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David Duchovny is such a weird guy. He was on Conan the other day talking about the 3rd season of his show, Californication, and told some weird story about his kid. See, the weird story about his kid sticks out mainly because there's now a running joke between ma and I about the really bizarre, disturbing stories about children guests on Conan keep telling. Really, it's scary! The scariest thing is, according to various forums, I seem to be the only one bothered by them.

Anyway, back to David. I really love him as an actor. As most of you know -- well, maybe not, but I'll pretend you guys know me well -- I love the X-Files. I started watching it at the beginning, and I even kept up with it when we were living in an RV for a year, and I consider it one of the most well-crafted shows ever to be on television. So, even though he's weird, I don't really mind, because I like what he does.

I had never seen Californication, but I'd heard about it. It's skeezy and dirty is what I'd heard. After watching Conan, I decided I wanted to see it. At least an episode. Well, I recently renewed my Netflix account(knowing we'd cancel our cable TV), and I noticed that on the streaming section they have season 1 of Californication! I decided to give it a shot, and... I could see why so many people(specifically women) hate the show, but guess what guys? I LOVED it. I like the fact I can both hate Hank(Duchovny's character) and love him at the same time. Let's just say I relate very heavily to his ex. His theme song is also awesome(sounds similar to "Young Folks" by Peter Bjorn and John, which I LOVE)

He has a daughter, Becca, in the show. A very cute, very interesting kid who plays in a band. She's one of the least annoying child characters I've ever seen in a show. Every time she swears, he charges her for it, and vice versa. It's funny to me because they're pretty much just playing musical chairs with the same set of bills going back and forth between each other.

Becca feels neglected by her father, and in one scene - after he's ditched her to go bail out the floozy step daughter of his ex - Becca's in bed, Hank comes in and sits down next to her, and she says this to him(in a tired, resigned voice):

"You never mean to let me down, but you do. You know, it's all well and good to talk about happy endings, but if a person can't deliver, if you keep screwing up, well, eventually I guess you kinda just have to say 'fuck you'... or words to that effect."

He refused her swear payment for this one, saying she was right, and he deserved it.

Death Cab For Cutie's "Passenger Seat" plays in the background on this scene, too. Definitely a favorite scene for me. (It's art imitating my life when it comes to certain storylines going on in it)

Monk marathons on USA are awesome.

I'm watching the World Magic Awards. I watched this last year...seems like only yesterday. There was this cool performance art segment thing last year with paint splatters and abstract designs changing. That part really stood out for me. Art + magic trick = really, really fun.

You know, I forget how much I love magic tricks when I'm not watching any, but really, magic is one of my favorite things. Seriously, even the corniest tricks just put a big stupid smile on my face. I should make a list of things that put dumb smiles on my face. I think the list would actually be pretty long.


A sense of wonder... it's good to know that's still possible!

URrrrggghhhh

Alright, so our mailbox is part of a community mailbox setup that the surrounding neighborhoods have, so our regular mail goes into a small slot with a locked door on it on a stand of a bunch of mailboxes. Whenever anyone gets a package, it goes into a larger box in the middle of the setup, and a key is left in the person's usual mailbox so they can open the package section. The last time I got a package, I had to wait a few days because one of the boxes just doesn't open. No matter who tries opening it, it never opens, so we have to wait for the mailman to go by to ask him to open it(the entire front opens for the mailman so he doesn't have to fiddle with the busted door). We've told him it doesn't work, and I thought it would have been fixed since then.

Apparently it wasn't fixed, because a package I've been waiting for finally got here today, and it's stuck in the box because the damn door is still jammed. Soooo right now my shiny package is waiting for me in the mailbox and I'm helpless to get it. Sucks!!

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Lynn and Jessica are flying here on the 21st, so the move is moving along on schedule, mmmyes. Excitement builds, TV land!

Oh, and I saw an episode of Doctor Who the other day. Yeah, I've never seen it before. No idea why I've never seen any of it ever, since we had old toys from it when I was little. I... loved it. I'm going to watch more of this in the near future. Yep.

Avatar ends this week. So gonna watch that too...

I need to buy Purple Rain. I've been wanting to watch that again lately.

On the roster to watch once I move:
- Monk
- Doctor Who
- Venture Bros.

Yeah. I found a video for this song the other day. It's been one of my favorites for years but I had no idea it had a video!

My nephew Justin was in town this week for two nights of Tom Waits. We(Mom, myself, Austin, Madison, and then later Kim showed up) took him and his friend Will out to brunch on Wednesday and that was a nice time. It was good to see him again. He's got a beard now. Oh Justin!

Then today, went out to Michaels with mom, Kim, and Madison. It actually felt hot today(it was around 116F)...that was fun. Roasting. Anyway, had a good time. I met a few people ma works with, and she'd given* her boss a copy of the book Cody and I collaborated on. He said he loved the art and writings. :) Apparently he'd also shown it to half the store because others commented on it later as well. My confidence boost for the day!




Wandered all over the store, found a cool duck poster, and then found and decided to investigate a display of these figures...and WAS BLOWN AWAY. SO AWESOME! These remind me of when I was really little and used to play with plastic barn animals in a water tub and stuff. I loved those things. They've got cool wizards and dragons and all kinds of animals and tons of other stuff. I have an itch to collect a bunch of these.












Yep pretty damn awesome.






Once home, I finished drinking some decaf coffee(MMM), had some lemon grass chicken rolls, and am now finishing off a bag of Werther's Original caramel chocolate. Yum.
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So, I've finally seen Avatar. LOVE IT. YES I KNOW. Also, read vol. 1 of Cybersix and loved that too. If only I could find the other volumes in english. Oh and the animated version is now on demand on mogulus so if you wanna see it, search through there, my comrades. It's my new favorite site.

