Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Saturday, March 19, 2005 The Pitch: It's like Light Sleeper meets Real Genius! I finally, finally, finally got a good night's sleep last night and I can't tell you how happy I am about that. And the newsletter is done, and I did my reviews for the S.C., and I'm off work in an hour and a half and it's been quiet after a day of intermittent, dicky, annoying jobs. Of course, there's all sorts of stuff falling apart--people on the verge of dying, babies being born--so I'm a complete and utter selfish bastard to define my day by how well I slept but eh, what can I do. I'm a complete and utter selfish bastard, I guess.I also have a shitload of not much too say--our first deposit check finally got cashed so we know where and when we're getting married, but I'm not sure if I should announce it on our blog. On the one hand: who cares? My guess is somewhere between four and eleven people follow this blog (it's much, much closer to four). On the other hand, it would be nice if it were a joint announcement: it's something Edi should rightfully be a part of. Which sounds dumb, because she's already told several people over the phone and the email, but then, I have too. I don't know; I'll figure it out. I'm on week 3.5 of no video games, and I'm getting this very intense but very brief pangs and then it's gone. I'll be sitting in the living room, trying to figure out what to do for the next hour and suddenly You know, you nevvverrr finished Beyond Good & Evillll... will suddenly occur to me. Or You should reinstalllll Freeeeedom Force..., or Maybe you should trade in those games you never playyyyyyy...for creeeeeedit. The last one is the tempting one, because I know what I'd do with that credit--I'd spend it. On video games. Which I'd then play. I did have a really great experience with credit, recently--I traded in a handful of CDs I didn't want to Streetlight Records and used the credit to get their used Singing Detective boxed set. The discs appear to be in excellent condition and I only had to pay nine bucks for it after credit. Considering even Deep Discount DVD has it for forty-three bones, I feel like I got a great deal. Now I can loan it to Nancy who I expect to fall deeply in love with it--if I can get my act together enough to ever see her, that is. Our British TV binge is over, I think: Spaced, The Singing Detective, The Office. I'm not sure where we could go after that, although I'm thinking of renting the other Potter stuff--Brimstone & Treacle, Pennies From Heaven, Liptstick on Your Collar, Track (shudder) 29. Tomorrow, Edi's going to watch Shaun of the Dead with me, and I want to watch Main Hoon Na again, but she acts like I'm inviting her to contract leukemia with me. Oh, that was another exciting experience (in an AV club kind of way)--putting my more recent DVDs in the PS2 to see which ones would play, and which ones wouldn't. All the Indian flicks, as advertised, were all region and I can lend 'em to anyone. Kung-Fu Hustle and Spaced, sadly, are, as advertised, Region restricted. After some thought, I've decided not to discuss Kafka on the Shore. So much of the book's charm is in how it unfolds, and I was really glad I didn't know anything about it before reading it. I'm two pages into Cloud Atlas now, and moving slow. All it'll take is one good BART ride. See? Nothing to say except maybe: God, I really hope it rains again tonight. Every night with rain is a night without stupid neighbor lawn parties. But more than that, I opened the door this morning to leave for work and this fresh clean air swept across my face and made me want to swoon. Most of it, I'm sure, is the rain pushing the crap out of the air, but it's also obvious all the plant life on Bernal Hill is loving it--it smelled like the plants were ecstatically exhaling fresh air, all that triumphantly green grass on the ridge sending fresh soft breezes down to caress our tired faces. More, please. posted by Jeff Lester | 6:39 PM | |
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