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I'll throw you around by your hair if I want to!

June 30th, 2005. Published under General. No Comments.

This little item is oddly disturbing…yet strangely satisfiying.

You can pull and drag and throw her around, if you're so inclined. But it's more fun to just watch her fall….I can stare at it for hours…

Poor Kitty!

June 30th, 2005. Published under General. No Comments.

There's an interesting show on NPR right now about people having big cats (tigers, lions….oh my?) as pets.

And how mistreated most of these cats are because the people buying them for pets* don't have any idea how to care for these big animals.

It's pretty sad, really.

On an unrelated note, I'm going to try to get out and do something productive today. If the weather cooperates, that is. I have a loooong list of grievances right now and I need to get over all of them. Sitting here all day isn't going to help.

Oh yeah! Um…

June 29th, 2005. Published under General. No Comments.

So far, this vacation has sucked.

Why?

Because the weather is shitty, and instead of getting shit done around the house, I've been doing a whole lot of nothing.

I also am pretty much stuck here as I don't have a way of getting anywhere. No, I do not want to go downtown for anything…I'm down there every single damn day.

I need pedals for my bike.

I need to not be so neurotic.

I want to feel you from the inside?

June 28th, 2005. Published under General. No Comments.

Why Trent Reznor is the coolest fucking musician EVAR…

Before Nine Inch Nail's latest effort “With Teeth” was released, they offered for download on their site a Garage Band version of “The Hand That Feeds” for FREE download for all the wannabe mash-up artists to fiddle and futz around to their hearts content.

You can now download their latest single (”Only”) for not only Garage Band, but for Ableton Live, Digidesign and Sony Acid Xpress Pro.

I never downloaded the first one - well, because I didn't HAVE a Mac then - but I'm going to download this one when I get home.

Sweet.

Podcasting? Fuck yes!

June 28th, 2005. Published under General. No Comments.

Today marks the release of iTunes 4.9.
One of the new features added is Podcasting.

I'm so very excited by this.

I've been wanting to get into podcasts for a while now. And being a relatively new user to the Mac, I didn't want to fuck anything up by messing with these third party, unreliable sources to get podcasts.

Now I can get everything through the iTunes store! Woot!

I haven't been able to check it out yet - but I'm hoping and praying that NPR shows will be on there. I always forget to listen to “This American Life” and “Wait Wait Don't Tell Me”. And, the music ones will help expose me to new music.

Eeeexcellent, Smithers!

Darth Maverick!

June 27th, 2005. Published under General. No Comments.

Oh sweet God this article about Tom Cruise is fucking HILARIOUS!
Pants-wetting hilarious.

“I've never agreed with psychiatry, ever. Before I was a Scientologist I never agreed with psychiatry. And when I started studying the history of psychiatry, I understood more and more why I didn't believe in psychology.”*

“…and like, that's hot.”
I swear…Paris Hilton and Tom Cruise must rent out the same defective brain for parties and interviews.
I think MY brain just escaped out my ear canal…

Batman Begins

June 27th, 2005. Published under General. No Comments.

This latest incarnation of the Batman series is good. Really good. Probably the closest thing to what the comic-book version of Batman is.

In the 60's we were tortured with the Adam West/Burt Ward casting of Batman and Robin. To call it “campy” is to call an amputated leg “a scratch”.

Then we had the painful Michael Keaton Batman - everything about that movie (except the brilliant performance of Jack Nicholson) was not that good. And until “Batman Begins”, it was the BEST Batman movie. The Val Kilmer Batman sucked, and I heard such bad things about the George Clooney Batman that I didn't even see it. That's probably for the best.

In a move of brilliance not unlike the casting of then unknown Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in “X-Men”, Christian Bale was cast as Bruce Wayne/Batman. He's believable as both Bruce Wayne and as Batman (without having to rely on the costume to be Batman…he just IS).

Also, the supporting cast (although it's damn close to an ensemble cast, IMO) is brilliant: Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine and Cillian Murphy (damn…those eyes!). The only casting I didn't like was Katie Holmes. No, it's not because of the whole “TomKat” thing…she just didn't fit the role of the “female love interest”. There was no chemistry between her and Bale and she came across as helpless when her role could've been a pretty strong one. I would have rather have seen Sarah Michelle Gellar or Natalie Portman (two actress who were up for it) in that role.

The ending leaves it wide open for a sequel, and the rumors are that Christopher Nolan wants to do a “trilogy” of this new Batman. We'll see. Trilogies can either be amazing (LOTR) or horrible (Matrix).

But it is a movie worth seeing this year. Oh…and DC Comics had to totally rip off the Marvel Comics movie logo introduction thingy.

That was quick!

June 27th, 2005. Published under General. No Comments.

Well, it only took 54 minutes for my day to go to shit.

I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.

June 27th, 2005. Published under General. No Comments.

Again with the Monday.
If I were more scientifically inclined, I would enter a study, get an educational grant and do research to develop a new drug. Specifically, an anti-rejection drug for Mondays. My body seems to inherently reject Mondays, and I'm sure I am not the only one who suffers this horrible disease in silence.
Symptoms:
- Lethargy
- Narcolepsy
- Excessive Ennui
- Goofoffedness*
- General Malaise**
If I could find and isolate the chemical compound in the human body that causes Monday Rejectionitis, and develop a maintenance drug as a therapy for “MR”, I could be rich!
I could finally get that Mini Cooper S that I've been drooling over.
But, all this will have to wait until at least tomorrow to start because I just don't have either the motivation nor the energy.
At least tomorrow is my Friday***.

I didn't know Pearl Jam was so oppressive!

June 25th, 2005. Published under General. No Comments.

So I did that MIT test that everyone else is doing…