Posts from — October 2006

Well, I guess with the time change it’s officially “winter” in SF. Dark early, a bit colder- and soon it shall start raining more. Ahh, fun.

Tomorrow my folks are off to Paris for the month. Yeah, the month. They rented an apartment so my dad could work remotely, although I think it’ll be 90% vacation. Sure I’m jealous, but you know what? In a few weeks, I’ll be going on vacation with Jodi and Gretchen to Chile and Argentina. So I can’t be too jealous of my folks.

In other news, I’ve decided not to continue with First Friday Happy Hour. After a loooong time off, I started doing Tae Kwon Do again. So far my foot’s holding up to the workouts and I’m enjoying getting used to a new school and the new schedule.

Part of that schedule is a Friday night class I really enjoy. Hence, the Happy Hour cancellation. I’ll still arrange for a night out to The Bitter End now and again, but not as a regular event.

Anyone watch Fox football yesterday? Lolz. . .

We’ve secretly replaced the Philadelphia Eagles with -





HA HA

I don’t have time for a full post. So, if you’re bored at work, watch this.

Ships in the field.

Forgive me, but you have a very pronounced accent

Which is your favorite George Hamilton movie, Zorro TGB, or Love at First Bite?

There’s another longer clip on youtube where the guards call Paco a Beaver, lol. (cause he’s in a bear suit!)

Of course I have to say “wussy” instead of PEE-you-ssy to be PC, but it’s articles like this that make me want to beat the shit out of people in Los G.

That’s for those of you who thought I was off the WP bandwagon. No, I’m not. Trick or Treat? I’ll take a treat!

I forgot to update that I had added a few pictures from Paul’s last grape stomp. It was a lot of fun just like the year before.

Unrelated to that, GrapeRadio has a good show (in mp3) format about the Wines of Chile. Some of you may like it, most of you will think it’s too long. But hey, I like listening to it while I’m staring at the cuties on my bus commute. But after listening to it, I want to skip my workout and get to K & L and pick up some Casa Silva Carmenere. If not, maybe I’ll pick some up on my upcoming vacation.

Another example of why I prefer news.google.com and other news sites to stupid CNN.

You know what makes me sad? The fact that most of my movie “reviews” are DVDs. I used to go the actual theater all the time. Now I have to really think about when I went last.

There’s stuff out now that I’d like to see in the theaters too. I even got some free tickets courtesy of my cool VP’s, so maybe this trend will change. Anyway, here’s your DVD roundup for the month. Once again, there are some that I watched that aren’t worth mentioning because they sucked ass. The rest of these were the floaters in the toilet bowl of netflix.

The House of Flying Daggers – *
Good lord, what a sappy melodramatic soap opera.
You know what I’m getting sick of? Movies like this that are described as “sweeping epic dramas”. That’s a nice way of saying “A Soap Opera with a good enough budget to get a kick ass cinematographer and a hot chick.”

Saw – 0
There’s one star here because you get to see some of the main stars get hurt. It’s enough to make you wish it really happened. On a side note, you know the guy stuck in the room with Cary Elwes? Yeah, he co-wrote the flick and cast himself. This movie sucks.

Deadwood Season 2 (episodes 1-3) – ***
Ah, my love affair with the show continues. I’m just now at the part where Al’s getting his kidney stone fixed. Ow. Hopefully the season will get better. I think after three episodes of Season 1 I was hooked more than I am on three of this season’s.

Solaris – **
This is another movie that makes me glad I have the 3DMT™ I hated it while I was watching it, but was hooked for some reason. And I kept thinking about it over and over. It’s filmed well, and has good acting. Granted, it’s a bit self-aware in a Soderbergh way, but overall a nice flick. I almost gave it a three, but a character bugged me too much.

The Devil Wears Prada – ***
I saw this on my flight to Chicago. It was surprisingly good. No, seriously. For reals. Meryl Streep is awesome. Of course you know how it’s going to play out, but it still entertains. The only negative comment is – wtf, like we’re supposed to believe the lovely Anne Hathaway is “chubby” at the start? (she supposedly slims down to fit in) Whatever. But like I said- surprisingly good. The only way it’d get more stars if I directed it and I called it – Anne Hathaway wears Prada, but leaves it on Kenny’s floor when she comes over.

I hate the term podcast. But anyway, one of the ones I subscribe to has some ‘programs’ (episodes? shows?) of Hawai’ian music. I’ve been listening to them over and over to keep calm at work. Some of it reminds me of the old school country falsetto stuff. Check it out if you have time- and no, you don’t need an ipod or itunes to hear them.

In unrelated news, Julieta Venegas will be at The Fillmore on Nov 19th. I’ll be out of town, but you should go in my abscence.

Freddy Fender died this weekend. :(

I’ll post a Texas Tornados vid since Sarah already posted the Teardrop vid.

Only Augie and Flaco are left :(

another one in case you have time