When I went into work last night at 11PM, it was 98 degrees outside. When I left work this morning at 8AM, it was 98 degrees outside. Yesterday it hit 113. It’s supposed to be over 110 for another 6 days and then it’ll be 109 for bit more. I think I need to devise a plan so that I don’t have to leave the house until September.

I’m currently watching: Bio-Dome

I also saw War of the Worlds on Sunday. This movie was also what I expected. With Spielberg and Cruise, it’s hard to be a bad movie. I still couldn’t get Cruise being such a dumbass lately out of my head though. They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but Cruise pretty much found a way to make bad publicity. I was definitely gonna see this movie when I saw the first previews, but Tom Cruise being such a dumbass actually made me think about skipping it. And that girl. I know it was her role, but I wanted to kick her in the head. And you know she’s probably just that bratty in real life anyway, so a good kick in the head is probably warranted. But the movie was a good ride. From the beginning to the end, I was hooked. It’s just a good story. Not too fond of the ending which I won’t spoil for those of you who haven’t seen it, but you’ll probably get my drift after you see it. I probably could have waited to see this movie on DVD, but I’m not pissed I went. Tom Cruise just pisses me off anymore. It’s all I can think about when I see him. I don’t know if I can fully respect anything he does ever again. I hope this doesn’t ruin Top Gun for me. If it does, I’m gonna be pissed.

I’m currently watching: Pardon The Interruption

I saw the Fantastic Four on Saturday and it was pretty much what I expected. No cinematic breakthroughs and not too great acting. It was entertaining though because I have always been a fan of the comic. And I always enjoy watching the superheros discover their powers in all of these these comic movies. I was however most dissapointed by Dr. Doom I think, because I expected more from my Nip/Tuck boy. And Jessica Alba… why the hell was she never getting more naked. I mean it was pretty hot when she got all invisible and all, but when I did see her, she shoulda been wearing less clothes more of the time. But other than that stuff, some bad jokes and a pretty weak climax it was a fun movie and I will definitely see part 2 when it comes out. And I retract my previous comment; I liked most of the bad jokes. I just hope they work on the story a bit more. But definitely maybe make it a bit longer. These comic movies always seem short, but they seem much shorter when they are only around 100 minutes.

I’m currently watching: Around The Horn

I think it’s time for some less than shocking news. Yes sir, Bobby Abreu came through again with flying colors. The king of meaningless hits has now come through with the most meaningless hits in baseball ever by winning the Home Run Derby. Phils down by 10 in the 9th with 2 outs? Bobby Abreu hits a home run… Phils up by 12 in the 8th? Bobby Abreu hits another homer… Home Run Derby where winning is purely for the ego? Bobby Abreu hits 41 home runs to eliminate the competition… Phils down by 1 in the 9th? Bobby Abreu strikes out. ::womp, womp, womp:: Bobby Abreu of course should, and will probably always, dominate an event like this, and for those of us who have come to know Bobby, it is far from shocking. He is purely a fantasy stud who obviously plays for only himself, and the All Star festivities are simply the perfect stage for him to showcase his meaningless, “won’t win ball games but will light up the box score” talent. Man it’s so great that he did this, because he just refreshed his supply of “get out of meaningful hit free” cards with the media. I guess he thought they were catching on to him or something. Well you’ll never pull the wool over my eyes Bobby. I’m on to you. Maybe right now is the time to start an internet petition to trade Bobby Abreu. I will call it “Bobby Abreu… Trade him now because we all saw what Patrick Ewing accomplished didn’t we?” Hmm, I think I have a task for when I get home. I’m still nauseas they didn’t trade him for Vlad when they had the chance. Friggin Wade.

