thru it. it might have been the vodka, but i'd wager to say it's thanks to those no talent ass clowns over at 20th century fox. to be honest, i think it'd be more fun to pound railroad spikes thru my dick than to have to watch shit like that again. i watched the rest of the film today and at the end of the film, the president addresses the world or the screen actors guild or south america or whomever and says if we'd paid attention to the reserves of natural resources and not wasted them, we'd not be in this situation. i'm lost here. how is my consumption of natural gas the cause of everything in the northern hemisphere going thru a second ice age? what environmental nazi managed to get me to pay eight bucks to get lectured on something that has nothing to do with the film?

you people wonder why IQs are drastically dropping? keep producing this kind of shit and we'll live in a world full of people who think Ishtar was academy award material. who the fuck do you people think you are? roland, i've seen independence day, and this sir, is no independence day. just cause you did it once gives you no right to bend us over.

geez, i need somthing to cheer me up. i'm gonna go give myself a root canal.

brimstone

I was a cop. My wife was raped, I caught the guy who did it, and I killed him. Two months later I died, and went to Hell. 113 of the most vile creature escaped.

The high concept of this story is that Detective Ezekial Stone (Peter Horton) was sent to Hell for the murder of his wife's rapist. He spends 15 years in Hell, until 113 souls managed to escape. The Devil (John Glover) needs someone to send them back to Hell, but can't do much on the physical plane. So he sends Ezekial after them, with the promise that if Stone recovers all 113, he'll win permanent freedom from Hell. And if he fails, he's damned for good.

All of the escapees as well as Stone are supernaturally indestructible, except they can inflict pain on each other. The only way to send someone back to Hell is to destroy their eyes, the "windows of the soul." Worse, some of the escapees spent centuries, if not millennia, in Hell and have developed great power - little of which Stone, a relatively recent prisoner, has himself.

Each week, with a little help (and the occasional hindrance) from the Devil, Stone typically tracks down another of the escapees and sends them back to Hell. He is tattoed with the names of each one, and when he sends them back the appropriate tattoo burns itself off. Meanwhile, Stone's ex-wife still believes him dead, but Stone can't resist checking in on her from time to time.

This series only ran 13 episodes on Fox.



click here to sign the petition and get Fox to release the shows on DVD, please.

Random Crap

Andy Williams was right ... kind of...
i know that it's the most wonderful time of the year is meant for crimmus, but it's halloween and this truly is the best time of the year. evil, death, satanic cults - what else could cheer a guy up better than that? ok, all in movie form and trick or treating and costumes, but it's still loads better than the real silly season. people are obligated to be happy in november and december (which is probably why most are depressed as hell), but october and halloween aren't happy times. does that make me a really sick person? regardless, it's still a blast and knowing how much i love horror movies, i don't even need a reason to watch nasty, horrible, graphic stuff and have someone think i'm nuts.

living virtually in every conceivable, ridiculous detail
i know we're all pretty bored with out lives and we all dream of better lives. nicer clothes, bigger houses, more money, etc. and it looks like the second sims game has completely fulfilled that need. i saw the first sims game a couple of years back when an old roommate got hold of a warez copy and proceeded to build a women's prison with no walls around the bathroom stalls and no doors or windows. his attempt was to create the perfect women's prison drama, complete with little mario (the only man in the prison) who could come and go as he pleased waiting for nasty threesomes. instead, he ended up with a bunch of pissed off, female prisoners who wouldn't pee in front of the others and had no way to eat, so the prison looked like a bunch of really anxious dogs had been pent up there for months on end and eventually, just a bunch of dead bodies. reality? no. fun? possibly. obviously, the game did well. it spawned twelve, count em, twelve expansion packs and the sims 2 was just released. the reason i mention this is because a game about reality doesn't make sense to me. i can hardly manage my own life, why would i want to do it for a bunch of female prisoners? and it's gotten so detailed in the follow-up, that you can download hundreds of different add-ons for the second game like clothing, houses, vehicles, etc. i saw a link today to download froggy underwear. white underwear with a green frog on the front. now, why the fuck would i care about what's on my sim's underwear? do i need that much detail when i'm trying to forget my own pathetic life?

