hope for the best, but know it won't happen...

I always thought I'd get a hi-fi music set-up - receiver, probably the Denon AVR-391, although it'd be nice if I had a large enough living space to include the Onkyo TX-8255, since I do mainly listen to my music in stereo.  The AVR-391 would be a comparable space saving solution since it can play hi-fi audio in stereo AND surround sound...I probably wouldn't use surround sound very often, but how can I know?  Aside from the local movie theater (which I have a bone to pick with for cranking the base so high on INCEPTION that I couldn't even hear the dialogue in some parts), I have no experience(s) with surround sound.  But just the concept - movies, which I hardly ever watch, and music DVDs, which are about as hard to come by as SACDs are, unless you're into the more mainstream stuff.  And speaking of SACDs being hard to come by, I don't think there's a single album that is available on SACD that I want to AND will buy.  Toto IV (1982) by Toto is a great album, but it's almost $100 to buy, which is absurd, IMO, and a few others have also come and gone and left outrageous price tags behind - Boston (1976) by Boston, Peter Gabriel's UP (2002)...

I just don't have much to work with financially as it is.
I still can't find any speakers that would go good with the TX8255 NOR the AVR391, although for the AVR391 the Yamaha HTIB speakers would probably be good enough for who knows how long...actually, I can't even find speakers with a low enough wattage to feel safe running the TX8255 at high(ish) volume(s).
 

So I thought the CS 325 by Onkyo would be a good solution, yeah it's a shelf system, but it's an extraordinarily good one, not those crumby $50-$100 ones you find at WalMart.  I had the EC55 by SONY (discontinued by about a year at least now...) & the base on it was just too friggin' high, with or without bass boost.  BASE IS A BACKGROUND INSTRUMENT!!!!  If Korn is all you listen to, tell SONY to make a Korn player.  Or just use the base boost function, will ya?  Anyway, I simply will have to wait at least another year for the CS 325 and I don't think I'm picky enough about sound as it is for me to shell out the extra money for a seperate receiver & speakers.  So I Just recently ordered the far more elegant and sophisticated looking CMTBX20i, made by SONY, which - if looks are at all indicative of the inside - should be a bit more mature when it comes to base/balance/etc.  It probably won't rock my world, and it's probably not worth saving up all my $ for, but I'm tired of feeling like I'm wasting my compact digital audio discs on TV speakers.  And I don't want to have to buy all my music on mp3 and not be able to tell my CDs apart w/o reading a bunch of generic looking labels that I have to take the time to make myself...
  So that leaves my 1940CI that I ordered about two years ago virtually useless.  But I can probably get enough back on it to buy a new (smaller) DVD player AND have $20++ left to myself for whatever (CDs?).  I just hope someone wants it bad enough to take it off my hands in the next week or so so I can ship it and use the funds from my old player to GET a new DVD player (see link above, also a SONY) and use that to watch GHOSTBUSTERS I & II and whatever I rent from the video store...I boxed up the 1940CI, to make sure I could fit it in there securely (fits like a glove!) and now it's sitting on my table behind my TV.  PLEASE TAKE IT!  Luckily I have GHOSTBUSTERS on VHS AND A VCR!!  I've been using my computer for music listening lately anyway, so that's of no consequence...
  I'm sorta counting on my sister to give me some/enough money to pay the majority of the $26 of the CMTBX20i's $128.04 price tag (it was actually $114, but I ordered a Squaretrade 3 year extended warranty with it) that I'm missing, although I actually have another $9.76, but it's on an AMEX gift card, which I can't just deposit in the bank, you see...my mom said this morning that she won't let me buy her a Walmart gift card and give me $9 cash in exchange for it, but she was half asleep when she said that and she got all angry when I acted surprised by her answer, so I'm HOPING all I'm missing is $17, 'cause even if my sister gives me a meager $15, I can get the other $2 from Hastings by selling some stuff....

MyPartyShirt.com Review

http://mypartyshirt.com/tshirts/movie-shirts/egon-spengler-shirt

Wow, a GHOSTBUSTERS t-shirt for only $14!??!  And the shipping ain't too shabby either (under $5).  I don't know why I can't find this shirt on Amazon, but most of the shirts on Amazon are sold by 3rd party merchants who have outrageous shipping costs tacked on to their already-inflated price(s).

This shirt is cool and I'm glad I find this website on my Swagbucks search engine (near the top of the results).

I'll be ordering from these guys soon, haven't done so yet 'cause I don't got no dough...well, not enough to buy a novelty shirt...

these are a few...

I got a $100 AMEX card from my grand father, who I'm sure will at some point want to know what I got w/ it.  So if no one else is reading this, at least I can look back on it for reference if need be...

1)  INVISIBLE TOUCH Genesis raglan shirt           not sure what raglan means, but it's a long sleeve shirt and it looks awesome!  It's very thin and doesn't quite fit me (yet?).  Hopefully my weight loss intent will become evident in the next few months and then maybe by the end of 2011 I can fit into it, have something to say for myself if the world actually does end in 2012...
  Amazon's "marketplace" seller, the well known OldGlory, will have you believe the shirt is worth $35, but I only paid $17.50 for it.  Go to BuyRockTshirts.com if you too wanna save some dough.

2)  a few CDS:  ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR - Marilyn Manson.  NO JACKET REQUIRED by Phil Collins.  COMMENCEMENT - Deadsy.  PALE by Toad The Wet Sprocket.  (total: apprx $17)

3)  a nice outing with my mother to Panera (fka St. Louis Bread Co.)  (total: apprx $23)

4)  an introductory package to Columbia House DVD club ($6)

5)  THE LAST UNICORN VHS (the only DVD editions out there are censored and/or full-screen w/ low resolution picture) ($2.99)

6)  A gift for my sister since I spent my "actual" money on other things... ($20)

7)  an online movie rental that I never watched plus a virtual ownership of REQUIEM FOR A DREAM ($4)

8)  four mp3s at HotTopic.com that i haven't figured out how to download...apparently I need to call them but I don't even care.  The songs are available for free elsewhere, I just thought it'd be nice to own them.  I gotta borrow my mom's cell phone to call them since she decided we should have $30/mo instead of phone service..

9)  one and a half mp3s at Amazon.com (I already had $0.30 or so left from an Amazon gift card I got from an online promotion company called Swag Bucks).  (total - prior gift card = $1.40 apprx)

I still have $5.50 awaiting expiration, since the biznss charge your card IMMEDIATELY when u place an order; the credit card/debit card that one uses typically doesn't give that money to the bizniss right away, but rather freezes the funds that cover the purchase, then the retailer for whatever reason has to request from the CC co. that the money be granted to them  If the retailer or whatever business doesn't do that, in this case within seven days, then the money goes back to my card.

I'm gonna use the $5.50 to cover part of a $128.05 transaction on ABT.com for a SONY mini-hifi music system.

My grandmother got me a $25 Walmart gift card that I sold to my mother for cash and my uncle Eddie got me an undisclosed amount; he gave my mother $40 and my mom gave $25 + $10.  Make of that what you will...

WHAT THE HEKK!

Amazon is a day late on posting Avril Lavigne's upcoming CD GOODBYE LULLABY and their price is absurd.  You KNOW BestBuy and many other retailers will have it for sale for $9.99 or less the first week or more after the release date!  Amazon prolly will too + $2.98 S&H unless you order $15+ worth of stuff w/ it.

double shot of happy!

Well, I'm listening to INVISIBLE TOUCH mini-LP CD edition and I can't tell any difference in sound quality on my super-budget PC.  Not sure if I could tell any difference in a "real" stereo set-up, but it's not worth finding out...INVISIBLE TOUCH is the only CD I have and plan to keep that's from the pig-out days of the major labels, when indie records were thought to be junk just to take up space & payola was king.  So I imported it to my PC and will keep it on there...
  But for those who actually HAVE $1,000++ to spend on hi-fi audio, NO JACKET REQUIRED, Phil Collins' (lead singer of Genesis circa INVISIBLE TOUCH) biggest and bestest solo record, is being released on 24 Karat Gold CD.  FACE VALUE, remastered by the same person, was released on the same format about a month ago and supposedly doesn't sound any better.  But all the same...
  And for those who are just into no-frills music, Avril Lavigne FINALLY has a 4th CD coming out.  I'll admit, her music doesn't strike one as earthshatteringly original or artistic or whatever, but each of her CDs (thus far) has had a point of interest; her debut was kinda like Disney-emo, her 2nd was slick and sleek pop-punk, and her third was just a crazy pillow fight.  Supposedly her 4th album will be more mellow and deep, at least that's what the wikipedia said about a year ago or almost.  She may have changed her mind about all that...the first single is apparantly going to be a "He Wasn't" type song ("What The Hell" doesn't sound like the name of a ballad does it?).  If the album IS mellow overall, I guess I can look forward to about a month or more of people giving the album 1-3 star reviews on Amazon b/c they bought the album expecting more of what they heard on the radio...
  I bought WHAT SEPARATES ME FROM YOU by A Day To Remember, 'cause I had a bunch of stuff to sell to Hastings (GoHastings on the web) and got almost $13 in store credit and it was only $8.99 NEW.  Maybe years from now that won't seem like such a steal, but right now Amazon can't even beat that and the marketplace sellers don't want to...oh, and it sounds like krap on my TV/DVD-player set-up.  Had to import that to my computer to get any use out of it.
  

epitaph for a spider...

