Monday, February 21, 2005

iTunes: It's easy once you know how it's done. Even though I still don't know how to burn CDs in it.

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Tony- I had a feeling you would.

Mimmi- You can use it, if you like it so much. It can be the first voluntary unintentional banner request in the history of the internet.

Shin- Meetings? Hah, we don't have any meetings here.

HAH, I say!

Solo- I loved Tiny Toons when I was little.. God, that show kicked ass. At the time.

Godel- Bus drivers scare me. :x

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Where would I be without my Japanese dramas? I'll tell you where: A land of pure unenjoyment. They have all of the poor acting and lame plot arcs of Spanish soap operas, only they're just decent enough to be tolerable.

I guess I first came across actual Japanese television (as in spoken in authentic Japanese) a year or two back, when I would watch the Japanese Sesame Streetish shows because they were just so stupid. Soon after that, I noticed that our "international channel," which is mostly car dealership commercials en espanola during the daytime, also ran Japanese drama shows on Sunday evenings. For a while I watched them religiously- as corny as they were, I became enthralled in one particular show which I considered to be Sex and the City minus the sex, plus a lot of mid-life crisis angst- but that faded rather quickly. I still manage to tune in once in a while, but all of my old favorites are gone now. 'Tis a shame.

(For the record, they had some lame hospital show on tonight. There weren't any subtitles, either, which was odd.)

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As lame as I've always found Counter-Strike to be (I'm too impatient to wait for a new round to begin, especially when it takes two shots to kill someone), I've been having this insatiable urge to play it for the past couple of days. The coolness level fluctuates.. It really depends on the people in the server, and which weapons I can get my grubby little (hopefully) terrorist hands on.

So yeah, my frustrations with the game are as follows:

4) Weapon damage. Realism, whee! It takes one shot to the leg to kill someone! Hoorah! It doesn't help your self-esteem when someone does it with a teeny little handgun, either. YAY!

3) The fact that the Counter-Terrorist team doesn't have any dual weapons. I wouldn't care so much if I had never played Halo 2.

2) The "wait-until-the-next-round" thing. God, I hate that. I hate it so much. The way the game is set up, it only makes sense, but it sucks when those around you don't know shit about throwing frags. Even though they are, I admit, the most frustrating objects to use in the entire first-person shooter universe.

1) All these lamers who have been playing the game for six damn years and STILL camp.

And yet I go back to it. I'm like a desperate woman who keeps going back to the same deadbeat boyfriend.

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If there's one reason I love listening to unknown bands, it's because they're so desperate for publicity they put complete, high quality MP3s of their songs on their websites. It's so cool. I just downloaded thirteen dollars' worth of songs (by iTunes standards. Otherwise, it'd probably be twenty) off of Ted Leo and the Pharmacists' website.

While we're on the subject of Ted Leo, I command you go download those songs. ANY of them. Except for maybe "Walking Through," unless you're into hippity-hop, or rap, or whatever you damn kids are calling it these days.

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I began brainstorming for that screenplay I've been hinting at for a while now. It's been long in the making, though I decided to dump the IKEA idea, because I have forgotten what made it so funny, and that's not a good sign.

Sure, it's brainstorming, and that's not very far, but I finally have something down on paper, and that's a good thing. A very good thing.

The odd thing is that most of this concept doesn't involve dialogue. At least, the first segment doesn't. At the moment, that's the only one that I have a clear vision of in my head. The rest of them are sort of sketchy ideas randomly thrown out to fill in the rest of the 90 minutes.

It's an abrupt ending, sure, but it grips you. Now, go away.
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