back up in your ass with the resurrection.

dude, hoang finally posted! and brad's blog seems to have some activity again! shit man, i had thought everybody had gotten worn out on blogs or something, cuz several people seemed to have stopped posting for a good while. guess it just depends on how busy they are. or on whether they wanna share what's going on. one of those.

as per usual, i'm avoiding more homework assignments this week. and then i apparently had some group meeting for 489 tonight, but nobody every told me about it, so..... eh fuck that. it's almost cute how much some of the other guys give a shit about 489 when we seriously have a 95% CHANCE OF GETTING AN A!!! i think everybody thinks i'm really lazy in there but seriously when you see a GPA distribution from the last few years that's so high you think "man, what the fuck do i have to do just to drop down to a B in there?" so yeah i'm towing the line like mad in there, and don't feel the least bit bad about it.

my sister's birthday is this weekend, but i think i'm gonna go home the next weekend instead. i've got to start writing a speech this weekend, and i've got an automata test on wednesday that i gotta start preppin for, so easter weekend looks better for me. i've got to decide over whichever weekend i'm going home where i'm signing a lease, cuz i'd like to have it signed by april 15th to give me about a month till i have to move in after school's over.

this weekend was fairly humdrum, just that nothing really big happened i guess. actually got proper sleep this time around, so that was a positive. like fucking usual, we got turned down at the damn theater here in town. we tried to see the saturday night 9:55 showing of eternal sunshine for the spotless mind, but they told us they had only 12 seats left and we prolly wouldn't be able to sit together. that's worthy of a rant, so lemme sidetrack.

it doesn't take rocket fuckin science -- we need more than one movie theater in bryan/college station. i don't understand why that's not on the top of their list of shit they need to build around here. go to hollywood USA on 6 on any friday or saturday night, it's always packed, man. it's mostly high school kids too, which is a damn shame in a college town. yeah that's right, we have 400 tanning salons, we've rebuilt several places, like copy corner, wings n more and fuddruckers, added places like home depot, world market and bed, bath & beyond, but we only have one goddamn theater! they added stadium seating, which is an improvement, but it still doesn't help the fact that too many damn movies sell out. i realize friday and saturday nights are the primetime for movies to sell out, but honestly, when the hell else do i have time to go to the movies? i can't go during the week cuz i've got, y'know, classes and shit, and i can't go during the day on the weekends cuz most of that time i'm fast asleep. don't wanna sound uppity, i just think when you're 22 years old and you're living the typical senior collegeboy lifestyle, you should be able to go see an IMDb top 100 movie at the local theater!

it was pretty funny though how alayna jumped outta bed when she heard i had super mario world on my SNES emulator. i picked up a $15 gravis gamepad pro over the weekend at best buy, which makes ZSNES a lot more fun with all the classic super nintendo games. she didn't even stop for like an hour man, she was all possessed. she can be pretty fun with gamecube games when she's at all interested, but i've never seen her put this much focus into it. hell, she even played it again tonight. i gotta admit, it's fun just bringing back memories with games like super mario kart, super mario world, link to the past, f-zero and the donkey kong games. it's funny how the music in those games just immediately takes you back to your childhood. video games were simpler then... as advanced as we are these days, just gotta give respect to the 8 and 16-bit games we were raised on.

i had to pass up on the $30 SSX3 deal at best buy. i wanted it and all, but i gotta play the games i already got, man. i've played a few hours of zelda: wind waker the past couple days, going back and doing all the semi-unnecessary shit before i finish the game off. it's almost a shame that i consider that game like a good 9.8 out of 10, but i'll prolly never play it again cuz i've got too many other things to do. after that i think it's onto pikmin, metroid prime and star fox adventures, with hopefully some multiplayer mario kart in there as well. i'm kinda stuck on what i should do about final fantasy: crystal chronicles. hoang had told me it was a fun multiplayer game when everybody's using a GBA, but uh... well i don't know anybody that would wanna play that with me and i don't even know who the hell else even has a GBA. i dunno, i'm gonna try playing it a bit more and try to make some fun out of it by myself, but i'm thinking if it's not that great i should consider selling that and maybe a couple more games on ebay or to a used games store. as cool as it is racking up a bunch of games for display and elitism, it's kind of a waste to have a game sitting on your shelf that you have no intention of playing.

i've been putting more effort into what i call my dnbMD project. i've basically got like 6gb of vinyl drum n bass rips from '98-03 that i need to put somewhere else, so i've gone through them, selected what i think needed keeping, and they all go onto MDs. looks like it'll take about ~15 MDs and a bit of work, but it's worth it to clear off that space and even more worth it just to feel like i accomplished something i've meant to do for a while now.

i was thrilled to find vhs rips of the maxx from a few years ago, as well as scans of several of the comics. i had them before, but i was missing like 40 minutes worth, so it was almost useless having it. for some reason i'm collecting season 3 alias episodes, when i haven't even watched any of season 1 yet. i think i'm just mesmerized by jennifer garner or something.

i can't seem to watch several back-to-back episodes of anything these days, so i've been spreading things around. been mostly home movies lately, in random order for the most part. i've fallen behind a bit on animes, but i'm completely caught up on arrested development. i've missed a few john henson project episodes, but after watching the latest, i can't say i've missed much. sad to say i think i can't stand about 3/4 of each episode. just tries too hard to be geared only towards guys, and it's only henson's natural humor that keeps me coming back at all. i'm also losing a little patience with aqua teen hungerforce, only cuz when i'm watching it (all what, 11 minutes?) i can't help but think i'd rather be watching something else. i don't bother tivo'ing sealab 2021 anymore since i got all the episodes a couple weeks ago.

lately, alayna and i have kept up with survivor: all-stars, scrubs and airline. been kinda goofy with this long break for ER and friends, but i guess it's let us focus on other things. we'll prolly be back to pizza/beer/tv nights this week tho with a new survivor and ER on thursday night.

i'm also in the middle of the book high fidelity, which is one of my favorite movies. great so far.

guess that brings us up to speed...

--justin