Last night Enrique and I went to the bookstore at the University of Maryland to wait for our copies of the last Harry Potter book. It was the smart place to go to--there weren't a lot of people there, and within 5 minutes of midnight we both had our copies paid for. There was a little fiasco though with Enrique's dumb cashier who didn't know how to put in my membership number for an extra discount. After a couple of minutes of panicking over it, we told her fuck it and he bought the book without the extra discount. Man, the people in line behind us must have been so pissed, but shit, I thought it was hilarious.
On our way back to the car we passed through the engineering building and when we were really near the door out to the parking lot where the car was, we met a cop, a real tough-guy-looking cop, with no beer belly, with a Glock and a bulletproof vest and all. He said words like 'fuck' and 'shit'; it was totally awesome. Except he was wearing booties. See, there was a mercury spill in the building, and it had been locked down. When he saw us in there, he was like, 'how did you get in here?' I imagined that maybe he thought we were secret agent-types whom no locked doors can stop, but really all we did was push a door open. The fucked up thing was that we were already at the end of the building we wanted to get to when he saw us, and he had us walk all the way back to the other end of the building, i dunno, maybe exposing us to even more mercury.
I dunno, maybe I will die of mercury poisoning imminently. I should finish that book soon then. Why am I even writing this?
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Thursday, July 19, 2007
One Soul Less
So last week I bought an itrip to let me listen to my mp3 player in the car. Today I went for a longish drive a coupla cities down and a song got to me. I'd heard it before, but it was only today that it really hit me. Another song to call my own, yet here I am telling you mooks about it. It's called 'One Soul Less on Your Fiery List' by the Triffids. It's in the album 'In the Pines,' not sure if it's only in the reissue, though.
Higher and higher....
Later, kids
Higher and higher....
Later, kids
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Strange Obsessions
A year ago or so, I wrote about Wonderfalls, which I'd stumbled on in an LGBT channel. Yesterday, the DVD of the complete series came in the mail and I watched a few episodes, and the show is as good as I remember it.
Last week, on the 5th, I'd taken the day off, and the Sci-Fi channel was showing a 'Dead Like Me' marathon. Before that I'd only seen one or two episodes of that show, and thought it was really good, and seeing some of the marathon made me want to see everything else.
So earlier this week, it dawned on me--I have a job! Income! Why am I holding out on buying stuff I know is worth it? So I didn't hold out. I was prodigal, and now I've got both Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me in my small DVD collection.
It's no coincidence that the leads in these two shows are both adorable women. I've always had this really weird habit of becoming infatuated with actresses. Let's run through the pathetic list in as chronological an order as I can manage:
1. Winona Ryder
2. Famke Janssen
3. Catherine Keener
4. Caroline Dhavernas
5. Ellen Muth
6. Liane Balaban
I guess the list becomes more obscure as time goes on...Caroline Dhavernas is the girl in Wonderfalls. Ellen Muth is in Dead Like Me. She gets cuter and cuter the more one watches the show. Liane Balaban is in the movie 'New Waterford Girl' with Andrew McCarthy and Cathy Moriarty. At first I couldn't believe that Bob Balaban had such a hot daughter, but they're not related.
So that's it. Anybody reading this, feel free to let us know who you like in the comments box. Later.
Last week, on the 5th, I'd taken the day off, and the Sci-Fi channel was showing a 'Dead Like Me' marathon. Before that I'd only seen one or two episodes of that show, and thought it was really good, and seeing some of the marathon made me want to see everything else.
So earlier this week, it dawned on me--I have a job! Income! Why am I holding out on buying stuff I know is worth it? So I didn't hold out. I was prodigal, and now I've got both Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me in my small DVD collection.