Also, Cox On Demand finally works, so I had fun with that today, too. Good times.


p.s.:

Found another awesome comic: Kukuburi


* Ma likes to state that she didn't give him the book, she let him borrow it...and is now thinking he may not give it back because he seemed to like it A LOT, haha.

Best crossover antics IN THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION!! I was about falling out of my chair watching Daily Show and Colbert tonight, and of course missed Conan, but yay for NBC posting the CLIP OF JON AND STEPHEN ON CONAN!!

Link: The feud... resolved?!

Notable occurrences include the fact that Rick and my niece and nephew came over the other day toting a $15 iTunes gift card! They said they don't use iTunes so they thought I could make use of it. I upgraded to the latest version of iTunes(argggh) so I could credit my account, since the store doesn't work in 6.0 anymore. Still trying to figure out what I wanna buy with it...yay! I was going to get some Wendy McNeill but apparently she isn't carried by iTunes. :(

Still waiting for Distortion!

iTunes 7.6 doesn't lag too much as of yet.

There's something conflicting with something or other though, which started BEFORE I upgraded iTunes. See, my computer started having weird lag spikes. I thought it might have something to do with Firefox, so I DLed Opera to try it out...haven't had many problems since then. I have no idea what's going on because I hadn't installed anything new that could be causing it. Just more proof I need to upgrade computers. At least now I know Opera is pretty great.


Another thing to drain money off: Parts of my teeth have been breaking off randomly so it's looking like I'll be having to go to the damned dentist soon. BOO HISS DAMN IT. Not happy about that...I loathe going to the dentist because they always pitch a fit about how small my mouth is. As if I chose my bone structure...but eh, worse comes to worse I'll have to have my face cut open. I'm a big girl, I can deal...heh. *cringes a little*


Aside from all this crap, things are going pretty awesome. I was watching A Daily Show on Thursday and Jon mentioned(and did an impression of) Woody Allen during a bit! Heh... the trend continues. I wonder who is going to mention him next!

Something amusing to me this week is that Woody Allen was briefly mentioned twice on TV!

First, on 60 Minutes. During Andy Rooney's segment regarding umbrellas, a brief image was shown of Woody and Soon-Yi getting into a car with an umbrella. Then last night on Colbert, Stephen was in a museum trying to get his self-portrait displayed, and while wandering around exhibits he was poking fun at random photographs, one of which was a photograph of Woody Allen.

Coincidence, or is the media subtly building up to actually promoting his new movie? I can't remember him ever being mentioned on anything I've watched before so it was just neat. It seems most of the time the media avoids mentioning him. :P

In other news, AMAZON SUCKS, because I pre-ordered my CD(which I've done twice in the past, with no problems) and they now say it won't get here until around the 22nd. Stupid! There goes the whole point of PRE-ORDERING something...

I've decided my year recap shit can wait a few months because my mind is too focused on everything going on now that looking back at the past just ain't happening. gotta collect my thoughts!


I heard from Brian yesterday, and guess what?

http://www.colortheory.com/news.html

the above is a news post about it on his site now! you can see a thumb of the cover now, too.



oh, and 5 days till The Magnetic Fields album "Distortion" is in my grubby paws! or less, no idea when preorder will ship to me. anyway, aching to listen.

Daily Show and Colbert Report are back on air. writerless, yes, BUT BACK. CAN I JUST SAY I REALLY REALLY REALLY MISSED THEM? I love Stephen. and I pretty much jumped ass seeing John Oliver on air again. I'm going to use part of the amazon gift certificate I got from Lori for Christmas to get Stephen's book on tape, yes indeed. he is America and so am I.


more later...can't believe how fast time is going, and I still need to haul ass to the doctor and DMV. all in due time, yes. and ink for the printer tomorrow. I hope.

still haven't gotten your card yet, Kat, but the mail here is slow as hell for some reason.

KATIE, HOWEVER, I got your card, confetti and all! aww *hugs* if ya read this, no worries. I know you're busy. I hope things are going well for you so far this year. starbucks someday... :)

I've Got A Secret

Game Show Network's show "I've Got A Secret" is promoting itself with these little on the road bits of people confessing a secret to their cameras. they've got a podcast set up on iTunes, which is where I watched 'em all...and OOO, I enjoy. you know, I love reading postsecret, LJsecret, LJsecret (adult version), anything post, LJ postsecret, grouphug, and any other anonymous confessional around, but I have to say it really is taking it to the next level when you actually see the people doing the confessing. I wonder, are all these people really confessing or just random actors? I'm always suspicious when something seems too good to be true, so upon inspection, some people looked similar, but...if it's not real, it SHOULD be. it's such a perfect next step for all the secret sharing type deals going on lately. there should be more shows like this on TV. that's my kinda reality television, right there!

I guess it's kinda like going from reading hentai doujin and then watching some hentai. it's the same kinda feeling, but BETTER. not that I partake of pornography in any form, but whatever. I get pretty worked up over the human condition!

as for iTunes itself, I finally upgraded to 7, and my verdict: ALBUM ART GRABBER = BEE'S KNEES. oh my god. I've been waiting for that feature for ages! no more scouring the internet for decent artwork! yay. the problem? well, the damn thing lags me to hell and back three times over. I deleted some crap and uninstalled some other crap but I dunno...it probably is this version doing it to me, because the previous didn't lag me like this. whenever I click links and have music playing, the song'll skip and the program'll freeze while whatever I just clicked is loading, which sucks. OTHER THAN THAT, THOUGH, I like the improvements.