:: December 30, 2003
Excitement Machine's Highlights of 2003:
-- Holding and thumbing through my freshly bound Master's Thesis
-- Walking into our freshly bought house
-- Celebrating one year of marriage
-- Experiencing Lightning and Thunder at Gregg and Molly's wedding
-- Rescuing the exhausted, dehydrated puppy that walked into the vintage store on Hildebrand street in San Antonio
Lowlights of 2003:
-- Losing our Simpsons action figure collection
-- Walking into my first and very important meeting in speech pathology 20 minutes late on the hottest day ever and being put on the spot to voluntarily stutter
-- Obligatorily watching the obligatorily videotaped sessions with our clients and realizing I have BACK FAT
-- Coming to terms with the noises above my head in our office being rodents, ripping up our floors to find a layer of slime and mold (as if the asbestos wasn't enough)
-- Bo and Mocha, RIP
-- June Carter Cash and then Johnny Cash, RIP
My favorite sites and posts of 2003:
-- Jamuary (by BK)
-- Items containing the word "chum"
-- Kevin Guilfoile's Madalyn Murray OÕHair in Hell series
-- Poses I would do if I were a J.Crew model, actually all of J.R.'s lists
-- Photographer Irwin Norling, by Brad Zellar
-- Listmania Lists by John Moe
-- Learning to Love You More
-- Swedish Band Postcards
-- Cardhouse photo essays Food City and Arizona Deep-Fried State Fair
Movies I saw (not many):
-- 28 Days Later (on DVD): Excellent, sad. Good for those who like scary movies but don't want to be scared afterwards. Did anyone else see the "radically alternative ending" on the DVD extras? Pee-yew. I'm glad they went with the one they did.
-- All the Real Girls, which friend Mike Linnen scored. Gorgeous, but dear lord was it tedious (by no fault of Mike's of course). Then again I had a raging headache during the whole thing.
American Splendor: Probably my favorite from this year.
-- Elf: Hilarious until it started being about believing in Santa
-- Finding Nemo (on DVD): Wished I had seen in on the big screen.
-- Lost in Translation: Sorry, but I really hated this movie. I couldn't muster up any sympathy for either character.
-- A Mighty Wind: YES
-- Pirates of the Carribean (on DVD): Very good. A little confused and tedious at the end there.
-- The Shape of Things (on DVD): OK I guess, but I could see the "twist" coming from a million miles away.
-- X-Men II: I love this shit.
-- Movies I still want to see: Mike Judge's and Don Herdzfeldt's Animation Show, Intolerable Cruelty, Lawd of the Rings, Melvin Goes to Dinner, The Station Agent, Sylvia (even though it got awful reviews). ::
:: December 28, 2003
DAMN THAT IS ONE BIG ASS BUFFALO (via Cardhouse) ::
After watching this loop for the past few hours, I feel I can do anything ::
:: December 19, 2003
GARY DUSCHL
GUINNESS WORLD RECORD GUM WRAPPER CHAIN shows you how to make your own too. (via Craftster) ::
:: December 17, 2003
A holiday gift for the paranoid in your life (or the people you want to make paranoid): Chemtrails of the World 2004 Calendar ::
:: December 15, 2003
I hope you have seen Mo Kin, three-year-old xylophone prodigy, in action. Mr. Rob Pongi has the best videos at his site! Like dog sliding on ice, and North Korean physical education dance. ::
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