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I couldn’t decide what to write about tonight, so I thought I’d just cobble together a bunch of randomness for your viewing pleasure.

I recently watched The Hangover … amazing. Literally laughing almost the entire length of the movie.

Just finished a new great book by the amazing Charles de Lint, one of my favorite authors. This book, Memory and Dream, was one I wasn’t sure about since all the other work of his I’ve read have all either been about one of his major and, in my opinion, best characters (Jilly Coppercorn) or collections of short stories. This book was about one of Jilly’s friends, and Jilly was there, now and again, but very minor. But I fell in love with this new character … I say new, but she’s not really new, she’s been in the background of many other de Lint stories … and I was easily sucked into the story. Oh Charles de Lint, you are awesome.

Just now discovered a new band I’m thoroughly enjoying – they’re called Gomez, and they remind me a lot of Weezer. The music styles are slightly similar, Gomez might be a little softer rock than Weezer, but I think what really brings Weezer and Gomez together in my mind is that they’re both peopled with fabulous nerds and they both make great random music videos, though Gomez’s videos are definitely lower budget type stuff as I don’t think they’ve quite got the revenue Weezer’s got. Here’s a couple songs of theirs that I particularly enjoyed:

“Airstream Driver”

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“Notice”

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“Silence”

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Let’s see … what else. Oh, I’ll be taking off soon for a fabulous 4-day vacation to California to visit a friend. This Wednesday, actually. I am so very excited to see my friend, and Cali. I’ve never been. I land back home on Saturday and that Sunday I get to go home for an early Thanksgiving with my mom’s side of the fam. It’s actually great how that works out too, since the only reason I’ll be going is because my plans for my ride from the airport back home got mixed up and I was afraid I would be stranded for a while, but everything worked out more than perfect. Love when that happens.

Alrighty, well that’s enough randomness for one night. Oh, and in case you were wondering, no I’m not on drugs – the title for this entry came from a random phrase generator I found when I was too lazy to come up with something on my own. And now, I’m off to bed so I’m not insanely tired for stupid work in the morning.