go see vanilla sky. it'll flip your wig a minimum of seven times. of course, don't go expecting it to be the best movie you've ever seen. just go in ready to experience it, with no preconceived notion of how good or bad it will be. that's the way you should approach every movie, because the higher your expectations, the more likely you'll end up disliking a good movie.

oh my, temptation abounds for certain. was at the Suncoast Movies over in Altoona this evening...almost went crazy and bought the special edition of Bad Taste Temptaion...but it was 40 dollars...i could not justify such things!

just in case you're keeping track at home, everyone over at aint it cool news is saying the new Lord of the Rings movie is about the best movie they've ever seen, and while watching it they were in an opiated, otherworldly state.

this is just too darned funny, and coming as someone who once thought that Neil Odonell was going to be the answer to the steeler's quarterback woes, its even better.

first, paul needs a new suit. i wore this sucker in march this year and it fit pretty good. now the pants are way too tight and i don't think i can feel my legs.

second, just saw the new spider-man trailer on their website. it kicks some serious butt! not to mention that in sam raimi tradition, the Olds Classic is in the movie, heck, it's even in the trailer!

lastly, i'm cuttin' outta work today to go xmas shopping. i hope to finish everyone up today so i can relax and begin the fun part of wrapping xmas presents.

merry christmas and a happy new sneer!!!!

how many times will it take me?
before i go crazy?
before i lose everything?

allright, what the heck is the matter with me? it was 6:50, i looked at the alarm (it hadn't just gone off and woke me up, i was just awake), and i said to myself, "i'll lay here in bed until the alarm goes off again, then its off to work early for me." and what happens? I do NOT remember the alarm ever going off again- i just opened my eyes and it was 8:30. why does this happen! what is the matter with my alarm? i checked it when i finally got up and the switch was still in the "on" position, and as far as i know there's no way to turn the "snooze" off. blast it!

also, that IT video is pretty weird. its strange watching those people scoot around their office.

lastly, go see ocean's eleven. if you only see one heist movie this year (remember, there was also the score and the heist), i say, make it ocean's eleven.

for all you death machine fans...here's something to grab your attention....




weee

Well, of course we heard of IT way back in the day and then it came out not too long ago so that everyone found out it was a scooter. Wanna see it in action? Go to their website, it actually looks pretty darned cool! http://www.segway.com/consumer/.

in other news, i had an odd dream last night. It involved bowling, acorns, body gaurds w/knives, denny's sausage, and a parade of one band. yeah, i don't think i'm going to go into this one. let's just say i couldn't bowl worth crap due to the lanes being the size of a pinball machine, a bunch guys outside the alley walked out escorting one james hoff and drew knives on me, i threw acorns at people inside the alley, scott complained of pain after eating denny's sausage (odd in itself as scott is vegitarian), there was a marching band that went by and turned down a street. over active imagination...mm, yeeah, i think so too.

craig that is some classic work there man. i dug it. i'm putting a spoiler on my monitor tomorrow!!

the alan smithee project. they're almost officially over now, but you should still check 'em out. half or two thirds of the band will be soldiering on this spring in a new band (very much a braid to hey mercedes kinda thing), and i can't wait to hear their new stuff.

you know it's a bad thing to let your mind wander a little bit sometimes. i was just thinking having to go on travel to DC and being holed up in a hotel which happened to have some important national or international figurehead. the building was attacked with a sizable bomb and imagined the building rocking some and the whole building collapsing while i would be in my room. just imaging the building toppling and tilting over and knowing the impending doom that is about to happen in the next five seconds. very unsettling. i want a cabin with a nice laptop and dish and i'll be just fine.

it does give one hope.

combat junkies summer tour 2002 .... notice who's going to be on tour with them!!!

gabe, are you working from home today?

why say you this gabe?

CPR: 76% PPR: 88% now spinning: david bowie - the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars

oh now there was a brilliant poll. should Sept. 11th be a national holiday? sheesh, no, i don't see us celebrating Pearl Harbor as a national holiday or VE Day or VJ Day. I don't think that is a time for "celebration" which is what our national holidays are all about. It should be a day of rememberance and a day of reverence to those that had died. good grief.

