what's up you silly shits? the days of insanity are over for this week... couple coding assignments due, bigass test, etc... yeah, i prolly fucked most of it up and all, but eh, i'll still pull out the grades good enough, i ain't gonna stress on it. needless to say, i haven't really seen anything on the damn tivo since like saturday...

saturday, i actually broke out of my goddamn cage for a few hours and saw kill bill. i was a little questionable going into it and i'm not exactly a rabid tarantino follower (i mean i have all of 'em, but...) but i'll be damned if that wasn't some entertaining shit. it just had a real good vibe to it overall, just kinda proves in some backwards-ass way tarantino knows what the hell he's doing. thurman actually looked kinda hot in it, it was nice to see lucy liu in something with a little more substance, cool to see michael madsen in anything, and just plain nice to see something different at all. yeah, some of the action and gore was a little retarded, but i think it was sorta meant to be that way for some reason. the part where it went to sort of a minimalistic anime style was really badass, and i think it worked well. i'm glad miramax split it like they did, because i'd be talkin shit about the movie if they'd left it the length it was. plus the way it ended was terrific, made you ready to see volume 2 already.

i picked up the italian job and the matrix reloaded last night. the IJ hasn't even been put in the damn player yet, i'm too busy replaying all the damn action scenes from the matrix reloaded. i guess if i had to rank the top 3 scenes from that movie, i'd go 1) semi vs semi with the infamous bullet-time wraparound, 2) trinity out the window firing back towards the agent, and 3) maybe a toss-up between the rest of the highway shit and the burly brawl... the burly brawl was beautifully crafted, it was just almost a little too silly for the matrix trilogy, the highway stuff really is a marvel when you think about the stunt coordination and shit, plus morpheus doing his shit is a nice change compared to the other 2 heroes. in a related note, what the hell's with bad company throwing that animatrix sample in an already crappy track anyway?

alright, let's talk about some music... some of my picks on what's hot and what's not that i've recently acquired...

jedi mind tricks - visions of ghandi -- BURNABLE -- overall it's got good shit, plus i love the mike tyson and boondock saints samples in there, which gets me off on a quick tangent...

anybody remember when tyson did his "eat his children" speech a few years ago? i'm a big boxing fan, especially heavyweight title fights, and i remember seeing that live and just thinking how badass that was. here's a transcript if you're unfamiliar:

I was gonna rip his heart out
I'm the best ever
I'm the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion there's ever been
There's no one can stop me.
Lennox is the conqueror? no, I'm Alexander, he's no Alexander!
I'm the best ever, there's never been anybody as ruthless
I'm Sonny Lisson, I'm Jack Dempsey, there's no one like me
I'm from Nasau
There's no one that can match me
My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable
And I'm just ferocious
I want your heart, I wanna eat his children
Praise be to Allah!

feel free to link here to download the mp3 of his speech. i dunno what it was about that man, but that was just awesome when he did that. i know boxing can get kinda goofy sometimes and all that, and he got so much criticism from the public for saying all that, but i totally love when any athlete just goes balls out and trashes somebody else. i mean just think if derek jeter, after some crazyass yankees win, threw jim gray to the ground, looked right into the camera and gave the same speech about the red sox or some shit. that'd be awesome, especially if it was on like network tv or something. i dunno, i just think that would bring like a whole new competitive edge to any sport. like baseball brawls, am i the only one that thinks that totally helps the game? yeah it's a little childish, but that's some hot shit when a pitcher buzzes a batter with a 98mph fastball and the batter just throws everything else out and charges the goddamn mound. or ya know in hockey where a fight gets out of hand and all of a sudden the goalies are going at it? that's just awesome man, c'mon... alright, back to the stupid fuckin music...

underworld sountrack -- UNDECIDED - can't tell on this one, plus i always feel weird burning music from a movie i didn't actually see yet...

coldplay - a rush of b-sides to the head -- TOSSED - eh, i dunno, i'm kinda all like, "hey coldplay, like, go away and shit"... their string quartet tribute album was great and all, but i'm really kinda tired of hearing aboot coldplay in general... classic case of mainstream taking a great band and throwing them right in the damn shitter...

queens of the stone age - R -- BURNABLE - yeah, good stuff from before when they finally made it... same kinda sound and everything...

dido - life for rent -- UNDECIDED - i usually like her stuff for a good cd to fall asleep to, only thing i really noticed so far was how similar it sounded to the old stuff...

the strokes - room on fire (advance) -- UNDECIDED - hardly listened to it, if it's as good as the last (which was great, just took some time to try it out) it's easily burnable.

the donnas - spend the night -- BURNABLE - something aboot chicks just rockin the hizzy out, c'mon, man... i get turned on just listening to their songs...

lewis black - rules of enragement -- BURNABLE - this came out of nowhere to me, didn't know he had this coming out... same old good shit, i heard a lot of it live in austin at the comedy central live tour, recommended for a profanity-laced good time.

kill bill soundtrack -- TOSSED - good selection overall, just don't know where the hell i'd play it, y'know?

alright, that's enough music for today... now how bout the fuckin cubbies? i still say the MLB should take a tip from the NBA and fix some goddamn games now and then. MLB's business would improve if they just had the cubs win the NLCS and maybe even world series, and to just let the stupid yankees just go away already. that's why people don't wanna keep watching every year, everybody's tired of seeing joe torre give his "overcoming adversity" speech and see steinbrenner pretend like he actually likes his players and all that.

til next time,
justin