why is it that everytime i try to buy something expensive over the internet, something complicates the process and i have to consider returning it? such a hassle; first it was the dvd burner, now i just realized the mbox 2 mini i received came with no pro tools software. @#$%^%@!!@#@#!$#%^$^ that also means i have to call musician's friend tomorrow and tell them to cancel the other order i had. such a pain!

anyways, hoping to return it and get this instead.

lol... what is love?

no doubt - oi to the world

(i remember hearing this song a few years back during christmas time. had no idea it was no doubt that performed it. [they sounded too punk in the song for me to consider that no doubt did it])

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i wonder who's more wooden; al gore, or hilary clinton.

speaking of which, remember when the simpsons poked fun at al gore in one of their episodes?

"mr. gore, somebody just bought one of your books!"

"this calls for a celebration"

(puts record on phonograph)

(melody)...ce-le-brate good times, c'mon!

"i will"

Golden state warriors play like guys out of NBA JAM.

I find this humorous, because I stand by one belief: “NBA JAM ruined my concept of how basketball was supposed to be played as I was growing up; Sega Sports’ NBA 2K for the Dreamcast retaught me how basketball was supposed to be played.” For most of my youth up til the end of high school, I didn’t get basketball. Because I played and still play and watch a lot of video games(consoles, cpus, arcade), NBA JAM gave me a really messed up idea of how basketball was supposed to be; yes I knew that you weren’t allowed to shove people, but I assumed defense didn’t really matter much(although I still justified Michael Jordan as being the best because he was great on defense; good arguments from a kid; go figure), and that to matter to a team, you had to be able to both shoot 3 pointers and dunk(and have good speed). Again, despite the fact that MJ was not known for creating his own 3 pt shot.

Enter senior year in high school when I only took 5 classes, was able to leave school at noon(I still have fond memories of senior year in high school because of how much freedom I had, despite not really doing anything) actually had time to watch games and etc, etc, etc(1st game i watched was knicks vs bucks; went to overtime; shooting match between sprewell and ray allen; good overall game, and really glad i watched; favorite eastern conference playoff game i watched, and still one of my faves was nets at celtics, when celtics pulled that come-from-behind victory, because in the 4th, they stopped shooting 3s and started just taking it to the hole). I was starting to understand and appreciate how this game was played.

Then of course there was the transition period during college, when I really began to appreciate team play, defense(without stuffing the stats), and rebounding. Oh yeah, also to appreciate how a person can contribute to a team despite not adding anything to the stats(Tayshaun Prince made me start to realize this more than anybody else).

So the end-all is that I come out of undergrad college, having actually gained knowledge of what makes a good basketball team and team play, can appreciate all sorts of basketball team styles, etc, etc, etc. And then the Warriors have to enter the playoffs, breaking their drought, oust the Mavs, become the most fun-oriented basketball team in the league, and do it all by playing... like characters in NBA JAM. Y’kno; once you cross the half-court line, just run to the 3-pt line and chuck it(and who cares about big man play; who cares about shot blocking and rebounding). in other words, if i were just rooting for the hometown team, the past 7-8 years i spent learning about the game went to waste. (sigh)

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Hopefully I’ll get all the musical gear I ordered before this year ends and are able to start flexing my artistic musical creativity again. It has been a while; I think a wrote a lot of songs before, but forgot how they played, what they sounded like, etc. I only recorded one song, and sound-wise it was like crap(I passed the mp3 on to a couple of people, i think Bob was one of the few that got it). Well, shouldn’t be a problem this time around(I think). It won’t be like a studio, but I’m at least hoping there’s no weird stuff, like having to adjust for those popping noises when i sing too strongly, or the stupid humming sound that occurs when you record from a sound card. Writing a song = good(but everybody with a guitar does that). Writing + recording a song = better.

But yeah, if I had no restraint, I'd probably spend money like it grew on trees. There's tons of stuff I would like to get(not just musical stuff), but can't right now; I just have to limit it to these musical tools I would like to get, and then wait for a job or something else. Basically, I have this long list of things on my laptop at home that I would (key words)eventually like to own. I'm just hoping the stuff i would like to get is still on the market maybe 5-6 years down the road, when i actually earn a decent amount of money.

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I wonder if anybody from church is celebrating Festivus.

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My fingers ish numb. I wonder if sleeveless leather gloves help this case at all.

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I managed to reserve and get both animated Marvel films from the library: Iron Man, and Dr. Strange. Ooo! They should do an animated Marvel film on War Machine.

