I told myself a year ago, if the Nintendo Gamecube goes down to 100 bucks, I'll buy it. Six months ago, I said I'm gonna buy the Gamecube when its $100. Friday, I said, now that the Gamecube's 100 dollars, I'm buying it. I hate all the added costs though. It comes no game, 1 controller, so I bought Super Mario Sunshine - $30 (which is so Japaneesed out, I can't begin to tell you), a big memory card - $20, and a PSP from Best Buy ($10). I still need more controllers, more games, and an RCA switcher box since we have so much electronic bliss in the big room now. I do not regret my purchase, as I'm sure it will bring many nights of throwing the controller at the TV screen, at which point, your purchase becomes an investment. Hockey time. Last Thursday, the Stiffs (thats my thursday night team in Highlands Ranch with my supervisor on the team) got it handed to us. The score was not even worth remembering, apparently. Then Sunday the Hyenas (with brother and friends) tied against a descent team. It was sad, but better than a loss I guess. Tonight (due to a scheduling conflict at the center), the Stiffs played and lost 4 to 3, but I was definitely more on my game than I have been with that team. Raj and I were workin it like Kariya and Selanne...almost. I also play with the Stiffs on Thursday and Hyenas on Sunday. I'm pumped. Other than that, I ordered the Fear of Pop CD from Amazon because best buy doesn't sell it. Bought that BT cd (note the new mp3otw), and need sleep. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- (anyone know numbers 1,2,and 6?) "You think I'm a thief? You see, I'm not the thief. I'm not the one charging 85 cents for a STINKING SODA! You're the thief! I'm just standing up for my rights as a consumer." (this quote is lame)
Time for another installment of the /mark musical rundown. Four items will be discussed this issue, those being BT, Five Iron Frenzy (FIF), Ben Folds and Ben Folds. I was informed tonight by Weston's co-worker, Stephanie, that recently a new BT album was released. This is good news as I enjoy the musical settlings, not to mention devilish good looks of Mr. BT. She told me the album is a little more 'pop'ie sounding, which is good, hopefully. Looks like N*SYNC rubbed off on them *actually, she said that JC of N*SYNC fame is featured on the album. Second, Five Iron Frenzy is playing their last show *ever* in Denver on November 22. Tickets are a whopping 13 bucks. Nick and I should be attending, so if you need someone to go with. Ben Folds started a project after the breakup of the five called Fear of Pop. I dod not know about this. I will be buying this album as well. I also heard from Nick's friend that Ben is now working on a project called "The Bens" which consists of Ben Folds, Ben Lee, and Ben Kweller, all named Ben. Eat that Donnas. Anyhow their first album will be an EP due out in late December, but for some reason it will cost $27.00. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- [Nick exempt from this one until 3pm] "The band, the hand."
This is me forgetting to call Julie and Jenni. I doubt I'm in any position to be broadcasting this, but I did talk to Jenni today and she got fired from her job when she told off her boss. I say way to go. Don't let males bring you down; support feminism. Before you know it, you might be able to end suffrage. Tonight I got worked at cutthroat at No Excuses. This is Arvada's answer to B-52's, and by that I mean that there are 6 surly men at the bar, 76 empty seats at the tables, a jukebox that plays Sammy Hegar, and the bartender is the best looking girl there....Indefinitely. I also bought A Mighty Wind which has some hilarious deleted scenes. I was a little disappointed when Nick told me that they put all the shot footage in the DVD, namely the takes they didn't use (would still be funny because they film those movies in a style which the actors only improve their lines). This is a lie. There are only deleted scenes and other stuff, but no 'unused takes/footage'. My hopes, once again are crushed. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "They kicked me out for 380 days, or 165 days, or whatever a normal school year is."
go broncos. I think I haven't been updating much lately because I've been in such a funk the past few weeks. I'm constantly pissed off about nothing and nothing good is really happening in the Mark kingdom. Give it a week though and I'll stop crying. Until then, I'll just keep buying crickets from the pet store and decapitating them with my flaming guillotine. facetious face. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "Treatment of addiction? Addicts treat themselves. They overdose and then there's one less to worry about."
I wish there was some polite way that I could express my discontent with the referees at the Bladium, but when it comes right down to it, they are just a bunch of no talent ass-clowns. My brother was assaulted tonight. Among other things, he was blatantly hit across the head with a stick, punched, shoved over after the play, and tripped from behind while standing in front of the goal. They were only called twice. Good news is that Matt Brozovich amended Michael's attackers in the final minutes of the game by nailing the primary offender against the boards. Matt was ejected. While I'm not glad the guy was injured, I am glad that Matt taught that team that you don't mess with someone just because they're taunting you and get away with it. I went to the Parade of Homes today. Weston Drug me out of bed at 10am and took me to what he promised would amaze me. Weston himself was disappointed by the houses this year and was quoted as saying, "Mark, you can quit gleeking on me, I was wrong and I've learned my lesson. and your better than me." -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "You're 40 minutes late, Ipkis! Now that's the same as stealing!"
