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Today is fucking annoying and work is driving me nuts. But I am going to take a moment to mention and immortalize the awesome halloween night I had last night. And I didn't have to put on a costume to do it. Though if anyone asked why I wasn't wearing a costume I told them, "I am dressed as a Republican, those fuckers look just like everyone else."
So ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) alexlucard, Scott and I went to Chevy's and had enormous dinners. Of course, we hesitated in ordering until we were sure that Alex wasn't going to be thrown out due to the problems he caused involving his birthday and a sombrero. We ate and bullshitted. I had to explain to Scott how much of his life Alex actually puts in his journal, which is to say, almost everything. And thus had to answer questions like, "What did he really think about living with me?" I told Scott that Alex enjoyed it but found the weekly animal sacrifices to be a bit over the top.
After dinner, we went to the show where we were promptly moved from our very good balcony seats to the front row thanks to Alex's reputation. I think Henry wanted to be able to whip it out and take a piss on him should the muse decend. But alas it didn't. Henry was great from the get go. He came out of the cage talking about Katrina and Bush and the bullshit surrounding that. He talked about an anti war protest in DC that he witnessed that got very little air time on the news. He talked about his favorite Bush quotes. He told us that his reason for wanting Hilary to be elected was so that Bill would get a second chance to jizz in the oval office. He told of his trip across Siberia on the Trans-Siberian Railroad (Scott fell asleep for that part). The best part was when he talked about his USO tours, specifically the 2 tours he took through the military hospitals in DC. He has a very interesting way of describing the pain and joy associated with meeting these unfortunate victims of a terrible war that he doesn't agree with. He finished up by telling a great joke that he made during the filming of a movie that will never see the light of day (the joke, not the movie) because it was made in rehearsal. Sufficed to say it had to do with pussy whip for the lactose intolerant. All in all it was a great show and I will be first in line to see Henry Rollins again. Maybe Alex can use his powers of iconology to score us back stage next time.
After the show we went for ice cream at Sebastian Joe's. Which was quite yummy.
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I do't know if anyone posted this, but Don Adams from Get Smart fame passed away on Monday. I love Get Smart. One of the best things Mel Brooks ever did. Ever.
Don Adams on CNN. |
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Japanese Nerd Grrls Will Own Otaku Market
While some argue that Japan is caught up in an “Otaku Bubble” where the value of the nerd business has become over-inflated, Hamagin’s Shinichi Shinano, who drew up the initial report on the sector says, thanks to gal geeks, we ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
(Note: the reporter seems to screw up his numbers here.)
“This 88.8 billion yen market is only comprised of otaku publications, movies and games. It didn’t include related merchandise or contents directed at women,” Shinano tells Spa! “I don’t know the exact figure, but I guess if you added these markets on, the worth of the otaku business might even go over 10 billion yen. You’ve got to note, though, that men’s and women’s are always blending further together and that women buy a lot more merchandise than guys. The female otaku market is certainly one worth watching for the future.”
Shinano may be right. About 30 percent of all readers of Shonen Jump, Japan’s biggest selling weekly manga with a circulation of millions, are women. Gals also account for about 70 percent of attendees at Komike, the huge biannual trade show of the amateur and semi-professional comics, manga, anime and games that are collectively known as dojinshi… |
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Ok...
So I am at CompUSA picking up a new video card and a power source when I happen to overhear this conversation in the aisle next to me:
A clerk is helping a customer with a question about using the ipod in the car.
Clerk: "Well, if you have a tape deck, you can use the cassette adapter, but if you don't have that, you can use an FM Transmitter."
Customer: "Huh?"
Clerk: "You hook it up to the ipod and it transmits the signal from your ipod to the radio."
Customer: "So...you mean I gotta listen to the commercials?"
Clerk: "..."
Clerk: "No sir, you tune the station to one of the preselected station and listen to the ipod."
Customer: "Well, do they have any hip-hop stations, cause I like hip-hop."
Clerk: "Well, 101.3 is a hip-hop station, but..."
Customer: "So this thing gets 101.3?"
Clerk: "No...it only has two stations that it can get, but..."
Customer: "And neither of those is hip-hop?"
Clerk: "It plays whatever you play on the ipod."
Customer: "And I have to listen to the commercials?"
Clerk: "No..."
Customer: "See, like, 101.3 plays like ten minutes of commercials after every two songs. What happens when the commercials come on?"
Clerk: "You won't be on 101.3. The station you are on will just play your ipods music."
Customer: "What happens to the commercials?"
