Another One Bites The Dust

One more year, gone, game over, adios motherfucker. God, that sounds depressing.

In retrospect, it was an average year. A rollercoaster ride now that I think of it. Best part: Cancun - 2nd time to paradise, and even my family couldn't ruin it. A man could be happy here.

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I traveled quite a bit, Cancun, Kansas City, Chihuahua, Huntington Beach. Not bad, but no where near the amount I wish I'd traveled.

Good year in books. I finished Stephen King's Dark Tower masterpiece. I caught up on George R. R. Martin's fantasy epic Song of Ice and Fire. The Da Vinci Code, Jennifer Government, Quicksilver. All excellent.

Great movies: Sideways, The Passion of the Christ, Shaun of the Dead, The Girl Next Door, Garden State, Baadasssss!, Irresistible, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and too many more that I can't remember.

I got a new job, more money, that's always good. I got drunk a lot, can't complain about that. Got a new car, but then gave it back to my dad, waste of money in my opinion.

Opened the year on the Las Vegas Strip and closed it there as well. Last time though. I would much rather be at home watching New Year's celebrations from around the world on TV. Though this time around, I actually enjoyed the fireworks on the strip. All in perfect synch.

Filled up over half my iPod. That's not good. I'll need a new one before the year is over.

Yup, a good year. A good year, but thankfully it's over

If I Could Change I Would

Ate one more piece of chicken, had my last beer. Never touched the Gin, no need to get completely wasted tonight. There's always tomorrow for that, gotta save it for when I really need it.

Sometimes I remember the darkness of my past
Bringing back these memories I wish I didn't have
Sometimes I think of letting go and never looking back
And never moving forward so there'd never be a past

(If I could change I would take back the pain I would)
(Retrace every wrong move that I made I would)
(If I could stand up and take the blame I would)
(If I could take all the shame to the grave I would)
(If I could change I would take back the pain I would)
(Retrace every wrong move that I made I would)
(If I could stand up and take the blame I would)
(I would take all my shame to the grave)

- Linkin Park

Longing for what used to be...

99 dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In the dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenier
Just to prove the world was here...
And here it is, a red balloon
I think of you and let it go.

-Goldfinger

and that's when I saw her, sippin' on water
I wanna kiss her mom just for having this daughter
excuse me miss, I don't mean to come across strong
but I've been waitin' a while and you've been taking too long
and she smiled and I began to blush
she asked if I'd like to go to the bathroom and make some love
and I got visions of us, and the mirror getting steamed
and that's the very moment I woke up from the dream

-Atmosphere

When we were young the future was so bright
The old neighborhood was so alive
And every kid on the whole damn street
Was gonna make it big and not be beat

Now the neighborhood's cracked and torn
The kids are grown up but their lives are worn
How can one little street
Swallow so many lives

-The Offspring

How long before I pass out, I wonder?

One More Time With Feeling...

TV got boring, so now i'm just listening to music. Drinking while my parents are here is a first, but no problem. Here's some of the stuff I'm listening to:

Don't leave me all alone
Just drop me off at home
I'll be fine, it's not the first
Just like last time, but a little worse

And she said that I'm not the one that she thinks about and
She said it stopped being fun, I just bring her down
I said "don't let your future be destroyed by my past"
She said "don't let my door hit your ass"

-Blink 182

My drinking buddy called me. Got all ready to go over there and get smashed but then I realized he has no alcohol. What use is a drinking buddy who has nothing to drink? Fucking useless. So I'll be here for the next few hours, listening to music, drinking Fat Tire beer and Seagram's Gin. Good Times!

To me, coming from you,
Friend is a four letter word.
End is the only part of the word
That I heard.
Call me morbid or absurd.
But to me, coming from you,
Friend is a four letter word.

-Cake

Friday Night

It's Friday night, my day off. I'm sitting at the computer, alone, eating a piece of chicken, having a beer, watching Ace Ventura on TV. Not exactly what I planned for, but hell, never really get what I plan. What I want. What I dream. See, I'm a Picses, a dreamer, I swim up in the clouds, imagining, dreaming, living. In my mind it seems so real. Then I fall back to earth, to reality, cold and alone. Good times.

Heard this song on VH1. Haven't heard it in a long time, but it's great. More dreams, will I never learn?