I had a couple books that I bought at Goodwill thinking maybe I could get some store credit or cash from my local media retailer (books movies music & games, both new and used) but my local media store (Hastings aka GoHastings dot com) wouldn't take a couple of 'em and only gave $0.50 total for the other two (I bought four (4)).  So I sold the other two to The Book Rack (used book store) thinking I would need to sell my store credit ($4.50) to someone (hopefully my mom...), but as it turns out I not only found a book that I can resell in itself (maybe even to Hastings! for a dollar at least, maybe $2+) but I had actually been interested in buying it for a couple months...the book, FYI, was called SPIDER by Patrick McGrath.
  There was this other book I tried/started reading like, idk, five years (?) ago, and had to return it to the library and couldn't for the life of me think of who wrote it!!!  Or even the name for that matter...the cover I remembered, and the little I read I remembered, that was all.  THAT book was titled EPITAPH, by James Siegel, who ALSO wrote a book that I ALSO tried to re-sell to Hastings from the Goodwill titled DERAILED, which I was only familiar with b/c it became a well publicized movie.  For some retarded reason, EPITAPH was criticized for being "too slow", which I kinda thought was the selling point...
  So I have two books I can read, and another to buy/read at a later time.  Yay!  that DERAILED book has been collecting dust for at least almost a month...

Oh, and I have no money now.  But i'm Ok.  That gift card my sister sent me for my b-day really paid off(!).

across five aprils...er, january/februarys...

wow.  this isn't that big of a deal to a lot (most?) audio connsuiers (sp??), but with a monthly budget of $674, the future seems rather long; this set-up, if it stays the same price it is now, would be apprx $500.  I do get an annual partial-refund on my rent, but last year it was only like $360.  I guess if I didn't have so many bills and responsibilities, I'd have enough in my monthly check to make up the other $140...but at least I can get a shelf system onnathese days, pretty soon actually...I should be getting (I hope) at least (?) $360 again in about a month and a half, so I can at least get a nice stereo bookshelf system.  Onkyo makes one for $280 - the typical $80+ Amazon competitiveness...(who'd wanna pay the list price if they have to wait for it in the mail??).  And thank goodness all the bullheads of the world haven't hogged up all the electricity so I can at least listen to most any music I want...yeah.  It could be A LOT worse...but it could be so much better...sigh...dreeeam...

Aah, the power of DENON

Ok, I think I'm going to get the Denon AVR-391 (see ad) instead of the Onkyo TX-8255.  Surround sound may not be a big concern to me, but it would be nice to have unlocked sound vs. the caged sound of regular CD.  Although it may never be the case that plain ol' everyday good++ music will be routinely put on SACD or DVD-Audio or Blu-ray audio discs, it would be nice to be able to have that capability in my home (so far the only blu-ray audio disc I've seen is that Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers album, MOJO I think was the name of it, and I totally didn't like that CD, although i can't say I've ever been flat out in love with any of TP&HB's music, although they do have a large handful of pleasantries on any of their hits discs).  BTW, if any record execs are reading this, please quit wasting your time, er, I mean, PLEASE stop releasing SACD versions of albums and then taking them off the market two years afterward.  SACD should not be a "collector's" item.
 
I finally have a debit card!  BigCrumbs, a cashback service, offered to put my cashback on a "pre-paid" Mastercard, AND they automatically put $5 on the card just 'cause I activated it right away (!!).  So I finally was able to use one of those DVD rental kiosks, since a convenience store located a bit up the street from my house did install one of them a month or so ago.  i don't have hardly any cashback incoming, and i got hardly any purchase power in December (it's all going to Xmas gifts and clothing), it'll probably be March or April b4 I see anymore $ on the thing.  But as I mentioned, I will be buying the Denon AVR391 in January, or early February, unless the "tax assistance" program is canceled by 2011...I plan to buy that and some bookshelf speakers, all together totaling over $300, and BigCrumbs offers 4% via J&R Electronics' website, so that's $12 in cashback I should be expecting.  BigCrumbs does expect you to wait almost 2 months for the money to be dispensed, but that'll significantly increase my purchase power in March or April (depending on how long the "tax assistance" check takes to get here). 

ah, yes, and the weather is actually nice today.  It's been cloudy/foggy/gray-for-whatever-reason-Mr.-Weather-Man-might-have-said for almost a week.  Now we can eat...
  Hopefully my Gramma will feel up to making dinner Friday.  She signed up to work Thursday, although she doesn't know if she's going to be needed, they'll let her know prolly tomorrow or that day...but anyway, she was in the hospital yesterday, I guess she still is, she should be getting out today.
  Oh, yeah.  My birthday was Saturday.  I didn't get anything ON that day, I was hoping my Gramma would remember and stop by with $10+, so me and my mom could go to Starbucks.  They were having a BOGO sale on their holiday drinks from 2-5.  Sunday was the last day.  I still have a free drink from Starbucks, all I had to do was tell them my email address and all that...and of course load money onto a gift card...so b/c they have my email address etc. I not only got a free "birthday" drink (they sent me that earlier in the month and it expires in late December), but i was made aware of the BOGO offer via a promotional email.  SEE???  YOU'RE ALL DUMB FOR NOT JUMPING ON THIS!  Well, to each his (or her...ah-hem) own...i guess...
  Anyway, my mom got me a GHOSTBUSTERS II figurine, part of a Toys 'R' Us exclusive collector's boxed set w/ all 4 of the 'Busters; someone was selling it by itself on eBay.  I bid on it, my mom paid for it.  She said "can this be your birthday present?" and I said "yeah, that'd be perfect!".  And I think I already posted about the $25 whole ones that my sister presented to me in the form of an Amazon gift card.  Already got 3 of the items  I bought w/ it, still waiting on the other two.  One of them was just shipped yesterday and the other one is coming from England, may take awhile...

my $25 birthday gift - circa Nov. 17th

My sister sent me a $25 Amazon gift card somewhere around 8pm on Wednesday, although I didn't get it 'til after 1am on Thursday...but yeah.  I was shopping on Amazon from then 'til about 6am.  She sent it to me early b/c I asked her to loan me a $5 apprx Amazon gift card to pay for an Out Of Print DVD edition of THE EXORCIST.  I had placed the order, but it wouldn't go through b/c I didn't have any valid form of payment...I had a debit card that my bank deactivated, but Amazon doesn't know that b/c my bank is legally obligated not to tell them (isn't privacy great?).  But anyway, my sister sent me the gift card early so that wouldn't be canceled.  Turned out the seller didn't have it after all...not sure how/why...kinda rude of him not to send an apology or something more along the lines of an explanation at least...
  Anyway; I also bought THE SOUND OF THE SMITHS: THE VERY BEST OF THE SMITHS (that's almost like two titles isn't it?) by The Smiths, a remastered compilation released in 2008.  And Michael Jackson's DANGEROUS, Martin Scorsese's 1999 film BRINGING OUT THE DEAD on DVD and Cartel's Sony re-release edition of CHROMA.
  I almost bought Jawbreaker's DEAR YOU, been wanting that awhile, but Barnes & Noble dot com has that for over $1 cheaper and I get UPS 3day delivery w/o added cost if my mom buys it on my behalf (she has the membership in her name, I paid for half of it...) and B&N keeps sending me and/or my mom coupons, so if I had the $ b4 X coupon xpired, I'd save at least $2 off Amazon (Marketplace)'s mnm price.

Been listening to Grooveshark the last couple days.  MySpace Music's service has been filled with bugs that last couple weeks or more.  AVG Anti-virus software told me I had two somethingorother bad thingies on my computer and didn't tell me what I should do about it.  I clicked "remove all unhealed" and they told me "forceful removal may cause instability or crash", but I didn't know what else I was supposed to do.  Now every time I load a program or window, a warning of a "bad image" loads up.  I can ignore it or I can click "OK" and it'll go away.  It doesn't seem to interfere with the operation of my computer.  Really annoying tho.  But while I was trying to perhaps find the source of that b.s., I removed almost 20 programs from my computer including Opera browser and of course I got sick beyond comprehension of Internet Explorer, but I didn't like the way Opera doesn't gel with a lot of websites too well (mainly Amazon, also a few others) so I went back to Firefox after almost a year or more of absence from my computer.

Don't really know what else to say...OH!  I got sick for about a day, something that's been going around.  My mom's housekeeper seemed to have caught it too and the last time she was here was at least a week ago.  I got sick on Monday, the housekeeper was here either Thursday or Friday...my Mom got sick on Friday or Saturday i think...I guess the housekeeper might have caught it from Mom, but I don't think my mom would have been so careless.  She called the housekeeper after she found out I was sick and told her not to come b/c of that.  But anyway...I think I heard of at least a couple other people who had whatever that was I had.  Don't remember what exactly I heard or where, but anyway...
  I've been going way too long w/o showers.  I finally took one last night and the time before that was either Monday or Tuesday - not the one that just passed, but the one BEFORE that.  I mean, I admit, a week w/o a shower isn't healthy or pleasant, although I'm hesitant to take one more often than that just 'cause the act of taking off my clothes, picking new ones out, drying off, and taking the shower itself is a bit of a chore to me.  I'd rather just listen to music or talk or drink coffee or read or whatever...but a week and a half is just nonsense.  I mean, if this is how long I'm gonna be in between showers in the winter...this past summer the average time between showers was at least 5 days.  And that's being generous towards myself.  I shouldn't go more than 3 days, if that, and i know there were at least a few times I went over a week w/o one.  Of course in Sept, it was way hotter than normal, so I didn't take hardly any showers then.  Then toward the end of the month I suddenly realized 'oh, I guess summer's decided to stay a bit longer...'...

And I've neglected this blog obviously.  I hope to get this back on a more steady path...maybe make reading it less of a chore...ha!

what's it to me?

I keep thinking about reading J.G. Ballard's CRASH. And then I wonder "why?". I didn't even read the whole thing, but that was only b/c I got hung up on a slightly inserted lame social commentary. I think I got 20 pages into it...maybe there's something more the book has to offer aside from what I already read...which was pretty powerful stuff, from what I remember...I guess I might as well buy it and read it. It's such a short book as it is, it's not like it'll rob me of my time or anything...
Sux that Elliot Perlman's SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY is only in print in softcover! An oversized tome such as that looks its best in hardcover. It looks rather tacky in softcover, not to mention it's easier to damage. I don't know if they use plastic to form the softcovers, but hardcovers just don't look as fake. I know plastic and similar substances are not literally "fake", but to me they seem that way...hard to explain why...I want to read that book, but I'm so darn tired right now, I should be in bed. I have to return it to the library the day after tomorrow, or renew it. I've already renewed it once, one more time is all I've got. Seriously doubt I'll finish it by 23 days from now...maybe I'll get far enough through it to decide if it's worth buying...it's 700 pages, so...if I can get 200-275 pages of the way through it, I'll check it out again and see if I can stick with it to page 400. If I can get 400+ pages through it, I'll prolly buy it. I haven't even got to page 100 yet and I've had it for over a month. I guess anything's possible, but I really doubt I'll be able/willing to get to page 400 w/o having to check it out again...

the taste of yell in bloom...

