Your Boring Saturday Night

Had to cancel plans to go out, got some beer and veggie samosas and watched some movies (Being There, Tenebre, and Coffy)

I just figured out I'm watching a rerun

i am debating getting netflix. should i?

bf played a last-minute gig tonight, so i had a bit of stag time... did some record/dvd shopping, ate bad pizza, listened to the feelies, mucked around on the internet.

teh: netflix is very worth it if you actually have/make the time to watch the movies in rapid succession. sometimes i do, sometimes i don't. my current stash has been sitting in the mailers for a couple weeks, but i'm usually pretty good at turnaround.

how is the online streaming stuff?i don't have a tv right now so it's all computer screen watching for me so the dvd vs. computer stream thing isn't a big deal. i just mean like, selection-wise. cause i'd only want to pay for the 1 at a time dvd part.

did you find good things in your shopping?

there's a ton of online streaming stuff but it's very random. some big movies. lots of obscure stuff. lots of bad movies.

I do the same thing w/ the 1 dvd a time and it's def worth $8 a month, even if I go a week without watching a movie.

tza: http://www.ovguide.com

did you find good things in your shopping?

yep!

iatee otm, the streaming stuff is random. and certain selections get taken down after a while (like 30 rock, which is only streaming until october).

So I was all set for a weekend of clubbing and shenanigans in London with all my best mates, really excited, and I go and paralyse myself in the back this morning during the simple act of brushing my teeth. Now I can't even change channels on the TV without wincing in pain while everyone else is getting their MANDY on on the dancefloor. :-(

LET'S DO THIS

I fell asleep on the sofa, woke up after an hour and am now going to bed. Woah.

Watching "Tommy Boy" on tv. Ignoring giant pile of laundry that needs to be folded. Holla!

dinnerwise i dunno but entertainmentwise i've got my haul from the criterion 50%-off sale!

what'd you get?

-the royal tenenbaums (the edition without the bells and whistles, for about $10)
-black narcissus (powell & pressburger *wuv*)
-if.... (at $20, the most expensive purchase) (one day i will read mark s's book on same)

Totally exhausted. feeding the little one watching dazed and confused and trying to figure out what i want for supper.

Boring saturday night turning into boring can't sleep sunday morning.

leftovers! then some shit I picked up at a store that's part of a gas station!

determined to stay in then went out and got drunk and danced with heartbreakingly gorgeous girls who were mates with a mate of a mate and who were also mostly married but had sublime taste in music and then drunk and then home.

i did this instead of cleaning my house and getting an early night as i have sister's deathly dull barbecue tomorrow.

Starcraft 2 as substitute for meaningful human interaction, yaaay

Thinking about watching a movie or two to try and get rid of the horrible brainstink left by John Boorman's Film Of Exorcist II: The Heretic (as the title sequence would have it). HOW CAN A MOVIE SUCK THIS BADLY? I've known and loved the Morricone soundtrack for ages, and loved or at least liked the other Boorman movies I've seen (Deliverance, Point Blank [one of my alltime favorites] and Zardoz [the kind of hilarious overreaching failure I hoped Exorcist 2 would be]) but this was just absolute dogshit.

I am blasting ABBA songs and probably annoying my roommate and his girlfriend but I don't care.

what songs you playing?

telephone thing - i watched Triangle the other night and was pleasantly surprised.

Mostly stuff from The Visitors and Super Trouper.

xpost This one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(2009_film)

hate being 30 in a college town

could be worse ... you could be 40 in a college town.

this is like the first non-boring saturday in a while for me. all my fun days are weekdays. usually i'm too exhausted from work to be fun but tonight was pretty alright. i was at this art show which was kinda fun but mostly blah, but then i got sauced on cheap pitchers of beer and danced with a drag queen, and all sorts of folks, and ok my girlfriend has to work early and went home, but hell with it i'll sleep the hell in and enjoy the day off.

Wiped way the fuck out on my bike. I was thinking of safety, ironically -- I looked down to turn my front light brighter, and missed a sharp curve. Ended up in the grass with some bruises and a little mild road rash, which was nice, because the object I was most trying to avoid was a concrete pole. That would have been quite nasty. Hooray for tightening up my front brake this morning. I'm so glad this was a boring Saturday night injury instead of an exciting Saturday night trip to the emergency room. The jogger that stopped and asked if I was OK was v nice -- I was just out of it enough to offer him a cigarette. He declined, and decided I was ok at that point. I said thanks to him again as I rode past him a few minutes later.

"you could be 40 in a college town."
Yeah this crossed my mind.

that dream could be reality

Doing what I can to keep that from happening.
Time is funny.

Wanted to go out to a jazz club but said fuck it.

Currently drawing. Just completed

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/207/6/a/Mid_Summer_Lake_Relaxaton_by_DHTSciFiMaster.jpg
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/209/b/7/Lake_Road_Mishap_by_DHTSciFiMaster.jpg
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/210/4/b/Out_of_Control_by_DHTSciFiMaster.jpg
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/211/5/9/Splash_by_DHTSciFiMaster.jpg
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/211/1/6/Strafing_the_Dino_Riders_by_DHTSciFiMaster.jpg

I don't get the last bit, but I love the Thelma & Louise panel.

xxxpost glad you're okay Kenan! Though technically your wipeout is too interesting for this thread...

"you could be 40 in a college town."

Yeah this crossed my mind.

This is the short version of why I do not live in Austin, TX anymore. Look away for a second, and you're 40 years old smoking pot on someone else's back porch, and -- here's the real problem -- that doesn't strike you as odd at all.

well, the town where i live has a college ... and a lot of college students (or recent college grads). and i am 40 now. draw whatever conclusions you want.

If it's not Austin, I can't say anything for sure. I was just in danger of becoming of of those Austin people who went to college there, maybe got a degree and maybe didn't, and just stayed to work on my healthy glowing tan for the rest of my life. I think Austin people know the type.

being old and stones in Austin...doesn't sound all that bad tbh. but then again i don't know 'the type'

It sounds terrible to me! And I guess 'the type' is the type that'll go down with the ship just because they're too stoned to notice it's going down. I know I'm being unfair to Austin as a city, but 'the type' does persist there.

Kenan the last bit isn't part of the comic up above. I just stuck it in there.

Oh I see.

It is hotter than hell in my house tonight.

Oof. Sore.

the austin "type" sounds like matthew mcconaughey in dazed and confused (set in texas, mind you).

sup d00ds

NFL Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Weeeeeee crazy man

Hosting a birthday party for visiting nephew/niece combo; putting screens in the new house; trying to figure out why the pool has weird green murky water in the deep end. Hi ho.

listening to the new arcade fire record & thinkin of going to scour them for some munchos in a bit