My first reaction after seeing Harry Potter: "Wow, that sucked."

It was like seeing a series of vignettes come to life, except without the "delicacy, wit, and subtlety" (straight from the mouth of Merriam-Webster).

Oh, and Voldemort was ugly (ha ha) and not scary at all.

Since I don't have anything else to write about on here. . .

I will post the list of the first songs of every letter in my iTunes Music Liberry.

Go!

• 100 Mile Dash -- Michael Giacchino -- The Incredibles
• 2004 First Presidential Debate: Bush Vs. Kerry (9/30/04) -- George W. Bush, John F. Kerry -- 2004 First Presidential Debate: Bush Vs. Kerry (9/30/04)
  
• 3 the Hard Way -- Beastie Boys -- To the 5 Boroughs
• A-Team Theme -- John Swihart -- Napoleon Dynamite
• Baby Sitar (Drummer Of Your Dreams Mix) -- Morcheeba -- Who Can You Trust?
• Cannibals -- Russ Landau -- Islands of Fire: Survivor 9 - Vanuatu
• D-Qwan Boogie -- John Swihart -- Napoleon Dynamite
• Election Roundup and Implications; France's Youth Riots; Big Oil Profits -- R.Scheer, A.Huffington, M.Miller & T.Blankley -- KCRW's Left, Right & Center
  
• Face Down -- Katie Todd Band -- Make Some Time for Wasting
• Give Peace Another Chance -- Russ Landau -- Islands of Fire: Survivor 9 - Vanuatu
• Hark the Herald Angel Sings -- Vince Guaraldi Trio -- A Charlie Brown Christmas
• I've Got You Memorized -- Ivy -- In the Clear
• Jake's Song -- Katie Todd Band -- Make Some Time for Wasting
• Keep Moving -- Ivy -- In the Clear
• L-L-Love -- Astaire -- Don't Whisper Lies - EP
• Mail Myself to You -- John McCutcheon -- Mail Myself to You
• Nap Dance Bedroom -- John Swihart -- Napoleon Dynamite
• O Tannenbaum -- Vince Guaraldi Trio -- A Charlie Brown Christmas
• Paper Doll (Acoustic) -- Blondfire -- Live Session (iTunes Exclusive)
• Queer -- Garbage -- Garbage
• Raj Kapoor -- Dallas -- Dallas
• Sample From Heaven -- Brookville -- Wonderfully Nothing
• Taken By Surpreeze -- Thomas Newman -- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (Music from the Motion Picture)
• Unfinished Sympathy -- Massive Attack -- Blue Lines
• Vanuatu Flute -- Russ Landau -- Islands of Fire: Survivor 9 - Vanuatu
• Walking on Moonlight -- Brookville -- Wonderfully Nothing
• You Hide It Well -- Katie Todd Band -- Make Some Time for Wasting
• no Z's *omg*
  

Okay, this list sucks. There are three songs from the Katie Todd Band, which I don't like that much, a bunch of soundtrack crap, and nothing to represent Le Tigre, Kosheen, the Cardigans, Diana Anaid, Feist, or. . . or anything.

This list rocks. It is much more representative of my musical tastes.

• 1963 -- Rachel Yamagata -- Monster In Law
• 2004 First Presidential Debate: Bush Vs. Kerry (9/30/04) -- George W. Bush, John F. Kerry -- 2004 First Presidential Debate: Bush Vs. Kerry (9/30/04)
• 3 the Hard Way -- Beastie Boys -- To the 5 Boroughs
• Another Pearl -- Badly Drawn Boy -- Another Pearl - Single (CD 2)
  
• Blue Eyed Boy -- Kosheen -- Kokopelli
• Col -- Morcheeba -- Who Can You Trust?
• Don't Drink Poison -- Le Tigre -- This Island
• Erase/Rewind -- The Cardigans -- Gran Turismo
• French - Lesson 15e -- Living Language -- All-Audio French
• Great Life -- Goat -- Great Life
• Heat -- Balligomingo -- Beneath the Surface
• I Predict a Riot -- Kaiser Chiefs -- I Predict a Riot - Single
• Jerk it Out -- Caesars -- 39 Minutes of Bliss (In an Otherwise Meaningless World)
• Kids in America -- No Secrets -- Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius
• L-L-Love -- Astaire -- Don't Whisper Lies - EP
• Marital Rescue -- Michael Giacchino -- The Incredibles
• Nothing But the Sky -- Ivy -- In the Clear
• One Evening -- Feist -- One Evening - Single
• Pergola -- Johan -- Pergola
• Queer -- Garbage -- Garbage
• Running Back (Acoustic) -- Blondfire -- Live Session (iTunes Exclusive)
• Sweet Sensation -- Brookville -- Wonderfully Nothing
• Tribal Council -- Russ Landau -- Survivor
• Unfinished Sympathy -- Massive Attack -- Blue Lines
• Volcano Girls -- Veruca Salt -- Eight Arms to Hold You
• Walking With a Ghost -- Tegan and Sara -- So Jealous
• You Hide It Well -- Katie Todd Band -- Make Some Time for Wasting
• no Z's *omg*

Oh, and I'm seeing Harry Potter in an hour. W&R?

