The Itallion Stallion

So....I just found out, Next Tuesday, I will be buying this:



Also, I'm halfway through 'ROCKY II' and I'm really really loving Rocky Balboa. To be a constant blabberer that doesn't shut up (which I'm around way too much anyway), I find him incredibly charming and I can't help but just love him for who he is.

And so far I think Apollo Creed is a douche.

Well, I just can't wait to finish all 5 movies, then see 'Rocky Balboa' in December.

Much love, Stallone.

You Say Life's That Way

First Off: I HATE 'Degree' deodorant. Always have, always will. It just smells gross.......but I bought some the other night b/c the new fragrance smelled good in Walmart, but when I put it one the next day it made me sick. It's going in my garbage can unless someone wants it.

So after (what I thought was) a brillant episode of LOST yesterday [best of the season so far]...I did something I never really expected myself to do.

I joined the ABC LOST message board and made my first post. It never really got any response b/c it got buried by all the west coast people making posts after they saw the episode.....but oh well.

I finally finished 'Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age' on my PS2 this afternoon. I've had it over a year and just now got around to finishing it after taking a few months off after dying and getting ticked off. That happened a couple of times over the year. Wasn't that great....was basically 'Final Fantasy X' with no storyline and a Middle Earth setting. But, I finished it.

I can't say that much about 'Grand Theft Auto 3'.......I'm just such a sucky player I can't even get past the first city.

Honey Please

Well, let me tell you about MY day yesterday (as if you had a choice):

[some non-important details have been omitted]
After getting in bed at 3:45am (I was working, not partying), I set my alarm for 6:15am. If goes off, and we play the 'snooze button' game until about 8:15am. (I think the body requires at least more than two hours before it can physically get back up, b/c I was dreaming/hallucinating big time........thinking my alarm clock was a tape machine that would back up and erase the time and I would have to record a new time and so on.)

So I finally get up, quickie shower myself (washing the face and the hair and ignoring the naughty bits with hope of another shower soon), and after heading to the station to pick up a camera I am on the road by 8:30. So I get to the Pontotoc cable, pick up the DVD that I had to put on only several hours ago. I zip to Guntown, by now it's roughly after 9.30am, I put the DVD in the automation, and leave. I get back to Tupelo and onto 78 and it's probably right about 10am or just a little after. I call Jeremy and let him know I'm on my way to Oxford. An hour later, I'm in Oxford. About 11.45am Jeremy gets there and we start shooting video for his school project/newstory. Well, cue up about an hour&half or so later and I'm back on the road......headed BACK to the Pontotoc cable. Get there, change out tapes, back in my car and leaving Pontotoc about 2pm. Rush back to Bruce, come in check my email and go right over to Andrew's.....rounding up to about 2.50pm-ish.

I of course stop looking at my clock and put my phone away, and we just hang out for a bit....though I'm a total zombie.

So later on it was up to Oxford to pick up Matt, then on to Memphis, a little bit of Tofu w/Pineapple at Pho Hoah Binh, and then to watch both Andrew and Matt play great shows. Came home...then FINALLY about the time we get BACK to Oxford, I can't take it anymore and pass out. Next thing I know, we're pulling into Andrew's driveway...I mumble something to the effect of 'see ya later' and come home.....crank my heater up to full blast, and get in bed.

Now, about 11 hours later...here I am.

My head still feels weird b/c I can never get the right amount of sleep. Either too much or not quite enough. Dammit.

Excellent Adventures With Bill & Ted

So this morning I wake up.

I get up....go straight to the bathroom and take a shower.

Yadda Yadda Yadda I finish, towel off, brush my teeth and head to my bedroom to get dressed.

I remember I forgot to put deodorant on, so as I return to the bathroom, I notice extra light coming into the kitchen than usual, so I take a glance, and my kitchen door is wide open.

Yeah, it was still locked, so apparently I just didn't push it to completely last night.

Needless to say....freaked the fuck out. Again.

The Cut Of The Director

So, I decided that I will withold judgement of "Blade Runner" until I manage to see the theatrical version (if it still exists).

What I bought was the Director's Cut.....but 'supposedly' the one I have queued in Netflix is the original version. We'll see soon and then I'll tell you what I think of it. (like I told you that I was gonna tell you what I thought of it anyway......pshhhh)

So anyway....LOST Season 3 Episode 2 tomorrow...we'll see if they can make my jaw drop AGAIN!

With A Special Message From David Hyde Pierce

First off, I must explain that I have an obsession......a sickness. Possibly even a fetish, for DVDs. Yeah, to me, the DVD collection represents the person.....so you have to fill it with those movies you want to define you. The good part: I don't just buy every DVD brand new and at a brand new price. No, where my fetish comes in can be blamed on EB Games and GameStop. To me, used/previously viewed movies are the way to go to reinforce a collection and get movies you don't really want to pay full price for but still make you 'you.' With deals like 3 for $20 [separately $9.99] and 3 for $10 [separately $5.99], you can't help but splurge and get 6 movies at one single stop. And yes.....it did that yesterday at BOTH EB Games and GameStop in Southhaven. BUT......the killer of them all.....the Holy Grail of DVDs.......I now own:

FLETCH!!!!!!!

Yes, the Chevy Chase movie. It was produced when DVDs first came out, and was then cancelled. It's only available if you wanna pay $50 bucks on eBay.......but I got it for $6!