What I’m listening to: Journey – Greatest Hits – Any Way You Want It

I’m listening to John Mayer – Any Given Thursday, and it sounds like it’d be a pretty good show. John improvises in songs, jams a bit, plays some different stuff that you’re not expecting. However, I don’t think there is any possible way I could put up with all of the dumbass girls screaming constantly and for really no reason. He plays like 2 extra notes on the guitar and they scream. I bet he’s making some sort of face when he plays those extra notes, but all the screaming is ridiculous. This version of “Your Body is a Wonderland” pisses me off listening to it. I want to go to the show and throw some punches and flying leg kicks, not pay attention to the show. The moment he says your body is a wonderland, the girls go nuts like he’s talking to them. Well I got a word for most of you, JOHN’S NOT TALKING TO YOU. I CAN ALMOST GUARANTEE THAT YOUR BODY IS NOT THE WONDERLAND HE’S TALKING ABOUT. I mean if you girls love him so much, you’ve probably seen the video. Did you see that girl? I can’t really remember, but I think she was gorgeous. I bet that gorgeous girl doesn’t go to a concert and scream ridiculously so that John would sing right to her. So read this. If I ever go see John Mayer, I don’t want you girls there screaming like morons. Just shut up and watch him play. Clap. Hell, even sing. Have fun. But don’t scream for unwarranted actions or else I’ll punch you in the throat and collapse your trachea so the last thing you ever see is the fat rhinoceros girl screaming in front of you waiting for the same punishment you just got. And don’t leave after Weezer when the Red Hot Chili Pepper still have to come on. It’s probably a really good bet that Rivers doesn’t like girls that weigh literally twice as much as he does, so you may as well stay and watch a good show.

Anyway, right now you can’t read this because for some reason, my site says my account has been suspended. First my site goes down for practically a month. Then they come right back and triple the price. Now they suspend my account without sending me a bill or giving me any notification. It may be time to start looking for a new host. $3 is still too good to pass up though for way more than enough space and more features than I can shake a stick at. You guys probably don’t even care that I go down. I guess I’ll stay. Problem solved.

Oh man, I can still picture Taylor screaming like a girl at a John Mayer concert. Cracks me up.

What I’m listening to: John Mayer – Any Given Thursday – Your Body is a Wonderland

In the wake of the Live 8 concerts and the G-8 Summit that has just begun, a lot of thought is being directed towards Africa. Everyone wants to send relief and monetary aid to these people. I just read a number that struck me upside the head like I was hit with the bluntest of all objects… $50 billion. As in, and I quote, “Blair has challenged G-8 countries to double aid to Africa to $50 billion by 2010, from the current $25 billion.” Just… wow! You know what? I have an idea for these people. EVOLVE!!! If $25 billion isn’t cutting it, what the hell are they going to do with $50 billion? Put a PlayStation 3 in the home of every African? I mean come on. Just evolve… Like the rest of civilization has done over the last millions of years. Now I’ve never been to Africa, but I picture it as a pretty crappy place for the most part. All of these people still living in tribes waiting for Kevin Bacon to come wisk them away to the NBA or something. I don’t know. I do know they had plenty of time to leave the continent before the rest of the world filled up and left them to die. That was their first mistake and it certainly wasn’t my fault. Africa is the oldest of continents yet they are the furthest behind. Does that make much sense? I mean America has come great lengths in the last 200 years!!! and no one was dropping $50 billion dollars in our laps!!! Africa had a friggin few thousand year head start. It’s just absurd. Tell these people to stop having sex; they’re obviously doing no good and it doesn’t take a retard to see that. Unless all of Africa is just actually retarded??? And instead of sending $50 billion, let’s just build a Trojan factory over there for a few million bucks and crank out some condoms. Every African who refuses to use one should be shot dead right there on the spot because they obviously don’t want any help and are just adding to the problem. After we kill a few thousand people who enjoyed spreading AIDS, the rest of the population may just get the picture. You know, I need stuff too, and I don’t want my taxes raised because these people can’t keep it in their pants and chose to live in an area where they knew they couldn’t grow food… and would get eaten by friggin lions might I add. And maybe… just maybe then… I can get my own PS3.