It's no coincidence that the leads in these two shows are both adorable women. I've always had this really weird habit of becoming infatuated with actresses. Let's run through the pathetic list in as chronological an order as I can manage:
1. Winona Ryder
2. Famke Janssen
3. Catherine Keener
4. Caroline Dhavernas
5. Ellen Muth
6. Liane Balaban
I guess the list becomes more obscure as time goes on...Caroline Dhavernas is the girl in Wonderfalls. Ellen Muth is in Dead Like Me. She gets cuter and cuter the more one watches the show. Liane Balaban is in the movie 'New Waterford Girl' with Andrew McCarthy and Cathy Moriarty. At first I couldn't believe that Bob Balaban had such a hot daughter, but they're not related.
So that's it. Anybody reading this, feel free to let us know who you like in the comments box. Later.
Monday, July 09, 2007
Exercise in Futility
Hiya folks. I'm bored but I have nothing to write about, so I figured that I'd dig this up and see how my answers have changed in the last two and some years. And so, the streamlined version of this questionnaire I grabbed from Dex a coupla years back:
2. WHAT COLOR PANTS ARE YOU WEARING?
Old Answer: plaid boxers
New Answer: striped boxers (!)
3. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
OA: I just listened to my copy of rubber soul to see whether it really was broken or not. It's broken, alas.
NA: Just finished Dylan's John Wesley Harding album.
4. THE LAST THING YOU ATE?
OA: a grape
NA: a cookie
5. DO YOU WISH ON STARS?
OA: no. actually yes. no. really, no.
NA: That was me trying to be funny two years ago. I really don't
7. HOW IS THE WEATHER RIGHT NOW?
OA: bit cold but better than a few weeks ago
NA: Hot, hot, hot! The paper tells me it may have been as hot as 98 degrees today. That's close to 40 for you celsius people.
8. WHO IS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED ON THE PHONE?
OA: my sister
NA: my mom...it's more pathetic this time round
9. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT YOU THIS?
OA: that's an emphatic yes!
NA: Last time I got this from Dex. Now I got it from me. So no.
10. HOW OLD ARE YOU TODAY?
OA: 20.
NA: 23. Weird. Old-er.
11. FAVORITE DRINK?
OA: water. if you don't drink it, you'll like die
NA: still water. but non-water? OJ. Always OJ.
12. HAIR COLOR?
OA: if you look carefully it's actually brown
NA: that hasn't changed, although there's more gray now.
13. M&M's OR REESE'S PIECES?
OA: dead even
NA: I think peanut M&M's beat Reese's.
14. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?
OA: no
NA: still no, but my eyesight has worsened, and I think I may have night blindness.
15. SIBLINGS?
OA: one older sister
NA: my mom's had a hysterectomy since, so I doubt I will be having any new siblings.
16 FAVORITE MONTH?
OA: the ones when school's out
NA: ha ha, I can't say that anymore. I like the spring months when it's not too cold but not too hot either. And the ladies wear the skirts.
17. FAVORITE FOOD?
OA: you can never go wrong with some dimsum-m-m
NA: yeah, I still like that stuff, but recently I've been looking for man food all the time--you know--wings, ribs, burgers, steaks, etc.
18. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
OA: probably something i happened upon on tv. but one i meant to watch? i think it was kieslowski's 'blanc'
NA: I saw Ratatouille yesterday. Very good movie. Made me hungry.
19. FAVORITE DAY OF THE YEAR?
OA: feb 29
NA: haw haw! Christmas, I guess.
20. WHAT DO YOU DO TO VENT ANGER?
OA: masturbate. actually, that's my answer to everything.
NA: ew! I bash my guitar up good. I've also taken up running.
21. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY AS A CHILD?
OA: the ninja turtles' blimp was pretty rad
NA: yeah, I suppose the blimp was the coolest. Castle Grayskull was pretty cool too. So were those Ghostbuster guns, especially the proton pack with the PKE meter. That stands for psychokinetic energy, if you've forgotten.
22. SUMMER OR WINTER?
OA: summer. always summer. i loathe snow
NA: still the same.
23. HUGS OR KISSES?
OA: hugs AND kisses for me!
NA: well, if you get a kiss, don't you automatically get a hug too? So kisses.
24. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA?
