I love tv. I love Radio drama. They're both a form of serial from old, and when done right it's an amazing venue for story telling.

There are SOOOOOOO many bad tv shows though, and for every 100 bad tv shows there 1 or 2 really good ones. Ones with engaging characters, good writing, and interesting stories. The sad part is all the good ones get cancelled very quickly.

Take for example the recent Aaron Sorkin Comedy/Drama "Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip". Excellently well written, an awesome cast, and yet it only lasted one season (and it escaped cancellation twice during it's one season).

And it's not just Studio 60, I can list a bunch without even trying:
"Greg the Bunny"

"Firefly"
"Dark Angel"
"Wonderfalls"
"Veronica Mars"
"Drive"
"John Doe"
"Arrested Development"
And many others

So why is it that decent shows get cancelled so quickly? I'm constatnly scared that if I like it it'll get cancelled.

Right now I'm watching "Dexter" I love it....and I hope it lasts....

In a move that is sure to anger some of you I've been warming up to Nickelback lately.

Sure their musical creativity sucks (need I link to how you remind me of someday?), and Chad kroger is far from a unique and talented guitarist. But their songwriting is awesome, I find my self enjoying Rockstar, Photograph is awesome, and even if you go back to albums before silver side up their lyrics were top notch....


Now if only they could write songs with more then 3 chords....

:P

-I need a good Mythbusters tshirt.....do you know how hard it is to find a decent one that's not a fucking arm and a leg? :(

-SQUEE!!! GHIII is out, song really good songs but it's harder this time, I still haven't finished it yet.... :)

-Meh, I think my radio in my shitty first car is possesed....sometimes it works....most times not so much, I need to put a new one in..... :(

-Yeah I got my first vehicle....you people are gonna laugh.....but it runs and the price was right.....I'm driving a 92 minivan. Yeah it sucks cause theres some AWESOME drivers roads around here and my van is about as gutless as it gets.... :(

-I'm lovin' the new Carlos Santana CD....The solo on "Into the Night" is the FUCKIN' A :)

-Work is going awesome, I'm loving the job I do....I was a little concerned before I went into school but now I'm not any more :)

-It's time to pay off my student loans :(

I think that's all for now....I suck at writing these things....

So a while ago a certain person on LJ was kind enough to post some links for me on the interwebs.

Which were eagerly gobbled up by me.

a few days later the certain person expressed annoyance that others take stuff and don't say thank you.....

this morning I was listening to tunes, and it hit me like a ton of bricks!

I went back, checked, and my suspicion was confirmed.

I was the offending person!

So I must apoligize for my lack of manners Chris and I hope you realize it was an error on my parent I REALLY do appreciate the files.

THANK YOU


(/me had better update this thing later today)

So yeah.....

I Never post on this thing anymore and I really should. I feel like by not poosting and only reading I'm not being fair to the precious few people that might actually care what I have to say...

So what's new with me?

-I have Front row center tickets (literally) to see BMG here in Edmonton in September

-I finished school in april.... (so that means schools out for the summer...and since it's my last year that means that schools out forever...I should add a sweet guitar riff)

-I found a job on Monday...which means I'm moving to Yellowknife

-This BMG concert now has $500 worth of airfare attached

-Bah I won't let go of it...the seats or just to damn good

-So yeah I'm gonna be working with an airline up in Yellowknife doing maintenence on their fleet of twin otter, cessna, and dash 7 aircraft.

-Bah I hate packing stuff

-I now have to pack up ALL my stuff

-did I mention that I have NEVER moved before?

-This post has truly devolved in to a jumbled collection of meaningless thoughts...

-maybe I should quick while I'm ahead...

-I'll try again another day...

Hey guys,

A couple things that I need to post about today:

1. An Apoligy: It's finals week on my end and I have had 6 tests thsi week (I still have two more tommorow) so I haven't been checking on the P2 boards lately. I apoligize for that, it rtecently came to my attention (today) that some people are having troubles logging in and/or staying logged in. I'll be looking into this over the next day or twofor sure, but in the meantime those of you *coughcoughSHAWNcoughDEBBIEcough* that are having problems, would you mind leaving a comment detailing what problems exactly you're having? is it giving you some form of error message? if so what does it say? etc. Once again I apoligize for my absence and I'll do my best to get you guys back up and running ASAP.

and 2. I recently broke down and purchased "Live at the venition(sp)" from iTunes. however due to some magical hocus pocus that I employed (ok I downloaded and compiled a program someone else wrote) I now have a DRM free version of that would be perfect for sharing (even though according to the RIAA everytime you share music god kills a kitten).  So I don't know what purpose this file set would serve ;) but I have them and am offering them to those that read my LJ... cheers guys and enjoy...

