Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

"Memories aren't rags that come clean with enough ringing."



Books:


I have been in a non-reading funk lately but recently I splurged at B&N and then at Half Price Books when Alicia was in town on some light reading material.

When you enter B&N on the Plaza the first thing you are assaulted with is some counter gal trying to sell you on their whimsical new paperback-killing device, the Nook. Now I've played around on Alicia's Kindle a few times but it's not the same as having a dirty secondhand paperback in your fingers. Plus it wont stop me from reading when the batteries fail. Another thing is that new paper smell...



Can't get this face from an e-reader.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/moving


Great part in this comic that I feel relates to me very, very well.
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Anyways, Koontz's works can hardly be put down after starting them. Nothing changed with this one but I felt a little cheated on the length of this piece. See Book Four of the Frankenstein series was suppose to be the start of a new trilogy but according the cover of Book Five: The Dead Town, it is FINAL Chapter.

What the....

I went back and looked at the first two books in the series and according to them these last two books in this saga(PART 3&4) are falling a little over a hundred pages short each. I know I'm whining but come on.....I read this shit in two days and the story spanned what, less than three days as well. Enough setup time just to keep me with bated breath till I can pick up The Dead Town.



Maybe I'm just antsy for word on a new Odd Thomas novel.

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DIFFERENT SENSE

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Never before have I wanted so much to witness a song live.


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another time...

Friday, January 28, 2011

Errors and "a spill in the trailer"

Damn today was gorgeous.
Think I'll just keep myself locked inside.

Can't keep my hands off...

#1
#2
Dammit Windows!

Just breaks my heart seeing this.
Billion dollar company recently switched to cheap ass wrap.
CONSEQUENCES

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TELEVISION


BOOKS


When I got to the suicide note it all felt too familiar. Come on King.


Press your space face close to mine, love.....


MUSIC


Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Shall we...

She sat nude in the dark.
She was so beautiful.
She was so beautiful.
She was so beautiful there in the dark, on
the edge of the bed, alone and unaware of how
her life was about to change.

Demon Seed - Dean Koontz


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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

I put on my daily facade but then....




Settling down for once. Kinda odd not having shit planned for a vacation which is fine. Not really, I wanted to go to Disney World bad and I mean bad. The kind of bad that keeps you from falling asleep the way you intended to. The kind of bad that calls you at 2 in the morning and tells you you're going to be a father. The kind of bad that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever as you sit writing your shit listening to those good memories through duct taped headphones. The memories that you tell yourself over and over 'it'll happen again'. Just not anytime soon.



Therapy?



How old am I?! Finally, I have my name solely on a lease. Things have happened so fast these past two weeks. Faster than Lady Gaga tickets selling out at the Sprint Center.(just checked;still available. Pre-Party disco tickets...this woman just might be onto something.) OK, enough with the similes, metaphors and other English figure of speech I have but a fourth graders grasp on.




Maybe?



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Entertain me:



Sunday, The Legally Prohibited tour rolled into town at the Midland and destroyed the place. Destroyed it the best a comedy tour could. The opener, Reggie Watts, was kinda gay. I swear he had only like four skits, but that shit lasted almost an hour. Whatever, maybe I should watch some youtube of the guy. Drug jokes just aren't the cat's meow for me. Lighten up? Here, let me punch you square in the throat. As for Conan, some of my highlights were the Masturbating Bear transforming into the Self Pleasuring Panda. The Triumph sketch with obviously someone filling in the blanks to his speech with iconic Kansas City landmark's such as Boulevard Wheat, SW Boulevard, Gates and others. Conan making fun of the Nelson Art Gallery and the Shady Lady. Jason Sudeikis from SNL coming out and helping pull the Chuck Norris Rural Policeman Handle. Oh yeah, they also had one of Meatloaf's giant ass inflatable bats from his Bat out of Hell tours. Can't wait to see the shenanigans he'll bring to TBS. Good night indeed. Finished it off with some Chubby's on Broadway.






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Best piece of merch I bought that night.

I wear it on my right arm so I naturally like to stare at it as I......"I was compelled to believe in this motorized, bullshit, sick fucking deal to possess and caress and obsess in the need for appeal"



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Family is key. Remember that. Especially when your sister is about to get a 4.0 this semester and you need her to succeed in case shit hits the fan later down the road. ;)



One thing I love about my new location is that it is two blocks from Half Price Books. I went yesterday and had to stop myself from blowing the bank on paperbacks.



Lifted up



Duma Key: because I love it when King makes me cry.








Cell : because a zombie apocalypse spread via your narcissistic cellphone use;brilliant







Your Heart Belongs to Me: because Koontz never fails.


MOLESTACHE IN ACTION




You love the way,I look at you

While taking pleasure in the awful things you put me through


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It's the glare from the reflection
Making patterns in your eyes

It's the looking back in anger

With every second slipping by

Undertow has come to take me

Guided by the blazing sun

Look at everything around us

Well, look at everything we've done





Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Such a pleasent evening.



Ever listen to Otep? Give Jonestown Tea a listen. That's all I have to say about that.

Just got in from going out to Micro Center. They had a couple of demos going on showing off the new 3D monitor technology. Wasn't impressed until I saw Spore in 3D. Now that something I could get into. Sucks wearing the 3D glasses over my regular glasses though. Six eyes!! They also had the drum attachments for ROCKBAND2, but Maria explained to me they weren't compatible with the Guitar Hero game and the product was more of lame add-on to give the drum set a more authentic look. Lame. Guitar Hero is pure garbage. At the check out lane or impulse buy alley I picked up a bottle of Bawls Guarana Exxtra. I had the naive idea this shit would be as good as the regular olde Bawls. No! I can just imagine that vileness is what sterile urine tastes like. Stick with what you know!

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Before that, I dragged Maria to Borders. Picked up Batman: The Long Halloween and Stephen King goes to the movies. I figured I'd get back into reading to help keep my mind off the fact there will be no more Battlestar Galactica episodes.



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Weenie

More signs of the times. Pack-size conversions. Ice cream, cereal, chips and now the iconic Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. I remember in grade school being able to go aboard the vessel and look around and steal wienermobile whistles. What's this compact atrocity.
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