movie day!
tuesday is unequivocally the day i hate the most out of the week. more than monday even. i don't know why, but i always get run down by mac trucks helping little old ladies across the street on tuesdays. my great aunt always wins the lottery on tuesdays. and not once has she shared anything with me. i've always gotten one-legged, midget hookers with the clap, pregnant on tuesdays. it's just not my day of the week. with one exception...

movie day. tuesdays is new release day for movies, music and the latest edition 18 inch chrome dildos. that last item isn't so exciting for me, but the movie thing makes tuesdays worth baring. today is a good one as dawn of the dead is being released. the 2003 version of the film is being released. remakes, as a standard, tend to suck, not only in horror, but most other genres. and since remakes are pretty much the only thing that seem to be coming out lately, we're in for a dismal year of films. but this one was an exception and i'm excited about it. the other cool release today is the first season of 21 jump street. for those of you who were born after 1980, this probably won't ring a bell for you, but for those of us who were, this will be a treat. 21 js was about a group of cops in their early 20s who would go undercover into high schools and pose as students to bust up the drug rings and violent cults and whatever. the show defined fashion at the time and coolness was almost tangible. this is where johnny depp got his start. he and richard grieco were the reason i got both of my ears pierced.

i mentioned this to a buddy of mine this morning who was a fan as well and his comment back was the show was the reason i started hanging out at high schools when i was in my 20s. or even better stated by matthew mcconaughy in dazed and confused - that's what i love about these high school girls man. i get older, they stay the same age.

browser issues

i've just discovered that the blog here doesn't render correctly in IE, so if you are reading this through internet explorer, the sidebar won't immediately display. you'll have to scroll down until you reach the last post and then the sidebar begins. this is a problem with the browser, not the blog. IE is crap. if you haven't heard about it or given it a go yet, go download Firefox and get the real thing. and specifically, a browser that actually reads and renders HTML code correctly. it's free of charge, has a fuck ton of incredibly useful and way cool extensions and isn't a memory hog.

if you aren't using Firefox, then you aren't seeing webpages the way they were meant to be viewed.

let the work begin

as any mentioned in his post, i did some work on dobra this weekend. i was suffering thru a bad back for the last 5 days or so and got the pieces in on thursday night. i started working on the upgrades on saturday and re-threw out my back again while doing it, but persisted and lived thru the pain. i changed out the back brake light and back blinkers with clear covers and added a chrome decorative piece to the break light. i also installed a chrome license plate bracket to rid myself of the ugly plastic one that came from the dealer. i was able to break out the dremel and do some metal cutting for the bracket, so it was a lot of fun. i tried to get some pics, but the batteries in my camera were dead. the man and his wife that just moved in next door to me has an indian and he pulled it out, fired it up and took it for a spin while i was working on mine, but suddenly, i was the expert about bikes as he's an attorney and i think he may have just bought the indian to say he could and probably took a driving class once. i get the idea that he's not a fanatic. beautiful bike though.

what i'm really exicted about is that come friday, i'll be ordering the last of the pieces of the front end overhaul i'll be doing in two weeks. basically, i'm replacing the stock handlebars with a set of 1.5" drag bars with a 6" rise, solid chrome grips, housings, triple tree cover, levers and clutch replacement. In all, i'm replacing 10 different pieces (all chrome) and that doesn't include some other things i'd like to do like switch to stainless steel cabling, new mirrors and front end signal replacement. but, it all takes time, and money. something that tends to be scarce at this time of the year. and since november is the biggest game release month we've had in probably the last 5 years, i'm in double trouble. so, aside from the 10 parts i'm replacing, the only other thing i plan on doing in the next month is have my shocks cut to drop the bike a good 2 inches (shown here in before and after pics) and give it that chopper look with the new front end. once i finish all of that, hopefully by the end of november, i'll post some pics.

more blade 3 action

it's obvious what crowd the blade 3 team is going after in this all new trailer, but it's good some cool new footage that hasn't been seen yet.

check it out now

could have potential

then again, it could suck. but it just reeks of Darkeness Falls.

check out the new trailer for Boogeyman

saw

it's been at least a month since i've posted about this movie. slow month i guess. anyway, SAW comes out next weekend and i'll definitely be there with bells on. lions gate films has a store with a couple of saw t-shirts for sale and i think i just found my next t-shirt. get a load of this:


bitchen, huh?

QotD

Is honesty really the best policy?

