slipstreaming my anachronistic surreal consciousness - sharing with you my multiple epiphanies that were spawned while sitting on my porcelain throne (these are the ones I didn't flush) "don't believe everything you think…"
Sunday, December 07, 2003
weekend review
12-6-3:
I woke up 9am and find out that the snowstorm was upgraded to a blizzard and it's supposed to last till midnight, which is never a good thing.
Brian & I continued to watch The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers Special Extended Edition from where he left-off last night.
Brian asked me to fix his computer so that he can play his Command & Conquer: Generals. I've heard of it but never seen it. I tried all known S.O.P. to me, but none worked. As a last resort, I e-mailed their Tech Support for advice.
Brian made pasta for brunch.
Later, Brian popped-in his Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle Of Life DVD. Since I've already seen it before and I really felt like going home to take a shower; I didn't finish watching the movie, I stayed for the 1st 20min. I left around 11:30am.
The windshield blemish I was supposed to fix before winter got worse! Due to: the cold weather, the defrost set to the hottest, & the pressure of the wipers; the crack spread across the windshield. I had to drive through the blizzard without using the defrost & the wipers, which made it a dangerous back drive home. (I've not used my truck since. It will be repaired on the early morning of 12-8-3. Thankfully, it's covered by it's HMO.)
Keenan picked me up around 7pm. Then we picked-up Mike & Chris (the 3 of us live about 5 min. away from each other). Basically, everyone who was at Brian's place the night before came back for a 2nd night. The only 2 new guys for the evening were: Mindy's (the downstair neighbor, daughter of Lori) boyfriend, James & and Brian's friend, "Brian". Who I'll now refer to as "Brian-2".
Brian-2 is almost like Brian; except he's a little shorter, has a lower voice (Brian's voice is lower than mine. Imagine a voice around 3 octaves lower than mine.) & a better sense of humor. If Brian-2 were less than 4 feet high, I'd call him, "Mini-B".
We brought Papa John's Pizzas.
Brian-2 & I shared 1 bottle of Malibu. He drank his on the rocks, while I had mine with Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi.
A little past 10pm, after asking Brian, I found out that Command & Conquer: Generals' Tech Support replied by 7pm, which was real cool! (However, Brian deleted both e-mail they sent; but, they were fortunately still in the "Trash Can" box.) There was only 1 thing that I wasn't aware of from the 4 that they advised to do and it's something that's unique for their products. And, bingo! That was it!
About an hour past the pizzas, we watched Pirates of the Caribbean. I'm glad to know, that they're going to make a sequel to this movie.
Then they played Scattergories, while I watched Buckaroo Banzai.
When they were done with Scattergories, they started to watch Buckaroo Banzai with me. I had to explain that it was a cult movie and it was b-movie humor. Brian hated it, while Brian-2 found it funny because of "Pinky Carruther's Unknown Facts" (at first, we were the only 2 laughing at it). Actually, the movie on it's own (without "Pinky Carruther's Unknown Facts") is funny, if you appreciate cult-humor. Brian (not knowing that the subtitles weren't 'closed captioning') said, "The subtitles aren't even what they're saying."
There are now 3 movies, that I like, which Brian hates: Hudson Hawk, Donnie Darko, & Buckaroo Banzai.
What made the movie really worth while was the cringed look on Brian's face as he repeatedly asked me, "Do you really like this movie?", "Why do you like this movie?" & "How can you like this movie?". And, he kept that cringed look frozen long enough to imprint it on my memory. I'm almost certain that, from now on, whenever Brian hears "Buckaroo Banzai" his Pavlovian reaction would be that cringed look. I wish I had a photo of that look.
I'm glad that Brian-2 found it funny, he was on my side.
Mike also blames me for 2 of the 3 worse movies he's seen in his life: Donnie Darko & Buckaroo Banzai. However, I did catch him laughing every now & then, while he was watching Buckaroo Banzai.
Because he was also laughing, Chris had a hard time admitting that he thought Buckaroo Banzai was funny.
Keenan's repeated comments about the movie was "That's the guy from Memento." (a movie I haven't seen) If you want to know how it went, repeat what he said (the 1st just enough for everyone to hear you immediately followed by a murmur) every 3-5 min. for around 30 min. (I was seating right next to him, so I heard his murmurs.)
We watched Spaceballs after Buckaroo Banzai. Brian owns a DVD of Spaceballs, yet he can't stand Buckaroo Banzai. We didn't finish the movie, it was way past 3am.
12-7-3:
Due to the blizzard (which is now on the record as the worst blizzard of Long Island for the month of December) and being snowed in, it took us almost an hour to move Brian's car out of the driveway. Keenan drove us home by 11am. It's been a very cold but quiet & relaxing day, since.
