In Philly, found original pressing of Ventures - Surfing. Very happy about it.

Went to see a bollywood movie fayde and I had interest in. It was ... well it was interesting. All the indian folks on imdb who reviewed it hated it, and I'm not sure about the ones in the theatre. The second half was very americanized, and to be honest, we really enjoyed it. The cameos are what make it super awesome, and it's the only movie ever that will have the line: "I just don't know what I would have done if you'd married Denise Richards."

Now that "the TV" is up and running and I just got my copy of Dragon Dynasty's Fist of Legend, I want to do another film fest. :)

Also, the little inset card for dragondynasty.com in this box was completely awesome. Pictures of Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Jacie Chan, Tony Jaa.... all surrounding Chow Yun Fat with a shotgun.

Peace Spells, But Who's B-U-Y-I-N-G

So I went to a breakfast with David Khan, the new VP of Basketball Operations for the timberwolves.

He said absolutely all of the right things. All of them.

I am very excited for basketball next year all of a sudden.

If you do a google search for "little dolphin swim", the second hit is malcubed's twitter. I don't know why, but that makes me really happy.

You know who you are.

So for my birthday, my lovely wife gave me a hand made ceramic tea pot with a dragon coiled over it for a handle. It's super awesome.

From the cat, I got a hairball in the middle of my players handbook.

Humans are better at showing affection, I don't care how much you like purring.

11, 16, 12, 12, 14, 14

Stats for a cleric? Nope. Hours I worked this week by day. Indeed, that totals: 79. Damn, I missed 80 by 1.

The mix from "Reign in Blood" to "Age of Aquarius" is surprisingly good. My guess is that there is someone out there who is a Slayer from the Fifth Dimension.

I don't think we said happy birthday yesterday, my apologies.

Songs are better when they feel like gifts. I think this is truly the handle for Pandora, because when one is listening and then a great song starts, you feel like they gave you a gift. I was listening to Amon Amrath radio today, my recent devolution into Swedish Black Metal nearly complete, when they started playing Dead Bury the Dead by Arch Enemy. I love this song, love it! I mean seriously, but I haven't listened to that disc in a long time. I was so excited, so happy. And me and the internet were on the same vibe, about what's awesome in metalness. It was good. This is a gift.

Hello,
I will be having a 24 hour movie marathon for my birthday. Schedule will be e-mailed out soon with the e-vite. But I was speaking to a friend actually about this and he said, "well you're showing Movie X right?" And I said, "um, yeah!" It was a movie I had actually been considering cutting from the list.

What movies do you expect me to show? What movies have I talked the hell out of that you think I need to share? What would you come hoping to see? This would help greatly as I juggle the schedule. If nineteen people want to see something, I'll be less likely to schedule it for 4 AM.

Midnight showing of Wolverine?

Last midnight movie we did was awesome! Previous one was a bust. I think that the strain put on our bodies in terms of fatigue makes our reactions to goodness or badness of movies stronger. Do I trust this film? Do I think they probably blew it? I just don't know.

If we did midnight at Roseville, would we have any friendly takers?

For those of you who are in to this sort of thing:

I will be attending a showing of "Moon" during the Intl Film Fest at St. Anthony Main at roughly 7:00 next Monday (the 27th). Moon is a film that is Sam Rockwell, on the moon, going crazy, by himself. It looks very awesome. The director will be on hand to talk about it afterward.

If art films aren't your bag, unfortunately at the same time, Riverview will be showing Alfred Hitchcock's Rope. Oh wait, undoubtedly the artiest of his films, Rope is super cool. I have no idea if it will be enhanced in the theatre.

You should either come with me to the moon, or go see Rope.

In the wintertime, we fed the cat after dark. When it got dark, she knew it was feeding time. Then sometime during the spring she realized we were feeding her when the sun was out. Now she wants food when its light out.... i.e., all frickin day.

Today is the 40th day of homemade meals for me.

I am having the lentils of the apocalypse , no really.
And I'm going to make popcorn chicken and french fries.
Because I frickin can, you know why? Because I took a test on the internet that said I was the m-fing Tom Jones baby.

If you would like to join me for end-time lentils and movies, please call.

Am curious if its as awesome as it seems on paper.

w00t

I'm running two games at convergence. This one is a missing person mystery. I'm using the call of cthulhu system as a base because I like percentages, not necessarily because of any kings in yellow. I'm going for the super story feel, so the flow of the game will be unique.

I have somewhere between one and four players already. Would you like to play test this Saturday? My ultimate goal is to get five total. Tell your friends. Need people.

I am at a weird point. Partially because I wanted to buy used music in Milwaukee and couldn't, partially because of the failure of columbia house's music program to have anything work a darn, and for some other reasons described below, I am considering spending significant green on some used cds.

This is weird because for the last like five years i haven't been buying used cds and have mostly been downloading. there is no fiscal benefit to the artist at all to buy used, so there's no moral rationale in terms of where the money goes for me (vs downloading with or without consent). Really it's just that I want to own something. Lots of my burned cds have given out, they're missing cover art etc. There's that part of me that wants to have a real copy of "calling up spirits" not just the version from e-music. Also, on some of the albums, i feel the quality is just better. Some of the albums i burned that were never on mp3 like "seventh son" just completely wore out, like the disc is flaking apart and it doesn't play anymore.

Does it make sense to buy these items used? Or am I just being nostalgic? While it is easy to comprehend my occasional urges to buy cool things on vinyl, I have a little more trouble with my urges to buy compact discs.