I pull into my complex yesterday afternoon from work and stop by the mail box to pick up my mail and noticed that i had a few netflix movies, so i was excited about the possiblity of some more movies to watch this weekend. i sit down at my desk, relax and start going thru my mail. I get to the netflix envelopes and i've got 3 of them. i open the first; X-Files, Season 8, disk 4. I open the second; The Princess and the Warrior. I open the third; Breakin' 2: Electic Bugaloo. I check over some of the magazines that came in the . . . what? Electric Bugaloo? Did i get that drunk this weekend?

No, but out of habit, i ripped thru the netflix envelopes, soon discovering that Ben Jameson, my neighbor, 2 doors down from me ordered the sequel in the oscar nominated, break dancing films. so here's my quandry. Do i take the movie to him, opened, explaining my mistake and politely hand him the film, all the time trying not to snicker? Or do i save him the embarassment of having anyone know he actually ordered the film knowing that i'll be snickering every time i see him in the parking lot? OR, do i just keep the movie and pretend it never happened? Not that EB was ever on my top 10 list. Or any list for that matter, but with netflix, if you haven't received your movies in 5 days, you just hit the website, tell them, and they'll send out another copy. Do i keep the copy for myself, saving all of us the embarassment (him ordering the film, me committing mail fraud, etc.) and just place it next to my copy of Drive (another equally questionable film that i have in my collection - one i keep with ignorant pride)?

as an aside to this issue, it instantly reminded me of my Tribes playing days. When the original game was released back in '99, i spent 2 years as a mapper for the game. To make a long story short, i ran a mapping website and subsequently won some awards for a few of the maps i built. My point here being? I had a lot of custom built maps that i used to test out before sending out to the community to add into circulation. My roommate, at the time, ran a server where we tested the maps and the server was called Breakin' 2: Electic Bugaloo. That name would make me laugh every time i joined the server. Good memories...

So, back to my problem. Do i return the film to netflix, return the film to my neighbor or keep it for myself. Is honesty important in this situation?

f-ing pepper...

borrowed my bueno dress the other weekend and the biach hasn't given it back. she wears her pink heels with it

case in point

i recently made some comments about getting fucked, but not getting kissed by the scifi channel and their homemade stinkers of movies and yet another really interesting and exciting movie is being made by scifi. really interesting and really exciting, in theory. Reuters reports:

Sci Fi Channel is developing a four-hour miniseries that delivers a twist on "The Wizard of Oz."
In "Tin Man," a young girl named Dorothy gets lost in an alternate universe policed by law enforcement officers known as Tin Men. In true "Wizard" fashion, she tries to find her way home with the help of three strangers she meets in the mysterious land known as Outer Zone, or O.Z.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm no pole-smoking, judy garland loving, vw bug driving, container store shopping fag that has some special connection with the movie. i just think that the whole Oz concept and storyline has some cool ideas that could really be played on that no one has really dealt with in a feature film version.

...and ok, i shopped at the container store, but only once and it was with my roommate during college and we were REALLY drunk. but only once...

moving past my improprieties in lubbock, this is the type of film, that if done well with cool special effects and tons of 'bullett-esque' car chase scenes and dorothy is played by pamela anderson who has a constant need to show her tits and have threesomes with the well-hung, cowardly lion and scarecrow, who can go all night . . .

sorry, i'm getting away from myself. my whole point here is that this could be a decent if not quality movie, but i'm pretty sure that scifi is gonna bend us over again, like they do on any given saturday night when i could, instead, be puking out back of some shithole tavern on lower greenville while trying to get the one eyed, scurvy ridden, 66 year old bar maid, who when i walked in made some comment about how she could possibly be the ugliest woman i've ever laid eyes on but now want to sleep with, cause those bastards who make rumpleminze have lied to me, once again, and 4 shots of that would make woody allen look appetizing, to show me her tits.

on a tangent again...so i'll kill the evening watching this film knowing good and well, hours beforehand, that it's gonna blow in the biggest of ways and i'll still stick around for every torturous minute of it.