I woke up 9am and find out that the snowstorm was upgraded to a blizzard and it's supposed to last till midnight, which is never a good thing.
Brian & I continued to watch The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers Special Extended Edition from where he left-off last night.
Brian asked me to fix his computer so that he can play his Command & Conquer: Generals. I've heard of it but never seen it. I tried all known S.O.P. to me, but none worked. As a last resort, I e-mailed their Tech Support for advice.
Brian made pasta for brunch.
Later, Brian popped-in his Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle Of Life DVD. Since I've already seen it before and I really felt like going home to take a shower; I didn't finish watching the movie, I stayed for the 1st 20min. I left around 11:30am.
The windshield blemish I was supposed to fix before winter got worse! Due to: the cold weather, the defrost set to the hottest, & the pressure of the wipers; the crack spread across the windshield. I had to drive through the blizzard without using the defrost & the wipers, which made it a dangerous back drive home. (I've not used my truck since. It will be repaired on the early morning of 12-8-3. Thankfully, it's covered by it's HMO.)
Keenan picked me up around 7pm. Then we picked-up Mike & Chris (the 3 of us live about 5 min. away from each other). Basically, everyone who was at Brian's place the night before came back for a 2nd night. The only 2 new guys for the evening were: Mindy's (the downstair neighbor, daughter of Lori) boyfriend, James & and Brian's friend, "Brian". Who I'll now refer to as "Brian-2".
Brian-2 is almost like Brian; except he's a little shorter, has a lower voice (Brian's voice is lower than mine. Imagine a voice around 3 octaves lower than mine.) & a better sense of humor. If Brian-2 were less than 4 feet high, I'd call him, "Mini-B".
We brought Papa John's Pizzas.
Brian-2 & I shared 1 bottle of Malibu. He drank his on the rocks, while I had mine with Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi.
A little past 10pm, after asking Brian, I found out that Command & Conquer: Generals' Tech Support replied by 7pm, which was real cool! (However, Brian deleted both e-mail they sent; but, they were fortunately still in the "Trash Can" box.) There was only 1 thing that I wasn't aware of from the 4 that they advised to do and it's something that's unique for their products. And, bingo! That was it!
About an hour past the pizzas, we watched Pirates of the Caribbean. I'm glad to know, that they're going to make a sequel to this movie.
Then they played Scattergories, while I watched Buckaroo Banzai.
When they were done with Scattergories, they started to watch Buckaroo Banzai with me. I had to explain that it was a cult movie and it was b-movie humor. Brian hated it, while Brian-2 found it funny because of "Pinky Carruther's Unknown Facts" (at first, we were the only 2 laughing at it). Actually, the movie on it's own (without "Pinky Carruther's Unknown Facts") is funny, if you appreciate cult-humor. Brian (not knowing that the subtitles weren't 'closed captioning') said, "The subtitles aren't even what they're saying."
There are now 3 movies, that I like, which Brian hates: Hudson Hawk, Donnie Darko, & Buckaroo Banzai.
What made the movie really worth while was the cringed look on Brian's face as he repeatedly asked me, "Do you really like this movie?", "Why do you like this movie?" & "How can you like this movie?". And, he kept that cringed look frozen long enough to imprint it on my memory. I'm almost certain that, from now on, whenever Brian hears "Buckaroo Banzai" his Pavlovian reaction would be that cringed look. I wish I had a photo of that look.
I'm glad that Brian-2 found it funny, he was on my side.
Mike also blames me for 2 of the 3 worse movies he's seen in his life: Donnie Darko & Buckaroo Banzai. However, I did catch him laughing every now & then, while he was watching Buckaroo Banzai.
Because he was also laughing, Chris had a hard time admitting that he thought Buckaroo Banzai was funny.
Keenan's repeated comments about the movie was "That's the guy from Memento." (a movie I haven't seen) If you want to know how it went, repeat what he said (the 1st just enough for everyone to hear you immediately followed by a murmur) every 3-5 min. for around 30 min. (I was seating right next to him, so I heard his murmurs.)
We watched Spaceballs after Buckaroo Banzai. Brian owns a DVD of Spaceballs, yet he can't stand Buckaroo Banzai. We didn't finish the movie, it was way past 3am.
12-7-3:
Due to the blizzard (which is now on the record as the worst blizzard of Long Island for the month of December) and being snowed in, it took us almost an hour to move Brian's car out of the driveway. Keenan drove us home by 11am. It's been a very cold but quiet & relaxing day, since.
