Diamonds And Branson Are Forever!

Best Movie I Saw This Week: Syriana. And how fitting to watch this when this week there's a shit storm brewing in Lebanon. Don't ask me how they managed to make George Clooney un-sexy but they did! What I thought was the best thing about this movie is that the story of our thirst for power and cheap oil in the Middle East is a multi-faceted one and that's how it was presented to us. I need to watch this one again without interuption. It was one of those typical nites where all I wanted to do was sink deep into a good story and every five minutes it was Mom this and Mom that. Also I watched The Forty-Year Old Virgin again. I forgot how good a movie this was. Perhaps one reason why it resonated with me is because they all work in a big retail store, and us retail folks are a different breed you know. This movie had perfect casting too. Every character was immensely likable. And we all know someone just like Andy, an electronics and toys geek who has never had a girlfriend. The Asia poster in his apartment was a nice touch. Strangely enough, and I can't beleive I'm saying this, what I find the most endearing, is the fact that they wait until they get married until they actually do it!

Book I Read This Week: The Bureau. It's a book about the history of The FBI. I've read this one before and it's one of those books I dug out of a box in the basement because I'm too broke to buy a new one, and there's no new titles at Dollar Tree this week. What was truly frightening and fascinating was the emphasis that J. Edgar Hoover placed on fighting Communism and delving into the private sex lives of others, when he himself never married or had a girlfriend but had a best guy friend that he went on vacations with and had supper with every nite. Weird!

Best Album I Listened To This Week: With Teeth by Nine Inch Nails. Bite The Hand That Feeds and All The Love In The World are the standouts. We listened to this on the way up to this bar in Davenport on Saturday. The current CD playing in my car is Late Registration by Kanye West, and I just can't get enough of Diamonds Are Forever! We are going to see Korn next month and I'm very excited about that too.

Current News Story: See above when I mention Syriana. That's the current news story all wrapped into one giant ball of depravity. The Daily Show has it right when they call it Mess-O-Potamia.

I am looking forward to going on vacation next week, we will be returning to Branson and this time we will be spending more time there and hopefully we can see more fabulous things there. You know what the best thing I saw there was? Not the Oak Ridge Boys theater, or the two story Go-Kart track, or the outlet mall, but outside of town when you drive around that big huge lake you go up on a ridge and you can look out at the entire town below you. There it is all sprawled out for you in it's royal splendor! Diamnods might be Forever, but Branson is too.