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Archive (February 2003) 22nd February, 2004 Some short snippets: --- Ben Moody has left Evanescence. He and Amy Lee founded the band when they were like total best friends in high school, but now that they're famous he's decided to quit the band and help write songs for Kelly Clarkson instead. Theatre of Tragedy, one of my favorite bands of all time, was formed when a bunch of guys hooked up with vocalist Liv Kristin. Now she's left the band because she wants to be a big star, and being a vocalist on a band just isn't big enough for her. Honestly, I feel like I should start a band with a bunch of really close friends just so I can abandon the band and my friends later when we get really big. --- It's the year 2004, and it's coming up to April. You know what that means: on the 20th of April you're going to be bombarded by a whole bunch of SMSes from people going "Hey, on the 20th of April, look at your watch at exactly 8:04pm and set it to 24hr time. It'll be the only chance you'll ever get to see 2004 2004 2004 on your watch! Wow! Isn't that just totally amazing and worth your time and effort?" --- Jo and I gave Drakey a bath the other day. After that, he really resented us for a while because he's still afraid of water. Today, we spent about a half hour trying to teach him to say his name. I think it's working! He almost said "Drakey Poo!" twice! --- My new all-time high score in bowling is 144. 20th February, 2004 [Happy b'day, Goh!] 16th February, 2004 [Happy b'day, Nate!] Well, Valentine's came and went... and while some of us enjoyed the night with loved one(s), others might've just gone to bed and popped on some porn. And really, what's wrong with that? When someone mentions porn, you get a whole lot of different responses. Okay, actually there's not much variety in the responses you get. It's either "Oh that's gross. You're gross. Get away from me, you pervert" or "So what'cha got?" But really, porn isn't that bad. Okay, you can take it as being really degrading for women and stuff, and I guess that's true if videos like Grudge F*ck, Young dumb and full of cum, and Itty Bitty Titty exist. But disgusting acts of degradation aside, the act of two consenting adults having sex on camera isn't really too gross, is it? Sure sex is a special moment between two people... but it's not necessarily a private moment. I mean, there's times when you want to do it in the privacy of your own bedroom, but some other times you just sorta wanna do it in a handicapped toilet at the airport. Which I guess is still sorta a private moment, but at that point privacy is not that important. But still... Anyway, from a technological standpoint porn is a big supporter of new mediums. When VHS first came out, not a lot of people bought into that whole format, preferring to produce shit on film. It was the porn industry that totally went into video, and made VHS a household product. Porn helped the internet become what it is today. And when DVDs came out, porn was the first genre to really start exploring the different benefits of the medium. While regular Hollywood distributors were just releasing bare-bones DVDs of movies with a theatrical trailer and subtitles as the only "special features", porn was utilizing the multi-angle function of DVDs. I don't want to write an essay on the history of porn or anything, I just wanted to cut porn some slack and say "Just give porn a chance." Don't shit on it before watching some first, okay? ---
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romantic outdoor dinner with glowsticks in place of candles. --- My Guestbook has been down for ages... I think it might be time to get a new one. In the meantime, leave a msg in the Msg Forum, yah? 11th February, 2004 Valentine's Day is coming up soon. As you may recall, last year I had a rather pessimistic update for Valentine's Day because it mainly revolved around sex toys for those who are doomed to spend Valentine's Day alone. Well this year, I have somebody special to spend it with, so this update won't be too depressing. However, there is the whole deal with Valentine's Day presents. And as it turns out, I'm completely stumped for gift ideas. After making gifts for Jo over Christmas and her birthday, I'm now clueless. So I went gift shopping with Evon today, but everything I looked at just seemed kinda "blah" and uninspiring. The jewelry stores were packed as hell with school kids, so I wasn't too keen on jumping in (although the accidental groping of schoolgirl asses might not be too painful). But I had a look at some less crowded places anyway... but honestly I just didn't feel like purchasing jewelry as a gift. It feels somewhat... well... like bumming out. Jewelry is so... traditional... I dunno... no offense intended to anyone out there who bought jewelry for their significant others this year, but I just don't think it's me. So I thought about soft toys. But then again, for our birthdays we've already done the soft toy thing. I gave her Baby Glen (a doll I made completely out of materials I found in my army camp), and she gave me Affleck the Bear.
Are Valentine's Day gifts really that necessary, anyway? Isn't it just some ploy made up by florists and Hallmark to sell merchandise? It's like Easter was made up by Nestlé to sell chocolate eggs and stuff. I dunno, I don't want to sound like some "fuck the establishment" rebel or anything, but maybe V-Day gifts are just unnecessary. Or does a silver necklace with a heart-shaped pendant mean more than a person's undying love and devotion? Maybe I should get her flowers at the very least. 9th February, 2004 Shit I can't believe I haven't updated in like... forever! I've been stuck in camp lately, with more Alert Red standbys than you can shake a stick at. It's really quite annoying. One week, you think you're going to have a nice pleasant time in preparation to watch the Superbowl, and the next thing you know the MO (Medical Officer) has decided to send you to Charlie Company and you have no choice but to stay in camp for a full 7 days, including Superbowl Sunday (or Monday here in Singapore). And although my time in Charlie was not too bad, thanks to the quirky guys over in Platoon 9, the overall experienced was ruined on the last day, just mere hours before I was going to book out of camp and rush home to watch it on video. I walked into the medical center to talk to the MO about how days of off-in-lieu I'd get for being detained in camp, and then before I could stop him, one of the medics blurted out the winner of the Superbowl. Have you ever wanted to erase a part of your memory? You know, like in that shitty John Woo movie Paycheck where The Affleck (no longer Bennifer) erases a portion of his memory as part of the contract? While that movie portrays memory erasure as being a negative concept, I sometimes think it's a pretty good idea. I mean, I'd like to erase a part of my memory so I won't know the ending of The Empire Strikes Back, so when Vader reveals Luke's true parentage I'll be shocked and surprised all over again. I'd like to forget ever watching T2 or knowing about it, so when Arnie is revealed to be the good Terminator I'll be like soooo totally surprised. Likewise, I'd like to experience the wonders of Star Control II for the first time all over again, because it's like the best computer game ever! Last Toosday... more than anything I wanted this machine so that I could forget that I knew who won the Superbowl. Because what I watched was the single most exciting event I've ever watched. I won't say the most exciting game, because while this game was definitely pretty fucking exciting and close I have seen better... but this was a fucking huge event. Because not only did it have the great plays, it also had P. Diddy and Nelly performing together, and the surprise mystery guest performer turned out to be Justin Timberlake! And if that's not enough, there would've been the ultimate super-surprise of the Janet Jackson bra-rip (courtesy of JT). So many surprises... all ruined because I didn't watch the game live. This is the reason why I like to watch movies on premiere day. Not for the prestige of being among the first few people to watch it; not because I'm too impatient to find out about what happened to Neo; but because I don't want some blabber-mouth "accidentally" revealing important plot points to me. And I really hate it when someone says: "That surprise ending will totally catch you off-guard!" Because it won't anymore. Once you expect a surprise ending, there's no longer a surprise. --- Christina Aguilera still remains the most frequent cause of argument between my girlfriend and I. Jo insists that Christina is fake and a mere product of pop culture trends. We all know that this is wholly untrue, of course, and Jo's statements are just the ramblings of a demented Britney fan. --- I still hate Coldplay. And that guy from Five for Fighting (or whatever shit band did that Superman song) has a fucking annoying voice.
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