What I’m listening to: Velvet Revolver – Contraband

I got 298 emails over the weekend and I thought I did pretty good at keeping spam at bay. Apparently not. Speaking of the weekend, it was definitely a good one. Much better than the same old stuff I’m used to. I had a couple of visitors to pick up at the airport after work on Saturday morning. We got back to my house just in time to drop off their stuff and get moving to the show. It was awesome. Hard, but awesome. That’s what she said. Dude, none of that. We got to the show at like 2:00 and waited in line in about 105 degree temperatures until about 4 when I think the oven dinged and we finally got in. Something like that. We were among the first in, so we got wrist bands to get into the “pit”. The pit was the best place in the world to be before the show because the stage was so huge, it was completely shady. Great place to sit for a couple hours while we drank free water. The show started at 6:30 with some incredibly crappy band. I won’t give their name because they deserve no promotion other than the crappy band that opened for Weezer and RHCP. They played for like the longest 1/2 hour of all time. At around 7:30, Weezer came on. They played “No One Else” which I don’t think they play much which was awesome, but the rest of the set was pretty poor. They played a lot of good songs, but the order was pretty bad. Every time they got the show going, they seemed to kill the energy with something slow. It was almost painful. I went to see Weezer more, but by the end of their set, I just couldn’t wait for the Chili Peppers. And water. I thought I was going to pass out by the end of Weezer. It had been hours since we had water and I was feelin it. When you’re standing like sardines in 110+ and you haven’t had water in a while and you’re covered in sweat, you don’t feel too hot. We were too far in the crowd to get to the guys giving out water in the front and on the sides. I definitely got a bit woozy until some kid came through with a few gallons of water. Most of the water just hit me in the face, but I got enough to keep me from death. Then another kid came through with another few gallons and I got a good bit that time. I thought people were going to be rioting for water it was that bad. But after the few mouthfulls I got the 2nd time, I felt much better and was definitely excited for the RHCP. They came on after a long intermission and the place blew up. So much energy. It was amazing how much every guy worked the crowd. Just a bunch of great performers. I always knew Flea was good, Beavis and Butthead told me so, but he blew me away. Him and Frusciante play together like one person. The whole band is just solid. And the set was sweet. They got it going and slowed it down and got it going just the way it should be done. Just enough to keep the moshers from killing everyone else who just wants to watch the show. By the end, I was covered in nothing but mine and everyone else’s sweat. Completely saturated through my shirt and shorts and everything. My fingers were pruny like I bathed in the stuff. I would definitely see them again and look forward to it actually. The show ended at 11:30 and we ran to the car not caring about the fireworks. We just wanted to get out of there and beat the traffic. But I forgot we got stuck in the back of the parking lot and we were getting nowhere fast. So we did what anyone does after a good rock show… crank Michael Jackson. It was a joyous time for all. 35 minutes later we got out of the lot and flew home by 12:30, tired and exhausted and ready for bed.

Sunday morning, we got up and headed for the strip. Monte Carlo Pub & Brewery. We got some food and a Giraffe of High Roller Red which just gets better and better every time I drink it. I love that place. After we ate we walked around the strip for a while before heading to the Rio buffet for dinner. Only problem was, no one was hungry. We all thought we were, but we all really just needed to drink something. After dinner we headed back to the strip and walked around a bit more. We finished the whole north end of the strip and headed to Casino Royale for a $1 Michelob Light and Harrah’s Piano Bar. Unfortunately the twins weren’t there, but we still hung out and played with cockroaches for a while. We headed home and hit the sack.

Monday was for covering the south end of the strip. However I had to go to work at night so I had to cut the trip short. That sucked so much. You don’t want weekends like this one to end. There just isn’t enough time in the day.

I’m currently watching: MLB Baseball: Baltimore Orioles at New York Yankees

Sorry for the delay. I didn’t have enough money to pay my host so they blocked me from posting anything. They raised it from $1 to $3. I couldn’t handle it. Anyway, the real reason is that I’ve been busy working on my new computer all week. It came on Monday and it took Monday and Tuesday to build it. Since then, I’ve been installing all the software and making sure everything works. I still have plenty of things to work out. Like the temperature gauge on the front doesn’t work. How can I have a computer with a working thermometer? But my DVR is working. I just need to find out how to copy DVDs now. Then I can try recording my guitar straight through my sound card. Then maybe an album of some sort. And nothing should ever freeze. It’s all gonna be sweet. I’ve also been crazily excited about the show tomorrow. Red Hot Chili Peppers and Weezer on the same stage tomorrow. 9 or so hours in 107 degree Las Vegas heat. But I think they’re playing for about 4 hours. I heard a rumor Staind might be there too. Maybe they’ll play all of Dysfunction and just shut up and let the other 2 come on. Then that’d be really awesome. But I doubt they’ll show. It’s probably better off that way. We don’t need all the kids that are huge Breaking the Cycle fans screaming for crappy ass songs off that album. I’d rather Weezer play more Blue Album and Pinkerton stuff that was out before these kids were out of preschool. Damn high school kids. Then I’ll kick em!

I’m currently watching: Just Shoot Me