Nirvana's NEVERMIND's reputation is one of many things that proves how dumb people are. The record throughout just proves that A) Kurt Cobain had a lust for life and had no reason to kill himself and B) that regardless of its influence and how common it sounds today, it's still a cut above the rest; Kurt Cobain didn't just whine about his problems. He 'wined' about much bigger topics. The record doesn't have much in the way of profound lyrics, but the passion with which he sings is explosive. Also, it wasn't as popular as it was in its day b/c of some misplaced idea that Nirvana invented grunge or anything like that. Nirvana wasn't the most 'original' sounding grunge band, nor did they invent grunge. However, they had a much broader appeal than most grunge bands. NEVERMIND's indie predecessor BLEACH still doesn't get the sales it deserves, but that's only b/c the common folk doesn't have enough time and will to dig through piles of records to find something they like. They're fine with what the radio has to offer. If BLEACH were advertised properly, it might have been the NEVERMIND before there was NEVERMIND. Of course, it does have a little of that murkiness that indie records are plauged with, which wasn't an issue with NEVERMIND, which the band decried as being "too polished" or whatever (rolls eyes). I think the band's complaints about NEVERMIND sounding too polished or whatever is rather ironic, considering IN UTERO was just as polished as NEVERMIND. Sure, it's more noisy and chaotic, but that doesn't make it a better record or any less polished. The production techniques of Geffen's mad scientists were in full effect all throughout Nirvana's major label stint. Even BLEACH had amazing sheen considering the amount of money spent on it (less than $1,000). I mean, it doesn't make sense that Nirvana wrote pop songs but didn't want the pop production. If he had kept making murky sounding records, the public would never have caught on and thus college rock/alternative/modern rock would have stayed obscure like it was in the 1980s and Kurt Cobain would still be talking about how much better his music was than Michael Jackson's and nobody would care except maybe some Kurt Cobain stalker, i.e.: someone who was "lucky" enough to live or travel close enough to Kurt Cobain's places of existence to hear what he was saying and couldn't help but be intoxicated by his words and want to feel them from inside...
Not that radio is any better than it was. Less than five years after Kurt Cobain's band disbanded N'Sync won a Grammy for Best New Band. Of course, marketing to spoiled children kind of back fired on the major labels in general - The Get Up Kids, Saves The Day, Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back Sunday, Thursday........none of those bands sell tons and tons of records, but their overall sales have replaced a big chunk of the major leagues' MVPs' sales. In other words, radio may still suck, but people aren't just accepting it. The internet probably keeps that going, but if it weren't for Nirvana, would anyone know something was fundamentally wrong? I mean, Milie Vanilli (sp?) was fraud, OK, but does that mean EVERY pop band is rotten to the core? And no, I'm not saying pop is evil; Mariah Carey and Celine Dion do tend to sing w/o conviction, but at least they can pretend to have passion. Backstreet Boys & N'Sync were so obviously in it for the money and nothing more. But the real proof that pop music isn't inherently evil is the phenominal talent of Michael Jackson. Quincy Jones first said this, or at least he was the first person I heard say this (in the bonus materials on the special edition of BAD from 2001), and I find it to be true: no matter what he sang, it always came out sounding personal to him. And then of course, the fact that Nirvana was basically a pop band with guitars instead of drum machines and synthesisers...but anyway, what I was trying to say with my "pop bashing" or whatever supplemental phrase you would have used, is that pop music USUALLY sucks, or, at least, it isn't as honest and pure as rock music in the majority of cases.
So yeah; Nirvana, I think, made people aware that you can listen to pop without sacrificing integrity and honesty. The internet simply provides a myriad of ways of helping people find pop music containing the often-times elusive honesty & integrity.
In the end, it does sound trite, it gets boring quick, very quick, heck, I feel stupid saying this, but it's true: NEVERMIND, now almost 20 years old, has yet to be equaled in its influence on popular culture. If I hadn't bought the album five+ times already and sold it just as many times just get a quick $1-$4, I'd go out and buy it right now...even albums that I have a personal connection to (I was 7 at the time of NEVERMIND's release and wasn't listening to the radio or watching MTV or VH1) tend to slip my hands too easily, after all, you can go back and re-buy them...if I wasn't two feet away from being dirt poor, it wouldn't be an issue prolly, but...anyway...

three times a seller...

Amazing. I finally have THREE buyer feedbacks on my Amazon seller profile. And so far I've had no unfair buyers leaving me feedback. So I'm still 100% positive. I guess I shouldn't say "so...", 'cause I'm fairly lucky that I've been able to ship all of the items I have/had in a timely fashion. A recent Amazon website update has really helped me out a lot; they allow me to pay for postage on their website and print a mailing label. I don't need to pay for it seperately either, it just comes out of the funds that result from the purchase. Sweeeet!!

Dear Leon, if you had the time and inclination to read this, I would have sent it in an email...

Was going to write this in reply to an email I received from a seller on Amazon (which was written in response to an email I sent to him first...)

...I hardly ever went to Barnes & Noble until they relocated to the mall in my town. And even then I hardly ever bought books there, I just ate at the cafe'. Then I started seeing how pointless that was and don't do that much anymore...if I want food, Starbucks or some local establishment is enough. Window shopping makes me feel unfulfilled, which detracts from the joy of food. In a nutshell, I know firsthand that some people dont' have enough money to spend $12++ on a book and I also know that the bigname brick/mortar stores aren't for everyone. I, for one, wish I could shop at a less disposable book store, but there's only one small book store in town and they sell used books, which is cool but the selection is rather limited. They seem focused on selling the current bestsellers and the like to the folks who can't afford to buy them brand new. Current bestsellers are usually either lighthearted girly books or over-the-top thrillers. Stephen King comes out with some good stuff every now and again, but not often. I think the last good book Michael Crichton came out with was RISING SUN (1992), or maybe DISCLOSURE (1993). I haven't read DISCLOSURE, so I can't say anything too good about it, but I did enjoy the film. I'd imagine the book would be at least good. And Jodi Picoult stopped writing quality books a looooong time ago. John Grisham I'm not very familiar with. I tried reading A TIME TO KILL and the style of writing just seemed cartoonish. The rest of his books I haven't tried reading b/c the premises are boring, IMO. And ever since John Grisham became a household name, the crime drama/thriller genere has exploded with half a dozen "masters" of the genre. But I guess Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler were doing it long before Grisham and of course there's tons of no-name books, many of which curiously stand on the shelves of my local library to this day, that are written in that tradition.

A FREE FLOATING FULL TORSO VAPOROUS APPIRATION!!!!!

HHHHOK!! I was at Toys "R" Us today and SAW - WITH MY OWN EYES - the TRU Exclusive GHOSTBUSTERS II 4 6" Figure + 2" Slimer accessory boxed set (made by Mattel). Yes, it's still $60 + 8% tax (making it more like $65). But if I order a couple $25 TRU gift cards via Complete Savings, I get 20% off of $50, making the set more like $55 ('cause the gift cards are 20% off AT COMPLEte Savings...seriously everybody, what's stopping you??).

Actually, cooler still, I could order THREE $25 gift cards and I'd have $75 in gift cards, covering ALL of the boxed set and part of the "Exploding" Stay Puft Marshmallow Man home bank. I'd still have to pay $17 or so for the bank, but I wouldn't have to do that right away...

I'm just gonna go ahead and order the CS gift cards in Nov, 'cause I can always buy something else and re-sell it on Amazon if the desired toppings are all eaten and digested...

it's beginning to look a lot like imeem...

