#185 - let's get ethical

okay, so i wrote that last post actually on tuesday, but i after writing it i didn't really want to post it because it was so negative, and i didn't want to push all those great birthday pics out of the way for a nasty, negative post, but i did spend a lot of time writing it and i think it has a message of some sort so i did post it, but then right after i posted that i found this fantastic clip from the office so read that one first... take a minute to let it sink in... then completely forget about it and press play:

#184 - trust

i'm pretty sure i'm a socially awkward person. there are many situations throughout a normal day when i say to myself, "i'm such a dork," like when i'm talking to someone new or random (like at the store or something). or even in instances where i miss communication because i feel like i shouldn't talk to random people or i avoid eye contact or whatever with random people. i create socially awkward situations on a very consistent basis.

anyway, the tipping point for this realization was on sunday, i went to pick up food from bale (i love pho... even though everyone says it's not "real pho" i still like it) and there's this lady who works there who says hi to me everytime i go in. and, granted, when i first moved in i was going there maybe every or every other sunday after church, but when she says hi, it's a little too much, like she REALLY knows me, except she doesn't. well, so i thought what happened is that she mistook me for someone else that looks like me that actually comes in all the time because one time she asked me about my girlfriend and when i told her i didn't have one she looked confused and said that we always came and ate in the restaurant, but i always take out. then last sunday she asked how work was going and asked if i was working a lot... i never told her about my job or anything, but it's a pretty generic question so i guess she could just be trying to make small talk, but it also sounded like she thought i was someone else who used to talk to her about work. but there may actually be someone that looks like me that works (or used to work) at starbucks because a while ago at maui tacos the guy there asked about work too and said "don't you work at starbucks?" so maybe i do have a look-alike out there.

anyway, so this whole thing got me thinking about how many socially awkward situations i get myself into on a daily basis and it is rather a lot. so i decided to make an effort to be more open and talky and try to have some normal interactions. that's why this post has pictures (that my aunty took) of moloka'i, the friendly isle, haha. i've been trying it out with some new friends i've been meeting and that's been going okay, and i've been trying it out with some random people at the store or out surfing and i'm still very dorky about it, but i guess it's working.

but then i was out surfing today at chun's (it was a nice day, clean waves, tons of people out there) and i was trying to be friendly and smile and things like that. so after i'm done, i'm walking back to my car from the grassy side of the beach (where the lifeguard tower is), i'm approaching the road and some guy in a passing car yells out his window "nice board, pu$$y." wtf right? i was shocked because it was so random. first i thought, "i don't know them, do i? nope." then i thought, "did i offend them while i was surfing, cut them off or something? nope." well, i was having a little bit of hard time carrying my board (it's pretty big and heavy and my arms aren't that long) so maybe they were just making fun of me, but that's so random and they would've been driving past so fast that how could they even see that... and then laugh, and then decide to yell something offensive, and then actually yell it before the car passed.

so, that was pretty rude. and it don't matter too much because i don't know who it was and it was so random so why worry right? but it got me thinking, what would make someone so randomly act in that manner? and i started asking for a little guidance from the Lord because lately i've been trying to have a little more trust in his plans and not rely on my own, flawed judgement like i have been too much. well, so it didn't hit me at first, but as i thought more and more about it, the realization came to me that even in random acts we can either pick out the positive or the negative of the situation. the negative, of course, being that i could've gotten super pissed and been angry at the world all day. the positive being that i could think about what would compell someone to perform a random act of meaness and think about times when i've done the same thing. like giving someone stink eye in traffic, or rolling my eyes at the lady at jack-in-the-box who gives me the wrong change, or something so needless like that. and in thinking about that aspect of the situation it has made me more diligent in trying to spread positives instead of negatives in my own life. see? so the Lord has a plan, i need to trust in him more.

okay, but if you're not down with the religious-ness of this message (i'm catholic after all...), how about just thinking about how tough it can be in the world with everyone spreading one random act of meaness everyday. it might not happen that often to any one person, but think about how that negativity circulates and grows, why not replace it with goodness instead? how's that? hippie enough? how about this then... this song has been stuck in my head from the instant i heard it on sunday and i've been singing it every moment since, for a reason?

wild world - cat stevens (i like the acoustic version by three sides now)

"it's hard to get by just upon a smile"

