today was my last day working for that corporate music & movies chain named after some tropical fruit.

in leaving i take with me -- unanswered -- the question, "what the hell classifies a movie as urbanso far the only thing i've come up with is a scenario involving some fat, balding, white guy in a suit deciding at some meeting with other younger ( Read more... )

looking for new york employment online, i found a graphic design job in manhattan that pays up to $35/hr. unfortunately, i'm allergic to quark. too bad it's still the industry standard and i can't even stand looking at the interface ( Read more... )

here's my top ten movie list for 2003, a week into 2004. also, a bunch of random nominations and whatnot. overall, a good year, despite the absence of a new wes anderson movie ( Read more... )

in the past few days, the saddest conversation [among several sad conversations, per day] that i've had with a customer at work went something like this:

me: "...how may i help you?"
gimp: "what time do the britney spears tickets go on sale?"
[ed. note: fucking typical!]
me: "noon, sir."
gimp: "so...like...one?"

i also saw return of the king this ( Read more... )

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i quite certainly encountered an alien [disguised, albeit somewhat unconvincingly, as a human] today at work. she was a short, round old white lady with a green bubble-jacket and large, square-framed glasses that magnified her eyes ( Read more... )

my brother and i watched 21 grams last night. it was a big fucking downer, much like iñárritu's last film, amores perros -- and also like its predecessor, watching it was well worth being slowly, but completely dragged into an extremely bleak and exhausting, but weirdly satisfying mood. despite how heavy it was, it was refreshing [and reassuring ( Read more... )

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...i had to get up at 5:45 this morning for work. thankfully, i only had to work three hours because i have a wedding to go to later today, though i really don't want to go to that either.

anyway, charles lindbergh apparently led a double-life for almost twenty years, though it sounds more literary than an actual occurrence ( Read more... )

weirdest thanksgiving news ever...

so the bright, shining child-star of such underrated gems as neverending story 2: the next chapter, ladybugs, tv's seaquest and the chuck norris tour-de-force, sidekicks has reportedly hanged himself!

...a holiday mystery!