INKSTAND

It kind sucks.The network I was stealing a signal from in my new place has dissapeared. Maybe I was reducing the bandwidth a little too much. I’ll have to call to set up a new account. it was relitively painless last time and the installer dude was decent looking. Hopefully history will repeat itself. Until then I am at the mercy of the library, Coming over to steph’s place (like im doing right now, and i HATE this iBook thing she has) or at the very least, my work computer that hasnt been upgraded since 1991. I’m guessing.

I am drunk and/or high on pot. caffeene, nicotine, etc, erc./

its cool, buyt my head’ll hurt int the mornin’,.

Have you ever had the Honey BBQ twisty Fritos? Take those, make them not twisty, make them stale, and only use about half the bbq flavoring. Voila! Sundance corn chips. You can get a bag of either for $0.99 and the Frito bag is 10oz, while the Sundance is 5oz.

This movie had the kind of mixture of adventure, melodrama and lame jokes that could easily be made as a cartoon. That’s probably why I liked it. Well, that and the beer. It’s the story of a pair of senoritas who are out to get revenge against an evil bank guy from New York, evily played by Dwight Yoakam. He’s such a bad ass, he doesn’t seem to care who he kills in order to get that railroad built through the people’s town or whatever.
Steve Zahn must have considered himself quite lucky that the script called for the two girls to constantly be in competition, most heatedly when it came to kissing technique. They pretty much wear his lips off throughout the movie. He plays a science guy hired to solve their robberies but end up helping them. Original.
The script is nothing spectacular and is quite cliched and boring, but my favorite bit of dialogue in the movie is:


steve zahn: No two people have the same fingerprint.
Penelope Cruz: Have you checked everyone in the world?
Steve Zahn: No, but it was proven by science.


I also liked a line from Dwight Yoakam’s character that sounds like a line in a song:


I wouldn’t be suprised
if by the end of this ride
your man was right back
by your side

My friend Garrett, mastermind behind boontdusties.com (?) has started an internet radio station with his girlfriend Amber with the help of some others. I was supposed to put together a review show for them, but with my recent change of residence I didn’t really have a chance to do that AND drink a lot. Priorities.
The station launched on Jan. 1st and I caught a good portion of that show. It aired from 6pm to midnight, and everyday after it airs the previous night’s show at noon, then a new one at 6pm. They have played some really fantastic music so far. Right now they are playing Calvin Don’t Jump, and it’s really sending me. Its been great to surf the web to. There are a lot of indie/acoustic artists played, but I don’t think there’s a specific sound they’re looking for. They played some Indian music earlier tonight. There is a weekly show from the basement of Bop Street Records in Ballard where they play records based just on the album covers. I can’t wait to hear that one.
I will continue to listen to Hollow Earth Radio as long as they are going, and maybe one day you’ll hear me on it. This is one of my friends’ crazy ventures that is actually worthwhile.

The worst part about reading a comic book that you are really engrossed in is the ads that pop up and interrupt the experience. It’s not as bad as TV since you can just flip the page but regardless the story is broken up as you are painfully pulled back into reality by someone trying to sell you something. A common trend among comic book advertisements as of late is the use of two facing pages to present the product. This enrages me.
The products in the ads tend to be of a similar theme. I first noticed it with two-pagers for automobiles. The idea that they were selling cars in comic books really frustrated me. I suppose it’s okay for advertisers to reach the comic market since many readers are now adults with a disposable income. The fact that they think they are so important that it takes two pages to sell me a goddam Ford commuter car is what angers me.
Another kind of product that likes to do this is video games. I epecially understand the cross merchandising with gamers and comic geeks, but do we really need two different two page ads for Final Fantasy V Advanced? I certainly don’t.