As mentioned in old (oldER - I know I haven't posted in awhile...) post(s), Imeem is, now WAS, the greatest thing since music itself (woah!). MySpace bought Imeem and turned it into "MySpace Music", which was fine w/ me except they killed the ability to just sit back and let an album flow into one's ears. You had to push "play" to start track #1 and then skip track #1 in order to get track #2 to play. Well, it looks like either MySpace Music is having a bug in their system or they fixed this nonsense...
I'm reading Elliot Perlman's SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY, lovin' it, but I'm not even 1/10 of the way through it, so it might change direction unpleasantly like Poppy Z. Brite's LOST SOULS. But so far so good. There's an author by the name of Patrick McGrath who doesn't seem to have any problem churning out great sickly sweet novels and a book titled "The Assault" by Henry (?) Muslich or some similar looking name...I checked out one P. McGrath novel that the library had (they have THREE!) and "The Assault". Just read a page of Patrick McGrath's DR. HAGGARD'S DISEASE and had to close the book and embrace it, enjoying the beauty of having a book to read and enjoy...mmmm...it just flows so perfectly and the type font on that edition (hardcover edition is out of print I think) is beautiful. I hope the in print softcover edition is so splendidly printed. The cover art for the softcover edition is more striking, but, ya know, sux that they have to make everything paper in order to keep from "needing" to charge $10 more...
Been wanting to bask in the air of J.G. Ballard's CRASH (1973). Can't 'cause I'm broke and the library don't got it. That book kinda felt like watching an atrocity occur and not fully understanding it. Then when I did understand it and wrapped my mind around it, it felt like I was walking into a haze, or fog, sprinkled with some sort of subtly unnerving chemical. Yep, that's the 70's for ya. The movie had to wait 23 years to get made b/c there's enough dumb people who think reading a book isn't the same thing as eeing something on a movie screen. Of course, the movie's only virtue was its intense portrayal of sex, which it could have done better at to begin with, but the "plot" (which I never cared much about and barely makes any sense...) would be sacrificed if the sex scenes were any hotter. Some one should make a X-rated sex movie with all the knockout stars they can convince to do it - maybe Patricia Arquette, Jennifer Connolly, or Megan Fox, maybe Avril Lavigne? Heck, they say men prefer blondes, but I know I'm not the only one who would pay good money to see A BEAUTIFUL FACE...I mean, why would Megan Fox be so popular if blondes had all the attention? Maybe someone already thought of it and couldn't get any of 'em to hop on board. You'd think Paul Veerhoven (sp?) could have thought of something...
Spend the last 5 or so hours listening to Funeral For A Friend on MySpace Music. Great band. Love 'em. Mainly been listening to MEMORY AND HUMANITY, surprisingly released on Victory Records. Why did Ferret Records let 'em go?? Maybe they went bankrupt...Victory Records is the home of all those emo bands that either found better homes or aren't any good anyway...well, Silverstein's almost as good as FFAF, well, maybe not almost, but they got about half or a little more of FFAF's greatness. The singer's screaming gets a little annoying pretty quickly. FFAF doesn't scream in their music, they just sorta yell...idk. It's not as unnerving as Silverstein's screaming. The Silverstein singer sure does have a beautiful voice and they got a lot of great songs. A lot of people hated ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES, but I think it's possibly the best of their bunch. Of course, everyone loved DISCOVERING THE WATERFRONT, but hated WHEN BROKEN IS EASILY FIXED, whereas I like DTW, but WHEN BROKEN IS EASILY FIXED beats 'THE WATERFRONT by at least two-fold in my ears. Of course, I probably do have some earwax buildup. I tried clearing them out a week or so ago, and hasn't changed my opinion of Silverstein as far as I know...but I don't think I got everything either...might need a professional (??) to do the job...
GBII 4pk is out now exclusively at Toys "R" Us. Hoping my sister can at least loan me the $ to get it. I'd consider the mere ability to have it w/o draining all my funds gift enough. I don't know if she has that money available tho...I say "gift" 'cause she seems like she might wanna buy me a gift for my b-day coming up in about a month and 4 days...
Welp; that's all for me for now, I think...I think I can always post again if I think of something else...

TAKING IT TO THE MATTRESS BOTTOMS

Yeah, well...it's doubtful I'd ever feel as if I have enough money to start saving a significant amount of change...so the title of this post is actually more of a joke, for those of you know who about that...
But he is soooooo HOT! See what I did there? That's a PUN! Ha!
But yeah, it's so cool. I love repaint variants. They're just so cool. They're colorful, and they're stupid in a childish/carefree/fun-lovin' kinda way. And hey - he glows in the dark!
The price on Amazon is totally outrageous; Toys 'R' Us should still have some left. I could see $55+ being within reason after TRU sells out and they don't get any more, but...wwww??
Hopefully I can get my hands on one in October, when I (finally) get money. I have $5 now, that's it. Oooooh, I'm so antsy with anticippppppppppppppppppppppppppppppation...

nature vs. beast

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) is often perceived as being sympathic toward Alex, the hoodlum narrator of the story. I think those perceptions are based on the fact that Alex IS the narrator, and thus his feelings about the mind altering drugs the doctors gave him are shed more light on than if a holier-than-thou narrator would have told the story.
It's also interesting how the media kept talking about "changing" his nature and how ashamed the gov't ought to be b/c of it; I mean, nature, pure and simple, changes on its own. And since when has mankind been "natural"? Is being superficial and choosing friends based on social status and lying to them or candy coating the truth and doing anything and everything that doesn't involve genuine human connection NATURAL? Are TVs and computers NATURAL? If so, then I guess kids shouldn't even HAVE parents - they should all be left to their own devices and decide for themslves what's right and wrong. And then be put in prison, 35 years, once out kill again and then be put back.
See, THAT is the moral delemma in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. People everywhere at the mercy of these heartless teenagers are unable to figure out a solution that everyone can agree on.
Of course, hopefully society won't come to that kind of desperation...

the unintended?

Political views will change, but the route we take to solve society's problems or "problems" will not be easily changed, if at all...

this is why people who feel threatened by Pro-"Life"rs and other dominating Christian types will make The Bible's prophecy of Outlawed Christianity come true. Solution (IMO)? Read my blog; LIVE AND LET LIVE! If it doesn't endanger you, just accept it. Crimany, why the heck is that so hard???

well, I feel like I have something to say on the matter...

...even if I am talking to a brick wall or someone who fails at understanding or agreeing with me...

This concept, I guess I've referred to it b4; people are so damn hypocritical - they always wanna "vote" on IDEAS that have NO IMPACT on the people that vote on them - abortion, gay marriage, etc.; I mean, I know some Christians think they're gonna go to Hell if they don't limit other people's freedoms, but even the ones who don't think that still act like it's some sort of gift or duty or what-the-hell-ever (no idea what the motivation is, b/c apparantly I'm not worthy of an explanation, even though it COULD damn well impact me if I ever got up and got a life...) to vote "Pro-Life" (in a dumpster) rather than "Pro-Choice"...

But whatever. Most of these old farts like W. and W.H. will be dead some day long before I am, and their opinion will be inherited by a minority. Guess I can find solace in that...

i hope i don't forget you

I remember
when my life changed; the view, the feel, the tastes, the scents
the air was crisp, the ground was cool
things were good, as much as they can be in this world
The sounds I heard made me happy; music was sweet

You were a friend to me, someone that made me smile and laugh
Someone who made me feel warm inside
That feeling intensified when you left
Now I feel indifferent, excpet when "Sixth Avenue Heartache" or some Wallflowers song plays on my system for the first time in a long while at such a right time

My all time greatest crush made me feel like nothing I've ever felt, before or since
She just about blew me off my feet and into the air
I stayed there for longer than I should have, lost and intoxicated
Now she means nothing to me, save the feelings I no longer feel or clearly remember

So it goes, lost are the ones who stay away too long, forgotten, meaningless

Except for those times when I come across a song when the air is moving just the right way, a song that strikes me like lightning

But as the time passes, those moments become fewer and farther between

I hope I don't forget you.

inception

gave blood on Monday the 6th at the local movie theater, got done watching INCEPTION at around 4:30pm Wednesday the 8th. I gotta say, I had high hopes for the film, and they were nowhere near met. my caseworker came by today and asked if anything new was happening in my life, and totally forgot to tell her about it. just got done taking a shower (about an hour ago). That's about 2 1/2 days apart from the shower before this one. I guess I'm more ambitious lately. I wrote a little less than a page of a script, like..., a month ago? I was thinking about the idea of the film/script and got all pumped up...I guess I'll be lucky if I'm not dead before I finish it. I Just ate, like...um...idk - 5? servings of peanut butter. It mighta been 8...I didn't measure it, but just one serving is more than I shoulda eaten. I guess I can't feel too guilty about enjoying (slightly over-un-cooled-down) Domino's pizza. At least it got done in the same day as my other evil. I've been walking more, about 30 minutes a day. I think the last time I skipped a day was like either sometime during the weekend or the day preceeding it, maybe Thursday...(not today, I don't wanna walk at night...all the freaks come out at night - aaaaah!).

we know there's an answer but we have to find it by ourselves...

Actually, the answer, I would think, would be simple: neither. This land of freedom and happiness is for whoever takes it. We slammed the door on Britain with a big sign that says "we're better than you 'cause we're a free country", but from before that moment happened all throughout sometime not that long ago (1970s?), the English setllers have repeatedly rejected that claim in the face of Italians, Jews, blacks, women.......
The police refused to protect the Italians. Thusly, THE GODFATHER TRILOGY.
The government wouldn't declare war on Hitler b/c the President was afraid the people would ridicule a war to save "the Jews"
The People stole black people, tortured/killed them, gave them freedom, then continually deprived them of any social advancement, all the while continually killing them
And doctors - the great people who "heal" society - wouldn't for the life of them believe a woman who said she was having a heart attack b/c "she's just imaginging it"...not to mention the fundamental right to vote was rejected until over 100 years after this country formed. The Law still treats women worse if they forget their child is in the car...I read in an article that RECENT (????) science suggests the memory is more "cue" based, while people have been ASSSSSUMMING all this freakin' time that the memory is based on priority...and b/c of this HYPOTHESIS, people have been ignoring the living proof that walks among them, which I woulda sworn included me as far back as 1995 if I could have thought of how to articulate my thoughts/feelings well enough in the right circumstance, but even if I could have, people would have looked it up in some science journal and it wouldn't be there, so they'd be like "See? You're wrong. Ha".

I think aside from the laws prohibiting gay people from proclaiming their true love - which will probably be repealed soon - we've come a long long way. I find it hard to believe the Holocaust will happen in the United States. But we really ought to start practicing the ideals without exception. When this becomes a priority that has been accomplished 100%, we need to re-word the laws, and re-name this country. The Wall Of Shame is too big to make this country anything to take seriously...

popular vote

Fact: 12 million people were deprived of happiness AND their life, and many many others were simply deprived of their happiness, in Nazi-era Germany.
Fact: The POPULAR GUY made this happen, with the HELP OF THE PEOPLE OF GERMANY.
Fact: This is called "dictatorship"

Fact: Gay people are being deprived the right to testify their one true human love.
Fact: The (increasingly smaller) POPULAR OPINION keeps this going.
Question: Is this a democracy or a dictatorship?????

LastFM (there'll never be another one like you...)

Man, LastFm is a really really cheap alternative to buying loads of music that I won't hardly ever listen to...I've spent probably at least 8 hours total the last couple days listening to it; I, personally, just type in 'emo' in the tag area and skip whatever sub-par music they might (or might not) throw my way...

