What I Would Enjoy Receiving At Christmas 2005

Here's what I can think of:

REALISTIC


1. A geeky beverage chiller


2. Age Of Empires III Deluxe Boxed Edition (fun and educational too!)


3. Someone with fashion sense to take me clothes shopping (that means not any relative my age or older)


4. Star Trek Movies - I thru IX - On DVD (widescreen, of course) - already have X (Nemesis)


NOT SO REALISTIC, BUT I CAN DREAM


1. The company of a certain woman (ongoing would be preferable)


2. Liposuction   (taking off weight gained during my two foot surgeries has been a bear)


3. To erase the various wrong things I've said to my kids this year (full-time single parent life is overwhelming at times, times four)


4. For a good Watchmen movie to be produced, which uses the Watchmen mini-series as the script, untouched

That's not too much to ask for, is it?

MOVIE: Various

In no particular order:

Rent:   Not knowing what the basic premise of this stage production was, I ended up a bit shocked to find it was the story of several friends, most of which have AIDS, most of which were homosexually involved with each other (those who were not were drug junkies) and all of which were trying to make a place in the world like any other person.   I really enjoyed the movie, which surprised me I guess.   I have no time for "blatant" homosexuals (and this movie did feature one named "Angel") as I have always felt that such people are more into the ATTENTION than the sexuality.   But again, I did enjoy this movie adaptation of the stage play. Good music, interesting lyrics (to say the least) and a very sad, touching ending.   Definitely not for kids.

In The Mix:   Cute movie about an italian mobster's daughter (yum) being protected by an black music mixer.   It was very predictable, but was fun to watch, at least.

Zathura:   A definite kids-movie.   I would have no problem taking any kid I know to see this movie.   It was quite enjoyable.

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire:   This was a decent enough movie, but I did not find it as good as the other movies in the series, personally.   The story had odd holes in it (where there needed to be more information to those who have NOT read the books, such as I).   I would have rather seen this during a matinee to pay less money... oh well.

Yours, Mine And Ours:   A good remake of the original which starred Lucille Ball.   Not exactly Oscar material.   The movie hits home with me mainly because I've always wanted a big family, so I'm a bit partial to it before I even sat in the theater.

It's been a busy two weeks!

Buying XBoxes On EBay

So now I find myself in the unique position to help "an acquaintance" get an XBox360 today, on EBay.   Holy sheep dip, Batman!   People are getting $900-1200 for them!

Wow.   Well, in any case, mission accomplished.

Beverage Chiller For Geeks

I must have one.

Thanksgiving 2005

The Mighty Four are spending the afternoon with their mom, so I'm home doing this'n'that until it's time to go feast at my parent's house.

The music mix at my house today turns out to be, in no particular order, as follows:

• Inspirational:   Jaci Velasquez - Imagine Me Without You.mp3


• Inspirational:   dc Talk - Red Letters.mp3


• Movies:   Blade 1 - Confusion (New Order).mp3


• Movies:   Fantastic 4 - Everything Burns (Ben Moody featuring Anastacia).mp3


• Movies:   Xanadu - (05 of 10) Whenever You're Away From Me (Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly).MP3


• Popular (live):   Dave Brubeck - Take 5 (live).mp3


• Popular A-G:   Aerosmith - Jaded.mp3


• Popular A-G:   American Hi-Fi - The Geeks Get The Girls.mp3


• Popular A-G:   Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes.mp3


• Popular A-G:   Depeche Mode - Precious.mp3


• Popular A-G:   Duran Duran - Ordinary World.MP3


• Popular A-G:   Evanescence - Hello.mp3


• Popular H-N:   Jennifer Lopez - Ain't It Funny.mp3


• Popular O-Z:   Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody.MP3


• Popular O-Z:   Seether with Amy Lee - Broken.mp3


• Popular O-Z:   Simple Plan - Untitled.mp3


• Popular O-Z:   The Killers - All These Things That I've Done.mp3


• Popular O-Z:   U2 - Stuck In A Moment.mp3


• Television:   Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon - C'est La Vie - Watashi No Naka No Koi Suru Bubun.mp3

No remixes.   No people taking other people's hard work and remixing it for their own 15 minutes of fame.   Real music by real artists.   Nift.

Hope your turkey day is a good one!

The Amazing Race (2005)

Watching this season (#8) of The Amazing Race makes me HAPPY that I am a California native, visiting Florida "long term", because Florida is being horribly represented.

The Weaver family (from Ormond Beach, Florida, just a few miles from me) is truly undeserving.. OR, the producers at CBS are MAKING THEM look really bad.   Either way, I wish they'd just get eliminated and disappear from an otherwise great show.