Two Degrees of being stolen (aka: content analysis? what's that?)

Last Cigarette: Never smoked.
Last Alcoholic Drink: tuesday, a beer or two
Last Car Ride: last sunday, my dad driving me from finch station to work
Last Kiss: eek, a long time
Last Good Cry: ditto
Last Library Book checked out: the german youth and the third riech
Last Movie Seen in Theatres: Ocean's 12
Last Book Read: Alias Grace/Down and Dirty Pictures
Last Movie Rented: eek, who knows, i haven't rented a movie in forever, no time
Last Cuss Word Uttered: shitters
Last Beverage Drank: milk
Last Food Consumed: egg salad on a bagel with some slices of cheese
Last Crush: ohh, i dunno
Last Phone Call: ten minutes ago, to my editor at the school paper
Last TV Show Watched: The Wire, baby!! best, most ruthlessly addictive show on tv/dvd
Last Time Showered: this morning
Last Shoes Worn: my crappy, in desperate need of replacement new balances
Last CD Played: My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Last Item Bought: "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Part II" graphic novel by Alan Moore
Last Song Downloaded: No clue, damn suprnova going offline, i have yet to find a suitable replacement
Last Annoyance: the fact that certain people at certain news organizations don't believe in returning bloody phone calls!!
Last Disappointment: ah, where to begin?
Last Soda Drank: coke, i guess? i haven't had pop in a few days
Last Thing Written: do msn conversations count? maybe a couple emails?
Last Key Used: my apartment key
Last Word Spoken: later
Last Sleep: last night until 10:30 this morning, though i didn't get to bed until 3:30...damn "wire"
Last IM: Matt
Last Sexual Fantasy: It involved a steak restaurant...sort of.
Last Weird Encounter: hm, haven't had one of those in a while, fortunately
Last Ice Cream Eaten: like three days ago i had some old vanilla breyer's that was forgotten about in the back of the freezer
Last Time Amused: I enjoy watching my time dwindle away...wait, no i don't
Last Time Wanting To Die: a few days ago, bloody cold
Last Time In Love: what is love? is it a chemical? a feeling? a way of dancing around a question?
Last Time Hugged: a week or so, maybe?
Last Time Scolded: a while, thankfully
Last Time Resentful: all the time, baby
Last Chair Sat In: this spine breaking thing right now
Last Lipstick Used: nadda
Last Underwear Worn: blue boxers
Last Bra Worn: also nadda..that i can recall
Last Shirt Worn: my neil young greendale t-shirt
Last Webpage Visited: hollywoodelsewhere.com

"The mood here, when not life-threatening, is electric!"

Ugh, what a day, i tells ya. Long and short of it is i spent all of this morning chasing down a story that came up for naught, spent the afternoon freaking out about said story, and came home this evening feeling like the shit below shit. so, i took what was meant to be a short nap, and ended up sleeping through "24", the essential highlight of my evening. i did manage to catch the last ten minutes, but i had of course no idea what was going on. and now i'm still up, but still feeling like garbage a bit. and so i decided to post, because everyone loves hearing about this, insert sarcastic face now. i'm tired, and i have nothing enlightening to say, haven't for a bit, and the mere act of typing this is actually depressing the hell out of me. they said that today, the 24th, is notoriously the most depressing day of the year, for some vague reason that was never explained by the englightened voices of talk radio. i don't think that's true, but it certainly wasn't a rollicking good time. my rut's hurting my neck, it's all twisted and bent out of shape. i need a good neck snapping is what i need. wow, the rolling stones are also depressing, in beggar's banquet, at least. this isn't doing any good.

"60% of the time..it works every time."
"That doesn't make any sense."

Hm, been a bit of a spell since i've been here. I suppose i should briefly update. Bday went very well, thanks so much to all who attended. I got appropriately drunk and lost a good portion of my meals for that day, but that was to be expected, no doubt. Otherwise, though, extremely good times with good people who i wouldn't trade for even the shiniest rubles in all of kazakstahn. seriously.

the massive bday celebrations left me procrastinating for the whole week, though (thanks to the highly addictive "the wire", the first season which i got as a present, and it is literally as addicitive as the drugs it portrays), and now i'm kinda screwed for a lotta work. oh, and i'm sick like no one but a doctor's business. just phlegm and phlegm. which i'm all sure you needed to read. huzzah.

A very long engagement, indeed...