For those that hate large corporations, has anyone heard about the Enron corporation? One of the nation's largest corporations had declared bankruptcy recently and has been called before the Congressional Judiciary committee to discuss what had happened. The CEO declined and the CFO is no where to be found and they have not sent anyone or planning to send anyone to the hearing. Yet a billion plus dollars worth of bonuses are being handed out to employees. Sounds like a song I once heard "...take the money and run..."

gabe, that is what we call a good start. there is an inverse relationship between the amount of time you haven't written and how crappy your first attempts will be... for instance, i have gone over a year without writing a story... i know full well that the first two i write will read worse than harry potter out-takes and be absolute crap. but after that, the next thing i write might be half-decent. but if i take another month or two off, i'll write crap again the first time i try. we're like shrimp, gabe, little shrimp and the shrimp poop under our transparent skin is the crap writing that we must expel before we can truly take flight!

in other news, the dentist pretty much got me stoned on nitrous today, it was really a messed up experience... voices and noises were in slow motion and i was pretty out of it. on the down side, it still hurt bad for the first half hour.

what paul failed to mention is that the old guy drove his car into the guard-rail on the left side of the road, basically on the ~outside~ corner of the curve! i thought he was just going to drive straight over the hill.

ahh, lunchtime follys. so micah and i go to tap MAC and whilst exiting the one bank, we were behind an elderly driver. ooh, the fun, with the little weiner dog sitting in the back window. yeah, so the exit to this place is fairly narrow, two vehicles can barely pass one another. but this guy is making this turn and i don't know if he wasn't paying attention or not but he scraped the front left of his car right along the guard rail with that nice metal scraping metal sound.

also, never look for clipart on the internet. well, unless you want the pop-up windows from hell...

i'm going to write a song, it's going to be "I Want My Business Clipart" named after the 80's song by Dire Straits.

By the way all, I now have a llama portrait hanging outside my cube. GO LLAMAS!!!!!!

if anybody wants to get me a nice Christmas present, here are some fun suggestions:

item one
item two
item three
item four
item five
item six

i'm not just eclectic, i'm strange. let me add that this item blows 'em all away!

gabe, you forgot to mention in your beautiful add placement about the tire pressure warning gauge in your car. it is truly an indispensable feature on the car! why almost as indispensable as a man made of saran wrap...

i am an ergonomic nightmare anymore. i can't get my my keyboard and mouse set decent and at the end of the day one of my two wrists always seems to be a little messed up.

there will be the sounds of our duckpin balls ripping down the lanes, and the roaring of the bowling crowd as paul and i battle it out for the high game of the night!

and then there will much ripping and roaring as jerome bettis plows over defensive backs like they were made of straw, or some other light material, say like tinfoil, or saran wrap.

yes gabe, there will be MUCH ripping and roaring.

the super NES came yesterday. there was much rejoicing indeed and the realization that has come to pass. i really suck at console games. i remember playing the same game (Super Mario World) when i was 14 and sucking just as bad as i do now. but this is ok, because i can learn, i am a human being!

amanda, you're more than welcome to come and join us sunday night for a rip roaring good time of cheer.

i won't be home until at least 9ish or so. me and micah have duckpin before that. we're young upstarts.

lance, don't forget to mention that you won't be home until 8:30 or 8:45 due to round 3 of the "young upstarts showing each other up round 3", otherwise known as our duckpin bowling league.

well, seeing as how most small llamas are kept in captivity in those mean evil metric countries, we should adopt them and brainwas...err, educate them properly in our weights and measure system.

all bloggers, thou are cordially invited on sunday to my dwelling for the pittsburgh vs. baltimore showdown. this really only applies to those that live in PA, as i don't think my alabama folks can really plan to attend....unless they reeeeally want to.

i think the US should adopt small llamas

man, i had an incredibly messed up dream... i think it might be due to having a cold but i'm not sure. i was in some completely messed up decrepent inner city area, living in basically a hole in the ground that was dug out underneath an old shed. and there were two kids living in the hole too, at one point i was outside the hole (with a gun) and there were these gang-banger guys with rifles or shotguns, they were aiming at the hole and were going to shoot the kids as they came out... i was jumping in front of the hole yelling "don't shoot! don't shoot!" and trying to stop them, i think a gunfight erupted and i had to dive in the hole, and then i was crawling around a big complex of caves and holes in the ghetto trying to escape.

thanks for the shout micah, but a shout out to you for the 211 game you bowled out there last night. what an amazing bowler. ladies and gentlemen, let it be known in the history of duckpin bowling, there has never been a perfect game. just some phenominal bowling last night folks!

had an odd dream this morning. involving george carlin interacting with a bunch of kids and me trying to get a motorcycle helmet so i could get home. rather strange really. cause somehow i had mysteriously ended up in carroltown on scott's old motorcycle but when i needed to go home, i realized i had left my riding gear here at work?! oooh, the continuity problems of dreams...they're so wonderful.

hip, hip, HOORAY!

a shout out to paul mack, who considers a 402 series a bad night of bowling! a shout out to whoever passed this cold on to me, may the Lord have mercy on your soul! and a shout out to "connie m", who just emailed my band's hotmail account... we're a Christian band, and she must have figured we'd appreciate her "just turned 18 deep throat" pictures, what a nice wholesome young lady! a shout out to the steelers, who now have the best record that i can ever remember them having in my entire life! a shout out to william h macy, who absolutely rules the school, his performance in panic was Oscar-worthy! a shout out to my house, which hasn't been cleaned in months! if i hadn't just shouted out my voice, i'd shout you out for reading this ridiculous mess!