Your Boring Saturday Night

worked but my mom came to the show and i got to show her backstage. i sat in my booth at the back of the floor with these three druuuuuuunk people who tried to talk about kandinsky and post-Balanchine american choreography but mostly had to focus on trying not to fall out of their chairs

snow angeles kind of interesting, no?

it is the kind of thing i would write if i were homesick

snow angels was pretty good. it reminded me a little bit of bubble and a little bit of the ice storm. all of 'em have the problem of "well here's this slice of desperate unhappiness in the middle of the richest country in the world, but the narrative structure requires a body count."

like the only storyline anybody ever thinks we want to hear or read or see about flyover country is la mort surprise

sam rockwell is fucking brilliant and beckinsale manages to not completely fuck it all up

went with pp and kid to outback to immerse her in the closest thing weve got to australian culture (ha). heard myself pronouncing aussie as "ossie" instead of "ozzie" when ordering the "aussie chips", which were really bad. ordered steak medium and got medium rare which is exactly the outcome i anticipated. came home, put the kid to bed. got the rest of the tags on gta:sa, won 12:1 longshot at offtrack betting on the first try then failed five times at the bmx challenge before giving up. read infantcide thread and considered hipstercide (justifiable on grounds of social retardation obv) and now its 1:31am and pp is about to make cj jump off a really tall los santos skyscraper sans parachute. oh wait, he put the parachute on.

outback steakhouse is always a concession meal, but it is one i have found myself making more than once a year

watched "1408" with visiting high school friend and some other people, heard some really intense gossip about said friend (actually pretty exciting saturday night for me)

the best things on outback's menu are the burgers

i didnt even see the burgers. i asked for the ribeye. i probably wouldnt have if id known the waitress would sit herself down in the booth between beatrice and I to tell me how they have three types of ribeye - ribeye, chargrilled ribeye and the limited edition 20th anniversary 24 hour marinated flame grilled ribeye.

it reminded me of this old man sitting in the booth next to us a few years ago at ihop. he looked 90 something and like the clock was about to run out. he asked for pancakes and the waitress started with the "blueberry? strawberry?" "PANCAKES" "with eggs? bacon? ham?". looking at his wife "I JUST WANT PANCAKES." I think about that guy all the time.

anyway, i really like that weird bread they have at outback. a butter knife wouldnt go astray though.

here the real question: do the burgers have sliced beets on them?

if by 'beets' you mean 'fingernails' then 'yes'

Completely fucked-up sleep schedule here, must have been due to the work week and my damn alarm being on this morning for no good reason -- I spent nearly all the time between 5 pm and now asleep and now feel restless. Bah.

become one of the night dwellers

a pale lot, nary a thought or idea between them

I'm at work!!

case in point

ayo how bout go fuck yourself!!

Talking to Ken C

the essential ingredient of all boring saturday nights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gePxsQFGtGs

Hay u guyz

Don't get paid 'til Monday, mates and gf all out on piss, having some popcorn to cheer me up. Could have borrowed £50, but this will only mean being short again this time next month. Feels weird, cause I always at least go to the local spoonies.

What's your excuse?

Yeah I'm having money problems meself. Which isn't actually all that common for me, so it feels strange to suddenly have to skimp on groceries, for one thing. *shrugs* I'll survive, though. Just no more drunken iTunes madness, etc.

I'm drinking cheap beer at home.

No booze for me, I have half a bottle of Smirnoff left but I'm saving it in case my mates fancy a couple when they get back. ITV's Nightwatch Mysteries looks quite good tonight anyway.

Home, reading pharmacology textbook. It does not get any lamer!

Will be mixing drinks after the kids go to bed to ameliorate the patheticness.

Blew a bunch of dough at Amoeba and the CLUI bookstore this afternoon, so I'm in for the night. Current entertainment options:

- 2 x CD of Holly & The Italians demos and unreleased tracks (purchased at Amoeba)
- Last episode of Ashes To Ashes (finished downloading when I was out)
- Grey Gardens and random episodes of Futurama sitting on the Tivo
- Moog Moogerfooger analog delay pedal that I need to get up to speed on

No way! I've been thinking really heavily about Holly & The Italians lately! I should pull that CD-R out right now, damnit.

Anybody else turning off their lights at 8pm for the Earth global warming thing? I've only got a half hour left before it hits 8pm here.

What's the 2XCD called, Elvis?

i am drinking by myself and cleaning my apartment listening to bruce springsteen and having a great fucking time

i just mopped and then danced around to candy's room

My daughter finally went to sleep (my wife, too). Just now beginning to listen to some music. Tunnel Of Love sounds perfect, actually. Quiet Saturday nights are alright. Then again, I'm old.

im gonna be 29 in a few weeks. that's old, right?

No. You're young. I'm 40.

(Actually, 40 isn't old. Sometimes I just feel old, I guess).

What's the 2XCD called, Elvis?

It's called Demos Federico

I've been listening a lot to her first two records and didn't know that this was out there.

Previous options might be preempted because the original Thomas Crown Affair just started on TCM.

ooh is the original good? i have only seen the remake. art theft is so attractive for some reason!

I like both versions - the original one has tons of abstract style but not the same kind of tension/suspense the remake does.

I am in CT, watching preseason baseball on TV, where I will have to get up and change beds when 15-month-old niece awakens around 5:30.

The original TC Affair is watchable but very silly cotton candy (Faye Dunaway as world-class 23-year-old model-beautiful insurance investigator).

I didn't know "The Windmills Of Your Mind" was from this movie.

it won the Best Song Oscar! what magnificently abominable lyrics.

I never paid attention to the lyrics until just now.

why did summer go so quickly, was it something that you said?

Apparently my course of study up to this point has been a little neglectful of "The Windmills Of Your Mind."

To Write:
-600-word feature on boring bluegrass festival
-300-word review of B52s album (still need to listen to this)
-250-word review of Counting Crows album (need to finish listening to thiszzzzzzz)
-500-word review of Southland Tales (need to watch again)
-150-word piece on Os Mutantes
-50-word snippet recommending (!!!jesussss) the Used
-???-word email on project
-???-word email on thoughts about a friend's album

To Edit:
Three scenesssss from film; deadline is end of april.
250-word review of Gnarls Barkley album

Listening to:
David Archuleta - Shop Around/You're the Voice
Dolly Parton - Down from Dover
Counting Crows :(
B-52s, eventually

^^^really depressing life, except for the film, which makes me happy/anxious

Am I the only one up on this thread who actually had a social engagement I was supposed to go to but was so beat that I decided the best course of action was to stay home and take it easy - which ended up meaning lots of old country music videos on youtube. Of course there is also the technicality was that I wasn't really sure if I was invited, but maybe somebody didn't have my address. In any case, I made some noise to some people about intending to try to go, I'm sure I'm going to catch hell tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be well rested enough to take it.

i read a bunch of magazines while basketball played in the background :-/

Redd: yes you are

500-word review of Southland Tales (need to watch again)

oh, the hell you do, no one does.