To The Metal

Maybe it’s all this Fallout 3 I’ve been playing…

Driving up a country road, I start to see airplane wreckage on the site of the road.

Continuing on, I see more wreckage, multiple planes.

I finally stop because there’s a huge nose-cone right in the middle of the road, standing straight up, with a skull and crossbones engraved in the red paint. All around me is scattered aircraft wreckage. Apparently I’ve happened upon a huge aircraft cemetery / plane crash museum.

So I stop off and start to look around, and that’s when the storm comes in. The sky goes dark gray, near black, and the lightening comes. Someone decides to sit on the hood of my car, thinking the rubber tires would protect them, when BOOM, the car gets hit.

The guy sitting on it walks away, meanwhile blood is absolutely gushing from his legs.

My car? Toast. The wheel has been blown off, and it’s otherwise ‘done.’

Later on in the dream, the guy finally dies, and everyone is weeping.

Maybe I should stop playing Fallout 3 before bed. I have no idea where my brain is going with these dreams lately.

Lost me at the first *beep*.

Seriously, The Shield set the bar as for what this show WANTS to be.

Everything is overly formulaic, the acting is horrendously stereotypical, and oh yeah, they bleep curses.

Seriously, if you’re going to curse, either use the real words or just don’t do it. The last dialogue uses the phrase ‘circle jerk’ without a beep, but they can’t say blow job? Seriously. Get your priorities straight, NBC.

Considering how horrid this show is, it will probably last 6 seasons and win an emmy. There are much better shows out there getting canceled that are actually worth my time.

So a short time back, I heard a bunch of complaining about the latest Britney Spears track titled “If You Seek Amy.” The punch line is that while she sings “Love me, hate me, say what you want about me, all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If You Seek Amy” it clearly sounds like she’s saying “F U C K me.”

It’s a funny song, and the video is hillarious. Honestly, I haven’t had any interest in Spears since her first album came out and my girlfriend at the time HAD to have it. All the other crap that’s gone on with her since then has barely been a blip on my radar.

Then today there’s a story out about how they’re now editing the song and speeding up the chorus to remove the K from “seek” to ensure that the song loses its comedic value and makes no sense anymore. Hell, I hadn’t even heard the song until I saw that idiots were STILL complaining about it.

Here’s a link to the video on Youtube until it gets pulled for copyright. Either way, Spears is getting press now, getting attention, and in the realm of modern pop music – this song really isn’t that bad. In fact, I like it quite a bit.

Had an odd nightmare last night.

I’m in the basement of my old house, only now where the bedroom is, it’s like a picture window, and most of the family is sitting inthere looking out at the window. Can’t exactly remember what was out there, it was dark, but everything (including a smart ass nephew that doesn’t exist yet) are all checking it out.

So the kid asks where my brother is, I go upstairs to look for him, and find him comforting my mom on the couch. She’s upset for some reason or another. I tell him he should go downstairs and be with everyone else.

For the most part, up until now, it wasn’t a nightmare.

Then I sit down next to my mom, and everything turns dark orange/red. I start to feel evil, and start laughing as she asks if I need anything from the kitchen.

“Oh why don’t you just turn the lights on! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”

So at this point she’s in the kitchen, I’m standing outside the kitchen. She looks back at me, gets this look of horror, then grabs a HUGE F’N KITCHEN KNIFE and starts coming at me screaming “IT’S YOU! IT’S YOU! I KNEW IT!” I stumble backwards into the hallway as she’s swinging this knife at me, and finally wake myself out of it when I stumble into the wall.

So I wake up from the dream, and I start seeing white faces with black eyes all around me. Kind of like skulls, but more like Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas than typical human skulls, only very blurry. They’re all over, wherever I look. I close my eyes, I open my eyes, still there. I finally roll over, bury my face in the pillow, and they’re gone.

Couldn’t get back to sleep for like an hour.

Headlight plug on my Chevy wore out, had actually melted a bit when I first took it apart, but the plastic/metal got brittle enough that the headlamp wouldn’t work anymore.

Took everything apart, and proved that I am a computer nerd first, and a mechanic second…

Eventually I’ll get the correct plug, but for now… this works.

Job well done.