You can't trust rabbits

For the last couple of days I've been hearing this "Accidentally in Love" song in stores around the loop (it must be popular on that radio service stores use right now), and the first ten seconds are catchy as hell, so I figured I'd check it out. You Tube was there for me, and the video is insane:

Counting Crows - Accidentally In Love

Let's discuss that. First of all, I guess this song was in Shrek, so they decided they should have an animated character - what's better than a giant scary stuffed rabbit that comes to life? With dreds? Nothing. So this rabbit apparently lives on a couple's bed, and is secretly lusting after the girl until finally he comes to life. All good thus far.

Things start to get a little weird with the countless shots of the girl's 99% uncovered ass. Hell, you can almost see some lip in a couple of shots. You get to the end of the video where she stands up and you don't even know what her face looks like (but you could pick out those cheeks in a crowd).

So she's writhing around in her underwear while her giant a-hole of a boyfriend is jumping around, making a mess and kissing his muscles (I did all of these things this morning - natch). So when this giant stuffed rabbit that she's apparently had for a while comes WALKING in from the kitchen and stands in front of her, she kisses it (natch). I guess maybe the rabbit is supposed to actually be singing, so he may be serenading her. Either way, she gives him a smooch and they run off together, ditching that jerk in the kitchen.

But at the end we see the uber-depressing twist: the guy was making her breakfast in bed! And a pretty tasty looking one at that. So sorry he's a little excited, a little clumsy (and sure, kind of a d-bag), but you think that rabbit's going to make you breakfast in bed? You think that rabbit has totally hot pecs? You think that RABBIT knows how to do CARTWHEELS?
Whatever, dude, you don't need that ho-bag. Let's hit the beach and drink some Coronas.

What a band should do

If you have a band, you know what you should do? You should start writing high-energy songs about specific animals, historic figures, and proper names. That way, when a school needs a song to play or a sports team wants to get the crowd pumped up or Starbucks makes a clever commercial, you song is going to be "unbelievably perfect, like it must be fate".

Do that for a couple of years, and wait for the residuals to just come pouring in. Then you can go back to writing songs about how sad you are.

All of my stuff is breaking

Over the last couple of years, I've developed this above-all desire that the basic things in my life funciton properly, easily, and without thought. I'm sure this comes with being busier, having more responsibility, being more tired, etc. Things that fall under this category are wide ranging; everything from transporation to appliances to bank accounts. Basicaly anything that I rely on every day and don't feel like I should have to go out of my way to have access to.

This week, it feels like all of my stuff is breaking, and it drives me nuts. First, my laptop is breaking. Not the electronic bits, but the hinge. I've chosen to ignore this problem for a while, but at some point the screen is going to break off and I'll be forced to worry about it.

After taking my car into the garage for a laundry list of small issues last week, I now have somethign loose in the undercarraige that's rattling around. When my car needs to be taken in it compltely throws off my routine, and it also carries the worst consequence of all: I'm forced to take the train. (The one upside to this is that one day on the train and I won't even think about traffic being annoying for weeks afterwards.)

Things are also breaking at work at an alarming rate. The office is no longer about building new products as we have been fixing giant problems for the past few weeks, and the fun doesn't look to be stopping any time soon. Also, these problems are costing me money directly (quite a bit of it), and that rivals having to take the train for making a problem worse than it already is.

Anyways, none of these things have caused me any real hardship, they're just sort of piling up to stress me out. The upshot of that? I can not WAIT for this weekend! SPRING BREAK!!!! (Get that tarp ready, Pfeiffer.)

No Parents? Yeeeeeeeeee haawwwwwwwww!!

Apparently Myspace is the root of the com domain?

Type "com" into your address bar. Where do you go? Several people I have spoke to in several states on different isps and with different browsers go to www.myspace.com. That is so bizzare.

Here are my results - do they match yours?

com in IE - Myspace
com in Firefix - Myspace
edu in IE - nothing (searches for "edu")
edu in Firefox - Wikipedia
org in IE - Wikipedia
org in Firefox - Wikipedia
gov in IE - USA.gov
gov in Firefox - USA.gov

I haven't found other ones that work yet. What do you see?

TV is like a character from Dragon Ball Z

Just when you think he's dead under that pile or rubble, he explodes in a blast of light and screams for a while. Harry knows what I'm talking about.

The writer's strike is hopefully over today (cross your figers). I came across this nice little schedule of when shows are hoping to come back. It looks like a lot of shows are hoping to shoot a few more episodes fo air sometime in April or May. That would be pretty nice - to have new episodes of shows stretched out that far. Most years it feels like new TV dries up too early.

P.S. Does anyone actually use that little pocket in your jeans meant for change? I can't believe so many jeans have them - there must be a reason. Maybe I'm missing out on a glorious new world that opens up once you start keeping your coins in that extra little pocket?

Hi

Enough with the snow already

After several major snowfalls in the last couple of weeks, it's supposed to snow another 6-9 inches tonight in Chicago. While I welcome the return of winter snows, I've gotten to an age where they are less fun and more a pain. I'm supposed to take my car into the garage tomorrow, Mother Nature. If you make it so I can't do that, I'm going to be quite upset.

But I guess it's better to drive five blocks to drop my car off at the garage than drive all the way to work during a snow storm. Also, at least it was warm for the last day so a lot of existing snow melted first. And a stranger actually plowed our alley the other day.

Not that any of that matters much; I just checked the weather report, and it's supposed to snow 8 of the next 10 days. Oh, and dropping my car off means I have to ride the train tomorrow, during a massive snow storm (which makes it slower and more crowded). Expect an epic rant.

Lessons learned:
-Wear boots tomorrow
-Get a garage

This is three things

First, it's a neat alternative to You Tube called Vimeo. Better quality video.

Second, it's a neat video of people lip syncing.

Third, it's a look inside of a really awesome-looking dot com where the employees do silly things like this (and have a ping pong table).


Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo.

I like Saabs

Nice review of the 9-3 Aero Sport Combi here: Motor Week

That fuel economy is pretty bad, though. Might be better to stick with the 2.0l turbo and do some upgrading.