Wow, it's 5am, I'm awake....my god it's a miracle!
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Nah, finals week....


But I digress, I really ought to be posting to this thing more often, instead of getting off my butt and posting here my activities normally devolve into a non-commenting daily voryeristic read of my friends' journals. (can you be vouristic if you only read text?...ah but there was that picture oof someones feet several months ago :P )


So in other news: I hate canada post....Month after month they keep losing my mail, and it's the same newsletter month after month, I know others that get it but I either get it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay late, or just not at all. So I can sympathise Chris.

I've also been listening to the new Beatles album lately...and frankly I'm not a fan. But it's not for the reason you might expect. You see it's the same beatles songs I've been hearing since I was 5. I have the utmost respect for the beatles, and frankly a beatles "remix album" is an EXTREMLY dangerous propisition with plenty of opertunity to make a horrible record. but at the same time when you have access to the oridginal masters, and Paul and Ringo even do some suplementary vocals you have to run with it. All the song changes are excedingly subtle, I think that the people behind it weren't risky, and they put out the "safe bet". I mean it's a good album, but it's good like the red album, or the blue album, why? beacause it's the red or blue albums all over again, great but nothing new. then again that's just my $0.02....

I'm going to school now.....

Wow...
It's that time of year again....

The time of year when Pepsi gives away prizes like candy. I must be a masochist in order to fill out a survey and enter a contest ONCE EVERY HOUR for two months....

Pepsi has been doing this for three years now. Two years ago they gave away 2,016 iPods, I snagged one. Last year it was the Xbox 360....I had one of those a full WEEK before the console was released worldwide. And this year they're giving away more 360's...of which I again am trying to win.

So yeah I'm crazy...and fanatical...

but I've won over $1000 worth of stuff from pepsi before, and I'll win more this year....

I'm sorry...

I HAVE to abolish my sins....

I'm an Edmontonian, I'm supposed to hate calgarian teams/people....

but the Oilers had the players, they had the dollars, and they had the coaching staff...

and they STILL suck....

sadly I have to do it:

Go flames go.... :(

Caution: Language

Is it reasonable to be angry about being ignored?
What the fuck did I ever do to piss them off so much?
-I NEVER pm'd ANY nasty messages of any sort
-I NEVER attacked anyone personnally
-I went out of my ever since I joined to try to get to know people...
-And all I've ever gotten from most people there was the cold shoulder...

I'm sick and tired of the bullshit!!!!

I've noticed new members asking (granted newbie) questions attacked, I'm seen people outright ignored, I personnally have been killing threads left right and centre for some reason....

No wonder why I drifted away for a few months...

Fuck them, they can have their fucking in-club guised under the BML and BMMB and their "Community"

I'm leaving the BMMB, I'm not going to raise a stink about it though beacause it's not worth my time and emotional energy in order for nothing to change...

Couple notes:
-If you have been reading this in my LJ without being reffered to it by anyone you are NOT part of the problem...
Their are a few people who do not read my LJ and I want to ensure they do not feel bad in the event that this comes up on the BMMB:
Chelsey
Debbie (Bluebee)
Maria
Jim (JWtodd)
Jessica (blutat2)
Ken (Falling)

-And IF anyone reading this decides to bring it upi on the board you're on your own, I don't have the time or enery in my life right now to fight a huge internet flame war that won't change anything anyways....

I'm lost....

I'm about to go nuts and theres not much I can do....

I'm living at home through school due to a lack of cash (student loans won't give me more the my tuition cause my parents make to much and they can't help with my schooling).

So I'm living at home and subject to my parents whim (not an issue normally), my parents happen to be going through this "Martha Stewartesque" phase and NOTHING around our house is EVER clean enough.

So my parents "clean" every weekend.

except they don't clean they just reorganize everything CONSTANTLY, NOTHING EVER finds a permanent home.

So then they complain about how my areas aren't up to their standerd, fine I'll clean it...

Except when I clean it's NEVER clean enough! there is ALWAYS something they bitch about, and sometime it's the tiniest things, (If the kitchen is spotless I could clean the fridge, if the fridge is clean I could disinfect it, etc.)...

anyways so i don't want to put out any effort cause it's not appreciated/recognized, and the cleaning I DO put out is "cleaned" again by the next weekend...

So now that you have some backstory I would like some advice...

I'm going to go nuts very quickly if I don't move out...
But I can't afford to move out...

suggestions would be appreciated...