#183 - blomberg birthday

here are some pictures from the blomberg birthday extravaganza, it was tons of fun. first of all, gyukaku is great. harami miso is fricken best in the world. we got the set meal this time which was great because it gives you a nice sample of all the good stuff, but i think next time i'll be a little more adventurous and order by plate. we went pretty early, but that was actually pretty great because it was happy hour so we got some pitchers of kirin and the rest of the night was all gravy. i was pretty impressed with everything, including the waitress (she was in training and messed up a little bit, but gave the birthday blombergs free shots and desserts), as soon as we mentioned "sake bomb" she got major excited and did the whole sch-bang for us (see pictures below). definately a great birthday place to go.

sam and kristen show off the menu

nicole was smiling and neil was making a creepy face, then jill took too long to take the picture and this happened
when in japanesie-land, do as the japanesies do
check out that creepy guy on the left trying to get in the picture

this is the saddest picture in the world... just look at all that spilled sake (you can also see the rest of the beer than ended up on neil's shirt)

#182 - me angry?

okay guys, so i might have some hidden rage somewhere. i had another funky dream last night that was very plausible and very heated as well. here goes:

it started with me living in a dorm room (probably because we were all joking about keane's last night), but i was in there and getting ready to leave to go out somewhere and i tried to close the door but the latch wouldn't catch. i kept trying over and over but it wouldn't close all the way so i was getting angry and i found some RA or something and told them i needed a new key because mine wasn't working. so the RA was being an idiot and was telling me like, "did you try using your key?" and "did you try to slam it closed?" and i was like, "yes, dumbass" but she kept giving me guff about it and finally she got the papers to apply to get a new key but she kept telling me that a copy of the key would cost me $20, but i was telling her i didn't LOSE the key, i have the key (and i showed it to her face), it just doesn't work, so that's not me being irresponsible and i shouldn't have to pay for another key that actually works.

but she was being a snotty bitch and i got more and more angry so then i looked around and then the hallway of the dorm was kinda turning into a library so there was a bank of computers at like a circulation desk with three pale, dorky-faced teenagers working there. they were each at a computer and had earphones listening to ipod in their ears, and as i tried to talk to them (they were super dorky) they were ignoring me like they were too scared to talk to an actual human being. then i was getting madder because all i wanted was for one of them to tell me who their supervisor was so that i could complain about that RA who was giving me a hard time about the key, but none of them would talk to me.

so then i go around the back of the circulation desk into the office area because i was determined to find some supervisor to tell about that bitchy RA, then i see kyle working at one of the computers and i was like, "score, no i've got the in's" so i talk to him and he says he's living in mccully now and so i say we have to get together (he looks super dorky too, but at least he talks to me). so he tries to tell me who the supervisor is but he says it's his first few days at work so he doesn't know everyone. then i remember who my boss was when i worked at the library in college and i start dropping names and what'd y'know she was still there! so she came out and i could talk to her and i was thinking "yes, now that RA is going down." but she told me that she wasn't the supervisor and that i need to talk to amber kaufman (a volleyball player for UH), and so she comes out (she doesn't really look like her, but kinda close) and she's got a bluetooth on and looking like she's in a really serious conversation so my ex-boss and i wait for her to finish. but then she finishes and we sit down and start talking but then she starts crying and i look on her phone and it says "phone calls: 3, drama: 8" haha, like she was having some fights with her boyfriend on the phone or something. so it was now getting kinda awkward to talk about the whole key situation, but then my ex-boss says, no you have to talk about the key because she (amber kaufman) needs to learn how to be a boss and put her personal life aside for work. i thought it was pretty mean, but it was weird... and that was about the end of the dream.

so, another dream like that where i get super mad, another dream with tons of day residue, and i did not eat anything before bed (although i had a fricken' awesome dinner at gyukaku and then drank like 3 kirins, and sake bomb and then 3 more bud lights at karaoke). so perhaps that means i've got some subconscious anger festering somewhere huh? i dunno. at least i've got a week of vacation this week so i'll be able to decompress a bit, i'm thinking beach, then beach, then beach, sweet.

