As always, I’m gonna have a little fun and celebrate my favorite damn day of the year, Halloween. Every Saturday and Wednesday for the month of October, I’ll throw up a new theme from a favorite scary movie of mine. Let’s get started with the classic 1935 film, Bride of Frankenstein.

Well crap! I’ve only been waiting over a year for this thing and it’s finally shipping today. Time to put in the order for my radioSHARK.

The gf is out of town this weekend visiting some friends in Chicago and although I do definitely miss her, it’s absolutely amazing how much I was able to get done by myself.

I was able to replace the front windshield and front passenger side window on the Acura for super cheap. Windshield busted from junk flying up off the freeway about 6 months ago and the passenger side window was ripped out from someone breaking into my car (and taking nothing) maybe a month and a half ago. I wouldn’t have done it at all if it was gonna be too expensive, but luckily it wasn’t. Also washed it, did an oil change, and cleaned out the air filter. Oh and then the best part. After all of that, the car wouldn’t start. Great, right? Turns out my battery was leaking and it destroyed the battery cables. Oh well. Gotta get that fixed sometime this week. Until then, I guess I’m driving around the Camaro.

I think the hard drive on my Mac desktop is about to take a dump so I ordered a 180GB drive. Haven’t shopped for a hard drive in about a year. It’s amazing how cheap they are now. Looks like I’m gonna have my first experience with Carbon Copy Cloner to move the contents from the old drive to the new drive. Anyone use it before? Will it do what it’s told? Easy enough?

Alright, I watched the coolest movie this weekend. As far as cool goes, it was definitely the coolest movie I’ve seen all year. If you haven’t seen Man On Fire yet, you need to get your ass to the store and buy it. There’s no need to rent it. Just buy it. I passed it up in the theaters and ignored how much everyone loved it. Saw it at Best Buy a week ago and picked it up for no reason what so ever and man, was it a good decision. Nine Inch Nails is all over the score of this flick and it completely works. Do yourself a favor, get the DVD. Get a home theater system, and enjoy.

So you may have heard of this movie called Star Wars. You may have also heard the DVDs for the original trilogy came out last Tuesday. Yeah, you need to get this too. I know a lot of people who aren’t buying it because of all the changes Lucas has done to is. How could he do this and how could he do that and I’m so tired of hearing it. How nice is it to get a damn nice transfer of the films to DVD? How great is it to listen to the flicks in full 5.1 Dolby Digital? They’re so quick to point out the “bad” changes that they don’t even notice these huge improvements and those “bad” changes take absolutely nothing away from films. Bottom line… it’s Lucas’ characters, Lucas’ story to tell and he should be able to tell it anyway he wants.

Alright, I need to shut down my Mac (that’s running Radio) before the hard drive totally goes and I can’t do the copy later.

So I got bored of the new name and went back to the old name. You can find my blog at the-journals.com. There will probably be some irregularities here and there, but the whole transition back should be completed in a day or so.

I am going to this. The main site doesn’t have that much info on it so check out more here.

Hmm. I didn’t realize what day it was until I saw the date on the last post. It’s been 3 years since that day and it’s amazing how fresh in my memory it still is. I knew I was staying home from work that day. Made that decision the night before because I was fight a cold. I woke up like every other morning listening to Mark & Brian on the radio, only this time there wasn’t the normal laughing. Instead, they were talking very seriously and reporting on something. I couldn’t tell just yet because of how disoriented I was. Then I heard it. “Again, they think a plane has crashed into one of the World Trade Center buildings.” I immediately get up, go into the living room, and flip on CNN. It was true. I wake up my ex. We watched the second plane hit live and the two towers fall. I remembered us both crying and holding each other as we watched. The rest of the day was spent in front of the TV and making phone calls to relatives.

If I could think of anything else to name this post, I would. That word is so typical and tied to the events that happened that day. I guess I’m just not that creative.

Alright. Enough of that. You know, I think I’m gonna watch Zoolander today. I remember that movie came out a couple of weeks after 9/11 and everyone went to see it. People were just desperately wanting to find something to enjoy and that movie helped tell me that it was finally ok to laugh again.

Well I had an interesting night. A friend of mine, his grandma died and so he wasn’t in the best of moods. We all decided to just have a zone out type of night and go see Resident Evil completely hammered. We drink a lot and start walking to the theater. I’m already having problems standing up. Movie didn’t start for a while so we walked over to Denny’s and ate for a little bit. Movie time comes around so we walk back and start standing in line. I’m getting antsy and walk into another theater where they’re playing AvP. Sweet! I’m not watching that stupid ass RE movie. I’m staying right here. Next thing I remember is a security guard waking me up to an empty theater and forcing me out the door. Nice. I can’t see. I can’t even stand. I have no idea where my friends are. Time to take another break right there on the sidewalk. After however long I sleep there, I get up and start to stumble my way home. Not a bad walk. About 4 blocks or so. In the middle of the walk I cross a huge parking lot and think to myself, this is a good time to take another break. I drop in the middle of the lot and fall asleep again. Wake up after god knows how long and walk the rest of the way home straight into bed. I wonder what we’re doing tonight.

Here’s a nice pic of Hurricane Frances before it tore into Florida. Check out the 6 MB image out on that one if you can. Here’s another one of Hurricane Ivan forming behind Frances. Pretty neat stuff if you ask me.

There was no doubt about it. I absolutely needed to take today off and I did. My body is red. I mean red red. It hurts to move it any which way possible. It’s bad enough to the point where I just can’t function. Fun stuff I tell you. I’ve been sitting around all day trying to beat the video games I haven’t played in a while. I’m telling ya. God is mad at me. He’s mad because I ripped into his stupid The Passion of the Christ film month ago and don’t plan on buying the DVD. That’s fine. I think I’ll go pick up GoodFellas SE and NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup instead.

I am officially sunburned and very very badly. I’m having the gf reapply aloe vera to my body every hour to keep myself cool and the pain away. Dear god. Why have you forsaken me?! This hurts so damn much!!! Hmm. Maybe I’ll put up pics.