HEY SCIFI, THANKS FOR FUCKING NOTHING!

child's play

last year during the silly season, i sent out an email to family and friends encouraging and informing all of the child's play charity. it was a huge success totalling over $250,000 in toys, presents, video games and cash for sick children at a children's hospital in Seattle. Over 190,000 children benefitted from the charity last year and it has begun again this year and has expanded to 5 different children's hospitals across the united states. i'm here to encourage your donations to this charity this year. i know it's only october, but you can never start giving to early and since most of the donations are given from amazon via special wish lists set up for each hospital, the lists will be depleting quickly. if last year's response is any indication, the lists will be emptying quicker than you can imagine. this is 100% for the children, but it also destroys the reputation that gamers have for being aggressive and violent and anti-social, which couldn't be farther from the truth. we gamers make up a large part of the world and we want to help too.

i know that most of you probably have specific charities that you give to each year, but i'd like to encourage you to add this one to your list.

child's play charity

kingdom hearts

so i picked up this new ps2 game last week called kingdom hearts. it's a RPG fusion of Square Enix's Final Fantasy characters and almost every single character from all of Disney's films. you play the character, Sora, a 14 year old boy who is trapped on an island with a handful of other children and you get sent on a journey to figure out the purpose of your life. the game itself is very similar to the final fantasy games, but without so much detail. it is a RPG, so you do have the ability to level your character up and chose how to upgrade him (fighting, magic, etc), but it's not a turn based rpg, it's real-time. soon after being knocked off your island during a massive storm, you end up in Traverse Town trying to make heads or tails of where you are and why you are there. the storyline (and this is really cool) follows, in conjunction with your own, another set of characters that are out to save their own kingdom from the evil that has corrupted it (consequently, the same evil that you soon find out plays a role in your life as well). this other party is comprised of Donald Duck and Goofy, who are under orders from their king, Mickey Mouse, to find the key to saving their kingdom. And your character, Sora, possesses that key. So, Sora teams up with Donald and Goofy and the battles begin. I've spent almost 6 hours playing this game and i've just brushed the surface of it. You interact with characters from the FF series and the Disney series, so when you leave Traverse Town, to head out on your first mission, you are sent to Wonderland, where you meet Alice, the Queen, the Cheshire Cat and the rabbit (who will be eternally late for his life). You are tasked with finding Alice when she is kidnapped. there are a multitude of side quests like finding the 101 dalmation puppies (which are recovered over the span of the entire game) when their parents task you with locating them. the graphics are a bit cartoony, understandably, but still quite well done. the battle system, again being real-time, is responsive and fun. as your character levels up, you learn new fighting abilities and have new magic and weapons to fight with. because a game like this is so entrenched with side quests and hidden treats, i printed out a help guide, which equalled 147 pages, so this will, no doubt, be a long game. i look forward to it.

green thumb

there's been some doubt around the office recently as to whether i have the ability to nurture near-death plants back to life or i'm just a bunch of talk. so grover and yvonne, here's my kitchen.

http://www.xaostwentyone.com/images/sabre/plant1.jpg
http://www.xaostwentyone.com/images/sabre/plant2.jpg
http://www.xaostwentyone.com/images/sabre/plant3.jpg
http://www.xaostwentyone.com/images/sabre/plant4.jpg
http://www.xaostwentyone.com/images/sabre/plant5.jpg
http://www.xaostwentyone.com/images/sabre/plant6.jpg

most of these were near death when i received them and now they are flourishing. i'm not one to pat myself on the back, but i'm proud of my accomplishment. i also have a small balcony full of trees, but didn't get picks of that.

tag heuer

imagine this: 10 years ago and i'm bartending at macaroni grill, working the service bar on a busy saturday night, in the weeds up to my neck. i'm not even looking up to see if the bar is full of naked supermodels, i've got my head buried in the ice bin and bottle rack, hammering out drinks like you've never seen before.

her: hey
me: hey
her: what're you doing tonight?
me: dunno, hadn't thought that far ahead.
her: let's go get some drinks.
me: sure, who's going?
her: you and me.

what hadn't occurred to me until just that moment, was that she was the hottest waitress in the restaraunt. she was out of my league. she was majors and i was fucking t-ball for 4 year olds. fast forward 5 hours, 6 beers and 4 black martinis later.

her: what's wrong with you?
me: any number of things, you wanna be more specific?
her: i've been hitting on you for a month and you haven't noticed.
me: (turning around looking for the other guy she's actually talking to) me?
her: yes, you.

