"TOO MANY VOICES IN MY HEAD" or, "Continued from Last Night..." ITEM FIVE Earlier this week, I got to page through a copy of the Bulletproof Monk graphic novel. Man, the reviews were right -- it wasn't all that great. The flick was actually better. I also got to leaf through a copy of some Lupin the 3rd manga. I've heard of fanservice, but damn. Monkey Punch must've had some serious childhood...

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TODAY IN MY BRAIN... ITEM ONE Believe it or not, I've spent way more time actually filling this blog thingy in than I originally envisioned. I'm now wondering if I should actually, somehow, someway start trolling for some sort of audience beyond the two to three people who actually read this. That, or just shut it down. Decisions, decisions. ITEM TWO I wonder if I should cop Adult Swim's new...

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MUSING OVER MUSIC Current Mood: None of your business :) Current Music: My .mp3 playlist of all-time favorite tunes, one of which contains the following lyric: I remember when you learned about love In the back of a Chevrolet No good for an old memory To mean so much today When You Close Your Eyes words/music by Blades/Fitzgerald/Gillis perf. by Night Ranger Incidentally, my current mood is probably...

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ALL KIDS OUT OF THE POOL Even if you don't like any of the cartoons currently showing on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, I sort of dig their new look. They used to have these parodies of those Worst Case Scenario books between their shows. I thought that was cool. Now, they just have these white letters on a black screen set to ambient/techno stuff. Saves a ton on editing and effects, I'm sure. At...

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NEXT ON THE MOVIE AGENDA The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. No, I've never read the comic -- excuse me, "graphic novel." I hear the movie will differ from the comic, anyway. I am hesitant about this one, though. If any movie has potential to suck big time, I think it's this one. I also forsee the possibility that it'll end up as one of those weekend tv shows you see wedged in between Adventure,...

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MR. ANDERSON... Hey, as eye candy, I thought Matrix Reloaded was as good as the first, not better. Why? Well, remember the broomstick scenes in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone? They had a few shots of an obviously computer-generated Harry flopping around in the sky. That's exactly Neo and others looked in some of those fight scenes. It occurred to me why Neo's outfit had no real detail....

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HOT-HANDED SUPER TEST I'm officially a quiz whore, but I don't care. This test is too damn cool! You are Jeffrey, the iconoclastic hitman fromThe Killer. You have a very particularpersonal code which governs your actions, andwill not deviate from it. Your enemies admireyour integrity, and your friends rely...

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THE MOST ACCURATE TEST... ...because I like the results the most. AVON: "I relied on other people." -- Youperfected the snarky, amoral geek act whenSeamus Harper was still a zygote. You'vealways got an eye out for number one, and youdon't even try to hide your contempt when yourcoworkers can't keep up. Yet,...

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PERSONALITY TEST BATTERY Here are the results of a recent battery of tests. [This was somewhat surprising, yet not.] You are PATRICK TROUGHTON! what doctor who are you? brought to you by Quizilla [Couldn't I have at least been a Dalek?] Sontaran. People laugh at you when you walk downthe street in your...

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NOW I KNOW THESE TESTS ARE WHACKED You are Neo, from "The Matrix." Youdisplay a perfect fusion of heroism andcompassion. What Matrix Persona Are You? brought to you by Quizilla Don't I wi...

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REALITY IN SCI-FI I got this from the Happy Fun Pundit via wilwheaton.net -- from the Top Ten Things I Hate About Star Trek: 5. Rule by committee. Here's the difference between Star Trek and the best SF show on TV last year: Star Trek: Picard: "Arm photon torpedoes!" Riker: "Captain! Are you sure that's wise?" Troi: "Captain! I'm picking up conflicting feelings about this! And, it appears that...

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This is only a test of the emergency blog-moving system. Had this been an actual blog entry, you would've seen a title and some musings only slightly less banal than this o...

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GOOD OL' COLLEGE TRY I will try to forego my nightly dose of Adult Swim and go to bed early. Well, maybe after Lupin the 3rd...

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RETRACTION Flipping through channels just now, I see that Trigun has been moved to 1 AM, even though the commercials I've seen tonight still state that it's on at midnight....

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MISH MASH ITEM ONE Saw X2: X-Men United this afternoon. I'm dying to rave about it, but I don't want to spoil it. Suffice it to say, it was almost like Chris Claremont wrote the script -- old school Claremont, that is, not that stuff he put out in Extreme X-Men. ITEM TWO Good news: Lupin the 3rd is back on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. Bad news: I don't see Trigun there anymore. I'd research...

