Flamenco Dancers
Happy spooktacular Halloween or what have you.
Oh, I think it’s time for a random thoughts update!
Halloween
Sometimes Halloween has an apostrophe, and sometimes it does not! What is up with that. This is a mystery that even the combined might of Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Encylopedia Brown, Harriet the Spy and Nate the Great couldn’t solve.
For my costume this year I took a two-pronged approach. Firstly, there is a plastic child-sized cowboy hat suitably for rustling small cattle and perhaps attending a barn dance or hootenany. The hat component of the costume says “Evening, ma’am” or “Howdy, pardner” or something along those lines. It is nice and safe and respectful of women.
Secondly, there is a red inflatable electric guitar (So far I’ve only learned to play ‘Hungry Eyes’ on it, but I’m a fast learner). The guitar stands in CONTRAST to the HAT because while the HAT symbolizes a time of manners and respect (and, granted, some bar room brawling), the GUITAR symbolizes how it is just about time to ROCK.
As you may have guessed, this costume makes me look AWESOME.
Sorry about that bold up there
I don’t know what I was thinking. Sometimes I just go crazy with the formatting for no particular reason. You should see my essays this year. Everything even remotely important is written using italics for EMPHASIS.
The rest of this update will be written in the Windows Font WINGDINGS.
You are such a nerd
Posted this text into Word just so you could read it, didn’t you? All that effort for THIS. I guess I should be telling some super secrets or something. Hmm.
Nah, I got nothing.
I just realized that some people may not have these fonts installed and hence may read this normally. To them, I say cryptically, the eagle flies at midnight. There’s a snake in the grass in front of the school. We’ll dance together at midnight. I’ll be the one with the crisp red rose.
Sorry about that (again)
Okay, I will not use any more crazy formatting tags. I promise.
Twenty years old
I turn 20 tomorrow! That is pretty old! You can send me electronic greeting cards and well-wishes to this address. I also will be accepting cheques and various species of cacti.
This week’s assignment
I realized this week that I have a weird obsession with online journals. It’s probably my inner voyeur, but damned if I don’t love reading about other people’s lives! Unfortunately, other than Care and my old cohorts from the Nintendorks days, I don’t have many to read. This makes me sad and when I get sad I crumble to the ground in a heap and sob into my hands while wishing the world had never existed.
So this week’s assignment is for you (YES, YOU) to go to one of those silly free blog sites like BlogSpot or Diaryland and sign up for one of those free online journals and write in it and then, most importantly, GIVE ME THE LINK, so that I can creepily visit your page six times a day and constantly refresh, hoping to satisfy my sick and twisted need to read about your probably uneventful life. Hey, check out that run-on sentence there.
If you already have a blog, or once you GET one, leave a comment with the URL and I will perhaps make some sort of drop-down link box or whatever. Maybe not. I don’t know. What am I, Kreskin?
Scrubs
Season three of Scrubs is much like season two in that it’s taken a few episodes for them to get ‘warmed up’, so to speak. The first few episodes this season were good, don’t get me wrong, but they felt lacking especially considering how strong the end of Season Two was. But last night’s episode kicked things right back into high gear with tons of hilarious stuff and a genius Janitor plot. I am impressed.
I still think they’re dragging out the Eliot/Shawn thing too long (How many Sea World jokes can one show possibly MAKE?) but I am truly and enthusiastically looking forward to next week’s episode.
Pop Culture Has Ruined Me
Does anybody else remember an episode of Alvin and the Chipmunks where Alvin falls asleep on a plane and dreams about the fall of the Berlin Wall? I know it sounds like I’m making this up but I’m completely serious. The wall came down and the Chimpunks played rock music on the ruins and the song has been in my head ALL WEEK. “Let the wall come down / tumble to the ground / and peace will be heard all around!”
And then at the end of the episode Alvin wakes up for his dream and says, and I will never forget this because it’s perhaps the cheesiest and yet awesomest line ever delivered, “Wow… it was all a dream. But it doesn’t HAVE to be!”
And then they played the song again!
Songs of the week
The songs you should listen to this week are:
- Elliott Smith — Needle in the Hay
- Travis - Hit Me Baby One More Time
- Bright Eyes — Amy in the White Coat
- Counting Crows — Holiday in Spain
Damn I need to branch out and listen to more bands.
More later!
Matt
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That is my site. I will admit it was inspired by yours. I will also admit that it is not updated as often as it could be.
Oh wow! I garnered a mention! *glee*
That is totally my journal and I updated about Halloween too so we’re like update buddies.
I’ll repeat with whatever Coco said. I just polished off an overly-worded Halloweenish update, so I can only say, ‘Enjoy?’
YOU’RE a nerdsted.
Yes, i do remember the episode of Alvin and the Chipmunks where Alvin falls asleep. I am actualy looking for a recording of that song for a friend. Does anyone konw where i could get it? or even look for it?
I am trying desperately to find more info about Alvin and the Chipmunks when they sang about the falling of the berlin wall. I remember it a little from my childhood. All I really remember is the lyrics “Let the wall fall down, let it tumble to the ground…” and I remember I cried. Anyone got a clue? Anyone?
When i think of alvin and the chipmunks i think of that episode. I have been searching for years for a movie of it or a recording of the song. even though it was a bit far fetched, the show was so cute and the message was really sweet. i just remember crying. it was nuts. If anyone knows where i can get a copy of the show or the song please please let me know!
I remember every detail of that episode as well ! Alvin dreamed that he, simon, and theodore had met a grandfather on one side of the wall who was separated from his granddaughter on the other side of the wall. They kept trying to get past all the guards to sneak the granddaughter over, and kept getting caught. When they sang that song, the wall came down and they were reunited! I remember the song was really pretty and everyone in the audience was waving lighters. I have been trying to find that song/episode forever, but with no luck- I last looked on some online episode archives and they had the episode listed but it was unavailable! If anyone has any idea where to find this song/episode, please let me know too!
OH MY GOSH!! i have ben looking for that song for ages..i was about to give up thinking that no one rememberd that song!!..an Cindy thats the same line i remembered!! if you come across anywhere where i can Download the song atlest that would be GREAT!! that song was absolutely beautiful!!
Thanks for the Alvin reference, man. This may sound very strange, but in praying together, a friend had an image in his mind of me worshipping God on a hill, but with a low wall around me that was causing problems. As I’ve thought about that, that same song came into my head, so I ran a search on the few words that I remembered… BAM there ya were. Thanks for the assist, since it gives me some thing to pray today. Let Jesus tear down the wall, that I may sing his praise, his peace to everyone around. Again thank you.