so fast forward again, 9 months later and i'm in love with this girl. 5 foot 4 inches, intelligent, a smile that melts any man around her, long dark curly hair, a set of cans that still make me smile to think about and she has me in the palm of her hand. i mean, i'm gone. she could kick me in the balls and i'd hug her for it. two months later, she tried to kill me in a car wreck, but that's not part of this story. anyway, she's got this beautiful watch, a tag heuer and she show's me the men's line. sure honey, how many should i buy? well, at a grand a piece and you bartending, you think you really need more than one? in all actuality, she didn't really want me buying the watch, but it was a gorgeous watch. my first tag. i've since sold that one and moved on to their $2200 link line and i'll never get rid of it. hell, for the first 3 years i had it, i never took it off. NEVER. that watch never came off my arm. i've eased off on the need to know what time it is when i'm going down on some girl, or asleep at 3 in the morning or working on dobra, but you really can't find a better made watch. others will argue with me about the quality of a rolex or a cartier or a breitling or even a montblanc, but no one makes a watch like tag.

so what's all this self revelation about? well, similar to ford or jaguar or toyota or any other car manufacturer out there who you associate concepts with (cars were all that came to mind), tag has a new concept for a watch. it's called the Monaco V4 and it's the first and only belt driven watch in existence. ah, there's the connection to the vehicle reference. tag has modeled their concept after the inner workings of an engine. so why is this so important? because it's so fucking cool. that's why.

give it a look and see why a watch manufacturer is good* enough to be endorsed by steve mcqueen. then tell me i'm nuts.

* - good, in this case equals both quality and cool. and i'm not nuts.

must see tv

i don't know if it's because i've gotten older and my appeal has broadened or i'm not really concerned about the backlash of saying something like, "did you catch the OC last night?", but my appreciation for tv seems to be at an all time high as compared to the rest of my life. as children, we weren't allowed to watch that much tv (and in retrospect, the 70's and 80's didn't put out much in the way of quality) and not until i got a steady 9-5 job, did i really start to see what i had available to me from the 300 channels i pay for. there are definitely things i can do with and do without. reality tv has reached it's limit. it actually reached it's limit 3 years ago, but no one told any of the tv execs, so theyr'e still churning out crap, night after night. the only reality tv i can actually stomach is most of what's pumped out on discovery. discovery has turned into one of my favorite channels, for obvious reasons with shows like american chopper and the great biker buildoff, but i can pretty much watch everything they play at most times of the day. so i was driving to work this am and was thinking about the fact that about 4 of the 7 days of the week, i'm found in front of the boob tube watching something on a pretty regular basis. so i thought i'd run down some of the shows that i've leaned to appreciate on a weekly basis.

monday
fear factor - i discussed this in a previous post, but i don't know why i find this so appealing. other than the obligatory large breasted women wearing only bikini tops for an hour, this isn't really 'fear' as described by webster. and ineveitably, i always end up eating dinner during the second stunt which is always the 'gross out' stunt. eating live, baby pigs or something that comes outta their butts. still, i can't not watch it. it's the regular monday night car wreck.

las vegas - again, solid acting, attractive people, good storylines and good music. if you've not watched this, set aside the hour on monday and i know you'll like it. it's hard not to.

tuesday
gilmore girls - yeah, WB is for canadians and anyone under 13, but this show has proven that its audience is more than just teenage boys and girls. excellent writing and the banter back and forth between characters is definitely adult and not just 'bobby is dreamy' like every other WB show. GG is in it's 3rd season and some things have occurred that we've all been hoping for for the last two seasons, and as good as the show is, it's starting to fall into some more predictable plotlines and the banter isn't as witty as the first two seasons. i'm not giving up hope yet though.

wednesday
lost - this new drama that has a reality twist to it is keeping me coming back each week, but i'm not sure how long it will last. jj abrams, the guy behind one of my new, all time favorite shows, alias, has created this story of a plane crash on a desert island and its 48 survivors. strange things begin to occur on the island (other survivors from other crashes, dinosaurs, etc.). i think the show has a lot of potential and we are handed just enough each week to want to come back for more, but i think this can only go on for so long before the viewers get tired of being led into plot twists only to not give us some answers. this is a good show to record and watch in an off hour.