YAY!!!
exams are OVERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! :D

This last week was a REAL gong show I'm SO glad it's over on the 13th I decided to stay late at school and study so I worked till about 5 then wandered over to kingsway from supper. I got back to school at 6 and got back to work, I looked up at the clock and saw that it was midnight! By the time I had wrapped up and got out of there it was almost 1:30 and the busses had stopped. So that combined with the -13 degree wheather and the fact that I didn't want to walk home through the quintist little crack neighborhood in town. I called my parents to come rescue me, (thankfully they didn't mind too much). 4 hours of sleep and back to school for my electronics final!



but NOW they're DONE!!!
and I have until the 2nd off (everyone else at school gets till the 9th off though :( ) gotta be positive though!

time to start my christmas shopping!

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Chinooooooooooooook...
:D

it's SO warm here today! 8 degrees now and we're supposed to hit 10 tommorow!
:D

I don't like the the 33 knot wind today...
:(

The 172's at the airport next door must be having fun!
MUAH ha ha ha ha

Wow I am SO bored, I have a 5 hour break right in the middle of classes today and no where to go YAY!
lol

Ok so I'm in a shitty mood and it's time for random bitching from Davids world:

-Finals are coming up, I HATE tests AND I HAVE to get higher then 70% on both of them to make Transport Canada happy
-My instructer is an idiot, he can't teach, his body is literally falling apart, he's had a kidney transplant, various open heart surgerys, diabetes, AND he's on the list for a set of lungs
-I have WAY to much homework
-For the last week I've been starting classes before the sun comes up and getting home well after it goes down, where the hell does my day go?
-I'm not getting NEARLY enough sleep
-Finals are coming up
-Why is it that everytime I hit it off with a member of the oppisite sex they're already claimed???
-My brain is mushy from to much homework
-Some coked out druggie felt the need to tell me about his sex life on the bus tonight (I didn't even leave school till 7)
-Finals are next week
-Apple has taken three weeks to fix my iPod
-I have no money to buy christmas presents
-No matter how well I do my parents are always on my ass to do better (I got 92% on my last test for god sakes)
-Did I mention that I have finals next week and that I hate finals????
-When my iPod finally DOES come back I get to spend several hours updating it with 20gb of music again
-The ONE place I can go to use decent (read: $10,000) Ham radio equipment is in the middle of nowhere and can't get there without a vehicle, seeing as how my parents won't let me drive unless I pay the insurance difference, I'm SOL


That's the end off the bitching, I'm just tired, cranky, and frustrated...

I really am a (mostly) positive person in real life!
REALLY I am!

Ok So I finally got my brand new xbox 360! :D

DAMN this thing rocks:

Ok so I have had my xbox for 24 hours now, time for my review since I've (more or less) put it through it's paces....

All the previews and reviews that we have all read in the last months leading up to this has referred to the 360 as "xbox 1.5", this definatly applies, but it's NOT a bad thing however...

M$ has took all the stongssuits of the xbox and amplifyed them, you'll find more media abilities that are easy and intuitive, (streaming music off my 20gb 4th gen iPod was simple and the music was mixed into the background of the game by the xbox itself), the visualizer on the Media player was great! (hook this up to an HD at a party with an iPod and you're done playing dj for the night )...

One AWESOME feature that was totally overlooked in all reviews was the bulit in CDDB database! Without EVER being hooked to a net connection (or my computer) I was able to toss almost any of my cd's into the xbox and it could tell me the track name, artist, and album info. All i had to do was hit "rip cd" and it copied all the songs to the hard drive, the speed was very fast as it copys multiple songs at once... EXCELLENT feature M$

When I finally got it (after the whole debacle yesterday afternoon ) I set it up on my normal CRT tv, all I can say is WOW! The graphics are amazing I can't wait to get this thing hooked up to an HD and try it out on there...

now for the few bad things...

-The power supply - JESUS! that's one hell of a beast, forget the xbox falling and killing a small child, the power supply did it!

-Heat was a bit of a concern, playing hexic for 20 min caused the back of the unit to be fairly warm, not incredably so, but slightly concerning

other then that the unit is awesome, the new 360 controller is most likely the greatest controller ever, I can only see the possibilits so far, over the next 4 years M$ is going to blow our minds...

GAH!
Will it ever end???
I have WAY to much homework, I've been working on it since noon saterday and I don't see it ending any ime soon!

There are times I HATE being a "responsable" adult.....

Well I won't be posting to this thing VERY often but definatly every couple of days or so....

I already moniter a few of your LJ's so I figured I should get me one of these....

anyways I have a crapload of homework so I'm out for now....
-David