My good friend Lance [site] is in town for a few days. I met up with the kid last night. For those who don't know, Lance's old nickname was "big Lover" due to his relative size and rubable belly. You can see a terrible picture of how he used to look here, when he hacked his picture into one that was on the site. Well, since moving to New York, he has been very active, stopped watching TV, and stopped eating fast food. He now looks like this (in fact, I think he's even slimmer now. He's 6'6" and weighs 170lbs. Quite an amazing transformation, and without much work. Yeah, I need me some of that. Last night we went to Blues Two on Ralston. There we met up with Tom, Brad, Casey, Mike, Maggie, and Wes. The place is a dump, but the fun we had was not (that was lame). Its terrific to see the kid and know he's doing so well. In a week he leaves for his new job on a cruise ship indefinitely. The rest of the week spent with Lance will be full of schoolboy-esque banter and gabbing about boys and girls, discussing who's gotten fat and what our favorite ice creams are. Just like one of those shows they have on Lifetime. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- (difficulty: 9/10) "Pennsylvania's just this state that's in your way when you want to get somewhere else."
I just suffered through one of the worst weekends I've had in ages. Friday I had to leave work at about three since I'm only working 20 hour weeks during school. I really didn't want to leave because I knew there wouldn't be anything to do at home until Charley got home at 10. My premonition was correct. When he finally got home at around 11, he had just had a crappy day, and didn't want to go out. I coaxed him into going to McCoy's where they screwed up my order and even then, it wasn't very good. That was pretty much my Friday. Saturday, I slept in, and then Todd and Tyler came over which was the only good part of the weekend. They stayed all night and we partied a little, but I couldn't really drink much of anything since I was still sick. I paid for half a bottle of Goldschlager (sp), only getting 2 shots of it. Late into the night I was attacked by 4 of the guests at the house who decided to hold me down and tickle me. To anyone who knows me, this is not a good idea. I kicked Tyler in his special area, and gave weston a cut and a bruise on his eye by the time the struggle was over. Later in the night, Weston tried to orchestrate a massive tickle assault on me, involving 10 people, that was never pulled off, but it did make me freak out for the last 2 hours of my day because I knew about it. Sunday, I drove for a total of about 4 hours and took four naps. I made everyone late to our hockey game, which we had to forfeit because of me. Everyone was uber mad at everyone else, and it was just a craptacular end to my weekend full of crap. with a crap-filled cherry on top. crap. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "I never did it either. I'm not a nymphomaniac. I'm a compulsive liar."
I am truly saddened by the deaths of John Ritter and Johnny Cash. They were great men, and we will miss them both. "....Because its hers and his and hers, We'll be missin' you..." We got clocked in our hockey game tonight. It was my first game with my new team. I still have my woeful cold, but I decided to play tonight anyway. I held up okay until the third period, where my lungs ceased to expand/collapse. Even tho our score was equivalent to a mathematical equation where the division cones out to a number involving 'E' (I don't think that one worked), the team actually looks pretty good, and I can't wait till next time when I'm healthy to pump things up. This will be a good weekend, as Todd and Tyler will be in town for the majority, and I will hopefully see the immortal Lance. Also be sure to check out Conan O'Brian's 10th Anniversary special on Sunday night, and what the hell, come to my hockey game too. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "The only thing we serve here is tongue! You boys like tongue?"
For that internship quote, I got an email telling me to come up with two to four sentences. I tried to write something that would make them wag their tails; throw them a bone; jump through the hoop etc., etc. I hope it came off as cheesy as I intended. And Lance, the countdown is to when I actually get to hang out with you on wednesday night. Other than that it looks like your booked solid. Let me know when your flight gets in, maybe I can see you at the airport with Ms. Nan-An or something. If you want me to change my counter, that can be done easily. And whats this business about Kelly not being able to hang out with me because shes in Australia? Never stopped her before. jerk. This post is cut short due to my illness which has been a terrible struggle all day long. I wasn't that tired at work, just really sick. To top it all off, I have a hockey game tomorrow night at 10pm, with my new team from work. This is gonna be a stinky situation. I'll probably go, but end up only playing a few minutes. If I get clocked, I'm done for, my body will implode. I'm sick as a dog who has a terrible cold. bah! No quote today, my brain isn't working. Feel free to start one in comments yourself. Quote yesterday was Catch Me if You Can. Thought you'd get that one nick.