I can't think of a single CD I want to listen to at the moment. It's been this way since the night before last. Should i really invest in a receiver?? Hard to say...I mean, why do i even bother listening to Genesis' INVISIBLE TOUCH or Oingo Boingo's SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET these days? I used to get so overwhelmed with emotion when I heard "Throwing It All Away", 'cause I'd remember my early childhood carefree days, now I can't even imagine that feeling...it's like I'm not even the same person anymore...

Most of the other CDs I **Might** want to own are distributed my indie labels, which may not be reason to jump ship on sound quality, but, really, I'm just fine with the setup I already have...I use my computer most of the time anyway...

I guess I'll go ahead and trade my music collection on CD for MP3 music. I can back it up to CD-R and use that when my computer breaks down completely and/or I get I newer, better(?) computer...it'd be nice to have one of those super-power computers that can play video and perform multiple tasks w/o a hitch...****drools*****

my annaul "nowhere fast" test...

"The poor and the greedy are selfish and needy" - The Smiths

Ok, so I'm being served by a program that the local council for looneys center offers that helps people deal with things they need help with. It's called the CRPC program. The semi-head-hauncho evaulated me for what was supposedly required once a year, to determine where I've been and where I'm headed (i.e.: "nowhere fast". lol...?).

So I killed 3 hours with my CRPC case worker, one hour (apprx) with the evaluation, another waiting for her to get done with a seperate appt, and another half hour or so going to and from Starbucks to get a deluxe hot chocolate thingy (yum!).

No mail today - NONE! THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! Well, whatever. NetFlix should have my mother's movie FIVE MINUTES IN HEAVEN in our mailbox, but...na/nope. And Complete Savings ought to have $10 in our mailbox...but no. Yes, it's true. THIS F**** SUX!!

If I save up $14 each month from Sept through December, I should have enough to get the 4-pk of GHOSTBUSTERS II action figures that will be exclusive to Toys 'R' Us in December. I sure as hell hope my local TRU will carry them and that they don't run out of stock permanently before I find out about it...I'll probably start calling them late November to get a feel for what kind of customer service (or lack thereof) the local TRU staff is inclined to dole out, and then if the customer service seems sub-par, I'll probably have to stop by at least once a week (if not every day...).

And then the real goodie is in January, in the form of a GB2 6" Winston Zeddmore w/ SLIME BLOWER!!!!!!!!!!! Kenner never made their GB (RGB) toys w/ a Slime Blower, although they did release a role playing toy that was designed to look like a Slime Blower, although they didn't call it that (darned if I know why...) - they called it the Ecto Charger, I think...

I keep thinking about the Slimed Hero Real Ghostbusters (Kenner) toys that were made around 1990 or 1991. I remember seeing the ads for those on TV and being like "WHAT THE HOLY FRELL!!! THEY'RE BACK!!!" The proton pack was my ALL TIME FAVORITE RGB action figure accessory. The ones they needlessly toiled with and created were OK, but the proton pack was like 1/3 of the GHOSTBUSTERS awesomeness (the other 1/3 being The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and the cast...of course, the cast wasn't in the cartoon, which is what the toys were based on at that time...neither was the Ecto 1A, and you just couldn't expect GHOSTBUSTERS I & II quality sound effects to be integrated with your everyday kid's toy/action figures...). But anyway...it was like 1986/1987 all over again(!). What's weird though is how everyone complains about the mold being the same for just about all the main heroes...if people really minded that, Kenner really should have did a little tweaking when they took the liberty of adding a GB-logo patch to the hereo figures while they deleted the GB-logo "patch" from their arm. I never really cared about the toy mold, the paint jobs were always the most important aspect to me...but that raised "patch" on their chest area always interested me. For the 1986-1988 figures, the patch was always on their arm and it was always just painted on there (in great detail, too!!). But with the Slimed Hereos, the patch wasn't as detailed but it stuck up from the uniform, like a coin or a novelty belt buckle or something...it was neat, IMO.
Speaking of bringing back a great thing, Mattel really screwed up the RGB reissues, making them MEGO style, looking nothing like the original RGB figures or any other RGB toy ever made...I mean, sure, people that witnessed STAR WARS/EMPIRE/JEDI toys might have had their hand at RGB playtimes, but RGB toy owners did not necessarily sit through STAR WARS (1977), or even RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) in theaters. In fact, it's highly unlikely most of them did. I mean, when RGB toys were being made, where the hell was MEGO style toy making?? It's really rotten to assume that all GB toy owners were 8-12 years old at the time of ownership beginning. REALLY rotten. Hopefully they'll scrap this b.s. and do another line that's actually WORTH the money invested...MattyCollector is charging $20 + S&H for the Pete Venkman MEGO figure. WTF???? IT'S NOT WORTH IT!!

pk

finally got some food other than cream of wheat and soup...primarily pancake mix, also got some (fat free) Fig Newtons (Na-biiisskoh!!). I haven't eaten either though. I guess my mom made a bit more extra money off a recent sale on Amazon than I initially thought, 'cause she treated both me and herself to Arby's (over $15 total), so I ate that (my portion, I mean...), and she also bought some muffins, a few of which I ate, and I also had a king size Snickers bar and a hot dog thingy (still don't know what 'kind' it was...tasted good, but not like any hot dog I've ever had; the inside looked like chicken but it didn't taste quite that way...)...

so I guess you could say I've eaten everything BUT pancakes. And those muffins have a lot more fat in them than I realized - 60 grams total if you eat one blueberry and one chocolate. A healthy person - which I am so not - shouldn't eat more than seventy-some-odd calories a day, so I've clearly blown any chance of claiming righteouslness as of today...maybe tomorrow I'll do better.

was thinking tho; I owe my Mom like $70, but once I get her that paid, I might try to do the diet she is doing (she's having a hard time sticking to it lately, not sure why exactly, but anyway...) and maybe a few months or so later I can try the pancake diet...I mean, 1.5-5 grams of fat per meal isn't bad, but it's not helping me lose weight. Especially when I eat out like once a week or thereabouts...I may not be gaining any weight, but I certainly haven't noticed the pounds coming off.

here's lookin' at (pictures of) you, Onkyo

Well, here I am...nothing much has changed since my last visit...well, my mom's car is at the auto shop or something pending a $150 towing expense payment. Hopefully it'll be back next month, since the $80 (I think...) gas money that me and my mom put aside is effectively NOT going to gas for the time being...$80 x 2 is $160, making the car idle next month if the gas money is what gets it back in our posession...but, ya knnow, better late than never...by October we should be paintin' the town once again...I hope...

At the current prices on Amazon, I shouldn't need more than $295 to get a decent home audio set up - speakers, speaker wire, banana plugs & a receiver. If I get the same amount in 2011 (January or early February) that I got in 2010, I should be more than able to afford that. I'm worried the program fka "Circuit Breaker" will be terminated to make way for cashflow to those who need it a lot more than I do...here's hoping things start looking up for those who fight so hard every day just to get bread etc. on the table...

Haven't eaten anything today...just coffee and a cup of hot chocolate from the convenience store. Hoping to have some pancakes for dinner...my mom has some newly-acquired money, which she plans to loan me when she gets a ride to the grocery store...I won't be going with her, 'cause I don't need to and I haven't taken a shower since Monday evening...

John Anderson is gone. He switched jobs, someone new has replaced him. She's cool. A lot younger than John, guess she's semi-fresh out of college...a far cry from John, who was in his line of work for over 20 years...

I decided not to get a new Napster card. They apparantly got rid of the $5 cards. You need to get a 3, 6, or 12 month susbscription or pay $7 vs. $5 in order to have access to the service. The 3+ card(s) are $5/mo, but that's $5 x 3...which, ultimately, seemed rather pointless. I like to have CDs, I still buy them...Napster can take a backseat over Imeem...if I like listening to something enough, I can ditch Imeem (read: commercials) and have a permanent hard copy...

So...um...that about covers it.

XX

bittersweet

    In the dark edges of the high tower, where the spaceships meet, praying for daylight.  Such dry spaces shan't be ever seen by human eyes, lest they sleep and feel strange sensathish that they feel embarrased to speak their memories of.  Yet ye fall helplessly, seeing again what cannot be seen with logical site. 
  In the dark crevaces of this high tower, thy wonders who dareth jump high enough to etch these things that were made from rock so high up from the ordinary ground.  Thy feels strange, yet thy dare not speaks.  If ye understood, I doubt ye would say so.


In the paint, the colors, vivid and rife with life.  These walls, filled with aforementioned colors, I shall walk and feel the weight of my body in a different light.  I have walked through said walls, ye shall refuse to believe, but I was once invincible.

Mattypalooza video online – check out what’s coming for 2011! [UPDATE]

Mattypalooza video online – check out what’s coming for 2011! [UPDATE]


THIS IS JUST SO F--------'N AWESOME!!!!!! Looks like Mattel is finally A) getting their arses in gear with getting the darn things into the hands of the public and B) branching out into other territories of GB-hood and C) not being as "exclusive" with their license, as in TOYS R' US HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - THIS XMAS!! GB2 4-pk @ $50 coming through...........
This is just REALLY REALLY good news. Now let's hope the 4 pak doesn't look too dull to spend fifty smakaroos on..........they've already shaat all over their RGB aspect of the line, making them "mego" style, as if mego was something a kid in 1986/1987 was typically playing with......not to mention the proton pak accessories they're supposed to come w/ look like a stick someone gathered while in the yard...(as opposed to the ultra-neato electronic superduty nuclear accelerator seen in the films, and more or less in the cartoon...). I swear, those IDIOTS! I'll probably buy 'em anyway if they don't charge $10++ for 'em tho. I might be OK w/ paying $8 for 'em, although I'd hope for them to be less....they're selling those at Toys 'R' Us as well so I can just pick 'em up "on impulse" (or whatever) instead of shelling out X cost + S&H for something so close yet even further away.....

dangerous beauty

Last year, circa late summer, I became aware of an ultra-passionate pop-punk/emo hybrid band named THE DANGEROUS SUMMER.  Via the previously mentioned (see most recent post excluding this 1) Napster on-demand streaming audio service, I just finished listening to a live EP (simply titled "Live In Baltimore"; I checked at 11:55 apprx central time and Amazon didn't have it for sale yet, but I guess Napster isn't as strict about who and when they can listen in...) and surprisingly, they actually know how to play their instruments & sing... - either that or they have a bag of tricks at their disposal - which would be weird b/c THE STARTING LINE (same genre, except less emo)'s semi-recently released live recording sounds like CRUD!  And TSL have been around longer & are sorta the poster boys for emo-y pop-punk (which admittedly isn't as popular as the snot-nose pop-punk, i.e.: FALL OUT BOY, GREEN DAY...)
  So now I'm revisiting their full-length debut, and I'm just not impressed.  Crazy, they sound better live.  If only it weren't a whopping 22 minutes long...parting is the pits...

penniless so soon? So?

