foot in mouth.
I managed to completly make an ass of myself in tonight. i totally had no clue whatsoever that a guy i know was no longer getting married. this decision was made in JANUARY. 8 months ago. even better, i brought it up in front of the girl he may or may not be dating, at his birthday party outing. I kick ass.
(for the lord.)
another friend also managed to make an ass of themselves in a completely different situation. good times all around.
In other news, i bought a bunch of stuff recently.
books -
joann got me a couple books for my birthday - Jon Stewart’s America and Flight Vol. 2. America is funny and good, and Flight is beautiful - it’s the second volume of a collection of comics from webcomic artists loosely based around the idea of Flight. There is some really pretty art in there. Thanks!
I bought myself a couple programming books - not so exciting, but useful. The C Programming Language, and Programming Pearls. woo!
And I also bought Cory Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribe. should be good. I’ve been reading the first few chapters of his next book on Salon, I like it so far.
Dvds - I finally bought the box set of the first/only season of Firefly. I watched all the episodes earlier this year, borrowed from a coworker, but I wanted to have my own copy, it’s that good. And the Serenity movie comes out on Friday, wooo! It’s gonna kick ass
I also ordered the box set Vol. 2 of the Director’s Label DVD series I mentioned a week or two ago. Those should be getting here next week sometime. 4 DVDs of videos… awesome.
CDs - a bunch here…
Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions - haven’t listened to this one yet, actually. But her newer CD was good, so this’ll probably be good too. She’s gonna be at the Paramount in November, i’ll probably check her out then.
Citizen Cope - The Clarence Greenwood Recordings - I already had the whole CD on my PC at work, so i thought i should buy it since i listen to it a bunch. He’s really good, you should check him out if you’ve never heard him before.
Royksopp - Melody A.M. - I like it. Chill electronic music (apparently downtempo?). I don’t really know how to describe electronic music, but you could play this album while you had people over for dinner, it’s not so much dance music, but it’s good in the background. I saw them at the showbox a week or two ago, they were really good. A lot more dance-club sounding than you’d expect from this CD, and it was an excellent show.
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans - totally not my usual thing, but I wanted to “expand my horizons” a bit. Also now i can pretend to be a music snob! oh wait no, i’ve seen kid rock in concert. twice. also nickelback, and aerosmith, and sammy hagar & david lee roth, and van halen (with gary sherone and with sammy). Plus i saw death cab last week at a katrina benefit show at the Showbox and they were quite good. Better than Harvey Danger, who didn’t even play Flagpole Sitta, the only harvey danger song i know.
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor - it’s a double CD, one rockin, one acoustic. I’ve only heard the first cd (rock) and a couple songs off the 2nd (acoustic). I like the rock stuff for the most part, the acoustic is a little too acoustic for me, but i’ve got 8 songs left yet. I’ve always liked the foo fighters, though never have i bought one of their CDs. They’re in general a really good rock band, not amazing in any way, but they always have good rockin’ songs, and they’re goofy and have funny videos so that’s good. I really like the song DOA, track 4 from the rock CD.
Dane Cook - Retaliation - haven’t listened to it yet but his first Cd was god damned hilarious. This is a 2 CD + DVD set. Bob says it’s funny. I wish he would tour in Seattle…
well i’m tired.