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?

Come On Down, You To Can Be Homeless.

Very interesting site on how to live with out a home. It's a serious subject but here's a funny quote on the advantages of being homeless. It's like they're recruiting.

Imagine working two weeks to pay for your expenses for two months. You can easily go to college with an income requirement so low. My expenses, excluding food, averaged $300 per month for the five years I was homeless. That included storage, mailbox, telephone or pager, gasoline, vehicle insurance, health club membership, dry cleaning, laundry, new clothes, and entertainment. I went to the movies a lot. Imagine what you could do with the time if your work week was two days and your weekend was five.

Sign me up.

To Lazy To Go Vote

I voted today. By mail. Well I guess technically I haven't voted yet since I haven't mailed the ballot off but I filled it out and that only took four days. So it should get mailed in the next couple days. One of my friends received a call from the Dems. asking if he wanted a ride to go vote. Fuckers never called me. But anyways, I voted, so fuck you.

Lonely

I spent about 15 minutes staring at all this white space thinking about what to write, thoughts floating around in my head, not one of them worth a damn. I'll blame it on my mood. I've been a little depressed the last few days. Nothing serious. I think I need a girlfriend though. A steady girlfriend. That would do me good. Someone to help me keep my mind off depressing shit. Neon used to do that for me, keeping me sane, but she's not here anymore. And a cell phone just isn't the same. Whatever. Just ignore the man behind the curtain, he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about.

and i still get to talk to you every now and then
definition of "over" doesn't have to be the end
it's good to see you grow girl
shake my hand
that's all i want from my ex-lover and my best friend
---Atmosphere

Romantic Comedy...Oxymoron

I just finished watching Breakin' All the Rules, a romantic comedy starring Jamie Foxx. I love romantic comedies. they exagerate all the problems in relationships but they always end up working out. I guess I wish that would happen to me. Kind of sappy I know, but it's true. I talk and act all that player shit but deep down all I want to do is fall in love and be loved. But the kind of love you see in these movies, it doesn't exist. I've never encountered it. Anyways, I recommend this movie.

It's odd that in the special features, this movie includes a Three Stooges short. "Hoi Polloi" which frankly, I thought sucked. It had nothing to do with the movie, and it sucked on it's own. It was fucking lame. I haven't watched many Three Stooges clips but after this one I have no desire to.

Movie Update

Ok so what have I done lately. I saw Shaun of the Dead, very very funny. It hit on all the questions I've ever had about zombie movies, like what would the zombies do if you acted like one of them? Would they be able to tell you were a fake? This movie was great. It's a romantic comedy disguised as a zombie flick and that may sound stupid but it's dyn-o-mite.

I also went to watch Resident Evil: Apocalypse. I heard it sucked but I was in the zombie state of mind so I went. I liked it. It was better then the first one. A lot of action and ass kicking. I don't know how close it is to the video games since I never played those but it makes me want to play them. The women were hot. Nothing like a girl in a skirt with a big gun. Very fun movie. What was even funnier was watching all the zombie tricks that Shaun made fun of still being used in Resident Evil.

Took my grandma to watch The Forgotten. We both liked it. I jumped a few times. More out of surprise than fear. I enjoyed it even though I knew what was happening. I figured it out from watching the trailer. But even though I knew it was fun watching it unfold. I also recommend this one.

I missed the Renaissance Fair because of work. And the last debate. Fuckers, I'm always scheduled when cool shit happens. Plan for tonight: rent some movies and have a drink with the homies. Movies: SLC Punk - I've seen it but none of them have, Cannibal Holocaust - which I finally found online and downloaded. That should make for a goodnight.

Nightmare

I woke up around 5am from a really nasty dream. I was on a field trip in high school. But there were only two other people on the bus including the driver. I snuck away at a rest area and ran into my ex. We started kissing and were going to have sex. As she got naked I saw her back was all carved up with symobls and words. The word Joan(I don't know any Joans) was carved into an ass cheek. She said she'd cut most of them in herself. The cuts were large and deep but not bleeding. We continued what we were doing. I woke up sometime after that. Mainly because I couldn't believe I kept going after seeing all those fresh wounds. Very disturbing.

Good Debate

I thought Kerry did a better job. That's about all I can say. I'm not in the mood to analyze it extensively. Kerry is a better speaker, simple as that. Bush kept pausing between words while he thought of what to say. It made him look stupid and unprepared. Kerry was right on the ball. I hope this gives Kerry the boost he needs right now.

Listening to: Murs

Gettin Brain

Sore Throat

I've been sick for about a week and a half. At first it was just a minor sore throat, I thought it would be gone in a couple days. And it was getting better, but I ended up going out over the weekend instead of staying in and resting. We were drinking out by my the pool in my complex, and it was cold. So my throat ended up getting worse. I worked Sunday but Monday and today I called in sick. I couldn't speak worth a damn. Not very good when your job requires you to be on a phone all day. I'm getting better, lot's of tea and soup have helped. I've spent the days watching four straight hours of Star Trek on Spike TV. DS9 and TNG. I've been lucky so far that most of them have been new episodes to me. After that I surf the web and listen to the news or some other random show. Boring except for the Trek, I actually wish I was at work. They pay me to be bored. I hope something interesting happens soon to blog about.