If you visit my hiptop blog, you can see pictures of my boyfriend's new ladyfriend. Her name is Dixie and we picked her out yesterday at the Humane Society. That was hard--when we were walking in, I was like, "I'll take one of everything!" The Prom King is actually the second person to adopt her--the first family adopted her, tried crate-training her (never mind that she was really too young for that), and returned her the next day because she cried all night. Those people? Suck.

Is it Kal Penn week on TV? First he's on 24, in a completely pointless storyline and tonight, on SVU. And can we go back to 24 for a sec? Are they trying to win the coveted "I'm So Sure" award? The President ordered an airstrike on a random house in like, El Segundo? I'm so sure.

Also on the "I'm So Sure" radar: A&E, CSI: Miami and The Sopranos are miles apart in quality so plz quit trying to advertise them together. Yes, they're both on your network in syndication. That's all they have in common. Besides [livejournal.com profile] zooby's deep and abiding balls-deep love for balls.

Earlier this evening, I watched the Takashi Miike episode of Masters of Horror, called "Imprint." For those of you who don't know MoH, it's a Showtime program and here's part of the description from wiki: "The show follows an anthology format, with each one-hour episode featuring a short film directed by a well-known horror film director. Since the show airs on a premium cable network, it routinely features more extreme levels of violence, nudity, and profanity than that of a typical television program." Speaking of extreme...Takashi Miike! For those of you who don't know that magnificent bastard, here is a quote I found that sums him up well:

"For the uninitiated, let's just say the guy is arguably the most 'extreme' film maker on the planet. And by 'extreme' I mean, 'Holy Fucking Shit What The Fuck Am I Fucking Watching I Need A Shower And Then Maybe Church' extreme film making."

So..."Imprint." Famously not shown on Masters on Horror after Showtime refused to air it--although really...what were they thinking? What kind of program did they expect Miike to deliver?

And how was it? Uneven but good. The acting quality is wildly varied, for one--Michie is good but Billy Drago is so over the top that it's comical. And this has nothing to do with "Imprint" but I had no idea he was Darren E. Burrows's dad. Bottom line: I liked it but this is definitely not something I'd recommend to just everyone. The torture scene was even worse than ===SPOILER SPOILER=== Odishon's "kiri kiri kiri" scene,===END SPOILER=== during which I had to leave the room.

I went for a job interview Sunday and that was a bit odd. First of all, I've never had a job interview on a Sunday. Second, the people I met with were nice and I'm sure if everything was ready, they'd be lovely to work with but...their spa isn't built. Construction hasn't even started. They're not expecting to open until March and I need a job before then. I told them I'd meet with them again next Sunday but I'm going to email and politely cancel. And then contact two new leads.

Right now? Degrassi, oh hells yes.
New Year's Resolutions:

1) I will no longer defend things I like. If people want to know why I like something, I'll tell them, even if the answer is as simple as "I just do." But people who want to get all up in my face, all "You actually like jazz music/horror movies/Gloomy Bear/my mom's balls?!!!" can actually like, let the door hit 'em. Save the outrage for something that matters.

2) I will stop torturing myself, whether it is regarding food, career choices, or some dumb shit I said to someone ten years ago. Let it go, Salome.

3) This year I will be fearless as much as possible. If only so my Yoda doesn't have to be gold all the time.

4) I'm going to get the two necklaces I've been wanting. And that thing for [livejournal.com profile] monooka.

And that's that. I hope you are all well. I am fine. I spent the weekend at my boyfriend's house, mostly waiting for Knology to show up. Knology fun:

4-6pm: The time they were supposed to arrive. The Prom King came home early from work to wait for them.
5:30pm: I arrive.
6pm: Call Knology, are told that there's an outage and that they'll be there within an hour and a half.
8pm: Call Knology, are told they'll be there in an hour and a half. Leave to get food since we're starving.
8:10, give or take: Return home.
9pm: Call Knology, are told they've already been to the house. Find a not filled out form from them on the front door. Complain that they could only have been there during a ten-minute window in which we were told not to expect them. Are told that we can reschedule for 19 January. Unacceptable! Are told to call back in the morning.

