Brains!

Okay so long time no post.

1) Election:
I am not going to write about the election, in fact I'm hiding in my room, not wanting to hear a thing about it till its over. I voted at 8am and was pleased to have waited in line for 40 minutes, means voter turn out is really high, and even though Obama is a sure thing in California, the turn out might stop some of these lame ass propositions like 8 and 4 from passing. Anyway, didn't I just say I wasn't going to write about the election.

2) Books:
I gave up on the Thomas Kohnstamm book Do Travel Writers Go To Hell. Frankly it sucks. The chapters before he leaves New York for Brazil is better then when he is actually there. Seems to me the book is an excuse to write about sex and partying, from a very heavily chauvinistic perspective. The only thing I really took away from the book is that travel writing is damn hard, especially if you can't keep your dick in your pants, or say no once in a while to anything.

Yesterday I read book number two in the Sookie Stackhouse southern vampire series, Living Dead in Dallas, by Charlaine Harris. The Alan Ball HBO original series "True Blood", is based off this book series. Either way if you remember my first and second posts about book number one, you know that I was completely obsessed with it, despite its shortcomings. However the second book proved to be much darker, bloodier, serious and no less addictive (I read the whole thing in one afternoon and night). The story didn't feel as 'young adult' as book one, in fact sometimes I wonder if she went a little bit over board with the violence and sex. But I guess if vampires aren't exactly PG rated anyway. Plus I've been a little bit desensitized to the whole thing due to Ball's sex and violence in the show, including last Sundays episode, projectile blood vomiting, is all I have to say. Anyway its rather interesting to see what they've pulled and left out from the books for TV, who's characters they changed etc.

3) Movies:
"Thank You For Smoking", was pretty good. Except I think I was more pissed off at the main character then the regular audience viewer, because Jordan is exactly like the main character. Meaning winning arguments based on logic and not on heart.
"Zack and Miri Make a Porno", very funny and Predictable. I'm glad Kevin Smith hasn't lost his touch completely.

4) In other news:
There really isn't any other news. Been on the WoW wagon these days, which provides me with a lot of crap to do that doesn't exist, except in lines of code. Halloween activities included Monster Massive, which is always an experience, talk about drugs and sex and drugs and naked girls and ...raves are so...ravey. I had a successful Halloween party at my house, decorated and everything, it was quite pleasurable. I'm getting ready for Scotland next week, and working and that's about it. In fact I'm starting to wonder if I've become completely numb to anything in my life. I have no enthusiasm or lack of. I'm just there. Perhaps I will expand on this at a later post.