OA: chocolate AND vanilla for me!
NA: Going for the witty parallelism there. Chocolate is always better.
28. LIVING ARRANGEMENTS?
OA: with the family in waspville, usa
NA: still the same. Sometimes i feel like working on that, but I feel I need more finances to be comfortable.
29. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
OA: I'm a man. Men don't cry.
Every night, before i sleep
NA: that old answer wasn't very sincere. I can't remember. I don't think it was too long ago. Probably tears of rage, as Dylan put it.
30. WHAT IS UNDER YOUR BED?
OA: a copy of the silmarillion i will probably never finish
NA: that book is now sitting on my shelf. Now there is nothing under my bed. A monster, perhaps.
31. WHO IS THE FRIEND YOU HAVE HAD THE LONGEST?
OA: Brett but I think he got pissed at me ever since i started asking my for my cd's back from him and didnt want to give him my beck cd. plus it's kind of hard keeping in touch. so with that, i guess it's joe. he never reads this blog even though i tell him to
NA: Still Brett. He wasn't pissed about those CDs. Joe is second. This is just the order I met them, and I love them both. Joe has since begun reading this blog, and only he reads this shit.
32. WHAT DID YOU DO LAST NIGHT?
OA: weird. my friend enrique called me out of the blue to ask to use my internet. so he did java while i did structures while listening to star wars. then we watched some porn. male-bonding thing, you know
NA: I watched Ratatouille, then at home I watched this show called Supernatural. My friend Margaret got me into it. It's a good show, but I think it's more of a girl's show. But whatever, it's camp and it can be very funny and freaky at times. Last night, this guy thought he was fighting a 'mandroid.' It was fucking hilarious, I hope the writers meant for it to be that way
33. FAVORITE SMELLS?
OA: some burberry perfume that a former friend used (still does, perhaps?). It made me know the meaning of bittersweet.
NA: awww...these days I don't really know. I like the smell of good food. When Sophie was a baby and they took her to the Philippines, everytime I missed her I would smell some of her old clothes. It's creepy, I know.
34. WHAT INSPIRES YOU?
OA: Lurve. I'm so gay
NA: I guess I'm still gay. Also beauty. Gay? Doubly so.
35. WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
OA: Sudden loud noises. You should have seen me when my dad tried to make me shoot a gun. I'm sure he's never forgiven me for the shame i caused him that day
NA: I think I've made progress with that. Now? Maybe failure, or rejection, I don't know. Sometimes I feel the world will figure out I'm a fraud. I don't know if I really am one or not. I hope not.
36. PLAIN, BUTTERED OR SALTED POPCORN?
OA: Once when we were kids my cousin and I finished half a bucket of barbecue-flavored (we pinoys are very creative with our popcorn) between ourselves and ever since I don't touch the stuff.
NA: this hasn't changed for me. Although if I'm watching a movie with someone, and they're having popcorn, I'll have some if it's buttered. Oh, and I recently tried kettle corn for the first time. That stuff is delicious.
37. FAVORITE CAR?
OA: Those that don't run on petroleum, which i'm afraid to say i myself don't drive. but if you own a hummer, never talk to me, you inconsiderate little person. shame on you.
NA: Environmentally conscious, are we? Hybrids are nice, yeah, but my dream car is a Ferrari Dino.
38. FAVORITE FLOWER?
OA: orchids are nice
NA: Jesus, I dunno.
39. NUMBER OF KEYS ON YOUR KEY RING?
OA: four, including one that has absolutely no purpose except opening parcels
NA: Ha, this has changed since I started working. Let's see...one for the car, one for the house. Four for the office. So that's 6. Plus that old CVS discount card is still hanging on.
40. CAN YOU JUGGLE?
OA: two things is my max
NA: oddly enough, this has changed, too. In the summer of 05, out of sheer boredom, I taught myself to juggle 3 things. The kids love it. The ladies are unimpressed.
41. FAVORITE DAY OF THE WEEK?
OA: fridays have been kind to me so far
NA: Yes Fridays are nice, but Saturdays are better except that they're followed by Sundays.
