So there's apparently a film critic named Kyle Smith. And the way I found this out is, I went to Blockbuster to rent a movie, and on the front cover of the dvd, it has a little blurb that says, "The funniest film I've seen this year" --Kyle Smith, New York Post. And it kind of stopped me in my tracks, because I thought, "Wait a minute, I haven't ( Read more... )

The other day I had to get the battery in my car replaced, so whilst I and my dad were waiting on the Sears auto department to get that job done, I wandered around the mall (a place I hate with a furious passion) and I ended up buying the special edition DVDs of Memento and Aliens, both great movies. Playing right now in the background of life ( Read more... )

As far as holidays go, I prefer Halloween, or maybe Arbor Day.

Ten years ago today, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released for the N64. I remember ten years ago quite clearly when I think about it. I knew I was going to get the game for Christmas, and so I went out of my way to isolate myself from this game for a month. I did not play it, when my friends were raving about it, I didn't read a single ( Read more... )

I usually don't get all weepy and whatnot when a celebrity dies; I understand that death is an inevitable part of life, etc. Lately I've been thinking though, about the late Heath Ledger. When he died in January, I didn't think much of it. I don't think I had even seen any of the movies he'd been in up to that point. But a few months after he died ( Read more... )

Pretty sure I'm going to quit my job sometime within the next month or so.

A week or two ago, during one of my usual book store runs, I happened upon Ender's Game in the science fiction section. The title sounded vaguely familiar, though I hadn't read it at that point, and it announced on the cover that it had won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, the two highest honors in the sci-fi nerdery, and so I decided to give it a ( Read more... )

I'm pretty much alone most of the time, even when I'm around other people. I don't have a social life to speak of. I'm tired all the time, except when I need to get some sleep (right now, for instance). I want to quit my job and move somewhere else, but I don't, for some reason. My life has no direction that I can tell, although it is essentially

Time passes, things fall apart
people grow old, and die
nothing can change this.

About twenty minutes ago I woke up from a few hours' sleep, during which there was a series of unusual and weird dreams. The ones I remember include: I was playing (or I guess in this case, was actually in) Team Fortress 2, except there were many things wrong with it. There was a yellow team, somehow, and I seem to recall elements of Duke Nukem 3d ( Read more... )