I just got finished watching the first ten episodes of Family Guy Season 3, plus all the special features. I have to say, that if you compare where that show was in the first 3 seasons to where The Simpsons were in the first 3 seasons (mainly 1&2), if Family guy stayed on the air, it would probably surpass The Simpsons. I know, it sounds sac-religious, but just think about it for a second... Just remembered to call out some people. First is Lance who kept on bitching to me about not having a countdown to his return. Its been up for over 24 hours, and still no response. Second is Jenni who when we talked last week, said she'd call me soon. By soon she must have meant in a few weeks. Then theres Leah/Kelly/Jacki who just will not hang out with me no matter how hard I try. To all of you. I condone your inability to communicate with me in the appropriate way and only hope that you can muster back some of the Berenstain Bears-esque values that you were raised on. Get with it. *oh yeah, almost forgot, look at this garbage. *So, its exactly 5:11 in the morning and I have been lying in bed trying to sleep for the past 5 hours and 11 minutes. Apparently, I have come down with one of the following: Allergies (which I don't get allergies), SARS, or West Nile. It feels theres a sinus holocaust up my nose. At this point, I kind of wish I had a tranquilizer dart lying around. I have to be up at 8:30 for work. make it stop. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "I concur."
Yet another breakthrough here at /mark. This post is being written on my very own PDA, and transmitted wirelessly through mywireless network, out to the loyal readers of /mark. While I might not be able to write very fast with this thing yet, it is sure fun as hell to do my updates from my back porch, and surf the internet to boot! the idea is to use this PDA as the 'server' for downstairs, and send all of our music in the house through the network, through this PDA, into the reciever. Yeah, don't know if thats gonna happen. Sounds fun tho, doesn't it! -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- (Singing) "Shave and a haircut, two bits" Family Guy : Volume 2: Season 3 comes out today!
Family Guy : Volume 2: Season 3 comes out tomorrow. This morning I waled into a meeting at 9:45 that started at 9:30. You see, we used to have daily meetings to discuss what we are working on. Then they cut those meetings back to only on Tuesday and Thursday. Well, I'm in school T/R, so I'm not able to attend. Apparently, without my knowledge, they decided that our entire department should also have the meetings on Monday, as not to leave me out of the loop. As it turns out, today was the first Monday meeting held because of me. And here comes this jackass stroling in at quarter till 10 (thats me) looking like a fool, late to the meeting that is being held so he can be there. 'worst employee ever'. I really have to quit my 30 minute Care-Bear tea party before work in the mornings.... -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- [full title please] "It's called a Belgium dip."
Haha..yeah, the midday update. Well, that didn't happen, did it. Heres why! Last night our house threw a birthday party for one of Weston's co-workers. Mark tries to throw all the game he had at one unsuspecting girl who attended, however, he didn't seem to get enough trajectory on it and it hit the ground before reaching her where it got walked on by no less than thirteen onlookers. However, I did meet some really cool people, like said girl, and Charley's friend plus girlfriend, etc. and I had a really good time despite the drama that seemed to unfold every half hour, on the hour by numerous guests. Parties are supposed to be fun. I don't know why people go to a party and decide the most fun they can have would be getting all uppity over something that doesn't matter the next day. Oh yeah, someone stole my entire bottle of unopened 151. ungrateful bastards. I took my car into the John Elway shop on Wednesday to get an alignment done, dropped it of and the nice man drove me to work (which was only 3 mins away). I get a call at 3:30 from the guy, who I can only assume is John Elway's associate, and he tells me that they took apart my front axial, which was so rusted, that they soaked parts in WD-40 for two hours. He said when they put it back together, one of the parts snapped in half. He also told me that my battery was worthless and they had to jump my car to start it, which I only bought the battery about a year ago. Then he tells me I need a new [insert name of car part that I don't fully understand] and that it will cost about 700 dollars. In conclusion: don't ever get an alignment -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "Each cut, each scar, each burn, a different mood or time. I told him what the first one was, told him where the second one came from. I remembered them all. And for the first time in my life I felt beautiful"
update will be midday. mark
Today I went to the Taste of Colorado, and they were out of everything I wanted to eat. No Philly Cheese Steak sandwiches, no Grilled Chipotle White Sauce Meatballs, nothing. However, we (Charley, Wes, Brent, Gina, and I) were standing around and I heard some music coming from the stage. "Is that the Gin Blossoms, or a cover band doing the Gin Blossoms," I asked. "A cover band," replied Charley. Charley was wrong. It was pretty cool to see them play. I didn't realize how many hits they had. they played like 10 songs, and it seemed 8 of them were 'radio hits'. Just got me wondering, they're 1st hit album was in 1992. Don't you think they get sick of playing the same songs for 11 years straight? Anyhow, it was kind of cool because a fan had a cell phone held up to the stage for their friend to listen to, and the lead singer grabbed it and held it next to the mic while he was singing. he ended up doing this with about 15 different phones before the concert was over. Have a wonderful day. No crapper pics up yet, sorry Jenni. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!"
 
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