#181 - october

i love october. here are some things i love about it:

1. halloween creepiness
2. the weather gets colder
3. volleyball and football at mid-season
4. 1 week vacation
5. time to start thinking about the holidays

sometimes i think i need to live somewhere with seasons because i love autumn and wintertime. well, at least i think i do, i would still need a very mild winter (think san diego, not wisconsin), but i like the idea of being able to wear cold winter clothes, see your breath in the morning, and see the leaves change, and even walk around in a little bit of frost, maybe. but still, living here at least i can live the seasons through the holidays, and the weather changes here too in october/november, it starts raining at least, and that's enough to make things semi-cold and cozy-making.

anyway, so october is a great start to all that, i love horror shows and assorted creepiness, but not slashers, i got over slasher movies after scream i think. i like cleaner horror and creepiness. like skeletons. this is pacman's skeleton. i like skeletons a lot. that's why anatomy and physiology class was so exciting to me, i love learning anatomical names, all latinized and everything (yes, i am a nerd, duh). i'm gonna make another shout-out to one of my favorite shows here... bones... they make great use of the science because it's not the main focus of the stories, in fact, in many cases it seems as if the science gets in the way of the stories and actually solving the case becomes so secondary to the character storylines that are running, and that makes for good tv.

speaking of good tv... thanks to joe for that last comment... also WTF to fox!? c'mon, how hard is it to keep a well-developed, quality show on tv? okay, so i really don't understand these tv ratings except that one time kathleen was asked to be a nielsen reporter and all she did was write down the shows she watched each week and mailed it in. wtf is that? where's my input? i think i'm a much better demographic than kathleen right? c'mon, i'm single male, age 18-39 right? haha! although she does spend a lot of money on things so maybe she is a more preferred demographic huh? anyway, it's not the first time and it definately won't be the last time good tv shows get axed by the suits so i shouldn't be surprised. what DOES surprise me is how little of a chance these shows get. i heard that "do not disturb" was cancelled too, that only had like three episodes right? give 'em a chance, don't just cut and run.

anyway, to start of the month of october and getting ready for halloween, i guess my brain wanted to jump-start the freakiness and gave me a totally freaky dream last night. what happened in the dream wasn't really all that creepy, just a lot of assorted day residue stuff from work, etc, but what was freaky was that i was completely emotive in the dream. like i felt rage and anger like i never feel in waking life, to the point of it being a little bit scary when i woke up that i could actually feel that kind of anger. anyway, it was so freaky i woke up quickly and immediately went to the computer to write it all down so i wouldn't forget, here's what i wrote:

first thing i remember is i was driving to the shopping center, kinda like pearlridge, there were two phases... i drive to one phase then get a phone call saying that my grandpa is in the hospital that's also in the shopping center by sears, but i'm at the wrong phase so i drive back to the shopping center with sears. i get there and park in an underground structure, go up the elevator into the hospital and i see morgan wearing a green hawaiian print dress, she has a like 4 year old son who recognizes me, like because he goes to the school where i work and she's also carrying another baby in ther arms. we talk for a little bit and i think it's weird that she's got two kids already. but she goes downstairs and i wait for the elevator to take me upstairs.

i go in the elevator but i don't know which floor to press, then i get a vivid image of a note i used to have saying the room was 3156b or something so i go to the 3rd floor and find my grandpa's room, i go inside and he's on the bed with nasogastric tubes all in him and all my family sitting around (when he passed away about a month ago i walked into his room with all my family sitting around, but he had already passed away, so no tubes). i think it's weird because my granda already passed away. so i expected to see him gone already but he was still alive and not doing too good. then he asks my aunty to take out the tubes because he's had enough already and he's ready to die. but after they take everything out he's doing okay and talks to us and we have to feed him so my sister goes to feed him like a plate of shredded chicken and beef jerkey but she'd kinda nervous because she doesn't really know how to feed him because those foods are kinda tough and hard to eat, like, how to i feed an old person? but she's trying to feed him, but he can't really chew or anything so he keeps coughing. then we get talking about who's going to watch him and my mom is there and they're agruing about it. and i say "why can't i watch him," but no one wants to trust me. then the argument turns into who's gonna watch joshua (my nephew) and i get super pissed off that no one's asking me to watch or no one's even thinking that i could watch even though i'm gonna be on vacation next week and will have plenty of time. then all of a sudden we're in my office at work, which is also a public library, there are kids checking out books and my nephew there with my mom and they're at some computer tyrying to learn how to talk. i don't remember a lot of but i know that i'm still super mad because no one will trust me to watch him. then we're in my office at work and my co-workers are going home, and my dad is there trying to finish borrowing books and take my nephew home. it's time to go home and i'm trying to close the widnows to the classroom to go home, but there windows are all still ajar and i have to keep going back to close them over and over again.