42. WHAT DID YOU DO ON YOUR LAST BIRTHDAY?
OA: i had a final and then had some mongolian barbecue with my buds. then we went to the house and watched the real cancun. that movie is so bad. don't watch it ever, not even for the tits. seriously, you're better off using your imagination.
NA: I can't remember. We may have had pizza at home. Nothing special, because we were holding off for my dad's arrival and my graduation. And what we did then, I wrote about two posts down...
43. HOW MANY STATES HAVE YOU LIVED IN?
OA: The philippines and maryland make three.
NA: Someone once asked me what the third was. That was a variation of a joke a Jazz professor once told: "There are three kinds of musicians--those who can count, and those who can't." So I have only lived in two places.
44. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
OA: Manila, Philippines
NA: That has not changed
45. WHAT'S WITH YOUR SCREENNAME?
OA: I know, right? It's like so uncreative. It's just my name.
NA: Still just my name, and I've had a monopoly on it since 97. I wonder if the famous chef who shares my name is bothered by this.
2. WHAT COLOR PANTS ARE YOU WEARING?
Old Answer: plaid boxers
New Answer: striped boxers (!)
3. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
OA: I just listened to my copy of rubber soul to see whether it really was broken or not. It's broken, alas.
NA: Just finished Dylan's John Wesley Harding album.
4. THE LAST THING YOU ATE?
OA: a grape
NA: a cookie
5. DO YOU WISH ON STARS?
OA: no. actually yes. no. really, no.
NA: That was me trying to be funny two years ago. I really don't
7. HOW IS THE WEATHER RIGHT NOW?
OA: bit cold but better than a few weeks ago
NA: Hot, hot, hot! The paper tells me it may have been as hot as 98 degrees today. That's close to 40 for you celsius people.
8. WHO IS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED ON THE PHONE?
OA: my sister
NA: my mom...it's more pathetic this time round
9. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT YOU THIS?
OA: that's an emphatic yes!
NA: Last time I got this from Dex. Now I got it from me. So no.
10. HOW OLD ARE YOU TODAY?
OA: 20.
NA: 23. Weird. Old-er.
11. FAVORITE DRINK?
OA: water. if you don't drink it, you'll like die
NA: still water. but non-water? OJ. Always OJ.
12. HAIR COLOR?
OA: if you look carefully it's actually brown
NA: that hasn't changed, although there's more gray now.
13. M&M's OR REESE'S PIECES?
OA: dead even
NA: I think peanut M&M's beat Reese's.
14. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?
OA: no
NA: still no, but my eyesight has worsened, and I think I may have night blindness.
15. SIBLINGS?
OA: one older sister
NA: my mom's had a hysterectomy since, so I doubt I will be having any new siblings.
16 FAVORITE MONTH?
OA: the ones when school's out
NA: ha ha, I can't say that anymore. I like the spring months when it's not too cold but not too hot either. And the ladies wear the skirts.
17. FAVORITE FOOD?
OA: you can never go wrong with some dimsum-m-m
NA: yeah, I still like that stuff, but recently I've been looking for man food all the time--you know--wings, ribs, burgers, steaks, etc.
18. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?
OA: probably something i happened upon on tv. but one i meant to watch? i think it was kieslowski's 'blanc'
NA: I saw Ratatouille yesterday. Very good movie. Made me hungry.
19. FAVORITE DAY OF THE YEAR?
OA: feb 29
NA: haw haw! Christmas, I guess.
20. WHAT DO YOU DO TO VENT ANGER?
OA: masturbate. actually, that's my answer to everything.
NA: ew! I bash my guitar up good. I've also taken up running.
21. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY AS A CHILD?
OA: the ninja turtles' blimp was pretty rad
NA: yeah, I suppose the blimp was the coolest. Castle Grayskull was pretty cool too. So were those Ghostbuster guns, especially the proton pack with the PKE meter. That stands for psychokinetic energy, if you've forgotten.
