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i'm so frickin mad right now. i spent like 9 hours walking to blockbuster. i was so excited. i just got an xbox 360 from my dad for my birthday, and i was ready to join the gaming world. ready to strike out into high definition, and tons of migs and megs of memories for gameplay. so i bought two games. tony hawk project 8 for the 360, cuz i've played and loved every tony hawk game ever. and red ninja for the xbox, cuz i remembered trailers for that game being totally sweet.

and then i walked the whole long way back home.

put in project 8, and... a screen showed that said "please insert this game into an xbox 360 console". ... excuse me? i pulled it out and reloaded it. same thing. SON OF A BITCH! so i turned off the system, rebooted, and put the game back in. this time it loaded. but all the videos were choppy as hell. i realized the game was prolly scratched, but it was playing now, so i was happy. i whip through training, get into the first level of gameplay, and start having a grand ol time. then i wallplant the gate to go into area two AND THE SYSTEM CRASHES!!! and now whenever i load the game back up (it still takes like 3 or 4 tries each time to even be recognized) it just crashes once it starts to load my old game.

so fine, i think, i'll just play my other game. but no. it's not backwards compatible.

thank you xbox. you suck. but blockbuster you suck worse for not warning me a game wasn't backward compatible, and for selling me a game that was defective. you better goddamn let me trade it in for a clean copy, and a different old game.

i like a quirky movie. movies that not many people will see, but in which i recognize greatness.

have you ever seen the movie '200 cigarettes'? probably not. but it is probably one of my favorite movies of all time. i can watch it over and over and it's always funny. and it's becoming a yearly staple in my house. many of my friends are split on whether or not they like 'a life less ordinary', but that's another of my favorites. it's so quirky and weird and there are so many great bit parts in it.

anyways, i saw a trailer for this movie called 'dedication' and i think i'm gonna love it. i was always on the mandy moore wagon during the whole teen queen fight when she was singing against britney and jessica and christina. but i knew i was right when she started acting in genuinely good movies. especially after 'saved', where she played not only the antagonist, but a girl that just represents everything bad about christian teens.

of course... that movie also reminded me why the culkins should be in more movies... both kieran and macauley.

i'm sure you already know about Songs to wear pants to, but anyways, go check out this skype test he just did.

i wanted to pimp a blog i just found. i'm sure it needs no pimping, but i feel like the people that read my blog might like it. it's called mokb or my old kentucky blog, and it's a bunch of guys who dig up some good random indie music. i really love most of the music they showcase, and it's been a blessed source for new music off the beaten path. so if you likes some good music, then you gotta check this blog out periodically.

the last week or so i've been living day to day, scraping through the last of my ramen. i finally got to go to the grocery store. i got a bunch more ramen, i got POPTARTS!, i got butter (country crock, of course), and i got bread and peanut butter and jelly. i am living the high life now. i even got som totinos pizza rolls. before, my options were limited to ramen soup, ramen noodles, or a hard ramen brick. now i could make ramens... or toast... or a pb&j... or a poptart with butter slathered over it... oh man. you don't even know, man. i feel so good right now.

look... just watch it alright?

... just do it.

just watch this

so i just finished harry potter and the deathly hallows. the only book that ever truly scared me was the turn of the screw, and i believe the only book i ever cried while reading it was this one. when everyone around harry, these characters we've spent so many years with, start going down... you can't help but have pangs of empathy, man. this is definitely the best book in the series. it ties everything together. it brings it all home. and there may even be a reconcilable ending in there, even tho i don't think i would ever call it truly happy.

i'm not gonna spoil it for anyone. except to say yes, everyone dies. and yes, this book is the most amazing book ever in a series of amazing books. i can't wait for the damn movies!!!

god this book is good. if you don't like harry potter books, than fuck you.

since i'm sure people don't check my site for updates here's some of the new flats i've done.

trying to find time to do marvel sketch cards... must draw marvel characters...

i'm watching the movie the last kiss with zach braff. this movie strikes a very real chord with me. it's really... surreal.

it's weird ya know? you think to yourself. this guy and me, we think alike. we like the same things, mostly. so how can it be that grant gould gave transformers a C, and all i can give it is rousing A++.

i mean come ON! when he's in the bumblebee, and the car is broke down, and the girl is walking away, and he hits the car going "come on, START!" and the car comes back on and the radio blasts "BABY COME BACK!" COME ON GRANT GOULD! who are you kidding? this movie was pure fun. TOTALLY FUN! if you were lil grant you would've walked away in love with that movie. yes, there were sexy moments in the movie, but nothing overtly sexual. yes, there was violence, but nothing gory. yes, jon turturro played the most cartoonlike government character ever, but so what? it was brilliant. when he yells at josh duhamel's character "i'm gonna count to 5!" and josh just says "THEN I'M GONNA COUNT TO 3!" COME ON GRANT GOULD!

and you know what, screw anyone who says differently, shia lebouf MAKES this movie. it's shia's movie, the autobots are really just there for nostalgia. and it's about goddamned time, man. shia's been sitting on the sidelines way too long. he's brilliant in every movie he's in, and it's about time hollywood came knocking. let's bring back the kind of nerdy hero again. let's bring back the everyman hero. shia lebouf is gonna bring movies back to where they should be. you mark my words.

and you know what, screw anyone that says bad things about michael bay. the guy is a technical wizard. i went into this movie saying "as long as i get to see a tank fly through the air, i'm happy" and i got that right off the bat. so everything else was cake. i think this movie walks the fine line between fun and dumb. people like to think that if something doesn't talk about drug habits or grandmothers dying that it's just a dumb movie. well this is a FUN movie. it's just fun, man. don't think about it so hard that you lose sight of that. it's just a fun movie, and there's totally nothing wrong with that, in fact, anything more ponderous would've been wrong.

... sorry, this post is a response. let me start over. i saw transformers tonight. it was amazing. you HAVE to see it in theatres. and you HAVE to see it.