there are other co-workers in the room like eileen and judy (who i don't work with everyday) and they're all coming in to work, kathleen is there too and all of sudden she leaves early, like at 3:30 and eileen and all of us are shocked that she left early (because i always tease her about going home way too late). i'm still trying to convince my mom that i could watch joshua, but she's making orange construction paper cut outs for him, then she leaves and my dad comes in to take joshua so i'm helping clean up the construction paper and getting some for him to take home in an envelope. as i leave the classroom with another co-worker one of the office workers who retired last year comes to the room, she says she's got work to do. but i have to lock the door because i'm leaving so i ask her if she's got a key but she doesn't, but she says she needs to do lots of work over the weekend in a super condescending like voice so i'm angry at her too. so i "lock" her in, because she doesn't have a key to lock up after herself and i start walking to my car with my co-worker. there's A+ kids all over the place and one of them goes up to my co-worker and starts trash talking her, so i yell at the kid that he can't talk to her like that and while i'm doing that some other kids comes up and like assaults me so i block the kid's arm and knock him down like i would do to my dog when she jumps up at me and he falls to the ground. then some A+ mother comes by and starts yelling at me and i'm all swearing at the mother telling her she doesn't know what really happened and she better get the f*** outta my face. she threatens to report it and i'm so fricken pissed off that i just tell her to shut the f*** up and everything. so i leave and my co-worker walks one way and i walk the other way, but i can't find my car, because i parked in a different place, and i can't walk fast, i'm walking super super slow and it takes trememndous effort to lift my legs and walk. by now it's night time and i'm walking through the neighborhood and i'm thinking of places that i could hide in case i get in trouble for pimp slapping that kid.

i walk down the street but can't find my car, i walk and there's a car end to end blocking the middle fo the road and construction guys playing around beyond that, i ask if i can walk across the cement and they say it's okay but it's super hard to walk. it takes forever to walk anywhere. i walk past some kids playing and some people walking and come to a townhouse complex, some guy is outside with a pvc pipe and he presses a button on there to release some sonic pitch that's supposed to keep the bugs or fish or frogs away as pest repellent. i still can't find my car ande wonder how i'm gonnna get home, but it's so fricken super hard to walk that all i'm doing is struggling trying to walk and hoping i'll get somehwere, eventually....

then i woke up. freaky yeah? well, a lot of rubbish happening in that dream, but some things that stuck out:

1. i was super pissed off about four times in the dream, like maddening rage kinda angry, about things that i don't really care about in real life, kinda scary to think that i could feel that kinda anger
2. i think about work too much (imagine that! who would've thought right? ha)
3. i have a lot of dreams where i'm walking somewhere (either trying to get somewhere fast or just leisurely walking) and walking takes a super amount of effort. like wading through neck deep water except the water is thick as rubber cement. or maybe it feels like i'm trying to climb a flight of super steep stairs after sprinting up about 30 floors already. my theory is that i'm in some sleep stage where my mind is more awake but my body is not yet there and so my brain maybe is telling my body to move and my body is not responding so that gives me some kind of weird dream feedback, huh?

anyway, that was a weird dream.

#180 - vs.

can i just say how much i love the fact that terminator and heroes are on the same night, and back-to-back? now let's just hope that everyone watches terminator and no one watches heroes so that those network executive people can see what kind of television is worth backing. tonight i watched a fantastic episode of terminator, no big robot fights, but a whole lot of robot backstory (actually "front"-story because it was a flash-forward to the future talking about the past of cameron's human-self... and they kept it all very understandable) and great acting too, i think. i just love this girl... it seems like all those joss whedon girls just have that right mix of toughness and cry-ability. and then after that i watched a horrible episode of heroes, full of generic "why are you really angry" scenes, over exposed super-powered people, and no likeable characters to be found anywhere!

i mean, c'mon, when no one dies and people can do whatever they want, then who cares what anyone does? it can just be undone, according to them. when people have no limits then what does it matter what anyone does? not so with terminator. the robots are flawed, the characters are flawed, they're not invincible and they don't have overwhelming power over everything around them. also, gotta love that terminator cares enough to develop and enhance backstory, rather than just creating outrageous twists and shoving them together with existing storylines through unseen plot devices. when you don't have integrity about your own show's mythology, that's when viewers (like me) feel disillusioned and kinda betrayed. if they're not true to the story they've built, then why should we watch?

in conclusion: good job to terminator, boo to heroes.

(ps - i KNEW that snotty albino bizz-nitch was a machine! ha!)

