six groups of five.

A new friend of mine I recently have gotten to know has gone back home to North Dakota. Unfortunately I didn't get to know him as well as I would have liked, but what I did get to know, I grew really fond of. His name was Raymond and if I had to guess I would say he is around 70 years old. In his time here, I drove him around town when he needed to get something. Whether it was a doodad from the hardware store or some milk for his Life cereal, we got to get to know each other on these short little outings. On top of that, we went to see some films he had wanted to see (Green Zone and Repo Men) and yesterday, his last day here, we went and saw Hot Tub Time Machine. It was just about as raunchy as I thought it was going to be, but we both laughed consistently through out the film. (I recommend it.)



While we were enjoying the movie, I was paying attention to what he found funny. I have to admit that it surprised me at which jokes he found down right hilarious, which were pretty much the dirtiest of jokes. Needless to say, I wish he was here more often because he made great company.

A bunch of albums were recently made available one way or another and I want to give each one a go. All of which I am very excited for. Deftones, Jonsi, Tunng, Against Me!, Broken Bells, and a new New Pornographers album is dropping soon. Needless to say I have more than enough new music. I also made Kim an awesome rumspringa mix with 50 songs that I can't stop listening to (featuring Jonsi doing an acoustic cover of MGMT's "Time To Pretend"). Wondercon is coming up this weekend which I'm not THAT excited for, but it's always fun. New Dark Tower graphic novel which I am excited to read so I will probably pick that up.

I finished reading Helter Skelter which was just insane. It's frightening to think that someone could misinterpret information in such a way and convince people to follow them. It's a fantastic read if you don't mind the bloody details. I started reading Salem's Lot, Big Machine, and Carter Beats The Devil. I'm about half way through with Salem's Lot and am really getting into it. For Stephen King's second novel, it's great. Big Machine sounded interesting and quoted John Carpenter's The Thing in the beginning of the book, so I thought I had found a winner, but thus far (about 80 pages in) it's mediocre. Carter Beats The Devil is the most recent book I've began so I'm only around page 25, but it's fantastic. I'm really enjoying it and looking forward to take that journey.















Top 10 T.V. shows:
10. Curb Your Enthusiasm
9. Sopranos
8. Dead Set
7. Flight of the Conchords
6. 24
5. The Shield
4. The Office (BBC+US)
3. Arrested Development
2. LOST
1. Six Feet Under

(I still really want to see The Wire, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad.)