As I was getting off work a half an hour ago, I heard on the radio that George Carlin has died. His sharp, quick wit and thought-provoking observations on the subtleties of the English language will be missed. So it goes.

I rented The Big Lebowski (always great) and Blade Runner: The Final Cut, which turned out to be significantly awesome, as far as the tons of different versions of Blade Runner there are goes. It really is the best version of the film I've ever seen; the picture and sound are all digitally cleaned up and whatnot, and there's a bit of new stuff here ( Read more... )

I was thinking that Johnny Cash's cover of Sting's "I Hung My Head" from the American IV album would be the song I would want played at my funeral. That, and/or Warren Zevon's "My Shit's Fucked Up." I don't know why I thought that, it's kind of morbid. "The Wind Cries Mary," by Jimi Hendrix would be a good funeral song too, if there is such a thing

I bought an iMac today, it was expensive, but I love it so far. Last night at about 3.30 a branch fell off of a tree in the front yard, and onto the power line, pulling it out of the house, and cutting off the cable, so I've been without TV and internet all day. This computer though, is wireless capable out of the box, so right now I'm siphoning ( Read more... )

I watched Juno earlier today on DVD and it was really good.

Lately I've been thinking that I want to buy an iMac. Whit has a MacBook and it's certainly sleek and neat looking, and she apparently loves the thing. And I've heard that Mac is really a much better OS than Windows for myriad reasons, and there's certainly a very loyal following among Mac users. The only problem is that the cheapest iMac is still ( Read more... )

I can't go into a bookstore without spending like 50 bucks. Wednesday I got My Boring-Ass Life by Kevin Smith, which will no doubt be classic Kevin Smith hilarity, and I finally found copies of both Batman: The Killing Joke and Maus. I'd read The Killing Joke before, and although it's not nearly as good as a lot of Alan Moore's other stuff, it's an ( Read more... )

Whenever I have a dream in which I'm driving a car, the brakes never work properly. I can mash down on the pedal as hard as I can and the car will slow to a crawl, but it will never stop where I want it to like a real car will. Yesterday I had a dream in which that very thing happened. I was driving along and I went through a red light really ( Read more... )

Out the window I can hear all kinds of weird beepy chirping noises coming from somewhere high in the trees.

Got the Rock Band drums today. They're hard to use. The drumming part is easy enough, but the kick peddle throws me off, I've never had to use my feet to play a video game. They released "Still Alive" as a downloadable song for Rock Band, and it's great.