Now, Cthulhu bless the little clerk's heart...I would have looked at the guy and said "You need to return the Ipod cause you are obviously too dumb to own one," but he never got upset and never lost his cool. He just kept plugging away trying to explain this too the guy. I had to walk away at that point cause I wanted to point at the guy and laugh my ass off. Instead, I bought my equipment and a Bawls and laughed my ass off in my car where I had my Ipod transmitting to the radio.
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Hope you like it. And LC is welcome to it if he likes it. Heck, I stole it from him. |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIANNE!
SORRY IT IS LATE!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND I HOPE IT WAS WONDERFUL!
May. 15th, 2005 @ 11:47 am
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I just watched a commercial for Chase Manhattan where they stated that "they have over 900 credit cards, one of which is perfect for you." Does this rampant materialistic capitalism make anyone else want to puke?
Yay for GW!
May. 13th, 2005 @ 11:28 pm
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I won't get the check until Monday. I am on FUCKING vacation Monday. Does anyone believe in the slightest that I fucking want to come to this shithole on Monday. NO! At least one of the directors was willing to float me some cash to survive the weekend. I am pissed.
The worst part is that they weren't planning on getting the check out right away. They were going to wait until Monday to cut the new check then send it fucking slowboat via China to me. Fucking Assholes!
And I still have upgrades to do.
Calgon take me away!!!!!!!!!
May. 6th, 2005 @ 02:33 pm
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So two shitty things have happened today.
1. The PSP's I was supposed to get were delayed due to shipping problems. Sorry Alex and Matt, they will be here eventually, just not this weekend.
2. I didn't get paid. My company switched or payroll software and it noticed that I used to have direct deposit, so it reinstated it. However, the account where it was sent to is defunct. The bank says, "Fine. We will send you a check for the funds soon. Like a week or so." I told my payroll person to cut me a check and I would sign the other check over to the company. He is checking to see what the head of payroll wants to do. I am not leaving without a check today.
Arrrggghhh! I knew today was going to suck at work, but I thought it was going to be due to the upgrades we are doing. I want my PSP. Dammit. Now I have no excuse not to pay my rent, except that I didn't get payed.
Update: I was just told that even if they were willing to do same day delivery (which they probably wouldn't) it is too late in the day to get it here today. I am sooooo happy I got up this morning.
Update 2: Almost noon and no money, no answers even. Free Pizza though. And the voodoo doll was helpful. Thanks.
May. 6th, 2005 @ 09:43 am
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I want to write a Lovecraftian horror story called "Death by Corrosion". It just sounds cool. Especially when Chris Kattan says it.
Apr. 23rd, 2005 @ 09:10 am
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REVIEW SUMMARY
Bad movies are a dime a dozen, but every so often, an out-and-out stinker like "Alone in the Dark" slinks into the marketplace. This horror film spun off from an old Atari video game is so inept on every level, you wonder why the distributor didn’t release it straight to video, or better yet, toss it directly into the trash. — Stephen Holden, The New York Times
ALONE IN THE DARK REVIEW IN FANGORIA MAGAZINE
My expectations for Uwe (HOUSE OF THE DEAD) Boll’s ALONE IN THE DARK could not have been lower, but I’m happy to report that this latest video game-cum-movie is actually an entertaining rollercoaster ride, loaded with RELIC-style creature FX, rousing fight scenes and nonstop action. Christian Slater, Tara Reid and Stephen Dorff do the requisite monsterbusting shtick, and the film moves so fast that you never have a chance to figure out what they are fighting and why. Lions Gate releases ALONE IN THE DARK January 28; look for a set visit in Fango #240, on sale Jan. 18.
Alone in the Dark Reviews
AloneInTheDarkPoster.jpgJust when i was starting to wonder if I'd see any reviews this year WORSE than the ones received by Elektra... along come Alone in the Dark. Oh wow... no seriously folks.. this film is getting HAMMERED by the critics from every angle.
I was looking forward to catching Christian Slater in a flick again... I guess this couldn't be called a tripumphant return. Just take a look at some of the horrific things that are being said about this film. Keep in mind, these aren't just a couple of bad reviews... ALL of them are this bad.
"This horror film, spun off from an old Atari video game, is so inept on every level, you wonder why the distributor didn't release it straight to video, or better, toss it directly into the trash."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Alone in the Dark co-stars perpetual party-girl Tara Reid as an archeologist. That alone should give you some clue as to how bad this movie is."
