Considering the exorbitant costs of seeing movies in first run theaters these days, It has to be really interesting to lure me out. The question of whether to see Coraline in the theater was just answered. My answering machine received a robotic phone call pimping the movie. Just like politicians who spam my phone, movies also shall receive anti ( Read more... )

Listened to the inauguration somewhat on the radio at lunch. I was rather disapointed even shocked by the racist rhetoric that followed Obama's Inaugural address. After talking about the Ideals of MLK, it was a slap in the face to hear people accused en masse of failing to "embrace what is right" based on the color of their skin. If "racial" ( Read more... )

I received the complete school house rock DVD for the holidays. Woot!

So in celebration of that, and in consideration of the current activites in washington:

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Found a site that seems to specialize in the Dark Ambient music genere I like. http://www.cycliclaw.com/news.htmlRead more... )

Beware ordering too many things off Amazon at once. The flood of confirmation and status emails can be overwhelming

Why do I take my sunglasses to work with me when I leave before the sun comes up, and likely go home after the sun as gone down?

Most coffee available today is what I'll call "Burnt Roast", emulating the Starbucks roast. Frankly, I don't find it very enjoyable. A friend of mine some time ago roasted his own coffee, and shared what he called "City Roast", and it was actually tasty. I wasn't sure though whether to attribute the taste to the roast, or to the home made ( Read more... )

Child of the 80s as I am, I must confess my favorite song for the minute is the 8-bit version of the Chocolate Rain song by Coda ( Read more... )

Palin and who?

http://bumperstickers.cafepress.com/item/palin-mccain-08/299450492

That's about how I feel about this ticket.

Lol, a dark ambient artist I like recently came out with a new CD (yay). I see 46 new&used copies on amazon :), an epic number because his audience is so small. I understand he used musicians from Tool, Ozbornes, and Melvins, but it sounds nothing like pop music (as it shouldn't). I envision dozens of kids buying it thinking it would be some new ( Read more... )