CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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Sunday, October 24, 2004

this entry brought to you by electric six, "improper dancing"


THE GOOD

The house that we're renting About one month ago, we were put in contact with a girl of about the age of 20 named DeeDee who was trying to get rid of a house. Turns out her father leased a house for six months at $1000 a month for her to live in while she was going to college. Problem: it was too far away from her school, so she couldn't possibly live in it, so her father was out 6000 unless her could get rid of the house. The short of it is, two weeks later we signed a lease for six months to live in a nice three bedroom house in a really nice neighborhood. We'll probably start moving in sometime this week.

Our 1 year anniversary One of of the rules for words and ramblings is that I avoid getting too personal, as not to disgust or bore my audience. But really, what kind of guy would I be if I did a "good/bad" format entry and didn't mention my one-year anniversary with my lovely wife? I'd be the "scumbag" kind of guy, that's what.

Butterfly Effect I didn't think I'd end up liking it, but everyone else in the world was telling me about how awesome it was, so I ended up watching it. My hesitation wasn't actually whether Ashton Kutcher could act or not. Despite his goofiness, he's actually really funny on That 70s Show. The problem I had wasn't necessarily with him, but with me. Would I be able to disassociate him from his public life? His public life has been that of the fratboy you could introduce your mother too-- sweet, but still a fratboy. I was concerned that I would be watching the movie and not buying it, that, no matter how good of an actor he ended up being, I would be sitting there thinking "Wow, I hope Kelso gets out of this situation..." I ended up being wrong. Ashton Kutcher holds his own quite admirably, and, beyond that, the idea for the movie was excellent, as was the execution. For a thriller starring and executive produced by a guy who seems to be a shoe-in for a teen audience, the movie takes itself very seriously and is very deliberately slow paced, which was very pleasing. Definitely worth owning and watching multiple times.

Laura Prepon on the cover of Maxim In all honesty, since they switched Editors in Chief a few months ago, they've had string of really good covers (Mila Jovovich and Avril Lavigne, the latter of which is intolerably annoying and untalented and I'm sick of her and I hope she dies, but at least she's genuinely attractive), but Laura Prepon, aka Donna Pensiatti from That 70's show, really made me happy that I have a subscription to Maxim (that I didn't pay for. Ha!). Laura Prepon's first cover back in 2000 was the first issue of Maxim I ever bought, and while the magazine has had a definite decline in quality since then, it was nice to see her on the cover once more, even if she went blonde for no apparent reason.

Millennium DVD boxed set Regularly priced at 59.99, someone returned it at Wherehouse around the week it came out, and because they had so many new ones in stock, they priced it at 29.99-- which is half off. I saw it and drooled, wanting it, needing it. But I couldn't possibly drop 30 dollars on a boxed set just yet, so I had to pass it up. Well, it sat there for two weeks. Two weeks. It was destiny. My roommate Matt works at Wherehouse and snatched it up for me, thinking if it sat there for two weeks, god himself must've wanted me to have it. Because seriously, there are a lot of nerds out there that have spent hundreds of dollars buying all the boxed sets of The X-Files, why wouldn't one of them want to buy a boxed set of Chris Carter's other show, Millennium, for half the damned price?


THE BAD

Reformatting the PC Do you recall the horrible, debilitating bugs I was having with my PC? Well, after trying some suggestions, we decided to just reformat the fucking thing (which, even that caused more than a few problems, as apparently the way everyone else in the universe reformats their computer is totally different than how you'd do it on mine). Problem? Serial codes, and the lack thereof. Oh, I'm sure they exist someplace, but we can't seem to find them. Yes, we could just get a crack for our Windows, but wouldn't you know it? Hackers don't bother cracking WinME since nobody bought the damned thing. Talking to the most notorious pirates I know-- and this coming from a guy who is 100% against computer piracy-- about getting cracks for Win ME kept coming up with shrugged shoulders and offers to replace it with a hacked version of Win2000 or XP, which is completely unnecessary considering I have the disc for WinME.

No updates since July Do you need a reason why I haven't updated this webpage? See above. It's not an excuse at all, but when frustrating computer-related bullshit like this starts stomping on your desire to get a webpage running fruitfully, you start to get really frustrated and your gumption lacking.

The new house not allowing cats One of the reasons why I wanted to get the house was because now I'd finally have a yard for my cats to run around in. Then I find out that the Realtor doesn't allow cats on the property. Fuck. Now I have to find out 1) What to do with my sick cat, Newt (who will probably have to put down) and 2) how to hide my second cat, Sliver, who has abused himself when we had a friend watch him for a couple months.

PG-13 Horror Movies Somehow, Hollywood got it in their head that if a movie is PG-13, it'll sell more tickets, even if it doesn't fucking make any sense according to the subject matter. For example, movies about monsters that exist only to procreate by bursting out of their victims chest fighting monsters that exist only to hunt. Or The Grudge, a movie about... well, I don't actually know that much what it's about, but it's a horror movie, and it's PG-13. What pisses me off is that the multimillions of dollars The Matrix, a rated R film, brought in, somehow doesn't prove to Hollywood that Rated R films do just fine on their own merits. But once Hollywood gets an idea in their head, it really doesn't matter what people think, at least until millions have been lost and audiences have grown restless and irritated. Listen, The Ring was scary despite its PG-13 rating, but that was a fluke and not the rule. Don't let its success fool you into thinking The Grudge will be any good.

Ciara Maybe I'm becoming more conservative in my ripe old age of 25, but is it not disgusting that Ciara, a 16 year old, sings about her "goodies" while Petey Pablo horndoggishly ogles her? She's so young she doesn't even really have boobs (the costume designer for "My Goodies" obviously decided that, since she has no breasts, he might as well give her the flimsiest, most revealing top ever, because it's not like you'd be able to see anything), and yet, here she is singing a song about them.
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with love from CRS @ 1:54 PM 

1 Comments:

Ah, CRS, it's good to have you back :)
Congrats on the 1-year!!!

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