Best Buy and Stuff...

Hey, everyone.

Sorry that I haven't posted anything in a while, but things have been pretty dull around these parts. However, this past week, I did have a good lunch with my Dad, who also said this in response to my blog:

"Who is this guy...Charlie Brown? Everything shits on him?"

What he meant by that was that my blog entries seem to always be anger-fueled, like I'm always complaining about how much life sucks. In all honesty, I think life is pretty good right now. It's just that I think reading about how great everything is going is a bit boring. "Today was great. My teacher said I have a lot of potential, and all my classmates like me." It just sounds boring. So, while all of you read from this blog, just take into mind that I am really doing fine and that I'm pretty happy with things right now. Anyway, onward with the rest of the entry!

To start things off, I have a question for all of you: Do you think the length of Best Buy's receipts are ridiculously long? I'm pretty sure it's mostly due to that stupid phone survey they put at the bottom, the one that nobody does anyway. Regardless, if you didn't think Best Buy's receipts were long before, then I have something to show you:



That's my receipt, all seven feet of it! Now, I know what you're thinking. I probably went off the handle again buying DVDs, and (with my obsessiveness over DVDs) you have every right to believe that. However, on this particular occasion, I simply bought a mere four DVDs....four! More explanation is needed for this, though. You see, on the day that I went, Best Buy was offering a deal where you can get any new DVD release for just $9.99. On top of that, you also got two small bottles of any soda you wanted for free. The only catch was that you had to sign up for a free 8-issue trial of Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, and Time. Don't worry, though; it is free as long as you remember to cancel the subsciptions. Anyway, this means that (on top of the four movies) the register had to list 8 different sodas and 12 different magazine subscriptions. So, I end up getting this behemoth of a receipt. On top of that, I had to swipe my credit card for each magazine subscription (so they can charge me for re-subscribing if I don't cancel my subscription). Well, I don't know about you guys, but if I have to swipe my credit card more than five or six times, I start to become a little fuckin' paranoid. To hell with the horror movies I watch in class. The real thrill is at the Best Buy registers!

Well, that's enough about Best Buy for today, though you guys are free to complain about them all you want in the comments section. (Hell, I know Robert has a theory about Best Buy employees involving kitchen garments.) Anyway, on to some more news.

Now, I know some of you might be wondering what the hell is happening with "Beowulf: Keep On Truckin'", and I'm going to tell you all the same response I give to people regarding any film/video venture I take: "I'm working on it." Although, I haven't even looked at the script in over a month and a half now...hell, I don't even know where it is. Still, I have hope that it will get done, but the real production may not come until this summer (when school is finally over and I get a new computer with all of the trimmings). I just want to make sure that this thing absolutely kicks ass before I put a lot of time and effort into it. Who knows...I might just do a few shorter productions in order to get comfortable with the animation.

Well, that's all from here. Sorry that it took forever to put up a new post. Hopefully, I'll post something else before the month is out. See you.

P.S. Since my last post, I have watched all 12 chapters of Trapped in the Closet, and I have to say it was worth every bit of money that I chipped in for it ($3 cash and $2 Best Buy bucks); it was just so goddamn stupid that it became epic. I wish I could recommend it to everyone, but I have to say to hold off if you're interested because, judging from chapter 12, there is still more to come. Ughhh...I can still feel the pain...

DVD spending spree!

Hey, everyone.

Well, I have to say, it feels good to not have to work the late nights at Halloween Haunt anymore. I am finally getting rested, getting work done, and (most importantly) binging on DVDs. In the past week alone I purchased Office Space: Special Edition, Blink 182: Greatest Hits, The Adventures of Pete and Pete: Season 2, and Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Collection. This spending spree doesn't appear to be losing momentum either as the next two weeks will provide me with Beavis and Butt-Head: Volume 1, Scrubs: Season 2, and Home Movies: Season 3. However, amidst all of these releases that I am looking forward to, I have overlooked something marvelous, something destined to become a classic, something that will truly go down as one of the most triumphant masterpieces of all time. With that said, behold:



That's right! Fuck The Who's Tommy! Fuck Pink Floyd's The Wall! It's R. Kelly's complete epic R&B opera: Trapped In The Closet, an epic tale of sex, violence, betrayal, and...a closet.

As most of you already know, R. Kelly came out with chapters 1-5 last summer, and (because it seems to take itself so seriously) it is one of the friggin' funniest pieces in music video history. If most of you don't know the story already, here it goes: Basically, R. Kelly wakes up to find that he is in bed with a woman that isn't his wife. Her husband then comes home, and R. Kelly is shoved into a closet to hide. The story then goes into obscure plot details that include homosexual affairs, homewrecking cops, and a sex-destroying leg cramp. The kicker is, though, that the entire plot is sung by R. Kelly while the viewer is witnessing it unfold. Stupid, stupid, stupid shit.

Well, the rest of the chapters (the thrilling conclusion) are now available on DVD with the previous five chapters to complete the entire story. I have to give a big thanks, though, to my brother (and fellow blog-reader) Bobby for telling me that this was out. He said that he saw the new chapters on BET, and said they were hilarious. Well, I taped this event last night and watched it this morning, and I'd have to agree with Bobby. It's still the same crapfest as before, only this time the conclusion brought us the following things:

1. A Spatula-weilding old lady.
2. A brother who basically walks off a gunshot wound to the shoulder.
3. Driving green-screen effects only fit for a Zucker Bros. movie.

Throughout this program, though, the viewer gets the opportunity to hear R. Kelly speak about the video, and we even get to hear about how he has ideas for 12, 18, 30 more chapters for this "soap opera" and how it gets difficult for him to keep track of all these characters and all of their character arcs. ARCS?!? Well, I guess if an adulterous character laughing at "all the crazy shit I been through" is an arc, then please stand by for your Writers' Guild Award, Mr. Kelly.

Sadly, the program only showed chapters 6-8 and not the other four chapters that conclude the DVD. So, I wasn't able to endure the complete tranwreck that is "The Closet." If any of you wish to test your endurance, then you can watch the program on BET (This Saturday at 10:30pm), or you can try VH1 (This Sunday at 12:00am: I'm guessing that means to stay up late on Saturday).

Anyway, that's all for today. Keep on the lookout for R. Kelly's new video "Trapped in this 12-Year-Old Girl". See ya.