#179 - whoa

yesterday on mythbusters they did a show on can a cable (pulled at high tension) cut someone clean in half if it snaps. it came about from those aircraft carriers that have cables to help airplanes slow down when they land:

so they tested whether or not they could split a person in half with a snapped cable (of course, they didn't use people, they used pigs, whole, dead, pigs... that was like half the fun). but alas, come rope, come 3/8ths inch cable, come 5/8ths inch cable at 30,000 lbs of tensions, the pig stayed intact, just with some nasty rope/cable burns. so, myth busted, although, just for kicks and giggles, they did get a forklift, wrap the cable around the pig and just pulled... y'know how potters use strings to cut through clay? it was as easy (and disgustingly awesome) as that.

i've always been very cautious about things that can kill me, i'm sure everyone is, but i think i'm a little more paranoid than the average person because my imagination can be very active, and when i envision possible scenarios i always think, "geez, how easy would it be to just have that happen?" like when i see people leaning on glass railings, i think, how simple would it be to just hop over that? or have it break? and that's unnerving because if i think, and imagine myself, say, hopping over a railing, how far from that is having my brain accidentally do it, right?

anyway, but the cable thing was busted... probably because the cable snap, although a very powerful force, is also very fleeting. and if mythbusters (and physics) have taught me anything, it's that enormous speed just isn't enough, you also need mass to create the kinds of forces that would press into and through the pig's skin. however, give yourself some kind of continuous force and something as simple as a jump rope can be deadly... geez, can you believe that? see? things like this are so easy to happen. i'm just amazed that they could put her hand back... but do you think the hand is evil now?

#178 - dollhouse

good job to brandi and joseph for bringing up one of my favorite subjects... tv shows i like. haha. and when talking about tv shows i like, you really only have to mention one name: joss whedon. i think i like just about anything and everything the guy did (except for the comic books, i stopped reading those and haven't looked back). everything from roseanne to buffy to angel to firefly (did you know he even co-wrote for toy story and aliens 4?). unfortunately, a lot of his ideas have been smashed by network production... well, i'm sure that's true for a lot of writers out there trying to balance making a living and sharing their vision. but, for example, the original buffy movie (with kristy swanson and luke perry) was completely messed with so that the end product was so far off what joss whedon wanted that he decided to create buffy the tv show (so i guess that was a good thing huh?). for another example, producers at the fox network switched around all the episodes of firefly and made such a total mess of that show that only 11 of the 14 episodes actually aired and the aired the pilot as the last episode on tv ever (which spurred joss whedon to create the movie serenity so i guess that a good thing too!).

so here's hoping they don't do the same thing to this new tv show "dollhouse." everything i can find on it says that it's gonna be about some people (including eliza dushku... hotness!) who have their memories and personalities stripped so that they can implanted with new memories and personalities and are then rented out to carry out various missions and such.

after the debacle of firefly, joss whedon swore he would never work with fox network again, but now he's saying that there are a whole new group of network executives and so they're ensuring him that they won't have that problem again... cross your fingers. anyway, the episodes are set to air in january (so long lost, i need to make room on my dvr), and here's an extra surprise... just found out that another alum from the buffy/angel universe is joining the cast... amy acker from angel (she played fred and illyria... marvelously if i may say so). i also love how joss whedon spreads these actors around, it's nice to see some familiar faces... plus she is also hot, haha.

woo hoo. so here's what joss whedon had to say about his new cast,

"All in all, pound for pound, soup to nuts, man vs beast, it's a pretty amazing ensemble. I'm not sure how I landed this troupe, but rest assured I'm gonna write bestest good word for talkacting to them yes! They're in good hands."

isn't that great? what i like best about his writing is that it's realistic. people don't speak perfectly all day. they make mistakes and use colloquialisms and are dumb sometimes. hey, i think THAT'S actually what i like about his writing so much, he allows people to be dumb. not everything is cut perfectly and people in real life say smart things and say some pretty dumb things too. not like those law & order shows where everyone talks at break-neck speed and everyone's pinpoint accurate with their choice of words, that's so contrived. so i'm hoping that "dollhouse" brings that lighter side to it as well... but i guess we'll have to wait and see...