My money's all gone...but I got a month of {up to} 7 MILLION songs to listen to...the whole world is at my fingertips...yep.  I spent about 15 minutes looking around in BestBuy, thinking I could get that AND a CD.  Turns out all i got was the Napster prepaid card...couldn't be happier!

I've noticed I get bored listening to albums...I always put one on, but lately I've been wondering "Why?  Why don't you just listen to LastFM or...something?"  Napster gives me the ability to listen to ANY song, ANY time, in ANY WAY I wish!!!

Then the thought comes that someday Napster won't be here.  When that day comes, I hope THE PEOPLE have enough guts to wage war...I mean, they could raise the price by thee or four times the monthly rate and that'd be worlds better than them going away...and they've been offering the $5/mo rate for over 2 years now, and the service itself has been around for almost a decade (I'm excluding the now-illegal/defunct service of the same name...) so if it ever does get shut down, either the economy will have changed in some way that makes it impossible for the service to operate, or the gov't will shut them down...things change. I'm fine w/ that (so far...).  But the gov't "cracking down" on too-good-to-be-true-ness is just unjustifiable.  The gov't already tried that with the internet radio companies and so far hasn't succeeded, and so it's a lot easier to bank on that sort of horror than the unforseeable (at least to a guy with my low-mid intellect) events that the tides of time may or may not bring...

I swear, this country could so easily turn into a war zone.  I, for one, don't have enough money to pay for every single song BEFORE I hear it.  There's too much crud I don't like, too much crud that shouldn't exist in the first place, and a MAMMOTH amount of mediocrity.  I'm not sure how much of a minority that makes me, but I guess it doesn't really matter.  Just about everyone was against the Vietname Conflict, but only a tiny handful of citizens stood up and tried to do something about it.

...and to "top" it off...

I gotta tell you off the bat - I'm gross.  Most of the time I smell like I came out of the sewer.  Fortunately it's only been four days since I last took a shower, since it's summer (I've been known to go almost a month in the winter...), but today I've been passing gas uncontrollably.  And I was out at a grocery store, acquiring a couple donuts for myself, and while my shorts were down in the bathroom a couple hours after arriving back to my abode, I noticed a sparkly black substance on my leg.  The donuts were sprinkled-covered-chocolate covered, I might add.  This is the only evidence I have to suggest the problem didn't get waaaaay out of hand, aside from the fact that I can usually make it to the bathroom before it makes it's escape from the toilet...However, I can only imagine the horror of anyone in the grocery store who may have noticed the smell I was unleashing and happened to look down at my leg before passing me by completely...and if their eyesight was dead on enough for them to SEE the red substance in the midst of the topping, they'd very well possibly vomit...and don't even ask them what that green stuff is.  They can only take so much!  And besides, what kind of sick frunk do you think they are?  You think they're gonna put up with the horror of ape-man AND dig through his feces?  Man, you musbeouchamine!
  In closing, I leave you with the wisdom of Mr. Hop himself: "EVERYTHING'S BETTER WITH TOPPINGS!"

maybe I'm stupid?

i guess I don't understand Blu-Ray technology that well...I was looking at the blu-ray ad on ghostbusters dot com and wow the picture quality is even better than DVD - I guess a lot of people have said that, but I was viewing the ad on a SD computer screen, so I'd imagine even at 720p, my television would probably pick up an even better picture than what I saw on the ad at Sony's GB site.  plus I'd forgotten the packaging for the GHOSTBUSTERS Blu-ray is way better than any of the DVD pressings, and...well...I guess I might as well buy a Blu-Ray player when I get my Circuit Breaker check early next year.  I'll probably get $300++, so a Blu-Ray player will be a piece of cake...

Wow.  Never before have I been so happy to be penniless.  I now have in my posession L.I.E. (Uncut).  All you folks in Cape Girardeau (if any are reading this aside from my mom who I know has no desire to see this film...) who decided NOT to rent this movie since Sept '09 will never have another chance.  For Hastings has deemed the lack of rentals of this movie reason enough to practically GIVE it to me - for $4.22 apprx (it actually should have been $4.35, but I just rented A CLOCKWORK ORANGE a few minutes prior which ate $0.13 of the needed $4.35.  The cashier said "don't worry about it", but if he hadn't, I'm sure my mother would have come to my aide...right?).
  True, there are less expensive movies, some of you may be thinking.  But they suck.  At least compared to this film - they suck.  I remember just last night aching to be with this movie, thinking "we belong together...", and thinking it a tragic sequence of non events that the world had divided us so widely.  But I was foolish, for I could've merely dialed Hastings' number and asked them what I thought until now would be a pointless question - "do you sell movies that are available for rent to those who wish to pay an extra price?".  Surely, I thought, a laugh or two would ensue.  But the cashier took me seriously and said "YES!", twice, with glee, but it was I who felt the true glee, still glowing.  So tonight that I might see...and I think...nobody's reading this...?

Video drowned the cinema...

Blu-Ray SOUNDS like a great idea.  And in some cases it probably does do a great service.  But the fact of the matter is that A LOT of AMAZING films, landmarks of cinema, do not benefit from a Blu-Ray transfer.  If anything, Blu-Ray diverts attention to what the director(s) and writer(s) want(ed) you to see, the sights and sounds that make the film as profound as it is...GHOSTBUSTERS, for instance, looks GREAT on DVD, but carried over to Blu-ray you NOTICE the non-HDness of the video quality it was shot with.  Granted, this may be more accurate in the mechanical sense, but what good does it do to see obscuring lines and white/grey patches on your television?
  Personally, I hate most of what comes out in theaters these days.  Sometimes they're cute and enjoyable - like marshmallows - but they lack longevity.  You forget them 1 year later and ten years later you revisit the film and wonder why you liked it to begin with.  Perhaps that's why people are so apt to re-watch films so often - there's so little substance, yet there IS stuff happening, so people end up in this half-catatonic state where 3/4 of their brain is just not even paying attention to the film so they pick up more of the film with repeated viewings...and of course people are so friggin' superficial and short-attention spanned that anything not from the "current" time of viewing is going to turn people off due to the different kinds of cars, clothing and hair style on display.  Films of the 1970's and 1980's often time don't look as shiny and glossy as current Hollywood productions and since everyone's obsessed with new-technology, people turn away from the not-so-perfect looking films, even though there's still a lot of visual beauty IN those movies for people who can accept and realize the fact that fashions change - they have - a million times over - and they will continue to do so.  I mean, admittedly, I don't watch movies, usually, made before 1968, simply because this country - the land of the free - was essentially a dictatorship run by superstitious pod-people who existed according to trumped up social codes that didn't make a dang big of sense.  People couldn't forgive themselves for thinking about anything sexual, and if they SAID anything of the sort, oh no, what would God think?!  Women especially were bogged down in that department, and if someone was suffering - from either internal or external ills - they couldn't tell anyone and if they did, nobody would do anything about it.  People couldn't handle thoughts of "mental illness" and living with a child automatically meant it was OK to beat them.  Just as long as they weren't physically dead, the parents couldn't be wrong for what they did...
  And the films of that day, because of everyone's fear of open communication and expression, were stale and have grown unwatchable as time's gone on.
  But then the government made a huge mistake - the Vietnam "conflict".  The grown ups tried to ignore it, but the children wouldn't.  Hollywood was losing money because they tried acting like nothing was happening, but the country was hurting, and the children were fed up with the world they were brought in to.  Movies were making more money from distrusting children and adventours college kids than adults who didn't even have as much time to gaze at the silver screen to begin with.  It was the age of artistic expression, honesty, beauty...
  And then Hollywood figured out how to modernize the Blockbuster - put fake things that look real in them.  A giant shark!  Space ships!  Aliens!  And as the education, legal, and parental units have all but washed their hands of responsibility and accountability, people walk around thinking things that don't make any sense as if they DO make sense, applying world views that defy truth to their purchasing habits - including movie tickets etc.!
  So most movies are either random flashes of shiny light, or half baked excuses for "drama".  In the case of AVATER, it's a bad case of both and it beat TITANIC - another example of technology-with-no-use - for the #1 highest ranking film of all time - financially speaking!
 

