A detailed and vague account of my escapist adventures, my treatise's on the world, social commentary, and homage to ninjas, dragons, and ninjas with dragon heads.

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Weekend time!

So instead of just a bunch of posts I'll slip this into one post. Last weekend started with my cousins birthday. It was pretty cool to see his younger brother who just started at UTA and the effects college life has had on him thus far. My older cousin, we'll call him John, evidently has become somewhere between hobbified and fascinated with maps, which explains his present a wall sized... I forget which, either an Eckert or Peters projection map. Basicly, it's a map that accurately portrays the the land mass of the world, and centers it correctly on the equator and all I can say is DAMN. Westerners sure do love distorting the world, I mean it makes sense cause we're awesome, but still it's insane to see just how big africa is compared to everything else. Oh and indonesia is almost the size of the US! Not in land mass, but like if you drew a circle around all the islands. Waaay bigger than the little sliver usually used to represent it. Here's a pic of the birthday boy and cake.


So once I got home from that outing I hitup Afrah Pastries with tool, ashley, thomas and eric. I love that place. For those who've never been, afrah pastries is like a foodmarket/restaurant/hookah bar (minus the booze) in downtown richardson across from the police station. Think of it like a braums... but persian. It's always so chill to sit out on the padio and smoke a hookah and get some hummas and baklava.

So saturday... I don't remember what I did saturday night but it was probably lame. However saturdayday wen, wes and myself went to see Two for the Money and Green Street Hooligans. Both were good movies, but what I think seriously made them great for me is the analysis of their respective dark topics, addiction to gambling and addiction to violence. I'd highly recommend both, though I enjoy'd GSH more.

Then came sunday, and it was a return to the Cavern. First we stopped off by Gingerman which is always fun. The best thing though about Sundays is that there's no crowd anywhere. Easy parking, easy seat finding, etc. Ricki Derek was again performing Frank covers. Now, one might think there really isn't a way you can top a chill tucked away greenville lounge with a sinatra cover artist, and prior to Sunday night I would have been inclined to agree. However, I've since realized Frank covers in a sexy lounge isn't an awesome thing, it's awesome power to fuel awesome things!

Things like girls dancing!!


And things like girls cuddling on couches!!!


And things like girls... whatever that is on couches!!!


After a brief stop over at the aqualounge before close, tool and I chilled out for several hours and hit up the late night jack n box. And thus concluded my weekend. The End.

Jealous of that damn couch,
me.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

TV... giver of life, warmth and secret lover.

So... Kristen Bell errrrow. I marathoned Veronica Mars season one this weekend and caught up on tivo for season 2. This show is incredible. I think becuase it's such a vast contrast to current shows like Lost, the OC and Alias where NOTHING HAPPENS EVER! I felt like the season was almost over and I was only in 5 of 23ish so much plot went down. Centered in a setting very similar to the OC but with plot and no cliches (which are becoming overbearing in the new season of OC) it follows the adventures of one Veronica Mars, apprentice to her father P.I., as she unravels the great dirty secrets of rich people.

Sooo... Lost, Alias, OC, and a bunch of other shows are suuuuuuucking. Why do they drag on and on? And Lost's reuse of footage is just fookin lame. FOOKIN I tell yah!

So what is good? Well My Name is Earl has impressed thus far. All the actors are excellent in their delivery and seldom is it that a show really captures a unique prespective as opposed to just showing a plot with punchlines. (scrubs and frasier are some of the few I can think of). Smallville is only solid so far, but frequently builds to a much better late season than early. Also Supernatural is the damndeedigity. Screw every other ghost/nightstalker/etc show on the fall lineup. First off, I'd like to give props to the WB for using 20 something actors who play... wait for it... 20 something characters. Step in the right direction guys. The show has really solid horror cinematography, lighting, and special effects on par with the movies in objective quality but with more style and mood than most movies. House still wins as the best character drama on television. And Everybody Hates Chris is rock solid but is fucked by timeslots. Finally Nip/Tuck fucking rocks it like always. Most provocative, if not best show, on television hands down. Oh and guilty pleasures of the day goes to Las Vegas and Boston Legal. Denny Crane! I can see that casting call, 'who could we possibly get to out apeshit james spader? William Shatner ofcourse!'

sexin up the boob tube,
me.

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Sci-Fi Five!!!!

*slap* Dammit, I'll know if you didn't five the blog. I'll know and I'll scorn. And then I'll five cooler people than you. Like him... and him.

So, it's about that time for another movie post. And this time I thought we'd go with a theme... mostly because both movies were of the sameish genre. No it's not porn, read the title! Did you learn nothing from TAAS/TEAMS??? Yeah me neither, standard testing rocks! Though my final fantasy is to have a harem....

Final Fantasy: Advent Chilrden rocked! I have honestly never seen CG so excellent. But what really made the movie excellent was that the choreography of the fight scenes was mind blowing. After seeing it three times I still find new things in the fight scenes. The plot is solid too.

Serenity: A very good movie. Only Joss Whedon can deviate from a show so dearly held and have me be ok with it. The pacing was excellent, the story line was tight, his normal dialog (Buffey or Angel) has the camp turned down abit to appeal to a mass movie audience, and consequently the jokes are solid. Oh and the special effects were not too shabby.

geeked out,
me.