When I'm alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall
and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call
Telling me I need a girl who's as sweet as a dove
for the first time in my life, I see I need love
There I was giggling about the games
that I had played with many hearts, and I'm not saying no names
Then the thought occured, tear drops made my eyes burn
as I said to myself look what you've done to her
I can feel it inside, I can't explain how it feels
all I know is that I'll never dish another raw deal
Playing make believe pretending that I'm true
holding in my laugh as I say that I love you
Saying amor kissing you on the ear
whispering I love you and I'll always be here
Although I often reminsce I can't believe that I found
a desire for true love floating around
Inside my soul because my soul is cold
one half of me deserves to be this way till I'm old
But the other half needs affection and joy
and the warmth that is created by a girl and a boy
I need love
I need love

-LL Cool J

Hey Lover

I went to the bookstore tonight. I wanted a white chocolate mocha and I wanted to read, so that's the perfect place. I looked at a travel guide to Cuba. I really want to go there even though it will most likely be illegally because of the double standard the US holds towards Cuba. Then I sat in a sofa chair and read A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin. Excellent book and series by the way. Dare I say better than Robert Jordan's? Aye, I believe so.

As I sat there and read I also looked up and watched my fellow patrons. Some browsed, some read, and other just chatted with each other. One particular girl really caught my eye. The way she was dressed was so appealing to me. She had on grey dress pants, most likely mens by the cut of the pockets. They were baggy and hung low on her hips. She had two long sleeve shirts, tight, low cut. I really like this style, where two different colored shirts are layered and the top one is shorter than the bottom one. She also had a scarf on and a cool wool jacket and short black hair. Not the most beautiful girl I've ever seen but something about her really got to me. And she was in the fantasy/sci-fi section. Then her boyfriend, or some guy I'm just assuming is her boyfriend, came up behind her and put his hands around her waist. Kind of killed my moment. LL Cool J's Hey Lover played in my head:

Last week I saw ya at the mall

standing at the pay phone bout to make a call

I had a vision it was me on the other end

telling you come by and then you walked in

I touched you gently with my hands

we talked about traveling the distant lands

escaping all the madness out here in the world

becomin my wife no longer my girl

then, you let your dress fall down to the floor

i kissed you softly and you yearned for more

we experienced pleasure unparallel

into an ocean of love we both fell

swimming in the timeless, currents of pure bliss

fantasies interchanging with each kiss

undying passion unities our souls

togehter we swim until the point of no control

but its a fantasy it(that,you) won't come true

we never even spoke and your man (still) love you

so I'm gonna keep all these feelins inside

keep my dreams alive until the right time

Rosario The Great

I watched Alexander a few days ago. It's pretty bad. It's sad that the only good thing about the movie is the beautiful naked body of Rosario Dawson. Wow. After almost falling asleep during Colin Farrel's monologues, her fight/sex scene really woke me up. Alas it was over much to quick, but its memory will remain forever. Anyways, the movie was boring. Right up there with Troy. Crap. Gay, bi, straight, I don't really care which team Alexander played for. But that's all the movie was about. Fucking his best friend isn't what made him Great. Mention it, show it, then move the fuck on to the conquering. And Colin Farrel, come on now. If you want Alexander to be blonde then get a blond actor. Don't put Colin in a blonde wig and let his black beard show, it makes him look...stupid. I was going to say gay(not in a sexual way), but maybe that's what they were going for.

Final word...this movie was bad. Cool vistas, great costumes (actually the Persians looked fucking cool), awesome use of a harem (more movies should have them), it's good to be King, but in the end the story was shit, the acting was lackluster, and highly dissapointing. Since I couldn't find screencaps I leave you with this: sweet Rosario

Japanese Garden

Japanese garden
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Beautiful.

Harajuku

Harajuku
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I MUST go to Japan!!!

Binion Trial: Part 2

LA Times:

A jury on Tuesday found an ex-stripper and her former lover not guilty of drugging and killing Las Vegas casino heir Ted Binion.

Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish were acquitted on three counts — including murder and robbery — after 18 hours of deliberations over four days by a Clark County jury. Both were found guilty of conspiracy, grand larceny and burglary.

Neon mentioned it and it's true, only in Las Vegas. It's just like a CSI episode. And why is her being an ex-stripper important. It's mentioned everywhere. They can't refer to her without saying she was an ex-stripper. Well anyways, the former exotic dancer will probably still serve some jail time for the burglary and grand larceny.

Watch Sandy cry during the reading of verdict here.



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Updated Album List

Here's an updated list of the albums I've downloaded this year. I failed at the one per week goal but only because I would forget or put it aside for later. I've definitely downloaded more than 52, these are just the best, with more to come one a week (hopefully). The bold one's are my top 10.