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Perhaps the oddest part of the weekend was the GameStop stop......where I found an odd version of 'Kill Bill.' You see.....it was in a gray case and had Japanese writing on it. At first I was trembling b/c I thought I was holding a very special bootleg that had more features/more movie than the U.S. release. Well, upon further inspection (or, simply reading the back cover), I noticed something different about the film: Apparently Judi Dench and Kate Winslet were in the movie, and it revolved around a woman named Iris. There was also a special feature on the DVD with a 'Special Message from David Hyde Pierce about "Iris" and Alzheimers.' Also, it claimed the 'Original motion picture soundtrack available on Quentin Tarantino.'

Obviously.......this was a very retarded bootleg.

To cap it off, there was a 'Spiderman' DVD that claimed to feature 'Tody McGuire' and that the story took place in the early 1900s as some guy is traveling on a steamship to America and that he also discovers something dealing with Jazz music. Boy, that's a totally different story than the one I watched.

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So we did see 'Science Of Sleep'.......it was good, and I may save a review for another post b/c there's some other stuff I want to say. It was however very imaginative and looked really beautiful. Also, was a classic movie NOT for the general public b/c half the time you're saying 'what the hell?' and then......it just ends. Some people hate that. Well, poo on them.

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Well, attended my first Ole Miss (heck, College) football game and the very first play of the game was an awesome smack in the face.....and that Ole Miss player never came back. He got knocked tha heck out. We left at halftime, btw.

'Hoddy Toddy' is the most retarded little poem I've ever heard.

Especially when one drunk guy is teaching another drunk guy how to say it.

But, we did get to scream 'BULL-SHIT! BULL-SHIT!' alot.......that was funny b/c we just threw in some other swear words like cunt-bag and cocksucker. Just something to make you think.

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Well, that's about it......we have been recording some Nintendo playing for our soon-to-be-hit "The Nintendo Power Hour". More on that later.........

Echoes

Yeah........you can make fart noises and hear them echo across the TV-7 parking lot.

Hit me up and we'll try it sometime.

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So right now I guess the plan is I may go with AdamH to the Ole Miss game on Saturday.......as long as he'll go to Memphis and see "The Science Of Sleep" as part of the deal.

I'll have to let you know how that worked out. In the meantime....Netflix "The Work Of Michel Gondry" and you'll know HE's the guy who made this movie. I hope it's good. But I'm kinda prejudiced to liking it.

Some Thoughts On LOST

As I sit here......less than 10 hours before the Season 3 Premiere of LOST, I got to thinking about why it's so hard to tell anyone about the show except for 'you just have to see it.'

[But, blended in there with the island, is a 24-episode bit of plain old character development. You see, they combine what's happening on the island with a flashback to one of the castaway's past, that helps tell you (the viewer) who they are and why they act the way they do.]

If you start at the beginning with the pilot episode....the first 10 minutes are just straight-up action......with the most astounding plane crash and aftermath shown on TV. After that, it kinda dwindles down to a bit of drama as they start to think no one's coming to help.

Then, the action/adventure mode kicks in as some of them go to find the nose of the plane. When they do....at the halfway point in the episode....it turns into complete science-fiction/horror when the Pilot is sucked out of the cockpit by some kind of 'monster'. At this point you start to think it's a weird sci-fi show with dinosaurs on the island or something. After that kinda dies down again, and becomes flat out mystery as you try to figure out where the heck they are. Again...as a polar bear is found on a tropical island........the weird and the mysterious comes back to mind.

Another reason for it being a sci-fi show is that you come to find out that EVERYONE who is on the island is connnected in some form. Some of them actually had encounters previously in their lives, some of them met briefly just before they got on the plane, and some had relationships with other castaway's family members. Seeing that, it puts the sci-fi element in to play b/c you start to think that all of these people were 'hand-picked' to come to the island, and were 'supposed' to crash there.........so it kind of throws the normalcy out the window.

It was basically like this for the two past seasons......great drama for a while, then mystery and suspense that makes you think you're in a sci-fi world, then it seems like science [or just coincidence] can explain what's going on, and back again to some action.

You never really know what the heck is going on. The question is: Will we know any more after tonight. Here's to hoping!

Seriously Creeped Out...

Ok, before I'm off to bed (hopefully these won't be my last words...) I have to type what I just experienced:

Ok, so I was on the internet and [somehow] found my way to awful celebrity plastic surgery comparisons. Needless to say one that came up was Michael Jackson. Well, it took me to another website about strange anomalies, where it showed a picture of Ed Gein's kitchen. Upon further googling I realized Ed Gein was the guy that Norman Bates from 'Psycho' and Leatherface from 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' was based on--loosely.

Well, deciding it was time for bed I went out for one last smoke. As I was sitting on the step I started thinking about what I would do if I noticed strange smells from one of my neighbors' houses. (I watched "The 'burbs" last week, too) Well, I just started thinking how I would ask a policeman--hopefully in an unmarked car--to come over, and I would just tell him to step out back and sniff around. As I was creating the scenario in my head....I heard a siren. It sounded like a cop turned on his siren for a second then back off trying to pull someone over. Kind of a "woohw woohw wooph." Well, then it kept up....that same pattern. Like a piercing and mechanical wipporwhil. It couldn't have been a police car. I guess it was more like....an alarm. Like, a home security system or something. Like....someone tried to break into a house.

Well, I kinda FREAKED THE FUCK OUT.

Now, about 5 minutes later it's stopped...so hopefully someone just bumped a car alarm or something, but I'm a little on edge.