Your Boring Saturday Night

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xp to telephone thing: ahahahah i have been watching x-files from the beginning for the last few weeks - i'm about 2/3 of the way through season 3! best episode so far: 'Syzygy'

\(^o^)/

― markers, Saturday, September 4, 2010 8:26 PM (1 week ago)

― markers, Saturday, September 11, 2010 5:42 PM (1 week ago)

xp Great Scrabble word, too. I'm about halfway through Season 2 at the moment...just wrapped up the obligatory voodoo zombie episode. While I'd seen a few episodes in syndication, as well as the first movie back when it came out, I was under the impression that the show was all sci-fi, all the time, so I was kind of thrown when ghosts and demons and crap started showing up.

Tonight- gym, then back home...going to do one of the following, haven't decided:
1. work my way through the second Sub Rosa Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music
2. watch The Ninth Configuration
3. read...something. haven't thought that far ahead, really

I can tell you what I'm not going to do, though, and that is Final Fantasy XIII. Good god, but that game is dogshit. I got a copy for $20 in a one-day Amazon sale, and as of almost two hours in I have no idea what's going on, the combat is simultaneously oversimplified and full of pointless extra systems (all I've had to do is select "auto battle" and remember to heal my guys every five encounters or so), and the entire game so far seems to be set in an ugly greenish hallway. Okay, so it's a greenish bridge floating over your usual FF-style futuro-magic-techno-city, but it remains, functionally, a hallway. All the characters are vapid, annoying, complete ciphers, freakish anime simulacra of human beings straight from the uncanny valley, or various combinations of the above.

(oh who am i kidding i'm going to finish all fifty hours or whatever of this turd)

Just got back from babysitting my nephew and niece, made them watch Planes,Trains and Automobiles.
Pleasantly surprised as they actually liked it. I thought they'd not get it as it's "old"

:-)

home from work, drinking a beer, reading ilx, listening to records.
i could go to a bar where my friend is working, or to a roof party, but really.. i dunno.

having a beer. switching between a number of sports. debating whether i should sit down and 'blog'.

Rolling through Sons of Anarchy S1...bbqing ribs, cookin up some beans...right now I am all *about* boring.

backing up my hard drive
listening to a. adding a guitar part to some music i did
waiting for calzone delivery

went & got some steak quesadillas & some more beers.
eatin'
listenin' to robert ashley
gonna watch some hulu later.

Demon's Souls is kicking my ass, badly

went & got some steak quesadillas & some more beers.
eatin'
listenin' to robert ashley
gonna watch some hulu later.

like

sigh...mourning

Watching "Tron" (and no I don't care if you think it's "Dated" I still like it's style")

hey man whatever makes you happy

Thinking, was Tron some electronic version of "Wizard of Oz" ? I mean the more I think, the more I believe that Flynn was knocked unconscious by the laser and dreamed up the entire shebang of Tron. He used everyone from his life as templates for the hero characters. His ENCOM friends were the good guys with the blue circuits while the ENCOM boss and the new MCP was dreamed as the bad guy. All the vehicles probably came from the stuff he read about in sci-fi and science magazines. The world inside the computer was how he represented the computer systems as seen by someone on the inside.

\(^o^)/

― markers, Saturday, September 4, 2010 8:26 PM (1 week ago)

― markers, Saturday, September 11, 2010 5:42 PM (1 week ago)

― ☞ ☹ (markers), Saturday, September 18, 2010 6:39 PM (4 weeks ago)

Sorry to jump in, but in the spirit of the thread title, I am spending this fine Saturday night in with my parents, watching some godawful film. I've had a couple glasses of wine, so I can't drive anywhere, and we live in the middle of bloody nowhere.

Gah.

ah don't apologize, this is the place for all ilxors to talk about their boring Saturday nights!

This is indeed boring. Is there a spinoff thread where all our nights are boring? I belong there tbh.

lol

Couldn't afford to go out this weekend. Last night, pizza and backgammon. Tonight, wine and Children of the Stones.

going to see james franco in howl out in swishy old west hollywood.

went out for pub grub, napped for a bit, now having a pre-snl hendrick's and tonic.

*Extremely* boring evening but I've been kinda tired of late and just needed to chill. Still I do think I'm in a strange impasse mode of late, but I figure I'll snap out of it.

Played some video games, caught up on 30 Rock, starting on Motherless Brooklyn so I can have it done before Wednesday night.

Stayed up to watch Korean Grand Prix but they've been red flagged due to rain. Disappointing.

\(^o^)/

― markers, Saturday, September 4, 2010 8:26 PM (1 week ago)

― markers, Saturday, September 11, 2010 5:42 PM (1 week ago)

― ☞ ☹ (markers), Saturday, September 18, 2010 6:39 PM (4 weeks ago)

― markers, Saturday, October 16, 2010 3:35 PM (3 weeks ago)

gonna go look up stuff about EXPERIENCE DESIGN

sitting around listening to Fad Gadget's Under the Flag over and over again, playing VVVVV and swearing a lot

Made banana bread. Reading Keef's new book. Wooooo.

how did the bread come out?

i went to a huge sound/light installation of a xenakis piece, in a state park in downtown l.a.

the "light" part = laserbeams and flaming torches.

okay, more like roaming search lights and flaming torches -- but a company called "laserium" was in charge of them.

xposts haven't tried the banana bread yet, will report back when I do. Smells freaking great tho

awesome! :-D

Doing a lot of cooking to use up some CSA stuff. Did a roasted garlic/eggplant/leek mix for dinner along with a chard/broccoli salad, made up a batch of tomato sauce with basil, then a white bean/kale/kabocha big batch of soup and a spicy butternut squash stew is currently cooking up. Sauce, stew and soup all for storage (seriously).

Wow, yum Ned!

you gonna put all that stuff on a roasted animal at some stage tho right?

still sick so had a pretty tame sat evening, watched ireland lose to south africa in rugby with a mate, then got a really great red curry at the thai restaurant on my street, then came in and went to bed. thinking about going off alcohol for the month of november, since i've been sick for the first 7 days, i'm unemployed, and it might save liver for christmas.

nb: exception being made if and when i get a job, in which case i am going on one huge session.

Doing a lot of cooking to use up some CSA stuff.

This is what I'll be doing most of today!

you gonna put all that stuff on a roasted animal at some stage tho right?

Hate to disappoint you and all...

good, that's settled then

Well I didn't want to clear up that, after all, YOU'RE an animal, and it's been a while since I made some Irish stew and...

irish stu

recorded drum and saxophone and synth parts for a new song with our friends in our studio
had spicy thai soup and potstickers
watched "ponyo"

Someone should come up with a dish called ponyo imo

then eating it watching a man named horseo