22. SUMMER OR WINTER?
OA: summer. always summer. i loathe snow
NA: still the same.
23. HUGS OR KISSES?
OA: hugs AND kisses for me!
NA: well, if you get a kiss, don't you automatically get a hug too? So kisses.
24. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA?
OA: chocolate AND vanilla for me!
NA: Going for the witty parallelism there. Chocolate is always better.
28. LIVING ARRANGEMENTS?
OA: with the family in waspville, usa
NA: still the same. Sometimes i feel like working on that, but I feel I need more finances to be comfortable.
29. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
OA: I'm a man. Men don't cry.
Every night, before i sleep
NA: that old answer wasn't very sincere. I can't remember. I don't think it was too long ago. Probably tears of rage, as Dylan put it.
30. WHAT IS UNDER YOUR BED?
OA: a copy of the silmarillion i will probably never finish
NA: that book is now sitting on my shelf. Now there is nothing under my bed. A monster, perhaps.
31. WHO IS THE FRIEND YOU HAVE HAD THE LONGEST?
OA: Brett but I think he got pissed at me ever since i started asking my for my cd's back from him and didnt want to give him my beck cd. plus it's kind of hard keeping in touch. so with that, i guess it's joe. he never reads this blog even though i tell him to
NA: Still Brett. He wasn't pissed about those CDs. Joe is second. This is just the order I met them, and I love them both. Joe has since begun reading this blog, and only he reads this shit.
32. WHAT DID YOU DO LAST NIGHT?
OA: weird. my friend enrique called me out of the blue to ask to use my internet. so he did java while i did structures while listening to star wars. then we watched some porn. male-bonding thing, you know
NA: I watched Ratatouille, then at home I watched this show called Supernatural. My friend Margaret got me into it. It's a good show, but I think it's more of a girl's show. But whatever, it's camp and it can be very funny and freaky at times. Last night, this guy thought he was fighting a 'mandroid.' It was fucking hilarious, I hope the writers meant for it to be that way
33. FAVORITE SMELLS?
OA: some burberry perfume that a former friend used (still does, perhaps?). It made me know the meaning of bittersweet.
NA: awww...these days I don't really know. I like the smell of good food. When Sophie was a baby and they took her to the Philippines, everytime I missed her I would smell some of her old clothes. It's creepy, I know.
34. WHAT INSPIRES YOU?
OA: Lurve. I'm so gay
NA: I guess I'm still gay. Also beauty. Gay? Doubly so.
35. WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
OA: Sudden loud noises. You should have seen me when my dad tried to make me shoot a gun. I'm sure he's never forgiven me for the shame i caused him that day
NA: I think I've made progress with that. Now? Maybe failure, or rejection, I don't know. Sometimes I feel the world will figure out I'm a fraud. I don't know if I really am one or not. I hope not.
36. PLAIN, BUTTERED OR SALTED POPCORN?
OA: Once when we were kids my cousin and I finished half a bucket of barbecue-flavored (we pinoys are very creative with our popcorn) between ourselves and ever since I don't touch the stuff.
NA: this hasn't changed for me. Although if I'm watching a movie with someone, and they're having popcorn, I'll have some if it's buttered. Oh, and I recently tried kettle corn for the first time. That stuff is delicious.
37. FAVORITE CAR?
OA: Those that don't run on petroleum, which i'm afraid to say i myself don't drive. but if you own a hummer, never talk to me, you inconsiderate little person. shame on you.
NA: Environmentally conscious, are we? Hybrids are nice, yeah, but my dream car is a Ferrari Dino.
38. FAVORITE FLOWER?
OA: orchids are nice
NA: Jesus, I dunno.
39. NUMBER OF KEYS ON YOUR KEY RING?
OA: four, including one that has absolutely no purpose except opening parcels
NA: Ha, this has changed since I started working. Let's see...one for the car, one for the house. Four for the office. So that's 6. Plus that old CVS discount card is still hanging on.