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christian conspiracies can be pretty fun to look at. there's a ton of them. whether or not they are true(of course, only useful looking at them to see whether they are valid, have valid arguments, and hence can deduce whether the world has pulled another blindfold over our eyes). here's one to contemplate; christmas in its origins was not a christian holiday. i'm not saying that the birth of christ never existed. i'm saying that christmas started out as a pagan holiday, and somehow the day of christ's birth somehow got attached to it(which could explain the trees(trees were a sign of fertility i think?)). i don't have the e-book that i got this from in front of me at the moment, but it's something to think about. then there's the arguments some make that santa claus is really satan(not in the sense that santa is satan incarnate, but is sorta an antichrist in masquerading as christ), like how santa is an anagram for satan, the songs sung about him are really stealing praises from god(ie, the kjv has the Lord saying "Ho ho" in one of the prophets, that he comes from the north, etc), etc. well, not like you should believe everything the popular media tells you anyways.

i find it strange how many people hold their phones in their left hand, despite them not being left-handed.

time crisis 4 for ps3 + guncon is $50 on amazon gold.

harold and kumar 2 trailer

(it's an r-rated trailer btw)

i lol'd too HORD when i saw the trailer. i saw the 1st movie btw, and thought it was awesome. 2nd one looks even better.

especially when kumar dressed up with a turban and uncut beard.

roflmao...

china's total disregard for copyrights FTW...

i think i LOL'd too HORD when it was opened...

(there's other vg ripoffs on page 2 of the forum posted by fatherbrain)

man, i wanted warriors to win, but i am just so amazed at dwight howard this nba season, that i don't feel as bad about it. rediculous. 20+ boards, 7 blocks? dude seems to abuse small ball lineups for breakfast. i'm just surprised he didn't do it to the lakers.

(you wouldn't happen to know any good orlando magic fansites, do you? i've peeped frequently "golden state of mind" for the warriors, "need for sheed" for the pistons, but i should really link on a magic site; dwight's not going anywhere soon.)

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patriots still unbeaten. abeit, very closely.

i actually really wished the redskins could've won on sunday. would've done their deceased player a lot of honor.

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am always fascinated by the voice actors in anime/cartoons, for the sole reason that they tend to never sound like themselves in real life. that's not so much the case in non-animated movies etc.

peyton manning on united way, on snl

tay zonday got tay zonpaid

some flash videos:

the art of housewifery

fight for your life

this one's short, but pure awesome

sonic: nazo unleashed:

ep 1

ep 2

ep 3

i am mildly concerned after pastor dan told me on sunday after congratulating me on playing the drumkit so well that when i started playing, all the youth girls started looking at me instead of the screen, commenting to me "hey, worship God."

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maybe i should play worse then?

yay i'm 24! (*tick*... *tick*... *tick*... *tick*...)

didn't do much today:

-woke up
-watched more "ghost in the shell" anime
-went out to deposit my last check
-came back to watch more g.i.t.s. anime
-went out w/mom to eat at "great buffet."
-blah blah rode shotgun with mom while she did some errands, came back home w/2 donuts
-typical stuff i do at home at night

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commando, regular edition was 3.99 at fry's on wednesday when i went out of boredom.

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i really should practice lead guitar soon.

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dwight howard just too nasty; too bad they didn't win.

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al harrington locking up yao ming(with some help). love teh lockdown d.

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my hair is getting too long

dwight howard seems to always play well against the supersonics. i still have the nba.com video from last season of him going 8 for 8 against the sonics.

y'kno that old adidas commercial on a street hoop where kg keeps getting to the rim and dunking on scrubs and nobodies no matter how many people they send at him, until duncan comes out to defend him? that's kinda like yesterday, except it was dwight howard instead of kg. and no tim duncan came out. beastage.

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warriors still showing they rock harder than their norcal rivals; love it.

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i don't expect much tomorrow. maybe a baker's dozen donuts, a new watch, and hopefully out-bidding other ppl on ebay to get a new mbox 2 mini for way less than it originally cost when new. would be nice if the capcom arcade hits package i ordered for the pc came in tomorrow, but that's pushing it. maybe a strong sense of direction would be nice.

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this is what i don't like about modern-day society sometimes; they expect you to know exactly what you're going to do by the time you get out of high school.

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wow... american football in japan

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i didn't know the nintendo wii had a joystick for it, let alone the hori, japanese type. and for what, just for 1 fighting game right now, guilty gear? pro smash players don't even use the joystick; they'd rather use a pad with analog stick and pressure-sensitive triggers.

happy 23rd to jeremy lee and grace lin! (not that they read my journal frequently anymore...)

all about november 28th

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i just watched the macross and ghost in the shell movies this week. both were... fairly good.

i think i saw a man in drag at the library...

but i'm just not too sure.

not that (s?)he's physically attractive, i'm just... unsure.

and i don't want to ask "excuse me, are you... a man?"

maybe this is the type of thing jerm fears.

lol... wanna watch a vf player beat up 100 scrubs in one sitting?

part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4

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for me, the past 2-3 weeks, seems like nothing and everything has changed. i don't feel like writing everything down. everything, and i mean literally everything was both good and bad these past weeks.

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but my nephew mikey was really cool to hang around with(i think i'll need another year before i can get how to hang around ally). and is it just me, or do michelle and phil give more leeway towards punishing ally than they do mikey? anyways, at first i felt really awkward around them, not knowing how to act, what to say, but by sunday when they were about to leave, i pretty much got a gist of what i was supposed to do or say. i'm fairly sure mikey likes me based on the fact that i'm not trying to act cute with him(as adults tend to do around kids). y'kno, the "fuzzy-wuzzy" type talk, especially when women do it... ugh. maybe it's cause i hated it when i was a kid(are you insulting my intelligence? please don't talk to me that way), so i don't want to do the same to others. i just tried to talk simple and slower with mikey, and for the most part, he got it. not really saying i miss them quite yet, but it was fun. oh yeah; mikey's a lefty too. i regret not taking pictures or video with my digital camera, but then again, if i kept snapping them, they probably wouldn't have liked it.

