April 2006

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I don't blog on MySpace.

05 April, 2006 at 10:56 PM by Ren | Permalink

Their little blog thing sucks balls. So Oracle, you have to settle for this one.

Unfortunately Bulletins Have Spilled Over into Blogs.

Rules: Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with six weird facts/things/habits about yourself. In the end, you need to choose six people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "You've been tagged!" in their comments and tell them to read yours

When I wash my hair in the morning, I rinse my hands of the lather before I rinse the lather out of my hair.
If you try and force me to do something, it makes me resist even more.
I have year dates on almost all my music in iTunes; It lets me organize smart playlists by date. Because I'm OCD like that
My nose stuffs up really bad around 3 a.m. -- doesn't matter if I'm awake or asleep.
The first time I got a real buzz from alcohol was right before Operation Graduation--a lock-in for high school graduates ostensibly to prevent them from getting drunk (Thanks Shan Dar!)
I've never been to Florida. So, um, Oracle? We're totally going to Walt DisneyWorld.

I tag Krysdol, Shandar, Freaky, SargieGirl, The Beast, and LinaMariePresley (she's my pee buddy, after all).

I'm so easily entertained

07 April, 2006 at 04:25 PM by Ren | Permalink

From a phone conversation about 20 minutes ago:

Krysdol: Hey, do you want to go to the movies with me, Batman and the Oracle?
Ren: I dunno, what are you going to go see?
Krysdol: Lucky Number Slevin
Ren: Never heard of it, who's in that?
Krysdol: It's got Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis and Ben Kingsley. It's supposed to be really good.
Ren: Heh. I know why you want to go see it.
Krysdol: Uh. Yeah. Josh Hartnett spends half the movie in just a towel.
Ren: What time did you say it started?

The things I'd pay money for

08 April, 2006 at 01:13 AM by Ren | Permalink

So, if you read my last post, you'd know that Batman, The Oracle, Krysdol and I went to the movies tonight. To see someone in a towel on a multi-story screen. Wait, let me clarify that: that's why three of us went; one of us went to see people play with guns and things possibly exploding.

Besides the obvious eye candy, the movie--Lucky Number Slevin--is remarkably good. Especially considering that I knew absolutely nothing about it and Krysdol picked it out (I'm sorry dude, but you totally watched this several times--doesn't always bode well for your viewing selections); I mean, I was sold on a character spending a good amount of time in a towel and Lucy Liu's in this one too and she plays neither a competent lawyer, erotic assasin or an icy dominatrix (yes, Oracle, I finally remembered the other one). In this one, she plays way out of type; she's a competent coroner!

Anyway, the plot basically involves Matt Sullivan in a case of mistaken identity by Hoke and Ghandi, who are all being manipulated by Korben Dallas. I'll leave it at that so I don't ruin plot for any of you kids out there who haven't seen it.

Well, one last thing--and this is important for the rest of this story--Josh Hartnett (to all our delight) brandishes a gun and uses it with extreme prejudice.

On the way home, we stopped at a convenience store for some, uh, supplies for The Oracle when in the truck next to us I notice someone who looks remarkably like my Arch Nemesis. This sparked a discussion between Krysdol, Batman and I. The discussion follows:

Krysdol: Friend, you could always call Josh Hartnett to kill him.
Batman: Yeah. Pull out his guns and blast the motherf*cka!
Ren: Oh man, good idea! If I was paying Josh Hartnett to put a hit on...oh wait, I would pay him to do that to me!
Well, I would have him whack...oh wait. I'd pay him to do that to me too.
No, I got it: I would have him bust a...yeah, I'd pay to have him do that to me too.
OH! Yeah! I'd get him to pop a...no, I'd definitely pay for that!
Krysdol: Wow. It's funny how violence and sex are pretty close together, huh?
Ren:...Ok, how about having him knock...oh, no. I'd pay for that too.

And it went like that the rest of the way home. Funny how mobster euphemisms for murder also make good double entendres for sexual acts.

Something I meant to do a long while back

08 April, 2006 at 10:47 PM by Ren | Permalink

I meant to do this some time ago, but things got in the way, and I never actually got around to it.

Every month, I compile a playlist for that particular month to play on my iPod. I decided at the end of last year I was going to post each month's playlist on here, so y'all could see what I'm listening to.

This is the playlist for January, 2006.

Hung Up (Radio Edit) - Madonna
No Sleep Tonight - The Faders
Jukebox - Bent Fabric
You Owe Me One - ABBA
You're No Good - Linda Ronstandt
Dirty Little Secret - The All-American Rejects
Return to Sender - Elvis Presley
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Free Me - Emma Bunton
When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstandt
Check On It - Beyonce Knowles feat. Slim Thug
'Til I Get To You (Radio Edit) - Nikka Costa
Nth Degree - Morningwood

I'll keep posting these up for the rest of the year, so you can see what songs stay and what songs depart. Think of it as a kind of experiment. Or something.