40. CAN YOU JUGGLE?
OA: two things is my max
NA: oddly enough, this has changed, too. In the summer of 05, out of sheer boredom, I taught myself to juggle 3 things. The kids love it. The ladies are unimpressed.
41. FAVORITE DAY OF THE WEEK?
OA: fridays have been kind to me so far
NA: Yes Fridays are nice, but Saturdays are better except that they're followed by Sundays.
42. WHAT DID YOU DO ON YOUR LAST BIRTHDAY?
OA: i had a final and then had some mongolian barbecue with my buds. then we went to the house and watched the real cancun. that movie is so bad. don't watch it ever, not even for the tits. seriously, you're better off using your imagination.
NA: I can't remember. We may have had pizza at home. Nothing special, because we were holding off for my dad's arrival and my graduation. And what we did then, I wrote about two posts down...
43. HOW MANY STATES HAVE YOU LIVED IN?
OA: The philippines and maryland make three.
NA: Someone once asked me what the third was. That was a variation of a joke a Jazz professor once told: "There are three kinds of musicians--those who can count, and those who can't." So I have only lived in two places.
44. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
OA: Manila, Philippines
NA: That has not changed
45. WHAT'S WITH YOUR SCREENNAME?
OA: I know, right? It's like so uncreative. It's just my name.
NA: Still just my name, and I've had a monopoly on it since 97. I wonder if the famous chef who shares my name is bothered by this.
Saturday, July 07, 2007
It's Been a While
Hiya, folks. It's been a while indeed since I last wrote on this thing. June has come and gone, with not much to report, just the same old life, love, and loss, to be vague yet overly dramatic about it.
...Okay, fine, I suppose I owe you more than that. The big thing in June for me was that I met a girl I really liked. After three dates, she decided we'd be better off as friends. Yeah, it really sucks, but I'm glad we're friends anyway. She's a special girl, got the full package--beauty, intelligence, grace, all of it in ridiculous amounts. Completely without artifice. Ouch. You know that Dylan song 'Love Minus Zero/No Limit?" That song is her. I wanted to be everything she wanted and needed in a man, but, as fate would have it, I couldn't manage that (naturally). Anyways, I move on, in more ways than one...
I have a new computer, a laptop. With one gig of RAM it's slow. I'm not too fond of Vista.
My blog profile's been viewed 205 times. I finally broke the 200 mark. If I were a girl I would have hit 200 two years ago.
Basic Instinct 2 was on TV last night. I didn't watch it, despite the prospect of seeing Sharon Stone's boobs yet again. However, the guy who plays the Michael Douglas-type role in this one is named David Morrissey. What's in a name? I began to imagine he looked like our old friend Steven Patrick Morrissey, and I figured they might be brothers, but IMDB tells me otherwise. What's in a name, indeed.
Later, folks
...Okay, fine, I suppose I owe you more than that. The big thing in June for me was that I met a girl I really liked. After three dates, she decided we'd be better off as friends. Yeah, it really sucks, but I'm glad we're friends anyway. She's a special girl, got the full package--beauty, intelligence, grace, all of it in ridiculous amounts. Completely without artifice. Ouch. You know that Dylan song 'Love Minus Zero/No Limit?" That song is her. I wanted to be everything she wanted and needed in a man, but, as fate would have it, I couldn't manage that (naturally). Anyways, I move on, in more ways than one...
I have a new computer, a laptop. With one gig of RAM it's slow. I'm not too fond of Vista.
My blog profile's been viewed 205 times. I finally broke the 200 mark. If I were a girl I would have hit 200 two years ago.
Basic Instinct 2 was on TV last night. I didn't watch it, despite the prospect of seeing Sharon Stone's boobs yet again. However, the guy who plays the Michael Douglas-type role in this one is named David Morrissey. What's in a name? I began to imagine he looked like our old friend Steven Patrick Morrissey, and I figured they might be brothers, but IMDB tells me otherwise. What's in a name, indeed.
Later, folks
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