Saturday morning:

8ish: Call Knology, they say that they'll get someone in the area to come over as soon as possible. The Prom King leaves to go to the post office to pick up his Christmas present for me, which has finally arrived from Japan and apparently requires in-person delivery. The post office is closed. !!! I put on Cannibal Holocaust, intending to watch while the Prom King is gone.
9:30ish: Guy shows up and installs new cable line. Doesn't have high definition box, though, since he wasn't supposed to work at the King's house that day. He tells us that they can install one within the week. We watch Cannibal Holocaust (see below) and take showers.
12pm: Call Knology, are told they are sold out of high definition boxes. The Prom King asks what happened to the one that was supposed to be installed the night before and is given no real answer.
12:05pm: I urge him to call back. He does and is told that there is no lack of high-def boxes. The customer service rep arranges for another local tech to come by and install it. We wait.
3pm: The other local tech shows up and installs the high-def box. After only 23 hours, the Prom King has the service he ordered.

[livejournal.com profile] rockgeisha and her boyfriend watch Cannibal Holocaust: A play in one act.

Salome:
Prom King:
Salome: Sweetheart, you really don't have to watch this.
Prom King: I can't look away!
So, who has the highest trivia score for the entire month at Buffalo Wild Wings? This girl!

And okay, also the Prom King. But he answered the first question--I answered the remaining 14.

Happy, happy birthday to [livejournal.com profile] gannet_guts, who was born on the best day of the year...

MY BIRTHDAY! This is a very cool birthday indeed because it's Tuesday and I was born on a Tuesday and that means something but I don't know what.

Luckily, my day doesn't involve lectures or anything too bad, barring the two hour drive I'll make back home in about five hours (I'm still at the King's house) and a trip to the bank (but I'll be depositing birthday money in my account so it's not that much of a hassle). Nay, I'll spend my day watching Arrested Development discs from Netflix and my evening...I don't know. Something good, I think.

I hope that you all have lovely days and I am going back to bed now. Later!
So. Hi, there! It's been a couple of days since we've chatted. Kick your shoes off, stay a while.

Well, I've mostly been working on my job search lately. I had an interview Monday and tomorrow, I'm scheduling another one. I don't really want the job I interviewed for Monday but I'll reconsider if I don't get the one I really want. Anywho, I should get a job shortly and we can stop this totally boring line of conversation.

Friday, I drove down to Montgomery to see the Prom King. We were planning to have Mexican food and see Talladega Nights. We indeed had Mexican at Ixtapa but I didn't realize until my drive down that they were planning to make a rather large deal out of the opening of TN in Montgomery with prizes and hoopla and the kid who plays Texas Ranger. So all the showings were sold out except for the 11:45PM one. We chose to see The Descent, instead. I liked it a lot. Prom King didn't like the ending because he didn't think the hero should have been the hero but he doesn't know the horror movie rules.

Abandon all hope like, totally now--Myspace is the most visited website in the US. And speaking of, I need space for like, a top 84. Or maybe just a top 27. You get the majority of it filled with the people you know you want and then you have to agonize over the last two or three. And then people top you so you feel like you should reciprocate but you don't really want to. Aaagh! Myspace politics. If only someone on my friends list were studying all this.

Other myspace angst: I'm trying to get my friends list down to 350 but it's not working. I got it down to 375 but somehow it's climbed to 391 again. Am I really accepting that many requests? I thought I was being much pickier.

Via [livejournal.com profile] alicetiara*, I read this stomach-turning article about Joe Francis, mastermind of the Girls Gone Wild empire and...If you go wild in a Girls Gone Wild video, you're an idiot. If you film a Girls Gone Wild video, you're an idiot. If you manufacture, promote, distribute, and/or sell a Girls Gone Wild video. you're an idiot. If you're Joe Francis, oh you better believe that you're an idiot. And you should be first against the wall.

Seriously. I don't have a dog in the whole Brangelina/Vaughnifer fight, but I'm pretty sure hanging with Joe Francis is an automatic lose, Jen and Vince.

Any. Way. I still have to finish the second half of my BPAL reviews and upload the Strokes thing. YSI is being so testy. You can actually watch the Strokes dealie on youtube if you're absolutely determined to see it right now, though.

Today I'm going to do some jobhunting and some cleaning and horror movie watching and perhaps prank calling people with the help of Samuel L. Jackson. A typical day.

And I'll be remembering. Eleven years. Thank you, Jerry.

*I also blame [livejournal.com profile] alicetiara for the fact that I have the SoaP theme song stuck in my head.

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