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niners weren't supposed to win on sunday. i still believe that. that being said, i was impressed with the big defensive plays the niners made in the 2nd quarter. michael lewis impressed me.

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street fighter 2 v anime series sometimes makes dragon ball z dubs look good in comparison.

hmm, haven't updated much recently. a lot the stuff is big news.

-getting a job was REALLY, REALLY, nice. on part because it was so long looking for a job, and i didn't even need to go into an interview to get this one. the experience will definitely help out in future job searches. but the excitement kinda ground out really quickly. work is really tiring, and i feel like i'm operating 3 steps slower than everybody else, that i can't learn quickly enough. i bet i've worked more overtime than anybody else at church. schedule:

mon-fri: 7:00 am - 5:30/6:30 pm (have to get at 6:00 am, have to go to sleep by 11:00 pm)
sat: 6:00 am - 2:30 pm (yes that's right, i have to get up even earlier on saturday)

-i sound materialistic, but it really is true that one of the things that's keeping me going at work(most of work my mind's on autopilot until i run into a problem, then i fret) is thinking of what i'm going to do with the money i get. a digitech jamman pedal would be GREAT; loops galore. and then i would love to get something like a mbox 2 from digidesign or audio buddy from m-audio so i can start writing and recording songs again on my cpu. it's not like i'm gonna splurge and buy everything immediately after getting my paycheck and basically burn all the money at once, but i think you get the idea; it's like i'm already formulating when i'm gonna get what. oh yeah; not too quite keen on getting an electronic drumset yet; i'm gonna wait a few and let the money build up for that one; get back to me on that one in about a year. but those two; a good sound card to record, and the looper pedal are huge. after that, i think i'll sit back and let the money accumulate before i think of what else i should get. (some more efx pedals would be good, or an arcade joystick)

-i got the alterbridge: blackbird cd. i've been listening to the album nonstop. it's that good, and that much better than their 1st cd. the 1st cd, myles kennedy was kinda just brought on board at the last moment, and so he wasn't allowed to put his stamp on the music; it was just mark tremonti's songwriting and everybody backing him up. but this 2nd cd. wow. it's real good. i love 70%+ of the songs. what's even better is that you can get it for 9.99 at best buy, even though it's a new cd.

-last note, but really kewl; phil's gonna be tearing it up at turkey bowl this year. that's right, you read right; he'll be back on wednesday. i get to finally see michael and allison.

i'm glad i watched the patriots-colts game live. great, great, great, game. colts dominated nearly the entire game on both ends, with their pressure defense and addai. didn't matter when it came down to crunch time; tom brady continued to impress me when he had to step up. and then it seemed that when he did, the rest of the team fed on his energy and played way better to get the win.

shaun rogers... remember that name

that has the be the play of this nfl week. maybe of the entire season. it's like watching "the fridge" play for the lions. and the stiff arm was just icing on the cake. we were having a blast watching that highlight.

alter bridge's new cd sounds really really good; hoping to get it sometime in the near future.

^(#$(*$#@@@#$?#$?$%%$%*(#%*($!!!!!!!!!!

i can't believe cbs is going to show a meaningless texans at raiders game over patriots at colts.

heck, i wouldn't even care if was a niners game(dead serious about this one; unless if the niners had like a playoffs-or-bust type game). how can you can not show a potential afc championship playoff game, especially given how hot new england is doing this year, and how both teams remain undefeated? i never get the thinking pattern of that douche who's running sports broadcast games in california. like how a few weeks back californians couldn't watch the patriots-cowboys game because they had to show some oakland game in place of it.

reminded me a time during college during the '04-'05 nba season that they either showed the spurs playing at the pistons, or phoenix at memphis on abc. they were showing the spurs-pistons game in the majority of the US, but guess what was one of the few states that got shafted? yeap; i was pretty annoyed. it wasn't even like phoenix or memphis was related in some way to california, they mustve just decided for some random reason that cali wouldn't appreciate this game, despite it being a potential finals matchup.

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btw, i really like the theme music of the nfl on cbs way more than on fox; the orchestral music in concert with the drumset makes it sound so dramatic, so cool. btw, it was made by e.s. posthumus, the same guy who did "pompeii." it's actually on imeem.com btw. just do a search.

vids galore post.

ninja parade goes unnoticed again? "believe it!"

michael moore sends a mariachi band to a kkk rally

i pity da foo who doesn't like this commercial

you no hungry for girl!

kenny rogers' jackass

last one...

watch this... then this

heheheheh...

perhaps the most pointless sports article i've ever read

hmmmm....

Bear: Only WHO can prevent forest fires?

Bart: *Presses "You"*

Bear: I'm sorry, that's incorrect. You pressed "you" referring to me. The correct answer is you.

how long's it been since i've ridden an earthquake?