100th post!!!!!!!!!

yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's to many more. Even more than Samuel Pepys, hopefully (Google is your friend :).

On a related note, Morcheeba, especially "The Sea" and "Trigger Hippie", has been getting stuck in my head lately. And today I was pleased to see that the iTMS released their new EP, culled from songs from their latest album The Antidote, today. Usually it's been the Brits who have received that exclusive privilege.

P.S. I'm auditioning for Grease with my wonderful baritone singing voice.

Ouch

Okay, I love Ivy. . . and even I can tell that this is bad.

http://thebandivy.com/media/video.php, scroll down and click on the ugly caterpillar.

hip hip hooray

I finished.

But I still have to write out some notecards.

Three hours until school. . . zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

oooooooooooooooooo0

Google hasn't cached my blog since 1 July 2005. ;|

I'm staying up late on yet another French project that I haven't started.

I HATE FRENCH BUT I LOVE THE LANGUAGE...............................................................................

Sorry that was a little emo :})

P.S. I was sick this weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Liberian president

Linkies

How sad is that Liberia, a war-torn, third-world country, achieves the highest measure of gender equality before the United States?

Grim.

Whiny people

The Letter of the Law:

I've never recapped a show that was cancelled so quickly, and, well, I feel kind of responsible. It's almost violating. And, most importantly, now I've got this backlog of recap-worthy pop-cultural references that I had been waiting to contextualize into an upcoming recap…a recap which will never come. So, in the interest of shedding myself of such ephemera rendered suddenly so useless, I'll just reel off a quick list of Djb-sanctioned words and phrases and moments in time that were to weave themselves elegantly into a Push, Nevada recap sometime between tonight's Episode Five and the lost-in the-ether Episode Twenty-Two.

The "I am your singing telegram" song from the film Clue

The "She stole my heart and my cat" spoken-word poem from the film So I Married an Axe Murderer

The Spencer-Gifts-esqe store "Over Our Heads" from the lean, waning Leachman years of Facts of Life

Big League Chew

The fact that, at the very end of the 1986 classic "What Have You Done For Me Lately," Janet Jackson quietly though emphatically whispers the observation, "This is wild. I swear it."

The fact that, at the very end of Paula Abdul's "Cold-Hearted Snake" video, the words "The dancers laugh" appear inexplicably on the screen

Hart's War

"Cake or death?"

The Morrissey song "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful"

Marge Schott

The clown with the broom from amateur night at Showtime at the Apollo

"Sing Along With Colin"

The XTC song "Making Plans For Nigel"

Sonja Christopher

Crystal Pepsi

Crystal Gravy

Colon Blow

La Yogurt

Le Car

Choc Full o' Notes

Bloom County

The computer virus that sounds like it was scripted by a mail order bride who learned English sentence construction on the boat over that reads, "Hello, This is a IE 6.0 patch. I expect you would enjoy it."

TiVo's fast-forward sound

The Waitresses' song "I Know What Boys Like"

How cute the "I'm Just Mad About Saffron" boy was in the Gap commercial

"Kurt Cobain wore khakis!"

"Have you shopped Strawberry today?"

Laser tag

Was (Not Was)

Deee-lite songs that aren't "Groove Is In The Heart"

The Edie Brickell album "Picture Perfect Morning"

Tasmin Archer

Frente

Punch-Drunk Love

A website from way back in the old country called Mighty Big TV

Cry me a river, "hip-to-be-square" loser.

Software Surprises:

In the struggle to hold on to users, whose eyeballs and clicks pay the bills for ad-supported services, such well-known companies as AOL, Google, MSN, and Yahoo, among others, are increasingly bundling their free toolbars, instant messenger apps, and utility software together--or even with totally unrelated applications. The companies don't include truly dodgy spyware or adware, but customers nonetheless object to these unannounced visitors.

"I never said I wanted the [Yahoo] toolbar," says Miel Van Opstal, who found it on his PC after he upgraded his browser's Flash plug-in. "I feel betrayed, dirty, and used."

Here's a site that might help, whiner. PS: Buy a Mac.

New iPod

So yeah, I'm getting a new iPod. Yep. The new kind, with video.

I dropped my corroded old 4th-gen one about 3 feet onto a wooden floor. Ouch. Since then it hasn't worked at all, just refusing to connect to my computer and flashing the "Do not disconnect" sign. And my warranty expired like three months ago, so that's moot.

Oh well, at least it plays pretty video and I can put my collection of every "Amazing Race" episode ever onto it.

And since my last post, I have done a 180 (degree sign goes hurr). I am now officially a member of the Cult of Mac.

So yesterday I went to my annual college football game. . .

We won, of course.

(cue Linda Behr searching for a list of every college football team that won its game yesterday, adding this clue to her grubby, anal-juice-stained commonplace book in an effort to pinpoint my geographic location)

It was fun, except for the annoying rednecks to my right, the stale popcorn and warm soda, the fact that it started raining in the third quarter (OMGIZZLE CLUE NO. 2), the cramped seats, the poor view we had, and some woman behind me molesting me with her left calf.

yaaaaay

http://weirdbabe.typepad.com/threadbared/

Funny fashion.

uouo

I just decided that for the next week, this blog will be about people that I know/meet that annoy me.

Prepare for an onslaught of whinery.

~~David!