watching a classic tale of two lebowskis. suncoast is currently having a little liquidation sale of 50 percent off everything. the flat irons mall gave me toy soldiers and animatrix while westminster gave me grand hotel and annie hall. very happy about these new additions. the concerts were great. the dirtbombs were super late so we decided to check out another show at the bluebird then head back over to the dirtbombs to hopefully catch them too. first up was nebula who sounded like a cross between megadeath and some psychedelic rock band. they were good though. then was the hellacopters who were an 80s hair band transplant. we headed back to the larimer lounge and were there in time to see the black lips who were actually my favorite band that played. these guys were great. picture some 60s hippie rock band with a scrawny guy with a mustache yelling incoherent lyrics. that's the black lips and they freaking rock damn it. and finally was the dirtbombs. they rocked pretty hard and i was impressed. sounded better live than on record. i'm not sure about them having two drummers, but the bass's were great. and mick collins was totally a freaking rocker if there ever was such a thing.
i'm back home. there's a lot i have to say and most will be forgotten before it is put to print. it was good spending time with joe's fam. i don't remember ever meeting his dad or gramps, but apparently i have many moons ago. his grandpa is great to talk to, or to listen to i should say. he's an old timer who loves to talk and tell stories, but is probably sharper than any of us. his dad is a pretty funny man. i told this to someone, but it was crazy to think that had my mom and jim stayed together, her life would have turned out so differently. i think that as a person she would be completely someone else. of course you can say that i would never have been born or chris or emily, but someone else would have been born in our places, so who cares? we probably would have been born eventually i guess. and then there's joe. he's got a great new place, chicks leaving him messages left and right, and comcast cable. you should see the three of them in action when it comes to fixing crap up. seeing them makes me realize how inept i am when it comes to stuff like that. these guys are testing out electrical lines, drilling holes, putting together ice makers. you name it. i'm too lazy to fix the towel holder in the bathroom. today though i did feel like an adult living an adult life for about 30 minutes. i used my saturday to do chores and cleaning stuff. basically i had a saturday like the hundreds of saturdays i remember growing up with, minus voltron. saturdays that involved doing things, fixing things, cleaning things. felt good and the nice weather helped.
V for Vendetta (2006): not the best work to show off natalie's superior quality. although, she's good at crying and there is lots of that. there are hokie parts and parts where cases are solved based on "hunches." in what i assume are hundreds of kilometers of tunnels from london's underground, the detective happens to pick the right one based on nothing. crap like this happens a lot. don't expect this to be anything like the matrix movies just because they throw the wachowski brothers all over it. remember, they aren't directing it. they only wrote and produced it. this is the director's first movie. there is a ton of story to tell and they at least did a good job in finding ways to relay a ton of info to the audience without getting too old. it was a little hard to tell, but i think hugo weaving did alright. i don't know how to really describe the movie except that it's not very tight. the plot is good, but there is too much info in not enough time to keep everything clean. the more info-rich a movie is, the more susceptible it is to plot holes and such. don't get me wrong, it's worth it just to have a glimpse of the hottest jew in north america. see it.
so as i was driving through the great desert of eastern utah, i was looking around at the massive cliffs or whatever you'd like to call them, and noticed the usual lines left from what i believe was lake bonneville like thousands of years ago. i think i'm wrong about that, but it is obvious there was water there at some point in time. driving along i-70 you can look up and around and imagine that every space was filled with water. that's a lot of damn water. then i started thinking, what if all that water were to just appear? maybe it would just drop from the sky or just show up like old age. then i figured, this is how life on earth should end. it took millions of years to form, millions for humans to become what we are today. what if instead of aliens killing us one by one by infected paper cuts, can't they just blow us up like in hitchhiker's guide? in the end, without notice, water should appear. before everything dies, the last words uttered will be, "well that was fun," and the end credits will roll. then forever after, things are finally quiet. the end.
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