#177 - get out & stay in

saturday i voted. that's not the important thing, the important thing is that i walked to my polling station. doesn't sound like a lot, but the fact is that i COULD actually walk somewhere in this town and not have to drive. of course, if i didn't have a car then i technically could walk to work and back, but that would be a trek. i'm probably spoiled by nice sidewalks and green things but if i had to walk to work it would be all sun, sweating, and traffic along the way. so it was really great to be able to walk somewhere, feasibly, and with good reason to. like the thing that i love about big cities is that you really can walk places and it's even a preferred mode of transportation. over here you can't get anywhere without a car and that's kinda sad. that means i go from office to home to store to everywhere indoors and rarely get any outdoors time. i was reading a research article the other day that said the more outdoors time people get the better their general mood. makes sense right? sun, chemicals, hormones. so they said that people who just walk for even 30 minutes outside have much better moods that people who sit around the house all day (even if it's all comfy and a/c'ed inside the house). so being able to legitmately go outside and walk somewhere purposefully was a pretty great thing.

plus then after that i went surfing and that was great. sun, beach, ocean, and pretty decent waves at ali'i, super crowded but fun anyway.

that being said however, this week is national stay-at-home week. haha. i guess they said that because all the new shows are (FINALLY!) back on television for the new season. well, terminator was already on a couple weeks ago (as well as mythbusters, man vs. wild, bones) but this week there's the office, 30 rock, and heroes. can't say that i'm really excited about heroes, since last season was a total bust and now that i remember, i didn't think the first season was all that spectacular either. but that's okay because it's on mondays, with terminator, and i LOVE terminator. it's great that they're both on the same night because they're two great examples of what can go right and wrong about a sci-fi tv show:

1. realism - this is the biggest thing, how do you make a show about robots from the future or superheroes real? terminator succeeds, heroes does not. why? writing. i've always been big on writing (as an amateur wannabe tv show critic), probably because i was so spoiled by joss whedon (buffy, angel, firefly, even wrote for rosanne and did the office once too), he was so good at mixing dialogue and situations so that you can't call his shows "comedy" or "horror" or "drama." it's like that with terminator, even though it's mostly action, there's great comedy and everything else in there. heroes tries, but all it's got for humor are those japanese guys, which they use in absolutely predictable situations of "comedic insert." in heroes, the characters play out the plot (not their fault, it was written like a comic book) and even though they try to input political satire, etc. to make it seem contemporary, it's very obviously a storyline. events occur as the episodes dictate. can't really blame them, they're still a tv show, but it's predictable (also, they need to grow an original idea of their own and stop taking powers from the x-men, i admit, i'm an ex-marvel comic geek and they're stealing every single power from the x-men, lame... or at least be less obvious about it). in terminator, each week kinda seems like a mini-movie, events unfold just as they do, the villain doesn't wait for the perfect moment to strike, the terminator acts when it knows what to do, not a second later (of course, it really doesn't because it's a story, but the important thing is that you don't realize that it's a story because of the good writing).

2. writing - gotta say it again because it's important, but y'know those cringe-worthy lines that absolutely give away the fact that you're watching a network tv show? they're all over heroes. terminator gets a leg-up already because there's little dialogue, but the lines they do drop do not derail the storyline, that's what's important. also, all this "coincidental" crap on heroes is retarded. besides, the storyline in heroes is so enormously convoluted. i mean, c'mon, terminator's got robots traveling back in time, humans traveling forward and they manage to keep everything under control. heroes flips time and location and characters and now every new "twist" just shows the writers have gotten too caught up in their own make-believe (kinda like lost, don't y'think?). now i really don't care what happens next on heroes (or lost) because it doesn't matter, you've got to keep the integrity of the storyline and of the characters so that when dramatic events DO happen they're worth happening and viewers actually care about it.

3. characters - do you really actually like any of the characters on heroes? i sure don't, they can all die for all i care. they're either bratty, worthless, skeezy (re: enourmously creepy with milk-curddling british accents), and pretty much all of them are fantastically over-dramatic (kind of like lost, again, haha). but on terminator you get character out the robots for goodness sake. vulnerability and good acting amidst explosions and cyborgs. maybe just that kristen bell girl on heroes, she's pretty. but the rest of them can bite me.

all that being said, i'm still gonna watch heroes... but i will be feverently watching terminator, woo hoo!

#176 - screw apple

just when i had finally accepted itunes, gave in a bought an ipod nano just a little while ago, apple gives me another reason to hate itself.

i bought my ipod on july 21st... an 8GB ipod nano for $200.

today, sept. 9th, apple sends me an email telling me they're selling a new ipod nano... a 16GB for $200.

bastards.