monday, monday

I don’t get spam e-mailers. I work up this morning to find all of my accounts bombarded by credit-check, get rich quick, and sex site e-mails. The funny part is not a single one of these e-mail’s subject lines suggested their contents. There wasn’t even a half hearted attempt like: subj: Matt, here’s the information you requested…. Instead it was stuff like the following from “Crissy”: subj: I’ve changed my address. May be it’s me, but I don’t get the thought process behind this. Like I’m supposed to think:

oh look, my friend Crissy has decided to move without telling me. Wait a minute… I don’t have a friend Crissy. But she’s decided to move and is sending me the information. *opens e-mail* Oh, my new friend Crissy (and she must be my friend because she sent a nude picture of herself) hasn’t moved in the real world. But she’s got a new website! That I can visit! For only $19.95 a minute! That’s both a relief and a deal. Now where is my wallet…

Do these people get any bites from these random e-mails? Have you ever bought something from one of these?

The Gorillaz concert Saturday night in Toronto was fascinating and at the same time utterly unfulfilling. The band performed behind a translucent curtain that had a multimedia slide projection show on it. Above them hung a huge screen that had a video show projected on it. The show was short (lasting only an hour or so) and devoid of any of the typically concert interaction cues (thanks to having the band behind a curtain). There was no single point of focus and one couldn’t tell what was happening on stage. The band had almost no interaction with the audience (thanks to the screen). In fact, it took the crowd about two minutes to realize that they left the stage (probably one of the reasons there was no encore… a concert first for me). As for the videos, my hope was we were going to get videos of the cartoon versions of the Gorillaz playing the concert. Nope. Instead we got loops and patterns. No attempt was made to relate them to the show. Which was too bad., and a major missed opportunity. I’m still very happy that I went to see the show. I just wished it had been another weekend because I had to miss some fun goings on here in Rochester.

In other news, I’m scheduling a hair cut this week and I’m going to do something radical. I’m not completely sure what yet. But I think this will be part 2 of the makeover (only about a month and a half late). Oh, and a new MP3 will go up tomorrow. Any preference? I have a couple choices… wacky or more serious or just bad?

btw, Jenny I just tried the colorgenics and have to put in the vote that it’s a bunch of hooie. Mine made no sense (not even in those vauge fortune telling terms). I think I could get better results from Ms Cleo.

brain a leetle foggy

I went to a wine tasting last night. Very good, with the exception that tasting wine leads to getting tipsey. And I got a little tipsey. Ok a lot tipsey. So after about the third wine I don’t think I was the best judge of quality. Julia’s parents once shared a valuable piece of advice with me: if you do a winery tour, stop buying after the second stop as everything tastes good by then. I think they learned that lesson the hard way. Speaking of Julia, we had a long IM conversation last night (she had to suffer through my less than stellar typing due to my inebriation).

Back on the wine tasting, I met some new people and had a couple interesting conversations. They were all part of “The Young Friends of the MAG” (Memorial Art Gallery… where the boozin’ was held) group.

It looks like I’m not the only one who had a night of drunken fun.

Ok, I’m being a me too type and trying the Friday Five. Here’s mine for this week:

1. Hey, baby, what’s your sign? Do you think it fits you pretty well? Virgo and no. I’m a perfectionist and can be a little anal but that’s where the similarities end.

2. What’s the worst birthday gift you’ve ever received? That’s a tough one. I honestly don’t know. I’m always psyched when I get gifts. Oh wait, for years my family thought I liked Star Trek a lot more than I ever did. So I would get Star Trek gifts (typically books my mother found on the reduced rack) and usually try to explain that I didn’t want them to no avail.

3. What’s the best birthday gift you’ve ever received? Again I’m not sure. I really liked the presents that I got this year from everyone

4. What’s the best way you’ve celebrated your birthday thus far? Probably this year’s. Anytime I get to spend time with friends and they give me presents is cause for celebration.

5. What are your plans for this weekend? Goin’ to Toronto to see the Gorillaz. Plus I may have a date on Sunday night. Woo Hoo. Did you feel hell freeze over?

GRRRRRRR!

AAAARRGGUHHHHH! BLOGGER just lost my five paragraph post! GRRRR!

I don’t have enough time to re-key it, so you now get the short version in bullet form (it’s probably better this way anyway):

• I (and everyone at kodak.com) seems to be in a BLAH mood. Not quite a depression (that would take too much effort). Jenny seems to be experiencing the same thing. I’m also fighting a cold.
• I hope both the cold and the BLAH lift by the weekend as I’m going to Toronto on Saturday to see the gorillaz in concert.
• Last night was a good martial arts class. Pat killed my legs: today I have two half dollar sized bits of muscle pain halfway up my outer thigh nerve lines (making walking and climbing stairs ohh so much fun) thanks to his super accurate Thai kicks. There was also lots of sparring last night. Both Pat and Aaron did very well and I was pretty satisfied with myself (it helps having people to try and stay better than). I’m also started getting tutored on breakfalls by an Aiki Ju Jitsuist. I spent a chunk of time after class being pitched across the room.
• I blew Aaron’s cover by announcing he missed class on Monday. Next time let me know ahead of time when you’re going out to raise hell without Jenny knowing, ok? I’ll be happy to tell her you were in class *wink* *wink*. (I like the “I had to write a paper excuse” you gave her… great save!)
• Finally, I’ve been thinking a lot as of late about the amount of self censoring I’ve been doing on the blog. I’m not sure if it’s a mood or I simply care too much about what all my readers (the five of you) think. Who knows… A lot of thoughts and little things haven’t made it to the blog. Oh well…

Ok. Before this gets lost, lemme post!

Bits and pieces of my life for this morning

I saw The Royal Tenenbaums last night. What a terrific movie! A little stylistically reminiscent of Amélie. Gene Hackman is phenomenal in the film and really deserved an Oscar nod for it (don’t get me started on the Oscars… grr). It’s a little tough to find now, but catch this if you can.

Martial arts on Monday was great (even though some slackers were not there)! It was my third time boxing (now that I have the gloves) and I’m still getting used to it. I spent most of the time letting Pat hit me in order to condition my body to react to a punch. It also reinforced my decision that I just don’t like being hit. But Coach came up to me after class and complimented me on my movement (really Sifu deserves the compliment, it took five years of his hard work to get me that mobile). That felt really good. Then Kung Fu was great as well. We sparred for most of the night and I threw every move that I had and made a few up on the fly. :-) I got a couple compliments on that. And that positive reinforcement rocks!

mmm mixed nuts are good!

And finally I bring you vintage porn from inside the inside of Kodak Tower. I took this picture of a old photo on one of the support poles on Monday while fixing the birdcams. Mmmm… old school skin. Enjoy….