So BELIEVE me - when I say that having a Blu-ray player would be nice, but continuing to be able to watch my VHS tapes would be just as important to me if not more so.  VHS is cheaper anywayz, and the quality isn't really all that much worse than DVD, although I admit I like DVDs better, if I can get them for a good price...
  Right now I have a VCR, but it's really old and I always thank my lucky stars that it still works when I pop a tape in it.  But this will pass.  Is replacing it worth $300?  If it has a Blu-ray & a DVD player that isn't made by the mind of Satan?     Possibly.  Currently it's over $300 at Amazon, although not long ago it was on sale for $120...and it's got some bragging rights - a four star average customer rating?  If there's a better DVD and/or Blu-Ray player out there, it can't be worth trading over the 1-and-only Hi-Q VHS player currently being manufactured.  I mean, what more can a DVD and/or Blu-Ray player do?  Maybe NetFlix...but I'll probably need to replace this computer someday too ---- if i could get a computer that doesn't freeze up when NetFlix tries to stream movies on my computer, that would be great.  But nobody I know currently can afford to get me a $1K+ computer.  And I'm only 26...gosh, I'm getting old...

ego basher

the emo songs i always hear are like a refuge
the emo girls I always see around are like a dream
the dreams I have are like an addiction
I know they wouldn't feel the same
I'm either too selective or not selective enough
I like the prog-rock, new wave, hair-bands...
Can't say I'm hardcore when I'm so soft in the middle

the punk songs I always hear are like a plauge
punks are always bashing what's beautiful
my inner beuty is like a joke
I know they'd feel the same
I'm either too selective or not selective enough
I like to bash those punk-rock/noise-rock junk-rock amatuers
Can't say I'm open minded when I'm so hateful

the emo girl I always think of is just a passing thought
the thoughts I have revolve around this emo music
this music is like an addiction
i'm nothing without it
I hope she doesn't feel the same
But is it possible to embrace such a deformed soul?
When said embracer is relatively normal?
If so, I hope she stops me before I say another nasty word
But doesn't bash my ego

southcott flees the scene

A pop-punk band called Southcott once had a song titled "Red Lights And Rooftops" (wake up, wake up, we can't keep sleeping on the job, watching my neck for knives you plant beneath my jaw...) which was played regularly on my local RAGE 103.7 in its day (2005), yet the album (FLEE THE SCENE) is scarcely available used/new on Amazon, out of print, and the customer reviews (7 total, 3 1/2 star avg) are largely written from the standpoint of "just another pop-punk band" type thing, seemingly oblivious to there having been any airplay of them.
  It's like a ghost-CD!  I mean, who knows, maybe the band has some local (Cape Girardeau, Missouri) roots, but it seems odd that my local alt-rock station would be the ONLY station that plays/played these guys (I don't listen to RAGE much anymore since they started reverting back to the "real rock" w/ demons - ala Godsmack - style of "alternative" that was all the rage back in 1998, with very little "indie" rock, or pop-punk/emo...I mean, RAGE used to be Cape Girardeau's radio center for people who wanted stuff like The Shins, Radiohead, etc....but that's so 2005, I guess...).  I mean, if the CD had any exposure to the masses, you'd think there'd be a good 20++ copies available for sale on Amazon, but there's 13 total, 5 of which are "new" (some Amazon sellers sell a "new but opened" CD and list it as "NEW", which is AGAINST Amazon's guidelines, but whose paying attn, right?), so there's 8 used copies.  For a CD rated at 3 1/2 stars on average by "the people", there sure must be an awful lot of people who are either packrats or can't bear the thought of letting go of such mediocrity (although I like that one song A LOT, I haven't heard the rest of the CD, so...but anyway...); OR the CD just didn't touchdown on many a CD player and THAT'S why it's out of print...I mean, there's all kinds of reasons music goes OOP, a lot of CDs that are out of print go back into print at some point or another, and usually the ones that are unavailable are unavailable b/c the demand has reached a plateu - everybody that wants it has it, so there's no need to manufacture anymore...for a 5 year old CD, that seems like an odd scenario...

lalalalalalalalalalalalala, I can't he-ear you....

Lala is no longer accepting new members as of today and they will be shutting down on May 31st.  A sad day for low income music lovers indeed.

it's like a nut...

(TV ad reference, let's move on...)

Yeah...it's weird not having much of a reason to shell out $3-$15 for each album I want to listen to...I guess I'm addicted to the notion of collecting music...I say "notion of" b/c it's been a looong time since I ever collected CDs...I've bought a lot of 'em, but they don't stay together, thus "collection" is out of the equation, thus "collecting" does not apply...
  idk...I guess there's a lot of facets to the behavior I engage(d) in, when it comes to buying CDs.  Maybe not a lot, but it would sound like a lot if I said I am addicted to THREE things, since addiction to ONE thing seems like a shocker in and of itself...and I don't know what the other two things are; I know there's shopping...I guess the possession of material objects is another...
  Thanks, LaLa.  Not only for increasing my ability to spend money on non-music...but for letting me put my life in perspective...not that I don't do that enough as it is, but...thanx...

wwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiirrrrrrrrrd...

woah, man, there's like this new thing, it's called a web-album!  It's SO freaky, 'cause like I don't have to own the physical album, it's like 1/10th of the price of a typical (legal) album download and it's there for you whenever you're online and don't mind going to LaLa.com, and the artists get their fair share, and it's even cooler for a guy like me who always gets rid of their music, you don't have to pay $3+++ to get it back, just a dollar or so, maybe more if there's, like, a lot of songs on the album...woaaaaaaah!!

the two hour limit?

I've been researching companies that convert VHS to DVD, and none that I have found offer a reasonable price for converting, for instance, THE EXORCIST (2 hours and 1 minute) from Vhs to DVD.  A lot of them don't offer the option to convert over 2 hours at ANY price.  It's simply not an option for these people.  A "video capture device" costs about $50 or so, and I'd have to have a DVD burner in my computer, which I don't...I guess as seldom as I watch the same movie, I probably won't kill my (select few) Vhs tapes anytime soon anyway...and when I do, maybe DVD AND Blu-Ray will both be extinct, a new video format having been ushered in...

these are my private things...

I'm about finished listening to Live's 1994 masterpiece THROWING COPPER and I can't believe how much I keep downing myself - I keep basing my future on the present.  I think "this sux...and then I'll die".  I guess life is like anything else - it doesn't last.  So, yeah, maybe a lot of my life will suck, with or without good things, such as a receiver and music..., but that doesn't mean I need to shut the good things out...I mean, yeah, the COST of everything is totally rediculous given how much money I will have been givin by the time I'm dead, even if I live to be 80+ (which given my current health is somewhat doubtful - I weigh 250 lbs apprx and that hasn't changed in over 2 months...) and how much time I will have spent using everything...but really, a CD, one that one doesn't listen to often, is typically priced as such - $5 or less including S&H, on Amazon...and a receiver encompasses ALL the music I listen to.  So that's not a bad thing to buy for $300 or less...of course, there's also speakers, but I just found a pair of REALLY high quality ones for a blowout price of $80 (MSRP is $400)!!  i don't know if my sister will be up to using her CC to buy them for me (I'd pay her back, of course, I'm no mooch...) but here's hoping for good news tomorrow morning or afternoon...I already have an SACD/DVD-Audio player.  Thankfully I (still) got that covered, even after several attempts at selling it.  One time it almost sold, but the dude quickly wrote to me telling me if I couldn't be sure it would arrive within like 5 days to just cancel the order.  So...I did...but yeah.  I don't know what it is, I just get in moods I guess.  I've been feeling really pessimistic about the future.  I guess that's not called for.  Not like it helps the time I still have on this Earth.  It'll be gone too soon, but it's gonna seem that much longer, and that much suckier (a VERY bad combo if I do say so myself...) if I don't try to progress...

This is only 15 CDs, but I might add more if I think of any that are worth anything...

American Football - s/t
The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?
Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
The Cure - Disintegration
Genesis - …And Then There Were Three…
Genesis - Invisible Touch
Genesis - Live/The Way We Walk Volume One: The Shorts
Genesis - Live/The Way We Walk Volume Two: The Longs
Genesis - Three Sides Live
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
Hidden In Plain View - Resolution
Live - Throwing Copper
Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Oingo Boingo - Skeletons In The Closet: The Best Of

music...

After all these years of living with boomboxes and knowing there's another level out there, it comes as a rather depressing shock to find out that one of the best bands in rock's albums weren't even recorded in stereo!  I'm referring to The Beatles, although some of their later albums, their best ones in most folks' opinion, ARE in stereo, but my point is that "hi-fi" audio didn't exist for a LOOONG time.  Music, meanwhile, has ALWAYS existed.
  And what's more, most of the ***GREAT*** music of this day and time isn't owned by big-money-making companies with all the latest hi-fi auido gear at their disposal.  So: when I think of owning a receiver with speakers, instead of a DVD player thru TV speakers, it sounds rather sleek and chic, but what does it accomplish?  It doesn't make the music I listen to any more enjoyable...a boring CD is still a boring CD...
  speaking of which, why the heck is LastFM playing all this junk?  My Chemical Romance is NOT my cup of tea...I don't even remember the song they were playing b4 that one...I just "banned" the MCR song, now they're playing "Damn Regret" by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.  Not a bad song, nothing envigorating tho...

if u seek backup...

i'm down to two CD albums:
GENESIS - INVISIBLE TOUCH (1986, Atlantic)
VARIOUS - 90'S RADIO (2009, Rhino)

I do however have...eh, maybe 15 albums on DATA disc.  If I were a normal human type, I wouldn't have much an excuse for breakin' the law like that (law says if you burn a CD that you buy you're not supposed to get rid of the CD or the CD-R...), but, you see, with me, I've been in this stupid cycle of buying a CD, selling it and buying it again, selling it again, then re-buying it AGAIN!  There's VERY few respected-by-me CDs that I haven't re-bought at least 3+++ times.  In a lot of instances the number is twice or thrice that amount.
  So what should I be spending my money on anyway??...food is bad except for the basic 3xmeal and...eh, maybe a snack or two wouldn't hurt but the meals better be darn healthy and small!  Neither of those trats apply to the majority of what I eat, mealwise or non.  and then there's music...which I don't value enough to keep.  I mean, there's emusic, that's $13 right there...eh, I guess a latte every other day or so wouldn't be so bad, if I could keep my teeth out of all the other, more junkier foods...
  I guess books aren't such a bad thing to buy, even if I have no "real" intention of actually READING them...I bought a book titled CRASH by J.G. Ballard - for the second time (counting?) - a couple months ago, and sold it 'cause...I don't even remember why.  I guess it was a combination of not feeling comfortable reading that instead of the stack of books I'd then-recently checked out from the library, and...ihhhhhhhh...I'm just not an avid reader - I hate sitting down and reading stuff that has no bearing on anything.  So many books are supposedly so "deep" and "insightful", yet few of them provide any real profound moments.  I got 50 pages through THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand, and felt intrigued by it, but like help I'm gonna read 700+ pages of that thing!  I guess it may be worth it, but it seems rather ludacrous that a book about architects and architeture could plausably provide a meaningful presentation of the threat of fascism...I guess it could, in a rather THE DARK KNIGHT-esque kind of way...uuuuuuuhhhhhhggh...i get so sick and TIRED thinking about this crud.  i'm tired half the time as it is, i don't know what to do about any of this...but action isn't my cup of tea anyway, so, really, it's more like "I don't know what to buy" that woud make me feel better...I guess I'm dying...well, not likely, but, ya know...psychiatrists etc. don't seem to know what's wrong with me, so I guess there could be any # of things wrong with me that haven't even been detected.  They say everyone's DNA is different...
  but back to that other thought - about buying books...it's not like it wouldn't represent who i really am, to any onlookers, people passing by, if anyone(s) were so inclined to take a tour of my room...I mean, what does it say about a person who has half a dozen or more books that have never been read?  It says I'm culturaley aware, easily bored, aimless...basically everthing about me, good and bad.

be bitter if you insist, but these are the facts...

