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So instead of going to bed, I think I'll just stay up too late again and write random gibberish. Most of my most popular entries are late at night ramblings about pointless crap.
Reason #403493433.4 why I love Tivo: Flipping through the channels at random tonight, I noticed that "So You Think You Can Dance?" was coming on, and so I thought "Hey, I like dancing" and decided to record it. Good thing I did because the number of minutes of actual new original dancing in the entire 1 hour programme: 5.5 minutes. The rest was filled with pointless backstory, rehashes from previous episodes, and the judges weighing in on all of 20 seconds of dance routine that each performer did. And lots of commercials. So while I am in no way good enough to be on that show, I could probably hold my own on "So you think you could produce a dance show with actual dancing in it?" if my competition were the producers of that show.
And yes, it's cooler if you spell words with the foreign spelling like that. It's exotic, it's like having a foreign accent on the web. Or this is what I tell myself anyways.
In related news, the Geico gecko is actually British and not Australian. See people, this is why the Internet needed to be invented. Otherwise you'd NEVER KNOW!
The other reason? So people could make a webpage about Chess on Rollercoasters. This is almost as cool as Extreme Ironing. It definitely wins in the nerd factor, but ironing wins out in the end because it's EXTREME!
Lots of CAPS tonight. It's EXCITING!
So this YouTube video on Geometry Face was written about in the New York Times today, and yet it still only has 206 views (I was number 207). Granted it is a really really boring video, but it was mentioned in the New York Times! And yes, it was in Section E, Page 2, and you had to search for it yourself since there was no link in the article, but still.
Justin Timberlake's new video for LoveStoned is really bad. I felt like I was watching a late 90's Winamp plugin.
Harry Potter the 7th comes out tomorrow night, so I've got to pick up my copy. As per usual I didn't reserve a copy, so I'm going to be stalking Wal-Mart for one in the end probably. I'm considering going without sleep to finish it that night, but sleep may win out. Maybe. It's 784 pages long, at about 120 pages an hour, so I could probably finish it by about 7 in the morning giving a little leeway for reading slower as I got tireder, and that would be totally doable right?
Speaking of HP, I looked up the info on the 3rd movie, since it's really the only one I thought was at all good, and I realized why. It was the only one in the series directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also did Y Tu Mama Tambien (which is about the most opposite you can get from a kids movie possible) and Children of Men, both movies with unique stories and great filmmaking.
Contining on with movies, I also saw Stomp The Yard Tuesday, which I had Netflixed about a month ago, and while it deserves the ghastly reviews it gets because the story and acting are really bad, it does have some amazing dancing and stomping and really, if they came out with a 45 minute "Director's Cut" of just the stomp sequences, I think it would have gotten way better reviews and would just be a better movie overall.
I found this awesome bit of text on Wikipedia the other day while looking up who Mike Jones was, since apparently everyone's heard of him but me:
The song deals with the popularity and sexual attention rappers receive because of their money, and contrasts this with way Jones was treated before achieving success. The song is sometimes seen as a critique of effects of fame; conversely, it is often considered to present a misogynistic or chauvinistic attitude toward women.
I love the serious deadpan analysis of a rap song.
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