i don't know why, but it's time to blog again

It's not like I have anything particularly interesting to report. Al is still living with me, and I guess since she was one of my primary readers I have not been blogging. What do I need to blog about to someone who spends most of her time with me?!

There were times I thought about blogging about the election. I'm a total political junkie. Hell, I'm information junkie, period. Politics is only part of that, but damn it was really exciting. And so weird to be on the west coast so I didn't have to stay up all night.

I can even tell you, regarding my last blog nearly six months ago, the CW didn't stream 90210, but replayed it enough. I stopped watching because its novelty wore off. The farther I get away from high school, the less and less I want to watch anything having to do with it. I'm currently revisiting Freaks and Geeks on DVD via Netflix. Even that has lost the glow I had of it in my memory. But it's still one of the best TV shows. They always cancel stuff I like, such as Arrested Development and Pushing Daisies.

Anyway, I don't know what else to say. Except I'm back. I think.

P.S. I passed my doctoral exams. I'm officially a Ph.D. candidate. I just have to write that little dissertation. You don't want to know what I'm procrastinating on right now.

in case any of you rely on me for your superdrag news

This just in. That little reunion tour I trekked my butt across the country for and those tracks I had difficulty listening to on MySpace did indeed suggest something a bit more substantial was on the way.

Superdrag (the original lineup) are returning to the studio next month to record a new album!

And they're going to play more live shows. They're playing with Nada Surf in New York in April (that would be awesome, but I'm not insane). They claim to be working on tour dates west of the Mississippi.

I'm excited! I've been so bored lately. I've seen all the movies out that I could possibly want to see. Thus, the highlights of my day are tracking the presidential primaries and watching Jeopardy!. School starts on Monday to save me from myself.

not even worth the price of admission

As I reported yesterday, I went to see Lucky You today for free. It was unbelievably bad. With writing and directing talent behind the screen and recently pretty decent talent in front of it, you just have to wonder what the hell went wrong. It was the most boring shit you can't even imagine. Every damn cliche in the book. Thank god I watched a few episodes of Celebrity Poker Showdown back when it was all the rage or I wouldn't have had a clue what was happening in the movie. And to top it off, there's even a sequence of Eric Bana playing (speed) golf--for a bet, of course! The acting was atrocious, especially Drew Barrymore's performance. And Bana was perhaps a notch above Hulk days, but his hockey hair was too distracting.

Oh and one of the themes was some sort of pathetic attempt to historicize the momentary popularity of professional poker in 2003. Seriously.

The most exciting part of the movie was when some creepy, middle-aged man entered the theater near the end, stood at the door directly behind my seat, and burped a couple of times.

an update

All right, so I sort of went with my plan. I decided to go to Chinatown to buy a parasol (I just can't take the sun anymore), get some take out from a Chinese restaurant that isn't Panda Express (Yang Chow), and hit the Chinatown branch of the library for some DVDs.

I park, and as I'm walking to Yang Chow's I notice that all the elderly people walking around have umbrellas--not one had a pretty parasol that I was hoping to buy. So when I went to a shop and asked about one, the lady opened it for me but told me that the umbrellas she has will block UV light (the parasols are also a lot smaller, perhaps designed for children). So I bought a $5 umbrella instead.

Now I own two umbrellas in a city that almost never sees rain. See, my other one is black, which I think is a bit of a hazard when you're trying to block the sunlight. This one is silver and has a large handle which makes it more practical. Walking around I still felt hotter than hell, but hopefully if I keep with the damn thing my skin will stop itching from all the sun exposure.

I bought Music & Lyrics, and each DVD comes with a voucher for a free ticket to see Lucky You. Earlier I looked into seeing that since it's playing other places besides Arclight, but I thought $8 (the cheapest matinée ticket I could find) was too much for it. Looks like I've got a plan for tomorrow! That's a deal. $15 for a DVD and a movie theater viewing. Kinda like when I went to see Music & Lyrics and got the soundtrack for free.

maybe this is why i procrastinate...

It keeps me busy. It's crazy. Now that I don't have any monkeys on my back (school is done with and I don't start work until Monday), I don't know what to do with myself. I want to go to a movie, but I'm too cheap to go to Arclight, which is the only theater playing anything I want to see (during the day). I could schlep my butt to Santa Monica, but I figure in the end, between parking, gas, and frustration in a hot car (the A/C can only cool you so much when it's 95 degrees and not a cloud in the sky), I'm better off paying $13 anyway ($11 for the movie, $2 to park).

Alternatively, I may just go buy Music & Lyrics and check out movies from the library. I was going to do that anyway, but I guess this means I can just lay here and watch them all. But the whole point was to get out of the apartment!