"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. " - Michelangelo
This is a ridiculously lazy post. I've spent all of my post-work hours watching way too much TV and fixing up a contract for one of my friends who is (hopefully) about to get a lot of money taking pictures for a local college's big ol' homecoming coronation events. Anything to get a little sliver of the Big Money pie!
- Music:TV: Models Of The Runway... how embarrassing
( I'm glad he got rid of that silly hat. )
- Music:two fans
( What I am planning on watching on TV this season. )
- Music:TV: House
I am trying to watch the Emmys (and the game) as I do this, so there will be random brusts of "Suck it, Emmys!" and "Yess! Emmys!". Probably more of the first than the second. First off, the Emmys suck. But thank goodness they lump everything together, so when they get to the big reality/miniseries/movie/variety segment I can flip back over to the Cowboys/Giants to pass the time before I tune in, hopefully, in time to see Michael Emerson get what he deserves.) Are you kidding me... Aikman, Emmit and Irving are on the sideline. I don't even know you Tony Romo and other assorted Cowboys, but you guys are no Aikman, Smith and Irving. Oh, The Daily Show just won something... is it sad that since the election I have watched probably five episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report... combined. That is just sad.
A favorite site? This is probably the hardest one yet. I'm not a social networker. I don't myspace, facebook or twitter. I don't check any big news sites. I don't read any of the big blogs. Yet, I spend a lot of time online. Clearly I need to better manage my time. I check about 10 sites regularly... most of them you already know... LJ, TWoP (well, not so much over the past few months, but that's about to change.), a local blog aggregator, my friend's message board, a couple of random boards I lurk on... that's really about it. I can see this is gonna suck... just like the Cowboys are managing to do.
( Here are some random sites I have bookmarked for various reasons. )Outstanding Comedy. 30 Rock? That is just a guess. ::is over 30 Rock:: Shocking! 30 Rock!
The Drama category is up next and there are two shows I love (Lost and Big Love), one I should, but don't quite yet (Mad Men), one I watch (House), one I used to watch (Dexter), Breaking Bad and Damages. I really, really want Lost to win, I know Big Love has no shot and am pretty sure Mad Men is going to take it. But the Cowboys are winning, so at least I've got that. Shock of shocks, Mad Men wins! I am slightly angry, but can't get to ranting about it because it's 11:03... and time for Mad Men.
- Music:TV: The Emmys
( I never really owned this book, but not for lack of trying. )
- Music:the fan
( Big ol' picture ahead! )
Tomorrow: a favorite book/fanfic. I am pretty sure it will be a book.
- Music:Lake Side: Fantastic Voyage
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eevilalice .Coming Attractions:
Day Two: a favorite picture
Day Three: a favorite book/fanfic (It will be a book.)
Day Four: a favorite site
Day Five: a favorite youtube clip
Day Six: a favorite quote
Day Seven: whatever tickles my fancy (could be anything!)
( Because my meme tag feels neglected. )
* The title of this post is in no way a statement at all related to anyone from the El Sobrante area of California, that's just my Latin degree usage for the month of September. As far as I know, Les Claypool and friends are all still alive and kicking.
- Music:TV: Project Runway
( What I will not get, Big Beatles Week or not, is that Entertainment Weekly, not unless there's an alternate cover out there that no one's seen yet. )
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lookbacksongs, but I've already done the hard part, might as well post it!- Music:TV: The Making of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
( Also missing: complaints about the weather. ) Oh yeah, my room is still a mess. It was good for a while, but I did not finish that first time, so now I'm back to my normal state of "everything's on the floor". It may not be as bad as that last time ::looks around:: or maybe it is. I am not sure. I got a bigger bed, so I lost some floor space. Perhaps I'll handle that on Tuesday. I need to find my wallet, and I am sure it's in here somewhere.
Maybe next time I will discuss my new favorite house-related problem: we need to get a pole or something in the basement, because the shoddy 70's workmanship that gave us such hits as Hold On, Why Are My Shoes Floating Away (basement floods) and Wait, Why Are The Walls Cracked Like (old house shifting)That has manifested a new issue... The Top Floor Is Slowly Falling Down (one day my upstairs room will be my downstairs room). There's a guy coming to look at it tomorrow.
- Music:Maxwell: Whenever Wherever Whatever
For one thing, cluttered homes tell us more about the personalities of its occupants than do homes stripped to their carefully arranged essentials--it's the optional, extraneous items we leave lying around that bear the stamp of our quirky inner selves. -- A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder - How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and on-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman
In the age-old tradition of telling people you are going to do something in an effort to shame motivate yourself into doing something, I am going to post pictures of my ridiculously messy room and then clean it!