What I listened to in February

08 April, 2006 at 10:55 PM by Ren | Permalink

Just playing catch-up on this idea I had late last year...

This is the playlist for February, 2006:

No Sleep Tonight - The Faders
You Owe Me One - ABBA
Check On It - Beyonce Knowles feat. Slim Thug
Nth Degree - morningwood
Perfect Situation - Weezer
Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Cash Machine - Hard-Fi
What You Meant - Franz Ferdinand
Love Me Like You - The Magic Numbers
Tu y Yo - Haydee Milanes
Burnin' - Rashaan Patterson
DARE - Gorillaz
A.M. Radio - Everclear
How Many Times - Zack Hexum

Last month's list can be found here.

March Playlist

08 April, 2006 at 11:06 PM by Ren | Permalink

This is the playlist for March, 2006:

You Owe Me One - ABBA
Check On It - Beyonce Knowles feat. Slim Thug
Perfect Situation - Weezer
Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
What You Meant - Franz Ferdinand
Love Me Like You - The Magic Numbers
DARE - Gorillaz
A.M. Radio - Everclear
How Many Times - Zack Hexum
Queen of the Night - The Eccentric Opera
Phoenix - Daft Punk
Ooh la la - Goldfrapp
This Strange Effect - Hooverphonic
I Like the Way (Radio Edit) - Bodyrockers
Mr. Bigstuff - Jean Knight
Girls and Boys - Blur
Cherry Lips (Go Baby, Go!) - Garbage
Cowboys Are Frequently (Secretly) Fond of Eachother - Willie Nelson
Travelin' Thru - Dolly Parton
Brighter Than Sunshine - Aqualung
Cosmopolitan - Nine Black Alps
If it's Lovin' That You Want - Rihanna
No More Questions (Audio Rip from an SNL Digital Short) - Natalie Portman

The previous playlists can be found here: January, 2006; February, 2006.

I have to look on the bright side

10 April, 2006 at 05:15 PM by Ren | Permalink

So another chapter has come to a close in my life. No, I don't mean that someone died, or I'm taking a new job.

What I mean to say is that I pulled up to my apartment this afternoon to see that my neighbor, The Exuberant Masturbator has moved out! Well, I'm not even real sure of that, but, it's a pretty done deal because the cleaning lady is in there cleaning stuff out. That's a pretty good sign you don't live there anymore.

I'm not sure how I feel about it...I mean, I'm kind of sad. But mostly I'm left with a sense of remorse because I'll never find out what you were doing over there to make your bed squeak like that.

So, goodbye Exuberant Masturbator--unless you read this blog by some random congruence of planetary bodies; in which case, please email me and tell me what you were up to. I'm curious as all hell.

When it's time to change...

13 April, 2006 at 09:50 PM by Ren | Permalink

same boring crap, fresh new taste!

So, I finally did it.

Here's a new version of the website for you to enjoy. I think this is version 12. I lost count a while back. There's no reason for the update, save for the fact that I was never really satisfied with the last iteration; the colors just weren't me. I was also really noticing that my little logo just didn't work for me anymore--so I updated it. Put my feet down, flipped it and reversed it, as it were. I put it into a sphere and in the process managed to emphasize the 'R' that is hidden in there, and even make an 'E' visible in there too, if ya pay attention. Go me.

I also added a little feature to add a picture like the one above me right now, should I choose to mix it up a bit. For this first post, I sure the hell did. Funky style.

Anyway, there's bound to be errors; I haven't finished checking everything, and there's snippets of code to enter here and there. So don't complain. Just sing my praises. I mean, I managed to upload this site by only overwriting one style sheet. Friggen' awesome if you ask me. I mean, there's a couple tweaks here and there to fix, but for the most part it's done.

I still have a couple other style sheets to modify and a couple snippets of code to add into the entries further in, but that can wait for a bit; i'm leaving for Easter tomorrow and my internet is spotty there since my parents aren't technologically advanced enough to offer wireless capabilities.

Enjoy. Or don't. I don't really care. Whatever.

RAMalicious

24 April, 2006 at 03:39 PM by Ren | Permalink

I used a portion of my tax refund recently to purchase some RAM for Hayden, my beloved PowerBook. In fact, I got such a good deal, I was able to max out the RAM on him. 2G in fact.

It is teh hawtness.

I've been playing SimCity 4: Rush Hour! incessantly. I can't help myself. I must continue to grow my city.

Plus, it's fun with the Rush Hour add ons to drive around in my city. Hee!

April Playlist

30 April, 2006 at 11:27 PM by Ren | Permalink