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Friday, October 10th, 2003
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9:00a - HULK MAD!!!!
we're having some screwy server issues around here, so EVERYTHING is all slow and dumb and i'm getting cranky as a result. i've gotten a couple pop-up messages telling us that WMT03 is low on space and we have to delete stuff and whatnot, and i was like, dudes...isn't it your job to make sure we have ENOUGH space? i mean, it's not like we're cluttering the place up with downloaded music and pornography or anything. databases take up a lot of fucking space, man.
this is, of course, all made better by the fact that monday is a holiday. woo-hoo! i'm going to do the day off dance, okay. it's much like the sushiland dance, only with less butt movement. oh, and the day off dance must be done while seated.
in other news, me and the west wing are pretty much officially through. this is especially sad as a) this has been a four year relationship and b) this has never happened to me before. i have never abandoned a show mid-series, at least not on purpose. i've been unable to catch some episodes here or there, but i've always made it up during repeats or had someone tape it for me or as a last resort, lived off of the re-caps at Television Without Pity. but just to stop watching? to purposefully watch another show at the same time and make no effort to even switch over during the commercials? it's the tv viewer's equivalent of going down to the store for a pack of cigarettes and never coming back... it just seems so cold. i feel like i'm betraying the characters i've come to love and the actors i've come to REALLY love and want to have babies with. how could you do this to me, guys? i've been wary of expressing this sentiment, but i think i have to: there are no two ways around it, the west wing sucks ass without aaron sorkin. i feel so betrayed. john wells: you can suck it, okay? not even a marvelously stunt-casted gary cole as the new cowboy vice president can save this ickily written schlock. if i had human feelings, i would seriously cry, man. it's just not the show i loved anymore and i don't think i'm totally out of line in seeking an annulment to our union.
i take television way too seriously.
current mood: sad
current music: the liars
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9:39a
did anybody catch the phoenix debate? i had a hankering to try out slate's Democratic Debate Drinking Game, but i got a pass for a free previews of Mystic River, which was AWESOME. with the exception of Unforgiven, i've never been impressed with clint's directorial abilities, but this movie was freaky good, i swear to god. i've read reviews that have said that it was a disappointing adaptation of the book, but i haven't read the book, so like i give a shit. it was totally intense...kind of gave me a stomach ache, really. and on top of that, it stars three of the greatest actors in living history: sean penn, tim robbins and lawrence fishburn. man, they act so well they make my heart hurt, especially sean penn, and speaking of sean penn...i still don't understand how it is that nobody but me and like 10 other people are on the sean penn is the best actor ever bandwagon. sure, he's been in some bad movies, but has he ever actually *been* bad in them? he even turned out an good performance in Shanghai Surprise and that movie, by all rights, should have killed the careers of everyone involved. how good was he in colors, the thin red line, hurlyburly, casualties of war, sweet and lowdown, state of grace, i am sam, the weight of water, carlito's way, u turn, dead man walking (of course), taps...am i missing anything, am i? i think playing spicoli in fast times at ridgemont high might have branded him forever as...well, spicoli. maybe that's it. and that whole married to madonna thing. but fuck that, sean penn is godly. and kinda hot too, but that's just me.
i was talking about something else before i got on the sean penn topic, wasn't i? oh, the debate. so did anybody pick that up? i've read a couple of articles, but nothing's ever as good as a first hand account from a discerning source. also, i'd like to know if i'm right: i'm betting clark, edwards and dean took off their jackets and pushed up their shirtsleeves at some point. am i right? and leiberman kept his on...but if he did take it off, he looked very awkward doing so.
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