52 Albums in 52 Weeks

Week	Album	Artist
47	Love Angel Music Baby	Gwen Stefani
46	Has Been	William Shatner
45	Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)	The Wu-Tang Clan
44	72 and Sunny	Uncle Cracker
43	Ocean Avenue	Yellowcard
42	Sublime	Sublime
41	Around the Sun	REM
40	Music by Cavelight	Blockhead
39	Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine	Cee-Lo
38	No Roots	Faithless
37	American Idiot	Green Day
36	Joyful Rebellion	K-Os
35	White People	Handsome Boy Modeling School
34	Rules of Enragement	Lewis Black
33	If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears	The Mamas & the Papas
32	Good News For People Who Love Bad News	Modest Mouse
31	Americana	The Offspring
30	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back	Public Enemy
29	Blink 182	Blink 182
28	Sing the Sorrow	AFI
27	The Low End Theory	A Tribe Called Quest
26	Greatest Hits 93-03	311
25	To The 5 Boroughs	The Beastie Boys
24	Hot Fuss	The Killers
23	Diva Series	Nina Simone
22	American IV: The Man Comes Around	Johnny Cash
21	Pisces Iscariot	Smashing Pumpkins
20	Confessions	Usher
19	Kill Bill: Vol 1	Various
18	Love Songs	Barry White
17	Billy Breathes	Phish
16	Songs About Jane	Maroon 5
15	Atlas	Kinky
14	Life for Rent	Dido
13	Musicology	Prince
12	Boy In Da Corner	Dizzee Rascal
11	Lost in Translation OST	Various
10	Steal This Double Album	The Coup
9	Personal Journals	Sage Francis
8	Sonador	Adan Sanchez
7	Cartel de Santa	Cartel de Santa
6	The Grey Album	Danger Mouse
5	Lo que te conte mientras te hacias la dormida	La oreja de Van Gogh
4	God Loves Ugly	Atmosphere
3	Sumday	Grandaddy
2	Chutes To Narrow	The Shins
1	The Preacher's Son	Wyclef Jean

Sideways

I watched Sideways last night, excellent movie. Great actors, I really like Paul Giamatti, he did a great job in this and in American Splendor.

In this movie he plays a Miles, a wine loving, middle school English teacher with aspirations of being a published writer. He's divorced, depressed, and having a mid-life crisis. His friend Jack, an actor who mostly does commercials now, is getting married in a week. Miles takes him on a tour of wine country as a gift, and here the trouble ensues. Over sexed Jack wants to have an affair, while Miles just wants to sit with a bottle of Pinot and be moody. Miles falls in love, Jack has his nose broken for saying he's in love. Damn it's a great movie.

Dark Skies

I ended up going to the Dark Skies campout, Saturday, with Tim, or Gray as he introduced himself to people. It was organized by the Las Vegas Community Artists Group and they actually did a good job. From what I can recall through my rum induced haze, there was about 30-35 people there. Big bonfire, but it was still fucking cold, though the rum helped that. It was a billed as "10 of the most aggressive DJs in town kick your ass for 13 hours straight, plus fire, art, and pancakes!" Vegas isn't know for great DJs, so '10 of the most aggressive' doesn't really mean much. Plus I'm not big on techno and it's derivatives so I can't say the music was that great. But they did go on for 13 hours. In fact, I went to my car and listened to Wu Tang at one point, just to clear my head a little.

I met a lot of cool people there. Both young and old. A lot of them veterans from Burning Man. They all hope that this will grow, maybe not to BM proportions, but to something a lot bigger than this time.

Here's some pics.

I'd Like That With Fries

Ronald McDonald never looked better.



click here for the video, it's small.

Willy

We Fucked Up

Sweet Rosario

Doesn't Anyone Care

Why isn't this a bigger deal? The Democrats are just bending over, again, and letting the right fuck them in the ass with no vaseline, for another four years. Al Gore bent over, and now Kerry bent over. Four more years baby, four more years.

Computer error at voting machine gives Bush 3,893 extra votes use bugmenot.com for registration

Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A computer error with a voting machine cartridge gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in a Gahanna precinct.

Franklin County's unofficial results gave Bush 4,258 votes to Democratic challenger John Kerry's 260 votes in Precinct 1B. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.

Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, said Bush received 365 votes there. The other 13 voters who cast ballots either voted for other candidates or did not vote for president.

Even More Bullshit:
Computer Loses 4,500 Votes

J/K

The Future?