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Mulder and Skully ended up being lovers. While it should give nerds like me hope that some day even we can find love, honestly, it was quite a cop-out. To end a series having two completely plutonic characters end up together, out of the blue. Scrubs is going to do that shit with JD and Elliot, and it's going to piss me off.

I saw The X-Files: I Want To Believe this afternoon, after hearing not-so-positive things about it. I won't spoil anything for anyone who hasn't seen it, or are on the fence, but it's on par with a good X-Files episode. Was it worth making into a summer-movie? Probably not. It's pretty low-budge. Not in a quality sense, but in a stakes, and in production reality. I don't see this movie costing anymore than 30 million to make. Much different than it's predecessor.

I was thinking, wouldn't be great if the entertainment industry didn't rely so heavily on big releases, and people like Chris Carter could just make a new episode of the X-Files once a year on Halloween or something? It would always have huge ratings. And rather than give the media chance to spit on your small-scale summer movie, they could praise your high-budget holiday special? I'd be there every year.

Oh... On the way out of the theatre the kid walking in front of me was wearing this...

I couldn't resist being a creep and photographing him while his mother guided him hand-in-hand down the busy manhattan streets. I don't know what "Mo Smells Red" means, but the Truth Is Out There.

Marathon Matt

My brother ran a half marathon this morning. It's a tremendous accomplishment. You can read all about his inspiring video-gamer-to-athlete story on his blog.

Warped Tour 2008

I miss Warped Tour. Anyone who's ever been on it will tell you that's a very hard thing to admit... but I guess not a hard thing to act on, seeing as so many people I know have done several rounds of it.

I went with my buddy Jonathan, who also currently plays bass in Meg & Dia, the most recent band I used to tour manage. We didn't go to see any bands really... Not in the conventional sense. Just to see some old friends. New York is a tough market to live in, knowing that your friendship and admiration can amount to nothing when you're competing with labels and managers. So we aimed low, and didn't attempt to commandeer any attention than we usually take up. 

We did watch one band, just because we kind of ended up in the right place at the right time. The Oreska Band was on the last leg of the tour last year and became Jonathan and my guilty pleasure. Jonathan even went as far as to ask their bass player to hang out with us one day. They are only fluent in Japanese, so he had to ask her out through their translator. She said "yes," according to the translation, but she never showed. Bitch.

I present to you only a minute of All Girl / All Japanese / All Ska. If you end up at warped tour, I would highly suggest checking them out, before they end up on the Disney Channel. That's all I'm saying.

Darkness.

I've seen every movie this summer. Even The Happening (yuck.) Only two have been worth reviewing. I wrote a review for The Dark Knight for my job. I blog there too every wednesday. It should be posted soon. But, they made me amend it. The Un-abridged version will be up here shortly. I loved it, duh. No question there.

Oh, in completely unrelated news, in case you cared, the owners of Drive Thru Records had their houses Foreclosed. Also, their star band Hellogoodbye is dropping them as management, and suing them. I'm not one to wish poorly on others, but... seeing as how I hung out with some of their victims tonight, and I'm tipsy, I can't help but say Karma is a bitch.

Proof!

If you go to Michelle Branch's Sugar Bar Blog you can read about how excited I made her, when I sent her those neat little cupcake stands. Yeah... that's right. Me. 

I should've left her a little hand drawn note like Amanda Goss, the cupcake lady did, inside of the box, then she would've loved me. 

Woulda / Shoulda / Coulda....

Some Serious Shit...

I heard about this, when my boss was considering buying some for the holiday season. He couldn't order them, sadly. Apparently they are hard to get, and now I know why. Apparently only a thousand are being made. Of all the things to buy me, to earn my love INSTANTLY, and FOREVER... 

Just putting it out there.

August 1st, 2008

I finally have an apartment.

72 Scholes St. Brooklyn, NY.

I don't move in for two weeks, making it a little over four months since i've been home from tour. Making it almost 14 months since i've unpacked. 

I'm celebrating by going to see the RX bandits at High Line Ballroom. Who wants to go?

Spirit Room

Last week I got to send a package to Michelle Branch.

For anyone who knows anything about me, you know how big of a deal that is.

She ordered three cupcake stands for the bakery she is opening in Nashville.

I packed it extra nicely for her. If only I had a written a love note like Preston from Can't Hardly Wait. Fate finally allowed me to convince her to leave her husband and run away with me and I blew it.

Oh, well. I'll just have to settle for her next record coming out this summer.