Since I am always working on the weekends, my manager decided to give me this entire weekend off. I left work at 7:30 yesterday and don't go back until 11AM Tuesday morning. That gives me somewhere in the vicinity of 87.5 hours of time at home. Now, subtracting somewhere between 8 and 10 hours per day for sleeping, that brings us to somewhere between 63.5 and 47.5 hours... hours in which I have nothing to do (save for watching Kings tomorrow at 8 and trying to watch the race sometime around that same time). I don't care about the Fourth of July, so it's not like I have a cookout to go to or anything. My plans for the three day weekend was "to stay home, maybe watch some tv, do some painting, sleep... you know, the usual." Instead, I am gonna clean. I can't spend three straight days in this squalor. So, I will clean it, and catalog my progress (I'd say "or lack thereof", but no... there will be progress!) Okay, enough with the yapping, on to the cleaning! Now, where are those trash bags?
- Music:Flight of the Conchords: Mutha'uckas and Too Many Dicks.
Oh goodness, it's "Score Tonight" , which I thought was called 'Bowl Tonight" I have not seen this in ages, so I don't recall much. I am pretty sure that I'm gonna mark out for "Cool Rider" though. Don't judge me.
So, it's been a while. "Hello!" and all that. Congratulations on everything... the birthdays, graduations, near-graduations, completions of freshman years, acceptances to college, trips abroad, safe returns, almost-done-with-grad-schools, breakups that got you away from people who suck, (There it is! "Cool Rider!" Umm.. it's kind of lame, but better than the rest so far.), marriages, LJ deletions (boo!) and everything else. I am sure I forgot something.
Thank mole for sparing you from scrolling past my post-NBA playoffs and Draft thoughts. Basically it's this: The Magic had a good run, those puppets sucked, I am all Kobe'd out, the draft was full of guys I had never heard of, it seems focusing on football was in Paulus' best interest, I hope Shaq + LeBron brings as much ego-clashing ridiculousness as Shaq + Kobe and I think that's about it.
( Who'se gonna be my go-to 'I wonder what it will be like when ____ dies' guy now? )
"Do It For Our Country" has got to be one of the most terrible songs I have ever heard.
And, for Bean: Listen To The Band: Volume 1
- Music:TV: Grease 2
Dear NBA Finals Announcers,
Please tell me again how great/outstanding/spectacular/talented/a man among boys/BEST EVER!!!! Kobe Bryant is. I mean, you have not told me in .04 seconds, I am in danger of forgetting. You, almost to a man, are so far up on Kobe thatAnd now... quizzes, because this post has been sitting here all day waiting for me to have something non-quizzy to add. I slacked off on my catch-up post, then I deemed the "books I bought" post not interesting enough to carry things. Then it was game time. Then then there were more quizzes. So instead you get a small taste of my disgust at the 2008-09 Kobe Bryant Finals featuring the LA Kobes and the Orlando Not-Kobes
( There's no sports in here. Only quizzes... )
- Music:The Beatles - Mean Mr. Mustard (Kinfauns Home Demo) and the game
( I wish I'd watched enough to say 'Volume Four? More like Volume Snore, am I right?' But, I didn't... )
- Music:the air conditioner. It's hot!
So today, on Easter proper, I saw that "In The Beginning..." was on. I got kind of excited, expecting the super-long one made back in the 60s. I watched it a few years back, but have not seen it since then. (It seems that The Ten Commandments is the go-to Easter movie. ABC shows it EVERY Year.) What I wanted was the one where the guy was going to make a movie of the entire Bible, but found that that was kind of hard. The movie ended up being about four hours long and only go up through Abraham.
( What movie WAS I watching? And other stuff completely unrelated to bad movies. )
And now, I have decided to fill my Religious Movie Easter Quota with Clash of The Titans. Yeah, it's in 12 parts on YouTube, but that's alright, it's a classic and definitely better than what I was just watching.
- Music:Clash Of The Titans - 01/12
1. Why can't I find an
2. Why did Michigan State even bother beating Connecticut if they were gonna get to the Big Game and embarrass themselves by choking spectacularly when it really matters? This is why I hate the late-tourney upset! You end up with some no-business-in-the-finals team wasting space on the court and making for bad sports/television. Do you know what this means? Loudmouth Tarheel fans coming out of the woodwork talking trash about being a dynasty and "oooh, we got two titles in four years" and all of that. Excellent. Only, not.
