I'm convinced that google is the computer system that will one day take down humanity. Before paul started posting to the website recently the ads at the top featured music related items and music magazine subscriptions. Now however, the ads feature headlines like "meditate deeply as a monk" with sub-heads reading an "eclectic selection of wisdom texts, Rare incense, candles, dharma items". Frightening.

I still haven't played those Tierra games. Verizon claims that my DSL line will be alive and kicking on the homefront tonight, so hopefully I'll be able to divulge then. Just in time for school, of course.

I played video games the other night for the first time in god knows how long. Jimmy and I tried a little two-player Ikaruga on for size and then took it old-skool for a little but of Monkey Ball 2 love. I just barely edged him out in Monkey Target but he handed my ass to me in Monkey Fight. I'm sure we would've tried another mini-game on for size to break the tie if it wasn't ass o'clock in the goddamn morning.

I enjoyed my weekend with Jimmy and Toni. Lots of shopping. New My Morning Jacket, Constantines, and Q and Not U records for myself, Mr. Show and Family Guy DVD's for Jimbo, as well as the hilarious Vice Guide to Sex, Drugs, and Rock-N-Roll, and Blind Melon's greatest hits and the new Constantine's (she copied me) record for Toni. When friends take the time drive all the way up from Jersey to visit me I like to try and show them the best time possible. I don't know if I succeeded this weekend, but I sure hope that they felt that the time they had was worth the 4 hour trip there and back.

On Saturday we bussed it to Cambridge to check out Lost In Translation. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the film. It was fairly uneventful, but left me with the sweet feeling of going unwillingly on vacation with your parents at the age of 15 and finding yourself a nice little crush in the same situation as you. Maybe you hang out with her. Maybe you don't. Maybe all you get is a sweet little smile on the way to breakfast every morning. Despite those details, it's still a memory that resides in the back of your mind only to to be conjured up on days when the air smells a certain way or the sun is shining at a similar intensity. These memories aren't life altering by any means, but for one reason or another they stick with you forever. A+, in my opinion.

In addition to that, My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields provided an amazing score that worked perfectly with the setting of the film. Including 'Sometimes', my favorite MBV song at one of the pivotal moments of the movie certainly didn't hurt either. --