I am posting this in an attempt to listen to, and thus remove, this song from my brain...where it has been thoroughly lodged for several days.

The most epic picture in a long time.

Some today stuff:

1) Confirmed the second and third members of the wedding party.

2) Reaffirmed my love for 'Friday'.

3) Packed a bunch more boxes and cleaned the house. Also did laundry.

4) Nom'd some chinese food.

5) My heart remains as full as a baked potato.

Going to have something of a party thing tonight.
Moving out soon, so the place is getting empty.
Anyway, if you want to join, let me know.

I just noticed that the spice harvester pilot in DUNE who talks to Leto about being evacuated is played by David Lynch.

More recent movie musings:

1) Edward Zwick rules.
2) The extended japanese 4 hour cut of DUNE is not nearly as good as the regular one. It does show a lot more, but the edits are all off, the music doesn't fit, and the narrator is obnoxious. It flows much more smoothly in the US theatrical and works far better with Virginia Madsen doing the narration than duder.
3) The extended cut of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves remains, in my opinion, the worst extended cut of any major film ever released. Nothing that is added back to it does anything to better the experience and everything to worsen it. If you watch the extended cut, you can see how the character of the Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman) was completely changed for the theatrical release. In the normal cut, he is an evil and menacing character who you can fear and respect. In the theatrical cut, he is a bumbling, sniveling, semi-retarded dope who plans to split the country up among some satanic cult.

In other news, I am searching for my blue travel bag. I need it for the trip to Worlds of Fun. I have not seen it since the New Orleans trip in March.

Breaking news: I am fresh out of coffee filters. Boo-urns.

So it's been five years and I still cannot get over this.

Why in the hell, in the film, does Legolas shoot Wormtongue for stabbing Saruman who is in the process of raining fireballs down on top of him and the rest of his party?
Fact: Saruman is the bad guy.
Fact: Saruman is shooting fireballs.
Fact: Theoden is trying to get Wormtongue to come join them, and he is.
Fact: Saruman attacks Wormtongue.
Fact: Wormtongue STOPS THE FIREBALLS!
Fact: LEGOLAS WAS ABOUT TO SHOOT SARUMAN UNTIL GANDALF STOPPED HIM!

"Go to the Mustafar system. Wipe out Viceroy Gunray and the Separatist Leaders."

Nick Workman wants to thank St. Francis for getting back in touch with me in a timely three-week time period just to tell me that they aren't even hiring. It was nice to do three interviews in one day and then get left in the lurch. I also want to thank them for being very rude and abrupt both when I called, where I was told not to call again, and in the fuck you e-mail they just sent me. At least it had a panda on it.

Maybe I should start telling all of these places I am applying that I am a fucking illegal border jumping Mexican. Then I will get hired before you can say "Que?"
Fucking Tulsa.

"Oh please don't ask me who I am
Or when and where my life began
Or why I ended up like this or how
Don't ask me what I was before
If I was anything at all
Its nothing you can know
About me now"

You hold my spinning head to stare
And strip me bare of memory
Your black eyes burning into me
So slow
The sounds and lights and others fade
And fall away in symmetry
Your black eyes burning hungrily
And unafraid I know...

Everything I ever dared forget is here
Too scared before I never let
Tonight be all I need
Everywhere I never tried to get is here
Too tired before to ever let
Tonight be all I feel
Every time I ever thought regret is here
Too caught before I never let
Tonight be all I dream
There isn't any yesterday
Tomorrow starts a day away
This here and now with you is how
Always should always be

This
Here and now
With you

"I can't believe its coming true
I'm so up close to kissing you
A breath away from never going home
I don't remember getting here
It seems to be sometime next year
I hope you won't be...
Leaving me alone?"

"No please don't tell me who I am
Or when and where my life began
Or why I ended up like this or how
Don't tell me what I was before
If I was anything at all
Its nothing you can know
About me now"

You pull my shaking body close
To make the most of tangency
I bite your mouth so fearfully
And slow
The taste of summers yet to shine
A perfect time to change the scene
I bite your mouth in urgency
And terrified I know...

Everything I ever dared forget is here
Too scared before I never let
Tonight be all I need
Everywhere I never tried to get is here
Too tired before to ever let
Tonight be all I feel
Every time I ever thought regret is here
Too caught before I never let
Tonight be all I dream
There isn't any yesterday
Tomorrow starts a day away
This here and now with you is how
Always should always be

This
Here and now
With you"

Holy fuck!
There's an AT-ST chasing ewoks through my hallway!


Oh, wait. It's just Garrett.

I never really understood the words to this song until recently. I mean, got the sort of obvious, plebian meaning but the more existential facet of it clicked over finally. Let me tell you just how wrong Mr. Brown is in Reservoir Dogs.



Anyway, I accidentally left my wallet at home when I went out earlier. I did not know this until I went into a grocery store. As I was coming out, I got panhandled for gas money.
Hooray for editing mistakes in my favor.

Sometimes I really want to slap people in my family.
This is from one of my 300,000 cousins.

"Cousin: i hate my mom

Nick: Why is that?

Cousin: well she is yelling at me because idk wat i did she just started yelling at me

Nick: She just randomly started yelling at you?

Cousin: yes she randomly started yelling at me

1:04am Nick: About what?

1:04am Cousin: idk she just did

1:04am Nick: Was she just making noises or was she saying something?

1:05am Cousin: she was saying crap that were like go clean your room and the bathroom
well hey i got to go ttyl

1:05am Nick: Okay, my man. That is called a reason. It is the reaction to the causal agent."



In other news: HHHHhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhh.

Today is one of these days. :)