sunday
desparate housewives - this has only shown 2 or 3 episodes, but this is a guilty pleasure. again, lots of potential if it keeps up at this speed, but the second it turns into days of our lives, it's gone.

boston legal - i never watched the show this was spun off from, but i had numerous others stress the quality of the show since james spader and bill shatner joined the cast. now that the two have their own show, i finally watched it last sunday and was instantly hooked. shatner has always represented the ultimate in cheesy acting, thus i never watched much of anything he ever did. and yes, i'm not a star trek fan. i'll say that and get death threats, but there's plenty of scifi out there to choose from and ST was never one of the shows i really appreciated. spader, on the other hand, tends to not do anything badly. he plays some of the strangest characters you've ever seen and playing a smart, wise-cracking attorney is right up his alley. this show is a must.

not a huge list, but a bunch of shows that i'll continue to watch until any of them prove not worthy of my time. there are a bunch of other shows that weren't mentioned here that are on my list but just aren't in the rounds yet. hbo puts out some quality tv as well like the sopranos and 6 feet under (although, 6 feet did start to drop this last season). then there are shows like the OC (yes, i really do watch it), Tru Calling, 60 minutes (bet you didn't see that coming) and the shield that are all worth my time. and i'm certain that there are others here that i've missed, but these just come to mind. this time mixed with any of the movie channels that always have something decent running and my netflix subscription and my video library make for to short a week.

completely random nonsense

it's monday night and i've just gotten up from two hours of the best tv available to the civilized man - fear factor, where a show doesn't go by without wet, hard, large nipples and the most disgusting things anyone has ever put in their mouth, AND las vegas, which is just a downright great show with solid acting, beautiful people and a line of guest stars longer than my . . . well, pretty long. i've just stepped upstairs, delicately, as my back still feels like someone is trying to pull my spine out through my ass (the hard way) and downloaded my first clint black song. it's a little diddy called 'a good run of bad luck' and i'm telling you right now, this old boy could maybe make something of himself one day. this has caused my girlfriend to gasp, awkwardly, by this download (and yes, i even paid for it) so now i've reached the status of bees knees. she's a country music fan and just doesn't know what to do with herself over this revelation of mine for clint. who knew.

venturing into the continuous amazement that is Firefox, i've discovered a slew of new extensions available for download (free for these) to further my surfing pleasure. in one fail swoop, i installed 10 new extensions. the coolest being a legit google toolbar (like the one available for IE) and 3 additions that are visible in the graphic below.

this includes 'foxy tunes' - a built in media player (similar to those built for alternate shells like LiteStep, EVWM or iShell), Weatherfox - like going to weather.com, but built into your browser and then the Bloglines link that i mentioned in the previous post. ultra cool

being a cycle fanatic, i frequent a board for sabre owners like myself. there's probably 4 thousand other sabre owners who are part of this group and we interact with each other like a bunch of senior citizens in an old folks home who've known each other for 30 years. instant friends with a mutual passion for that which is the Honda Sabre. so one of the members who's known for spending quite a bit of money on modifications (eight grand to date) and upgrades has just completed his latest update to his scooter and has now had to dedicate his entire day to answering questions from the rest of the monkeys (the other 3,999 sabre owners) asking him questions about what he's done and swooning over the upgrades. Swift, the man of the hour has revealed his latest rebuild to those of us who only dream of owning something as beautiful some day.

the pictures don't do it justice, but he's had a new set of skins with the custom paint job completed as well as the new rake on his forks. he already had most of the chrome and custom wheels, but i find myself just gazing at the pic like a 17 year old girl over a picture of Franky Avalon. it's a good thing he lives in Hawaii as he probably would never get any sleep with the string of visitors wanting to thank him for the personal difference he's made in all of our lives. :)

now, if it would just stop raining and whoever is pulling my spine out thru my ass would quit, i could get some personal me time in with dobra and make myself feel better about life.

speaking of cheese...

you'll see that i've updated my random quote there to the right and it's a dead giveaway to the coolest show about a cat and dog, EVER! seasons 1 and 2 come out on DVD tomorrow and i'll be there in line to get my copy.

so it's monday afternoon and i'm sitting here with my thumb up my ass. so much so, that i can actually bite my nails, from the inside. juicy...

