CNN.com – New Potter book leaks in Canada – Jul 11, 2005
I have to say that I enjoy the Harry Potter books and eagerly await the release of the new one. Pretty entertaining, along the lines of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series (at least in maturity level, if not content).
Listening to the MD.45 album The Craving. It is pretty damn good. Unfortunately it is the re-mastered version, so Dave Mustaine is doing the vocals rather than Lee Ving. Anyone that knows where I might find an original copy, please send me an email.
there’s a sinister feeling brewing
bout a women and her non-stop yap
in a couple weeks she’ll be stewing
bait the hook of a tender trap spend
your money on countless reasons
brick-a-brack that cannot be used
snivel on the ground that she walks on
give an inch and that women wants two
the trouble today with women
the mouth don’t stop
there’s an older one yakity-yack
husband’s credit cards let her shop
there’s a younger one gums keep flappin’
will the jawbone never stop
there’s an older one she need screwin’
never in your life no not me
will the women’s mouth never cease
the trouble today with women
the mouth don’t stop
I pre-ordered the Foo Fighters new album on iTunes a few weeks ago. I was released today, so I went ahead and downloaded it. I was never a huge Nirvana fan, they are ok, and the same goes for the Foo Fighters. They are pretty good, but not GREAT. The new album is actually pretty good though. Sitting here listening to it on Meedio right now.
Found this link at spoons. I did awful, but that is a good thing considering most of the crap that was on the radio in the 80’s. Give me some Manowar, Armored Saint, Sabbath, Maiden, or Priest andy day.
The Spoons Experience: Guess you broke into the wrong goddamn rec room, didn’t ya!.
This was great. I will try and upload the mpeg to my server in the morning, but in the meantime, check it out at Toys in the Attic.
I hate this time of year. I find that I am watching more TV than ever this year. None of that Idol crap or real life bullshit, I have enough of that to go around. In the last week or two I watched the season (or series) finales for Deadwood, Carnivale, 24, and Lost. This sucks. Fucking reruns. At least the Soprano’s are back on in a week or so. Final season for that one. Hopefully by the time it is over, Battlestar will be back on with it’s new season.
The damn television quit working a couple of days ago. Not too big of a deal to me, except for a few shows, but a very big deal for stephanie. As I also use it as a front end for my music server, I did want it fixed. Picked up a Sharp 27″ with component input. The only problem is that I can’t get the fucking resolution set correctly to work right, so I have it run in through S-Video. Still a very sharp picture, much better than my ten-year old set that went balls-up. Meedio and BeyondTV show up on it great. Listening to the newest Queens of the Stone Age right now, they kick ass. I also got some speakers as part of the deal, unfortunately I don’t have a receiver right now, and don’t want to fuck with the extra modifications I would need to do to get it to work with my sound card. Maybe I can find a decent receiver on ebay later on in the month. I need to pay off a $3k balance to Chris’ school before any purchases. Put the TV on Best Buy so I can wait a month or two before I pay for that, other than mimimum payments.
Wow, I didn’t know she was 93.
CNN.com – Sci-fi and fantasy author Norton dies – Mar 17, 2005
Have to stop by the Blockbuster that I normally use at some point today and piss all over them. Basically I feel as if I am being fucked. We use two different stores, as I work near one, and my wife works near another. There isn’t one in the town where we actually live.
A couple months back the Manager in Carrollton got me to sign up for the blockbuster Movie Pass. Sounded like a good idea. Basically $24 or $25 a month, no charge to rent the movies. After renting a few you start saving money. I usually rent three or four a week, so that works out pretty well.
Two weeks ago I was in Villa Rica (the one my wife uses), and I decided to rent three videos. The conversation went something like:
“You have $8 in late charges.”
“No, I haven’t rented anything in awhile, I did have three dollars worth a couple of weeks ago, but I paid that in Carrollton, nothing else has been late, so I shouldn’t owe anything. Besides, I thought you guys no longer have any late charges.”
The guy typed some shit in and said “Ok, no problem. The videos are $12”
“I have the movies pass, how can the movies be $12?”
“The movie pass is only good at the store where you purchased it”
“Why didn’t someone tell me that when I bought it?”
“Guess someone wasn’t doing their job. $12, please”.
Fuck Blockbuster. What a ripoff. That is the last time I have used them. There are a couple of mom and pop video stores here in town, guess they just got my business. Blockbuster is convenient becuase it is a block from work, and I like to do business with the other shops around my store, but they can kiss my ass. I am going to stop in today and cancel the fucking movie pass. They are a business and can operate any way that they want to, that does not particularly bother me, but if they are going to have rules like this, they should be explained to people, or at least fucking posted somewhere. Kiss my ass Blockbuster, you and your “No more late fees” bullshit.