The main issue is that I don't see the point of blogging about mundane stuff. Do you really need to know that I ate Cheerios with no milk this morning? Actually, there's a good story behind why I did that, but I may be the only person who finds it at all interesting. Also, I don't want to be the blog where you hear about it last. The chances are that if an interesting news item or cool web site has come to my attention, you've already heard all about it.
So all I think of is a "life update" for whatever it's worth to whoever is reading. Very LiveJournal, don't you agree? If you are of the LJ persuasion, let me know, even though I am of the Blogger persuasion I still read other people's LJ stuff.
Movies, Books and Music
I may not work for Borders anymore but they still define my life.
The last movie I saw in the theater was (huge surprise) The Dark Knight which I felt actually lived up to most of the hype. Other than that, it has been a steady diet of Netflix. As of this writing, the last movie I saw on DVD was The Departed which was plenty good, but shouldn't Scorsese have nailed his Best Picture Oscar any earlier (ahem...Raging Bull...ahem)? I happily joined A Netflix Community a couple weeks ago, but I really don't plan on being particularly active other than writing reviews that clear up obvious misinformation about various DVD's. Some of those "top reviewers" are scary. I do appreciate their campaign to purge those stupid "non-reviews" from the site. You know, things like "I haven't seen this movie, but I know it will be awesome!" or "The DVD doesn't play, so I hate it." Right now I've been watching a recording from TCM of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Not bad, but wantonly harpooning sharks and hunting sea turtles for provisions is probably no longer in good taste!
It has been a bad year for magazine reading because I've been pretty heavily into reading library books, and running into due dates left and right. I did a quick tally and fiction is leading non-fiction, much to my surprise. Probably all that beach reading is what did the trick. Last summer I read the entire Elvis Cole series by Robert Crais, so this summer I boldly moved on to Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series, but with much less success so far (I've only finished the first two books!). My favorite books this year thus far have been The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell, Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock and On the Laps of Gods by Robert Whitaker. If you wanted recommendations, you now have them. For lighter fare, Harlan Coben's stand-alone books are great.
Not much new to report in the Music department. I've download about three albums in the last year: Icky Thump (The White Stripes), Astronomy for Dogs (The Aliens) and Roots and Echoes (The Coral). I guess I'm just content with what I have right now and new music isn't really grabbing me at the moment.
Sharing Stuff
Using Facebook's Posted Items application has made me lazy. Here are some of the weird things I've been sharing:
Don't bother watching this video if you are at work or don't like bad language. Just a little heads up.
This is pretty funny, too, if you use or have any familiarity with Second Life (compare the two for maximum comedy effect):
Finally the FAIL blog has been rocking my world everyday with ridiculous images. Here's one from a bookstore, which reminds me of the time we put bibles under a sign that said "Inspirational Fiction" which caused a customer to angrily confront us, shouting "You know, for some people it's REAL!!!"
So what do you want to hear about? We're accepting comments at this time. Actually we always have been (and why am I saying "we" - who else blogs here???). Finally, if you know of a mashup application that Twitters current iTunes tracks (and isn't just for Mac), let me know. Otherwise, I need to design one, stat! In the meantime, check out the microblog which now is doing double-duty for both Facebook and Twitter.
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