J has yet again, hooked me into the information age with bloglines and the coolness of RSS. i can now check on blogs, news, gaming, the newest advancements in styrofoam dinnerware and barnyard porn via one nifty little interface without having to do all that troublesome searching or link clicking. if you haven't subscribed to bloglines, click the link above and start it up. if you already have, click the little button above there entitled 'sub bloglines' and it'll subscribe you to this abomination of nature i call a blog and you can keep up on my latest indescretions.

up until about 2 hours ago, life was pretty good before i threw my back out WALKING UP MY STAIRS. yeah, total dipshit. tell you what. anyone out there with physical disabilities wanting to trade theirs in, gimme a call. i'll readily take an extra thumb or a pencil dick or a 3rd nipple over my bad back. i'm sitting here at work with a heating pad awkwardly shoved down the back of my jeans trying to hit my lower back where the muscles are in a vice grip.

good weekend overall. j and his esposa and scott and i saw shawn of the dead. that's a great film if you haven't caught it yet. saturday, i don't think i left the house except for burritos. otherwise, the rainy day was spent sleeping, watching movies and mortaring the shit outta the other team's base. yesterday was spent watching dallas get their ass handed to them in the second half and watching chopper shows. quality couple time with stacy.

i'm ready for this drizzle that's been here for a week to go away so i can get back out on dobra.

unknowns

as seems to be the fad lately, bloggers are releasing unknown information about themselves to their readers. i figured i'd jump on the bandwagon and give you my list, in no particular order.

- i've never owned an umbrella. don't use them, don't believe in them
- i don't use straws. not manly, same as above.
- i used to have curly, blonde hair when i was younger. larry bird style.
- i also used to have a mullet - in high school
- i used to have hair. period.
- i have no gag reflex
- i've never done any hardcore drugs - pot only.
- oh, and those 3 solid days of sniffing cocaine off those hooker's asses. but that's it.
- i can burp on command
- i'm terrified of big spiders and cockroaches. i turn into a pissy little girl whenever either are around.
- i secretly think Keaneau Reeves is a great actor.
- i can't stand christian rock.
- the first concert i ever saw was Amy Grant.
- the second concert i ever saw was ZZ Top, thus nullifying the Amy Grant concert.
- i've never cheated on anyone in my life.
- i've cheated on a lot of tests in my life.
- i've been to jail. in mexico.
- i was joking about that Keaneau Reeves thing.
- i repeated the 10th grade. twice.
- or did i?
- i've never intentionally killed an animal.
- intentionally, i've killed 8 men. all from the same circus. i blew up their clown car.
- i love my parents. they are some of my best friends. my sisters too.
- britney spears and paris hilton make me sick. they should just do their stint in jugs magazine and go crawl into a cave somewhere, never to be seen again.
- i once had to wear my superman underoos to school. 7th grade gym class was not pleasant.
- i actually outran the cops once. after throwing eggs on their cruiser. while it was moving.
- i have published work as a photographer.
- i have a very green thumb.
- strip clubs are stupid. very stupid. a waste of my two thousand dollars. every time.
- i love going to the DMA. but i haven't been in 8 years. i used to go once a week when i was in school.
- i love home depot.
- i envy my friends and parents with happy marriages.
- i own a kadeem hardison movie. and i've seen it more than 5 times.
- i can consume a 16 oz bag of sunflower seeds in two days.
- i love spam. the meat, that is.

passion of the christ

i watched this film last night and i'm here to say that it was an amazing film. visually and artistically, it was one of the finest films i've ever seen. if you haven't seen this film, i suggest renting it, at least. this isn't really a 'purchase' worthy film, but i understand why this has been such a big deal in the religious communities. this is no charlton heston, grand scale, effects laden film to woo the critics. the true critics for this film are the christians and jews for whom the film was intended to view (did that come out right?). and no doubt, this was one of the most realistically graphic films i've ever seen. it had me cringing through half of the film. i wasn't sure if Jim Caziviel would be able to pull it off, but there was no doubt in my mind that the person i saw on my screen was Jesus. there were small effects in this film that some would label 'hollywood', but i think they were just an appropriate, modern day interpretation of Mel Gibson's beliefs. the settings were realistic, the acting was superb and the representation of satan was eerily perfect.