-- Bob Townsend, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"There are some stupid films that rock, if you turn your brain off and enjoy them. Alone in the Dark isn't one of these, though it is very stupid."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Terrible beyond belief, like the worst 1940s serial ever made. As for Slater and Dorff...well, they've been in worse movies--wait a minute, no they haven't."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
Movie review: 'Alone in the Dark' is an asinine hodgepodge
Star Tribune
January 28, 2005 ALONE0128
If you took the 100 worst ideas ever conceived for a science-fiction film, rattled them around in a Lotto tumbler and spilled them out onto the screen at random, you could not produce a more asinine hodgepodge than "Alone in the Dark." A film so utterly bereft of intelligence, craftsmanship and entertainment value must be regarded with awe and reverence. It has attained a kind of unfortunate perfection.
A lengthy opening text crawl sets up the film's back story, a muddle of dimensional portals, extinct American Indian cultures, evil creatures, secret government agencies and mad doctors.
The perplexity is multiplied with the arrival of Christian Slater as Carnby, a two-fisted adventurer determined to discover the connection between the demons and the post-traumatic stresses suffered by his 19 orphan friends, onetime wards of the snarlingly evil Prof. Hudgens (Matthew Walker, who rants like an entire psych ward's worth of crazed movie scientists).
Christian Slater and Tara Reid in Alone in the Dark"
Edward Carnby
Lions Gate Films
For all the usual misguided reasons he wants to open the doorway of doom so unimaginatively rendered aliens can enter our dimension and dine on us. The unlikeliness that human flesh would be a delicacy to creatures from another dimension is a minor quibble in a story such as this. Suffice it to say that the filmmakers believe that by slapping nerd eyeglasses on Tara Reid, you have made her a credible museum director.
The film's last 30 minutes are an endless melee of gunfire and galumphing monsters. "Alone in the Dark" is where anyone gullible enough to see this fiasco deserves to be.
0 out of four stars
Rated R: Violence, language.
Colin Covert
Jan. 29th, 2005 @ 12:14 pm
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Cool...a drunk cabin boy and a hot first mate. A sexy rival and plenty of wicked nights...hmmm!
Nov. 16th, 2004 @ 09:54 pm
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"You may be a Republican,
and I may be a Democrat,
but we can still be friends.
I will hug your elephant,
and you can kiss my ass."
See...I post.
Nov. 4th, 2004 @ 01:13 pm
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"Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country."
"But you know why the Pell Grants have gone up in their numbers?
Because more people qualify for them because they don‘t have money."
"Well, I guess the president and you and I are three examples of lucky people who married up."
(LAUGHTER)
"And some would say maybe me moreso than others."
(LAUGHTER)
"But I can take it."
(LAUGHTER)
Oct. 14th, 2004 @ 09:51 am
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| » Yoinked from bitchcakes_xo. It is too true not to. |
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I am passing this on to you because it has definitely worked for me,
and with the current world conditions we all could use a little calm.
By following the simple advice I read in an article, I have finally
found inner peace. The article read: "The way to achieve inner peace is to
finish all the things you've started."
So I looked around the house to see all the things I started and
hadn't finished, and before I left the house this morning I finished off a
bottle of red wine, a bottle of white, the Bailey's, Kahlua and Wild
Turkey, my 1/4 keg of LaBatt's Blue, the Prozac, some valium, some cheesecake and a box of chocolates. You have no idea how freakin' good I feel.
Oct. 11th, 2004 @ 04:34 pm
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Thanks to Neil Gaiman I now know that my use of X-mas to refer to it as a commercial holiday is patently wrong. Fucking Christians. We need to feed them to the lions.
X-mas ( P ) (krsms, ksms)n.
Christmas.
[From X, the Greek letter chi, first letter of Greek Khrstos, Christ. See Christ.]
Usage Note: Xmas has been used for hundreds of years in religious writing, where the X represents a Greek chi, the first letter of, "Christ." In this use it is parallel to other forms like Xtian, "Christian." But people unaware of the Greek origin of this X often mistakenly interpret Xmas as an informal shortening pronounced (ksms). Many therefore frown upon the term Xmas because it seems to them a commercial convenience that omits Christ from Christmas.
Sep. 17th, 2004 @ 07:49 am
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Ok...I know I have to go to this wedding. I promised Sara I would go months ago. And I am going, but Resident Evil 2 opens today. I didn't know. I DID NOT KNOW. I would never have agreed to go out of town had i known. Now I have to wait until Sunday to go see it. DAMN. Alex, busy Sunday?
Sep. 10th, 2004 @ 11:33 am
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