I was trying to think up reasons for owning the six albums/CDs on my list of MUST-HAVE music, and the simplist reason I could think of for owning Hootie & The Blowfish's CRACKED REAR VIEW was "it reminds me of Bill Clinton".  And the first thing that came out of this hypothetical intruder's "mouth" was: "what's so great about Bill Clinton?".
  First thing's first: politicians lie - they promise the world and then they don't do squat.  That's how Ronald Reagan won, and that's how Barack Obama won.  But that's just the beginning; A LOT of politicians have a big long dirty laundry list.  People can go online and look up any given list, but most people refuse to do so.  Most people are nieve enough to think such a thing isn't even an issue.

But here's the thing I like about "Bill Clinton": there IS no Bill Clinton - the guy who was seen on television and in court and on MTV etc....he did and said nothing to win the election; the guy openly admitted he was a total joke and had no business doing something serious like politics.  Those, of course, weren't his words, but you get the idea...of course he HAD to say SOMETHING, but nothing that came out of his mouth had any weight to it.
  When it comes to "getting stuff done" (which never happens anyway), Bill Clinton had nothing to offer.  HOWEVER, for those who don't hold their fear of gay people close to their heart and aren't completely stripped of their good nature, Bill Clinton was a symbol - he was a symbol of freedom, happiness, and living life carefree and to the fullest.  Did he enable or extend the everyday person's ability to actually DO any of those things?  Not really.  But people saw his picture or heard the name, and that's what rung in people's minds.
  Given that fact, I think Hootie & The Blowfish's CRACKED REAR VIEW was perfect for the time and stands as a reminder of the days prior to 9/11, when it became all too obvious how fragile all our lives really are...

hi-fi x 3...

Well, so far it seems as if there's THREE titles that I can buy in hi-fi.  Aside from LPs, which are a pain in the ass to take care of, and very costly to maintain, there's two hi-fi formats for audio - SACD (Super-Audio Compact Disc) and DVD-Audio.  Oddly enough, considering the numerous OOP titles on DVD-Audio, 2/3 of the titles that I want that are available in hi-fi ARE in DVD-Audio.

GENESIS - Wind & Wuthering; remastered AND remixed by Nick Davis.  This one's in SACD.
MINERAL - The Power Of Failing; mid-90's emo, from the days when emo was a lot more brash and less radio friendly.
STAIND - 14 Shades Of Grey; this one's actually a little nostalgic, as it had a handful of songs that were on my local modern rock station when I still listening to it, i.e.: before it got repetitive and lacking in variety.  They play Godmsack-ish stuff more than anything these days, although every now and again they'll get in pre-suck mode for about an hour, as if it were 2003-2005 again.  But yeah, KDMCLP, in their pre-suck days played "Zoey Jane", "How About You?", and "So Far Away" quite often. 

there's 32 titles on my list so far, though.  Kinda bites how little is in hi-fi.......

May, June...

So, I only have $7.35 apprx in "whatever" funds remaining to be spent for this month.  That might be significant, if I can resist going to U Kwik Stop to spend $1.39 w/ tax on a cappuccino or some stupid crup like that...

But for the most part this month is a zombie - dead and walking.

I've been DL'ing a lot of music this past couple days, mainly today...so...I need to buy it.  Just to be good (!!).  So, whatever mood I may be in, I need to get my music collection, i.e.: CDs, straightened out, for the future...whatever that exactly is...

May is pretty bleak, 'cause I owe my sister $40.  But that's still enough money to get 2 CDs
NEW FOUND GLORY - SELF TITLED--10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION W/ DVD
GENESIS - LIVE OVER EUROPE

I'll probably get them from DeepDiscount dot com.

JUNE
depending on how much these cost, I may get a fifth one, prolly NIRVANA - BLEACH--20th Anniversary Remastered.
1)  FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND - CASUALLY DRESSED AND DEEP IN CONVERSATION (currently under $11 at the Amazon Marketplace)
2)  NEW FOUND GLORY - NOT WITHOUT A FIGHT (currently slightly under $10 via Newburycomics at the Amazon Marketplace)
3)  GENESIS - WIND & WUTHERING (amazon/mktplce hardly ever outdoes Deep on this one...)
4)  PEARL JAM - REARVIEWMIRROR: HITS 91-03 (another NBC@Amazon cheapster, but this one is a legendary 2 disc set EVEN LESS than the $10 NFG CD...it's less than $7.50 for the whole pkg, don't know how long that schtick'll last...)
(?5?) see above

This seems like a bit of a chore, what with waiting and trying to be consistent with my "wish" list contents...so I'll probably see what torrents I DL in the coming weeks and if they are deserving of purchase

....
PS - I have not DL'd PEARL JAM's RVM, since...idk; it's just only awesome on certain occassions - it's kind of like an early/mid 90's grunge/alternative era / college-dorm room days of spring y CD...which I'm rarely diggin' anyway...

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i know it's wrong, what should I do?

Yeah, another quote, sue me.

THE BEGINNING: It was a blimy SUHNI day ( sunny -  get that?)  and for some reason I didn't care to file in my memory we - my mother, father an myself - were at some auto care store...and lo and behold, a GHOSTBUSTERS II (2) AIR FRESHENER - but I was "too obsessed" (...?>...) with the whole GHOSTBUSTERS realm of things, so it was shortly thrown out in a fury of my mother, along with a poster that costs 10x as much as what she paid for it at that time...well, supposing I wanted THAT EXACT poster - it was pretty much a take on the theatrical movie poster, with the 4 dudes affront a new-no-ghost logo.

10 years later - I'm a grown man, more or less, and my heart aches for those sweet days of carelessness and innocence.  No avail.

10 more years go by.  I'm tired of GHOSTBUSTERS, more or less, I've watched it too many times too recently and I'm sort of on hiatus on that stoof.  It is mine, it is of me, I will return to it, me lofe.  NONETHELESS, places that could and might and perhaps SHOOD have GB paraphanelia (sp??) I hunt - I will not rest, until I have found - some sort of ghostbusters thing or anoder.

The more the merrier.

Well, no GB2 air freshener - maybe there never will be another GBII pack of stuff seen widely; the logo pertains to that film and that film only - and that film IS A REALLY FREAKIN' OLD MOVIE - that to some GB "fans" is an embarrasment to the legacy of the first film.  (obviously I'm not of that group...).  Admittedly I did see a GBII shirt at Hot Topic, which isn't even as detailed and thoughtfully made as the GBI shirt I ACTUALLY HAVE (!!!!!) (it's hangin' in there, sorta, after a year and a half apprx; the logo and the lettering has HOOLES, BOO-LITTS!!  HUULES!!  BULLET-HOLES!!  WAAAAA-GIGIGIGIGIGIGI!!!...anyone reading this?), which, UNLIKE A LOT of present-day-madely GHOSTBUSTERS(tm) stuff, HAS THE NO-GHOST LOGO IN THE WORD ...... THE WORD .... WHERENBERG, WHERENBERG (woooooooooooooo)

Ok, I'm gonna repeat that, with a vengance -

the GBII shirt isn't as GOOD as the GBI shirt (which I actually have, THANK YA GESEUZ!) b/c the GBI shirt, unlike a lot of other GB merch, HAS THE NO-GHOST LOGO IN THE WORD - as in instead of GHOSTBUSTERS it's GH(NO-GHOST-SIGN)STBUSTERS ---- sorry I can't type the NGL...

BASICALLY WHAT I'M SAYING IS GBII STUFF IS NOT BEING MADE, AND IF THE TREND OF NO-GHOST-LOGO VERSION 2.0 EVER RETURNS, PPL THAT MAKE THE STUUF DON'T EXPECT PEOPLE WHO BUY THE STUUF TO CARE ENOUGH TO PUT THE CARE GBII STUUF DESERVES INTO THE GBII STUUF.

BUT!!!!! - but, I did find a GB air freshener - NOT A GBII air freshener - BUT! - a GB air freshener ; w/ cool graphics on the pking and an old school sheen on the air freshener itself.

for $4.25 w/ tax - apprx - life is JUST THAT MUCH sweet-er!!!

"duh duh duh - it was his koosin"

Sorry, that re-run of THE BIG BANG THEORY was frappin' hilarious!  If you don't understand, the title it's OK - perhaps I am wrong...but it appears based on the reactions of others when i'm around them that most people don't replay WHOPPin' hilarious television shows in their mind...



AS I WAS SAY-YING!!!  Gosh...

::::  yeah, there was this THING - well, let's back up 10 years prior to the other ten-year-backup...1989 - you get that?  NINETEEN EIGHTY NINE!!  I'LL KILL HER, DA*N YOU, I'LL KEEL HERRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

Uh, gosh, I'm going nuts.  I don't think I took my meds...anyway;

OOK.  Yeah, well, ya know what?  I don't think anyone cares about what I'm thinking about.  G'day.