i'm leaving tonight! for nine days of training. trying to look at it optimistically. will talk about it when i come back.

and my gaawd 8days has a gorgeous cover story on sex and the city.. the cover is amazing it's a shot i've never seen before. of course it goes on to say that if the censors were to touch the show only 4mins would be left and how samantha will be left on the cutting room floor altogether. they also interviewed people who've seen it and some sucker "doubt(ed) that viewers under 21 will unserstand the cheem language". gosh, what is so cheem about sex anyway.

and i surfed across this site which lets you er, listen to movies. only at lab360.com. the fight club is especially cool. lets you catch the juicy quotes which you miss when watching the visuals.

and a list of books i bought this year. not including those i borrowed or stole.
jonathan franzen THE CORRECTIONS
jonathan safran foer EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED
alice sebold THE LOVELY BONES
some russian guy? THE LITTLE PRINCE
sophocles ANTIGONE
zadie smith WHITE TEETH
chuck palahniuk LULLABY
sylvia plath THE BELL JAR

reading the first two authors' work lands me into the neonerd category, as mentioned by GQ. neonerds also like p.t. anderson, aimee mann, actorss jake gyllenhaal, tobey macguire and adrien brody and listen to the smiths. they wear striped shirts too. me, i just feel like a wannabe.

and hey, a 5-stared review..

and one of the coolest trailers ever conceived.

this week marks the first time a gay character appeared in jason hahn's column. haha. don't be homophobic folks

these are dangerous times indeed.

everyone has had a friend of a friend who's been fined about a thousand dollars for sharing files on kazaa. then some people started to get scared and now i'm becomng paranoid too. i resolved to delete kazaa and go cold turkey for the time being, or find alternative avenues to download stuff and maybe burn my mp3s and clean up the computer.. but when i got down to doing it i realised that it was impossible to delete the program. even when it's already in the recycle being it has a strange way of having its source code used. perhaps it's the spyware but i dunno how to access the windows registry. no freaking website i searched for gave me a clue on how to delete it properly. the forums were full of people having trouble using it instead.

it's giving me a headache and i feel like trashing the computer.

i have a dapper looking thom yorke poster staring down at me. he's a cynic.

i probrably should buy a book to read in taiwan since i'm not likely to be bringing my discman. top of the list: middlesex. i saw it while walking around today with morris. haha. such unfortunately unfruitful shopping. i'm still looking for my vintage tshirts. for all my enthusiasm about the andrea shirt i decided not to wear it after i got a weird stare from this mat just downstairs. i am decidedly not an attention seeker. sometimes.

the army half marathon wasn't that bad either. i only missed out on the goodie bag and free milk. i got the gatorade and indochine though. i actually ran for the most part, except on the sheares bridge, where everyone was just walking. and just when i thought on sat night that i've reached a point where i wondered if i have anything left to blog and if all this matters, all this shit came out.

yes i hope my life isn't as boring as i suspect it to be.

rest in peace, johnny cash.

17 tracks in playlist, average track length: 3:39
Playlist length: 1 hour 2 minutes 16 seconds

1. Blondie - Heart of Glass (4:33)
2. Damien Rice - The Blowers Daughter (4:48)
3. Damien Jurado - abilene (2:26)
4. Nitin Sawhney - Fragile Wind (4:16)
5. Goldfrapp - Train (4:11)
6. The Darkness - Get Your Hands Off My Woman (2:45)
7. Elbow - Fallen Angel (4:08)
8. Dinah Washington - What a Difference a Day Makes (2:27)
9. Michael Buble - For Once in My Life (2:34)
10. Liz Phair - H.W.C. (2:55)
11. Nina Simone - Don't Smoke in Bed (3:09)
12. Super Furry Animals - Venus and Serena (3:26)
13. Electric Six - Gay Bar (1:51)
14. The Fire Theft - Sinatra (5:49)
15. Michael Buble - Kissing a Fool (4:37)
16. Lizz Wright - Blue Rose (4:06)
17. Lizz Wright - Fire (4:15)

p/s H.W.C. = hot white cum

WHITNEY HOUSTON IS MY GUILTY PLEASURE

hype #01 madonna kisses britney and christina!
i'm beginning to like britney. she makes great videos. and she had better sense sticking to blonde. the performance is all very chicagoish, all dancing and legs. & i wonder why missy elliot, who comes on at the end, doesn't get mentioned at all in the papers. perhaps she should ditch the tracksuit look. no matter. her new singles are always the best singles on radio.

hype #02 kings of leon
i bought the cd, i listened to it, i think they should have printed the lyrics. it skips on my sony discman too. i like them but their songs haven't caught onto my consciousness yet.

hype #03 they wanna de-ban sex and the city
why not? better late than never. samantha rules!

hype #04 kill bill
the only movie you have to watch this year?

hype #05 neil gaiman
many of his books are being turned into potential blockbusters even as we speak.

i can't think of more cuz i'm really tired. i really should have watched a tale of two sisters instead of clubbing. clubbing is bad for health. i got a flu as well.. and later i gotta study for my basic driving theory. and watch run lola run again. after i sleep..