maybe this christmas too

maybe this christmas too Am I the only one to think it's a little strange that Avril Lavigne and Chantal Kreviazuk sing a duet on O Holy Night? It's seems so wrong somehow. Wrong in the sense that if the two were to actually touch, the world would implode.



Filter Magazine sort of agrees on the whole Avril thing.

If you get an answering machine and you realize you don't have the right number, you don't leave a message right? Because, after all isn't it obvious that when you reach the voicemail of Brad and you meant to reach Ethan you have the wrong the number. I mean, it's not that hard. Especially if you speak Spanish and you get an answer machine of someone who speaks English. So to the person or persons who insist on leaving messages on my machine in another entire dialect that I do not communicate it. Please stop, you have the wrong number.

TDIs Fuel Diesel Obsessions A friend passed this on to me today, and although I have an addictive personality, I am proud to say it's not this bad.

A man brought me mail today. It was a replacement remote for my iPod; the cables became exposed on the old one and it no longer functioned. I put my claim in after 5 pm yesterday. It arrived in the mail today at 1pm. That is less than 24 hours. The end. Can you say exceeded expectations.

iTunes Undermines Social Security  A lot of people try to be cooler than they are through their playlist. I have no idea why they think this a new phenomena, I couldn't tell you a single person who lived in res during the roots movement of the mp3 craze, that didn't have bad music, especially by poppy phenoms like Britney Spears. That's all there was. Some of you may not remember, but back in the day before iTunes, Napster or Kazaa we had to scour the internet for ftp servers to download from. And more often than not in order to download we had to upload something. This was a long tedious process but we did it anyway just to screw over the RIAA. It makes me laugh and think of our parents telling us they walked to school in blizzards and uphill both ways.

Dining out at hot spots is fun, but you may become hungrier for star sightings than the actual food. Fortunately for me Sotto Sotto had an great menu filled with Italian delight, someone else paying the bill, and a star roster with Lorne Michaels from SNL on it. It's up to you if he's and A, B or C list star. I just don't understand people's obsessions with famous people. Maybe I am just a heartless bastard unmoved by the glance in my general direction by some teen heart throb or scream queen. I mean why should I care about them anymore than I do about the girl who serves me a latte. If anything I should like the latte girl more, she is fulfilling some need I have, which I way more than I can say for the likes of the average famous person. Let's look at a brief sample of famous people.



Celine Dion = Great Pain

Mariah Carey = Music Inducing Vomiting = Great Pain

Keanu Reeves = Action followed by Horrible Dialogue = Great Pain

Famke Jansen = Smoking Hot = Jealous Girlfriend = Great Pain



I'll leave the proof as an excercise to the reader, but as you can see stars can only privde great pain and thus should be ignored. QED.

Jack into my iPod This article has been linked to many times, but I thought it was still worth mentioning. The longer I own my iPod the more I realize that iPod owners are more cultish than Mac owners. There isn't a single person who owns an iPod that can't identify someone else using one at a hundred paces.

Here's some help if you are trying to fannagle an iPod out of you parents for the Holidays.

So funny, you'll cry. GiJoe voiceover clips courtesy of pete. The skier one is the funniest.

I think the cycle is beginning again. There is a time when movies are good and then there is a time when movies are bad. The last good movie I saw was Runaway Jury. It was good, but I had issues with some of the changes from the book. I can just picture the writers meeting... the gun industry is the new tobacoo industry... this needs a little sex in it... what can we do to make the characters more likeable? Then I saw Matrix: Revolutions. What the revolution is I don't really know. Maybe that Hollywood is the best marketer of them all, or that they had to leave a clear door open for another movie in the franchise or that poor Neo is one of the dullest bulbs around and can't fatham anything that is happening to him. I need to take a break from these big budget action movies. Perhaps I should focus more on the T'n'A movies.



The Matrix Regurgitated - A nice little article about what is wrong with big hollywood movies.