Booze will make me less energetic!

I just spent way too much money at deepdiscountdvd.com. Some guy on the Something Awful forums posted a 20%-off discount code that expires in an hour, and suddenly the already-discounted items in my wishlist got that much more enticing. Man, I suck.

I went to see Land of the Dead this evening. It was pretty good, but could have been better. It seemed much too short. Also, I didn't spot the guys from Shaun of the Dead, who were credited as "Photo booth zombies". Also, the ending was a little too upbeat. Usually George Romero zombie movies are the only movies that give me the chills and leave me bummed out afterwards, but this one ... not so chilling and bumming [out][ing](?). It's ok, though; on the drive home my cd ended and it switched to one of mom's cd's, the first track of which was a heartbreaking "Ave Maria", so I was nice and depressed after that. And then I picked up a drifter and killed him and could still hear his heart beating in the back seat, so that was sufficiently chilling.

I hope my mom's happy. I imagine she is. One of her girlfriends just bought a house here and is presumably selling her house in New Jersey and moving here permanently. She and my mom go to the opera in Cooperstown a couple of times per summer, and that's nice. For a while there my mom didn't have many girlfriends, but now that she's given wage-slavery the finger, she's "found herself" and is renewing old friendships (like women she was friends with 40 years ago but hasn't spoken to in 20), road-tripping and continent-hopping ... so it's very likely that she's happy.

Me, on the other hand -- who knows? I want to get back to school. I want to get on with this "Comput0r Science". I'm all jumpy this evening. Jumpy! Excited and excitable! Jazz hands! Ordering low-priced dvd's will do that. And then ordering low-ish priced books from Amazon will do that, too. And the animated Tick is on. And the Saturday Night Live with Will Ferrell hosting is on soon, and then the late re-run of SNL is from 1979 and has Talking Heads as musical guests.

Note: If you're in a band whose name sounds like it should have a "the" but doesn't, for the love of God -- add a "the". You can always drop the "the" if you're speaking casually, but if a kid is blogging and he's a stickler, he has to be extra careful about constructing his sentences. You're art students, you're different, we get it. Add a "the".

I've also got a Tivo'ed Humphrey Bogart movie. That guy could give lessons in not being hyper.