i had to stop watching this film halfway through it as company came over when i was watching it and before i had a chance to finish viewing it to it's completion, i was talking to my dad, who is a very religious person (and i am not), and we discussed what i'd seen. the thing that stuck in my mind about the film to that point was that i didn't see it as being necessary to have made this film. i'm not sure i still don't believe that. if this film was made to be authentic to the writings of the bible and other scriptures, i would think that believers wouldn't stand for an interpretation that would possibly upset their beliefs. i can see now that it probably hasn't, but again, i'm not sure i believe it was necessary to make this film. but congratulations to Mel for doing such an amazing job.

soggy, cont.

my previous post brushed on the weather and how happy i am about it being here with us. it's bothered those who were to attend the state fair this week as soggy corny dogs and watered down beer isn't that good. but, as much as i love stormy weather, it does upset me while driving. texas drivers continue to amaze me at their incompetence to drive in anything other than perfect weather. you've no doubt read my numerous posts about my agitation of driving on dallas roads with those who have no place being behind the wheel of a vehicle. these people bring out a different side of me that many have not seen. i am the epitome of road rage. not dangerously so, just to the degree that every man, woman and child on the road (as many infants carpool to work) are cursed and tormented and degraded, verbally by me in ways that you wouldn't hear satan himself react in the same situation.

so, knowing this, you'd think i'd get some type of therapy or start drinking earlier in the day, but it continues to amaze me that people just can't drive. it's rained once or twice in texas since the dawn of time and i just can't understand why people haven't figured out how to manage a moving vehicle in this type of weather. there will be accidents, there will be blinking stoplights and i accept that people need to take more time to be careful, but jesus, learn to fucking manage normally and get with the program.

in the past 3 months, since the purchase of my bike, i've enhanced my calm when behind the wheel as i know that my rage is an issue. even more so when you are on a motorcycle. people just don't see you and they just don't care. on my ride saturday, stacy and i were coming back from her sisters and she was leading. a guy in a bmw pulled out in front of stacy almost causing a wreck. it wasn't from there being cars in way impeding his view or even something as stupid as him being on a phone. he just wasn't paying attention. he was making a u-turn, so as he pulled into the lane next to us as stacy had just let up off of slamming on her breaks, i rode past him and barked at him "what the fuck is your problem? why don't you pay attention?" i startled him. he pulled in behind us so as to not have to pull up next to us at the next light. the roar of my bike didn't ease his tension either. i guess i fit that instant stereotype of being the bastard biker. i wasn't trying to be that way. what most people don't realize is that i may be that bastard, but they are still in a larger vehicle and could easily run me off the road. riding a motorcycle has taught me humility and patience. but it still doesn't make it any easier on days like this.

like an 18 year old's panties at a stryper concert

that's what the weather is like - soggy.

the weather arrived late last week. cool weather has come to texas and is here to stay. for at least 20 more minutes. with it, came some much needed rain that we've all been doing our dance for, for the last 3 months. after the nasty allergy problems we've had for the last two weeks, this rain is welcomed. it started at 5:30 this morning and has gotten stronger in the last two and a half hours. and it doesn't look like it's going to let up. i checked the weather and it only shows one thing for the rest of the week:

 
all week, with no let up. so when you read a post from me next friday and i start in with analogies from college parties and pissing for two and a half hours straight (it always seems really funny after about 20 minutes when it doesn't let up, and you start laughing at yourself knowing the rest of the party has come to a hault and is listening to you piss and wondering if it'll ever stop) after tapping the busch light draft keg, you'll know that it hasn't let up.

luckily, i was able to get some solid riding time in with dobra this weekend. got the thunder monster baffles in and the pipes back on and went to justin, texas with my girlfriend and her son. met a sister and enjoyed a ride back. did some riding yesterday as well, and really enjoyed. the baffles sound better at 70 mph than they do at 30. and i finally got the horsepower back that i lost when i put the custom pipes on. nice to have some kick again.

oh, and you'll notice that i gave the MST3K film and indefinite star rating. this once tv show deserves more thanks than i could ever give it. for years, i've been waking at 8 on saturday mornings and watching MST3K while drinking coffee. it was my balance in the universe. well, last spring, scifi fulfilled their contract with Best Brains (the distributor for mst) and the show is no longer on the air. it's unfortunate, but everything comes to an end eventually. at least it can still live on in different media.