Argh, if i have to hear about one more couple my age getting engaged or some such, i think i'll scream. or, well, cry, or maybe an interesting mixture of both, perhaps? just to mix things up. meh, it's not as bad as i'm making it out to be, but, it does freak me out. i'm going to be 22 in a few days, 22!! that's a bit weird, odd, just not comprehensible. shouldn't i have done stuff by 22? accomplished things? be in some sort of different place in my life than three years ago or so? i know i think i go through this same process every year, especially since turning 20, but damned if it doesn't feel stronger every year. this weekend was an off weekend, i spent most of it watching television and dvds, which i need to do, since i have a lot to catch up on. yep, number one priority lately seems to be dvds. harumph to that.

ah, hell with it, this is just complaining at its finest.

The Best of the Year: 2004

Ah, it's that time of the year again, just like last year (insert link here), so here we go. On a complete sidenot, this was originally started Dec. 20, and it's just getting online now. I'm terrible.

Top 10 Films:
10.5 Infernal Affairs
10. Collateral
9. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy
8. The Aviator
7. The Incredibles
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Shaun of the Dead
4. Hellboy
3. Garden State
2. Kill Bill Vol.2
1. A Very Long Engagement

Honorable Mentions: Spider-Man 2, Team America: World Police, Spartan, Hero (technically), Kinsey, I Heart Huckabees, Faranheit 9/11, Sky Captain, Dogville, Million Dollar Baby, Motorcycle Diaries, Ocean's 12, Dawn of the Dead

Likely, But Out of Contention (Since I Haven't Caught Them Yet, Sadly): The Life Aquatic, Sideways, Primer, Maria Full of Grace, Bourne Supremacy, Ray, Old Boy, Closer

Top 10 Performances:
1. Ron Perlman in "Hellboy"
2. Peter Sarsgaard in "Kinsey", "Garden State"
3. Audrey Tautou in "A Very Long Engagement"
4. Michael Madsen in "Kill Bill Vol.2"
5. Jim Carrey in "Eternal Sunshine"
6. Tom Cruise in "Collateral"
7. Liam Neeson in "Kinsey"
8. Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Aviator"
9. Uma Thurman in "Kill Bill Vol.2"

and a special #10 which also doubles as the William H. Macy Award for 2004: Jude Law in "The Aviator", "Sky Captain", "I Heart Huckabees" and a whole slew of other films I haven't seen yet

Top 10 DVDs:
1. Carnivale Season One
2. Videodrome (Criterion Edition)
3. Short Cuts (Criterion Edition)
4. Star Wars Trilogy
5. Arrested Developement Season One
6. Buffy Season Six
7. Angel Season 4
8. Matrix Box Set
9. Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 2
10. Freaks and Geeks Complete Series (now..just give me Undeclared, dammit!)

Top 10 Albums:
Good gravy, there was so much good stuff to come out this year, this is going to be tough:
1. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. The Futureheads
3. Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
4. Brian Wilson - SMiLE
5. Elliot Smith - From a Basement on a Hill
6. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
7. Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby
8. Kanye West - College Dropout
9. Jon Brion - I Heart Huckabees OST
10. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Honorable Mentions:
Muse: Absolution, Death From Above 1979: You're A Woman, I'm A Machine, Interpol: Antics
Taking Back Sunday: Where You Want to Be, Polyphonic Spree: Together We're Heavy, Postal Service: Let Go, The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow, U2: How To Dismantle An Automic Bomb, Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Forever to Tell, and The Streets: A Grand Don't Come For Free

Guilty Pleasure: William Shatner - Has Benn

Uneven, But Damn that was ambitious: Green Day - American Idiot

Argh, I Want to Like It, But It Just Lacks Something: Beastie Boys - To the 5 Buroughs

Top 10 TV Shows:
1. Buffy/Angel (technically, Angel was the only show actually on in 2004, but, really, could i not include both Buffy and the Champion?)
2. Lost, baby, Lost
3. The Sopranos
4. Alias
5. 24
6. Arrested Development
7. Six Feet Under (though they tested me this year)
8. Curb Your Enthusiasm
9. South Park
10. Entourage (if only for the Piven)

Auld Lang Something Or Other...

Another year, another 365 days. Meh, I suppose i should be excited, but i honestly don't know what this year has in store. I'd like it to contain a few things, but who knows. There are a lot of things I'd like to change about myself, but I fear I may never for lack of initiative, or just plain lazyness. I'm too content in my space, not forced enough to change, and just plagued with neuroticism. I kick myself when I'm down, and once back up think of something to bring it all tumbling down. Harumph.