Boy: Would you like a Whopper?

Mom: No, thanks. I’m not a fan of malt balls.

Boy: You’re not?

Mom: They taste like chocolate covered puke.

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Starbucks Customer #1: They should serve beer here. It would be so much better. It would be a whole new experience!

Starbucks Customer #2: Yeah, okay hun, I want a latte.

Starbucks Customer #1: They could set up a bar over there. It would be so much fun to come to Starbucks if they served beer.

Starbucks Customer #2: Were you even listening to me?

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Girl #1: How do you turn an iPod off?

Girl #2: Mine just turns off by itself.

Girl #1: I tried that yesterday, but it took like 9 hours before it shut off.

Girl #2: Hmm….yeah I guess mine did too….

Girl #1: And when I tried to turn it back on, it was all out of power so I had to recharge it.

Me: Yeah your battery died, and if you press and hold the play/pause button it turns off.

Girl #2: You can press a button to turn it off?

The Layaways - Ocean Blue

I hate Christmas music. Sorry to all you festive Christmas music lovers out there. Call me the Grinch, ban me from your children, ship me off to the land of Christmas-music-haters. I will still hate Christmas music. Even when I hear it on the Ska-Punk Show I will still hate it.

So the other day I was trying to read, and Henry was listening to some online radio station based in Ghana. Not only was the streaming speed really low (that means it wasn’t high-quality), they were playing Christmas music. Like, African style Christmas music. “Okay,” you’re thinking, “That might not be so bad.” Well it was. There were tribal drums going on, and every once in a while someone would scream “Ghana!” in the background.

Then it got worse. Some country music came on after that. I don’t like country music at all. It’s pretty much my least favorite genre of music, besides Christmas music, that is. Then I noticed that it was a Christmas song that was playing. Remember, I’m trying very hard to concentrate on reading an important book while this racket was going on. It was Country-Christmas music. “Okay,” you’re thinking, “Garth Brooks is a pretty good singer. I have an album of his somewhere. I might even have a cd of some country singers singing Christmas music.”

At this point I thought there was nothing worse than country singers singing Christmas music over a bad radio connection. Then I heard a “Ghana!” in the background, and the tribal drums started banging. You have to hear it to believe it, I guess.

Thrice - The Artist In The Ambulance

Director: Andrew Adamson
Starring: Georgie Henley, Skander Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe was an over-all good movie. It was a movie that you would make a note to watch if it was on t.v. It was a movie that you might rent every two years. It was not the movie that so many fans were expecting. It must be remembered, however, that Disney made it, not Peter Jackson.

Personally, I thought they could have easily kicked the rating up from PG to PG-13, and made the battle scene a lot more intense. But that would scare a lot of the younger viewers away, and we wouldn’t want to do that.

The acting was fairly good; the casting was exceptional. The story line pretty much stuck to the book written by C.S. Lewis. There isn’t much more to say about it…

The Bottom Line: Go see it in theaters, because it is worth the money. But for the same price as a movie ticket you could buy the book, and the book would be a much better buy. The movie lacks C.S. Lewis’s humor and sly wit, and that is a great lack indeed.

I’m so excited. I was digging through the St. Vincnet de Paul store(think Goodwill or Salvation Army) and I found treasures. Everytime I go there I search through the box of old records they have, only to be drug out by my mom who thinks that it’s pretty pointless for me to buy records. She might be right. I don’t have a record player. But there it was, sitting right next to “Merry Christmas From the Mormon Tabernacle Choir” was “The Cure: The Singles”. It went like this:

So I was happy. I saw a record from Alabama, but it was in bad shape and it didn’t even have Sweet Home Alabama on it. So I didn’t buy that one. All I need now is a record player…

The Cure - Boys Don’t Cry