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SHATTERED INNOCENCE I remember when Huey Lewis & The News was one of the biggest bands on the planet. I remember not being able to walk into a record store without seeing that poster of Huey in the red suit/black t-shirt outfit looking over his sunglasses. I have all of their albums, even their latest one. Today, I listened to the album Fore!. I've listened to that album a million times...

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DISAPPOINTMENT Macy Gray's new album did not come out on 5/15 like I had read. It won't be out until 6/10....

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DEVELOPING THEME Here's yet another quiz I took. Remember when I first took the Trigun character quiz and tried too hard not the end up as you-know-who? Well, I took this one and didn't even know this was a possible answer. Yet, the result speaks for itself... What's Your Anime Weapon? No one would ever...

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IT'S A POST, POST, POST, POST-MODERN WORLD Hey, I'm a big fan of literary deconstruction, too. But it is possible to take things too far. Case in point: Matrix Essays. Oliver Stone didn't go this far with the Zapruder film, for pete's sa...

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AM I REALLY THIS BAD?? Why do I keep coming out as the bad guy? Which Cowboy Bebop Character are You like? Take other quizzes at Newsies Meets Anime...Anime Meets Newsies....

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CONFIRMATION I tried to retake this test, being as honest as possible. Guess it must be true... Which Trigun Character are You like? Take other quizzes at Newsies Meets Anime...Anime Meets Newsies....

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A BIT OF RESOLUTION I didn't really notice until recently the slow increase of Don Henley music I've been listening to lately. I always dug his music, I have a few CDs, and The Heart of the Matter is on my .mp3 mix of my favorite songs of all time. But, I'm finding a lot of songs resonate. Didn't I put a few lyrics on here a few entries back? Here's something that hit me regarding the recent...

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CINEMATIC AGENDA X2: X-Men United Ok, it's gotten pretty low to average reviews. Of course it won't stop the comic book ner... I mean, "afficianados" like me from seeing it. Sequels are generally bad enough to begin with; it's almost expected in comic-book movies. It's sort of sad, actually. Everyone automatically says, "God, I hope it doesn't turn into another Batman." (That's an entirely separate...

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FURTHER DOWN THE SLIPPERY SLOPE Or, Music: Lots of stuff by lots of people I always wondered why that seems to be such a standard on blogs. There were many random things on my CD player today. Trouble is, music tends to ellicit all kinds of reactions in me. I can rarely listen to anything just to tap my foot to it. I either criticize the technical or overpersonalize the lyrics. Cases in point,...

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PLUMBING THE DEPTHS OF MY SOUL... ...with the intellectual equivalent of Liquid Drano. Hey, aren't blogs all about self-examination anyway? The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!Here is how you matched up against all the levels:LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)LowLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)Very LowLevel 2 (Lustful)ExtremeLevel 3 (Gluttonous)HighLevel...

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THIS BLOG'S LOSS OF DIGNITY IS COMPLETE This time, I tried to take the test as honestly and accurately as possible, no matter how the answers might have turned out. Take the Which Lupin III character are you? quiz. Created by Bicky Flannigan and Edward Tivrusky Ed. note: At least with Lupin's pic, the quiz...

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I HAVE BEEN ASSIMILATED I finally succumbed. I so wanted this blog to have at least a semblance of dignity, at least at first glance. But, I said to myself, "Self... what the heck?" Which Trigun Character are You like? Take other quizzes at Newsies Meets Anime...Anime Meets Newsies... I'm not sure I like...

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FINALLY... I saw Bulletproof Monk this afternoon! As it turns out, the idiot who posted spoiler-type information that I ranted about a few entries back actually didn't spoil the whole movie. Ok, so the plot had a few holes and the fight choreography was hardly Yuen Wo-Ping stuff, but still. Chow Yun-Fat kicking butt is all I need. I swear his english has gotten a bit better, t...

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BORING DAY How boring is my life? So boring that I take time to document how boring it actually is. Today's big task: Getting a new antenna for my cell phone. Tomorrow's big task: See a matinee showing of Bulletproof Monk. The reviews I read haven't been all that great, but hey -- Chow Yun-Fat holding two guns in both hands, playing another bad ass. What more could you ask f...

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