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I've been listening to The Smiths lately. Somehow this came up in a conversation with a co-worker when we went out to lunch today, which triggered a childhood memory about a friend who was a few years older than me back when I was still in elementary school and our parents, his and mine, would throw parties for things like New Years or the Super...
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Went and saw Watchmen with a friend again today and enjoyed it even more the second time around because I'm a big nerd. The crowd in both the theater and the mall was sparse, since my friend and I arrived in the early afternoon and there were no kids to be found. Such a welcome change of pace.

Not much beyond that beyond watching Seinfeld...
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Went out saw Watchmen today. There's no doubt in my mind I'll be seeing it again before this next week is out..and at least one more time beyond that. The story was handled beautifully, the film looked magnificent, Rorschach was fucking perfect and the altered ending didn't phase me one bit.

Definitely not your typical comic book movie. The violence was brutal (though I'd argue...
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It was down in the 20s yesterday. Today it's up in the 60s and it should be up in the 70s when I go to see Watchmen on Saturday. Maybe spring is finally arriving here in the east. Can't happen soon enough, I say.

I am feeling a bit blase at the moment, despite the sunshine and the warmer temperatures. I don't really have an...
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Today is my mother's 56th birthday, which in spite of my good mood over the last few days has me thinking about how we're all getting older and so many of us are just slowly falling apart. My bones ache, I've gained weight over the last few years and sometimes I want to yell at the neighbor kids when they're playing their Jonas Brothers bullshit...
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Randomness...

Currently Playing in the Background: "Pretty in Pink" by The Psychedelic Furs
Gaming This Evening: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Current State: Chronic insomniac.

I haven't touched a book in weeks, ever since I finished McCarthy's The Road. I went to Border's yesterday and was just lost in the aisles, no idea what I should get to read. Even clueless I could get...
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I just spent the last few hours watching the first five episodes of the first season of Breaking Bad at a friend's apartment. I watched them when they first aired (they came out on DVD today) and loved them then...and I think I love them even more now. Such an amazingly well-crafted show. Dark, humorous, sometimes morbid and sometimes poignant. Bryan Cranston is amazing. It's...
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I've been here for years and I don't plan on leaving anytime soon. I mean, I like the naked ladies. I like them a lot. Some of them have gorgeous personalities to match the outside. But what I don't like are some of the disrespectful tags and comments that fly about. The girls - not to mention people in general - deserve better. So if...
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Today has been an odd mix of 80s Metallica and new wave while working on various side projects at work and thinking about trying my hand at fiction again, eventually. It's been so long since I've written anything I wouldn't even know where to begin, though I have jotted down a few ideas over the last couple of years.

I'm feeling rather alive at the...
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Some days you're Arturo and some days you're more like Oly.

In other randomness...I didn't like Friday the 13th that much, but then again I never really have. And My Chemical Romance owes Bob Dylan an apology for what they've done to "Desolation Row."