3. I really want some Taco Bell.
( Meme! )
( Thoughts! With spoilers for whatever episode that was that just aired. )
- Music:Channel Live: Mad Izm
I often get excited for the RnRHoF inductions, because there's usually a chance that something great can come out of it. Obviously, sometimes you get a crappy class. But sometimes you get a class which has the potential for one of those once-in-a-lifetime things that makes you go, "Man, I wish I was there!". I mean, there's always the lame "person who you have never heard of but wrote some song you've probably heard a million times", but the top of the class usually includes some pretty great performers (you know, being the Hall of Fame and all. Though soon all of the good ones will be taken, and it will be more like the Hall of Mediocrity inductions, but that is hopefully more than a few years away. ::crosses fingers::) This year's class included both Jeff Beck (legendary guitarist, Yardbird), Run-DMC (rap legends, but completely irrelevant for the purposes of this post) and Metallica (who I used to love, then fall out of listening too, but often go back to again).
( LJ: Where I go to get excited about things I have no one in real life to get excited with. )
- Music:What else? Metallica, Jimmy Page and some other guys: Train Kept A' Rollin'
( Watch as one commercial combines at least five things I cannot stand... )And now I have to go and rush a roast in the over before Kings starts. It's new and I like it, but I am sure it's gonna be canceled any day now. This means I am torn between enjoying it while it lasts and trying to decide if its worth getting invested in something that will surely be pulled for some sort of reality TV program of either the "famous people competing at some mundane every day event" or "everyday people doing extraordinary things" variety. I mean, it's a TV show that actually got me to break out a book kind of like a Bible (Technically it was a Bible "summary" or something. Though, to be fair, I first went for my "My First Book of Bible Stories". Who woulda' thought that a book I was given as a gift when I was four would come in handy for TV watching almost 3 decades later? I bet the people who gave it to me didn't!) That's a feat in and of itself. Plus, it looks really good (more like a movie than a TV show) and, only three episodes in, has characters I both really, really like and wish were dead. Good work soon-to-be-canceled show! And now, roast time!
- Music:David Boie: Stay
Thursday was cool,but Friday is KILLING my bracket! Killing it! And do you know what the worst part is? The main offenders come from my home conference! (And I mean "home" literally. The ACC is based in Greensboro.) After today "always go with the conference" may be stricken from the Official Tournament Strategy come next year. Seriously, can someone NOT Duke or Carolina win one? Clemson? Out! Boston College? Out! Wake Forest? This post has been in progress for a while, and things have only gotten worse as time has passed. When I came home from work, I was 19-25, which was not too bad (but trying to figure out the percentages killed me. It ended up being 78 or something.) Now, four or so hours later I am 23-32. That's nine wrong! Who goes from 5 wrong to 4 wrong in the span of about 6 games? Me, that's who.
My mistakes are spread out so that I got at least one participant in each of the second round games right. This means I can end the weekend on the right track, but it's gonna be an uphill battle. Of course I work during all of the good games tomorrow. Maryland/Memphis, UCLA/Villanova, Duke/Texas. I'll miss them all.
- Music:a podcast with some cross-continental forum cats I don't even know.
Anyway, today memes, tomorrow I will either resurrect the TV post (I just started watching two new shows.. well, one "new", one "new to me", and now I'm gonna talk about them. Oh, and Lost, I'm probably gonna talk about Lost.) or work (Someone, I will not say who, may or may not have done something that may or may not end up in a lawsuit. Could go either way.
( Wasting time? It's what I do! )
- Music:Carly Simon: You're So Vain
Other than that I just go with who I think will/should win. I favor my home conference (though only in the 9-team configuration, none of those Big East Refugee Conference Killers), but not my home state. I will always pick Kansas to choke in the end, and I admittedly always pick the Blue Devils to last way longer than anyone who is not a fan will say is sensible. (Though, I don't ever pick them to win.) I usually do well in the first round, falter a bit in the second and have to wait until the Sweet Sixteen for things to shake back out in my direction. By the time the Final Four comes around, I usually have 3 of the 4 right, and am either 100% or 0% correct in my Championship selections.
( will there be pictures of blue-and-white-clad college kids with trophies? I bet there will! )
Both Duke and Carolina are playing in the tournament this year. This is not news. What is is that they are both playing here this year. We usually get one of them, but this year? We get them both. Around here that is bigger than getting the Super Bowl. And, I have the money to get tickets to the tournament! How often does that happen? (Not as often as it should) But, I have a job. A job that writes you up when you are late/call in. This means that instead of doing what I want to do and heading to the Coliseum tomorrow to watch practice, I will be at work. And, instead of being at the Coliseum (or, truthfully, the house) this weekend to watch the games, I will be at work. I lose again!
- Music:David Bowie: John, I'm Only Dancing
