Archive for February, 2003

For anyone who may be interested, Tech TV is doing a little feature on the game that I worked on at my job. You can click here for the details. I wish I had tech tv so I could see it myself!

Last week I posted that I was looking for someone who taped the Music Man because the alphahottie tried to tape it and it didn’t work out for her. Ever quick to want to make the woman smile, I figured I would try and find a copy for her. Well, thanks to a helpful link from Thor, someone contacted me and sent me a tape of it, for which I am very grateful. So THANK YOU to Lisa for being so kind, I owe you one, that’s for sure!

1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?
I like to read a lot of magazine (mostly punk rock fanzines like MRR) and I’ll read books from time to time, both fiction and non-fiction (I am particularly fond of autobiographies).

2. What is your favorite novel?
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman (and someone else who’s name escapes me at the moment). I give it my highest recommendation!

3. Do you have a favorite poem? (Share it!)
Nope. I never got into those things.

4. What is one thing you’ve always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read?
There really wasn’t anything until I saw the second LOTR movie and now I think I want to read those books sometime.

5. What are you currently reading?
The Bruce Campbell (Ash from Evil Dead movies) autobiography that my brother-in-law gave me at xmas time. So far it is pretty entertaining.

I got a new addition to the punk vault today. The vault has seen some nelect of late as extra money has been going to fund the upcoming 7″, not to mention it has been funding dating the alphahottie instead of funding my vinyl addiction. Anyway, I got a new item worth noting:

The Damned - Play it at your little sister 7″/cd combo.

This is a promo teaser for a really sweet looking box set that is coming out very soon. This is a 7″ single, that is one sided and features some demo recordings of the very first Damned demo, the other side of the single is etched with the 4 original members’ autographs. This comes in a 7″ sleeve that is a repro of the old Stiff Records stock sleeve on the front, with die cut center, and on the back is a photo of some old recording tape box for the Damned. The center of the record has coming up from the spindle hole, a little nub that holds the additional cd, the cd contains New Rose/Help, which was the first ever Damned single (and first UK punk single - yes they were before the Sex Pistols in terms of releasing records). The CD label looks like a Stiff records label. The package is really pretty neat and anyone who knows me knows I am a HUGE fan of The Damned and have more Damned records in the vault than anything else, so I’m geeking out over this thing, and the upcoming box set.

Last nite’s Smallville was the best one ever I think, it was awesome. After that, I watched the final episode of Oz, except I got pimped out of the first 15 mins of it because it started at 8:45pm. What the fuck is that?! Why on earth start it at such a stupid time (and when Smallville is still going no less!). F you HBO. The last episode was great, but now I’m sad to see it end. Oz was easily one of the best shows probably ever. I hate it when shows I like come to an end, it is like something dying. Yeah, I know what yr thinking - this guy watches way too much tv. Well, I don’t actually watch a ton of TV but I do hold the shows I follow in high regard.

Yesterday didn’t end up as dreadful as I feared, though it did suck overall. I wish I could shut off my mind, because I imagine the worst case scenario when something is going wrong and I don’t know what the real problem is, and it doesn’t always turn out that way. This was one instance where what I feared was going to happen was far worse than what actually transpired. Needless to say, I won’t have to come out of my self-imposed “retirement”.

New Smallville tonite! That and I have to watch the season finale of Oz since I missed it for the ppv on sunday. I think I will actually eat dinner tonite, I was so upset yesterday that I got sick to my stomach and couldnt’ eat anything aside from some crackers.