Category: Entertainment

I am your music and I am your song

When I buy a new country cd, I have a tradition I follow. The first thing I do is read all the song titles. I want to know the name of every song before I listen – I’m weird that way. 😉 The second thing I do is crack that open and search the CD booklet for song writer information. I scan the writers for familiar names to get an idea of how the cd will sound. If I see certain writers, I know I’m more likely to like the song when I hear it; and other writers are a flag I won’t like it. Then with all the writers I don’t know, I know those songs can easily go either way. For example, If I see Jeffrey Steele listed in the credits, I know there’s a 50/50 chance of me liking the song. I always either absolutely hate or love his songs – there’s never an inbetween for me when it comes to him. If I see Neil Thrasher in the credits, I know there’s a very good chance I’ll like the song.

Case in point. I bought Lonestar’s brand new cd over the weekend. I popped it open and started looking over the credits. I spotted Neil Thrasher on 2 tunes, and was pretty pleased. Then I saw Jason Sellers’ name and was VERY happy. I knew I would love that song. Sure enough, after listening to all the songs on the cd, the one Jason wrote is by far my favorite, and I did like both of the ones that Neil wrote. With the exception of Richie & Dean, I didn’t recognize any of the other song writers names off hand, and some I liked, some I didn’t. No big surprise there.

And yes, if you haven’t guessed, there’s no real point to this post other than that I needed to ramble. I’ll be writing more – hopefully soon – about Canada. Things have been just crazy enough to keep me from writing any more than a few sentences at a time.

Like asking Niagara not to fall

YAY!!!!! It looks like I finally fixed the feed issues on livejournal! Maybe. Kinda. I did an end-run around the problem, by switching to summaries only. But that means if you read the feed there, you’ll have to come over here to read the full entry. Sorry! Livejournal didn’t like me any more; it was saying my feed was too big. Oops. I write too much. haha. At least I now know that my feed validates as Rss 2.0, though!

Of course, I was focusing so much on that, I didn’t do my facts. I’ve got one to post… I just need to play around with the images for it first. Make the smaller and brighter, even if they will still be crappy. I guess I should come up with another fact for now until I do that one, huh?

I think I figured out the tongue swelling issue from yesterday. It only lasted about 30 minutes, and only about half of it got swollen. I think I accidentally got a tiny piece of seafood on my Slim Fast can and ingested it. It’s the only thing I can think of that I’ve been near recently, and I know I’m allergic to seafood. There hasn’t been anything else in my diet or surroundings that’s out of the ordinary, so it shouldn’t/wouldn’t be an unknown allergy.

Thanks to finally earning enough miles for that free flight, I should hopefully be off to Canada next month. I have 7 vacation days that I have to use by the end of next month, so that will give me a nice chunk of vacation time. Another trip to Niagara Falls is one thing already on the books, this time a 2 day trip so we can spread it out and not kill ourselves trying to do everything in a day. It looks like I’ll be there over Canadian Thanksgiving, so we’ll also be going up to Emily’s parents for the holiday. Two Thanksgivings for me this year! Woot! Haha. We’ve just got to get a few things arranged on both ends first in regards to vacation days, then I can cash in those frequent flier miles.

According to an article I read the other day, they’re going to try to avoid all the massive gaps in between new episodes of LOST this season. So, the way it’s supposed to go: the season will premiere on Oct 4, and we will get 6 straight weeks of new episodes, through to November 8. After that, the show goes on a LOOOOOONG (12 week) holiday hiatus. It is supposed to start back up at the beginning of February sweeps (Feb 7) and run the remaining episodes of the season straight through to the finale (May 23), with no breaks/reruns/etc. And they’d damn well better not have reruns, after a 3 month hiatus!! The sections of uninterrupted episodes will be wonderful, but that is going to be one hellacious holiday break. Hahah. I’ve got most of my TV line up planned out, but of course that’s likely to change as new shows fail to keep my interest, or get cancelled. I’m mostly just glad “House” is back already. Mmmmm House.

I guess I’d better go work on writing up a fact…

Sitting in the darkness, popcorn on your knee

I went to see “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” this weekend. I can definitely say I enjoyed it, and cannot wait until the final installment next year. Trying to keep my comments as “spoiler-free” as possible for the current movie – have to add one thing. More than the obvious “big” questions that will be answered with part 3 – there’s one lesser “emotional” issue I am looking forward to seeing continued – I want to see how that plays out in interactions, what problems it will cause, etc. And in semi-related news – I plead the Fifth on whether or not I downloaded the Dead Man’s Chest game for my cell phone. But, if I had downloaded it, I could safely say I have not played it yet. But. Well. You know. I’m not saying if I did or not. 😉

Oh. One more comment on the movie – I don’t consider it spoilery, it’s actually probably pointless. It just amused me. When they list the cast? They only list Depp as “Jack Sparrow”. Yet several times in the movie when anyone calls him that – they’re corrected with the addition of “Captain”. Gee. “Captain” is important in the movie, but not the credits? Haha.

During the previews, I was surprised to discover that the “Transformers” has been turned into a live-action movie, that will be opening July 4, 2007. Is there anything from the 80’s that they won’t try to turn into a current movie? I’ll fully admit, I only watched a few of the cartoons. That was more my little brother’s thing. But I LOVED the action figures, and had several of my own I played with. I doubt I’ll go see the movie when it comes out, but I do admit to being a tiny bit curious as to how the transformers are going to look.

My Netflix queue seems to have stalled for a while. I go through spurts where I want to watch movies like crazy, watching 1-2 movies a night. Then just as quick as that urge came on, suddenly I can’t be bothered to watch a single thing. I’ll keep the movies I have from Netflix for a month or three before finally watching them. Thank god they don’t have late fees! Hopefully I can force myself to start watching them again this weekend, start making that queue move again.